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Thread: Icon to indicate bulletin buff8 Oct 2013, 13:08 PM So, I've heard some saying the new bulletins are useless. To be honest I hadn't unlocked many before they patched it, so I wouldn't know the difference. I say, make bulletins have a significant effect, just make sure that it's easy for an opponent to see which units are getting a bulletin benefit. Much like how they finally added unit vet indicators to CoH, allowing players to know and treat the more powerful vetted up units differently, units with bulletin bonuses should have something to indicate that during play. Due to how quickly the load screen can pass and how many bulletins there are in the game, you can't rely on pure memory. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: isu 1527 Oct 2013, 11:37 AM Shreks tear through anything at long range. I honestly think they made shreks so powerful both to counter SU-85s specifically, but also to get German players to even consider using them compared to just buying more tanks and using PGrens as infantry killers. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Conscript vs. Gren matchup7 Oct 2013, 11:34 AM I've been noticing this too in casts, streams, and my own play. Unless you get some early vehicle dominance, playing the infantry game against Germans is a losing battle. Toss in MG42 support, properly used, and it gets worse. LMGs have the ability to quickly kill individual squad members with its high localized damage, meaning to charge in to throw those equalizing petrol bombs causes both a manpower and munitions drawn. The situation gets worse when PGrens hit the field in force since charging in is no longer an option. I do think concripts still work great up close, but the problem that by a certain time in a match, getting close, even with Oorah, becomes a losing proposition against a half-way prepared enemy. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panthers require a speed nerf7 Oct 2013, 11:28 AM I mainly think it needs a nerf to its crazy blitz speed, but otherwise the Panther is actually supposed to be pretty fast. It's supposed to have speed, extremely good front armor protection, and a gun that will punch through most anything. The downside is that it's supposed to have relatively weak side armor and no more survivability than any other medium tank when flanked. For the most part, that kind of works. The main problem is that with the infantry AT nerf, the the odd way the game determines what is a front or rear shot, it's become a lot harder to use what should be the counter to the panther, infantry AT. The problem is that, on the battlefield, you can't expect to flank everything. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panzer 4 needs an anti infantry buff7 Oct 2013, 11:22 AM I think this guy is 5thSS from the COH2 official forums. Anyway, no, the P4 is mostly fine right now. It's everything else around it that may need tweaking. If you want more infantry killing ability, get the top MG gunner upgrade and keep it facing infantry, 3 MGs and a cannon will drive off most types of infantry. Oh and keep your micro up to drive it away from charging infantry, and plan your attacks with escape routes. Medium tanks are supposed to be very useful in general combat, but not super survivable. You need to micro them well to keep them alive. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostruppen seriously7 Oct 2013, 05:11 AM I think they should be able to scale into mid game, that's fine. I really like the concept and want them to stay useful. Especially so once other balance changes might even the scales. Longer cool down seems like the safest bet, especially since they don't have much combat value like AGrens, so they shouldn't cost another resource. Getting one out early is still very useful since it's a cheap capper. Just not a cap the entire map situation. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: isu 1527 Oct 2013, 00:24 AM The Tiger in this patch is a game changer, just so long as the German player uses it smartly and doesn't get it killed in the first few minutes. The problem with the ISU-152 isn't that it isn't effective as a unit. It's just that by the time you get enough CP and save enough resources to buy it, there are so many things out there that counter it. And Soviets can't afford to float much for long, so you only buy it if you're really dominating. In team games, you're also highly likely to see an Elephant on the field sooner than the ISU-152, which counters it. It also fires and moves so slowly, and with such a narrow cone of fire that once the enemy knows where it is, and has anything to attack it. However, back to strategy and gameplay. You definitely need to use the attack ground with the 152. It can shoot through a lot of stuff and the explosion is big enough that speculative fire into the fog can catch and reveal units. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Some ongoing gameplay issues and bugs5 Oct 2013, 22:39 PM I suppose most of this discussion is moot until the next patch where it's already been confirmed their working on the vet system. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: will we ever see popcap increased? 5 Oct 2013, 22:24 PM There is no point to raising the max pop cap. How they balance the game is to use pop caps on the units. Since the devs will not use hard caps on units, pop cap takes its place. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Watchtower points too passively useful5 Oct 2013, 22:04 PM Well duh, and I was making an argument. In: COH2 Balance