Profile of rumartinez89

DevM, thanks for the well thought out reply. It does get kind of old watching the same thing over and over in. Any small changes that you think could help even things out?

great fix on paper. Terrible from a playing the game for newish players pov

Not necessarily, if the game showed a negative debuff over the infantry as seen during certain abilities it would push new players away from blobbing in the first place. The bigger issue would be the increasing debuff, it would be extremely hard to implement correctly now. A simple 10-15% rec acc debuff when 3 units or more are within say 15m of each other would be easy to implement.

Hopefully COH3 implements something similar from the start, for COH2 any rec acc debuff can create new issues and make others even worse. Using OST as an example, early pushes would be expensive as hell due to large target size and 4 man squad along with expensive reinforce. G43 upgrade would need to be tweaked to see any use while Gren mid/late game with LMG would hardly be affected due to long range profile. USF would be screwed all game long due to close range profile.

Interesting stuff, which after reading the Vet guide over and the ability guide it leads me to some questions about SMG weapons and what is best to increase DPS.

Using Soviets as an example since they have several SMG squads, all of them get a 25% weapon cool down bonus at VET2 yet Airborne SMG Guards also get increased ACC as part the cloak bonus. How much of an effect does the ACC have compared to the weapon cooldown? You can't really use serealia to compare since it only compares VET0 to VET3 which also includes a 40% ACC increase for the SMG units.

Part of the reason I am interested is across all factions all cloak bonus give anywhere from 25-50% acc bonus. While the commissar "Not One Step Back" ability not only gives 20% ACC but also a massive 50% cooldown bonus as well. Wouldn't that make PPSH conscripts in Soviet Reserves put out massive damage?

reserve is bad because you only get an AT/MG and the commissar but nothing else that will help you fight later on.

The lack of doctrinal tank isn't exactly helping, it is a doctrine with alright early support but with no late game impact

My bad was thinking of a commander that would benefit Penals if SMG could be given. SMG Penal with Commissar buffs would allow for some interesting combos. But yes as it stands the commander requires coordination with allied players to get maximum benefit. However, fear propaganda along with howitzer in 3v3 or 4v4 is fairly potent.

I think most saw that the tourney was mostly SOV vs OST, thinking about it don't remember any one winning with another faction. What I found interesting was the announcers kind of repeating what everyone usually states about Penal/Rifleman bleeding to much, sandbags, mainline scaling along with commander choice. I know there probably won't be another patch but would be fun to argue some stuff.

About Rifle/Penal bleed: even with mobile reserves Penals tend to bleed a lot more than soviet faction is designed around. The 2MP is barely noticeable which is why I was thinking make it 4MP. Since Rifleman have similar playstyle and reinforce I would give them similar discount at Major tech.

Grens/PG: I don't really know how to address this since most players like to quickly pump out as many Grens as possible early. Nicko showed that an MG-less opening is a viable strat with the main weakness being bleed so to promote PG I was thinking of making LMG upgrade more expensive since the units playstyle works really well for late game fighting. I don't really want to increase MP cost since their reinforce cost is so high so muni cost might make PG more attractive.

PG: If muni cost isn't enough I was thinking of making G43 upgrade all 4 models, since PG aren't as blobby as PF it shouldn't be as big a problem. For team games it could be a problem but MP cost/Timing/Reinforce/muni cost should put a cap on potential.

Conscripts: The comeback potential despite bad play is a bit much especially with 7-man upgrade. I think also bumping their muni price would be wise. Right now the unit is too cheap for what it gives, say 80 muni also.

Weapon crate: Not really from the tournament but from watching different casted games, SVT conscripts are too good for their cost. The price should also be increased to 80 muni to slow it down. Along with price increase Penal squads should get double DP28 this would make upgrade equally attractive while being fairly expensive.

Sandbags: I think there should be a max of 5 sandbags per player. Sandbags become more tactical and requires micro when max has been reached.

Conscript Assault Package: Give Penals option to upgrade also, concripts get 4/Penal get 6 PPSH. It can open up different commanders such as soviet reserve or advance warfare to Penal starts.

I think with toning down Soviets/Ost it would allow OKW USF a little more play.