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Thread: yay for less rng for buildings 13 Nov 2013, 13:55 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2013, 03:06 AMTurtle But remember, that 120mm mortar is now even more effective at blowing units out of buildings. Excellent advice, eh? Except the precision of the damn thing has been nerfed. You can't expect to destroy the house unless the unit stays there for 5 minutes. Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2013, 03:50 AMOmega_Warrior Just get it to vet 3 and you get all that sweet range back. And wth is the vet going to come from for a unit that now can't hit the broad side of a barn? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Soviet community commander for the rushy?13 Nov 2013, 10:10 AM Just after a brief test, my question is if the new commander isn't a devil in the hands of very rushy players? I mean: make no buildings for the first 10 minutes. The commander gives you all you need at 0 and 1 CP: heavy MG, mortar and light AT (anti-vehicle). Top off with cons. On top of that you get extra cheap mines and free tank traps. Not being part of beta, I don't know how this plays out when players get used to it, but I can imagine how this could be used heavily to rush forward (like Moscow outskirts), plop HMG in Buildings, put 120mm behind and block paths with tank traps (engie has nothing to do in the base anyway). Ofc you are a lame duck if your opponent makes it to any of his commander specific super-units, because you have none. But the case may just be that you have been able to hem him in so heavily that he is starved of ressources. True or false? Did anyone use this commander for rushy tactics? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Bunkers... why?13 Nov 2013, 09:53 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2013, 07:41 AMMarcoRossolini rant/ Why do Germans get bunkers and not Soviets? Germans are able to simply play leepfrog when Soviets are on the backfoot. Just had a game where ofcourse the guy spams Assgrens. Then he sets up bunkers on all the choke points and waits for me to come out and get pinned. It's just ridiculous. I don't have enough fuel for counters and stuff like penals just get mown down. I go T1 to get counters for Assgrens which leaves me open to the inevitable armour spam. It's just stupid. /rant Zis or mortar them. It's doable. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Let's fix ELO automatch13 Nov 2013, 09:51 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2013, 07:13 AMDanielD I think with something like an RTS there is actually an even steeper drop-off as skill increases. So if you're one standard deviation away from the mean, but just barely, you have very few options in terms of opponents, and most of those options will crush you. If there were 1,000 people searching, then you'd have good results, of course. That's a probabel distribution, allthough it may be much narrower in COH2 of today. Still the same, I suspect that little or completely unused profiles make up a large part of the middle. But these players are never available for matching and in that way messes up matching with smaller increments. It sort of teleports you directly from one side of the distribution to the other. It's speculation, ofc., but if I'm right, those idle profiles should be left out from the calculation. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Let's fix ELO automatch13 Nov 2013, 07:06 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Nov 2013, 00:09 AMwooof thats how elo works. i dont know your rank, but if youre somewhere near the middle of the pack, where there are a lot of players, most of them have a very small difference in rating between them. any small change in rating will make you go up in ranks very quickly. just wait til you get closer to the top and it takes 20+ wins in a row to gain a rank. But that's the whole point: I'll never get anywhere near the top this way. The system should match me against players 'somewhat' better when I'm on the way up. But it does not. In 1v1 it matches me against vastly superior players OR total newbies. There's very rarely something in between. In 2v2 I usually either get a strong teammate against 2 newbies or vice versa. That makes my rank bounce up and down many thousand positions. Does it not strike you as odd that there would be something like 90.000 players exactly in the middle group? Surely the distribution should be more even? Could it simply be, that a lot of unused profiles simply take up a hughe chunk at .5 win ratio and the default ELO? If that's how it works, that is faulty. Unused profiles should start at the bottom ranks with no rating. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Turning Point Stream Today @ 1:00pm PST12 Nov 2013, 22:11 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Nov 2013, 20:57 PMmarioflag When is the patch going live? Does it go live after the streaming? Servers have been closed down now. It's starting, I guess. In: Lobby
Thread: The not-so-famous mortar strategy12 Nov 2013, 22:09 PM Good luck and HAVE FUN....but seriously??? In: Lobby
Thread: Let's fix ELO automatch12 Nov 2013, 22:05 PM There definately IS a problem. I just won a 2v2 and it boosted my position 90.000 up (opposition was absolutely newbie). It shouldn't change my rating that much on one victory after 75 games!?!? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: THis game is just one BUG12 Nov 2013, 09:17 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Nov 2013, 15:42 PMc r u C e This is rich,now you can purchase veterancy,I guess this is how you throw balance out the window for P2W content more$$$$4Relic,yay ) Next thing is going to be that germans can get vet 4 as a DLC for 2.99. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Let's fix ELO automatch12 Nov 2013, 09:13 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Nov 2013, 17:35 PMwooof the range of elo the queue will match you with increases over time. to avoid that, you can leave the queue every so often and start it again. that would keep your games in a smaller range around your elo. That is not really good advice. Because if everyone did that, it would prolong search times for all since matchings in Progress are constantly being aborted. What you suggest was becoming standard procedure for many in COH1, and created massive Waits untill Relic disabled the editor access and urged players not to abort searches. Anyway, to the original topic, I think the real problem is just maths. I have the same experience as the OP allthough I am messing around in the rank of many thousands: a few wins, then opposition quality takes a massive jump for 3 to 5 games. Then back to total newbie opposition and/or teammates. To me it feels like the matching is simply gearing too much. It should make smaller increments and - without knowing the code - that's probably a question of changing one single ratio. In: COH2 Gameplay