why no sniper in us army ?

Jump back to quoted post5 Oct 2014, 14:01 PMflyingtiger

Penals can't do anything to armor and unlike Gren's MG42 upgrade, their flamethrowers blow up easily in the middle of the fight then lost forever. You have to spend another 60 muni if you want to have it again.

Jump back to quoted post5 Oct 2014, 14:02 PMBurts

Penal flamethrowers never explode. It's a saving grace they have that makes them somewhat useful in certain situations.

Jump back to quoted post5 Oct 2014, 14:34 PMflyingtiger

You sure about that?

Then why it happens to combat engineer's flamethrower? Is it a bug or was intended?

Jump back to quoted post5 Oct 2014, 14:34 PMflyingtiger

You sure about that?

Then why it happens to combat engineer's flamethrower? Is it a bug or was intended?

Jump back to quoted post5 Oct 2014, 23:08 PMKallipolan

Presumably this is intended, since this has been the case for a long time and would likely have been fixed if it was a bug.

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2014, 20:10 PMVaz

US never made snipers in the war, otherwise they would be in the game.

Jump back to quoted post5 Oct 2014, 23:08 PMKallipolan

Basically, the Penal's flamethrower is 'special' in that it has the explosion crit disabled, unlike all other flamethrowers. Presumably this is intended, since this has been the case for a long time and would likely have been fixed if it was a bug.

Jump back to quoted post7 Oct 2014, 00:56 AMASneakyFox

as soon as tanks come in, penals have pretty much no use. You can try and use a satchel with a button.. though besides the difficulty of getting in an ideal situation like that.. button no longer immobilizes tanks so the satchel will miss.

Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2014, 22:47 PMASneakyFox

pathfinders dont have a chance to crit. they execute soldiers with less than 40 hp. Most useless concept of sniping ever as a soldier with 40 hp was about to just be killed by any old small arms fire.

i wish pathfinders atleast had an aimed shot ability like the brits had in coh1.

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2014, 18:48 PMKatitof

There actually is a thread on official forums about it since some axis players decided its boring to sit 20 mins waiting for que.

Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2014, 21:08 PMAvNY

And yet, COH1 generally plays more like a WWII simulator, with lots of infantry combat, combined arms, flanking, less cheese and not every game devolves into swarms of supertanks rolling over everything. (Yeah, that sometimes happened with vet3 Wehr armor, but it wasn't a given and it didn't show up at the 20 minute mark).

If that wasn't the case, why are so many complaining about the gameplay in COH2?

Jump back to quoted post3 Oct 2014, 11:23 AMboxman80

Penals aren't broke, they're just under used.




So Axis troops are just better at distance than their USF counterparts now too ... I thought the whole point of USF (and Soviets to some exctent for that matter) was the dominance early game and flexible infantry, which is supposed to be superior to the Axis infantry at distance at the very least (as we all know Axis infantry is far superior close range generally anyway).

So now the Axis (or at least OKW) are supposed to be greater at long range too? So where exactly are any of the Allied factions supposed to excel? Late game (lol)? For me all you have done is underlined WHY USF could do with an effective sniper/marksman/distance infantry unit to at least counter the superior axis infantry at all distances.

Jump back to quoted post6 Dec 2014, 08:04 AMRupert

Currently G43 are bugged and do less damage at long range, making JLI pretty much useless atm.