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Thread: HTD needs to go3 Jul 2013, 22:20 PM Hey pqumsieh, thanks for the input. Are small arms projectiles also affected by scatter in terms of damage? Means, will calculated misses with smalls arms deal damage at all? I thought I had in my memory that in CoH1 calculated misses with small arms are more a visual feature and even if a projectile would hit by scatter it wouldn't deal any damage. Cause if I am wrong, distance would mean a HUGE factor in small arms combat. On one side i could imagine balancing this out could be a little harder. (We gonna need some graphs!) On the other side it would make sense in combination with "Near" section 0 of all the weapons. So instead of fixed sections for accuarcy multipliers you only have single accuarcy factor from 0 to max range and damage is increased by more and more scatter hits the closer you get to the target Would appriciate your input once more. Thanks in advance Regards ace In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Current balance - in pictures!2 Jul 2013, 21:57 PM Just awesome !!! Please keep 'em coming. As mentioned Maxim is a good candidate, also 120mm mortar could be worth a drawing. Regards ace In: COH2 Balance
Thread: HTD needs to go1 Jul 2013, 22:16 PM 20% less damage is actually pretty good in my eyes for a permanent aura commmon with a pretty potent and tanky vehicle. All the stats are inside Company of Heroes 2\CoH2\Archives\AttribArchive.sga You gonna need... CoH2 SGA Extractor: http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?270246-TOOL-CoH2-SGA-Extractor-v-1-1-02-04-13 CoH2_RGDTools: http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?270284-TOOL-CoH2-RGD-Tools-%28XML-TXT-JSON%29-RGD-Crawler-Hashing-Tools-v1-2-22-04-13 All the credits for those programs go to Cope over from relicnews. You should be able to use the windows shell and have some spare time and be happy to analyze some odd and abstract text files. EDIT: I started to utilize the Combat Field Officer more often. His inspire ability is actually quite cool. For 15mun you get: - Accuracy * 1.15 - Cooldown * 0.85 - Reload *0.85 - Duration 20sec - Radius 20 That's a quite noticeable increase in terms of dps for 20sec which is a freaking eternity gameplay-wise. Furthermore that Officer is quite a beefy bastard with armor 4. I like. Regards ace In: COH2 Balance
Thread: HTD needs to go1 Jul 2013, 20:48 PM Pz4 Command Tank Aura: Recieved damage * 0.8 Regards ace In: COH2 Balance
Thread: HTD needs to go30 Jun 2013, 23:02 PM haha just figured out why the MG42 Phosphorues round are so good vs HTD. Normally when the MG fires it means insta supression for the hit suqad. Weapons also have modifiers vs suppressed/pinned targets, cause guess what the enemy hits the ground cause they don't wanna get hit. So the modier vs supressed is accuarcy * 0.5 and vs pinned 0.25% (for a short period of time before they recieve extra damage in pinned status). So the thing is HTD makes Cons immune to supression, so they never get the suppressed "bonus" only the HTD bonus. But the MG is usually shoots vs suppressed tragets anyway suffering -50% accuarcy. So for the MG it actually doesn't matter if Cons are in HTD not suppressed or not HTD but suppressed. And what's left is 200% damage, halfed reload and increased penetration in case of veterancy to rape Cons with when phosphorous rounds are activated. Regards ace In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How does armor work in CoH2?30 Jun 2013, 20:56 PM Actually I think I do, at least the important facts. I seems to me the weapong firing machanic is the same as it used to be in CoH1. It is basicly... Firing -> (Cooldown -> Firing)* Reload Frequency -> Reload with a little difference regarding single fire and burst weapons in terms of calculating the DPS. So a formula to define single fire DPS: (Reload frequency + 1) * damage * accuarcy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (cooldown + Windup + Winddown) * reload frequency + reload duration For Burst weapons: (Reload frequency + 1 ) * Brust duration * rate of fire * damage * accuarcy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- brust duration + (cooldown + Windup + Winddown + burst duration) * reload frequency + reload duration E.g. Grandier Kar98 (Far): 4+1 * 20 * 0,3 ----------------------------------- = 1,41 DPS 4 * (2,2 + 1,625) + 6 Then there are some things called fire aim time, Post firing aim time but iirc they only occur once you enter end leave an engagement. Don't rage me if I am wrong, that's just what I remeber back from modding/messing around with CoH1. Regards ace EDIT: I think Fire Aim Time is before every shoot/burst. Gonna change that asaic. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How does armor work in CoH2?30 Jun 2013, 18:26 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Jun 2013, 19:13 PMace4sure Well, I took the good old science way. Hypothesis: We all know Relic got rid of the target tables, which I think was game-design-wise a good move to get a the game easier to look over and balance. There are instead 2 new stats: Penetration for weaponary and Armor for units. So instead telling a weapon how its chances are to penetrate every single type of armor (-> target tables) now the chance is somehow determind by these two values. So let's say we have a 50% chance against an abstract "standard armor" target, then this is 50/100, right? Then the "50" is my penetration factor and the "100" is the Armor factor of the target. But now we can not only vary the penetration but also the armor factor, so we get "penetration/armor". For T34/76 76mm gun vs Pz4 fornt armor the chance to penetrate would be 75/160 = 47% For a Pz4 74mm gun vs the T34/76 front armor it would be 110/115 = 96%. Because small arms weaponry also have penetration values and regular infantry has armor values instead of target tables, all this also goes for infantry engagements. A Grenadier Kar98 vs a Conscript would be 1/1 = 100% A Conscript Mosin Nagant vs a Grenadier would be 1/1.5 = 66.6% (2/3). (Since basicly all small arms have a penetration of 1 you can see it as a quasi constant for small arms fighting) So only 66.6% of the bullts of this weapon that hit actually "penetrate" the grenadier and deal damage, the remaining 33.3% are "deflected" dealing no damage, just as it work for tanks. That's why I was talking about the 2/3 Proof: Cause I say so! q.e.d No, seriously I checked the numbers on inf and vehicles and couldn't find anything that would make this assumption a fail. On the contrary it perfectly balances out the described matchup of Conscripts vs Grenadiers we are talking about. Furthermore it just makes sense, at least to me. Regards ace Confirmed by pqumsieh Jump back to quoted post30 Jun 2013, 18:07 PMpqumsieh 1/1.5 = 0.66 ie 1/3 of the shots won't deal damage. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Conscript range30 Jun 2013, 18:18 PM So, i guess I was right. 1:0 for science! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Intense back and forth fighting30 Jun 2013, 13:14 PM I had wet hands. Was alot of fun and action. EDIT: Finally some time explain the matchup a bit more. There were some intense back and forth foghting going on in the pocket of Minsk. ALOT of veterancy was going on thanks to careful and unit-preserving gameplay on both sides. At some point I think I had 2 vet3 Pgrens, 2 vet3 Grens, vet 2 or 3 Mortar Halftrack, a vet3 MG42 (my speciality) even a vet3 PAK iirc facing several vet3 Conscripts SU85, SU76, etc. There evolved some really nice, big fightings with combinded arms in the mid where everything started shooting each other, but also some nice flanks, e.g. taking out the annoying katushas or Conscripts getting into the back of my PAK and MG42. I think i might be worth a watch. Regards ace In: Replays
Thread: HTD needs to go30 Jun 2013, 11:07 AM Cause I also did for the phosphorous rounds, I just looked for the effects of HTD to clearify what it actually does (should have done it in the first place, but live, laziness, etc etc ) Here are the numbers: - Recieved Supression: 0 (immune) - Recieved Accuarcy: 0.5 - Posture Prone (laying on the ground immobile) - Facing Only (can't turn while on the ground it seems) It basicly is a light cover button, the thing is like pqumsieh said, it also stacks with cover. So when you are already in light cover (and after some action all crates grant light cover) you get a 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25 accuracy modifier to hit for small arms. That#is actually pretty lame, cause small arms normally only have like 50% - 60% hit chance even at close range. You simply don't hit them with small arms when activated. AoE weapons like Granedes and flamethrowers have a 5 modifier for the "near" area of splash damage which just compensates this bonus (0.25 5 = 1.25). What was new to is the "Facing Only". Regular infantry also have firing arcs much like MGs or AT guns, you simply don't have to setup them, they just face the enemy automaticly. Havn't tested it yet, but you it seems to me you are able to "flank" HTD Conscripts or just walk behind them and they can't shoot you. Regards ace In: COH2 Balance