Relic still runs the server. But they do not ban people anymore.
No one knows who owns Coh2. Or who pays for the steam servers.
What if Sega is still paying for the servers and Relic doesnt want to remind them  probably not, but you never know. |
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Aside from everything everyone else has said, Cons are utility unit, for recrewing, merging, and giving snare cover for your team weapons and/or elite inf.
As well as the 7 man con upgrade which got added, which is effectivley a weapon upgrade (uses their weapon slot up), and increases all their utility functions as well as HP and DPS. Being able to recrew a team weapon, merge it upto full health, then retreat a single man, is insane!
And finally, the whole Soviet army design is about choosing one path or another to go down, through your doctrine, for example shocks, or guards, or Dshkas, or SVTs. The core of the faction just provides the basics. In contrast to Ost, where the core can function very solidly without doctrines.
Generally, not using a doctrine is more of a handycap to Soviets, than it is to Ost. |
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M7B1 shouldnt have good accuracy at range at all. Its mobile for goodness sake, you can move it closer to a target to ''shotgun'' like a Katy. All mobile arty has less accuracy at range because its mobile. And the mobility obviously means you can relocate it when danger is inbound and they can dodge arty drops, unlike stationary pieces.
If you are talking about arty battles, the commander has an arty drop, and the major can call recon planes. So just save up and 2 clicks to delete enemy static arty.
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They are still a good ambush snare unit, if you use sprint out of camo when enemy vehicle is already traveling towards them. Vehicle is unlikely to have enough time to micro, stop and reverse out of range. |
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Wellll..... he was very abrasive and loved to argue everything. Also just spam posted every single thread. Like some weird addiction. |
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Well the flame arty doing good damage to OKW trucks is quite nasty. Overall I dont think the doctrine is too bad, you mostly just have to range the AVRE out with tank destroyers. You can probably more safely get rocket arty to hurt their inf as they may have less ability to try kill those units.
The early UC, you just need to blob, and use cover, possibly a bit more annoying as Ost, but you can probably use a couple MGs with grens covering for fuast until you can get 222. |
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very true, you should be aware of what you are going to have to retreat through. Sometimes you need to soft retreat a unit a certain way to try give it a safe retreat. Or other times you even need to hide a low health unit while you try clear the enemys units off their retreat path |
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More complicated than you think.
Firstly having a good feel for where and when the enemy is. Are they flanking you with a blob? etc. This comes down to experience and good game sense. But also scouting is important, having units giving you vision to give you advanced warning of being out manouvered (some units have abilities for map hacks like OKW Kubel).
Over extending is also when you are most likely to be wiped, obviously due to longer retreat higher chance of being flanked.
When you are getting lots of units and your micro is probably getting overwhelmed, get in the habbit of putting some units in strong defensive positions while you micro some intense stuff, like a tank push, that can help avoid units just blundering into danger.
Secondly to that point, use attack move a lot. Simply so when units encounter enemy, they stop, preventing them getting too close into a range they would get wiped faster when you are not watching.
Blob. blobbing can help you focus your attention on more units at once = less likely to lose them. You just have to be ready for counters e.g. rocket arty.
Any squad that has access to larger squad size upgrade will obviously help its survivability.
Dont just watch how many models you have, but the squads health. a 5 man squad can get wiped quick on retreat if all the models are low health. |
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+1 to Rosbone's post, sums it all up really.
COH2 did used to be a mess, and took quite some adjusting before we got to where we are today. Theoretically, in coh3 if counter blob abilities can be buffed, forward healing and TTK tweaked, it might start to feel a more enjoyable game.
Fair point from Hannibal, I wonder if its ever been considered to have slightly tweaked abilities for AI skirmish Vs MP modes, its probably too complicated to implement, but would be cool if you could keep all the big boom stronmg abilities for casual players, but have them much toned down and balanced for MP. |
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I like a PG with camo, acting like storms near a point, wait until single enemy unit has almost finished decapping (their attention will be elsewhere), then bundled nade out of camo. More instantly devastating and easier to use than storms imo.
Its also not entirely uncommon to see good players occasionally do MG42 spam to shut down half the map early on. |
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