Profile of BasedSecretary

Grens need a slight price increase. At least 250mp. They're really strong and already have the best snare and none doctrine grenades and LMGs. This is ignoring the fact they already have the best early game none-doc team weapons. That's too many advantages for one faction.

So for a mainline to have all the necessary tools to deal with small arms fire is "too advantageous"?

Umm it is really hard to consider Coh2 in the realm of e-sport when it has such a ridiculous level of RNG.

For Coh3 to even be considered, it would need to reduce the randomness of the game considerably.

In my mind you have a few levels of RNG:

1) So little RNG that it becomes a boring spamfest.

2) Coh2 level of stupid RNG. It is fun to watch someone get totally screwed by RNG. But this level makes the game suck to actually play for many people. Especially when it comes to indirect fire and larger modes (the most popular).

3) Something in between 1 and 2 would be great. Enough RNG for some exciting things to happen.

Examples of 3 are:
- Your mortars cant hit shit but the enemy is erasing squads on the move with no FOV.
- Tanks shooting the ground 7 times in a row while enemies pen every shot with max damage.
- ALL Artillery in COH2 sucks major ass. Whoever wrote this code should die of anal polyps and burn in hell.

I have not really heard anyone here say what would help Coh3 be esports ready.

Removing base defenses sounds insanely bad to me. "Hey lets remove the only mechanic that lets players be more aggressive?"

Anything else?

I would agree with your (3).

I consider RNG to be a part of a good game since it levels out the playing field between a noob and a veteran and thus keeps the match interesting for both parties involved. And in this there is no better example than my other favorite game in the world, TF2. In this game, with random crits and the way hitboxes work (I am not advocating for random crits in COH3 if someone is retarded enough to understand as such) every player has a good chance against a more veteran player "that normally would not exist".

Does COH2 has shitty RNG? I am inclined to say no, no matter how many times I lost a 50/50 tank battle to a stupid roll. After all, the same also applies to any real world battle scenario. No rocket is "guaranteed" to hit a target, and no shell is "guaranteed" to wipe a squad. It just happens. RNG is a way to model this.

You are completely right that every major artillery piece in COH2 sucks because not only is it a huge investment for a static, 60sec reload, 8 shot firing piece but also because it is very very inaccurate. One would argue that having better vision of the targeted area is beneficial for the firing (I think they coded that in), but most of the times you won't have the resources nor the chance to sneak a Sniper/Recon there to help. Maybe support planes could work in tandem with a good teammate, but good luck finding that in random 2v2/3v3/4v4. And I am not aware of any doctrine in any faction that gives both a howitzer and spotter planes.

I wouldn't mind exploitable gaps in base defenses, akin to Sturzdorf in CoH1, as long as they're intentionally designed and balanced that way.

Base inspections were a solid option in CoH1 but really took a backseat in CoH2, with harder to kill buildings, no off-maps in HQ sectors (that one is fine being left out imo) and in some cases completely exaggerated base defenses (looking at you, okw and usf). It served its purpose in CoH1 mainly as a tool to quickly finish off weaker opponents and also as a way to break up the conventional 3 VP grind.

I have talked about this before, since I too realize that every game boils down to a fuel point grind or 3vp grind. That's why lelic needs to bring back manpower points, so that if someone camps fuel you can go for his manpower and starve his army.

That way, the game also becomes a battle of maneuvering and also discourages static defenses.

Offmaps on base sectors should be brought back, but only if you have full vision and keep it there for the duration of the ability. Through this you can decisively end the game if your opponent cannot even hold you out of his base.

Each faction has it own reason so lets go through them.

pathfinder spam is because of the bar upgrade. Otherwise, nobody would spam them. so in this case its a faction mechanic thats the culprit not the units itself.

for the pf's its simply because volks are that bad. PF's are just a slightly better at dps but they still get replaced with obers. still pf's are rather inefficient. pit a pf against a rifle/IS/penal and the results are not pretty.

as for the pg's with g43's they are just that good. its surprising so few people are using them.

keep in mind that safe for pg's with g43' every single scout unit does less damage then a dedicated combat unit. thats why you dont see JLI spam.

True for Barfinders.

For OKW, pretty much mainline is "good" in the sense that they can always forward tech and replace lost Volks/PFs/JLI with Obers. Other factions do not have that ease sadly. USF originally do not, so they must rely on reordering Riflemen and then again equip them with BARS etc. Airborne doc fixes that by giving you strong reserves with Paratroopers.

Notorious factions that do not have this ease without doctrines: UKF, USF, SOV (unless you backtech for Penals).

I can give two shits anout any of you in 1v1 your tournaments do not sell the game, do not care if even balance team dosent play 1v1 mostly and ive beat them all

Ultramega based beyong belief.