Profile of Tiger Baron

Avatar Area

Offline Unknown SteamID unknown
Posts: 3145 | Subs: 2

General Information


Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - General Feedback16 Apr 2021, 06:59 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2021, 23:25 PMthedarkarmadillo You are completely missing the ease of use buffs its getting. Any tank can hull itself down. No support or anything. And they can turn it off rapidly if things get squiffy. The JP4 would OUTRANGE an, it's already a great TD. Almost all okw tanks get increased vision with vet, including bonus vision when stationary. All okw armour has a minimum of 230 armour making them some of the most durable tanks in the game BEFORE adding a damage reduction... I'm saying there's more to Consider than "hurr durr it'll be cooleo" I know crazy silly things like "faction design" and "will making an already great tank even better upset balance" Or "what if we combine all things everyone hates about emplacements, make em mobile and let them call in arty" A hulled down KT with spearhead over watching a VP with a JP4 that could in a few seconds fire at an elefant without risk return fire would be bad design Especially when you consider that the tank HASN'T given up its mobility-a press of a button and its mobile again, ready to blitz to safety if it needs to... I'm sayin it's a bad idea shoe honing in abilities that are not considered the repercussions of. A JP4 could set up shot and outrange a 17lb... Think man. Think! I think the problem is you're imagining the OKW hull down being just a copy paste of the Ost one. While in reality that ability doesn't exist for the OKW, only the animations do, so it's very likely that it's going to be balanced differently. Plus as I've already said in the Ost topic about it fixed gun vehicles like the StuG, Elefant, Stupa and for the OKW the JP4 should have some sort of cloak or something instead due to their limited gun traverse so it's entirely possible to adjust it to a vehicle specifically altho it already has a cloak ability with vet from what I remember. As far as the rest of your concerns about OP combination of abilities, you may feel free to test your theory with the All Units mod where you can hulldown OKW vehicles. I have as well as in the old CoH with the British and it wasn't something that was game breaking again simply because a static position is a great target for artillery. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - General Feedback15 Apr 2021, 21:45 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2021, 20:37 PMthedarkarmadillo That's fine and all, but turning a JP4 into longer range elefant is a bad idea There's currently a thread about how strong the hulled down Panther is, and that's without off map arty or HEAT shells that also increase AI damage. Then yuu consider the KT is an okw stock unit and you ould have a literal bunker. In the preview tanks no longer need infantry to hull down, and it's only a click to disengage so mobility won't be a huge issue as you can just creep forward with tanks that are already extremely durable... You're worried about a fixed gun vehicle being static? Do you know how much useful a hull downed Elefant is actually or have you used one? Because I have and it's only really useful on extremely choke points and even then it can get artied and flanked. The KT is also slow so if it's caught out of position with it's slow turret speed as well it's just dead, doesn't matter if hull downed or not. The only problem would be the Panther because of it's speed, but as the mod team have done with the delay, if it's again caught out of position and cannot retreat it's dead. So it's a risk and reward thing but I think you're overexaggerating it because you either don't have experience with it or are playing more on the Allied side and think it's going to be OP or something. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - OKW Feedback15 Apr 2021, 19:12 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2021, 18:42 PMFunPolice Some more ideas: Breakthrough Doctrine Assault Artillery ---> Assault Package This commander is the most picked in larger team games and has a similar issue to the ISU152 and Elefant commanders by combining a strong off map with a heavy TD. Removing this imo just makes sense to keep with that theme. The Assault Package fits thematically but could be really any ability that isn't a strong off map. Fortifications Doctrine Zeroing Artillery —-> Assault Artillery (rename) The possibly homeless Assault Artillery has proven to be a powerful off map and could be a possible replacement to the very difficult to use zeroing artillery. Requiring a constant line of sight makes zeroing artillery overall less effective. Grand Offensive Doctrine Tiger Tank ---> Renamed to Command Tiger Tank Simply rename the Tiger Tank to better represent what it actually is the commander loadout. Luftwaffe Ground Forces Would be interesting to see the T34 with the armored skirts from the All Units mod for Germany. Heavy Fortifications ---> Anti Air Defences. Contains Flak emplacements and Ostwind (2 CP). Heavy Fortifications doesn't fit well with this commander. Taking the Flaks and combining it with the Ostwind, which fits well in this commander, should overall be a more thematic and stronger bundle. Scavenge Doctrine Ostwind ---> Captured T-34-76 Thorough Scavenge ---> Buffed by being faster than normal salvage Infiltration Tactics ---> Sdkfz 221 Talked about this before so will mostly tldr it. The T-34-76 is the same as the soviet version but with the removal of ram and the ability to vet to 5. It would have the same timing as the ostwind and hetzer which would give this doctrine a very unique playstyle by having a medium tank that comes much sooner than the normal OKW medium. The buff to the scavenge would make it easier to pull off. You could also just the ability give a less punishing while being used. Finally the Infiltration Tactics doesn't fit well within the commander so replacing with the 221 gives an early vehicle that also can be converted to further boost income. Special Operations Radio Silence ---> Reworked to give all units cautious movement (enemies need to be closer to reveal) and a small speed boost out of combat. Cheap cost and quick cooldown. Radio Silence is a highly controversial ability still as it can either have a limited impact or be devastating. This rework tries to make it not so reliant on the player to be highly effective by overall letting troops get close before being revealed. Would be interesting the see the T34 with the armored skirts from the All Units mod for Germany. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - General Feedback15 Apr 2021, 19:10 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2021, 18:46 PMthedarkarmadillo Oh God no... Vetted hull downed 230 armour minimum tanks with HEAT or able to call in arty? I'm not sure what you are playing but mobility is the name of this game from my experience. If you're really staying in front of a bunch of static units instead of trying to flank or bombard them then there's something seriously wrong with the strategic genius behind the screen. Same went with the British in CoH that got their Fireflies with Hull down as well as the Cromwell Command Tank that buffed their reload. You don't stay in front of them, you either go around them or hit em with arty. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - General Feedback15 Apr 2021, 15:12 PM Actually since Elite Armor is mentioned, maybe combine the Panzer Commander with either the HEAT rounds or Crew Repairs so Hull Down can be added and it will also add something to Strategic Reserves as well? Call it something like Advanced Panzer package, makes sense for 2 somewhat tank oriented commanders. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback13 Apr 2021, 21:00 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2021, 18:10 PMAshmole I miss the universal 76 upgrades, the crocodile, and the mine flail. COH2 USF feels like an incomplete faction. Really baffled by the removal of the bulldozer sherman from reserve armor. It's a nice little damage sponge that maintains the mediocre AT capabilities of the regular sherman. Don't think it's OP at all especially with the cost requirements. Yep. Altho I would have preferred the 105 Sherman instead of the Croc, the Priest instead of the M2A1 105mm howitzer from Infantry Company, a 76mm Jumbo instead of the Pershing (more armor) and maybe the proper turret model for the 76mm upgrade for the Shermans. Oh and also the M1919A4 with the .50 cal animations from this game which were actually in the old CoH as well they just didn't use them for some reason instead of the M1917 Browning Machine Gun. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Hull Down Panther new best TD?13 Apr 2021, 15:21 PM Meanwhile the StuG, Stupa and Elefant are sitting in the corner crying because they're fixed gun vehicles and can't really make great use of hull down. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback13 Apr 2021, 06:31 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2021, 23:09 PMInterloper Again imagine if USF had units that had parity with Axis units. It would be righteous and the axis community would revolt. Give USF stock access to: 1. A tank like the Panther that can perform dives and zip away with blitz 2. Rocket artillery that allows it to perform alpha strikes and wipe support units or groups of vetted LMG grens 3. RE squads that with effective positioning force grens to retreat in early battles 4. Stock AT/antipersonnel mines 5. Ability to heal units from a buildable structure that does not require fuel 6. A sniper unit 7. A mortar that has somewhat of decent vet 1 ability like OST mortar. 8. The choice to specialize riflemen for either long-range combat or MED to close-range combat 9. An assault tank that shrugs off AT Gun rounds and anti-tank fire and whittles down the hp of crew-served teams and infantry units allowing LMG/BAR rifles to clean up ahead of a Sherman or Jackson in pushes. Just saying... It would be super nice if USF had the right tools to be flexible and adaptive against Axis fractions without being forced into picking the couple of USF commanders that augment the stock units to give them the ability to win in the late game. This will never happen as pointed out. That goes both ways. Just because your favorite faction was part of the WFA which were... weirdly designed doesn't make it right for them to be 1:1 with the EFA. Plus people are gonna cry that they're too symmetrical and that's somehow a bad thing. Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2021, 03:55 AMAshmole Sherman 105 as a base faction tank with Pershing in the armor Company and Scott to the captain building. This is my dream. Also wc151 in the recon support commander. My other dream that will not happen. I suggest you play the old CoH then, like me. I love having my Pershing and Calliope combo there. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - Ostheer Feedback13 Apr 2021, 06:28 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2021, 21:03 PMSander93 As far as I know the sandbags profile is unique to the vehicle's hull and shape and you can't just add it to any vehicle without looking odd. The KV-1 just happened to have one of those profiles collecting dust in the files, made by Relic devs at some point but never used. All/most OKW vehicles have one too. Yeah that's why I suggested hull down as an ability for the Fortifications doctrine for OKW. But I didn't know about the KV1 since I basically almost never play Soviets or even if I did I go for the IS-2 exclusively. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - Ostheer Feedback12 Apr 2021, 19:43 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Apr 2021, 17:31 PMgeneral_gawain KW-1 has it with Vet1, it grants damage reduction and RoF. Wait they added the same hull down for Ost for the KV1 only as a vet 1 ability or something? Since when and with what animations exactly? In: COH2 Balance