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Thread: Aftermath's Feedback/Wishlist14 Mar 2023, 09:49 AM Feature: Remember Camera Position Per Map Currently in Coh2 and Coh3, whenever you load into a game, the camera angle is set to the default camera angle for that map. This is annoying if you like to have your camera set to a certain direction every time you play that map, for example, facing the opponent's base. It would be nice if in the settings you could tell the game to 'Save camera direction' so that each time you play on that map, the camera is in the same position as the last time you played it. Some players might want it to reset to the default each match though so it would be better if this was configurable. Its also important to stress that it has to save the direction on a per map basis, as the default direction you want might change depending on the map. Bug: Custom Games/Skirmishes Don't Remember Preferences This is a problem in both Coh2 and Coh3, where whenever you load into a skirmish, it defaults the AI to be Wehr on Hard difficulty. This is regardless if you habitually play against some other faction. The game should be smart enough to remember your preferences such as difficulty, the last faction you played against, etc without you having to set it everytime. Also entering a skirmish feels like it takes one screen too many. This screen here for example is totally pointless: You could just add the load button to the lobby screen. Feature: Customise Command Panel So currently you have a fair bit of hotkey customisation, relative to Coh2. But yet, when it comes to the command panel, with the grid keys (QWERT etc), you can't customise them. Let's say for example that you want to be able to remap the build command on engineers from S (the default) back to A (the Coh2 default), there's no way to do that. What would be great would be in the settings, we had a screen in the controls section, where we could swap commands a unit has to whatever grid key we want. It would look a bit like this: This would allow players to keep retreat separate from reverse, move abilities to wherever they feel makes sense, its total control to the player and reduces maintenance for the developer as you can just say back 'it doesn't matter that the command mappings don't make sense, you can change them yourselves!'. This right here: https://youtu.be/0RZrOTK2yc0?t=2199 Is exactly why this functionality is important. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Aftermath's Feedback/Wishlist13 Mar 2023, 16:24 PM Minimise Control Panel One that would be really nice is if you could use a hotkey to minimise the control panel in the bottom right. As you can see it takes up a lot of space: And once you know all the hotkeys, you really don't care about the information it displays 95% of the time. As you can see from the screenshot, it sometimes displays no information at all. So if you could minimise it like this: With a maximise button for more casual players but bound to a hotkey for more advanced players, this would allow you to see much more of the screen at any one time. It would also be great if in the settings you could configure whether or not this is always minimised or maximised. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Aftermath's Feedback/Wishlist13 Mar 2023, 16:22 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2023, 18:42 PMHannibal There's a lot of aspects -etc I thought about this one for a bit and I'm still on the fence. I actually realised the situations where this feature would be useful are so minimal that it wouldn't be that useful but also I still think it would be better overall. It really only provides the benefit of making it easier to notice when your opponent brings in new units and also be able to navigate to your opponents units more easily. The Tact Map also does this, in fact better. You also see this feature in other RTS games like TA, so I don't buy into the idea that it goes against RTS fundamentals. Again though, the benefit is more minimal than when it loomed large in my imagination when I first suggested it. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign12 Mar 2023, 19:24 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2023, 19:22 PMKatitof I had a game earlier today where a pair of my 250/9 killed 88 infantry models between them and I lost one only to surprise 17 pounder that was towed to another place. 250s are good, but you need to pump mp into upgrading them, you really have to commit. They might not be as useful in 1s, but they definitely feel strong at 2s when you don't suicide them. I'm rank ~140 with ~1300 elo atm just so you know I'm not rolling over random noobs. Again, its not the balance I'm getting at. 250s as a unit are fine. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign12 Mar 2023, 19:21 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2023, 18:46 PMGiaA Besides, it's actually impossible to judge how the base faction gameplay in CoH3 would play out because everybody seems to just be playing 1 broken strat (fallpio, airborne, italy tanks). It's weird because I didn't remember this degree of "meta adherence" at the CoH2 release. Maybe it's the fact that ladders exist and everybody sees their big chance to finally make it big in life by getting an 80%+ winrate. We're basically lacking the data to make any statements about how factions should be changed. Yeah it really doesn't help that Relic made a bunch of the same mistakes as they did in Coh2; call-ins, skill planes. Having said that, I feel a lot of the comments I made in the original post are not dependent on data. Having a linear tech path being one of them. But that comes to personal preference. Some people might like that their factions are linear and tech choices are minimal, I'm not one of those people. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign12 Mar 2023, 19:17 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2023, 18:00 PMEsxile The way the faction is designed works, what it needs is balance. So a soft counter vs LVs could be re-balancing the HT-AA or by giving an option for the 250 upgrade. PZgren are just overpriced for what they deliver, nothing to do with design. There is no need to mix everything when Relic can just move the cursor for individual unit. It hobbles along on those price discounts and Battlegroup call-ins. I'm not saying balance wouldn't help but what I'm getting at is that the design is sub-optimal and this is what I would do to make it more interesting. However design is a subjective thing, you don't have to agree. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign12 Mar 2023, 19:14 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2023, 18:11 PMKatitof The faction does not need complete redesign. It needs cost adjustments. I couldn't disagree more. I'd put strong money on the Deployment system being totally overhauled in the next 12 months. You don't need to take my word for it, look at the Master League games. Those 250s pretty much get left for dead 90% of the time. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign12 Mar 2023, 12:20 PM Actually no, what they really should do more than either balance or faction redesign right now is get features into the game like replays, all the missing hotkey stuff, all the missing Coh2 features etc. As that is stuff that if left too long will never happen. Missing features -> faction design tidy up -> balance. In my opinion, that's what they should do. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign12 Mar 2023, 11:59 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Mar 2023, 10:07 AMEsxile I don't know why you want to reinvent the wheel with DAK, the faction design is more than viable atm, the problem is overall faction balance, giving DAK an option to counter LVs rush before getting a Rad and rebalancing PG to something relevant. Then from Light tanks to heavy tank the Marder does the job of counter and the Pz3 once upgraded goes toes to toes with anything Allied faction can field. Balance and design are really 2 different questions. PE in Coh1 is viable but relative to the base factions its poorly designed. OKW when Volks had Schreks was 'viable' but yet it got completely redesigned. The problem you raised of 'giving DAK an option to counter LVs rush before getting a Rad', is actually fixed in my MOD due to rejigging the tech tree, making Paks and Panzerjägers more available. Regarding balance, I actually have the total opposite view, I really think they should do the design changes first and then balance after, as the balance will always change after the design does. For instance, the nerfs they are making to the base stats of the Wirbelwind for Wehr right now make little sense to me because, presuming they make the call-in tech dependent like they did in Coh2, its performance will change after to reflect the tech costs being factored into it. Its the same with DAK, I don't see how this design will not change in the long term. As for why change it, I explain this in my initial post; the aggressive linearity, the kinda broken deployment system etc. But have you tried out my MOD? You could give it a go and see which you prefer? I'm totally open to changing things based on feedback and reasoned argument. To re-iterate, I think making the design concrete should be what the devs should prioritise right now over balance. In: COH3 Central
Thread: DAK Redesign11 Mar 2023, 19:52 PM Alright, having played around with the modding tools, I came up with a Proof of Concept that tackles 95% of the issues I had with the design of DAK: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947341907 Features HQ The HQ hasn't really changed very much, partially because it didn't need to but also because the modding tools didn't really allow for it much in practice. The important thing to note is that T1 or T2 can be constructed right out of the gate, addressing my issue with the linearity. T1 T1 has now 2 side tiers instead of 1. The first upgrade on the left unlocks the second column and the second upgrade unlocks the third column. After putting my ideas into practice, I swapped the flak halftrack and the Assault Grens in the tech tree. It just made more sense and having played around with it a bit, it plays well. T2 T2 also has 2 side tiers, the first also unlocking the second column and the second unlocking the third column. The recovery HT is gone and I substituted the Carro Armato for the Puma, as it was the closest alterative for the POC. I also changed the stats of the Carro Armato making it fairly useless against infantry, so it feels basically like the Puma in Coh2 and fits the role I intended for it nicely. Relic would ideally use the real thing though. The other unit that saw changes was... Panzergrenadiers They now have the MP40 and MP43 upgrades. MP40s and MG34s were swapped from from original plan, MP40s get unlocked when any T1 side tech is purchased and MG34s come from any T2 side tech. The MP43s come with T3. This upgrade dichotomy adds another interesting dimension to the tech paths. T3 T3 can be reached when any 2 side techs or any side tech and both T1 and T2 are purchased. This allows for up to 6 different tech paths to T3! Within T3 itself, the entire top row is unlocked immediately. I found in practice, locking the Stug behind the same tech as the Tiger made little sense. The first side tier upgrade unlocks the tiger and the second side tier upgrade unlocks the Stuka and Flak. One nice benefit of this setup is that directly teching Tiger is much cheaper, as you don't need to go through the deployments. Speaking of which... Deployments Within the armoury, I moved out all the upgrades to the respective tiers that unlock them, as this made more intuitive sense to me. I kept the grenades and 250 upgrade here, as well as adding an upgrade for base healing. This means you don't have to tech T1 to get heals or use the med truck. As for the deployments, all deployments are locked behind upgrades here, which is what he icons denote. For example, the assault gren icon unlocks the assault gren deployment. Once that is unlocked, you can upgrade the panzer 3 one below it and that will replace that deployment and only that one! This means you can pick and choose which deployments you want with a lot more granularity. However, the mod tooling currently has a lot of limitations, so I was not able to edit the deployments. This means they still come with the 250, sadly, but presumably we can update this in the future. You're also not able to create new deployments, so the armoury is missing that middle row of deployment upgrades I detailed in my original plan. But for getting the idea across, this works! Notes In creating this MOD, I changed the following: - Assault Grens and Panzerjägers can't repair anymore as I feel this was overkill. - All upgrades that were in the armoury like grenades etc were reduced in manpower but now have a fuel cost, to balance things out and make teching yet more interesting. Aside from these changes, I have not touched the balance, as this MOD is purely a POC for the redesign. None of the other factions were changed. Nor were the battlegroups touched. Conclusion After having modded my ideas, I'm fairly happy with the result! I addressed 95% of the issues I had with DAK and the remaining ones I couldn't change due to limitations with the MOD tooling. I feel this setup is outright superior to what we have now, it allows for significantly more tech paths, upgrade choices and also makes the Deployment system less of a standalone gimick but something tied into the tech tree nicely. All that remains is to hope Relic takes some inspiration! Give it a go and let me know your thoughts! If anyone has feedback or wants to play with me on it, shoot me a message! In: COH3 Central