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Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2014, 01:53 AMArclyte

damn, is there any way to watch old replays? I really want to see 16 cons on the field lol
That is how russia should play. Massing shitty infantry

Jump back to quoted post6 Aug 2014, 07:39 AMGustavGans

If you manage to keep your vet3 BAR/1919 Rifles alive and are halfway decent at microing two Jacksons, then there's nothing you can't take on late game.

I seriously don't see how Rifles don't scale well late game? I mean you have nothing to spend your muni on except the guns from the weapon racks. Their 5 man squadsize is optimal imo, you fit in pretty much every cover but still have that special dude that always survives the nade/tankshell/whatever explosive.

As for the lategame sacling of grenadiers, their low squadsize makes them disappear pretty quickly late game, when the heavy hitters start rolling out.

As for the USF indirect fire. Yes the Mortar Halftrack needs a buff, but the pack howie is nothing short of awesome. I build it pretty much every game and it rarely ever finishes the game without vet2.

Edit: This is from a 2v2 perspective.

Jump back to quoted post5 Aug 2014, 03:14 AMVolsky

Seeing as very few of you have a good idea of how projectiles work and exist in Company of Heroes, let me give you a simple explanation.

There are several different collision types used among the projectiles to define how they interact with the game engine. These include tp_homing (the standard for vCoH tank shells and HHAT rockets—this is why you’d see them turn on a dime and round a building corner to smack their target), tp_artillery (will not home onto the target, but will hit their target directly if a hit is registered by the engine, ASSUMING THE TARGET DOES NOT MOVE--basically, a hit rolled by the engine removed all scatter from the equation, per se), tp_thrown (phases through buildings and shot blockers—grenades, stickies, and PIATs), and some others that weren’t too commonly seen.

There is no way to modify the collision types of the projectiles during their flight from the barrel marker of the weapon that fired them into their target of choice. Projectiles can be made to phase through certain object types such as environmental objects, infantry, and vehicles (this is why the Puma was sucha bitch to hit and kill in vCoH, especially with RRs—no hitbox and an object type that most projectiles were set to phase through unless a hit was rolled by the weapon targeting it). However, bear in mind, this is over the projectiles entire flight path, and will define it's behavior versus every last target of that type in the game.

If projectiles were made to ignore shot blockers, the ground, and buildings etc, we would have a mass of auto-firing stickies, if you will. Remember how annoying it was to have a vet2 rifle squad nail a sticky into the ass of your Tiger from 40m away, through a building? That will be every tank shell, flak shell, and HHAT rocket. Now, there is a setting under a given weapon’s behavior extension called artillery_force_obey_los that essentially prevents the weapon from targeting any object behind a shot blocker (tp_artillery and tp_thrown are hardcoded within the CoH engine to act as artillery, targeting anything within range of the weapon, ignoring whatever objects lie in between the weapon and the target—eg., why the StuH would constantly fire aimlessly into buildings if there was an enemy target visible on the other side). This would prevent that by default. However.

The game would then devolve into a ground-targeting free for all, with everyone and their dog hiding behind shot blockers at max range and spamming the ground attack command at enemy units with their new phase-shifting shells. It would be non-sensical, a ridiculous new level of micro strain, and even if you ignored shot blockers—fight out in the open—we’d still have really retarded crap going on, like ISU-152s launching phase-shift nukes through a mountainside to whack your blob of vetted Grenadiere in the nuts—that doesn’t sound fun for anyone, now does it?

The other issue is if Relic forgets to put this behavior into effect for even one weapon, it will be a massive balance pain in the ass until hotpached.

Tl;dr, my vote is no. As a coder, and as a player who’s not a part of the ubermensch 1v1 auto mustard race, this would make the game absolutely frustrating and no fun whatsoever for the average joe—e.g., the other 90% of the playerbase.

EDIT: Fix'd to be Mr. Nicetyniceynicepantsguy. Remember, help your local forum--don't be a Vetlolcake!