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Thread: Best ideas you've heard today24 Feb 2015, 22:43 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 22:35 PMFaustCostBulletin First off, let me quote my first response to you which got drowned off. With that out of the way, no, the tank that you're putting on a pedestal is not that much better than a Panzer IV which still has many advantages with far better veterancy and Panzer Tactician access, and MG, and Axis has heavier tanks than IS-2 in the form of King Tiger and Jagdtiger. Panther is also a very effective non-doctrinal AT. Panzer IV never ceases to be useful; it can hold its own well against IS-2. Just not alone and not very cost effectively, but it's by far not to be considered useless. It's not less useful than T-34/85 either, which it itself is not bad. And edit to respond to your edit: T-34/85 would be perfectly balanced at T3 and would not need to be nerfed. At all. It's a slightly better Panzer IV that's still worse in many ways. PIV: Hitpoints: 640.0 Armor: 180.0 Rear armor: 90.0 Max speed: 6.3 Cost: 125 fuel Pen: 120.0/110.0/100.0 t34/85: Hitpoints: 800.0 Armor: 160.0 Rear armor: 80.0 Max speed: 6.3 Cost: 140 fuel I wouldn't call that big on an increase in pen and health to be "just a little bit". And again, at T3 you would be getting those 85's out around the time Ostheer is just getting t3 done, never mind t4. In: Lobby
Thread: Best ideas you've heard today24 Feb 2015, 22:33 PM I would much rather see the T34/76 be made better/more viable than have a good tank like the 85 get nerfed/changes just so It can fit into t3 In: Lobby
Thread: Best ideas you've heard today24 Feb 2015, 22:31 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 22:08 PMFaustCostBulletin All you did was to put T-34/85 on a pedestal, fool yourself into thinking 85 is somehow a Panther with anti-infantry capabilities, and then run the very good Panzer IV into the ground and start whining about how bad Ostheer T3 is and how Ostheer somehow depends on Tigers when even their worst doctrines are very viable, and I know this because I play Ostheer more than any faction and I've played with every doctrine many times. So yes, your post is only tangential and you're just setting yet another thread about for more pro-Ostheer whining. Uh, the entire point of the T34/85 in it's stat distribution and were it's placed on the call in/time system is that it's supposed to be the Soviet version but tweaked a little. It does well versus tanks, and well against infantry, that means it's kinda superior to the Panther in AI but less so in pure AT power. The PIV in a world with out the Jackson is just like the T34, a medium tank that kind falls off late game when the heavies come out, but since the Jackson is a thing that exists the PIV and by combination t3 just doesn't fly. Putting it in t3 would just make the little medium armor Axis does have even more irrelevant, unless you changed the tier system and unit lists for every faction. In: Lobby
Thread: Assault Grenadiers24 Feb 2015, 22:26 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 22:02 PMKatitof Well, you don't meet many of them in 5 digit rank 4v4 bracket so no surprise they don't know any top players at all. Yeah the shrek thread just got locked for player card shaming obviously we need to drag that into this thread now In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Best ideas you've heard today24 Feb 2015, 22:00 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 21:52 PMFaustCostBulletin This is not the thread for this. Please leave unless you have something on-topic to say. Uh, it's a post about the T34/85. I don't see how discussing it and it's impact in moving it to t3 for Soviets is very off topic. In: Lobby
Thread: Assault Grenadiers24 Feb 2015, 21:58 PM If you read the post you would see I agree with him. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Best ideas you've heard today24 Feb 2015, 21:42 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 21:00 PMThe_rEd_bEar Are people really saying the t34/85 is similar to a panther and defending the existence of the t34? Which even more useless than a p4? Was there a patch i didn't hear about? The t34/85 is in Relic's own words, the soviet (in game mind you) version of the Panther, of course with out blitz but better AI power. It's a tank hunter that's excellent for hunting down enemy armor and killing it in a slug fest, it has high health, good mobility, and nice pen. And the T34/76 does kind of suck at the moment when the game transitions to late game, it at least can deal with Volk blobs like a Sherman (crushing and kiting), by the time a PIV comes out the Jackson has already hit the and field or is about to and then the PIV becomes pretty useless. Ostheer t3 either needs a buff, or cost reduction. It's stupid Ostheer has to spend so long basically flipping cards into a hat till they can actually get armor out onto the field, if t3 was more viable you would see less "wait for Panthers/Tigers" meta. In: Lobby
Thread: Assault Grenadiers24 Feb 2015, 21:36 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 21:08 PMAerohank You do not have to give me pro tips. I know perfectly well that Mech Assault counter balances equally overpowered allied commanders that allow you to skip tech and somehow have a more powerful lategame than if you would have teched (i.e. guards motor, shock rifle, rifle company etc). Having said that, I always tech up and try to play a 'legit' game, with combined arms and under-utilized units, without abusing bad game mechanics such as no-tech call-in tanks. Mech assault just pisses all over this playstyle and in my opinion this is very bad. I don't care much about my rank, but for those who try to get on top these OP commanders form a vicious circle. Both Soviets and Ostheer players use the same 3 doctrines 90% of the time because if they don't, they have a massive disadvantage if the opponent does go for them. So yes, I would like to see the good soviet doctrines nerfed too, preferably in the form of tech-requirements for call-ins. It would put an end to the P2W commanders extreme popularity and make the meta-game more open to inventive strategies. The game might even make it as an E-sport when viewers don't already know how a match is going to play out before it even starts. Mechanized gives you the StuG E which lets you skip t3 (which is what a lot of people do these days regardless) and the Tiger allows you to have late game staying power. Really it's not any more or less OP then the other viable Ostheer commanders atm. The Ass grens are probably the weakest part of the doctrine outside the overpriced Pgren call in /w half track. They need to either say were they are now and get a cost reduction or armor buff, or get better weapons at be moved to 2 cp. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Assault Grenadiers24 Feb 2015, 20:36 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 20:09 PMAustralian Magic This means that you have no knowledge of the game or you are just trolling. Thet are not like 5-men pios. Single pio model can deal 5,3dps Single AssGren model can deal 8,4dps. Whole squad, it's 42 vs 21 for AssGrens so how they be like pios if they have doubled pios dps? Not to mention combat veterancy. I meant in the sense you need to be up an enemies asshole to do that dps. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Best ideas you've heard today24 Feb 2015, 19:25 PM The t34/85 the Soviet version of the Panther, but one that can also kill infantry reliably. The PIV is already unviable in the current meta, why would you want to make it worse? I support making soviet non-doc units suck less, but this is taking it a tad to far. In: Lobby