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Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback24 Dec 2020, 01:26 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Dec 2020, 22:15 PMVipper The problem is we can not all agree that "Sappers are fine-ish combat troops" since katitof claims they: "are very bad in actual combat" I suggest you test vet 3 heavy sappers vs any infatry you see fit in cheat mod and see how they perform. They do pretty much what you would expect IMO. Dueling green cover at like 10 range 5 Man Sappers lose to Vet 5 Volks and Vet 3 LMG Grens but are fairly competitive. Anything else is what you would expect - they do better at point blank and worse farther away. Adding more Brens tips the scale in their favor. I guess it's up to you whether or not you think Anvil Tech + Heavy Sapper upgrade cost should let them be competitive against mainline infantry. If you're dumping more munitions into them and tying up your engineer/snaring squad in combat its more than fair I think. Any other situation it's just them firing the Vickers for extra chip damage at long range which is nonconsequential. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback23 Dec 2020, 22:10 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Dec 2020, 21:49 PMVipper Because my stat come from actual 2vs2 preview game. To be fair post-game efficiency scores don't prove much at all because it provides no context whatsoever for how they were used. It's pretty easy to rack up high efficiency if they are flanking support weapons and killing crews vs. equiping them with Brens and going toe to toe with other infantry or whatever. It's also doesn't say anything about the quality of the match as beating up on a lower skill opponent and racking up efficiency doesn't prove much either. Now if you have a replay of a heavy sapper death blob then by all means share it, otherwise I think we can all agree that Sappers are fine-ish combat troops but nothing about the heavy sapper buff is going to really change the fact that most people will continue to use them primarily as repair and PIAT platforms... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] OST Feedback23 Dec 2020, 17:54 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Dec 2020, 21:07 PMBetterDead ThanRed with the possibility of facing 3 factions that has an abundance of artillery, the few artillery left to axis needs something up its sleeve to counter this, until something else of similar value is presented to axis artillery, i think counter-arty needs to be where its at. Uh you mean like the massive buff that Werfer is getting that gives it a Vet 1 Calliope barrage? Also, Brits having an "abundance of artillery" I feel like artillery interactions between factions is more or less fine- if anything the fact that USF and UKF currently have to crutch on doctrinal units for those roles is most problematic- though Scott and Heavy Mortar Barrage changes should bring that in line to a degree. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] USF Feedback23 Dec 2020, 17:40 PM I still feel like the Scott is too far in the "keep it from being toxic" territory for it's AOE profile to be useful. I like the idea of it being able to be a not super lethal precision barrage machine at Vet 3 but it's a long road to Vet 3 and it feels like the Scott can't pull it's weight up till that point. Personally I'd like to see see some tradeoff nerfs like slower autofire RoF or decreased survivability (remove smoke pots?) in exchange for a slightly better AoE for either barrage and/or Autofire. It just feels super underwhelming to see near misses do almost no damage. I suppose another option would be to replace smoke pots with a Pak Howie type HEAT barrage that has a better AoE profile for munitions cost. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Stupid Ideas for the game17 Dec 2020, 23:27 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Dec 2020, 22:53 PMelchino7 Penals were the only squad in the game which didn't had the exploding flamer tank. I'm aware. Which is why I specified that they should also randomly explode because RNGesus smote them. You know, for "balance". Edit. I also think they should bring back the whole "every deflected shot has a chance to stun the tank" flavor. Get those realism juices flowing again. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Stupid Ideas for the game17 Dec 2020, 20:58 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Dec 2020, 15:49 PMLady Xenarra Flamer Riflemen returning. Only if we can have Flamer Penals too and both have the RNG death crits for dropping models and the exploding tank critical that instantly kills squad again In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] USF Feedback16 Dec 2020, 03:39 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2020, 17:33 PMVipper Not really. Ostheer have the HMG-42 because gren loose to riflemen. If USF can counter the HMG with cheaper mortar that will leave back into Riflemen beating the Grenadier and one would have to buff the grenadier to compensate. So OST can get a counter to USF units but USF can't get a counter to their counter? Are we going to go back in time and just say "smoke and flank"? USF mortar is the same MP cost as OST mortar and I'm pretty sure it still has the inferior damage profile of lower near damage AND lower range for both auto fire and barrage. It's literally the definition of still being inferior to the OST mortar despite the barrage being slightly buffed so you get rewarded the same for good micro of barraging support weapons. (while still having to put the mortar at more risk because of it's lower range) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] Bug Reporting16 Dec 2020, 02:47 AM Katy's creeping barrage has an absurdly long casting radius: you can barrage into opponent's base from your tree line on Crossing in The Woods. Not sure if bug or just oversight. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] USF Feedback15 Dec 2020, 17:14 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2020, 14:36 PMVipper Same applies: https://www.coh2.org/file/19127/barrage-clumped-te.png USf have little to no reason to have superior or even equal mortar with Ostheer. Espcailly since the Pak howitzer is the best "mortar type" weapon. One could argue the fact that Pak Howie is locked behind a tech path and the fact that USF has to face MG42 from Minute 0 means that they at least deserve a barrage that is equal to other mortars. When you factor in that Pak Howie is getting nerfed this patch, Scott autofire is getting nerfed this patch, Calliope is getting nerfed this patch then USF artillery needs something to compensate for LT builds where you're going to using the mortar first and foremost. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Osttruppen Discussion and Feedback15 Dec 2020, 17:05 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Dec 2020, 13:37 PMUnit G17 With ostruppen requiring T1 will they still worth getting over grenadiers for slightly more early map control, but a weaker late game unit? In teamgames the main reason I would deploy ostruppen is to allow me to send my pios immediately to the most contested points and to get T2 faster, but they remain largely fragile for the rest of the game and thus being a pain (only pro is that they are great at recrewing team weapons). With T1 becoming a requirement there seems to be little reason to deploy them, and I'm wondering wether they still have a place in smaller gamemodes either. Sure they will. They will still be cheaper and cheaper to reinforce. If they remain a call-in then there will be no build time so you'll still get faster map presence than Grens. Ostruppen themselves will be unaffected but the build time and cost of T1 means the early game is slightly less oppressive which is the main balance problem with Ostruppen spam. I personally like it and voted for that option myself. Jibber's logic sounds legit to me. In: COH2 Balance