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Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)8 Jul 2017, 11:56 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 11:45 AMVipper "Forward Assembly We have removed the Emplacement Garrison Aura from the Forward Assembly to reduce the effect of massing emplacements in a single area. In return, the Forward Assembly has been reduced in cost to allow the British to reinforce on the field. The building can also be upgraded to provide an alternative to healing. Cost reduced from 250MP to 150 - No longer awards garrison aura (the only way to get the garrison bonus is to have a squad garrisoned inside the emplacement) - Artillery flares range increased from 40 to 75 - FRP cost reduced from 200 to 100 - Activating FRP incurs a 33% resource penalty, and cannot be toggled on/off for 60 seconds - Can upgrade medics for 50MP/60MU - (Repair station disabled)" If one takes ostheer banker as base line this is wait more cost efficient. In addition the healing allows one to upgrade tommies with pyrotechnics giving UKF a very big sight range advantage and able to spam the dirty cheap artillery. The differences between the forward assembly and a Command Bunker in the mod are: - The Command Bunker is more durable (size footprint/HP) - The Command Bunker can still reinforce even when the territory is cut off - The Command Bunker is not the only way to obtain on-field reinforcements for OST; Forward Assembly is. - The Command Bunker is not necessary to obtain weapon upgrades on the field British artillery is still locked behind a global 80 seconds barrage. Not picking medkits means you cannot heal on the field, and you can also not heal while moving. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)8 Jul 2017, 10:41 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 10:09 AMChocoboknight88 As for the armour decrease on the 17 Pounder... Not a big fan of it or rather of how big the decrease is. This is a Sandbag fortified structure after all and yet all small arms with penetrate it now. Can't meet in the middle and give it an armour rating of 2, stopping 50 % of the damage? Just look at AT Guns that have passive Heavy Cover like the Ostheer Pak38 or the Soviet Zis-3. An Armour increase to 2 will bring it closer to that kind of durability. Ideally, the 17 pounder should have been a Pak43 clone. The Pak43 has an amazing design. You can flank it with infantry to decrew it and steal it. There's the ambush-behind building component. Then, there's also the vulnerability to indirect fire component. We're pragmatic, and we know that it will be impossible to convince Relic to let us redesign 17 pounder to a Pak43 clone. Therefore, we chose to make the 17 pounder more vulnerable to infantry this way. For all emplacements: - We first need to identify which units they are too vulnerable or too strong against - Once we do that, we will adjust stats as necessary, but not before we've had a global view of the issues For instance, if 17 pounder is perfect vs everything (not too weak, but not too strong either), but too weak vs small arms fire, we will reduce its target size first. That way, we don't penalise bolt action rifles too much. Basically, the attack types we are considering (and want to evaluate) are: - Bolt action rifles - Assault Rifles (at close range) - LMGs (at long range) - Flame Dot attacks (lava nade, mortarHT) - Flamer attacks - Balistic weapons from a distance (AT guns, tanks) - Basic indirect fire (OST mortar/LeiG) - Turbo-barrages (OST mortar barrage) - Heavy artillery (LeFH) - Rocket artillery Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 10:09 AMChocoboknight88 Now this does please me a lot. With this change being made, I will no longer feel the need to fight for longer range mortars. Thank you! Regarding Infiltration Commandos. Would you guys be able to add a "Greyed Out" button for the Demo Charges to explain how to unlock them eventually? I understand I may have... forced you to officially release the mod earlier than planned. Heh... ^^' The other trick is that you can now rely on 25 pounder barrage to actually do stuff offensively. A defensively-built mortar pit will help protect your forward assembly, while being able to cover your troops in the offensive with long-range smoke barrage from your mortar pit. The fact that you can upgrade medics at forward assembly means that you are no longer forced to have every single Tommy squad become medics. Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 10:34 AMcapiqua -I think it should be able to repair gliders, this change does not unbalance the game. And is a solution to avoid call-in another glider. The solution is there to allow players to call in replacement gliders. That way if your glider crashlanded and your officer died, you can still have access to that ability. While it's true that such a change wouldn't imbalance the game, the animations look silly. The Sapper models bunch up in the middle of the glider and it just looks bad. Maybe we can just give gliders a slow passive regen while they are in connected territory. Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 10:34 AMcapiqua This is excessive, in 2 minutes offers plenty of time to do other things while the sapper is busy for 2 minutes (plant mines, repair, attack, etc) Note that build time is per model. If you have 1 sapper model building an emplacement, it will take 2 minutes. However, if you have a full-man squad, it will take 30 seconds. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)8 Jul 2017, 09:19 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 04:23 AMTobis Why did you make brit trenches get a RA penalty after being abandoned instead of normalizing target size? High native RA would turn them into deathtraps vs AT guns, and there would be no reason to ever build trenches anymore (i.e., everybody would go for the sandbag-behind-flag thing). If you want a trench removed, you have to clear its occupants out first. Then, with the change you can use an AT gun to quickly remove it from the landscape. Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 04:32 AMEtherealDragon I get that Emplacements can make for some pretty frustrating gameplay but I don't know how you can realistically keep them alive with 5 second Brace. A flank with two Volks and two spaced out flame nades and goodbye emplacement - just eyeballing it this Brace nerf seems to over reward flanks even if emplacements are more affordable now. We didn't have the time to evaluate every single attack type vs emplacements. However, if there are special types of attacks that completely negate emplacements (e.g., lava nades), we'll just nerf lava nade damage vs emplacements. However, realistically, a flank with Grenadiers should be as rewarded as a flank with Volksgrenadiers. This means bringing small arms efficiency vs emplacements up and bringing lava nade efficiency vs emplacements down. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)8 Jul 2017, 01:43 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Jul 2017, 01:23 AMnigo Smith, Make a separate thread for brits, like wfa. How come? The reason we made a separate thread for WFA mostly was because EFA front post couldn't take it anymore (too long) In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)7 Jul 2017, 23:46 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Jul 2017, 23:42 PMZombiFrancis I would love to know how exactly you accomplished this. The Brace ability has so many weird nuances to it that all I could ever do is change the duration, but I also couldn't be sure if any of the effects of Brace actually being influenced. As in, the duration timer would work fine, but I couldn't tell if the actual effects of brace were still lasting 30 seconds or not. The damage reduction modifier is wrapped directly under self_start_actions. This means that when the ability terminates, the effect is gone. Thus, simply changing the duration will affect just what you are trying to achieve. You can grab the mod source files from here: https://github.com/xxpatch/consmod Jump back to quoted post7 Jul 2017, 23:42 PMZombiFrancis Brace decreased to 5 Seconds (Way too short IMO, Zeroing Artillery will decimate all emplacements and render them totally worthless. 10 - 15 seconds would be more reasonable). Now that you've found what we've been working on The 3rd ingredient to our emplacement changes is that you can use pack-up when things become too dangerous (e.g., oversaturation of rocket artillery in the field, etc). Then, you can set up a singular mortar pit with 1 mortar to use for smoke barrages and the occasional harassment. I don't think anybody is going to bother focusing-down on a 200MP mortar pit by that point in the game. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)7 Jul 2017, 23:33 PM EFA Revamp 2.0 OKW - Sturmpioneers return as OKW's starting unit - starting resources return to their original value Brits EDIT: We're aware that some text is missing from certain UKF abilities due to a bug. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)7 Jul 2017, 18:14 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Jul 2017, 17:26 PMChocoboknight88 Detecting a stealth change here. Were the OKW given back their Sturmpioneers as a starting unit? Yeah. We reverted that change yesterday. However, there was some miscommunication between Miragefla and I as to when the new version was to be released, hence we didn't post the notes. We wanted to see whether simply rebalancing the kubelwagen would be enough to prevent snowballing to Luchs. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)6 Jul 2017, 18:13 PM Current RE have 200MP cost and 25MP reinforcement, while being inferior to pioneers in both combat and utility. Original RE squads had 160MP cost, 20MP reinforcement, while their 5th men came at Vet2. Mod version REs are somewhere in the middle between the two extremes. + You cannot blitz to Vet3 with bazooka vet anymore In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Eastern Front Armies Revamp 4 Jul 2017, 16:52 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jul 2017, 16:12 PMMonkey_Man Will you be fixing the MG34/42 suppression modifier bug. When a MG (34/42) gets supressed if you do retreat it and let it crawl away and get unsupressed, it will still have the prefomence modifiers of a supressed MG. Then it will only fire one burst on 10s interpulses. On the MG42 this means being able to supress a one sqaud for 2-5s every 10s. Since the MG 34 is weak by comparison this means it won't be able to supress at all. This modifier will apply to the MG itself, meaning for the rest of the game the MG will be useless for both you and the enemy. Although we're aware of the suppression bug, we don't know of any way to implement a fix to it :/ This bug currently affects all teamweapons that are not affected by the deathloop. The only way to avoid it is setting up before suppression wears off and hitting the retreat button. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Unofficial Revamp mod (EFA & WFA & Brits)3 Jul 2017, 23:59 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2017, 23:18 PMAlphrum lol, when reversing the kubel fires very slow bursts (sometimes not at all) and does practicality 0 damage, kiting is ineffective with this unit, if u played OKW u'd know. ANd when i was talking about rear echelons i was not talking about close range engagements, i was refering to mid range combat with no cover Kubelwagen: - Moving burst from 0.1 to 0.75. Moving cooldown from 0.125 to 0.675 In: COH2 Gameplay