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Thread: A single change that could fix a lot of problems17 May 2016, 18:22 PM That's something I would definitely like to see. Even if it takes until CoH3 Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 18:06 PMObersoldat I remember when Relic patched "Blitz" from 120% to 10% instead of 110%. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: [May Patch] Remove the self spotting ability from the SU8517 May 2016, 18:16 PM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 18:06 PMelchino7 I'll rather have they fix it, specially if OKW is gonna get reliable stock suppression. (This is real maphack). This exact thing has been circling in my head for a while now. Swap Infrared HT with doctrinal MG42 for Fortifications/Luftwaffe. Problem solved. Both doctrines allowed MG34 (doc) + IR HT anyway (non-doc). Now it will actually give people a reason to still pick these doctrines. Only problem is that you now get early access to both Stuka & IR HT. Oh well... In: Lobby
Thread: How do you use Tommies? (request for replays)17 May 2016, 18:10 PM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 13:46 PMRollo I don't really build emplacements 2-3 sections is the soft spot for me depending on the map, I never have more than three for sure as the upkeep and squad costs just kill you. It's not just the squad upkeep but also the investment in upgrades to keep them relevant 450mp+fuel for grenades/brens/5man on top of four 280 squads will just leave you with no resources to adapt to anything like double 222 or luch. You want to be aggressive? then mix in some light vehicles and a sniper, vickers is also pretty good on offense with its DPS. Tommy spam does not offer much and is not the answer imo In general though tommies and trenches are still pretty important, see replay related for the importance of the latter that allowed me to hold my territory and win engagements early game https://www.coh2.org/replay/52849/rollo-vs-hoi I watched it, and it was interesting! However, apart from their trench-building utility, it didn't seem that this matchup ever allowed you to use Tommies anywhere close to the potential implied by their price-tag. In that game, having any less or any more than 2 Tommies would have led to the disaster (either not enough trench-building presence, or too many units being inept in the mid-late game). Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 14:58 PMDon'tKnow I will upload one later. Mortar pits and snipers are essential for a heavy tommy build.There is no way around them,also a croc after your first comet can turn the tide if used well.Else you are too unflexible and your tactic can easily be exploited. You will need to adapt at some point. I would be very keen on seeing this one! Having at least one sniper seems like a necessity for an aggressive build, no matter what. Getting 2 or more Snipers would make me question what you need Tommies for, in the first place. It seems is very difficult to make aggressive moves with mainline infantry without any form of fire support. Doubly so with Tommies who lack decent garrison clearing / DPS-on-the-move. The best workaround I have found so far is use the UC as a platform for grenade-totting Tommies. The problem with Brits is that if you need early indirect fire, you are locked into a Mortar Pit. My preconception about emplacement play is that the Mortar Pit synergises better with emplacement spam than it would ever do with Tommies (thus, lulling you into static playing). However, I would love to be proven wrong! In: UKF Strategies
Thread: Give US Snipers!17 May 2016, 12:56 PM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 12:43 PMdasheepeh reinforcement cost for echelons is 25 though I know! That's why I mentioned that reinstating pre-nerf RE's (was it 16MP per model?) might give USF another avenue. (provided we are careful about which guns the REs have access to, and how many!). This could be one way of weakening OST sniper dominance vs USF without adding more snipers to the game! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Give US Snipers!17 May 2016, 12:32 PM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 12:20 PMdasheepeh how exactly do you maintain map control when youre loosing every engagement?? You are right; you won't be able to hold on to anything if you lose every engagement. However, what I meant was that the sniper will eventually push your squads off from every engagement he is present. The sniper, however, is expensive, and your squads are dirt-cheap to reinforce (wasn't RE reinforcement cost 16MP or something?). The sniper(s) can't be present everywhere; thus, while you retreat one squad, 3 other squads are busy capping the other side of the map. (pre-nerf) RE spam is not going to solve your problem outright. But it's going to postpone/mitigate it until you decide it is time to deploy the real counter. However, we don't have to go to the way-back machine to see how this pans out. Has anybody ever found UKF sniper-spam effective vs Osttruppen spam (even when no OST sniper is present)? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Give US Snipers!17 May 2016, 11:48 AM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 11:16 AMFul4n0 yep, problem here being that WFA factions haven´t snipers, so counter-snipe is not an option for them. And furthermore, fuck rock-paper-sccissor thing for USF as they only have m20 (it has been proven is not a good counter to snipers) And....cheap Rear echelons (nerfed with one slot for sweepers) are your proposal for USF???? wasn´t RE costs increased because the became really spammables and effective in the late game once racks have been teched? we are going to go back to some months ago with RE and racks because you don´t want to give snipers to WFA Factions??? doesn´t seem too clever, but fuck, I am a noob and you are a pro. BTW, I didn´t remeber cheap RE a good sniper counter in the past......so, no sniper, cheap RE with verrry low DPS and teching for M20 (that it has been proved as a fail sniper counter tool) is your proposal for USF to figth snipers units? The idea is that by using REs you will minimize your bleed. Thus, you will make a very expensive MP unit ineffective against your composition. Sure, you will never manage to kill the sniper; sure, the sniper will remain annoying. Sure, you might lose most confrontations because of that, but you will eventually win the war (because of lower MP bleed/better map control) -- and the enemy won't know if you also plan on fielding an m20 or not; that's the importance of having multiple options. There are many ways to counter something in this game. From strongest to weakest: 1) 1-shot wipes, no chance of escape: AVRE, Sturmtiger, Tulips vs OST T3/Pak43/garrisons, Stuka Bomb vs Howitzers 2) Have the odds in your favour in an even fight: E.g., AEC vs Luchs, etc 3) Be strong enough to scare something away: All AT guns vs lights, Heavy TDs vs slow-moving Churchills. 4) Make an expensive unit ineffective by presenting low-value targets: Osttruppen/Soviet weapon teams vs snipers. Yes, weapon racks are an issue. However, what if we made REs only able to pick up one weapon instead of dual-weapons? Or what if we gave RE's inferior versions of the weapons they pick? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Give US Snipers!17 May 2016, 10:59 AM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 10:36 AMFul4n0 you don´t like snipers wars, OK, its fine, but that doesn´t imply there is something wrong with them.... and about your "solution proposal", adding Ostruppen for any and all faction is better than giving snipers to any and all factions? Make snipers counters work as expetected or give WFA factions a sniper, imho a better solution and it will impact less on overall balance than adding new squads to 5 factions and them balance those cheaper squads againts all and any unit in game.... Sniper wars can remain an option. However it should not remain the ONLY option for some factions. This completely beats the paper-rock-scissors aspect of the game, and makes it boring/predictable. Ask yourself. Would it make the game more interesting if the only counter to Emplacement spam were Mortar spam (and vice-versa)? Or would it make the game feel terribly lame/abusive? For instance, if you field a sniper as OST vs UKF, you KNOW they will have to field a sniper back; otherwise there is literally no counter to the OST sniper. Knowing that there is no other way, you can immediately queue up a 222. Now, I didn't say "any and all faction". I said "more factions". You only have to address factions that have issues vs snipers (or whose counter is another sniper): - USF could get get their low-MP Rear Echelon squads back (and maybe do something about weapon slots; e.g., minesweeper takes up a slot, like AeroHank has been suggesting). - UKF could have sniper detection on their AEC. UC is the worst sniper hunter in the entire franchise. - OKW could get smoke on their MedHQ. Or they could get stealth detection on Luchs, so that Vet1 Puma (or infiltration cheese) is not the only sniper counter available. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Give US Snipers!17 May 2016, 10:15 AM If a factions' only counter to a sniper is fielding their own sniper, then you know that game design must have taken a wrong turn, somewhere. Yes, watching sniper-vs-sniper play, camouflaging each other out for minutes might be OK to watch in an ESL cast. However, it doesn't seem very healthy/interesting to play as, in the long run (IMO, even CoH2 emplacement spam is more interesting than vCoH sniper spam). The best option would be to make snipers feel a little less godlike: - Sniper received accuracy - Give a combat cooldown before snipers can recloak (currently you only get cooldown when firing from stealth) - Give a speed debuff for cloaking (doesn't have to be 50%, but infantry has to be able to catch up) Another option would be to reinforce other routes of counter play: - Give more factions cheap non-scaling infantry that doesn't care about the MP bleed (like Ostruppen) - Decent, affordable scouting vehicles for all (like Kubelwagen, unlike UC) - Vision-obscuring abilities - Reducing the availability of AT to allow vehicle counter-play However, once you do that, make sure that the faction that relies entirely on snipers to get by (cough OST cough) actually has other options available against its enemies (cough USF cough). Otherwise, it is still going to be (nerfed)-sniper spam. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Royal Engineers are op17 May 2016, 09:48 AM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 09:15 AMNEVEC Maybe instead of reinforce they should receive something else? UKF Sappers kind of do get a -20% Received accuracy off the bat at Vet0. I am not 100% sure if compensation is really needed directly on the unit, here. However Tommies -might- need some help. Tommies only really synergise with the rest of the faction only if you have Mortar Pits (Trenches and healing could be moved to a different unit, and nobody would miss Tommies). However, Mortar Pits seem to synergise better with emplacement spam than Tommy support. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Non-meta doctrine fixes [UKF]17 May 2016, 08:05 AM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 00:42 AMSuperhet Smoke Raid Operation - Does this really need to come no sooner than 4 CPs? Vanguard has the same ability without any smoke, but it's cheaper and also lets vehicles capture points. And that ability comes at 1 CP. I think this ability should be reduced in CP cost. Yes, it hides your squads, but your enemy knows this because the smoke alerts him that they are hidden. This one is my FAVOURITE ability in the entire game (all factions/commanders etc). What the ability does is: For every unit you own that is in friendly territory, give them a buff that: 1) Gives them the ability to stealth ANYWHERE on the map 2) Allow the unit to decap faster The affected units retain both bonuses even if they move on enemy territory. The ability is best used offensively on units that can actually hold fire (i.e., Commandos, Snipers), when you want to pull off a nasty flank. (If a squad was not on friendly territory when you activated the ability, it doesn't receive either bonus). Otherwise, the only issue with this commander is that the only non-munition-costing ability is overpriced. Do as Svanh said, basically. Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 00:42 AMSuperhet Anti-Building Flame Mortar Support - I've never seen this ability do anything, not even sure if it works, and I think the concept sucks in the first place. Why should it only be able to target buildings? Make sure the ability actually works and then remove the building requirement. If it's too weak or too devastating (again, never seen it so don't know) then adjust its power. Currently, there is one and only single use for this ability. It's for 4v4 when your opponent is emplacement-spamming (bunkers, Pak43, caches), and is foolish enough to place many such emplacements next to each other (e.g., command & healing bunker next to a Pak43). One single application is good enough to destroy OST bunkers in one go. I would rather that this ability drop flames on all buildings, even ungarrisoned ones. Jump back to quoted post17 May 2016, 00:42 AMSuperhet Demolition Specialist "AVRE" - Why does the Sturmtiger come at 11 CPs but the AVRE which has both less range and more importantly much less one-shot ability of tanks come later than it at 12? especially considering that the AVRE is the main appeal of this commander. I would lower the CP cost to 11, maybe 10 unless that's too powerful. It does have to be noted that the AVRE will receive an indirect buff against tanks when the next patch hits, as the tulip rockets will immobilize them for it, so I think with that and the CP decrease this unit will be in a great spot where it's worth getting but not OP. AVRE is one of the best support-gun negaters in the game. If the AVRE comes any earlier than this, this will have an effect similar to an extremely-early KT vs USF (with no Jacksons); OST will simply have nothing to counter it with (yes, Stugs; but Stugs are nothing without support). With an early AVRE, the following can very-well become a very valid strat: - Royal Engineer spam - No T3 - Stall with Pak wall and/or PIATs and wait for AVRE The best counter to REng spam is support weapon spam. However, an early AVRE will throw that counter out of the window. Basically, this is going to be the CaptainSPrice UKF strat on steroids. I would say it's the Sturmtiger that needs some toning down, instead. In: Lobby