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Thread: Tiger nerf13 Apr 2020, 10:19 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 09:14 AMPrinceps Sure because Tiger wipes better than IS2 and Pershing... oh wait Well, except for CODGUY, nobody is crying over Pershing or IS2 and both of them have been nerfed quite heavily along side with the Tiger. But here we are with several players crying over the Tiger only. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Tiger nerf13 Apr 2020, 08:03 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 07:32 AMMMX You're of course right, and probably all these testing and modelling results should come with a disclaimer that they represent only part of the overall picture. There are simply too many additional variables (collision w/ terrain or obstacles, squad spacing and movement, etc...) involved to be accurately modeled without making things overly complicated. Still, while absolute numbers such as the S2K or T2K presented above shouldn't necessarily be taken face value, I'm confident the proportions or relative trends these results outline are pretty robust. After all, things like elevation and collision hits affect all tanks more or less in the same way. But only time and plugging a lot of in-game stats will tell how accurate all the predictions and in vacuum test really are. Until then I guess this is the best we have - or at least better than a bits of anecdotal evidence. Gameplay wise the change is bigger than stats can show. Before you could call a Tiger and have him wipe a squad or two before your opponent had enough tools to respond. This would seal the majority of games. That's toxic gameplay but many players relied on it to fight above their own weight. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Tiger nerf12 Apr 2020, 15:38 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2020, 12:07 PMProtos Angelus I agree. While heavy tanks should not be "call in-win" types of units, they should inspire fear. You have to save fuel and manpower to get them in. You have to sacrifice mediums to get heavies in and that's where you lose. However, if you managed to hold out and not lose a lot during the time you were saving, you should be able to inspire fear into blobs (right now, I only see massive blobs of infantry on every map at rank 16-18). Furthermore, the 12 CP cost is a good change. So..... .... !! You have to do damage/kill to get CP and you have to save fuel. For the damage and kills you need tanks (but you're saving fuel), and to save fuel you can't spam mediums. See where I'm going with this? Heavies should be stronger vs infantry than they are now. Pershing got effectively nullified. Tiger is weaker but still mainly used to counter veichles since axis have great infantry support vs blobs (and a big amount of great artilery). IS2 is also meh. KT is still strong. The Pershing got the biggest hit mainly because it's the least survivable one of all the heavy call ins. However, I have also seen a lot of BS plays in the recent games. My teammates letting the enemy control one side of the map (no defenses or anything) with VP and munition points and then cry when the enemy is spamming arty on them (eg. I was in the middle spawn position and my top teammate let the enemy have 2 munition points and VP on Steppes, at rank 18...). I'm not an expert and I mainly play COH2 to have fun and have good games, win or lose (even though the toxicity is sometimes high), so I'm not really "The Man" on all of this. However, I am a physicist and I believe I am not of below average IQ so I can notice the patterns. The assymetrical balance is great and all, but everything getting "more in line with" is killing the balance. Problem with that vision is allied early game has been purposely nerfed to make the game more balance, which is fine. So now staling with dual pak or dual rak (or dual Zis as well) is not so difficult anymore (also with the amount of manpower saved with the continuous price reduction of units and tech patch after patch). Saving for a heavy call-in is a joke at the moment, you have to be really outplayed (or matched vs much better players) to be dried in manpower. So with that you have to accept that Axis late game got nerfed the same way. Tigers shouldn't be punishing so much anymore, it has to be countered by dual zis/m1 and TDs the same way Axis do it with dual pak vs everything Allied factions can field. Imo the game is more balanced now but there is definitively a problem with the economy, Cutting off your opponent is not rewarding, decaping a point for a couple of minutes is not rewarding. Those action usually have a cost and that cost is not worth in the current game design. Better roaming the map with a blob and wiping as much squad as possible, only real way to dry your opponent manpower. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: M15A1 AAHT12 Apr 2020, 09:38 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2020, 22:53 PMOutsider_Sidaroth That happens because it used to have an AA mode, that helped it do it's job, since it's removal it's terribad at killing planes. It does pretty well but you have to not be in the center of the circle strafe. Now yeah Soviet and Brit have better options but that's hardly an argument here. In: Lobby
Thread: M15A1 AAHT11 Apr 2020, 17:23 PM Aim of the topic: first nerfing the suppression on the move then nerfing wathever possible after that. In: Lobby
Thread: 60 range TD10 Apr 2020, 09:03 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2020, 20:29 PMT.R. Stormjäger Or you could decrease their health and increase their front armour so if you manage to flank it takes fewer than 10 rear armour shots to kill them. How the Su-85 is supposed to do that? Why Axis could simply rush forward and Allied unit had to always sneak a way to flank? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: (H)MG34 8 Apr 2020, 17:01 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2020, 16:45 PMShadowLinkX37 I mean we can go back and fourth all day with counters etc but ingame is never vaccum scenario. Agreed but you can't just ask for a HMG to be effective vs what supposed to counter their effectiveness. Now yeah some other HMGs are more effective that others in that matter, they also are worst in others areas, or more expensive... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: (H)MG34 8 Apr 2020, 16:27 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2020, 15:19 PMShadowLinkX37 That's potentially locked behind a 40F tech wall. Soviet players complain about backteching T2 for 20F. This faction design is fantastic Then use your Luch / Puma to wreck the cover? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: (H)MG34 8 Apr 2020, 08:58 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2020, 03:56 AMShadowLinkX37 Pitiful is still apparently better than any other HMG. I don't expect it to rival vet 5 obers with an LMG34, but it doesn't take 5+ minutes to make a squad move like the HMG34. If you want to make a squad move out of cover, use the ISG. You're trying to peel potatoes with a fork here. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW Tiger?7 Apr 2020, 21:01 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Apr 2020, 20:55 PMdistrofio Exactly kat. KT is not worth any more nerfs, it is simply not. But hey we could all sign a petition to buff it, right? You did the first step! Why would you want to buff a unit that doesn't worth any more nerfs? KT is fine where it stand, you'll probably start to appreciate it once Tiger is brought back to where it belongs. In: COH2 Gameplay