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Thread: Air Supremacy is just completely OP 23 Sep 2015, 12:56 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 12:50 PMAustralian Magic Yes, Im going to argue that cause I ve launched several test with 2 trucks next to each other within lenght of heavy tank and not a single time during 8 tests, 2 trucks went down. It's 1 down, 2 with over 50% HP or 2 alive with 20-30% health. And they are standing withtin lenght of a KT next to each other. No other ability costs over 300ammo. I literally just posted a replay of it happening, mate. If your going to claim things like this you need to actually post some proof. Also 325 munitions for this is cheap as hell considering it it can cause more damage than 3 IL-2 bombing runs. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF's and UKF's Heavy Arty Alternatives23 Sep 2015, 12:47 PM USF currently has the best Howitzer (Priest, 200 damage with good AoE profile and the ability to decrew. Also can move around to reduce scatter) in the entire game, and the 25 Pounders have the same scatter as the ML-20 and LefH do. Major Artillery also got fixed in a recent patch, meaning it can actually deal with static emplacements now. EDIT: And no removal of flares please, got help us that shit is bad enough on several of the British artillery call in's. Not every has their sound turned all the way up and the artillery firing sound can easily get drowned out. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Air Supremacy is just completely OP 23 Sep 2015, 12:44 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 12:41 PMPuppetmaster I'm bored of people claiming they had won a game only for a player to drop an arty on them and then win the game. So I want to see all the above games to see either A: you were not really winning by such a margin or B: you fucked up having all of your trucks too close and not moving units out of the arty area. Losing a truck or 2 is of course possible. Losing the majority of the army, well that is just bad play since it takes ages to actually drop the bombs, more than enough time to move your units out of the area. Are you just going to totally ignore the fact that the massive AoE is so huge that it can easily kill multiple trucks even if you spread them out. And that spreading them out is not always possible on many of the cramped 1v1 and 2v2 maps in the game. There is also the issue of the fact no other ability in the game can replicate this kind of damage over such a wide area. So why exactly do Brits get an ability that can totally negate a core feature of OKW's design? Even USF Mech Artillery can only severally damage 1 truck. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic,pls bring Railway Artillery in line with the Brits23 Sep 2015, 12:41 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 12:30 PMPuppetmaster Is that like no smoke on Stuka? Stuka Dive Bomb needs sight to be called in, British Railway doesn't need sight and doesn't have flares. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Overall Balance23 Sep 2015, 12:39 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 02:30 AMMr. Someguy That's a small price to pay when you have such a damaging and durable vehicle. Compared to it's counterparts, the M36 and Firefly, only the Comet can call itself superior, mostly due to being multi-role and still able to battle Panthers. The OKW P4 is much stronger than the Ostheer version, and is cheaper than the Panther. This is a lot of incentive for OKW to use it. I've advocated this for awhile now, actually. It's certainly much more powerful than USF T3 and Soviet T4, OKW and Brits can match it but it's risky, just like teching to Ost T4 is risky. It's expensive, but it snowballs. And it'd be better to fix T3 than to give them an easy T4 to dominate with. But it's damage is the worst part about it? It has the lowest DPS of any tank in the game next to the Firefly. And the biggest issue is it doesn't snowball because by the time you get a single Panther out it's way, way to late to reverse the course of the battle. Theres no way Ost with cheaper T4 would "dominate", since each individual unit IN T4 is still very very expensive. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Air Supremacy is just completely OP 23 Sep 2015, 12:31 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 11:52 AMKatitof OKW: Scavange arty with lots of muni, zeroing arty. Wehr: Sector arty, ~~close~~ annihilate the pocket. All of these will obliterate stuff in range in a matter of seconds. No they won't. Except for close the pocket all of those abilities are pretty much just a waste except for Scavenge. Zeroing Artillery as I mentioned earlier is bugged and doesn't work properly (or maybe Relic intended it to be shit? I don't know). Scavenge's scaling isn't worth saving up munitions for it. Just use it when you need to. And no it won't obliterate tanks the same way Air Supremacy does. Do you have a replay? I didn't lose this game, but the Ability killed 2 of my trucks. http://www.coh2.org/replay/41503/2v2-air-supremacy As I said earlier, the ability in total drops 12 tactical bombs which each do 300 damage with a very large AoE making it fairly easy to kill multiple trucks in one call in. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 2v2 Air Supremacy23 Sep 2015, 12:30 PM [Dresden Intensifies] In: Replays
Thread: Overall Balance23 Sep 2015, 01:57 AM The high speed of the Panther is off set by it's awful accuracy while on the move. Meaning you need to stop before each shot in order to reliably hit your target. Ostheer is also a defensive oriented faction meaning the high mobility of the Panther doesn't make sense when you will normally not be chasing your enemy. Non-Panther tanks wouldn't become invalid at all, the OKW PIV is way, way more popular than the OKW PV. Basically if given the choice of generalist or specialist most people will continue to pick generalist. The high pen but very low ROF is actually great for Allied tanks because it allows them to overwhelm without taking significant losses. Not as long as the Soviet T4 is equivalent to Ostheer T3, you're not supposed to get Panthers easily. Ostheer T3 doesn't include rocket artillery. Perhaps the fix here might be moving the Pwerfer to T3? Yes it is. Or at least it should be. Otherwise there's no intensive to use anything else. That's all the Alpha was, Comet spam, and that's why people didn't realise how fucked up the Churchill was. Thing is, UKF, USF, Soviets, and OKW all have the ability in a match to access their entire unit tree but Ostheer for some reason is the exception. The whole "bonus tier" myth makes no sense because nothing in Ostheer T4 is actually more powerful than what other factions get over the period of a normal game anyway. Everything in T4 is expensive, you won't be seeing any Panther or Sturmpanzer IV spam even if you make T4 cheaper to acquire. Regardless Ostheer T3 is suffering heavily now because by the time it hits the field it's been countered to death. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Overall Balance23 Sep 2015, 01:20 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 01:11 AMMr. Someguy T4 is a bonus tier, Ost T3 is equivalent to USF T3 and Soviet T4. But what's the bonus? OKW has access to better versions of everything Ost has access to. I guess maybe the Pwerfer now that it's half way decent is good but it's still not worth the tech cost. By the time a Panther hits the field it's way to late to have a real impact and since the Panthers main weakness is high health tanks and or lots of mediums basically the Ost Panther lost its roll with the death of heavy tank spam. Ostheer T3 and T4 should work like Soviet T3 and T4, with the first being the more expensive and the second being gated behind it but cheaper. That or T3 needs some additional scaling, like PIV's and StuG III's having skirts as a global upgrade with BP4 since teching to T4 is basically a no go. Question is, the Comet isn't a "Bonus" for Brits, so why could you consider the Panther a bonus for Ost? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Overall Balance23 Sep 2015, 01:06 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2015, 00:11 AMRobbie_Rotten I'm pretty sure Sprice doesn't abuse. If the USF pop cap thing was abusive then relic would have fixed it by now. But I always here that they confirmed it was intended... On a side note, after this "hot"fix comes "soon" I suspect balance will be in one of the better states it has been in. OpieOP Sprice does in fact abuse, maybe sometimes not in the literal sense but he does what can easily be called "cheese" (cheese being defined as a strat that unless the enemy is 100% prepared will net a win, but be totally ineffective if the enemy is prepared). This isn't calling him a bad player, rather, just kinda a dick sometimes. And the USF popcap bug was never fixed because Relic couldn't figure out how to fix it so it essentially just entered the land of "not intended but never going to actually be fixed". Really the biggest effect this has is making Priests very easy to accumulate because you can keep them decrewed until you need a barrage. hardcounter OH T3 This wouldn't be such an issue if Ostheer had reasonable access to all it's tiers, which it currently doesn't. In: COH2 Balance