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Thread: Rear Echelon very weak.13 Apr 2020, 15:58 PM I would move crit repairs from tank crews onto them. They would become more useful this way. Anyway - they are not useful to some players only because they don't build base structures or don't really have to repair vehicles - just be happy as it is a huge buff to the whole faction. Just use them to sidecap and outcap your opponent early who needs to actually help vehicles and build stuff with their pios. Lategame people above suggested how to use them (2bazookas and a sweeper, plus the ability to speed up vehicle repairs is the best tank support in game). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?13 Apr 2020, 15:50 PM But back to the topic: The core of the discussion is imo that 60muni on top of 300mp squad makes combination of ptrs+satchel+ability to crit engine a little bit too much. BTW support weapon companya is only 160mp and 10 fuel so getting access to zis is really simple. No need for penals to be that great at satcheling. Best solution suggested was to jam weapons after satchel's explosion for some time so that the tank can come back for repairs if the vehicle is not completely depleted of health after the explosion. (I also think allowing different kinds of random crits after the satchel's explosion with only very low percentage of engine damage could be a really interesting solution) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panther13 Apr 2020, 13:52 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 13:48 PMKatitof You've described P4. Nope - panther should be an upgrade on p4. But, yes I am not a fan of current panther as a sort of 'strange' tank hunter. It should be main battle tank - probably the most expensive and best premium medium, almost heavy. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panther13 Apr 2020, 13:43 PM I think panthers should be overworked. I'd prefer them to have he rounds, and less armour. Maybe jackson's moving stats. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?13 Apr 2020, 13:07 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 11:27 AMAerohank I don't agree with you that 60 ammo is a fair price for PTRS. I think it is a fair price for PTRS and satchel package. The PTRS a bad - on nearly every unit it's not worth the rifle it replaces even if it would be free. It's the one weapon which you only pick up with units that you don't expect to be doing much fighting anyway, like pioneers or Ostruppen. 60 ammo could be ok for a satchel package+ptrs if it just dealt extra damage but this engine crit makes it too much imo. This is what is boils down to imo. A feature that makes satchels do more than they should, especially in comparison to other factions. It is especially lethal as, for example, ost does not have 60range tds and is often forced into diving as part of their gameplay. Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 11:27 AMAerohank In a game where you are meant to keep your infantry alive, it's not worth it to permanently convert your expensive squads into units that only counter vehicles that are present in one short phase of the game. If you want to know what Penals would be like with a nerfed satchel, you don't need the theory-craft, they are already in the game in the UKF roster: Boys AT tommies. Boys AT Tommies are never used and for good reason - their rifles are bad and their snare doesn't make up for it. That is what Penals PTRS upgrade will become without the performance of the satchel. But I guess that is the intended feature of the game to decide on army composition. If you convert pzgrens into anty tank squads the punishment is even greater. Tha't why I would leave it as it is. I also can't fully agree that ptrs are that trash. They are very often responsible for adding the necessary bit of damage on retreating tanks and finish them off (they seem very accurate). I'm not adressing the Brit comparison as that seems just off topic. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?13 Apr 2020, 09:32 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 08:15 AMAerohank I can tell you one thing, it's not because of Penal satchels. I agree to a point here. On this stage of balance, imo, balance is no longer about a given unit. The balance is probably more connected with details in many areas/unit stats/pricing that add up and lead to one faction being slightly better than another. In the case of Soviets imo the problem lies in many tiny bits that add up throught the game. One of those bits is the power of satchels in certain game situations. Satchels add a bit to the overall slightly OP strength of Soviets. Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 08:15 AMAerohank 70 ammo for 2 PTRS isn't cheap. It's a fair price for their performance Exactly. But it is 60 not 70. It is a very good price for what they do and double shreck performance shouldn't be expected. Imo a satchel with both the ability to crit damage a fully healthy vehicle engine and deal a lot of damage is a bit too much. Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 08:15 AMAerohank Most snares are available on regular infantry units that can be decked out with anti-infantry weapons. PTRS Penal troops however become a AT squad with bad AT weapons - that is why they get a more impressive snare. They become adequate anty tank/infantry squad for 300 manpower and 60muni upgrade. They perform still surprisingly well as an anty infantry squad too and are quite durable. Many players still somehow expect them to be a shrecked pzgren equivalent, which is wrong. Coming back to balance - a pretty typical feature of Soviet units - cheaper but equally effective. (There is basically a really visible expectation of many players to make Soviets units as effective as some axis units without adjusting (increasing) the cost of such units). Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 08:15 AMAerohank Satchels don't immobilize, they cause engine damage. Satchels also, unlike other snares, give your tanks 3 seconds to speed back to safety when they are tagged by the snare. Yep, they give crit engine - sorry for the mistake (but I keep repeating crit engine in many places in the post, so I hope readers understood the context). Imo on higher levels a vehicle that has a dmg engine is basically a dead vehicle, especially for the axis (generally no crit repairs), so a fully healthy vehicle imo should rather be stunned with the satchel than crid dmged. 3 seconds in this case does not change much. Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 08:15 AMAerohank Thats an interesting way of phrasing "PTRS does shit damage against anything that isn't a light tank". The PTRS is a bad weapon. Stop trying to newspeak it into something it's not. I'm not doing any newspeak. Ptrs does adequate damge to how much it costs - only 60 munitions. For 60 munitions you get a decent at rifles AND the snare that does both a lot of damage (a shreck volley?) and crit engine damage on a fully healty vehicle. It is too much for only 60 munitions upgrade - simple and no newspeak here. Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2020, 08:15 AMAerohank Literally the same applies to other combined arms situations. Every late game combined arms army is hard to crack if they are in 1 position. Yes and no. While it is true that combined arms are powerful for every army, it has nothing to do with the fact that Soviets pay only 60 munitions to buy ptrs with satchel combo and the possibility to crit engine fully healthy tanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?13 Apr 2020, 07:16 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2020, 22:05 PMthedarkarmadillo at the risk of further sounding like a dick, read the thread between when you posted this and now. It's the frustration knowing full well its going to be a "these very valid reasons don't count because I say so" kinda thread. Literally a matter of if they don't have it the entire unit as an AT unit is worth nothing with a rebuttal of "nuh uh!" And "this AT unit should provide no value whatsoever after the light armour phase is done" This ain't my first rodeo... Can You explain why Soviets are better than other factions overall? Why don't you relate to the price argument? (how cheap ptrs upgrade is) Why don't you relate to the argument that penals snares crit engine on fully healthy vehicles? (The whole debate from a couple of years back ended with the conclusion that snares cant crit engine fully healthy vehicles) Why do you keep comapring ptrs penals squad to a more expensive pzgrenshreck squad? Wahy don't you see that a satchel not only fdrains 240hp but more imprtantly alost immobilizes a vehicle. You also seem to be completely neglecting the fact that ptrs are very good at adding extra bits of damage to other at solutions. IMO you basically think that you are right and get edgy, which you just shouldn't do. Your arguments simply are the sort of all or nothing. You seem to believe that satchels are 100% perfect while I, and many players, believe they are 90% fine. You don't seem to see those tiny bits that could potentially be corrected and make penals closer to being even better balanced. I don't even want to start the whole combined arms stuff - some folks keep repeating use combined arms and in this thread you miraculously can't see that satchels plus combined arms of long range tank destroyers plus at guns make it very difficult for any tanks to attack soviets. Sort of penals should be great on their own story. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?12 Apr 2020, 20:33 PM No, no, no. I really believe these are not circles. You keep supplying a lot of unnecessary information not related to satchels but to other elements of the gameplay. I really believe that some stun shock would be better than engine critical and it has got nothing to do with most of the stuff you write about. Soviets are currently very good and a bit OP. The cheap upgrade on penals can be too effective against expensive tanks, especially lategame, and add up to the faction's slight overperformance. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?12 Apr 2020, 20:21 PM Oh dear. Everything you write is true but again satchels are just imo a bit too effective for their cost especially lategame. L2p has nothing to do with that as most people just avoid snares and that includes satchels. Yet, it so happens that some vehicles do get snared even at top level. And satchels imo just do it too well. Mostly because they combine a lot of damage and the engine critical in one package. They also cripple engines on full health tanks. That is just too much. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Penals - Why snares?12 Apr 2020, 19:49 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2020, 19:42 PMKatitof Charging blindly is suicidal regardless of faction... That doesn't even require a discussion, even biggest noobs around here know that. While it is all true it has nothing to do with the power of satchels. In: COH2 Balance