Patch notes for 23rd June

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 20:29 PMVonIvan

At nade change doesn't matter when you have Guards/At-guns/85s.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 20:22 PM__deleted__

Faust/ATNade change is easily the worst idea in this patch indeed and also a considerable indirect buff to Allies at least in 1v1.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 20:57 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf

Is it only a buff for Allies? Light vehicles are not affected by this change. Medium/Heavy armor is used by Allies and Axis so it's a buff for every faction.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 20:17 PMWhat Doth Life?!

I have three of the speed bulletins and stacking them has felt negligible in testing. Better off with 6% cost reduction bulletin IMO.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 20:57 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf

Is it only a buff for Allies? Light vehicles are not affected by this change. Medium/Heavy armor is used by Allies and Axis so it's a buff for every faction.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 21:29 PM__deleted__

Jein.
The one scenario where this really matters (apart from Molos six 85s charging at you) is that ie. an early Sherman can now shut down any and all harassment pretty risk free and has much better opportunities for gaining squadwipes. This has far and away the greatest impact on how the game will play out. Since in the "typical" 1v1, Axis (both OH and OKW) have to come from behind and will have less map and later medium armour, this affects them much more severely than it does the Allies.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 21:27 PMHolyUnlyrical_Lyrics

Hmm, one does feel like it makes a difference. Weird haha

Jump back to quoted post22 Jun 2015, 21:00 PMKatitof

Also invisible, moving puppchens.

So who got buffed again here?

BALANCE

Increase the Number of Viable Strategies in the Game
Make core tech tree units more desirable
Increase the viability of light vehicle combat.
Promote and Encourage Combined Arms
Reduce Negative User Experiences in Gameplay
Reduce the amount of frustrating moments that can be caused by undesirable gameplay
Improve usability and remove unintended behavior from the game
General game balance tuning
Reduce the amount un-desired randomness generated


PTRS & DP28-LMG
This weapon drop rates were set way higher than other weapons; basically setting the drop rate in line with other weapons. The Guard Troops carry a lot of droppable weapons so they always seem to drop a lot more weapons than any other Infantry squads. We’ve decided to reduce the drop rate to compensate for this.
Drop rate of PTRS at rifle and DP-28 LMG to from 33% to 10%
This should cause more incentive to acquire even moar Guards.

T-34/85s
We felt this change could be delayed inevitably, as T-34/85s are Relic Tier Meta. Without the utilization of T-34/85s how are you going to own everything with Guard Blobs all by themselves?

Panzerfaust / AT Grenade/ Rifle AT Grenades
We are retuning how infantry snares work; as they act as a big deterrent to using light vehicles. We hope this will encourage more cover and positional play with infantry to deal with vehicles.
Can no longer deal Engine Destroy critical
Can no longer generate critical to units over 75% HP for Medium and Heavy Vehicles
We felt this change would allow more players to go Guards instead of Conscripts

CAS
Why change the meta?

Stug E Call in
We felt the Stug E was over performing against infantry so we are reducing its rate of fire. We have also decided to bring its health in line with the Stug G
Reload increased from 3.8 to 5.3
Health increased from 400 to 560

So we gave it more health, reload doesn't matter when you have lots of StugEs

Jump back to quoted post23 Jun 2015, 16:16 PMleonux

Anyone knows the exact time the servers go down?

Thanks

For those that missed it in the patch notes, the game will be down from 2pm PDT to 6pm PDT - once it returns, you'll have the patch! #COH2

Jump back to quoted post23 Jun 2015, 17:36 PMWingZero

This Stug buff will def make Soviet medium armor useless, T-34s will suck even more. Hats off to you Relic.