OKW Mech repair speed

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 00:30 AMLatch

The speed at which the tech structure repairs tanks is stupidly fast, does anyone have any time scales that it repairs at so I can see if its just confirmation bias or not but a KT seems to get repaired in a matter of seconds.

To achieve the same amount of repair speed as any other faction you surly need 2/3 squads of engineers and that's a huge investment in popcap and MP. It just doesn't sit right with me with non doctrinally a faction can forgo engineers completely and repair tanks at insane speeds.

It shouldn't repair as fast as it does, it should be something to get a boost of repairing speed, not a go to turbo mode.

It's not a massive issue in 1v1 but in 3v3+ it is just a ball ache to fight a KT, and have it back off only for it to return 30 seconds later with full health.

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 09:03 AMHannibal

I can confirm the 9 repair speed of the OKW truck.

I am not sure about CE/Pioneer repair speeds.
This should be per entity:
1,6 standard speed
+0.3 for the sweeper upgrade
and *1.67 for vet2. I don't know if this is applied before or after the sweeper bonus.

For the squad, this means a speed of 6,4/7,6 depending if you have a sweeper or not. So unless you have a vetted squad, the truck should be quicker.

I the main advantage of the truck for me is that it is super low micro. Just drive the vehicle back and forget about it. The search radius is large enough that you can only use the minimap for it.

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 09:07 AMVipper

1.6*4*1.3=8.32

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 08:32 AMLatch

Then confirmation bias is a bitch! I could have died on the hill that even an anvil engie wouldn't repair half as fast as the mech truck.

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 09:15 AMHannibal

For an early flamer pioneer yes, otherwise I think the 7,6 is more realistic (sweeper upgrade), depending on how good the player is to keep the early flamers alive.

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 09:34 AMVipper

"Pioneers

In order to give the Eastern Front factions repair times that are more in line with those of the Western Front armies, the minesweeper upgrade on Pioneer squads will now give additional repair speed.

Minesweeper upgrade now improves repair speed by 0.3 per model"

Vet 0 Pioneer and CE with sweeper should have a repair speed of 8.32...

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 09:43 AMHannibal

From what I know that 0.3 is a flat bonus, not a factor

Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2022, 18:21 PMKatukov

OKW has, for some reason, really fucking fast repair time in team mode


You knock the teeth out of a king tiger, it fully repairs in 20 to 30 seconds, its crazy sometimes


I am pretty sure its just how okw works, for whatever reason

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2022, 14:46 PMBasedSecretary

Don't try to reason with them copers.

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2022, 12:33 PMLady Xenarra

At the end of the day, the OKW mech repair speed is greatly related to the fact that you have only one engineer squad who has to do 20+ jobs. As overpowered as it is, as fast as its repairs are, as incredible as it is at mowing down Ivan/Nigel/Yanks, it is still only one squad.

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2022, 17:39 PMLatch

If you only get one engineer squad that's on you, take UKF sappers as a comparison, they are a flamer/piat squad, barbed wire, salvage, building emplacements, tearing down emplacements, building caches, snaring, blowing up cover, planting mines, defusing mines, repairing.

How is that any less than what the OKW pios do? Early game they turn engagements, they can put away their sweeper giving them back 1/4 fire power. What exactly do they do more of than any other engineer squad?