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Thread: Boss units5 Apr 2014, 20:14 PM I completely agree with this thread. I very much dislike the "boss unit" feel to most of the heavies. The tiger is the only one that seems sane because it's the only one that doesn't omgwtfpwn things like the is2 (infantry), isu152 (infantry), or elefant (armor). I would like to see all of them toned down or reworked somehow. The ISU152 and Elefant aren't even fun to play -with- because of how unspeakably awkward they are to control. This has absolutely nothing to do with balance, just feel of the game and how they work into strategies. EDIT: To clarify, I wish they were less powerful and cheaper. I would like them to supplement an army, not dictate it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Shreked PGrens... Balanced or no?5 Apr 2014, 17:41 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Apr 2014, 07:29 AMCruzz They used to be more reasonable with old snipers and old shocks. Now in this patch, if you can't call in a KV8 as soviets, I honestly don't have a freaking clue what to do about them that isn't purely relying on luck (katyusha barrages whenever they're closing and pray really hard it actually hits on spot) or horrible play by the german (running straight into a demo with their blob of them, for instance) PzG lost their armor which accounted for a huge amount of survivability against infantry. Honestly a single squad of penals or ppsh scripts or current shocks is more than enough to deter me from rushing a shrek squad when playing Ostheer, and I do the same when playing soviets, unless maybe as a risk to finish a nearly dead tank. The only thing that's annoying from all sides of the equation is the complete RNG nature of tanks vs infantry. I've had a T34 one shot a pgren squad and I've had a T34 fail to kill a single model in 4-5 shots. The lack of consistency and lack of play involvement (short of knowing when to stop tanks to fire so they don't get the moving penalty) makes this game less enjoyable than it could be. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Suggestions for tactical map4 Apr 2014, 18:23 PM I would straight murder an orphanage full of kittens if we could get a Supreme Commander style dual monitor display with the tactical map on one screen and the main game screen on another. Fastest google search example: http://berglondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/supcom2.jpg Also +1 to re-mappable buttons. It is kind of ridiculous not to be able to. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: New patch, KV-8 still OP3 Apr 2014, 16:56 PM It's another hard to balance thing. Nobody wants Sherman Croc 2.0, but right now it is pretty silly how it can easily pay for itself and more with a suicide run. It bounces even panther rounds a good percentage of the time and even if they all penetrate still takes on the order of >30s to kill due to high health, during which it can incinerate anything in its huge range in no time. Minor stat issues aside, the only issue I have with it is how brainless it is to use. Absolutely anyone can pick up the game with no prior CoH experience and get 20+ infantry kills with it including squad wipes. There's no good positioning, there's no abilities to use, just click "move" into the area where you want all infantry to be vaporized and kick back. Solving that part is a harder problem. Making it more vulnerable might fix because it's more likely to die before becoming cost effective and thus require more careful positioning / execution. Making it cost more might fix it as well though I think this would make it unlikely to ever be used due to timing windows. My personal suggestion would be to examine the core of how it operates. Instead of just a massive flamethrower on top of massive armor what if any of the following: flame damage was reduced by say 33-50% but it caused suppression in the area it was flaming or all around it? - gives the tank a new role of infantry crowd control in another way than just raw dps - fits better into a combined arms attack instead of lone base rush the default armament was the main gun and it was an activated muni ability to activate the flamethrower for say 20-30 seconds with a minor cooldown? - limit the window in which omgwtf dps is available, requires player thought and cost on when to use, less brainless - probably requires mildly buffing the main gun to compensate In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Standalone America + Germany DLC28 Mar 2014, 16:02 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2014, 16:00 PMSenseo1990 They did say that the german faction is very unique in their new ressource system and how their tiers work and even how they capture territory ... now...thats gotta be an interesting faction to say the least That reads dangerously like how Brits were introduced to vCoH. Otherwise looks exciting! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Patch update28 Mar 2014, 13:09 PM If it's not too late PQ, I'd highly recommend taking a quick look at pioneers. Maybe a similar DPS reduction as penals gained would fix some very early game issues. Other than that, very much looking forward to this. Best set of patches this game has seen yet. Good work! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: after 3/25 patch: what are soviet options for winning ?26 Mar 2014, 21:37 PM Armor decrease on units has no impact on tanks like IS2 or KV8 or even the mortar, unless you're talking about the coax guns which isn't exactly their selling point. Armor is only effective vs small arms fire, not explosions or flame. Grenadiers are exactly as weak to these units as they were prepatch. They're actually more weak to infantry now because they don't shrug off shots at all. Their lethality is substantially higher but survivability for guards/shocks/pgrens/grens was just straight nerfed. Not complaining either. Not being able to build both tiers will impact exactly 0 games for me in 2v2 or 1v1. I have never built both tiers, though I guess in bigger games this might be more relevant. Soviets T3/T4 have always been too expensive to tech both so this doesn't really change anything imo. If I feel like I've had the edge and want early pressure I'll go T3 and if I'm worried about heavy armor I'll go T4. I'm not really defending lack of options, but realistically this is how it has always worked. It being more expensive doesn't really change much. Pioneers do need a minor DPS decrease and conscripts could probably use the RoF increase that riflemen got in vCoH when at medium/close range so that they make up for closing the distance, but otherwise it's remarkably close to vCoH volks/rifles dynamic. Which is great. It feels like most soviet players (I'm guilty of this as well) are so used to 4-5x cons into some armor into victory. It looks like this meta doesn't exist anymore and you're going to need mortars and machine guns and whatever else to supplement the force. Ignoring that and trying to make the old builds work is just an effort in frustration. Give it time to develop, be flexible. Then make suggestions. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: HOLY POTATOES !!! patch 3/2526 Mar 2014, 16:58 PM A lot of this really is L2P. I played 3 games last night - 2 as sov and 1 as ostheer and I won them all by not being bad. The guns and units basically all work exactly as a new person would expect. SMGs tear it up at short range, LMGs tear it up at medium range, and you better be in cover or you're going to die. I feel like a lot of people should play Red Orchestra and get a feel for how that works. Or heck, even vCoH. I watched the Cataclaw game with the guards vs pios. Running a 2x ptrs x2 lmg x2 mosin (2 effective guns firing while moving, and bolt action at that) towards a squad of x4 SMGs? What the heck did you expect to happen? The fact that they cost more shouldn't and now doesn't mean it wins if you use it poorly. Should pioneers have a slight reduction in DPS? Yeah probably. But wow people complaining while playing poorly, especially since nothing has had time to settle in and cool. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: HOLY POTATOES !!! patch 3/2525 Mar 2014, 17:01 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Mar 2014, 16:51 PMPorygon HOLY SHIT, FINALLY they finally dumb a lot of vCOH setting into COH2 - real cover & lethality - micro-able evasion of faust/AT nade - no more bullshit snipercar - Great tweak for penals, assgren, shocks, ostruppen But two things are worried - call in, they didn't say anything about it, isn't it even better to fight until calling T-34/85 or Tiger? - flamer 251, why do they repeat the mistake in vCOH, who would use it with T3 requirement? Will be interesting to see. I think the change is better. In vCoH the flame halftrack wasn't used because it was just bad. Flames are a lot more consistently deadly in CoH2 and I have things like smoke to help it avoid death. Also in vCoH if I'm going halftracks, I'm going for walking stukas. Also also, halftrack just wasn't needed in vCoH except stuka. Bunker reinforce, yo. Coming at T2 was too much of a shock unit anyway I think. An early M8 didn't have nearly the killing or push you off the map power that this unit has if pulled off correctly. It's not unstoppable but if your pants are down it's vicious. Overall it felt gimmicky like a lot of other things. With T3 being a requirement I could see a lowering of munitions now, though. Overall very excited to see these changes and eager to test them out. Nice job. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: A flame problem20 Mar 2014, 13:21 PM It could probably do with a minor speed decrease just so that it isn't as capable of following retreating units, but that's about it. Maaaaybe a minor armor decrease since it will bounce even a panther's shots around 30% of the time which is fairly obnoxious (42% bounce for StuG, 55% bounce for P4), but I'd rather see how it plays out when it can't chase down retreating squads so easily. Its role feels like it should be a spearhead unit to soak shots while support backs it up, not a solo flanking leroy jenkins. The KV8 base suicide rush is a pretty stupid concept - watch the Cataclaw/HelpinHans game in the recent 2v2 tournament where a KV8 sits in their base with a panther shooting it for seriously maybe 1:30 while it destroys units and buildings. In: COH2 Balance