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Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)6 Feb 2022, 10:56 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2022, 10:48 AMKlement Pikhtura That's because in order to kill it, you often have to chase the scott back to base on most maps. Lets take a look, it dies from 3 shots, it is very fast and has rather small target size. If you consider the fact that chasing means shooting on the move in COH2, the amount of shots to kill a Scott can easily go up to 5. You add smoke and you have a cancer recipe, because good luck punishing that. Honestly, you need to be a have a severe acute case of "brain fart" to lose a Scott Then you can also say the same with the Tiger,P4, 222 and Panther. P4 at VET2 has 240armor, 640 HP, blitz and you're going to probably miss atleast once as you chase it, so let's say 8 shots. The 222 with or without spotting scopes can see you coming a mile away once it has vet, sure it's a 2 shot kill, but is also very fast and mobile since the second you get it, and also gets smoke to make it cancerous to fight it. Tiger has 1k+ HP, 300armor, blitz with vet and smoke, good luck. Panther is the fastest medium in the game with blitz, 960HP, 260armor and also smoke. I'm not in favour of nerfing AYNTHING the allies have at this point, I don't know why you are.All of these 4 units I just mentioned have a MUCH larger impact on the game than a single or even two scotts.If we are to nerf another USF unit(make the WEAKEST faction in the game even weaker) then an eye for a eye should be established because it shouldn't be commonplace for Axis to get all the good stuff whilst the allies are left in the dust. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)6 Feb 2022, 09:34 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Feb 2022, 22:36 PMKlement Pikhtura Regardless if USF is underperforming in teamgames or not, Scotts should really use a nerf, but not necessary in dps. Imo proposed by many, including Duffman, self smoke removal is a must. On top of it, maybe 10..15% accel nerf would be good as well. Scotts have to operate closer to the frontline compared to basically any other vehicular arty, therefore exposing themselves to danger more.+They only work really well against a static playstyle(OST with 2xMG42,2xPAK40, mortar) and it's always these people that complain about the scott. If the self-smoke ability is to be removed from as a insignificant in the grand scale of thing unit like the Scott, then self-smoke should be removed from all vehicles that can use them, P4s, 222s, Panthers and Tigers shouldn't have a free get out of jail card considering how much impact they can have on the game. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Not sure if balanced30 Jan 2022, 20:07 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2022, 17:05 PMPhoenix101 It feels like the community balance team are mostly jewish and can't stand the idea of the Germans having the upper hand. The balance team can't stand the idea of the Germans having the upper hand, and I'll show you exactly why: >50muni teller mines OHK-ing allied LVs >PAK43 shooting through buildings, given a health buff to 960 a few patches ago >LEFH with counter-barrage used to be able to track and shoot arty vehicles like the Katy/Priest/Sexton in the Fog of War >The Panther existing as a 960HP,270armor TD with great pen/range and a blitz ability so it can turn into a F1.When used en-masse the only way to counter them is to spend 250+ muni on mines. >The OKW Overwatch commandering existing(long-range howitzer, stuka AT loiter, elite inf with 50 sight that works well with KT, infantry combat boost etc) >JT and Elephant being so broken since they released that the only way to counter them is to cheese >Best HMG in the entire game at T0 >Best support weapons in the entire game whilst also being able to have cheap replaceable infantry(OST ostruppen) >Pzwerfers that fire all of their rockets at once and are therefore harder to dodge/react to, making it the most likely to wipe squads >OKW has the best elite infantry in the game, as a stock unit. >Pzfusiliers with extra sight range come with a commander that has a Superheavy TD, whilst themselves arguably being overpowered. I could go on but I made my point In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pioneers vs Rear Echelon25 Jan 2022, 21:28 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Jan 2022, 20:30 PMProtos Angelus It's best to ignore that wehraboo. Just waiting for ullu to come and say that spios lose to echelon. Elephant loses to M-42 atg In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pioneers vs Rear Echelon25 Jan 2022, 18:53 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Jan 2022, 05:09 AMmrgame2 RE can easily push away or even wipe Grens up close. They are fine. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pioneers vs Rear Echelon24 Jan 2022, 16:21 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Jan 2022, 16:16 PMProtos Angelus Fair enough, but in all honesty, does anyone really spam rear echelons to rush weapon racks to spend hundreds of munitions? In theory, sure, rear echelons can be a menace... if all the stars align and the Lady of the Lake blesses RNG. I don't know in which universe they could replace rifles. No snare, excruciatingly bad in combat (seen one rear echelon flank a lone MG42, and the MG42 crew, the other 3 models actually, went toe to toe with vet0 echelons and actually bled them, almost winning the fight), close range weapon profile, 4 man. And the main fact that they can get charged over neutral cover to green cover and lose. Maybe, just maybe, if you played 1v1 and avoided all combat, just using mass numbers and short build time to cap points and stretch your opponent until you get BARs or whatever. Yeah in practice it actually makes no sense seeing how Royal Engineers cost 10MP more but can upgrade and become a somewhat strong close-mid range squad with vet 3 and Vickers-K LMGs and actually have a snare ontop of that.Any smart OKW/Wehr will just get early light/medium armor and bleed you dry of MP if you try to replace Rifles with Rear Echelons. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pioneers vs Rear Echelon24 Jan 2022, 15:41 PM Apparently their ability to make use of a variety of weapon upgrades makes them potentially way too MP efficient to use in large quantities, supposedly making them able to replace riflemen. So they according to that made them 30MP costlier than the Sov CE despite the latter actually performing better in all aspects In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Has anyone noticed Grenadiers are really good?24 Jan 2022, 07:28 AM Grens are very cost effective for their initial cost, and their 30MP reinforce cost doesn't even exist if you basically autowin every engagement by having 2-3 grenadiers in the same spot. It is obnoxiously easy to use grens in low-mid tier matches seeing as how their MG upgrade literally has so much damage output in a burst that it is not uncommon for the MG42 to spray down a model each time it fires for a brief second OST needs the least amount of micro to be played effectively and that extends to Grens aswell, early game prior to you upgrading your squads with the MG upgrade you can unironically just blob them up and the Grens volleyfiring will often snipe models like crazy Of course rocket arty exists, but it's stock only on one allied faction, and it comes all the way in T4. Skillblobbing with A-move AT guns(works best with axis due to their efficient infantry) has become so prevalent in the past two years that I think moving the Katy down to T3 is a good idea In: COH2 Balance
Thread: High level Knowledge on Balance - tournament 17 Jan 2022, 17:59 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Jan 2022, 16:30 PMProtos Angelus UKF is a shittier faction which I won't even comment on. LOL In: COH2 Balance
Thread: High level Knowledge on Balance - tournament 17 Jan 2022, 13:07 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Jan 2022, 10:49 AMEsxile In tournanment we always see the same match up, Ostheer vs Soviet and this meta goes around since quite some time when Ostheer was still top pick with OPstruppen vs USF OPijeep and at that time it was clearly obvious why anyone would pick them. From Those TOP tournament players perspective, what's the reason of the current sitation or more specifically: Excluding the usual answer, Soviet is better/Ostheer is better... Today, How and why do you think Ostheer is superior to USF so you rather avoid picking the later in tournament. How and why do you think Ostheer is superior to UKF so you rather avoid picking the later in tournament. How and why do you think Soviet is superior to OKW so you rather avoid picking the later in tournament. In the past even if Soviet could be better than USF or UKF, that didn't stopped top players to play with different factions even if their favorite was slighly less capable than another. Today Tournament organizers have to impose rotations so we get to see more variety. Another point that make me think about it is the variety of commanders pick. We're not facing the same scenario OPstruppen vs OPijeep anymore, Top players are using a rather large variety of commanders so is it possible that even with a similar variety of commanders others factions can't cope with Ostheer and Soviet? There isn't a single commander in USF/UKF/OKW that make it for competing at high level with their counterparts? Soviets don't have a lack of options for certain units unlike UKF and USF(no rocket arty and weaker indirect).UKF is supposedly very predictable in what they will play like, USF has a hard time late game due to their trash ATG and squishy armor. OST is ofc the most powerful faction in the entire game, insanely overtuned with the best support equipment and ontop of that have cheap reinforce 6 man Ostruppen that favor turtling whilst also having a weapon upgrade.Meanwhile dedicated "effective anti-infantry squad" like the Penals don't get weapon upgrades to scale better late game. Almost every OST commander is also viable, unlike a lot of allied commanders.And obv it takes the least amount of micro to play OST efficiently, even less so than OKW. In: COH2 Balance