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Thread: Top US things to do26 May 2015, 15:35 PM Portland, Oregon for the beer and the weirdos. There's also a great selection of national parks to visit. In New York, try to get into a TV show audience. The Daily Show for example. They release tickets online a few days before airing. It's free (I think) but you have to claim em fast. Go to a Broadway show. In: Lobby
Thread: People are probably taking this game too seriously 25 May 2015, 17:54 PM Oh no, don't leave.. I'm curious to know what other illegal activities have you engaged in for a time only to be discouraged after not getting caught? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Suggestion / realistic fix to German rifle nades.21 May 2015, 16:28 PM Jump back to quoted post21 May 2015, 16:20 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf Demos are entirely different. Grenades have a timer and/or an obvious animation before they explode which gives your opponent time to react. Demos don't have a timer before they explode nor do they have an animation. Once engineers planted a demo you can immediately trigger them if needed. Except rifle nades don't have an obvious animation, or timer and are much more accessible than demos. There's also a bug that can be abused to trigger the animation after the nade fires. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: People are probably taking this game too seriously 19 May 2015, 21:36 PM When you win, it's because you tried hard. When you lose, you were just playing "for fun", right? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: No tech demo just poor design.12 May 2015, 16:55 PM A lot of abilities and explosive rounds lead to instant (or nearly instant) squad wipes with little counter-play available. At this point, I think it's better to just consider them part of the game. Compared to vCoh, losing a squad isn't that big a deal anyways. Especially early on, when your pop cap isn't very high. I'd also be willing to bet that demos aren't even the most cost-efficient of squad wiping methods. Rifle nade probably wins that title handily. Unit spacing (if it ever gets addressed) will mitigate many of these instagib problems. Until then, demos are just one more notch on the long list of annoying Relic things. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sturm Tiger7 May 2015, 18:08 PM Jump back to quoted post7 May 2015, 00:57 AMJadame! It should be hight risk hight reward death incarnate. No unit should fit that role in CoH2, ever. It's just bad design that ends up frustrating everyone. -For one, there usually are ways to mitigate the high risk part of the equation which leads to overpowered units. Think back to the old Tiger Ace. -It leads to formulaic meta gameplay where the high-risk high-reward unit is always going to be the best choice in specific situations. There's already too much of that going around. We don't need more. Sturm Tiger isn't in a good place now but stretching its cost/performance to extremes isn't the way to fix it. Edit: If anything, the Sturm Tiger is carryover from the initial (and very flawed) design of OKW that was heavily based on high-risk/reward. If you managed to keep all your trucks and vehicles alive through mid-game, you were very likely to win, but if you lost any of your fuel investments, it would be an uphill battle to stay alive. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: frequent rifle grenades squad wipes27 Apr 2015, 21:03 PM 1. Units clump closer together in cover than out of it. So it's easier for low aoe explosives (like nades) to wipe squads in cover. Also, cover provides no protection against explosives. 2. Riflemen have notoriously bad formations and tend to clump together even when out of cover. 3. The Riflenade animation is bugged at certain angles. The nade will sometimes fire before the kneel animation. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: Relic NEEDS to fix this !27 Apr 2015, 15:24 PM I thought games < 5min didn't count towards your rank. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic pls...No Steam Premium mods.24 Apr 2015, 19:32 PM I really doubt Relic/Steam can force someone to sell their mod for profit if they don't want to. In: Lobby
Thread: Destroyed tanks blocking sight needs to go16 Apr 2015, 22:11 PM If there's a piece of green cover between your tank and your target, the round has a good chance of hitting the cover. I don't see anything wrong with this tbh. You have to be aware of it and expect it, is all. Besides, flimsy US tanks probably get more out of hiding behind green cover than Axis tanks do. In: COH2 Balance