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Thread: Balance Data Since The Patch8 Jul 2015, 19:52 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 19:49 PMNinjaWJ ATs will have an advantage over randoms, especially if the AT has voice chat. But i hope Relic can even out the playing field. and the points you are bringing up is part of the reason why Axis are so much stronger in these modes. It is difficult to dislodge Elefants, King TIgers, and Jagdtigers, especially on cramped maps like Lanzerath Which is why I said "maps, maps, maps", none of those units are OP in 1's and 2's because flanking them is possible and they can't cover everything. If the maps in 3's and 4's were bigger and had more VP's you needed to cover it would encourage more mobile play rather than everyone digging in a lobbing arty at each other. Ever try and harangle a JT around the map? It sucks, it's the JT's biggest weakness which doesn't matter of course it just has to sit in one place forever and never move. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance Data Since The Patch8 Jul 2015, 19:42 PM You can't balance for the fact AT's will always beat randoms in 3v3 and 4v4. There will also be issues so long as the 3v3 and 4v4 maps are utter unrelenting shit because they allow players to win by dog piling 2 VP's. You can handwring about Axis being OP in 3's and 4's because of this unit and that, but the culprit 99% of the time is the fact Ostheer has excellent defensive tools and when the game is "who can dog pile and entrench the VP fast enough" the faction with the best defensive tools will do the best. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet Average mortar...8 Jul 2015, 19:37 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 19:07 PMAerohank Soviet mortars are especially bad against OKW due to that factions lack of support weapons. At least Ostheer has some static targets for you to shoot at. Besides, you need 3 soviet mortars to match the rate of fire of 1 Ostheer mortar, so I doubt it would become a problem. I don't think the Ostheer mortar is OP. I like that it is a highly effective unit that is often worth getting over another grenadier squad. Likewise, I don't think the MG42 is particularly OP (maybe ever so slightly). What I want is for allied and OKW support weapons to be on the same level of viability. Maxims, DHSKs, LeIG, 82mm mortar and the HMG34 are some examples of units that are completely outclassed compared to the Ostheer equivalents. To give the other factions the same incentive to use combined arms over infantry spam, some units need to change. One way to do it by improving the units themselves, the other is by keeping their performance and lowering their cost. ^^^ This, there isn't any need to nerf Ostheer. Ostheer should be the model for every faction. Support weapon play is still dead when it comes to OKW. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Soviet Average mortar...8 Jul 2015, 19:02 PM Your definition of "cost effectiveness" is either extremely skewed towards "cost effective=overpowered" or you should be in support of buffing maxim and soviet mortar in every thread possible. The cost effectiveness comparison clearly shows that MG42 cost effectiveness is at least on level of .50 cal, which costs 280mp. Grw cost effectiveness also surpasses twice as expensive pack howitzer. Should pack howi cost less then 240mp or grw should cost 500mp? Iv always thought the Maxim and Soviet Mortar could use changes. The MG42 right now could use a small cost increase. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance Data Since The Patch8 Jul 2015, 19:00 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 18:49 PMAvNY Doesn't that part just get exaggerated by the heavy limit? Axis still get Panthers which are at least super mediums if not heavies in their own right. There are no double IS-2s to counter. All of this would be less of an issue if the heavies were 100-150 VPs later in the game. Panthers can be countered by AT guns, their frontal armor can bounce shots but the Panthers very poor performance versus infantry at least gives it a weakness the generalist heavies don't have. Panthers also have very low DPS meaning it's not particularly hard to survive an encounter with one unless your alone with no support. The issue with the Panther is that the Ostheer one comes way to late in 1's and 2's proportional to when the other factions get access to their best tanks. The high cost of the Panther combined with the steep price of T4 makes it a hard sell for any Ost player. Now this doesn't really matter as much since T3 become top tier with the StuG III buff. IS-2 spam was hard to deal with because the IS2 is fast on top of having 375 frontal armor, wereas the KT is slow enough to chase down. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance Data Since The Patch8 Jul 2015, 18:07 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 18:05 PMAvNY On this I am on even less expert grounds but is it possible this is entirely WFA related? 1 - OKW has great late game (vet 5, "unlimited" heavies) 2 - US has weak late game, particularly in a multi team format where it is harder to use mobility/flank. 3 - points 1 and 2 at the same time that the late game comes much quicker and in game formats that will be lasting longer. 4 - OKW's big deficiency in resources doesn't exist in larger team games. None of these have anything to do with heavy call-ins since neither of these factions relies on them. OKW late game isn't great because of the KT, it's great because all of your units scale better and have good synergy. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Suggest your own "balance" changes that...8 Jul 2015, 18:05 PM OKW tanks cost 33% less fuel but 50% more MP. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF superglue on tanks8 Jul 2015, 16:58 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 16:49 PMKatitof That resembles blitz and panzer tactician description to me. You can counter-play panzer tactician with attack ground, and blitz got nerfed for a reason. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pershing ? 8 Jul 2015, 16:57 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 14:45 PMEsxile Sov is also designed around mediums, the faction can´t field better than SU85 witch was barely worst than Jackson before patch. T34-76 are more or less rounded as Sherman. But yeah Sov has ISU, IS2 and many other heavies in doctrine. In term of balance and gameplay, Relic has already shifted their meta with Ostheer stronger early and mid game. Since it seems now all factions are more or less designed to be effective at every stage of the game, it clearly open the way to 1 heavy tank for USF. Now will Relic takes the decision to add new commanders for OKW and USF and includes Pershing in one of them? I don´t know, could be good in fact and maybe re-equilibrate 4vs4 modes for a cheap add. If your looking for something to help Allies in 4v4 more Jadgtiger bait is not it. In: Lobby
Thread: Faceplate's that indicate ELO/Rank?8 Jul 2015, 16:56 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2015, 16:16 PMHelpingHans Wow I am truly surprised with the amount of people rejecting this idea outright. Where is the competitive community people? Also this doesn't only have to be for them either. Compstompers could also be rewarded with faceplates as well for specific achievements. Finally it doesn't take a lot of effort to design a few faceplates. Heck, even the community could do that for Relic. The competitive community in CoH2 is small enough that we don't need face plates to recognize each other. One can normally tell player quality either by recognition or by clan tags. I mean I'm not opposed to the idea but I can see why most people don't care. In: Lobby