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Thread: FRP's in Fall Balance Patch3 Aug 2017, 17:24 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Aug 2017, 16:13 PMpigsoup is FRP in FBP more costly? yea, but only marginally id argue. i thought active resource penalty a good mid way between keeping FRP and getting rid of the cancerous feature that neither the gameplay nor maps can handle well. We couldn't get relic to accept the resource penalty idea. If you have any other ideas, we would love to try them out. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: P-47 Rocket Strike2 Aug 2017, 22:12 PM JU87 etc have 100% accuracy, which means the shots will always hit, regardless of an obstacle. Rocket-attack airplane have 0% accuracy which means that rockets will have their travel time & intermediate obstacles to work. Basically the best way to fix the ability is do the same thing Mirage did for the revamp mod; just make the rockets cluster together so that they, at least, don't miss immobile shit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: TDs vs mediums in Live and in numbers.2 Aug 2017, 19:02 PM Here's a thread where you can get the stats for time to kill that you get 50% of the time (also taking variance and scatter shots into account). There has to be something seriously wrong about your calculations if you get that SU76 has better DPS than an Elefant. https://www.coh2.org/topic/56469/tank-destroyer-time-to-kill-stats In: Lobby
Thread: FRP's in Fall Balance Patch2 Aug 2017, 14:37 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Jul 2017, 06:57 AMBrassatko I find canceling it should not have a timer because that makes it too risky to be useful. Increase the time to reinstate frp after it was cancelled might be better. That's the whole point of the change; adding an actual risk to using FRPs. Otherwise there is no trade-off; a 200-300MP fee is simply too laughably small for what FRPs allow you to save over time. To get the best out of FRPs in the balance patch: - Turn them on once - Never turn the FRP off, ever again - Don't ever blob infantry units around your FRP (e.g., by blob retreat); they have nowhere else to go - Don't hard-retreat to your FRP when the enemy is approaching; that's because you don't know how many there are The only reason why you would ever want to turn off your FRP is if your FRP has been overrun by enemy and retreating to there is a suicide. This is to prevent enemies from holding your FRP hostage to let it act as a death-trap for you. The cooldown on the FRP is purposely long enough, specifically to prevent you from toggling the retreat points. So leave them on, don't blob, and play wise to avoid the consequences ... or don't use FRPs. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Armor company vs Scavenge doctrine1 Aug 2017, 09:46 AM If you've watched your own replay, the best part was the resource float the other guy was having for the first 15 minutes; something between 500MP and 800MP >.> In: Replays
Thread: How to edit pathing in a tuning pack?31 Jul 2017, 20:13 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2017, 17:45 PMSneakEye I might have found something that sets the reverse move when using drag, sadly I can't clone this. Do you have have the permission to edit this in the FBP maybe? at least to test it? I can't edit it. However, I can ask our Relic overlords if they can privately test if it changes anything. That was damn fast; good job! In: Modding and Tools
Thread: How to make Infantry units auto-seek cover?31 Jul 2017, 19:46 PM If you manage to find out a solution to this, I would be interested to know. Who knows, maybe if it doesn't interfere with player control too much, we can even add it to the game. One of the things that made CoH1 look absolutely amazing imo, was infantry squads ducking in and out of craters like wildcats, when under fire. This made combat looks more.. alive. Contrast this with the completely stationary riflemen/volks squads, and you get what I mean. For the purposes of the live game, it would be cool if infantry models would hop about while out of cover, but they would stand still when hiding behind sandbags (so as not to interefere with player control). In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Creating ungarrisonable cover-based trenches31 Jul 2017, 19:43 PM This looks amazing. Good work! With respect to cover, how about making spawning invisible entities along the trench wall and making them provide omni-directional cover? In any case cover will be ignored if enemy units run up close enough, due to the point blank mechanic behaviour. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: FBP V1.1 UPDATE31 Jul 2017, 11:16 AM Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2017, 00:49 AMpigsoup well considering those heavy TDs are team game creatures, I think I can confidently say that Jackson is not useless in the live version of the game in 2v2+... no where near useless... A lot of the clans we've consulted have reassured us that Jackson is either completely useless (due to its fragility), or completely overshadowed by the Firefly, which has more durability and hits harder at the same time. The only reason those clans bring USF along is for Calliope, the ambulance and nothing else. Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2017, 00:49 AMpigsoup the problem of getting super hard countered by the ele and JT is a part of a greater problem of team games where JT and ELE just becomes the critical mass bomb i.e. both sides are at even power with a few tanks on each players' command and axis team getting ELE or JT will just swing the balance of armour power pendulum way over to the axis side. In which case 90% if the time, then the allies only option is to get enough AT and AI to hold off while getting katyusha, land mattress and calliope to wipe axis inf (those three units basically have the same problem where they are handle-able one to two at a time but becomes absolutely unmanageable once they hit critical mass). Note that along with HeavyTD meta, allied arty-wipe meta is also going down the drain to keep balance in check. Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2017, 00:49 AMpigsoup so i think 280 damage for super TDs are the right way to go to reduce the critical mass problem by making medium tanks able to withstand 1 more shot and its impact will be big - we've seen similar impact with stewie... but the quoted line is a poor reasoning to give jackson extra HP, let alone a new role. The primary reason Jackson is getting a makeover is 1v1. The only way somebody is going to build a jackson in 1v1 is when they want to concede defeat. USF currently lacks access to proper tanks that can chase and finish off enemy tanks. The sherman, while excellent at AI, lacks the speed and durability to fill this niche. Therefore, the Jackson is revamped to fill those shoes. The new design also fits USF's design as a mobile, aggressive faction. 4v4-wise, the new Jackson also gets a unique identity. Rather than being a budget-firefly, the Jackson gets a new identity that will let it be used in a different fashion from all other TDs in the game. Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2017, 11:04 AMDangerous-Cloth I am sensing a renewal of the penal syndrome here. This time however, it is in the form of the Jackson, that is getting put in the place that the terminator penals were put in before. You are correct in sensing a renewal of the Penal syndrome. However, if want to take a trip to the way-back machine, you will see that most complaints we got about Penals were completely off the mark/bullshit. E.g., one of the top complaints we had was how the PTRS upgrade would make Luchs a completely useless never-build unit, etc. If we only ever get feedback about the Jackson, of course you are only ever going to get Jackson changes. In: Lobby
Thread: How to edit pathing in a tuning pack?31 Jul 2017, 10:48 AM You can get the pathing plan we used from: https://github.com/xxpatch/sbpmod I don't understand exactly how pathing works, however I understand the following: - For every turn plan there are mutliple forward-moving paths and multiple backward-moving plans; each of the plans corresponds to a different contour (aka, radius from the center) - Most likely, when the game starts to create a plan it glues multiple of these segments together and you have pathing - Turn plans probably mostly affect right-click movement - I've no idea which turn-plan reverse-move uses, because it looks different - Ditto for drag-move So, basically all we did for pathing was: - Add some delay penalty for reverse-paths so that they are less likely to get picked (all turn-plans) - Changed anvil churchill and UC turn plan from tank_churchill to tank_i (churchill plan seemed unsalvageable) - For jeep-i and/or halftrack-i, we added some missing contours for forward motion, so that they match reverse-motion contours Due to the changes relic a year ago due to the reaction to the original pathing changes, drag-moving and group-moving, unfortunately, only use forward-motion. If anybody has any clue how to fix this, it would be sweet. In: Modding and Tools