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Thread: Shocktroops at 1CP17 Dec 2013, 14:21 PM I don't post a lot. Whats with all of this bullshit about people citing "SNF" as a gold standard for balance? Balancing for a demographic isn't balancing a game. I'm not saying it shouldn't be something to be considered but there way too many of you fuckers using it like its a law of physics or something [/rant] As somebody who uses shocktroops there a lots of counters for ostheer. MG42 spam is just as effective as ever. The only way I can ever beat a genuinely good german player is to Scout Car spam + penals to break hole in defensive line then sneak shocks through said hole. Otherwise its GG against a good player. The ability for germ player to lock down sections of map is unparalled. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: CoH2 Replay Version Switcher13 Dec 2013, 02:30 AM ITT: OP has a really really really huge weiner In: Lobby
Thread: Coh2 Benchmarked..... Horrible....10 Nov 2013, 07:18 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2013, 21:48 PMwuff Strange, I can run the game maxed at 60 FPS. However, I normally turn AA down to low as I don't think you need it any higher. You wanna post your system stats dawg? In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: Anti-Tank vs Ostwind29 Sep 2013, 19:28 PM mines are crucial. If not to defend your AT gun, then to defend your important strategic point. I cant tell you how many times mines saved me from tank flanks until I made my own rush and realized my mines went missing and there were a bunch of limping Panthers. In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: Removing random flamethrower self-detonation29 Sep 2013, 09:02 AM I often play games where teammates bitch incessently about how we lost and and start spamming "Surrendur" nag screens, until my tank shows up and saves the day. In a 1v1 it can make or break the game, but in other game modes you have more flexibility. RNG is RNG... What pisses me off more than anything is full health buildings being hit by lucky mortor shots and wasting my squads, but they aren't going to take that out. Its nice to be on the giving end sometimes too In: COH2 Balance
Thread: New Commanders / Units discussion 29 Sep 2013, 00:01 AM Fuck all this lobby bullshit. I think we could all agree if we had voice chat in game both All & Team we wouldn't need a lobby. [/STFU] Also about servers. Perhaps by allowing us to host our own servers we could avoid this problem entirely? Why do you think the Counter Strike 1.6 community still exists? Custom servers... I think this one goes without mentioning. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Assault Grenadiers27 Sep 2013, 02:55 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Sep 2013, 05:52 AMGTTV Can people seriously just calm down? The patch went out like a day ago and people are already screaming 'OP'. That just makes you look like a bunch of whiney children who don't want to adapt your already determined strat to come up with a counter. The point in a counter is that you force the enemy to do something else. This is what RTS is all about. It is NOT soviets having to run around after Germans - the exact same can be said about Germans because BOTH players have to adapt and counter what the other faction is doing. Come up with a counter to counter what they are doing, they will try to counter your counter - and the cycle continues. It may seem like you have to 'run around what the other players do' if you have only ever played one faction. After having extensive experience with both you start to realise both factions have to adapt and change their strategy in accordance to what your opponent is doing. This thread actually started off legitimately before a bunch of soviet crybaby's joined in saying this unit is OP. There are counters to this unit in both initial soviet tiers, as has been said in this thread. (M3 + flamer or Maxims). Once you get 1 CP (which really doesn't take long) you can counter pretty hard with shock troops or guards. If you dominate with this strat, just think it maybe (just maybe) be because these units are brand new and people haven't figured out how to deal with them yet. ^this While I haven't played against assault grens much this is my two cents. Your best counter are shocks. I still think many soviet player do not know how to use shocks correctly. You want to make sure, if you are having a problem with AGrens, that you keep at least 2 conscript squads small length ahead of your shock troops. Once the game "locks" the target onto your conscripts you move them into cover. You can either flank or run in guns blazing with your shock troops. You do this until they get some veterancy. Once they get Vet 1-2 they FUCKING TEAR UP EVERYTHING. It also helps to have that +3% accuracy and reduced suppression bulletins. If you happen to be using the new shock doctrine with "For The Motherland," I've noticed the speed bonus stacks on top of "oorah," allowing you to cover insane amounts of distance really quickly. If you have vet 3 cons and the enemy is trying to do something sneaky pop you can pop the speed boosties and flank. Once your vetted shock troops arrive its game over. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: COH2 Ladder expansion for low level players16 Sep 2013, 04:04 AM rather than expand the ladder add some simple paramaters. Trending CoH2 players under say rank 200? Then you get a more concise list than some litany of players joining good lobbies. Perhaps let the trending algorithm be a mixture of both ELO increase and win streak? Are K/D ratio, and avg. dmg. per match accessible through API? Stats like that would be very telling of a talented up and coming player. In: Site Feedback
Thread: R8 ME 16/F/CALI16 Sep 2013, 00:36 AM were da boobiez? In: Scrap Yard
Thread: Snipers vs buildings10 Sep 2013, 04:10 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2013, 02:07 AMThe Dave Really odd metaphors aside, did you just learn the word ad-hominem or was this some sort of vocabulary exercise from your school? (oh, right, that's...wait for it...ad-hominem) To make the argument more clear for the more simple minded: Snipers (in particular the fragile single person Ostheer) need some sort of buff that makes them a more useful/cost effective unit, something that would bring them more in-line with their soviet counterpart. Of course, I'm also of the opinion that every unit should be useful/effective at countering something. In VCoh the sniper worked to great effect at countering both enemy snipers and weapons teams and draining mp (even the one's "hiding" in buildings) and people not named "Symbiosis" employed them to great effect, although he certainly did as well. The current situation/camo mechanic sees snipers from both factions getting getting beaten by mg's in houses and, as in the case with the soviet sniper, at range...This doesn't make sense either historically or within the context of the game, in my opinion. I don't know about you guys I still kill MG squads in houses. Albeit it takes a few minutes to kill every last one of them In: COH2 Balance