Profile of Darc Reaver

While that is true, there are still bits and bobs that don't quite match properly I think, even in EF (see: lol5-man PGRens, the unforgivable hiccup that is the Romanian reward doctrine).

EDIT: Also, Brit redesign? Second coming of Royal Marines Commandlel? Gimme dat T2 Achilles.

Romanian doc is not available in steam EF. When did you play last?

Also Pgrens start with 4 men for 320mp, no starting g43, no group zeal, higher base mp upkeep (~10mp/min instead of ~6), STGs for 100 ammo (which comes ~50 fuel later than before), no bugged off vet, no ACs at 5 minute mark with overdrive, no Panther Battlegroup and no early pIV with the stupid rapid fire ability. Also no indestructible Ketten with cloak anymore.
Oh and did I mention that the AT HT has no treadbreak anymore? All the broken shit was removed and reworked in vcoh style.

The larger squad size upgrade to 5 men is required for lategame to compensate the missing group zeal and allow to use Schrecks more freely compared to vcoh. It's pretty much an equivalent of a wehr vet level (1 more man =+20% max hp and +20% firepower).

You can't just nerf and remove everything from a faction and then expect them to perform properly. Atm I'm still tweaking the gren stats for earlygame performance against USA.

It's not as if the 5men pgrens come before the midgame. It requires several tier buildings first. And then it's still fine.

So, what's the issue?

About brits: no RMC, they were made by one of our past noob devs and he refused the Balancers to actually apply changes to them, so they remained just as broken as brits.

They get a proper redesign in the spirit of vcoh. I'm working on them as I write here actually.

Not really. Volks damage goes up by picking up a BAR rifle more, that's true.
However, grens are more resistant to weapon fire and supression. BARs are close range weapons and so grens will provide a better combat value than volks.

I wouldn't put this up too high though, as it's more important to pickup the BAR in general before your enemy gets it back. The squad it's on is secondary in that case.

BAR Riflemen have (functionally) 2x the DPS of a non-upgraded squad. What makes them seem worse is the fact that (for whatever reason) BARs will tend to damage every entity in the squad rather than dropping models outright (which ofc will eventually happen while squads are on low HP). With pure rifles, you'll get the odd volley of rifle shots that instantly nuke a model.

By my reckoning this makes BARs+flamers insanely powerful as the BARs will quickly lower enemy infantry into flamethrowers' crit threshold, allowing your flamers to fire once and nuke half a squad.

BARs are also meh against healing for the aforementioned reason (lack of crits at green/yellow HP).

With everything said and done, the rival mod to the one I code for used to have loads of charts on vCoH weapon DPS; they ran the numbers and it turns out that the M1 rifle in vCoH is so completely shit that, even with BARs in the mix, a Vet0 MP40 squad will out DPS a BAR squad at all ranges (though only by tiny fractions).

DPS at LMS ranges (35-18 m/17-9 m/8-0 m)

Volk K98:
1.229148376
2.330508475
3.851091142

Gren K98:
2.370500439
4.131355932
6.546854942

leader MP44 rifle:
1.22278481
2.864150943
7.811320755

normal m1:
0.68627451
1.605839416
3.821656051

Bar:
1.419310345
4.8234375
11.17668356

I've been elbow-deep in vCoH and close-to-vCoH stats since 2011; let me know if you need anything specific pulled via Corsix.

I doubt those values are correct, because a) Volks and Riflemen use different kinds of weapons - Volks use Kar98 and Stg44 (with special values for single shot) and Rifles use M1 Garands and Carbine for the leader and b) the veterancy for Rifles is a huge deal for Rifle combat in CoH. Vet 2 Rifles supress unvetted Volks after a short time.

Also the dps chart of certain weapons isn't useful because it's not taking into consideration that Riflemen have more squad members/less health per man.

There have been calculations that 6 Riflemen deal exactly the same damage as Volks on medium range before upgrades come into play (this is with a combat formula that takes ALL parameters into condideration - acc., rate of fire, damage, amount of weapons, squad health and reloading times).

However, what seems to be correct is that the buffed MP40 deals ridiculous amounts of damage and can take on BAR rifles for sure. This was proven numerous times and is a reason why Volksspam is pretty broken in vcoh.

But apart from that I doubt these values are accurate.

example: it's impossible that Grenadier rifles deal only slightly more damage than Volks, Grens use Rifles that deal 15 damage per shot with 0.4/0.55/0.75 accuracy. Stormtroopers even use 15 dmg over 0.45/0.6/0.85 acc. (or something like that).

So their DPS per grenadier HAS to be higher than the numbers shown, because the cooldown/reload modifiers are the same as Volks. Volks can deal up tp 50 dmg per salvo with 35% acc (50x.35 = 17.5/avg or 3.5 per man). Grens deal 60dmg per salvo with 40% acc (60x.4 = 24/avg or 6 per man), so roughly twice as much damage. Storms deal even more: 60x0.45 =27 dmg/ 6.75 per man)

Ofc you have to consider reload/cooldown time between shots, but since Kar98 are the same in cooldown (1.25/1/0.75 l/m/s and 0.75s + ~2.5s reload time every 5 shots) the DPS isn't affected at all. Also vet does not affect weapon performance, only rec. damage/accuracy.

Full changelog in the current steam version :

http://store.steampowered.com/app/317600/Company_of_Heroes_Eastern_Front/

(link to steam store/EF website is in my profile aswell. It's free btw):

Bugfixes

* fixed KV 1 hull mg dealing damage to Ostheer tanks (target_tables were missing for some reason for Panzer III and some other tanks on that weapon)
* fixed missing target tables on KV 2 and Elefant
* Fixed a bug Quad now does penetration vs airplanes (vs P47 thunderbolt penetration from 0 to 0.1x and Henschel)
* 57mm atg damage vs jeep increased from 0.5x to 1x
* Fixed a bug with HQ entities increasing accuracy increment, these entities are now neutral
* Fixed a bug with halftrack not being able to use 50 cal while upgrading Quad (increased slots from 1 to 2)
* Snipers no longer automatically target light vehicles
* Fixed bug with satchel charge: can now throw everywhere
* M10 misfire bug fixed
* Puma friendly fire fixed
* Mortars no longer deal double suppression to friendly units at AoE short
* Fixed a bug with Wehr Halftrack not applying veterancy on certain hardpoints
* Fixed an issue with Croc having an extra 30s buildtime (to 0s)
* Fixed a mini bug with the Croc's max range
* Repair pioneer are now targetable again (bug in steam version)
* Fixed an issue with Medics sometimes not spawning (when multiple bunkers were upgraded)
* Fixed several minor bugs with off map mortar barrage

General changes:
* Snipers now have negative zeal (radius 20, received accuracy 1.5x)
* Snipers camouflage reveal radius from 1 to 3; Stormtroopers: 4
* Snipers aim time from 0.3-0.5 to 0.3s
* Snipers general accuracy to 0.9/0.7, increases with veterancy 2 and 3
* Snipers can only camouflage in cover without veterancy
* Sniper cost to 280mp
* snipers can move in cover while being camouflaged now
* snipers with active camouflage will move cloaked in cover at normal speed
* M1 garands (rifle and ranger), M1 carbines, Kar98k's (volk and storm) type weapons accuracy vs sniper from 0.75x to 0.85x;
* increased moving acc for M3 Grease gun, Pioneer Mp40 and Sturmpio Mp41 to 40% from 30%, applied burst modifier to weapons (more reliable on the charge)
* Flamethrowers act more reliably now: their overall damage is lower, but the damage is applied 2 times per second instead of only once. (This leads to higher lethality against low health squads or units in cover)
* Paks, Nebels and ATG's now get a 1.25x speed bonus on negative cover (from 1x for atg's and 1.75x for nebel)
* Grenades can now harm their shooters (friendly fire)
* Grenades minimum throwing range removed
* Medics search radius increased from 150 to 175
* Repair ability received damage lowered from 3x to 2.25x; Wire Scuttling total received dps from 6x to 2.25x

Soviets:

* increased SU 85/SU 100 weapon range to 47.5m from 45m
* increased SU 76 penetration by 10% on long range, increased accuracy from 0.6 to 0.9, increased overall range to 60 (from 55)
* Street Combat requires 2 cp now (3 total) from 2 cp total
* KV 2 call in cp cost decreased to 5 cp (from 6)
* lowered Artillery Spotter cost to 170mp (from 210), lowered training time to 25s (from 35s)

Ostheer:

* Priority Defense now adds 0.1 health regeneration (66% of axis medikit) to infantry, supression resistance of 50% and max health + 25% to units in the affected sector
* Counter Assault increases weapon damage by 50% now instead of increasing burst duration by 30%
* removed Grenade from Fusiliers, added upgrade for Granatbüchse39 upgrade option
* tweaked Halftrack MG151, overall more reliable damage on close and medium range


Panzer Elite
* Increased Ketten HP by 20 (145 -> 165)
* Ketten captures at 2.00 now (from 1.00)
* Flak 88 crew consists of 4 men now

US:

Doctrinal
* Bombing Run bomb damage spreads out on a larger area now (9m->12m)
* 5 inch rockets damage vs Stug and Marder III from 1x to 2x
* 5 inch rockets angle scatter from 5 to 3
* Airborne ATG reinforce cost from 85 to 45
* Airborne Soldiers use a special M1 Carbine now, deals 10 damage with 0.4/0.6/0.8 accuracy (the default Carbine deals 7 damage with 0.3/0.55/0.75 accuracy)
* Recoilles rifles damage vs STUG skirts from 0.8775 to 0.75
* Fire up exhaustion now lasts 7s from 10
* Rangers veterancy requirements to 8/16/32 from 12/24/44
* Rangers now have Ranger M1 Garand Rifle, instead of standard M1 Garand Rifle
* Bazooka medium range accuracy from 0.6x to 0.75x, long range to 0.4x instead of 0.35x
* Rangers no longer start with Bazookas
* Ranger M1 Garand damage to 12 (from 15)
* Ranger M1 Carbine damage to 10 (from 12)
* Ranger reinforcement cost to 48mp (from 44)
* Rangers get +15% weapon penetration with vet 1
* Rangers can upgrade to 2x Bazooka (40 ammo)
* Rangers can upgrade to 3x m1 Thompson submachine gun (60 ammo, can be equipped twice)
* Rangers can either upgrade to 3x m1 Thompson, 2x Bazookas, 3x m1 Thompson + Bazookas or 2x3 m1 thompson
* Bazooka scatter reduced to 12 from 20, tweaked some other stats to make it more reliable
* increased Bazooka damage to 90 (from 75)

* Off map combat group: 30 cal and Mortar removed in group 2 and added in group 4 (small chance), Halftrack Quad added in group 2 and 3
* Pershing HVAP upgrade no longer gives AoE penalties
* Pershing upkeep cost reduced from 27.648 to 21.6
* Raid capture rate from 1 to 1.5, Capture distance from 5 to 10
* Allied Crew Healing ability now heals 10hp/sec over 30secs instead of 15hp/sec over 20secs


Tier0
* Demo Charge research time from 60s to 45s
* American Observation post build time set from 50s to 30s
* Rax, WSC, MG nest and starting resources -5 fuel
* FHQ now act as an 'or' requirement to build Supply yard

Tier1
* Jeep 30 cal accuracy from 0.25/0.4/0.55 to 0.3/0.45/0.6
* Jeep 30 cal accuracy increment from 0.975x to 1.02x
* Jeep 30 cal priority vs Snipers increased to 100
* Jeep 30 cal max reload from 6s to 6.5s
* M1 Carbine accuracy long range from 0.25x to 0.35x (Rifles leader, weaponcrews and Airborne)

Tier2
* Mortar and HMG squad reinforce cost from 0.5x to 0.3x, reinforce time 0.75x
* Hmg cost to 180mp (from 240mp)
* Mortar cost to 250mp (from 280mp)
* Mortar squad veterancy requirements from 8/16/32 to 8/14/26
* Mortar damage vs airborne armor from 1x to 2x, accuracy vs airborne to 1x (from 0.75x)
* Mortar damage vs garrisoned units from 0.75x to 1x
* Mortar free fire (not barrage) cooldown reduced from 8-6s to 4-3s
* Springfield sniper rifle reload increased to 6 from 3
* American Sniper upkeep cost from 9.6 to 12

Tier3
* M8 37mm damage vs Marder III (Geschutzwagen) from 2x to 1.5x
* M8 damage vs Flak88 from 0.5x to 1x
* M8 37mm damage vs Puma from 1x to 1.2x
* M8 37mm accuracy long range from 0.75x to 0.85x
* T17 37mm gun is now similar to the Greyhounds
* T17 can now upgrade 50 cal
* T17 HP increased from 265 to 360
* T17 vet 3: accuracy bonus from 1.15x to 1.3x, Vet 1 and vet 2 bonuses switched, Vet 1 now also offers 1.25x max speed bonus
* M3 Halftrack fuel cost dropped from 25 to 20
* Quad suppression increased from 0.002/0.003/0.004 to 0.003/0.005/0.007
* Quad damage increased from 5 to 7
* Quad reload from 12-10 to 9-8
* Quad cooldown from 4-2 to 3.2-2.8
* Quad burst duration from 3.5-2.5 to 3-2
* Quad penetration vs halftrack from 0.2x to 0.1x
* Quad penetration vs Puma from 0.02x to 0.04x
* 57mm atg build time from 67s to 50s
* 57mm atg tracking speed from 18 to 25
* 57mm atg vet 1: bonus 0.9x received accuracy; vet 2: bonus 0.9x received damage
* AP shells duration from 10s to 11s
* AP shell extra modifier: accuracy 1.1x

Tier4
* M2HB 50 cal upgrade cost reduced from 75 to 50 munitions
* Sherman 76mm reload reduced from 7s to 6s
* Sherman Smoke research cost lower from 150mp25fuel to 75mp25fuel
* Sherman Smoke use munitions cost lowered from 50 to 10, recharge time doubled
* Sherman Smoke now applies to the Croc Sherman aswell
* Sherman Crocodile ready aim time lowered from 1.5 to 0.1s
* M4 Croc veterancy requirements increased from 8/16/32 to 12/24/36
* Sherman crab mine flail and bulldozer cost reduced from 75muni to 50muni, 30s to 20s
* Sherman crab mine flail and bulldozer activate speed modifier from 0.5x to 0.6x
* Hellcat and M10 health increased from 400 to 450
* Hellcat vision range reduced from 46m to 35m
* Hellcat and M10 76mm's accuracy vs Stug => 1x (from 0.85)
* Hellcat penetration increased to 0.92/0.96/1
* Hellcat damage from 112.5 to 90
* Hellcat deflection damage from 0.2x to 0.25x
* Hellcat camouflage tweaked to get easier revealed

Supply Yard:
* Level 2 upgrade research duration from 90s to 60s, lowered fuel cost to 100 (from 140)

WM:

Doctrinal
* FtFl Received Damage modifier increased from 0.7x to 0.75x
* FtFl Cooldown increased to 45s (from 30s)
* Fortify the perimeter extra bunker health from 300 to 200
* Flak 88 accuracy vs ATG reduced from 1x to 0.75x
* Flak 88 accuracy vs Greyhound to 0.9x from 0.73x
* Flak 88 damage vs halfrack from 1.5x to 1.35x
* Flak 88 damage vs buildings reduced from 1x to 0.6x
* Flak 88 health increased from 325 to 375
* Flak 88 crew consists of 4 men now
* 280mm Rocket Barrage cost reduced from 200 to 180 munitions
* 280mm Rocket barrage AoE medium distance from 3 to 3.5
* Stuh 105mm gun damage vs buildings from 1.5x to 1.25x, vs checkpoint from 2x to 1.25x
* Stuh 105mm reload from 8-7s to 8-8s
* Stuh 105mm AoE short from 1.5 to 1.25, AoE medium damage from 0.7 to 0.5
* Stuh 105mm projectile: speed from 20 to 30
* Blitzkrieg munitions cost from 125 to 100
* Firestorm DoT frequency from 1 to 0.5
* King Tiger tracking speed increased from 15 to 18
* Inspired Assault now properly applies to MG and mortar teams
* Inspired Assault Received Accuracy penalty lowered from 1.5x to 1.25x
* V1 accuracy vs garrison cover increased from 0.1x to 0.25x
* V1 damage vs Flak 88 from 0.25x to 1x

Tier0

* Pioneer antispam removed
* Wehr Observation post build time set from 30s to 20s
* Repair pioneer now costs upkeep (same as medic)
* Repair bunkers hard capped at 5 (same as medic bunker)
* Moved Officer/Luftwaffe Officer to HQ
* Officer barrage ability range increased to 50 from 45, cost 125mu from 150mu, requirement lowered from Phase 4 to phase 3
* Luger has old crit values back
* Officer build time from 25s to 20s

Tier1
* Wehrmacht quarters cost from 220 to 200
* Volks reinforce cost from 22 to 28mp
* Volks leader health increased to 65HP from 60HP
* MG42 squad cost from 250 to 260mp
* MG42 hp per man from 55 to 60
* MG42 reinforce cost to 26mp (modifier set from 0.5x to 0.3x), Reinforce time 0.75x
* MP40 accuracy to 0.1/0.25/0.75 (from 0.1/0.45/0.75). Volks are defensive units, not assault infantry
* Schwimmwagen build time from 40s to 36s
* Motorcycle MG42 vs damage and accuracy vs heavy cover from 0.4x to 0.5x, accuracy vs light cover from 0.4x to 0.5x
* Motorcycle MG42 priority vs Snipers increased to 100
* Motorcycle MG42 accuracy increment from 0.975 to 1.02
* Wehr Sniper sight range nerfed to 35 (from 40: standard to all units)

Tier2
* Grenadier grenade AoE medium from 1.5 to 1.75, accuracy medium from 1x to 1.15x
* Panzerfaust damage vs Sherman, M10, Greyhound, Pershing from 1.25x to 1.4x
* Pak damage increased from 115 to 125
* Pak damage from cloak shot from 1.25x to 1.15x
* Pak accuracy from cloak shot from 1.5x to 1.75x
* Pak damage vs halftrack lowered from 1.5x to 1.35x
* Pak accuracy vs Greyhound and Halftrack armor from 1x to 1.1x
* Pak accuracy vs M10 from 0.93x to 1x
* Pak build time from 43 to 30s
* Wehr Mortar team HP per man increased from 55 to 60
* Wehr Mortar team reinforce cost modifier from 0.5x to 0.3x, reinforce time 0.75x
* Mortar pack up time (Teardown) reduced from 2.8 to 2.3s
* Mortar set up time reduced from 2.4 to 2s
* Mortar damage vs Heroic armor from 0.7x to 1.0x
* Mortar damage vs Garrisoned units from 0.75x to 1x
* Mortar max damage from 36 to 40
* Mortars free fire (not barrage) cooldown reduced from 8-6s to 4-3s

Tier3
* LMG 42 accuracy long range from 0.13x to 0.15x
* LMG 42 upgrade munitions cost from 75 to 60
* Flammenwerfer stats shuffled around for slightly more reliability.
* Puma 50mm (upgun) accuracy on the move from 0.5x to 0.75x
* Puma 50mm accuracy long from 0.75x to 0.8x
* 50mm puma damage (from 1x) vs Halftrack, Sherman, Pershing and Jeep 1.3x; vs Greyhound and M10 1.25x
* Puma 20mm reworked: burst effects removed, but more reliable
* Stug and Stuh population cap from 4 to 6
* Stug and Stuh health increased from 400 to 450
* Geschutzwagen 75mm damage vs M3 halftrack and Jeep from 0.75x to 1x
* Geschutzwagen deflection damage from 0.35 to 0.5
* Geschutzwagen medium range from 25 to 30
* Gwagen population cost from 8 to 5

Tier4
* Panzer Command build time from 165s to 150s, fuel from 50 to 45
* Stuka AoE accuracy increased to 0.75x at long (0.6x) and mid ranges (0.7x)
* Stuka Damage vs infantry from 0.25x to 0.3x, Penetration vs infantry increased from 1x to 1.1x
* MP44 accuracy at medium range from 0.3x to 0.35x
* KCH capping rate from 1 to 1.25
* KCH no longer require vet 1 for panzerfaust
* KCH now have standard stiel grenade instead of assault nades
* KCH (killed) experience points granted lowered from 4 to 3
* All US machine gun type weapons again have 0.85x accuracy vs Heroic armor
* Panzer IV and Ostwind acceleration from 1.2 to 1.5
* Panzer IV 75mm damage increased from 87.5 to 100
* Panzer IV 75mm damage vs jeep from 1x to 1.5x
* Ostwind 37mm accuracy buffed at long range from 0.35x to 0.6x
* Ostwind 37mm is now more reliable vs heavy cover types
* Ostwind cost from 410/40 to 380/40
* Ostwind health increased from 400 to 450
* Ostwind tracking 135 from 150, cooldowns 0.6s from 0.5s, projectile death timer 2s
* Panther cost to 640mp/140f (from 110f, original price from pre-OF)
* Panther 75mm damage from 137.5 to 150

KKC:
* Wehrmacht KKC limited to 1

Panzer Elite:

Faction redesigned, see this thread:
http://www.easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=12145.0

The reason why we only included "nativee" sounds for EF is that coh uses ALOT of language sound files, more than 1000 in total (unit answers, units answering through transmission when far away from the player with static, battlefield chatter, screaming etc.). This makes creation of sounds very hard.

Also, sounds have to be recorded professionally or else they'll sound weird.

We have a professional sound maker and voice actor on our team now.It took one month already to just create sounds for a single unit (the soviet major).

So you maybe get an impression on how hard it is.