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Maybe you should also be asking for 20mm AA to even be able to gain veterancy first.

Well the scope/focus of the thread is on the Bofors 40mm however I wouldn't be against the OKW 20MM Flak AA gaining vet. That should be a separate topic/thread though.

I don't know if the game still patched by Relic or just the community, I still find some optimization/graphics issues even with next-gen hardware.

New config just arrived in this Christmas

AMD Ryzen 5800X with water cooling
Gigabyte AORUS xTreme Waterblock RTX-3080 with water cooling
64GB DDR4-3200 RAM
PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD
4K 60Hz screen
Two 2K 170Hz screen

In 4K, it is still quite unplayable. 20-30FPS once the battle start getting explosions around.
Are you kidding me, even the most demanding Cyberpunk 2077 got 55 FPS with everything max out with DLSS.

In 2K, acceptable but after some games there will be lagging and frame drop while scrolling across the screen. Restarting the game won't solve it, got to restart the whole computer.

And Bug splat still happening once per few games while loading.


Anyone else experiencing these kind of problems?

I get Bugsplats after 2-4 games played so I have to restart the game often. Hopefully the 64 bit version of the game fixes this issue as I believe the game is hitting the 32 bit memory limit and crashing.

I get around 80 FPS on 4k/60 with all settings (minus Anti-Aliasing which is off since its not needed) on 2080TI and Intel 9th Gen CPU.

Could be possible the Ampere (Nvidia 3000 series)needs a new game profile for COH 2 in the Nvidia drivers.
Nvidia's latest drivers for example doesn't include the game profile for World of Warcraft Shadowlands which is causing the game to run at half the FPS and flicker nonstop. Wouldn't be surprised if COH2 or Nvidia needs an update for the game to run properly considering that configuration.

IF sandbags go on Sturms, then decrease Sturm sandbag build time.

Still hard no on sandbags going to Sturms though. The unit already has too many things to do, and it also makes Volks less important.

On the topic of Ostheer, I like the idea suggested earlier that allows Grens to build trenches.

I agree, Sandbags on Sturm Pioneers is a terrible idea.

Today I would like to talk about the UKF Bofors 40mm Anti-Aircraft Gun.


Veterancy

First of all has anyone gotten the Bofors to Vet 3? In my almost 7000 hours of COH 2 played I have never seen a Bofors Vet 2 let alone vet 3. Usually when the enemy knows that you have a Bofors, they will either avoid that area of the map or use Mortar/AT Gun spam to take it out.


Anti-Air Capability

Second as an Anti-Aircraft Gun it doesn't actually do a good job of AA. If I am not mistaken it was bugged previously and did 0 damage to air planes making it unable to function as an AA gun.

Physical Size/Unit Scale

The Bofors is massive in game and doesn't match the unit scale compared to other things in the game. Even if I do build the unit, certain maps can make it a double edged sword as it messes up unit/tank pathing.

[u]Pop Size
The unit has a massive pop size cost of 10. For how easy it is to kill, the investment (Research + Build time/Fuel Cost) it is a very very inefficient use of resources that could be spent on something else.



Proposed Changes

-Give the Bofors shared vet like the Kubelwagon. This would allow the unit to actually gain veterancy if properly maintained.

-Fix/Boost the Anti-Air Performance of the Bofors

-Reduce the physical size of the Bofors to be slightly bigger than the OKW 20MM Flak.

-Reduce Population from 10 to 5

In exchange for these buffs, I would like to see the Bofors nerfed to similar levels of the OKW 20MM Flak.
This would make it better to actually build as the unit wouldnt be a huge drain on your manpower and better to play against Germans as the emplacement would be used in a supportive role (like the OKW 20mm Flak) and could actually gain vet and scale to the late game while not taking LEFH/Mortar/AT Gun spam to kill.

Any thoughts on giving Penals access to Dp-28s? I would be more willing to take Penals over cons if they got some anti-infantry upgrades as an alternative to PTRS.

Personally I always felt that Penal Squads should be swapped with Guards (rebalanced of course) simply due to the fact that Penal Battalions didn't outnumber the red army and it kind of feels unrealistic seeing whole armies of Penal spam in games. From a thematic point it would make sense to swap them. It would also be easier to balance since you could gate DP-28/PTRS behind Tech/Upgrades to smooth out the curve a bit kind of like how Obers need tech to gain the MG-34.

Also this could fix PPSH being useless if Non Doctrinal Guards could get them and you could turn them into Assault Guards like the ones in the M5 Halftrack from the Lend Lease commander.