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Jump back to quoted post19 Jun 2019, 11:37 AMLago

The difference is parity of input.

One of the strongest parts of CoH's design is it's not an APM game: it's much more about taking smart actions than more actions. In most engagements, you analyse the field, put your squads in the right places and wait for the opponent to react.

The problem with the RET grenades is they autofire but they're designed to be dodged. Dealing with these things is an APM game. Dodging them is trivial: you just tell the squad to move to the side and you've negated the damage. The problem is you have to keep doing this, whereas all your opponent has to do is position the RET squad and leave them to it.

This degrades the experience into an APM game. Their current design relies entirely on overheating micro: using up so much of your opponent's attention dodging all the autofire grenades that they can't focus on other things.

Some people might not see anything wrong with this sort of thing, but I'm saddened to see it in a game that's avoided this sort of design in the past and taken steps to remove it where it exists.

Jump back to quoted post9 Jun 2019, 21:24 PMnigo

No Age4 in E2019?


LOL