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Thread: Commandos are too good!30 Oct 2020, 12:01 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Oct 2020, 10:56 AMKatitof Going by that, obers must end up with one of most overpowered EHP increases in game with their -29% received accuracy and Passive healing out of combat at vet3. You are completely right mate. Effective Hit-Points have been discussed to completely mislead discussions. It blows up numbers with a massive effect to higher proportions making units look as if they are OP while In fact, they're not. EHP is just another way of manipulating numbers and it is very also VERY misleading. It spins and turns around the truth. Nobody uses EHP in-game either in the heat of a moment. It's so misleading that anyone could even say that every tank has an EHP from their max HP to infinity. Actually, every unit can be made look OP by misleading numbers by throwing some arbitrary EHP changes to it. I'd prefer people avoiding misleading, spinning and manipulating numbers with nonsense maths just to somehow show that a unit is OP and needs nerfs. There's also the double standard of not using the same approach on units of a different faction for some reason. Any unit can be made looking to have OP stats if used some weird combo of their EHP EFD DPS ABM or TTK. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Commandos are too good!30 Oct 2020, 10:10 AM Vehicles eat the commandos. Once they retreat, that's a victory even if they are not wiped as they cost a lot to reinforce. Don't engage with infantry, engage with a P4, and roll them over. Dead, retreat, victory either way. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: any info about the last time someone was banned?27 Oct 2020, 13:12 PM You have to contact Sturmpanther https://www.coh2.org/user/6242/sturmpanther https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/246442/player-reporting-guidelines In: Lobby
Thread: OKW needs buff?27 Oct 2020, 12:13 PM note to self: edit is not reply. Accidentally pressed the wrong button. Sorry! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW needs buff?27 Oct 2020, 10:26 AM People arguing about vocabulary Game Dev here: The usage of the word hitbox in CoH2 is generally correct but purists will quarrel that it is wrong. The target size/received accuracy in CoH2 is rightful considered as a hitbox in layman terms but the keyword defines a different collision constraint. All the collision stuff all fall into the same English and Game Dev definition as hitbox, despite them not being a box per say, some think of it as spheres, some others as boxes, depending on game engine, entities, and definitions, but for everyday discussions, the term hitbox is generally good enough. /Offtopic. My intention is to help with information otherwise people will argue about engine schematics, drag things off-topic even further and make things even more convoluting for the sake of just being right, despite them being wrong. This should clarify things and close that subject. I personally don't think there's a requirement to write a thesis or to argue the choice of English words and to derail a thread over vocabulary. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Zis Barrage need longer cooldown26 Oct 2020, 14:28 PM It's only max 20 difference and it worth noting that SU76 will often have to fight against units with higher armour values, whereas StuG will face weaker armoured units. Penetration values alone will mean nothing. So overall StuG will penetrate more. It is the superior unit. A lot of people excel-stating seem to forget that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: State of heavy tanks.23 Oct 2020, 10:31 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Oct 2020, 10:13 AMHannibal If you want to criticize other users please quote them directly and don't use my posts as a vessel. Also plagiarism is something very different. And Vipper did not falsify his numbers (in a sense of exchanging or creating data), he used misleading ones which I find still not great but is different from active falsification that you imply. I agreed with your point, that is all. That's why I quoted you. Also, there is a fine line between misleading and falsification. If it falls under plagiarism differs from country to country, from culture to culture. In UK based publications, it all falls under that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: State of heavy tanks.23 Oct 2020, 09:59 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Oct 2020, 09:24 AMHannibal If your "economy of time" leads to potentially wrong results, you should not publish. Especially not without any note why they are flawed and how much it could effect the outcome. If you are "not interested how much better the new SU85" is, then don't state any numbers that imply it would be exactly X% better. Easy as that. Second: You completely switched your math now to support your view. Previously you calculated DPS as a function of "how long do I need to kill X". Now you calculate the chance to kill X with the least shots possible. PLUS, you solely take the OKW P4 because you know that the lower pen will affect the old version the most. And last point (which is okayish but also should be noted): you calc everything for range 60 which also favors the new version. I agree with you. I find it highly controversial to falsify values in order to fudge the perspective. I would prefer if people stopped sharing the wrong knowledge with the intention of misleading. It is fabrication and falsification, and very biased. In serious research publications, it is considered plagiarism and seen as major scientific misconduct. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why Soviets are OP14 Oct 2020, 14:48 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Oct 2020, 14:22 PMthedarkarmadillo I actually saw one yesterday used pretty well! One soviet went T70 and the other su76. Bugger was vet 3 by the time we brought it down. Barrages for days. Obviously a one off isn't testament but it was neat seeing it and playing against it for a change. yeah, that's cool I'd rather have the units buffed so they see more play than homogenizing them with other units to balance them out on paper. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: A reminder among the BS "balance" threads14 Oct 2020, 11:06 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Oct 2020, 10:17 AMProtos Angelus Initially: What you have just said xD How the game changed throughout the years (positive thing) and how axis/ally fanboys try to force away some changes (trending 7th conscript, panther buff, major buff, falls nerf -> all of which are not needed -> negative) I consider the cookie-cutting BS of "...getting more in line with..." to be the biggest BS that happened to this game with the community patches. The homogenization has pretty much killed the need to explore new options as you HAVE to play certain builds to be effective. I'm actually very glad that the community team is taking decisive, ambitious changes with a blanket approach to considerable changes than sticking to nitpicking and excel stat sheets investigations. It is very risky but it pays off very well. The game has never been more balanced and fun than before. Of course some things won't work out, but they managed to fix them very quickly. In: Lobby