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Thread: Super Heavy tank requirements in Winter balance preview12 Mar 2020, 09:25 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2020, 09:06 AMVipper These number are from winter balance preview. How many 2vs2 winter balance games have you seen? Few but every time with tiger and almost none with Pershing. And the situation already exists live. In: Lobby
Thread: Super Heavy tank requirements in Winter balance preview12 Mar 2020, 09:04 AM So Perhsing is potentially the most expensive tank to get while also being the weakest at of all: You have to add at last an ambulance and Rack before getting it in real games. USF and Soviet mid game momentum are also completely dependent on their light vehicle which is not true for other factions that can go without them. that 50 fuel for USF and 70 for Soviet if they want to get the upper hand for some time before their windows close up. No wonder you barely seen Pershing in 2vs2 while Tigers are there every single game. In: Lobby
Thread: Winter balance mod 2020 V1.310 Mar 2020, 09:14 AM Reduces the reinforce cost of all team weapons by 10% Increases the capture and decapture rate of all Ostheer infantry units by 25% Except for Soviet and the raketen every faction suffers the same issue with their support weapon. Not that 10% is something really relevant anyway but the reason of this change is difficult to understand. Capture and decapture rate is a braindead change, seems coming from the same source (ass) than 221 being able to lock territories. I can't wait for the combo Sprint/decap all the map with the Tiger that depop anything trying to resist, or Pzgren with their passive sprint with a vehicle close by or even better, Stormtrooper poping randomly behind and decaping anything, oh also the nice buff it is for Close the pocket commander... and I probably forget some, ah no, stupid of me, the easier one: just put a squad inside a HT and enjoy. Generalist Medium Tanks In order to make generalist medium tanks more viable in the current meta, their durability is being increased by lowering their target size, making them more difficult to hit. These changes should reduce the chance to get hit by 7-10% on medium to far range - ex: an 88% chance to get hit becomes an 80% chance. The changes will not apply to Tank Destroyers and specialist vehicles based on a medium tank chassis. Units like the Sherman Firefly and Sherman 105mm will remain the same due to their role. Miam, just increasing even more RNG fights, you're not making them more durable but more RNG dependent. Do you understand that 80% is a value that take sens only in high repetition of tries. We're talking here about units that need 4 shots to die, you almost never hit the 80% chance with a set of 4 tries. What you're going to achieve here is increase the number of rage post about bad RNG luck, because more than once mediums will die the exact same way they do today. If you want to make mediums more valuable, you need to increase their health pool, nobody is going to bet on 10% more chance to evade a shot to rely effectively on them. Now that you've open the Pandora box of Tier unlocking additional buffs, then be our guess and add one for mediums increasing their health pool for any faction, a paid T3/T4 buff for your mediums to make them similar to premiums, so at least you know you can count on something that is not only random RNG. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Unusual Ostheer Suggestion9 Mar 2020, 14:38 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Mar 2020, 14:30 PMthedarkarmadillo 5 man ost squad suggestions are so over done. It makes for a good doctrinal ability because its contained but as a stock change the effects are endless.. 5 man puos would repair faster and build faster, lay mines faster ect. Also an extra model doesnt just increase durability against tanks but everything. It disperses damage more (5 men shooting at 4 men have 1 model always being targeted by 2 models at the very least) where 5 its more possible to be parity. More models for the medics to heal, more pop upkeep. What if they pick up a weapon? Now you have a cheap and durable unit that also scouts AND has increased firepower. Give them KARs and you make weapons recrewed more potent at range as well as the increased los making them absolutely superior to anything else AND cheap People think tacking on a model is simple but it echos. Especially in a faction designed SPECIFICALLY with small squads in mind. You take units designed to be squishy and make them not squishy and who knows what would happen! We know already actually... look at the jackson and the problems it causes. Its not like cons getting a model where you wre taking a squad thats identity is durability and making it more durable. Just think sniper + 5 men grenadier squad. To bring the grenadier to 5 men squad you need to heavily nerf anything else Ostheer has to a point where people will just cry even more. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What to do with OST?7 Mar 2020, 11:17 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2020, 10:48 AMVipper My point remains that Ostheer is the most "complete" faction and much better designed than other factions. (One of it weakness is that it does not have a light tank.) And that's why it is the most difficult to balance, The 5men gren people are dying for would put the sniper in orbit. How many sniper do we see, how many 251 or Stugs? people don't understand how those combos with buff grens or buffed 222 would become completely broken with those under used units. The problem with Ostheer is everything is linear and accessible, it is not like you can have less caring about how a M20 buff would be broken with PakH combo because they are in separate tier, require extra investment to get together and delay your T3 teching (that's an example). You buff the 222 and the impact is with everything else because everything else is supposed to be accessible in time with no extra cost or extra delay. Aside from that, the last major patch gave Ostheer a major buff with Pzgren being untied to T2 building and buffs to the unit itself and grenadier received a super buff to make them less impacted by explosive damage. Saying Ostheer is never taken in account is at minimum a lie. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is the T70 OP?6 Mar 2020, 14:51 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 14:15 PMWiderstreit Edit: T70 arrives at a moment when pressure on enemeys inf is high, it simply it too much at that moment. That is my opinion. Like if Luchs would arrives 3-5 min earlier. How can it be high if OKW already have its Luch MG34 and Raketen out and Ostheer, hmg42, Pzgren, pak40 and 251FT? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What is the REAL problem with Ost T4?5 Mar 2020, 15:35 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2020, 14:28 PMelchino7 Been able to field a single one more unit on a faction which has the worst blobbing capabilities of all 5, while having to play combined arms to be able to do so, is the least of my concerns to be honest. Specifically if that faction is tied to be the worst at the moment. Right now OH has 2 problems: the eternal issue of dealing cost effectively with light vehicles during the early-mid game and the transition to dealing with vehicles with more than 800HP and +200 armor. If the idea is to give them more to blob better, I'll continue to disagree with you. If the idea is to give them more to counter blobs, they already have the best late game map control / blob control tool in the name of bunker. They're also amazing to block flanking routes, are cheap and easy to repair. And they don't cost popcap. Here is already implemented your idea of saving popcap with a great use vs any kind of mainline infantry unit. I'm sure someone will say that they can easily be destroyed/countered, and I proactively respond "like everything past 20 minutes in game". In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is the T70 OP?5 Mar 2020, 08:00 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2020, 01:44 AMFelixTHM We keep hearing the same braindead analogy when the two things aren't even remotely comparable. 1. You can sweep for mines for your T70. You can't sweep for each of your 6+ capping squads unless you A-move 6 squads together all the time. That's a lie, you can't be swipping everywhere for your light tank, the main advantage of a light tank is the mobility and reactivity which doesn't have a engineer squad. The OS of a light vehicle with a mine is as broken as demo was, now I guess it is still in-game due to Ostheer lack of stock light tank. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What is the REAL problem with Ost T4?5 Mar 2020, 07:51 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2020, 22:39 PMelchino7 PD: T4 is no longer a bonus tier, the moment the Stug was tailored to be a medium tank killer and nerfed. The same way Su76 spam was nerfed when they put a munition cost to barrage and nerfed the penetration. If you want for T4 to be an "optional" tier in a similar way as UKF, then redesign the Stug G to be equally to all other 60 range TDs (note: i don't want this). Stug as a heavy counter, only works against Churchills. But Ostheer isn't facing any stock heavy in the game except for the churchill. Allied heavies are all doctrinal thus when you see them you built your T4 for Panther. You want to improve Ostheer T4, I say its already fine as it is. It was a problem because too expensive so it has been made cheaper in exchange of seeing panther and brumbar less powerful. That's fine there is no need to give more advantage to it. Even if the Tiger is nerfed alongside with all other heavies (Pershing included), that will be a major buff to them, allowing the player to field one or two extra unit with it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What is the REAL problem with Ost T4?4 Mar 2020, 20:51 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2020, 19:29 PMelchino7 Explain. Outside of the 5man pios, I'm talking about reducing the popcap on OH late game on combined arms. 2 Pios, 2 MG42, Mortar, 2 Pak would be 7 less pop. Add a sniper it's 9. Maybe the sniper doesn't require a pop reducement but i don't see late game snipers as annoying when there's plenty to micro around and more options to kill them. The bunker concept is too crazy? Outside of discussing if ALL bunkers and defensive emplacements should have a popcap attached to them, i have never seen people use reinforce bunkers, empty bunkers or it's EXTREMELY rare having forward medic bunkers at all. So at the same time you access the best AI and AT weapon and be allowed to field one or two more units than your opponent? Or having an increased income if you don't. Don't you see how OP it would be associated with Tigers or Elephants? Ostheer T4 is fine, it has never been meant to be built every game. It's a bonus Tier where you can pick units that should normally be available through doctrines with the exception of Pzwerfer. People want the old good Panther and Brumbar back from when they were completely unbalanced. If you look at USF/Sov stock roaster, they don't have a unit that can't be countered by Ostheer T3. Only brit and their Comet may require you to build a panther but even the churchill is perfectly countered by a pair of Stug. I understand that people want to play with Panthers and Brumbar more often but having them more accessible or stronger would just mess with the balance. In: COH2 Balance