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Thread: Latch's 15 Suggestions To Balance COH221 Jan 2016, 20:17 PM From a design perspective, some of what you write makes sense. But from a balance perspective, almost every suggestion is an OKW nerf. The problem is the axis factions aren't doing that well in 1v1 automatch from what we know (see coh2chart.com), so suggesting more nerfs at this stage is unwarranted. If you rephrase your suggestions from a design aspect, you might get more constructive feedback: eg.: Some offmaps can be targeted into enemy base sectors while others can't. The lack of consistency is confusing. There's no way to know beforehand if the ability will be allowed or not. Relic needs to homogenize offmap behavior in base sectors or find some way to make it clearer to the player which abilities are allowed in base sectors and which aren't. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: An unexpected comeback19 Jan 2016, 05:38 AM Wp Tootsy. In: Replays
Thread: Unmirrored maps are stupid18 Jan 2016, 16:34 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Jan 2016, 15:54 PMKozokus Nobody complain against asymetrical maps in CSGO, Everybody just use each side's best advantages. Kozo. Which is why you switch sides in CSGO. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Patch notes 14th Jan14 Jan 2016, 22:11 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jan 2016, 21:49 PMiTzDusty Small patches like this are what happens when people bitch and bitch and bitch about relic making big changes in the previous patches. That's on all of the whiners that make up the vocal minority. If we had weekly patches, this would make sense. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Strats for 1 vs 1 Brits besides Turtle12 Jan 2016, 20:34 PM There's no saving Brits this patch. You have to outplay your opponent in the early game. Then use the mid-game to stall until you can build a critical mass. 1. On open maps you can afford to go for a UC against Wehr. But avoid it in all other cases. 2. The vickers HMG works well against both factions, especially on more crowded maps. They're decent at clearing houses so long as they're in cover. 3. If you survive to the early mid-game, you aim for the Cromwell. 4. If you have an AT gun at that point, you can boost your IS. 5. The late game is about taking out armor. Aim for a Comet on cluttered maps, AT guns on open maps. 6. Always mine during late game. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Making T1 more appealing5 Jan 2016, 22:35 PM Didn't you notice, Inverse? Relic listened to you when they designed the Brits. Too bad they gimped them in so many critical areas, it's a really fun faction to play otherwise. That still leaves all the other factions untouched though. I would add that there's an even better tool than global upgrades: sidegrades. While global upgrades offer the dilemma of "when" to get them for maximum impact, sidegrades offer the additional question of "which". They imply a multiplication of roles and depth of play, and if they're not mutually exclusive (like hammer and anvil) then they're all the more interesting. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Allied 1v1 Dominace5 Jan 2016, 21:49 PM All players have a hidden ELO rating. Relic have so far been very tight lipped regarding stats, probably because there's nothing good to show. What we have is gleamed by collecting ladder data and their service allows us to look only at the top 200 players. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Allied 1v1 Dominace5 Jan 2016, 21:18 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Jan 2016, 20:29 PMDevM It might surprise you that top players are there because of their game knowledge rather than micro, it's actually quite funny that micro is such a heavy topic when in CoH2 it hardly matters past a certain point (which isnt hard to reach btw). O_W has a point even if he overestimates the importance of micro. I play around 50apm or less btw, and manage to reach well into the top 100s with sometimes less than 10 hrs / week of playtime. But as I was saying, O_W has a point in that balancing purely from the top could create a situation where there is simply too much game knowledge required to reach the intended balanced state. It's not enough to make the top x% happy and tell the rest to "Git gud!". The majority of people don't have the time, or desire to work hard for a game. So if the game balance is broken for a large number of people they'll leave before they're invested enough to buy all that precious DLC Relic needs to survive. Bottom line is, a "balance from the top" policy could oversimplify matters and alienate a large portion of the playerbase. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Return Rifle Company vet call in with fuel cost?23 Dec 2015, 20:43 PM I don't miss it. I find it more problematic that Rifle Company is (still) the right answer to 80% of the maps in 1v1 automatch pool. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UKF AA emplacement and retreating squads23 Dec 2015, 16:28 PM You have the wrong expectation about what the retreat button is for. It's not meant to guarantee the survival of your squads in any way. It's just a tool to GTFO fast in any way possible. Other players are free to exploit the retreat paths in every way possible. You can either accept that and move on, or you can make more silly threads for our entertainment. In: COH2 Gameplay