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Thread: ESL + Observer mode confirmed22 Aug 2014, 22:03 PM adding a delay wouldnt really fix the issue. itd prevent someone warning of a major push in some direction, but even a minute delay still give out valuable intel. for instance which buildings are constructed. where stationary emplacements are. mine locations, what doctrines are selected.... all this beside though. im still excited for observer mode. id personally enjoy getting to watch the best players do a live match, talk with other observers, etc, etc. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW Puma22 Aug 2014, 21:54 PM i think the main issue is that you can bring it out too early in the game. I often see pumas about the time other players start bringing in halftracks and scout cars. Its a very strong counter to light vehicles, and it fairs well against tanks, and a smart choice against infantry that you see a lot of in the early game. It just covers so many bases and its available as a starting mid game unit. I have no specific recomendation for balance, but it is easily the best light vehicle and better than some of the starting tanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Too many Heavy Tanks22 Aug 2014, 19:44 PM i dont think the manpower cost would greatly impact the number of heavies you can bring in anyway. in that video the german player floated enough to call in 5 tigers.. If they were more expensive and he was say only able to call in 2-3.. that would result in what? a minor need to be moderately more capable of microing his heavies? If you had to tech up to tier4 and build heavies in youre t4 building thatd would help more than just raising the cost of the tanks as youd have to invest resources over time to tech up, rather than float and float and float resources. (Floating being a lot less riskier than actually investing in to a strategy) Ideally though, i still think only one heavy should be allowed on the field. so your tank core still needs to consist of actual tank units rather than pure call ins. I wouldnt even be against buffing the heavy tanks a little to compensate for the fact that you can only get one and it would require more investing to get it. That would just make that one tank a really big game changer that can swing the tide of the game for either side depending on if the owner can keep it alive or not. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Too many Heavy Tanks22 Aug 2014, 18:50 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Aug 2014, 17:39 PMiDolize Heavy tanks are what make this game interesting and fun to play. I saw that video, Soviet player failed to kill a tiger with 2 SU-85's and a zis... Looks like a L2P problem to me. In most 1v1's your trying to negate your opponent from acquiring the resources and time to produce heavy vehicles, capture fuel points/ harass early etc... neither players really did the best job of microing their tanks.. i wasnt suggesting that there was a balance issue with tanks. just that the game meta favors spam heavy tanks. And going all in on heavy tanks makes for boring games. Poor tank micro if anything probably stems from the common tactic to favor heavy tanks which are not micro intensive. The soviet player actually showed a great amount of resourcefulness considering he took out 3 tigers with mostly medium tanks and infantry. He did make mistakes against the tigers, though keep in mind his mistakes were mainly only evident because we got to see the game with fog of war turned off. How exactly do you mean by building an army of heavy tanks makes things "interesting"? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Too many Heavy Tanks22 Aug 2014, 02:22 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Aug 2014, 01:59 AMOmega_Warrior Things will probably be a bit better once the call-in system gets fixed. what issue to the call in system are you referring to? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Do Bulletins Stack?22 Aug 2014, 01:27 AM the past 6 bulletins ive received are apparently for western front armies, which i do not have. Typically the only spoils i get that i can use are faceplates.. which typically is the same faceplate over and over... they just clearly didnt invest a lot of time in making war spoils work correctly. I'm sure many of them dont have any true in game effect, or perhaps even result in a debuff. (mortar accuracy bug) also only slightly related, you cant watch your own replays if you get automatched on to a wfa map. To me it just looks like theyre missing a lot of attention to detail. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: RELIC LOOKING FOR MAP FEEDBACK!22 Aug 2014, 01:19 AM this is mainly for team maps (4 players and up). I think maps need less symmetry, especially 8 player maps. All the larger maps feel like one side of the map was made then a paper was folded over and thats the other side. 1v1 maps doesnt have this problem as bad. Less symmetry is always more interesting. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Too many Heavy Tanks22 Aug 2014, 00:22 AM This suggestion isnt so much about the balance of heavy tanks as in "this tank is too powerful", but just in the meta game surrounding heavy tanks... in coh1, if i remember correctly. Calling in a KT was a big deal. you only got one. Once you called it in, it usually triggered an important timing push for a VP, a major pivotal point in the game. In turn if the tank went down that was also a major pivotal point in the game. I just recently got coh2. The main thing i've noticed is that there are a lot more heavy tanks, not just in the various different models of tanks, but in the number you can call in. In this replay the german called in i think 5 heavies by the end of the game, the soviet player who was down in points most of the game managed one in.. the game consisted of 6 heavy tanks in total. the german player didnt even tech to the point of buying regular tanks, his strategy after getting light cars was "just buy tigers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxNX3jLniw Personally im a bigger fan of the classic version of heavy tanks where you buy one and it supports the rest of your tanks and the rest of your army. Its hard to take out but if you manage it thats a big deal. In coh2 I see heavy tanks get thrown around like theyre panzer tanks. I think the game would be more interesting to see more medium tanks, and make heavy tanks be very expensive tanks to fill in the ranks, rather than being the entire army. Perhaps it would be better that only 1 heavy tank can be called in the whole game? or maybe at least only have 1 on the field at a time? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Thoughts on 0 CP Abilities21 Aug 2014, 20:31 PM i like the idea of lots of different doctrines. i dont like some of the abilities though. Namely the call ins. but theres various abilities on some commanders that should also just be a part of the core army. For the most part with the soviets, winning is ALL about proper doctrine selection and getting access to the right units. If you choose wrong you dont have much to do to adapt your strategy, you just try and hold out and tech up. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Do Bulletins Stack?21 Aug 2014, 20:15 PM im not even sure that bulletins work period personally. Everything about them just seems buggy. (duplicate face plates, getting bulletins for dlc you dont have, so on and on) In: COH2 Gameplay