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Thread: USF need changues & remake commanders13 Apr 2017, 02:03 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2017, 19:44 PMcapiqua Suggestions.PART I ....... This is the only likely change you will get: Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2017, 10:58 AMMr.Smith What Barton said. I would only add that USF will have access to 3 indirect fire units when the M8 Scott stops sucking. There needs to be some differentiation so that we don't have cheaper units (mortars) overshadowing units that require specific tech paths (pak howitzer). I would only maybe consider buffing barrage range. However only if officers don't come for free, and still maybe. The USF mortar is supposed to be an early-game unit. USF problems are late-game, and USF is a problem early game. Buffing an early-game unit won't make either problem go away. USF is outperforming Soviets by 75% currently (28% USF versus 16% Soviets against OST). It still needs to be brought in line so taking away the USF free squads would be a logical next step. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Opinion on the "new" USF mortar?12 Apr 2017, 12:43 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2017, 11:05 AMelchino7 AA: it's 65 for USF mortar. 80 for all normal mortars + Pack Howie. 100 for ISG/120mm. 105 vet1 ISG. 115 for mortar pit. Barrage: 65 for USF mortar (80 on smoke on vet1). 80 for all normal mortars (which include mortar HT). 86 vet3 USF mortar. 100 for ISG/120mm. 105 vet1 ISG. 106 vet3 mortars. 115 for mortar pit. 133 vet3 120mm. 140 vet3 ISG. 160 Pack Howie. 212 vet3 Pack Howie. -OMG that range on barrage on 120mm/ISG/Pack Howie!!11! >>>120mm takes double the amount of xp to vet compared to normal mortars while also shooting at half the speed. >>>ISG barrage is mostly not used unless you are countering UKF emplacements (AOE does not guarantee to use it in this way) >>>Pack Howie only shoots 3 shells (which are great, specially at vet2) which makes it lackluster while waiting for the cooldown. Opinion: -USF mortar: do not spam it just like before. You are facing MG heavy strat or annoying garrison? Get one. USE THE FREAKING SMOKE, do not rely only on the HE barrage. -USF Pack Howie: increase amount of shells and/or decrease cooldown on barrage. That's it. Oh, if min weapon crew could be set at 2, that would be great. -OKW ISG: reduce AA range to 90, give it smoke, replace vet1 with Hollow shell mode (like changing munition with Sherman instead of it been a barrage), better AoE profile against garrison. -UKF mortar pit: reduce aa range to 100. Give smoke at vet0. Replace garrison RoF buff bonus with "Light HE barrage" unlocked at vet1. Light HE shells are the originally beta concept. Lower damage (60), higher range (130). Reduced cooldowns on barrages. Where did you get the numbers? Also, why should the pack howie have a shorter AA and attack ground range than the ISG, which is less expensive to get and has less pop cap? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Opinion on the "new" USF mortar?12 Apr 2017, 05:29 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2017, 05:06 AMVaz Where did you get the numbers for the rate it kills? This number would be extremely situational. I often check kills at the end of a match. With the pre-nerf mortar, I'd get up to 30 against an Ost player in a 1v1 or 2v2. Those were the most that I would get, average numbers were probably in the 15-20 range. Against OKW the numbers were much lower and I rarely got them. On the post-nerf mortar, I don't think I've ever got more than 12. Both Ost and Okw can hard counter it if they want so it often doesn't even do that well. Please test it yourself. If you get better results then post the replay. Maybe I haven't been using it correctly. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: GCS placement match stats (w/ updates)12 Apr 2017, 05:06 AM The data looks interesting if sorted by match results and map. Crossing in the Woods had a 25% Allied win rate. OKW still looks OP but Crossing definitely not helping balance. (cut-and-paste from Excel not copying exactly, don't have time to fix) Split Matches won by Axis both times (8) VonAsten ukf Insane Spanky okw 1 Crossroads Insane Spanky usf VonAsten okw 1 Crossroads Refero soviets [NS] TüMe ostheer 1 Faymonville Approach [NS] TüMe soviets Refero okw 1 Faymonville Approach wuff usf arnolaz okw 1 Crossroads arnolaz soviets wuff okw 1 Crossroads (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ soviets OrangePest okw 1 Crossing in the Woods OrangePest soviets (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ okw 1 Crossing in the Woods =★= Pappy O'Daniel usf Jérémy okw 1 Faymonville Approach Jérémy usf =★= Pappy O'Daniel okw 1 Faymonville Approach Törttö ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧu2092ᵤ soviets steffenbk1 ostheer 1 Crossroads steffenbk1 soviets Törttö ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧu2092ᵤ okw 1 Crossroads Burmie ukf Jae for Jett okw 1 Crossing in the Woods Jae for Jett usf Burmie ostheer 1 Crossing in the Woods Jae for Jett usf Crazyman64335™ ostheer 1 Crossing in the Woods Crazyman64335™ soviets Jae for Jett okw 1 Crossing in the Woods Single winner matches (11) TwistedTootsy soviets Dave okw 1 Crossroads Dave usf 1 TwistedTootsy ostheer Crossroads Törttö ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧu2092ᵤ soviets Earth ostheer 1 Faymonville Approach Earth ukf 1 Törttö ᶠᶸᶜᵏᵧu2092ᵤ okw Faymonville Approach steffenbk1 soviets 1 Earth okw Crossroads Earth ukf steffenbk1 okw 1 Crossroads =★= Pappy O'Daniel usf 1 OrangePest okw Crossing in the Woods OrangePest soviets =★= Pappy O'Daniel okw 1 Crossing in the Woods Jérémy usf 1 OrangePest okw Crossroads OrangePest soviets Jérémy okw 1 Crossroads (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ soviets =★= Pappy O'Daniel okw 1 Crossroads =★= Pappy O'Daniel usf 1 (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ ostheer Crossroads wuff ukf Theodosios ostheer 1 Crossroads Theodosios usf 1 wuff okw Crossroads Theodosios usf 1 arnolaz okw Crossroads arnolaz soviets Theodosios ostheer 1 Crossroads Refero usf IIPLIICaptainSPrice ostheer 1 Crossing in the Woods IIPLIICaptainSPrice soviets 1 Refero okw Crossing in the Woods [NS] TüMe ukf IIPLIICaptainSPrice ostheer 1 Crossing in the Woods IIPLIICaptainSPrice soviets 1 [NS] TüMe okw Crossing in the Woods \|GB\| The H[oo]ligan486 soviets 1 SoE-Overlord- ostheer Faymonville Approach SoE-Overlord- soviets \|GB\| The H[oo]ligan486 okw 1 Faymonville Approach Split Matches won by Allies both times (3) Dave usf 1 havoc lol okw Crossroads havoc lol usf 1 Dave okw Crossroads Jérémy usf 1 (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ okw Faymonville Approach (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ ukf 1 Jérémy ostheer Faymonville Approach SoE-Sturmpanther- ukf 1 Finndeed okw Kholodny Ferma (Summer) Finndeed usf 1 SoE-Sturmpanther- okw Kholodny Ferma (Summer) Unpaired data Burmie ukf Crazyman64335™ okw 1 Kholodny Ferma (Summer) (◣╬◢) ♠ Yoker!!PL ♣ ukf OrangePest okw 1 Crossroads In: Lobby
Thread: Opinion on the "new" USF mortar?12 Apr 2017, 01:48 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2017, 01:23 AMLoopDloop I think the pack howie needs either a major cost decrease or an autofire range increase, but I still love the thing. The autofire range on everything should be decreased. The pack howie would be okay if the attack ground range was equal to its barrage range, like every other indirect. I haven't verified it by looking at the files but it seems to be 60 for autofire, compared to 80 for the Ost motor and something like 100 for the mortar pit, leig, and 120. If the mortar pit's autofire range was set to ~50 (along with all the other indirect), people wouldn't complain about it so much. Most people are too lazy to manually target the mortar pit. They want a set-it-and-forget-it unit with 100 range. In game, it is sometimes hard not to go off on a UKF teammate when they are just letting the thing autofire at a moving squad (effectively doing nothing) while ignoring the mg that you need moved in order to take a point. Set it to 50 and they either learn to use it or just lose a lot. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Opinion on the "new" USF mortar?12 Apr 2017, 01:38 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2017, 08:25 AMEsxile How do you feel the new USF mortar? I played some USF games lately and I had the feeling it couldn't hit anything in all the games I did. ....... Now I know the USF mortar was overperforming before, I was playing intensively Ostheer during all that time but I have the impression it went from OP to useless... It was situational before, meaning that it was really good against Ost with multiple weapon teams, and not so great against OKW. One leig pretty much hard countered a mortar if the player actively used it against the mortar. Now it is much more situational. It still seems to hit a lot, but not kill much. The smoke is okay, probably a little more reliable than smoke from the standard Soviet mortar. A lot of games are won through attrition. One of the key components in that is how efficient units are in terms of price, popcap, and what they actually kill. In that light, compare the new and old mortars. Old: 260 MP, 6 popcap, 30 kills in 40 minutes cost: 260 + 61.540 = 620 benefit: 30 * 28(average reinforce cost) = 840 ratio: 1.35 (really good) New 240 MP, 6 popcap, 10 kills in 40 minutes cost: 240 + 61.540 = 600 benefit: 10 * 28(average reinforce cost) = 280 ratio: 0.47 (better to build another ammo cache and possibly second RE) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Coh2chart.com new data tell us alot....11 Apr 2017, 13:17 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Apr 2017, 09:17 AMvasa1719 Wait guys, new patch with maxim nerf. They should have included the arty cover nerf, UKF armor nerf, and the Calliope nerf that Mr Smith talks about so much. It will be amusing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: GCS placement match stats (w/ updates)11 Apr 2017, 04:27 AM In all of the matches where the results were split (each player won one), the player who was axis won every time. In the other matches, the same player won as both axis and allied. Nothing to see, move along. Better nerf Brit armor before it ruins the tournament. In: Lobby
Thread: Please, please put in more automatch 4v4 maps11 Apr 2017, 02:44 AM It would also help to redo some of the existing maps. Some like Lanzerath Ambush and Lazur Factor are terrible. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Coh2chart.com new data tell us alot....11 Apr 2017, 02:29 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2017, 14:23 PMvoltardark Coh2chart.com new data tell us alot.... Coh2chart.com What are your conclusions? Lets discuss them intelligently. Thanks. Hi VoltarDark, You're probably hoping that people would look at the move in the averages and undo some of the changes. It's not going to happen. The GCS balance mod testing will continue, followed by multiple nerfs to UKF armor, crush removed from both the M10 and Cromwell, artillery cover nerfed, etc. What you will get out of this thread is some awesome theories. My favorite is the claim that Axis top 250 play more games, because somehow 1815 + 1619 is more than 1695 + 1525 + 1405 (1v1 data). Nobody has pulled out the awesome uniform theory yet but I'm sure it is inbound. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to do any real analysis on this. We don't have any actual data on matches and can't control for player, faction, map, etc. Also, win/loss is a type of nominal variable. You'd have to get additional data like margin of victory and game length. Then you'd have to analyze those and try to infer something from it. If you could do all of that, you'd probably have a great future in sports betting. I'm going to stick with my day job. In: COH2 Balance