I believe the following Ostheer changes would solve several major balance issues and improve the meta-game for all factions.
Wehrmacht Sniper moved to T2 - This change will prevent the Wehrmacht Sniper from inflicting massive manpower bleed on thre American and British players in the early-game.
PaK40 moved to T1 - This change will help the Wehrmacht counter the powerful Allied light vehicle mid-game. It will also allow the faction to skip T2, which is virtually impossible to do right now due to the dominance of Allied light vehicles like the Stuart and T70.
Panzerfausts require Battle Phase 1 rather than T1 - With the PaK40 moved to T1, the Wehrmacht will no longer require immediate access to Panzerfausts in order to hold off Allied vehicles like the Universal Carrier and the M3 Scout Car.
Wehrmacht Sniper cloak nerf reverted - With the Wehrmacht Sniper moved to T2, he no longer needs the super-long recloak time.
Moderate T3 building fuel cost increase - With the PaK40 moved to T1, many Wehrmacht players will choose to tech from T1 straight to T3 and rush armour. This change will make that strategy riskier and prevent Wehrmacht tanks from hitting the field too quickly.
All generally terrible ideas. These changes would totally screw Ostheer early game. When a M3, USF Jeep or Bren can be rushed instantly at them, they NEED that Faust... an easy and expensive to dodge pak will do no good. All propper AT guns are T2 for all factions. Gives incentive to tech.
German sniper recloack is perfect as it is now, so he can be countersniped.
T3 doesnt need a fuel cost increase. Costs the ostheer the same as it does brits to get to tanks. |
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Is it me or someone have opened the Chamber of Noobs recently, letting them all out on forums?
Recent week feels like official forums quality member crusade goes here to spit nonsense because they can't play and they insist that its all balance issues despite the fact that if you put their ladder rank number into your phone, you'll be able to order a pizza delivery.
Lol +1
Probably the one out of your 12k posts (on both forums) that i actually agree with. |
Yes, ghostbagging and ghostwire could have been banned. However sometimes you stop sandbagging or wiring when getting attacked and therefore there is a "natural" ghost there. If you understand what Im saying? Can be hard to judge that?
When its used on the enemies side of green cover... its abit obvious whats happening. |
Seriously I would like to say that AMI and his people did an amazing job with the tournament.. Hats off AMI and company.. I found myself staying in on weekends so I can watch casts and games. Everything was so great, from the formatting to the music to the casting. I wish I donated now. Next tourney you bet your ass I'll donate and never have buyers remorse. You have put coh2 on the map, I'm sure more have been drawn to the game now... GREAT JOB GUYS!!!
+1
The only changes i would of made (other than the seed selection) is
Ban Ghostbags
Ban Centaur
(probably would of given us a different final).
But very well done to Ami and the gang  |
I guess that one of those secrets is something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsIGhdb0nI4
Nailed it  |
Trip Wire Flares - a 10 munition infantry mine that shoots up a flare when activated
Now, this ability can be quite useful. But it doesn't need to be on every single infantry unit. Let Conscripts and Engineers have it. To all the other infantry, it's pretty garbage.
Sorry to say but you have NO idea, this is by far the best vet 1 ability in the game. No i wont tell you why because then everyone else will learn my secrets! |
You can get up 4x Leigs and bunkerdown waaay before a tank arrives, and then the OKW most likely already dominated most of the map (depending on which map it is of course, leig spam aint that relevant on all of them.) But of course you can do pretty much the same with 2x USF, but thats a really uninteresting way to play the game. So yeah, a tank comes to late to be a proper counter to a bunch of artillery pieces guarded by shreks and raketenwerfers at that.
Anyways, lets just agree that both the Pack howitzer and the Leig should be nerfed.
I said that 4 posts ago lol.
Keep in mind tho if the OKW player is spending MP on 4 liegs in the early game... One would question what your 1280mp was doing in the meantime. |
There is no counter to the Leig other than building your own light howies, and playing like that is just a onesided artillery battle that involves no skill or tactics.
Ofc there is, its called a tank.
And i sincerely disagree about that the game should be balanced around 1v1s, since some starts that are relevant in 1v1s are not in 2v2s, and the other way around.
Thats true, but its impossible to balance both when you have 5 factions in the mix with "asymmetrical balance". Id rather see 1v1s balanced before any other game mode.
You gotta look both ways to atleast some degree, otherwise your view will get pretty one sided.
I play both sides alot, ive been fighting leig spammers all week. |
Comet is not near perfect....
1.for competitive play, the advantages of Anvil tactic is overpowering the hammer one, if you Chose comet, you lose churchill to suck the damage of the late game german uber panzers, Comet is squishy as hell and comes late, and its price is very expensive and still hopelessly lose to a panther.
2.And you lose heavy engineer option for chosing hammer tactics, that's the only effective infantry the UKF can get, IS is a MP black hole,and their combat perfomance is very situational which relys heavily on cover, AKA, none practical since there won't be covers avilable whenever you need it.
3.Again, Churchill, this tank is the only hope to tank those Uber Jadgtiger/Elephants, I don't find that many axis player whine when the Axis W/R is 80% not long before in teamed game.
Must be why Aimstrong usually uses Hammer in these tourny games huh.
IS are a MP black hole, but theyre still lethal as hell. (as are commando's).
On a serious note, The Churchill is OP. But the Comet is still a good tank, very good at countering medium armor + panthers. (and its armor is not crappy at all...). |
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