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Thread: Give Panzergrenadiers Toggle Panzerschreks Ability12 Sep 2015, 14:30 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Sep 2015, 14:14 PMnewvan Voted - no, it will encourage anti everything blob, like rangers in Ardens, especially with CAS. You just press one button to change its role, its poor gameplay and bad for balance for any type of unit. In current situation you must choose what you need at the field - good mid range AI, or trade it for best infantry based AT in the game, its quite fair. Prioritize Vehicles - is a good idea. This. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Enough about the brits SU-76 STILL OP FOR COST12 Sep 2015, 01:31 AM What Dustbin said, also their rotation rate is terrible. If you can seize an opportunity to blitz around them you can really garden them up easily if other supporting AT isn't nearby. Though I know that using Blitz offensively is kind of a novel concept In: COH2 Balance
Thread: UKF: Apparent Weaknesses and Deficits12 Sep 2015, 01:25 AM Great post. I must say that the new teching changes in the Preview mod do alleviate the Manpower problems to a degree, which is nice but a lot of the problems you discussed remain. It would be cool if they gave Tommies barbed wire... it would mesh well with their current pseduo-engineer flavor where they build Caches instead of Sappers. (Not that you ever have the MP for Caches lel) Would be neat if the Bolster Squads upgrade also reduced reinforcement costs slightly in exchange for a higher price tag- give it more utility and also offset dat bleed. UC really does need self repair at Vet 0 since the damn thing is a faust magnet and if you get unlucky and eat an early faust you might as well kiss it goodbye. Doubly stupid since its base gun does piss poor damage at range and often ends up just being a Muni sink if you upgrade it when the 222 comes out to say hello, even more so now that the Wasp is being nerfed (though rightly so). Hope Relic reads your post In: COH2 Balance
Thread: LeIG is too effective11 Sep 2015, 19:44 PM I feel like "surprisingly accurate" best describes how LeIG feels now - especially as close-mid range where it does feel like an arcing sniper at times. Its AOE is fine and its not wipey at all but its frustrating that it seems to pick off models a little too regularly. It just gets rather bad on narrow maps or maps like Minsk pocket that turn is center VP clusterf*cks where OKW truck + 2 LeIG makes any infantry advance super painful the closer you get to the OKW lines. Also the ISG abusing the super range to randomly ding capping squads in the FOW due to LOS provided by the Point is pretty lame. Slight decrease in close-mid/close accuracy and I think they are fine.... I also think the LeiG shouldn't turn to auto-target squads outside their cone either and that they should act like AT Guns... that would eliminate the "set it and forget it" aspect. Its great that its useful now (and maybe part of the problem is people just aren't used to the LeIG actually hitting anything) but slightly too accurate is what is subjectively feels like to me at any rate. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance Preview Update 09/09/201511 Sep 2015, 16:27 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Sep 2015, 14:50 PMFlying Dustbin I think this is for balance reasons, as being in a vehicle counts as cover/garrison bonus right? So you'd have a highly mobile tommy squad that are always in cover that could just kite any grenadiers that come for the faust. The funny thing is that you can do this with the Weapons HT from the Special Weapons Commander... I was messing around with the AI and put 2 Heavy Engineers w/ X3 Vickers in it and rolled around melting squads. Its not practical at all due to the CP timing but would make for some epic cheese. In: Lobby
Thread: Balance Preview Update 09/09/201511 Sep 2015, 13:58 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Sep 2015, 13:43 PMThe Prussian Officer yeah so it can fire constantly at the point of an emplacement. So getting rid of the barrage ability won't change anything Barrage (as its name suggests) fires more shells that just auto-attacking ground. Attacking ground into the FOW is also less accurate. The point is as dbmb stated earlier : The low timer of ISG barrage only compounds this problem. Its not too bad now because the Brit player can at least spam Brace if the emplacement HP gets low but in the Preview you can't and it results in dbmb's description. What I'm saying is if they keep the Brace nerf then other changes need to be made like increasing the ISG barrage timer or else emplacements get countered too easily by ISG spam. Besides, all other indirect artillery barrages have a timer of at least 30 sec as far as I know. In: Lobby
Thread: Balance Preview Update 09/09/201511 Sep 2015, 03:59 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 20:57 PMFluffi then why not give the incendiary to Sturmpios? They are more expensive, thus more seldom, thus more reaction time between using 'brace'. Also, it would encouraged more okw start builds (against brits, at least) Also, it just suits them better, goddamnit I'm inclined to agree. I tested it out tonight and a single Incendiary Grenade took off 40~% of a Mortar Pits health WITH brace on. The long cool-down of Brace as is means that 2 Volks can pretty much take out any emplacement. Not to mention that the grenade throws as fast as a Potatomasher so you can't even try to gun down a squad thats winding up like a Molotov. Giving Strums more of a specialist utility role of garrison clearer + emplacement counter makes design sense too since other factions Engineers are their source of flame counters with flamethrowers. (Wasp aside) In: Lobby
Thread: Preview Patch Partisan Test10 Sep 2015, 20:38 PM Needs moar Doakes https://youtu.be/_bSEfx6D8mA In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance Preview Update 09/09/201510 Sep 2015, 20:08 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 19:32 PMghey boi +1 Really like this idea, would love to test it out. +2 The recast timer for LeIG Barrage is so short that you can just endlessly barrage an emplacement and there is nothing you can do because of the 1 Minute Recast on Brace which opens the emplacement to too much damage. The other idea I've proposed in other threads is to keep Brace the same as the Live Version but give it diminishing returns so that an increasing % of damage goes through the longer the emplacement is under sustained fire during the duration of Brace. This would effectively simulate Brace failing as the emplacement remains under attack, which rewards the Axis player for going all in versus an emplacement. EDIT I'm also worried that Volks Incendiary Grenades will be OP against emplacements since for a small amount of Muni you can hard counter an Emplacement (especially with a long Cooldown on Brace) 2 Grenades Spaced out a bit = GG Emplacements. In: Lobby
Thread: Balance Preview Update 09/09/201510 Sep 2015, 18:40 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2015, 17:51 PMbC_ also forgot to add this Added warning smoke + 4 second delay to artillery cover + vehicle stun replaced with weapon disable critical I've noticed a few things that appeared off while trying the Mod last night... may want to to look into some of them if they haven't been fixed yet. 1. USF Assault Engineers still have old M7 Mine 2. Raken Cloak seems to still be bugged where weapon crews fire while its cloaked/on hold fire 3. British Sniper still goes prone to fire - not sure if that was implemented fully 4. Bren Carrier Vickers K Suppression Ability seems bugged (it seems to cancel out randomly after activated) Thanks for keeping us all updated! In: Lobby