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Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch11 Sep 2018, 14:08 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Sep 2018, 12:39 PMKatitof Well, both are AI specialist tanks. ATGs are AI based weapons. If ATG is in range of their guns, I don't see why they shouldn't beat them. ATGs have 60 range for a reason. The Stug-e can be field before there is any proper counter like vs USF T1 start if the Ostheer player get a bit of a fuel advantage, you have nothing to face it. So now it was the case before but at least the unit wasn't so resilient. The unit still has a good armor, enough to deflect sherman shots. -Health from 480 to 560 -Target size from 20 to 17 -Veterancy 2 reload bonus from 0.9 to 0.85 Now you get a early mini brumbar with few downside. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch11 Sep 2018, 12:34 PM Is it a wanted feature that both Stug-E and bulldozer can take down frontally Atgun in two shots? I did several tests and they rarely need more than 3 shots to kill the atgun crew. Both unit are call-in Stug-E CP7 Bulldozer CP10 In: Lobby
Thread: Churchill tank is the most OP unit ingame11 Sep 2018, 11:09 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Sep 2018, 10:48 AMVipper I am not sure what you mean but even you park a Ostheer PzIV in the rear of the Churchill it will still probably lose since the frontal armor of the PzIV is equal to rear armor of the Churchill which has one of the highest rear armor values in the game. Even if you park a stuart in the rear of the Pz4, it will still lose. But the Stuart is still more mobile and can perform other tasks. If your opponent went Churchill, you should have tech T4 for a Panther. Or hunted for the Sapper squads to reduce his capability to repair his units. In that case, your stat are interesting but doesn't mean nothing in term of gameplay between both unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Churchill tank is the most OP unit ingame11 Sep 2018, 10:19 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2018, 22:47 PMVipper So in other words the Churchill/KV-1 will win the fight clearly but it will still straggle. Actually Churchill has a better chance to penetrate PzIV's front and read armor (it has 100% chance to penetrate rear) than PzIV to penetrate the Churchill's. In other words Churchill has better "DPS" vs PzIV than vice versa. Churchill vs OKW PzIV Front/Rear 0.58%/100% 0.51%/100% 0.45%/100% OKW PzIV vs Churchill F/R 0.52%/0.69% 0.48%/0.64% 0.46%/0.61% So according to katitof's "straggle" PzIV also straggles vs Churchill. Would be nice if people use terms like "straggle" with their dictionary meaning and not as they see fit? Didn't know those units were static. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Churchill tank is the most OP unit ingame10 Sep 2018, 19:12 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2018, 19:05 PMShadowLinkX37 I recall that game. Again i'm not saying its blatantly OP, but it is difficult to deal with. As I remember in that game luvnest lost because he didn't have the repairs to keep both his fireflies and the churchill on the field at the same time. That doesn't have much to do with the churchill so much as a missplay. Yes it does, focus the repairing squad instead of the churchill. Now on a more balanced perspective, you shouldn't be thinking to kill anytime right of the bat such expensive unit, it is normal to have it survive some time before the player does a mistake or you exploit better the situation. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: New player advice.10 Sep 2018, 15:27 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Sep 2018, 19:33 PMSnipercam7 This is awesome! Thank you very much guys, now I just need to figure out how to stop my PC taking a decade to load 4v4 matches and therefore disconnecting me. Learning from 4vs4 isn't going o make you any better. 4vs4 is about spaming the most efficient unit to break your opponent. You'll learn nothing from here, there is no room to flank and understand how to combine your units. - Play 1vs1 and 2vs2 (if you really want to play teamgame), play your first 10 games to be ranked approximatly vs people at your level. - Commanders are not that important if you are newbe, honestly they are not going to shift the balance of a match or only vs player as bad or worst than you. You just need to know you need at least one arty commander on your loadout for special cases. In fact, you should probably start playing without paying much attention to them, and when you find a Build order you like, you complete it with a commander giving support to it. - Build Order, Capping order, maps, units values (near-mid-far range dps) what to use when to use it is much more important to understand early on. - Bulletin: select the 3% accuracy on your mainline infantry (which is available from the start for each faction) and complete it with whatever dedicated for it as well depending on your crate drops. - Learn unit preservation, learn how to use covver, learn about vet, lear about different damage, learn about scouting before attacking, learn about retreat and soft retreat, how Works suppression etc... and all of this is strongly dependant of the map. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Alternate Settings for Future CoH Games10 Sep 2018, 11:27 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2018, 10:44 AMLugie I'll try to respectfully debunk this in an effort to reinforce my viewpoint. So, I'll start from the top. 1. Why cant helicopter's just be treated as hybrid of gliders and air-support? They could be used in abilities only, as planes are currently. Some helicopters strafe with weapons, some drop-off stuff, etc. I think attack choppers would best be used as a loiter ability. 2. Dont include them. After-all, if nuclear-weapons start to be used, then its the end of the world, right? Add one more game (series) to the cold-war rts list, the war-game games dont use them, and nobody complains there. A good way to use them would be through a campaign mission, like the V1 facility in CoH. 3. Well, I can think of must-haves for East and West. 1. America 2. EU (Not sure if should be split into separate countries or kept unified. Splitting would definitely fatten up the faction list but require alot more work.) 3. Soviet Union 4. China There's 4 factions, equal to CoH's four. Some more could be; 5. South America (maybe some sort of union, its alt history after-all. Thinking of the Monroe Doctrine) 6. Soviet Satellite States (Same situation with the EU) I think with a bit more thought, a really good foundation for a cold-war CoH is set. Cold war is way too assimetrical, historical blocks didn't fight each other directly. So what would we have, Vietnam and Korea? Afganistán? Remember that COH franchise tries to stick to some sort of reality, I'm not confident in seing Relic inventing a war between USA and Russia. I don't know what will be coh3 but I think that we should think about game modes and gameplay than period of war. The entire period of WW2 could be used with the appropriate game mode and design. COHO reinvented COH in its time and Coh3 should take that direction. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How about separate the smoke grenade from grenade upgrade10 Sep 2018, 08:55 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Sep 2018, 23:34 PMLoopDloop It'd be nice if smoke was free, but that would put ostheer's early game in a hole because mg's would be easily counterable too early IMO. Maybe if it was locked behind the first officer it would be a little fairer. Seems dumb to have to tech for half the perennial answer to USF's problems (smoke and flank). At the point where we are it would be easier to remove smoke from RE, make Smoke a vet1 ability for officer and cut the grenade upgrade in half. But I'm not sure it Will solve anything. The problem with USF munition isn't that BARs are expensive but that you quickly need two on your squads to keep pace with single OST/OKW upgrades. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch7 Sep 2018, 19:39 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Sep 2018, 19:27 PMTiger Baron What? The M21 Mortar HT is overlapping with the Mortar team and pack howitzer for the USF in both Infantry and Mech Companies. Literally any infantry with bazookas is good in the M3 Halftrack, especially when using with Combined Arms (the 76mm Sherman comes to mind here). On the contrary, I would say that Mech Company has more synergy than Armor Company. What are Assault Engineers exactly? Are they elite infantry? Are they close combat infantry? Are they assault infantry? What's their synergy with the rest of the commander? Vehicle crews can already repair their own vehicles so their repair ability is pretty useless, REs can already build what they can and even better, so can Rifles along with Riflemen Field Defenses and so forth. Their only real unique ability is that to deploy demo charges and that they're armed with M3 Grease Guns, that's about it. Elite Crews are useless and I still consider them as such so I see no synergy here. The M10 is overlapping with the M36 Jackson so there's no other reason to get it right now other than being cheaper and a bit faster. The 105 Sherman used to overlap with the regular Sherman using HE rounds, not anymore in the preview. And the 240mm Arty is just the Ost railway arty so nothing to say here. If we're going by the name alone the only really "armor" themed things here are the Elite Crews and tanks, that's about it. Mech Company has more "Armor" in it than actual Armor Company. Mech company is good for trolling, otherwise there is nothing interesting competitivaly speaking in it. Commanders need to be simple and give simple tools and advantages on their own. Armor commander is still dumbed by the Bulldozer imo. In: Lobby
Thread: Rear Echeleons need reworking.5 Sep 2018, 09:39 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Sep 2018, 17:35 PMLeOverlord It never crossed my mind to press the Volley Fire ability, even if i pick Tactical Support of Infantry Company to have access to LMGs. I always say to myself "i will have at least 1 RE squad with LMG so that i can support my Riflemen" but i never do it. I won't disagree, they are amazing with double bazookas, especially if you have TWO squads in the field, but their effectiveness against infantry is still meh. In order to earn veterancy, they need to stick together with Riflemen. Another choice we can discuss, is shared experience If you equip dual zook on RE, make them stick to your M20/M15/Stuart cuz they are more likely to meet a 222 or a Luch near them. At the same time they can repair them. Otherwise if you don't build vehicle, keep them close to the center and move them when you see an enemy vehicle. In: COH2 Balance