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Thread: Soviet Core changes commander Revamp Patch17 May 2019, 16:15 PM CardboardBox is right in that Penals are what's killing Conscripts. Maybe if Conscript Sidetech weren't a thing it might be different. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: UKF Hammer/Anvil rework suggestion.16 May 2019, 19:15 PM The solution to emplacements is to overhaul them, not to lock good units behind emplacement builds. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Should engis be able to destroy cover?16 May 2019, 11:07 AM Jump back to quoted post16 May 2019, 10:36 AMVipper The suggestion to light cover destruction makes sense. In addition imo it needs longer time to set up longer cooldown and MU cost. Yes to the first and the third. The cooldown should be ditched: all it does is stop you shift-queuing. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: What if OKW had standard starting resources?15 May 2019, 12:31 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2019, 12:26 PMthedarkarmadillo If they are teching 15 fuel faster they wouldn't be weakened much. You would have less time to prepare for the luchs and volks are still cheaper than any figthinh unit you can field. What's more Soviet have 160mp to dump into getting a fighting unit. Getting your first maxim on the field in only 100mp less than 2 volks and your opening units (CE and cons?) will still be getting fisted by sturms unless RNG wills CE to be more than manpower bleed. The only way to meaningfully reduce okws starting impact would be to swap the starting unit with volks. Then okw can still field a strong shock unit (could even be buffed), quick territory or pad their masses. Their start would be second only to the brits as now, but their flexibility would remain unmatched. Powerful start would still be available, but not handed out. There are a lot of ways you could do it. A flat -100 starting manpower is one way. A 20 MP reduction and raising Volks to 270 MP is another way: that'd be the same thing for quad Volks, but the fewer Volks you build the smaller the manpower reduction. That might also help for build diversity. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should engis be able to destroy cover?15 May 2019, 12:15 PM I'd go the other way. No engineers can destroy cover. It constrains map design severely. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: What if OKW had standard starting resources?15 May 2019, 12:05 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2019, 11:46 AMEsxile If OKW had a weaker early game, they just going to be roflstomped by UKF and Soviet using the same strat. I'm maybe the one playing mostly one faction between us but I'm the one seeing the big picture here. Or your idea is to make their early game weaker but only to a non-relevant point, something that wouldn't change anything in fact. If OKW can tech faster, it can deal with those infantry spam strategies. It gets the MG34 faster. It doesn't have to take over half of the map to keep up in light vehicle teching. It's got so many more options. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Tie Call-Ins to tech this patch15 May 2019, 11:58 AM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2019, 11:47 AMKatitof (because this patch is already possibly meta changing one with its doctrinal and stock changes and adding more to it might quickly turn it into a mess with no foreseeable consequences and if you play this wrong, you might end up with soft removing heavies from the game as it was the case when they were limited to 1 for the first time in the past in a barrage of other meta shifting changes The game without stall-ins is better than the game with stall-ins. Therefore, heavy tanks going from 'only viable as stall-ins' to 'not viable' for a patch is an improvement. I don't see why heavies are so special, why it's apparently so vital they're top-tier meta every patch. They nerfed the Maxim into near total irrelevance to kill Maxim Spam, and they seem quite happy to leave it there rather than risk bringing Maxim Spam back. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Infantry Sections, Upgrades, and Bolster15 May 2019, 11:55 AM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2019, 11:53 AMKatitof Really? Delaying first vehicle by about two minutes is "small disadvantage"? Do you know what luchs can do within 2 minutes when it has free reign? What flame 251 will do in that time? Very little, because the map control you get from a bolstered quad-Section build means the AEC comes out fast enough to deal with it. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Infantry Sections, Upgrades, and Bolster15 May 2019, 11:47 AM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2019, 11:10 AMKatitof Can we stop soft-removing abilities and upgrades from the game by making them so cost inefficient that only a comp stomper would get them? Bolster is manpower and popcap efficient. If you use Bolster to stick an extra man in each of your four infantry squads, you spend less manpower immediately and lose less manpower on squad upkeep in the long run. Bolster is essentially a fuel-for-manpower trade. The fuel is the part that balances it: you're trading a manpower advantage for a teching disadvantage. Right now, that disadvantage is so small that you always tech Bolster. You can build four Sections, tech Bolster, and you'll still have the AEC in time to kill the light vehicle. If you want Bolster to be a decision than a no-brainer, then it needs to cost more. If you raise the manpower you defeat the point, so you need to raise the fuel. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Tie Call-Ins to tech this patch15 May 2019, 11:42 AM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2019, 11:41 AMKatitof I did. So what? Its still out of scope for this one, but we do have some precedent with tiger ace/command tiger/whatever its called now. The whole point of the thread is asking to change the scope so we don't have to put up with a patch of buffed stall-in strats. All you're doing is restating the premise. In: COH2 Balance