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Jump back to quoted post14 Mar 2022, 17:06 PMSupport Sapper

Because combine arms can make it fire a bit faster than a vet tiger, they said.

Jump back to quoted post14 Mar 2022, 16:07 PMleithianz

Ah yes I also do love the model skin. Such a shame that it is wasted on the useless squad. But if you want to play wih raid section because you don't want to waste your fuel on bolster upgrade & etc, just play UKF. They comes with 5-man squad WITH snare and have better mid game strength thanks to m20 & Stuart. And Sherman is way better than Cromwell. TBH there is no point of playing UKF ATM in 1v1 if you want to win vs. similar skilled oponent.

• Balancing anything relying on numbers and statistics is a choice that can only make something dull, boring and uncreative. In the same sense, balancing a game over numbers is doomed to failure.
  
• It is a mathematical truth that given a specific ordering system and a bounded space there will always be an infimum and supremum. In the same exact sense, in the game COH2 there will always be "OP" units and "UP" units.
  
• Immediate consequence of I and II is that there can never be good, as in "fair", balance.
  
• Immediate from III, we can see that it is pointless to balance anything just for the sake of balancing. Thus, we need to form a new medium of thought that, in its context, "balancing" can make sense logically and philosophically.
  
• Relic needs to incorporate more design in their next game, COH3. COH can never, and will never, become an esport like CSGO and LOL and DOTA2. So there is literally no point in trying to make a superb RTS only for these people.
  
• The current balance team focused way too much on the symmetry aspect, because they have zero game design experience. However, as history has shown a game's merits are its design habits not its numerical accuracy.
  
• COH1, notwithstanding a lot of design pitfalls, was a supremely good game because it had an extremely good sense of design and flavor. Sure, some numbercuck will reply and tell me that UKF's trucks were OP or that MarderIII from PE was way too costly for what it gave. And the correct answer to that is only one: nobody cares. Literally, nobody. COH1 was a perfect RTS game because every faction had a whole other playstyle associated with it whilst at the same time having a good general picture.
  
• Relic, rightfully so, after a while stopped working on COH2 for a lot of reasons (I would observe they were more focused on team morale, as working on something for 10 years+ is never good creatively or otherwise). I must commend the balance team for keeping the game alive and not wrecking it or making it empty. I still pass a lot of time with COH2. That does not mean that this method of handling design should be reemployed.
  
  

Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2022, 11:19 AMLady Xenarra

What, you mean the 'glory' days of ML-20s in HQs leveling your own HQ in 1v1/2v2?
Impossible to see boobytraps so you stop counting squad losses?
Tsunami of iron men with schrecks?
Unkillable emplacements with 0s(?) CD brace?
Sniper clown car?
Combined Arms bug?

I don't get why people miss this era for the balancing.

Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2022, 04:44 AMaceturret

It's pathethic to see someguy thinks convincing people on a forum can make a difference, give up, the idea is bad and the game wont be free