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Thread: [DBP] Tank Hunter feedback thread24 Nov 2017, 19:23 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 19:11 PMCrecer13 I think no, the B-4 is very inaccurate, if it were possible to add new abilities, I would prefer the BS-3 100-mm anti-tank gun or SU-100 The B4 also has a direct-fire ability which can one-shot medium tanks; if it ever works In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Tank Hunter feedback thread24 Nov 2017, 18:20 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 18:17 PMSiphon X. On a related note: Do you have the option to give the commander an existing ability that other commanders have and change that? Sort of to get around the "other commanders are out of scope" issue? Sure; we have that option. However, we don't want to add non-thematic stuff to commanders, just to be allowed to fix them. At some point we thought of giving the commander a B4 or something. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Lefh/ML20 one-shot problem suggestion24 Nov 2017, 18:15 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 17:43 PMZombiFrancis Brace. Just sayin'. That's kind of what separates British emplacements from any other faction's emplacements. If you do this, then any team that doesn't have two guys with offmaps will be doomed to be barraged by the howitzer all game long. Even if that weren't the case, by giving brace to howitzers you are decreasing the conversion ratio of MU (offmaps needed) to MP/FU (to level howitzers). Isn't there a reason why we couldn't achieve the same by directly affecting the: - Price threshold of off-maps required to level howitzers (e.g., in the patch from 120MU to 200MU) - Lowering the requirements of bottleneck resources (e.g., in the patch from 600MP to 400MP) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Tank Hunter feedback thread24 Nov 2017, 16:17 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 16:06 PMAustralian Magic AT Gun ambush seems like a waste. It is probably one of the least used abilities for soviets, even with small bonus for the first shot. I would like to see something else instead of this. There's no reason to keep abilities useless. How would you modify AT ambush to make it more attractive? There's 3 other commanders have dedicate one slot to that ability. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 14:51 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 14:40 PMFinndeed Wait so, you are replacing the bombing run with something else? sorry i thought you were adding a totally different ability I'm asking whether you suggest replacing the strafing run ability with something like the one indicated above. IL-2 bombing run is already a strong ability. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 14:27 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 14:24 PMFinndeed Well make it happen quickly, and be pretty accurate. I imagine this ability more as a very highly targeted rapid attack that is only really useful against infantry. Maybe to take out a team weapon, or deny a lost team weapon to hostile capture. And i dont know what the Modern Warfare strafe is. I was thinking specifically of the one on the Brit centaur, where you can make it as big or small as you like. So, something that covers the IL-2 precision bombing area, but with one plane strafing, and the airplane making a quick pass (but with a delay, to avoid cheesy edge-map attacks) that can potentially wipe team weapons, if not dodged properly. Something like the CAS commander AT strafe, for say 125-ish muni? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 13:27 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 13:18 PMFinndeed Could you change the strafing run to be somewhat like the vet one ability for the Centaur? Where you draw a line on the map and the run attacks that part? You mean fix Modern Warfare strafe (which does that, when it doesn't bug out), and replace the skillplane loiter with the strafe? The thing is, that the IL-2 bombing run is great (howitzers, bases and even tanks/infantry if used really well), and this strafing run should give people a reason to pick it over IL- bombing run. Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 01:30 AMsherlock Hit the dirt in it's new form seems to me to be more restrictive since the only way to use it effectively seems to be to use it in cover (which requires the presence of cover) so that it stacks with other cover bonuses. For the stacked cover bonuses the trade-off is however immobility, the initial inability to break the state and less dps. It's more powerful than before though. Old hit the dirt gave 0 benefits when used either in-cover or out-of-cover (due to bugs). Now you also have the option of holding out MUCH longer in a green-cover vs green-cover fight. The question though, is if hit the dirt & ppsh is good enough to pick this commander over, say, AT gun ambush & recon (which would give you the other combined arms commander). Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 01:30 AMsherlock I still think there might be a problem with too many projectiles missing but it seems I was a bit unlucky in the initial games because cover seems to strongly influence the performance. I still think the ability is weak for its cost. I think that's because accuracy is set to 1. This means projectiles start to miss (especially in craters), and the ambient area matters. The AT strafe skillplane ability from OST also has accuracy set to 1, but it practically never misses vs tanks (conversely, USF/UKF rocket planes have accuracy set to 0, which is why they don't fire heat-seeking rockets). If we keep skillplane loiter as is, we'd probably bump up its accuracy by a lot and, if necessary, reduce damage. That way it can produce consistent results. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Lefh/ML20 one-shot problem suggestion24 Nov 2017, 12:38 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 10:39 AMkitekaze According to your logic, with 200 MU strike, we should be able to destroy king tiger in one shot or blow away enemy's HQ? Those thing when killed can be rebuilt or recruited again after all. The one shots option is cancerous. No skill required, no counter allowed, one click, gone, easy as pie. Once, I had a match with friends on custom game. My wehrmacht mate dropped SDB every times he spotted enemy's howitzer. Poor enemy can't do anything but watch his howitzer gone within minute after built. If you want to stop howitzer from being too hard to be killed, reduce their range. If you want player to micro to protect their arillery, add an mini-brace ability that cost munition and work only against commander ability. Make a unit and then make an ability to render that unit useless is not how to balance the game. In the vast majority of 4v4 maps it is practically infeasible to reach and destroy a howitzer. Thus, having abilities that act as fail-safes for that is a good design. Adding brace-like abilities, or removing this OHK feature could lead to cancerous plays. For instance, Mortar Pit sim city is cancerous because it doesen't die early enough. However, howitzers make short work of it. Thus, there are some balancing checks there. However, if howitzers themselves become unkillable, why not build 1-2 of them EVERY SINGLE GAME? The changes in off-map abilities mean that no ability below 200MU can insta-gib howitzers anymore. Furthermore, changes to howitzers means that when the howitzer dies, it's no longer 600MP (hard to replace) down the drain. So yes; the first time you build a howitzer, expect it to get blown up like before. Follow-up howitzers will start putting a strain in your opponents' munition reserve and should be able to survive for longer. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ask the Strategist!24 Nov 2017, 12:33 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Nov 2017, 23:17 PMBrick Top I have a question about using artillery (Howitzers, mortars etc). Given that having some form of line of sight improves accuracy for arty units, does this only count from the moment you click bombard? Or do you need to retain vision for the entire bombardment if you want the accuracy to stay buffed? So if you use a fast recon, order a howie to bomb a mortar pit during the LoS, but then it goes back to fog of war, what will the resultant accuracy be? LOS calculation probably comes into play the moment the rocket is launched. If you have a panzerwerfer, all rockets launch at once. Thus, if you're really good you can benefit from a recon loiter. Katuysha's rockets, that take time to fire mean that some of the later rockets could end up having LOS penalties when fired. That doesn't matter much though since the enemy would have already cleared the area by then. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Differentiating between summer and winter23 Nov 2017, 20:40 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Nov 2017, 20:36 PMSneakEye Maybe off-topic, but it's about the same ability Do you know if it's possible the make the bushes visible at the same time that the tank is detected? It might be possible to use a target action with a range of 1 to disable and enable the camo? Otherwise, can you add a slotitem to indicate for the enemy if the tank uses 'tank ambush camouflage'? That's a great idea. I wanted to make the bushes visible when the tank is visible, but I didn't know how to. First I need to figure out how to make them invisible in the fog of war. Some people have been reporting that bug. In: Modding and Tools