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Thread: Bofors11 May 2016, 16:48 PM Brit emplacements being decrewed would go against the faction design. German factions aren't focused around emplacements. You would need to give them support units equally as good as Ost then and we'd end up with more carbon copy factions. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: (May Preview Mod) Penal Batalion10 May 2016, 22:18 PM The only way a nerf to penals works, is if they make T1 not trash. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Bofors7 May 2016, 23:22 PM Its possible to remove it. Tier 0-2 would need to be re-examined, and a few changes made. Viable early AT options, Health/Armour buffs for Emplacements, an actual AT Snare... Probably would need to move Royal Engineers to T0. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Bofors7 May 2016, 22:43 PM Jump back to quoted post7 May 2016, 17:27 PMSolidSteel I think the origin of the troubles with emplacements are pretty simple. Brace. This ability is just BS incarnate, free, non doctrinal, with same downtime as uptime, 90% true damage reduction instant activated skill. How the hell is such a concept tested and approved in a rts game? Theres simply no way of countering it, except looking at it go down for half a minute allowing the enemy brit to move their entire army to defend it and just repair it in your face at 0 cost. The solution would be pretty simple, brace protects against arty barrages and explosives, not against direct assaults/fire. Would still make brace valuable for keeping emplacements in the game, but not make them indestructible 30 secs for free with no counterplay. Brace working for only Artillery (which is extremely rare Early-Mid game) and Explosives (Even more Rare)? Wouldn't that be, in otherwords, pointless? If this was to be done, two things need to be taken into consideration: 1) The Bofors is the only form of reliable AT Brits get early apart from the AEC (the faction's ONLY non-doctrinal Snare). Picking Bofors locks out the AEC. If Brace has no defensive applications, you will need to provide an equally effective AT Solution for the point it hits. If the Balance patch hits as is, this is going to be twice as bad, with OKW having all its multitude of T0 AT Options invalidating Light/Medium/Heavy Vehicle play. 2) Losing Brace would mean British Emplacements would vaporise fast. They would need a Health increase/Armour increase to compensate for this. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic: Week 1 Update to the Balance Mod7 May 2016, 07:48 AM Jump back to quoted post7 May 2016, 04:51 AMRappy Relic clearly had stats showing that OKW needed schrek back or else they wouldn't have changed it and neither would miragefla for that matter, whose changes preempted this. I mean many intelligent people were predicting this would happen from the get go. So perhaps all the misery is because you won't be able to spam cheap tanks as easily? Im sure if the volks snare needs to go, then relic will see to it. But for now its a trial. With T0 Panzershrecks, Fausts, and Raketenwerfer...there won't be any stage of the game where its possible to field a Vehicle on the Allied side. This is going to promote more 'Cancer Commander' use (even though its the only viable British Commander), because a British player won't be able to rely on the UC, AEC or Tanks. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic: Week 1 Update to the Balance Mod6 May 2016, 05:46 AM This is going to invalidate Universal Carrier and AEC play (Well, whatever AEC play was left). In: Lobby
Thread: Should 17 pounder have less popcap?5 May 2016, 23:47 PM Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 18:36 PMDjDrowsyBear Honestly, I think the advanced emplacement regiment just needs to be reworked. Half his abilities are near useless and the other half are far too overpowered. That being said, tell me what you would think if this idea was implemented (if the cancer doctrine wasn't a worry): Bofors: Nerf the range of the Bofors "suppressive barrage" ability down from 60 to 50. Doing so would prevent it from countering indirect fire by itself (something it wasn't mean to do). Also, raise its cost from 280/30/10 to 350/60/12. This would help in three ways, it would make the bofors arrive later, match the Bofors more closely with its performance, and punish the UKF player on teching (especially if he built more than one). Mortar Pit: Raise the population cost from 8 to 12 (to prevent spamming and contribute to population saturation making sim-city less viable by the late game). 17-pounder: lower the cost from 400/75/20 to 360/50/14. I am still iffy on this price because it still seems too high for me. The 17-pounder is a good anti-tank (its currently just far too expensive) but, unlike the (current) Bofors, it absolutely requires support and good placement. That being said, the UKF player would probably just build a Bofors with the 17-pounder which would clearly be a strong combination. The difference there being that they would be spending a lot of gas, manpower, and population to do it with no clear answer to indirect fire. Just to be clear, I am not advocating this as a complete fix for emplacements, but I do believe it will go a long way helping making emplacements much more balanced. I feel if this fix is to be followed, they would need to re-evaluate the British early game. There is a lot of reliance on the Bofors to carry the Brits to Mid-Late game ever since the neutering of the AEC. With the further British Nerfs and lack of real buffs in the balance patch mod, this looks even more worrysome. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic: Week 1 Update to the Balance Mod5 May 2016, 21:42 PM It'll be ok so long as getting a Panzershreck is as big a liability as getting a PIAT. If not, OKW is gonna have the most access to tools among any faction in the Early game: Fausts, Panzershrecks, STG44, Flame Grenades, MG34, Rakken... Not counting Doctrines either. The nerf on the range of the Artillery grenade is doing nothing to make Base Howitzers viable. In: Lobby
Thread: The Panzerjäger Doctrine [New Commander Idea]4 May 2016, 12:34 PM Panzerjaegers, if come with 2 Panzershrecks, should be no bigger than a two-man squad. It should not in any way be able to perform any sort of Anti-Infantry duties. OKW already has a very very high number of potent anti-infantry options (Volks, AA HT, Luchs) that arrive pretty early. Allied Vehicle Armour would also need to be increased in order to prevent vehicles being invalidated. Shrecks acted as vehicle snipers and are 100% more effective in the AT role than PIATs (most useless) or Bazookas. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Brits finally balanced2 May 2016, 19:43 PM That works. Caters to aggressive or defensive styles. In: COH2 Balance