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Thread: The Mortar Thread10 Apr 2015, 19:01 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 18:22 PMJHeartless Which is perfectly safe to stand under because its terrible rate of fire LOL. You dont play 1v1. Team games all kinds of rules apply. In team games individual performance isnt as important. Grens and Cons are the basic infantry. They are the counter to support teams. If Grens can kill 6 models JUST AS FAST as Cons can kill 4 the only thing left that applies in terms of surviability is HE. If there is a tank in your face or a mortar barraging your mortar and you havent moved it...its L2P. So the benefit of having 6 men vs the benefit of having over 300% better ROF are not equal. If we are talking about kill power the Soviet mortar is more likely to kill more squads because it's shooting at 4 men squads more accurately so it doesn't need to fire as fast. Wether I play 1's or not it's relevant to the discussion at all. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: okw munis cost10 Apr 2015, 18:56 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 18:44 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf Yeah, that was my fault. They can use G43s. Of course you can go for call-in inf but 1) doing so every game would be boring and 2)as I mentioned earlier, that would be a huge manpower drain. My point is that Volks don't need to have an AI upgrade. I wouldn't mind if they get one but it's not absolutely necessary. They do a good job vs enemy inf - especially early game with Kubel support. Volks could get an AI upgrade unlocked when T1 and T2 are converted so that people don't have to rely on Obers every game to deal with infantry. As I said, they're balanced vs Cons, meaning that they can win/or lose depending on the situation. Once they start vetting up (whch they still can rather quickly - Pzfaust hits give them nice EXP boosts) they surpass Cons. Every squad except Cons you mean (at least without the right doctrine). They don't do a good job versus enemy infantry compared to literally every other infantry unit in the game. The point of volks is they are cheap plentiful and diverse in roll thanks to the shrek, take the diverse part away and all you have is a unit that doesn't get objectively better than cons till vet 3. Cons still at least get one with a doctrine as you pointed out, I still don't see why Volks getting a small AI upgrade like say just 2 regular StG 44's for a tiny bit more close range fire power would be out of place once you have converted your first HQ for 90 munitions so you either chose between Shreks for Sturms or StG's for volks. Pfuss don't give a huge MP drain at all. If you make Volks a lot less useful people will just find other stuff to spam and abuse. I would much rather keep Volks relevant. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: okw munis cost10 Apr 2015, 18:20 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 18:16 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf Really? So if Grens didn't have LMGs...you'd do....pio spam? I don't think so. What other things apart from Volks could people make? Kubels don't capture you territory, Sturms are too expensive. I also doubt that everybody would go for call-in inf every game - too expensive. Fact is: You need relatively cheap basic inf like Grens/Volks/Cons/Rifles whether they can be upgraded or not. That's why people make Cons. They can't be upgraded by anything without commander but they gain you map control. You need Volks for the same reason - map conrol. They aren't even that bad - they are balanced vs Conscripts, they lose vs Riflemen but so do Grens. StGs and G43s are not possible anyway because Volks don't have the animation for these weapons. If they had to get an upgrade I'd just increase their kar98 damage per upgrade (e.g. from 10 to 13). Volks have animations for firing rifles, so they can use the G43. I don't know about the StG 44 but it would make sense of them to keep some sort of upgrade to stay relevant. And yes you could go for call in infantry, Panzerfuss spam would become even more common since they already have a snare (if kind of a shit one), an extra man, and a AI upgrade as well! I still fail to see your point about why Volks shouldn't get an AI upgrade when every basic infantry in game is capable of getting one. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: okw munis cost10 Apr 2015, 18:01 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 17:43 PMG4bb4_G4nd4lf I don't think an AI upgrade is necessary. They'd be like better scaling Conscripts. They'd need support to fight elite infantry just like every other basic inf squad. The difference is that OKW has non-doctrinal elite inf unlike Allies. Received accuracy was a problem on Volks, yes. I don't think that it would be a problem on Sturms. They're more vulnerable to explosives and you had to retreat them once they have 2 men left - otherwise they might drop their shrecks. It's better to give shreks to a squad that you actually have to micro because it's more expensive and easier to lose if just yolorushed into tanks. Why would you get Volks then ever instead of just making other things? Grens are desired for the LMG upgrade, if you couldn't make LMG's on them then people would just find another infantry unit to make. I would be more than fine with Sturms getting the shrek if you gave Volks a decent AI upgrade like some G43's or StG 44's. EDIT: And their difference to conscripts would be the fact that cons are desired for things like merge squad, the PTRS, and their cheap grenades and AT nades, nobody would make more than 2 Volks if all you used them for was the snare since you don't want to be spamming nades with volks. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The problem with SHOCKS is....10 Apr 2015, 17:29 PM I always use Attack ground with the Flak HT anyway, it loves to bug out and move when you don't want it to when using the regular attack. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Should OKW be able to build caches?10 Apr 2015, 17:05 PM Iv always said OKW floats MP. There isn't anything to spend it on other than more infantry units because of the fact you have a grand total of 2 support weapons in the game (3 if you can't the MG34) for OKW and on top of that your never spending MP on tanks. Giving OKW more options to spend MP on is an excellent idea that I fully support. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should OKW be able to build caches?10 Apr 2015, 16:53 PM Give them the ability to make caches, remove resource conversion. That or give them Opal blitz trucks that cost 320 MP instead of 200. Something needs to be done to stop the OKW MP float, because there is nothing for OKW to spend MP on because of the fuel penalty + lack of support weapons. EDIT: And If you want a reason why Opals instead of Caches; Opals don't benefit team mates so you couldn't play team games with all OKW and be able to boost each others income using caches. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: okw munis cost10 Apr 2015, 16:00 PM What would be the point of getting Volks if they didn't have an AI upgrade? Since they are extremely crap at fighting enemy infantry and elite infantry? If your going to take the shrek away you need to give the Volk squad something in return. And you know that received accuracy stuff everyone hated on Volks? Sturms still have that. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: [Feedback requested] - balancing issues in large team games10 Apr 2015, 15:55 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 15:30 PMWingZero How is this bad? if your goal is to balance team games, making Allies unable to counter the Elefant, Jadgtiger and KT isn't the solution. Hard caps for units is a good idea if you apply it right, but Soviet reliance on being about to out number their opponent makes it hard to implement. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: WHAT ABOUT SU85 ??10 Apr 2015, 15:26 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 15:23 PMNuclear Arbitor i think i might have used it once. I hate OKW so i've only played like 15 games with them. It's a lot harder to use than it looks. The constant stuns it gets makes microing it very important because you can get swarmed and killed if you get unlucky via RNG. It's also extremely slow. I love it. In: COH2 Balance