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Thread: Current state of the IS-21 Mar 2021, 12:45 PM IS2 is pretty bad and not a challenge to face when its on the field. I barely see any opponents using it. Please make it a viable option again. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: elevation and weapons12 Feb 2021, 15:43 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Feb 2021, 15:42 PMVipper Nice work. Point is small arm do not have projectiles... No, point is, is that projectiles are not messing up the engine as you wrongfully claim. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: elevation and weapons12 Feb 2021, 15:25 PM It does fine because most solutions for that kind of game problem is O(n²) complexity ... In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: elevation and weapons12 Feb 2021, 15:17 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Feb 2021, 15:03 PMVipper 3) Small arm do not have projectiles because it would really mess up the engine to calculate the thousand of round fired in 4vs4 game. They can damage world objects PTRS destroying cover is prime example but that was done by the engine without a projectile being involved. Err, I call completely wrong on that one. Can you provide a reference on that or relevant experience? They are still most likely being done with casting rays, or the CoH1 target cell-based approach, or other solution from the essence engine sometime between 2006 and coh2 release. Projectiles or not, it is still a standard O(n²) complexity (as for as good any collision detection and response in older game engines) for the same in-game results, so what you say there is completely void of sense and logic. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: elevation and weapons12 Feb 2021, 09:46 AM Great tests. I like your methodological approach. You're right, there is something deeper. Aren't these rocks 3d models superseded on top of the map? This might make matters even weirder for the engine, as you suggest, they create obstructions. I'm curious if it is the same in a map with a height difference but no models in between units. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: elevation and weapons12 Feb 2021, 09:19 AM Flamers appear to ray cast their animation to the position of the 3D target perpendicularly to the ground normal vector cell that they are standing on, or somewhere in between from itself to target. With elevations it most likely results in the raycast hitting the ground locally due to the slope, but the engine still thinks it is hitting the target successfully due to the game's hit/miss rules and it is then broadcast over network. I'm generalising. It leads to some funky stuff in some places of maps, especially on places with negative slopes adjacent to high rise. There's likely some weird network client reproduction/synch stuff because one tells it is hitting the target, whereas the other says it is not hitting and the engine does not know which one to prioritise (but locally it works fine?). I would suggest it is more of a map bug than unit or network bug, but the mistake is probably on all sides. /source: game programmer assumption of how the engine works. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Suppression mechanic: How does it REALLY works ?8 Feb 2021, 15:16 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2021, 14:42 PMelchino7 UKF weapon crew, Obers Kar, Osttruppen and USF carbines (non RET), with only the first 2 having the property to suppress. The other 2 have suppression 0 but they still have some modifiers other than 0 on their profile. I'm glad that wasn't put across the board. I already thought back then that it was over the top suppression, and the Leigoktober fest (a month of suppressing LEig) showcased that. That was a horrible idea.. In: Lobby
Thread: Suppression mechanic: How does it REALLY works ?8 Feb 2021, 13:48 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Sep 2019, 18:39 PMelchino7 Indeed. This would be good to test how much incremental accuracy affects suppression against single targets but it does't explain how suppression to blobs/multiple targets actually works. Actually, the part that any weapon can suppress is something that was mentioned by Relic a few years ago in one of their streams when they were showing off the new factions of the Western Front Armies DLC. The example was done with Volks suppressing single targets of a Riflesquad without Volks using any ability or vet unlock. This particular gamedesign idea was dropped in subsequent versions of the game, but it left a longlasting impression that that any weapons inflict some suppression. There are probably still some left-overs of that somewhere in the code. In: Lobby
Thread: Soviet Assault Troops and Penal Battalion Rework1 Feb 2021, 16:14 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Feb 2021, 15:10 PMelchino7 Show me were i'm wrong. Flamers were always strong or even stronger, they had the drawback that they would randomly explode, even wiping your own squad. Which in some cases made them not worth the risk. Penals became oppressive after their rework patch. Flamer no longer randomly exlodes: around 18 Jun 2015 Rifle flamer removed: around 6 Apr 2016 Penal rework: around 16 Jun 2016 Having played the game for years at various levels, I can only confirm that this is exactly right. It also coincides with the time I started to get hate for playing with Penals and I switched to OST. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Smartie's commander reworks: USF24 Jan 2021, 17:31 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Jan 2021, 17:30 PMVipper If in your opinion AT PF are OP or AT ranger UP I suggest you start a thread about. What about instead of consistently deflecting you actually for once reply? You brought the subject up yourself, so please provide the data. In: COH2 Balance