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Thread: The incredible jackson8 Jul 2016, 22:06 PM Jackson can't see axis tanks while they spam their easy and OP AF axis tank smoke. Pick the right commander and you won't have an issue. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF didn't need a mortar.8 Jul 2016, 22:01 PM There is no real compromise here - the problem is axis players are not happy that they can no longer just spam MGs or occupy houses and put USF at a big disadvantage. If you gave US a mortar that only fired smoke, or decreased the price of grenades/smoke so you could throw a ton of that like people in this thread have suggested, then all the complainers would be back here saying rifle blobs were OP running concealed and clearing everything out. Give rear echelons the ability to upgrade to flame throwers early and give USF mines, and you can get rid of the mortar. Problem solved. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic leaks again.10 Jun 2016, 19:31 PM As long as people are willing to pay real money for a competitive advantage, Relic is going to continue to design systems allowing them to do so. The goal of relic is to make money, not to be able to have peace of mind about achieving perfect balance. If you have objections about the above statement, I realize your counter-argument is about to be "but without a balanced game, they won't have players playing it so they won't make money with it". Your argument is not in accordance with Relic's history, so you might as well not bother with it. How many players paid more to roll around for a year in kangaroos playing CoH1? How many players have gone out and bought the most OP doctrines for CoH2? You consistently see higher sales for more OP commanders. Custom commanders will allow them to achieve the same kinds of profits without actually having to design and test any new commander trees themselves, so it is basically a win-win for them. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Coh2Chart Update - win-ratios etc.4 May 2016, 03:54 AM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2016, 20:57 PMferwiner win rate would be .5 only if the ladder was infinite. As it is finite, the closer you are to an end the higher the possibility that you will find opponent from the huge "middle" part instead of the small "end" part, for example if you are top 100 there is only a 100 people better than you and none of them may be searching, so you more often get matched with people worse than you than better. @OP great job This is exactly why looking at these stats as they are is not particularly informative - I want to be able to filter the win/loss ratios by only looking at games where the players involved were relatively equal in skill (say, within 50-100 spots from one another, whether they are in the top 50 or the top 500). This is the only way to actually look at balance. Otherwise it could very well be that top 150 players lose 85% of their games with axis or allies against other top 150 players (implying awful balance) but you can never see it because 80% of their games are against much lower ranked opponents so their ratios even out towards 50%. In: Lobby
Thread: 21st patch Howie's + 2 click counters. What to do?19 Jul 2015, 03:27 AM Part of the designed balance for OKW revolves around using trucks on the battlefield. OKW is useless if all their trucks can be targeted by arty at huge range, and OKW has 0 long range counters to try to retaliate with. Bad design. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 21st patch Howie's + 2 click counters. What to do?19 Jul 2015, 00:24 AM "flank it" - right. inside the base in a game where base-destroying is practically impossible. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Patch July 21st preview with Dusty and Luvnest13 Jul 2015, 22:52 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2015, 22:38 PMMittens I still feel like USF is grossly out classed in 2v2's and up =/ If USF wasn't terrible why would anyone pay good money for British faction? In: Lobby
Thread: CAS Pin Strafe + Recon + Stuka Dive Bomb in Base6 Jul 2015, 21:57 PM This whole thread really just amount to a litmus test for intelligence. If you find yourself supporting the current state of CAS, then you need help. The first step to moving on is to admit you have a problem. Relic is backing themselves into an awkward position with paid commanders - how do you actually balance a commander when the only reason anyone bought it in the first place is because they were excited about how OP it was going to be? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer HMG too strong now30 Jun 2015, 15:10 PM I don't understand how anyone can be in here arguing that the mg42 balance is fine in this current patch when everyone knows there are actually changes designed to help balance it that were left out of this version (which makes no sense anyway) and will be coming soon. Of course there will be balance issues when only half a patch is released at a time. As for the molotov issue, if the molotov can be counted on only to reposition an mg but never to kill any models then what is the point of investing manpower, fuel, and ammo into a "soft counter" that doesn't actually do anything? Compared to all other grenades this ability is crap. I guess its the fanboys version of balance that ostheer has rifle grenades with great instant squad-wiping potential and soviet get molotov that can make soft suggestion that mg should reposition. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer HMG too strong now30 Jun 2015, 00:44 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jun 2015, 00:20 AMNosliw Just played a 1v1 as USF. Guy had MG in church on Semois. I flanked it with 4 riflemen and killed it with nades, then stole it. If that MG was any more broken though I probably would have lost the game right there. I guess this is sarcasm but do you really think it should require 4 squads, each costing more than the mg itself, plus the additional ammo cost for grenades to counter this one cheap starter unit for ostheer? If he had a 2nd mg backing up the first one on that map your flank would probably have just been shut down immediately. Anything can work vs bad players but balance is not determined by the theoretical possibility that countering a unit is possible. Balance is achieved when the effort in countering a unit is comparable to the effort required to use a unit. Its easy to try making this a L2P, try flanking issue but the fact is that good players anticipate a flank and focus on choke points, plant mines, and have secondary units available to break up a flank, or rely on off-map abilities like strafe. If flank execution is much more difficult and requires much more micro than preventing a flank does then balance is off. In: COH2 Balance