Profile of Tommy

haha, not gonna argue with these ^^; they seem familiar looks great

30 muni for a bit of smoke i still find a bit much, but w/e it's better than 50, not gonna bother disussing.

I wonder why xD

Well I think 30 is fair now that the croc has smoke, because flamers + smoke = german BBQ.

1) What about a massive buff to demo charge research, like 10-20 seconds? Usually the use for them is only in a pinch when the opporunity presents itself and with the current wait time it makes impromptu base or bunker rush almost impossible.

2) Is it possible to fix RR phasing through light armor?

1. Yeah I think that's a pretty safe change, probably cut it to 30 seconds from the current 60 seconds.

2. It would be a very difficult change. The issue itself is due to the size of the hitbox on the puma- it's small, and therefore shitty RR accuracy tends not to hit it (however small scatter on the RR's means they almost never miss anything bigger than a Stug). It'd probably need a new model.

It would also have some pretty huge balance implications, as pumas would no longer be a counter to AB.

Btw I don't like the volks change in favor of lowering the rifles ..

Lowering the rifles makes more sense, because it's the US side that's is hurting on manpower, all in flanks will still be risky and lower reinforce costs, means snipers (the single early sniper) are less impactful.

It's also, that you hurt the Wehrmacht, when he loses an early 1v1 random skirmish vs a rifleman squad. (A bit like the opposite now, where usually volks come out on top because of the manpower advantage.)

The first small skirmish should not set the scene for the game. With low reinforce cost, u have better back and forth dynamics, and u encourage players to keep squads alive.


Also, you should really set flammenwerfer to 35. Since now it does the minimum damage iirc; so now u would actually nerf it with 5 damage. And there is really no need to nerf it.

All good points, will implement some of these for v1.1. Good catch with the flammen, that was an oversight.

This really blew up overnight, so I'll try to keep this to the point.

excellent , very good job , just one suggestion , instead of buffing pershing remove 1 cp from callis so they come at 5cps instead of 6 so that we wont be forced to go for infantry every time ?

A good suggestion, this would bring it in line with the howi- however the calli is also considerably more powerful than the howi (basically can't be dodged, penetrates armour) so needs some thinking about.

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I think an LOS buff for rifles would be way too powerful- if they could always see MG's before the MG's saw them, early game US would become much easier. I am however considering dropping the price of rifle reinforcement so that flanking is less punishing.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean with the SY. Is it that you feel the SY 1 isn't a worthwhile upgrade, while SY 2 is overpowered?

Time taken to get in/out of HT's is something I can look at.

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Hardcaps have been suggested before but I don't think it's an optimal solution- if my opponent starts really spamming vetted grens and I don't have enough rifle vet, double snipers might be my only solution. I'd just like to make snipers a bit more vulnerable, so they aren't able to solo whole armies on their own (slight exaggeration).

Yeah I'm working on the doctrine xp kicker change at the moment. It's a little convoluted but quite doable.

hopefully there wont only pros play this Elite Mod, so that beginners have a chance to nj as well. Anyways would you consider implementing the better Textures, which are available?

I hope so too! I called it 'Elite Mod' in homage to the DoW2 mod of the same name but that doesn't mean I'm just pitching it to the top level (although it will be balanced for high level 1v1 play).
Texture packs for vCoH are quite subjective- honestly, I don't like them, and there are others who dislike them too. If people want to install them, they can do and they'll show up in the mod just as in vCoH.

Great initiative, Tommy. I'm just curious, are you modding on your own or do you have some guys helping you? I didn't know you were a modder! Looking forward to seeing your progress with this.

I got a friend from OMGmod (Khorney) to show me my ass from my elbow as far as Corsix is concerned Kolaris is also helping me out with the doctrine/xp kicker issue. As far as actual gameplay changes go, it's not just me sarging straight in there. The original changelog was done by myself, DevM and Aimstrong, and I'm keeping in contact with those guys (and others) as I consider other changes to implement.

What's the point exactly ? I mean, not negatively, but what is the audience and needs this patch fill ?

Balanced casual games with friends ?
Tournament only ?
Hoping eventually everyone would use it even on automatch ?
Technical challenge, show possibilities and maybe hint Relic towards using it officially ?

Well, as it's a public release, I hope that anyone who just enjoys CoH but is a little frustrated with some of the more noticeable bugs like M10 misfire and base strafe will use the mod to play games with their mates as normal. In the future, once some of the big issues have been looked at and some changes implemented (ie snipers) I'd like to use it to host events. As far as auto goes, I highly doubt there'll be enough people for that to function. And as for Relic, I don't know. I'll contact Noun to see what his thoughts are; obviously it'd be fantastic if it got implemented but I don't know if they want to do that. Also certain changes like M10 misfire would probably have to be reverted as Relic don't like using 3rd party models.

1) Is it possible to remove OF faction from the mod?
2) Could you add some new maps like argentan crossroads in the next patch?
3)Problem: Snipers are too dominating. - just increase the recloack time. Right now its almost imposible to cs without a jeep/recon run.
4) Nebels can't fire on uneven ground. Is it fixible?
5) We should really give it a try to Disabling squad AI

1. Yes, but why bother?
2. I can include the map installer and the custom maps in the download, yes.
3. I'd like to explore other options, as even the one you propose relies on you actually having a sniper yourself. I don't want people to stop building snipers, I just want them to not be a necessity.
4. Unlikely, but I will take a look.

- Volksgrenadier reinforcement cost modifier back to 0.5x from 0.4x (24mp)
Why did you change the volks cost?
- Flammenwerfer minimum and maximum damage equalized at 30 (previously minimum = 35 maxium = 30, illogical)
Does this mean the pio and halftrack flamethrower do 30 points of damage ?

Volks cost was upped back to how it was in 2.601 as a small nerf to Wher T1. I play to later combine this with small buffs to the US T1 to reflect Wher's slight early game dominance.

Flammen change was just to the halftrack flamethrower, it just fixed an irregularity in the rgd's, you won't notice the difference.