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Thread: Boss units5 Apr 2014, 18:05 PM Given that Soviet 'boss units' can get pwned by a trololol PzIV with comedy speed boost, I really don't know what the problem is. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Some solutions for the game balance4 Apr 2014, 13:37 PM Some good ideas. I think the balance is almost there, but... 1. Simply make Soviet combat engineers comparable to Pios (either DPS range buff or health); 2 Make Conscript DPS slightly higher at close range (create an almost Ami rifles / Volks parity) These simple tweaks would probably shut down 70% of complaints and provide a basis for further balance. Next up would be penal alterations, M3 buff and (gasp) tweaking PzG armour upwards a little. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Interview Greg Wilson & Quinn Duffy on Expansion!!3 Apr 2014, 11:44 AM As usual, the design paradigm is skewed. The German army was defensive but mobile in 1944-45. Their obsession with heavy armour wasn't matched by reality - and they squandered the cream of their panzers in the Ardennes. The truth is that the Panzer Elite is the most stylistically accurate representation of the Wehrmacht in the late-war - mobile, tough but reliant on rationed heavy armour for exceptional support, not routine deployment. Edit - by skewed I mean look at the Brits. They are designed in vCoH to be ponderous and slow. This is the British army that rapidly converted it's best infantry into armoured brigades and raced from Caen to Brussels in record time. In: Lobby
Thread: Interview Greg Wilson & Quinn Duffy on Expansion!!3 Apr 2014, 08:56 AM I'd have thought, with two months until release, we'd see a proper game play video by now. In: Lobby
Thread: Rezzed Screengrabs2 Apr 2014, 07:40 AM There was a carefully camouflaged Kangaroo in there somewhere. I know it. In: Lobby
Thread: Making Soviets more Soviety30 Mar 2014, 22:19 PM The post-Stalingrad Red Army, from the Spring of 1943 onwards, got its shit together. It was better equipped, led and motivated. The political leadership began to trust their generals and realised that dogma and execution was counter-productive. Given that CoH2 is set in 1944 (more or less) the most representative soviet units would be Guards and Shocks, well-motivated and seasoned combat veterans with decent equipment and properly developed doctrine. In fact the whole design ethos behind CoH2 seems to be to model the Soviet faction on the Op. Barbarossa-era Red Army, not the one that evolved the hard way after Op. Uranus / Little Star. Now all the pURe GaemERs are welcome to pile in a say "it's just a game" but given Relic's hyperbole about at soupcon of historical veracity, I call bullshit on the design ethic of the faction from this POV. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is this M3 balanced (see video)? 29 Mar 2014, 23:49 PM This is a familiar CoH2 refrain - unit 'X' doesn't have utility versus cost compared to similarly or more cheaply priced units. The German AC has finally been given some love, at a commensurate price hike, maybe the M3 needs something similar. The early CoH2 vehicles are not at all analogous with their vCoH forebears, they serve a different purpose (bearing in mind the Germans don't actually have an early light vehicle in T1). Crap micro or no crap micro - that guy lost a lot of MP, fuel and munis to two entry-level builder units. And even parking realism aside for a moment, on a level of sheer verisimilitude, guys firing 9mm submachineguns at an armoured car and blowing it up? Really? Pios need a nerf. Even with a drive-by the damage output on that AC was disproportionate, RNG-gods or no RNG. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: American Speculation Thread 28 Mar 2014, 15:23 PM I saw Pershings, Thunderbolt planes, PzIII, Brumbar, Sherman... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: American Speculation Thread 28 Mar 2014, 15:20 PM It's basically vCoH in the CoH2 engine. As I predicted. I am a sage. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How the new Patch changed the flow and feel of the game.28 Mar 2014, 14:43 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2014, 06:56 AMStonethecrow01 I think this patch should have been implemented over about 3 patches. All the ideas behind the patch are good but the changes are too sweeping and have gone over the top. QFT. Relic are definitely headed in the right direction, though. Giving the Soviets a slight non-doctrinal infantry boost would help. I'm thinking maybe PPSH for combat engineers or an upgradable AT nade organic to the penals. These options would keep me on my toes as an Axis player who likes light vehicles and happy as a Soviet player facing stronger early Axis infantry. In: COH2 Gameplay