Profile of sluzbenik

Have your mates get in random queue at the same time. Or because the playerbase is so low, just wait for a good 2v2 streamer to search and try to play with him. If you're vaguely in the same bracket, there's a good chance of being matched (ie., since there is no one else queuing in top 50, a top 50 player will get matched with a top 500).

In COH1 people would rank in 2v2 by counting bars, you could literally figure out if you were in the same game before the match start bars filled. Can't do that in COH2 as far as I know but you can stack the odds.

I think it comes down to game sense and micro skill.

At an intermediate to high level of skill, Allies are easier...

OKW comes down to being super skilled with raketen positioning and cloak use then avoiding squad wipes, and then blobbing at the right moments.

The problem is each tier has one super good unit that you CANNOT lose. If you can handle microing a lot of infantry and babying that one unit (Luchs or flak HT) then you might win. Watch Troy's stream, he's pretty good at playing OKW, aggressive at first and then turning super defensive until you have enough vet to beat semi-superior allied infantry.

Soviet in particular is much more forgiving in terms of squad wipes, since you're not going to win the game with your infantry, but with tanks anyway. Similar to OKW, babying your sniper will win you the game but I find it's not AS bad to lose that sniper as an OKW vehicle.

Generally I find because of the crappy support weapons you need to have about 25% better micro to beat a similarly skilled Soviet player. You just get too punished from staying in losing battles or squad wipes with OKW.

Lol, I know that video was from 2013, read original post please. It's my video.

Well, if it's a cover/no cover issue, that should be fixed, expensive bundled grenades should not do that little damage. And maybe change the arc back to the way it was on release, they're really damn hard to flank now, best you can do is get a nade in and retreat. They're just too durable.

I'm just playing Sov to troll now anyway. I can't believe I'd ever say this, but US and Brit feel a lot more balanced now.

But Sov has been OP from release, it never seems to change. They've always got something. It's the cheese faction, but it used to be the cheese was more high risk/reward, now they're just a very good combined arms army with crucial edges over all the other factions.

Someone explain this to me.

How every maxim gets flanked, naded, a few times at half health and 3 models and not a single wipe.

I've been noticing maxims have even more survivability than ever, but this game was ridiculous.

It's almost this bad again:

To the folks behind the balance patch:

I'm hoping with your knowledge of the inner workings of COH2, you can verify something for me.

I've been playing since beta. I have an embarrassing number of hours in the game so I hope this observation bears some weight.

Vehicles that are destroyed in enemy base sectors are more likely to abandoned, perhaps by as much as a factor of 2x, than vehicles on the main field.

I just had two get abandoned in a 3v3 in enemy base sectors while I was screwing around. Two. The odds of that are pretty small.

I've had this suspicion since about 6 months after release, but no one's ever verified, or really commented on it except me and maybe one or two others I know.

I want it verified. It happens WAY too often to be coincidence. I've always thought of it as a hidden comeback mechanism the designers stuck in the game - enemy gets cocky, raids your base, their tank gets killed and becomes a tool you can use to get back in the game.

I could be wrong. It could have something to with damage from small projectiles, PTRS and zooks, for example making it more likely because there's not enough damage to completly wreck the tank, resulting in abandonment. Thus when base raiding your tank may die to those, not AT guns per se.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I would love an answer to this.