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Thread: 4v4 win rates disparity7 Apr 2021, 10:41 AM I play all factions. I think the armour balance is good where it is. Allied TD's are rewarding but need to be used intelligently and axis armour feels superior when rushed forward with full support (smoke/inf etc) to block out the allied TD sniping. My team haven't had much of a problem against axis heavy TD's https://youtu.be/h-WguJkKYnY?t=656 (this is an extreme example though) The issues I see: - Lack of counters to on-map arty in team games. If the other team gets a few vetted on-maps it's gg from the manpower bleed. - Not sure how to get a solution for this (but it shouldn't be nerfing the arty) - Allied TDs crutch on snares to hold their engagement range while keeping panzers from retreating away. Every time we've lost a tank battle, it's been because we haven't had enough snares I would: - Keep the T-34 ram damage & engine crit as is, but replace the T-34 immobilised crit with engine damage & destroyed main gun. (so it has a chance at retreating for another day) - Speed up US rifle-nade snare (even better, just replace it with a regular AT nade) - Lack of Brit indirect: brits are completely shut down against OKW with leigs & MG34s and crutch on the mortar pit against Ostheer (again nullified if a teammate OKW gets liegs or the ostheer pulls of a push and gets to the pit with shreks & at gun. Also 2x microed ost-mortars = dead pit - UKF NEED a mobile mortar. For faction variety why not give them a halftrack mortar non-doc? Or take the soviet 120mm mortar skin and rename the ML 4.2in. If the second option, it could serve as a justification for brits not having a T3 arty vehicle. - Also, all factions should have a non-doc forward retreat or none should. - Ostheer: Halftracks deploy into a forward retreat (reinforcing) with medics (lose mobile back-seat medical regen) - SU: Make the airborne doc forward retreat post non-doc. But remove innate reinforcing (due to merge). SOVs will need to place a halftrack with it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Can We All Appreciate How Epic UKF Release Trailer Was4 Apr 2021, 22:51 PM Hmm, good . . . but it's not this: Skip to 14:30 for the release trailer. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - Ostheer Feedback4 Apr 2021, 17:38 PM Luftwaffe supply: - Restore Supply Drop Zone - Restore stuka dive bomb (dive bomb is part of the faction variety) - Remove recon (because no uncounterable (arty not aircraft) offmaps & recon in one commander) and replace with the Luftwaffe officer I barely play ostheer but the changes are obviously neutering it. V high munitions, long-delay strikes are no where near as useful as stuka bombs. And the supply drop zone is what makes this such a good supportive commander in a team. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - Ostheer Feedback2 Apr 2021, 17:44 PM Concrete Bunker: Letting an MG bunker reinforce on the front just seems . . . weird and I can see a self-reinforced mortar team camped behind. Suggestion: Remove reinforcing from the MG bunker. Add a 'forward CP' upgrade'. Grants reinforcing, several medics and a forward retreat (OST doesn't have one yet) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - British Feedback2 Apr 2021, 17:30 PM Remove the Royal arty flare spread. Include a flare shot/flare rifle nade with regular pyro package and use the commander slot for something else (mortar HT?/crew?) Made this suggestion a while back, but it's not 100% applicable. "Attach artillery observer": - Occupies weapon slot - Adds 1 model armed with regular rifle with regular stats, maybe give him a radio backpack or something. - Squad gains ability to call down from base arty the regular barrage, smoke barrage (both with slightly buffed call-down ranges, maybe using a rifle grenade to pop the flare now?) and a flare shot (which would have a much further call-down range than the other two). Would also make the smoke barrage be fired by the base guns, could poach the regular barrage code? Reduce the salvo to 2, make it more accurate and just turn them to smoke shells. The flare shot would give good frontline recon and let you later on remove cancer royal arty flares. Side note: With the new mortars in-game, the brits NEED a non-doc mobile indirect for counter battery. Mortar pits die fast to microed mortar crews. Concentrated fire operation I don't like this because why would a 25pdr fire a single super-heavy shell? It removes consistency in how units behave. I expect a 25pdr (whether it be on the base or an SPG) to behave in pretty much the same way. Reduce cost and let it zero in with regular shells? The last shell landing pin-point. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback14 Jan 2021, 17:47 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2021, 01:32 AMDescolata Can the Recon Sweep from the Assault Officer ACTUALLY go directly over the officer's head instead of a sliiiiiight counter-clockwise off direction sweep? makes aiming recon deep in enemy territory REALLY HARD, which is bad for 50 mun. I think the problem is the Loiter radius. its currently 15, try setting it to 0. Also, the British airplane sweep is WEIRD, the plane flys at 50 height instead of ~20 of other recon planes. The recon sweep is a point and click which direction you want it go thing. If they've changed it to one like the USA recon loiter I'd like it to be reversed. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback4 Jan 2021, 16:43 PM Found a bug with 17pdr sabot rounds. Activated ability and told it to attack ground. The effect and (possibly) the rounds remained in effect after the ability expired. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback4 Jan 2021, 16:00 PM I don't think the static mortar emplacement serving as artillery will work. All emplacements are highly situational and hard-countered by off-map and arty. Furthermore, with the new stuka, it will become completely obsolete against OKW (they have leig too) and unusable in team games. Thoughts: - retracted original suggestion for mortar pit - adjust brace to a toggle ability. When braced, as well as the damage reduction, the crew mans the garrison positions (from back when we could do that) and fires out with rifles at nearby enemies. If no units are within firing range and brace is activated, they will repair damage to their emplacement. To make tommies more balanced: - Remove medic kit from tommies, reduce pop cost for medic squad. Medic tommies are just unjustified. - Perhaps add a scoped rifle (which takes bren slot) to the pyro upgrade (re-name it to spotter training or whatever). Just something so its not an automatic choice. - Move gammon bomb to royal engineers In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] SOV Feedback27 Nov 2020, 12:18 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Nov 2020, 11:45 AMgbem its soo price inefficient that 3 T-34-76s cost more than 2 panzer 4s but will lose 5/5 times in a fight frontally at any distance despite costing more than the P4... and again you're ignoring soviet teching... it takes around the same fuel to buy an ostheer panzer 4 and a T-34.... Everyone's gotta remember that the units don't exist in a void. The real question should be: "for the same resources and popcap, can I field unit(s) that can counter the unit(s) in question." So whatever state the T34 may be in, if the difference in resource cost between that and a P4 nullifies the P4s advantage when expended. Then it is balanced. e.g A t34 & an AT gun Obviously it will never be an exact science and an AT gun can't move like a tank, but that asymmetry is what makes the factions different. And depending on the no. of units of a type deployed the enemy, your force composition may have pivot to other solutions like SU-85s to maintain the approx. equal power level because unit specialization and economies of scale/numbers also play a role. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback27 Nov 2020, 08:54 AM Jump back to quoted post27 Nov 2020, 02:31 AMelchino7 Most changes look good, interesting the mortar one. +1 Idea: Make the 5th man optional for IS for no cost (after researching the upgrade) but it occupies 1 weapon slot with say the "scoped" Lee Enfield (which was basically the same as vanilla). (optional) Increase the cost and improve the Bren. Then you have to opt between double Brens at 4 man or 5 man squad with only 1 weapon. MAYBE same principle applying to Royal Engineers. In this way you have more room to adjust the units without been scared of how much they end up scaling when they are able to get the 5th man upgrade. Reminded me of a convo we had a while back: "Attach artillery observer": - Occupies weapon slot - Adds 1 model armed with regular rifle with regular stats, maybe give him a radio backpack or something. - Squad gains ability to call down from base arty the regular barrage, smoke barrage (both with slightly buffed call-down ranges, maybe using a rifle grenade to pop the flare now?) and a flare shot (which would have a much further call-down range than the other two). I think the current smoke animation is really weird, could they have each of these abilities on separate cool downs, but have them all actually use the on-map base arty guns. As a result they could not be used simultaneously, though you could pop one straight after the other had finished firing. But of course the cool down for each individual barrage type would be global. It would be nice to give the base guns a few more functions. I would also then buff the smoke barrage a bit to two arty smoke rounds, which would land in a slightly randomised (but small) pattern. Would also be consistent with both the guns turning for the barrage and I guess you could poach the regular barrage code, reduce the salvo to 2, make it more accurate and just turn them to smoke shells. The flare shot would give good frontline recon and let you later on remove cancer royal arty flares. then the second: "Attach medic": - Occupies weapon slot - Add 1 medic model once again armed with regular rifle, regular stats, medic hat ofc - Gains medical supplies ability. Or to keep the medic squad relevent, the medical supplies ability is removed and the medic auto heals 1 one model at a time and nearby models of other squads when the tommy squad is idle. As a result the dedicated medic squad is a still a much more powerful alternative. - Remove global bolster tech - Lock these two upgrades behind T2 Because the extra man has a regular stat-ed rifle, they would serve the same purpose as bolster and make it more reasonable to have one or two of these on field even when the player is losing weapon slots. Or have neither of these two upgrades and stay as a 4 man squad with double weapon slots. Not sure what an equivalent for Ro.Es could be, make them as 5man out the box? In: COH2 Balance