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Thread: New British Helms Deep commanders12 Feb 2016, 12:08 PM Just replay vCOH..... Brace was added as a way for the emplacement to "retreat" and avoid being one shotted by offmap call ins ,giving the British player a chance to avoid the damage. Also howitzers can fire in the enemy base just fine And to prove my point further about your denial to adapt Jump back to quoted post12 Feb 2016, 08:27 AMDoomlord52 I don't really have a reply to this. You've basically stated exactly the problem I've said, but simply said it's a solution. Your problem is basically your utter denial to adapt on the changing battlefield and demand the battlefield to go back to it's old ways. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: To Old school vCoH players: Why do you choose CoH2?12 Feb 2016, 05:31 AM I would say vcoh but ever since the British were released (with their awesome voice acting) I am pro COH 2 In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: New British Helms Deep commanders12 Feb 2016, 05:26 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Feb 2016, 23:36 PMKatitof You've missed the part where that awesome arty can't even hit sector it targets and when it does, krauts need to double check for the shell not to confuse it with mosquito bites. You know, there is a reason why no one sane is using arty regiment. But I use it for the visuals In: COH2 Balance
Thread: New British Helms Deep commanders12 Feb 2016, 05:09 AM Jump back to quoted post11 Feb 2016, 20:38 PMDoomlord52 No, it's bad game design. CoH has always been about mobility, combined arms and constant movement on the battlefield. The entire game is based around this; capturing territory gives resources, cutting of connected territory denies enemy players resources, use of cover is key, smoke is key, the use of combined arms (i.e. using tanks to support your inf) is key. The entire game is based around mobility; it always has been. Look at vCoH. The US were insanely focused on mobility, with only an MG bunker for defense, while Wehr also had an MG bunker, and a de-crewable, doctrine-restricted flak 88. Short of things like sandbags, wire and TTs, there was literally no way of 'camping'. Then everything went terrible with OF adding brits. PE was generally an alright faction, but brits literally threw the existing (very good) design out the window. Suddenly you could build free garrisons anywhere that made the infantry immune to most types of damage. You had an AA-gun much like the PE flak turrets, but it couldn't be decrewed. You had an 88 (the 17lb AT) that couldn't be decrewed. You had a 105mm (the 25lb) that couldn't be decrewed. All of these emplacements were essentially existing units from other teams, but with the added benefit of the crews being invincible (excluding getting them to very low HP). Pretty much everyone called them out on this; that brits violated the core design of the game (mobility) and let "noobs" play a city building game instead of a tactical RTS. Now look at CoH2. It's literally the exact same thing. Somehow, relic mad a great base game (Ost vs. Sov), then made a solid expansion (USF vs. OKW), and then learned exactly nothing from the entire ~6 years between the release of CoH1 brits and CoH2 brits, and did the EXACT SAME THING. Except this time, it's somehow worse. This is what blows my mind. Relic obviously has a decent enough level of skill to make a very solid game, and listens (well, mostly) to the community, but somehow did the exact same, generally disliked thing, twice in a row. And it's not even a case of "a brit faction will always be bad"; no, it's that CAMPING will always be bad. A mobile brit faction is entirely possible, even utilizing only the existing units (although, with some tweaks). Yet somehow, somewhere, someone said "hey, let's make them campy again"... "and let's fix the weaknesses in camping". So now we have emplacements (again), that can only be RNG-de-crewed at low HP (worse), that have an "oh no im being attacked" invulnerable mode (worse), that gain the benefits of the "true-sight" system (no more looking through a building/wall/whatever for LOS)... (worse). It has nothing to do with "your denial to adapt". It's patently bad game design which contradicts actual GOOD game design; and it's not even fun. Ask any high-level player (that plays brits) if they enjoy making a ton of emplacements; they'll almost all say "no, it's boring". Ask any of them "would you rather have a mobile AT gun/mortar/bofors like the other teams" and they almost all say "yes". Why? Because it compliments the gameplay mechanics (mobility and such) far better than static emplacements. Now as the players at mid/low level what they'd prefer to play against: the current emplacements, or normal mobile stuff. Again, they'll almost all say the mobile stuff because it can be decrewed/destroyed easily. The ONLY people who enjoy this are the lower-ranked players that actually play brits. And I know this for a fact; I used to be a low-skill brit player in CoH1, and did EXACTLY this. Yes, that's right; Brits, Scheldt, start #6. You bet I went Royal Arty and built 3-4 25lb guns and did nothing but creeping barrage. Why? Because "look at me, I'm helping with indirect fire support". Then I got decent, realized it was crazy boring to play as AND play against, and started playing the actual well-made teams. And now look at the new doctrine; the 'counter barrage' ability is broken on a fundamental game design level, and purely contradicts game mechanics that were put in to fix "arty land". Now we'll have: 1. Free Arty (brit tech base stuff) 2. In the base sector (where you can't build it) 3. That can't be de-crewed (so it can't be counter barraged) 4. That auto-fires on the arty that CAN be de-crewed, isn't in the base sector, and costs a ton Explain to me how this is a lack of me being able to adapt, and not just horrible design. It's rather simple..... You don't know shit about emplacements yet you claim otherwise. Emplacements on vcoh were decrewable alot if you used flame weapons or small arms fire (something apparently you don't know). Also vcoh has never ever based around mobility,only USF was based around mobility not the game (just like the British are based around static emplacements and not the game itself). The rules you brought forward aren't something to support your claim either because their just rules and each faction has a unique identity and exploit it based on their strength. Then you talk about OF as if you ever knew why the British were bad,it wasn't because of the emplacements but because of the stupid debuff and vet system that promotes blobing a moving (ignoring features like cover). But how would you know that you barely understand emplacements..... And to end this replay in hopes of you learning I must remind you the arrival and the price of the emplacements (which also take pop) could not tolerate being one shotted by simple skills like the awesome good looking railway artillery and for that relic gave them brace. Emplacement counters are indirect firepower (mortars,heavy artillery) and flame weapons use those tools and not tanks or simple unupgraded infantry everytime you encounter something (cause it ain't gonna work),and since you mentioned mobility USE IT emplacements are static team weapons they can't hold the entire map. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: New British Helms Deep commanders11 Feb 2016, 19:20 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Feb 2016, 16:02 PMButcher People like me? You mean people who started and stuck to the CoH series because it was something new, where you could use cover, flank weapons and the point of the game was constant combat around points? People like me who don´t like a dull mechanic totally breaking the concept that once made this a favorite series? Just focus on the things that made this game awesome and don´t add stuff that totally goes against this concept. Figuratively speaking: Emplacements in Coh are like a camping van added to a sports car. Sure, it´s something new, but in the end you ruined your driving experience. What you just said proves your denial to adapt. Emplacements are team support weapons (the ones COH series brought),which sacrifice mobility for durability,they aren't cheap and not in any way a one man army,they need support to stop the enemy from destroying them. From that it feets your criteria almost perfectly other then the part of mobility which goes against the emplacements design. The only problem I see here is one player disliking emplacements cause they aren't a direct copy of its counterparts AND declaring them bad for the game cause of that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: New British Helms Deep commanders11 Feb 2016, 13:44 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Feb 2016, 21:09 PMButcher Emplacements have no fucking place in this game. It is about combined arms, mobility and flanking. Not sitting on your lazy ass. Emplacements have every right to exist,if you stay in the past and don't adapt that's your problem. (Emplacements require combined arms to even be viable but people like you couldn't care less about it) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Snipers should be limited to one on the field.8 Feb 2016, 06:50 AM Limiting a sniper is considered bad but limiting heavy vehicles is not?? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Snipers should be limited to one on the field.6 Feb 2016, 12:26 PM A limit to the snipers is needed.double snipers shouldn't exist and ever be viable. It's hard to predict when a sniper gonna hit the field,even more hard for the second one. Best part is that you can hardly take advantage of it cause a grenadier squad can cover snipers. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Facing which factions gives you the most stress?4 Feb 2016, 16:43 PM Werhmacht Double Sniper is unfun. British Double mortar pit is just cancer. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: What's your favorite faction?4 Feb 2016, 12:48 PM UKF is my favourite faction in the game. Why? Cause they have alot of options and alot of cool units to play with,their the only faction that has the best voiceover,they also happen to be the most different faction compared to other allied and axis factions and has unique units that no other faction has in any form. Their also a faction that has the most specialized armored tanks. The only problem with them atm is their long road towards balance and making every choice a viable one. In: COH2 Gameplay