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Thread: How much impact on outcomes do you think RNG really has?27 Oct 2015, 22:37 PM I think people are talking about 3 different things: RNG which is the basis of COH2, flukes on the system (plane crashes, constant improbable rolls, abandoned vehicles, etc) and predictable rolls (see sniping retreating squads, ISU wiping squads, indirect fire landing middle of a full health squad and wiping it, last shot of a pak missing or deflecting, etc) 1- If a unit (Centaur/Flamer) evaporates squads on 1 or 1,5s theres no RNG there as the results are practically the same. Surviving for more than 4s would be RNG. 2- When you get a scatter shot from a pak, hit across the map your Katyusha/PW that's fucking doing it's job. 2 snipers killed by 2 consecutive AT gun shots? 5 deflections on a 20% roll? You get the deal. I consider this to happen 1/100 2- If i try to snipe the last model of a retreating squad without using abilities, well that's a 50/50 call, a flip coin, this is RNG. The normal one. Using a Stuka dive bomb on a Katyusha and it been abandoned or getting a crit, while a lower chance, still enters this category. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ostheer BP3/T4 tech tree cost proposal solution27 Oct 2015, 21:54 PM Since BP2 no longer is needed to unlock the FHT (IIRC), there's absolutely no change in teching cost besides making T3 + T4 more accesible without changing pacing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet Defensive Tactics Redesign27 Oct 2015, 21:52 PM Reminder that we won't see NEW things added to OLD commanders. You can actually play around with things we already have although. What we have now: All 2 CP 45mm AT gun, 120mm, Tank traps, Mines, Dhska What it should be: 0CP: Defensive package tools - Allows CE to build bunkers, tanks traps and those S-mines. S-mines are now built in blocks of 4 (less micro). 2CP: Combined arms defensive group - 600mp - Calls 1 45mm AT gun, 1 Dhska and 1 120mm mortar 8CP: ML20 9CP: KV1 For a "special" ability i'll rather you choose it from: -Scorch earth tactics: basically sector artillery -Hold the line: copycat of Brits ability. Like the idea of disabling momentarily retreat -Katyusha saturation barrage: can't we use the victory strike as offmaps ? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer BP3/T4 tech tree cost proposal solution27 Oct 2015, 19:05 PM This should have more comments. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: To Relic -- Ideas to fix DLC mess27 Oct 2015, 18:44 PM Releasing something broken or OP to later nerf or balance it doesn't look good at all. Regarding if a Commander is OP or not, i'll rather go with Tiers. While outdated, this gives you a good panorama of what i'm referring to. http://www.coh2.org/guides/33767/commander-tiers ATM i'll say without distinction of game mode (some are obviously better on 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3+): T1: Rifle - Vanguard - Shock Rifle - CAS T2: Infantry - Armor - Airborne - Commandos - Mech Support - Guard Motor - KV8 commanders (not industry) - Armored Assault - TA - Tiger commanders (each are better against different opponents or modes) - Mobile defense - Osstruppen - Scavenge - Breakthrough - Luftwaffe T3: most commanders who at least have some useful abilities (ex: Blitzkrieg) fall in this group T4: Mechanized - Recon - Royal engineers - Elite armor - etc T5: Community commanders - NKVD - German Infantry - German mechanized - etc In: Lobby
Thread: How much impact on outcomes do you think RNG really has?27 Oct 2015, 18:13 PM What about 100% of the games? Every engagement is decided by RNG, but in the whole picture the "better" player wins 90-95%. Theres only merit in saying RNG decides a game on which the players are on equal foot. People think of RNG only on extreme results, but something as simple as all conscripts hitting at long range at 1 model at an MG head on might result on a snowball effect which ends up tilting the match on one side. That 1/20 is compound by those small instances that players rolls the dice for wiping the last model of a squad, indirect fire, miss or deflect shots, death crits, etc. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: RNG27 Oct 2015, 17:56 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2015, 16:15 PMsquippy It's not off topic at all. If RNG is such a big deal, then asking how significant an impact it is has, or players believe it to have, is not at all unreasonable. I am actually quite curious to know, because it increasingly seems to me that this is an argument about something which, even if you don't like it, just doesn't matter very much. I don't know exactly how many games were played in the course of OCF; a couple of hundred I would guess. Asking how many of those you, or anyone else, think were won by blind chance is entirely fair. First of all i'm not gonna say that either pseudo random distribution or the actual system is better. I'll say penetration/deflection and hit/miss is fine. Could it be improve? Probably. Does the effort is worth the result? Probably not at this point. Having said that, i'll say it's not a matter of losing/winning a game rather than the experience for the player. It's a matter of putting certain constraints to the results RNG might throw to you and this is what is has been done for the last 2 years. Look at plane crashes, Rifle Company or Partisans. Damage from planes have been tone down dramatically, Partisans always spawn with PPSH, Rifles always arrive with vet1. Ironing out the rest of extremes cases is a matter of will and time. What comes into my mind: -240mm Howitzer from armor company > make first shell be accurate, reduce a bit radius and let it be russian roulette for the rest of the rounds. -Osstruppen reserves: they might come with vet3 and LMG or just plain vet0. I'll go for a middle route (which ends up in a buff) of 1LMG and only 1 squad with vet. -Abandoned mechanic > crit, at least, light engine damage first -Ram In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: To Relic -- Ideas to fix DLC mess27 Oct 2015, 15:22 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2015, 09:07 AMsquippy I'm not saying they don't make a difference; obviously they do, and obviously they would be pointless if they didn't. What I'm asking, rather, is whether you really think a player who won a given game would have lost that same game if they had not used the "best" commander available? Do you really think that commanders make so much difference that they change a defeat into a victory and vice versa? I'm not convinced that is really the case. Commanders gives you tools. It's up to the player to use them at their best. Note that there's a difference between choosing the best commander for the situation and playing with top tier commanders. If you are playing with subpar commanders, i'll say you'll lose on situations on which the game is only 60/70 in favour of someone if the other player plays it's card well. Heck, just look at the tournament and see the variety of commanders been used. There are things that gives you slight advantages and other which are great game swingers. If i have to put it on 3 categories from lesser to big immediate impact: In: Lobby
Thread: Optimization patch for the love of RNG gods27 Oct 2015, 02:35 AM As someone who plays with tactical map, i dread every time i have a freeze. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: RNG27 Oct 2015, 02:27 AM Concept is fine, people are just reading the title and the red text As they said before add a TL;DR. Although, i'm not sure if that system can be implemented on the game nor if it's gonna make a drastic difference. Regarding RNG, +1 to Esxile post. You just need some limits to the results of RNG, which is what we have been doing for the last 2 years with the game. In: COH2 Gameplay