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Thread: JP4 performance29 Sep 2021, 23:11 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Sep 2021, 22:28 PMDonnieChan you can have it if we get the SU85 instead First of all: Who is we? Playing axis only? Secondly: A swap would make no sense since both TDs matching the targets they will face mostly. SU-85 has to fight high armor targets pretty early on, a normal PZIV has 180 armor already, not speaking aboout PZIV J or Panther/Brummbar. SU-85 has less RoF than JP4 but higher penetration. The JP4 faces a lot of lower armoured allied medium tanks and TDs where it needs less penetration. It trades peentration vs RoF to deal more dps. So both TDs fill there niche, both would make less sense if you would swap them. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: JP4 performance29 Sep 2021, 19:41 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Sep 2021, 19:03 PMHannibal ... I never understood all that OKW ranting about allied TDs while you can have a TD by yourself which beats every allied TD in a 1vs1 standoff at Vet0 already (not counting in the 160hp of vet2 which makes it even more obvious). Their low penetration vs heavies is partly compensated by having the highest Vet0 firerate of all TDs, but yes it is far better vs allied mediums and TDs than vs allied heavies. I'm using the JP4 to greart success by myself. I wouldn't consider it op since it has absolutely no AI abilities at all, but man it is a very strong TD. In addition Vet4/5 is no lackluster at this unit, it really gets somehow op at that vet levels. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF PATHFINDER really？29 Sep 2021, 19:16 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Sep 2021, 18:25 PMReverb So you think a bunch of completely randomized matches with all sorts of skill levels, the majority of which are far below what should be used as components to evaluate balance is a better way of determining balance issues, than a tournament of high skilled players effectively playing in controlled settings of multiple matches on the same map over and over and each team switching factions every match...? Interesting logic. Coming for two USF threads about PFs and Scotts and ranting at both looks a little bit akward if you ask me. Don't you like USF? I personally would go for coh2 stats, set custom range from mid june to today and choose displaying Top200 games only. That data ia a far bigger and more reliable source than one tournament. Atm it is 55,1% winrate for Ostheer an d 59,5% for OKW at 4vs4. Don't want to question that allied side performs a lot better at 1vs1 and 2vs2 though. I always wondered why a lot of the allied buffs affect the early to mid game. They shouldn't buff units that play a big role in 1vs1 and 2vs2 where allies always had a good game performance. Buff real late game units. Example: Buff UKF hammer/anvil tanks (and raise population+cost accordingly and/or cap them) instead of buffing T0-T3 units. Early game units have to be buffed in a different way: A good example for a game buff for an early game units that kicks in later is the 7th man upgrade for conscripts which gets unlocked at T4 automatically or at T3 with additional tech costs. It has a bigger impact in multiplayer games than in 1vs1. Scott could be balanced easily. Just remove autofire, reduce to 320 hp and balance it completely about a decent long range barrage with an appropiate ability cooldown. Or do it the other way round. Keep health and low range autofire (+attack ground), remove barrage and adjust around decent autofire with appropiate reload. Either way it could be balanced way better. PFs are fine however. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)24 Sep 2021, 23:58 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2021, 12:33 PMPvtBaker Axis team should've made rocket arty to deal with the heavy support weapons play that was preventing them from making a move against the Scotts instead of doubling down on tanks. Had a look into the video. This was the reason Axis team was near to loosing the game before baechi had a bug splat. Tanks and infantry pushs were totally shut down by allied team weapon spam on this small map. Walking Stuka was needed way before... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF and MP bleed17 Sep 2021, 17:09 PM I do find it very challenging to play versus spios + kubels to bleed USF from the start while having good map control with OKW. It is especially effective vs USF PF build but strong vs Rifle build too. Playing this tactic with OKW myself and waiting for a player who shows up to counter it without endless bleeding until USF gets sufficient AT. I thought about giving a doctrinal answer at least. While Assgrens have sprint right from the start (Oorah too, but Cons are less powerful at short range) Fire Up comes with Cpt/Lt build. Maybe granting Fire up from the start too would give USF some doctrinal counterplay to Kubel kiting and would make spios+Kubels less of a no-brainer build. E8 commander could use a small buff after all since the E8 rework didn't worked out that great (Imo the reason is that its AI damage is still too low to replace M4A3/Jackson combo). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)17 Sep 2021, 16:26 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2021, 09:12 AMMMX EDIT: this one. a bit outdated but still a good read Thx, this gives some insight at least. But I do think it got worse with dwindling player base and it should be harder most probably to get somewhat even matches for teamgames. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 17 Sep 2021, 16:21 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2021, 13:50 PMSander93 There's not a single point on any map with 80 range of open space in all directions. You usually build a 17 pounder in a spot that has plenty of direct LOS, but there are plenty of cases where the world piercing shots ability can come in handy because the enemy is on one of the flanks or whatever, behind shot blockers. Most maps are designed to have big shot/sight blockers to divide up the open spaces specifically to limit the effectiveness of long range direct LOS weapons, where world piercing can give you an advantage every now and then. I would say at the middle of Vielsam. But yeah of course there is always some spot with a shot blocker. On the other side many of that shot blockers are not in an angle that count that much so its very situational. I can think of abilities that woulfd fit the 17pdr better. But the 17pdr is one of the least problems for brits... missing rocket artillery... cough, cough.. :-P In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)17 Sep 2021, 07:29 AM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2021, 07:14 AMMMX As to the matchmaking, I also agree that the most important function should be to produce fair match ups that are fun for everyone. And this should be totally possible if the game is balanced from top down, desite potential skill gaps between individual factions. The latter can simply be evened out by pairing lower-skilled players using an easier-to-play faction with higher-skilled ones using a more difficult faction to master. This will of course only work for maybe 80% of the playerbase, as for the highest/lowest 10% there are simply no better/worse players available to draw from. And that is also the reason why the game needs to be inherently balanced for the top 5-10%, for anyone below this threshold matchmaking can take effect (well, minus the bottom 10% I guess). So how does matchmaking work exactly? We don't know, because it keeps hidden. Relic isn't very transparent here. If you have a team of USF/UKF in 3vs3/4vs4 for example playing versus mainly Ostheer. Does matchmaking means that their 2000K players are playing versus 2000K players. That woul be a bad thing already, because there are less UKF/USF players, so you can assume that a 2000K Ostheer players should have higher skills than a 2000K USF/UKF player. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 16 Sep 2021, 23:55 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 23:13 PMPip It can't with its autoattack, but the 17 pounder does have a world-piercing ability. But that ability makes no sense because you won't build your immobile 17pdr behind a shoot-blocker to only use this ability from then on for 60mu each time you use it. You'll always build it with open shooting field. It would be a whole different thing if a mobile 17pdr would have this ability. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 16 Sep 2021, 22:43 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 17:37 PMGachiGasm Its not data and its not an arguments, its my subjective opinion based on my game understanding and possabilities factions have in early\mid\late game and how they can use them to snowball. Thx for clearing that up. The data about pro games differs from your perception. Its a 20% gap at Top200 players only between UKF/Soviet and OKW. USF and Ostheer are a little bit closer. Just saying. Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 17:37 PMGachiGasm Random allies are harder alright. But for people who actually know how to play as allies and when they are not matched with idiots its a completly different story. Axis is easier with randoms its a known fact, and pretty much easily noticable via win rates. I'm absolutely with you about winrates and allied beeing harder to play with randoms. The problem is that it doesn't change at top level play at least for random games. The stats I posted were from all players beeing located in Top200. They should know how to play the game and you still have that 20% gap. Imo that is too much of a difference by far to call the game anyhow balanced. Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 17:37 PMGachiGasm But speaking of USF, just give a pathfinder spam a go, at least in 4v4. vs OKW you can go even 3 PFs into agressive ambu and just push OKW off, since it wont be able to do anything to you. Vs USF I usually go with starting Spios + multiple Kubels since USF not really can do something against it. I wish you a lot of fun with PFs, this will bleed you hard right from the beginning. In: COH2 Balance