The original "design" vision was that pathfinders as their name suggests would drop once and then using their beacon would "prepare" the ground for airborne squads to roll in. That's why beacon is free and gives accurate and faster drop zone for airborne plus free reinforce. That's serious buffs...
But people just wanna spam.
Well, it's a shitty design anyway. The original idea could have been implemented in a different way - the Rear Echilon could build beacons for the Paratroopers. I think a couple to divide these units into different commanders. |
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Nobody thinks that having two infantry units in one commander is a very bad design? Maybe move the Pathfinders somewhere to another commander? And maybe add the Paratroopers to another commander? |
The loiter from advanced infantry tactics(can’t remember if that is the name) The one with PPSH, t3485, repair, and radio intercept. It is also in the commander with T3485/IS2. It pins and does massive damage.
Now it's so-so. Before it was much better. When it was really fire from 23mm HE shells, it destroyed infantry and light armored vehicles well. This was one of my favorite abilities when the Wehrmacht spammed a Panzerwerfer. The 23mm guns were great against light armored vehicles. |
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Let's be honest. This is a bad decision. A dynamic campaign is not very interesting, it is a Skyrmish set and not a campaign. In alpha, I was terribly bored. You are making a campaign game that focuses on the people in this war. And a dynamic campaign is the worst choice to show it. CoH is not Starcraft, but here you should be equal to this game. And although I do not like StarCraft 2 as a strategy, but this is a masterpiece single player campaign - history, unique missions, cutscenes. |
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With CoH2, this is a complex issue. The main funds for the creation and responsibility for how crappy and cheap the single player campaign was was on THQ. I think the frankly terrible CoH2 single player campaign turned a lot of people off. On the other hand, Sega, which spent $26.6 million on Relic and the franchise, clearly didn't want a major overhaul of the game and wanted a release as soon as possible to recoup their investment. Again, Sega did not want to fix the situation with the scandal of the single player campaign and simply ignored the criticism and did not want, for example, to create a large Soviet DLC to fix the situation, but pretended to be dead and chose the simple and easy Western Allies option. |
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There was an episode when if you come across a map of Pripyat, then this is an auto-win for the Wehrmacht, and although I madly love Pripyat and Summer Rzhev, but the Elephant in the center of the map just made the game meaningless, the only thing that could oppose the Elephant is ML-20. But the commander with the elephant had (still has?) reconnaissance and Stukа bombing. |
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Oh yeah, talking about mortars brought me to another memory from the early game. MG-42 spam that was in the houses, neither two nor three mortars nor a 120-mm mortar caused damage to these houses. |
Yeah, remember that. But I think they had shitty mosins so PPSH was a mandatory upgrade, yet, I remember that people placed them behind sandbags on VPs or close to them and it was literally almost impossible to force them out, because of their armor.
This would make sense if there were other upgrades besides PPSh. For example, captured panzerschrecks or rifle grenades or something else. |
Guards and shocktroops available at 1CP, after CP value change. Meaning that old 1CP became 2CP, effectively making shocktroops and guards having half CP timing.
The Shock Troops had another feature. They started with Mosin rifles and bought PPSh-41. |
Yes, IS2 used to have stun.
It didn't work anyway, the IS-2's main gun was so bad that a 3rd veteran could only dream of. No damage, no veterancy. |
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