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Thread: UKF Healing Section3 May 2019, 10:54 AM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2019, 10:51 AMSeductiveCardbordBox Their starting unit and all of their grenadiers can also build the healing bunker in their base, for less manpower and less time spent building. Gotta tech as brits just to be able to have the right to buy a sapper squad. The Grenadiers OST techs for, you mean? Because of its low cost and UKF's high starting fuel, T1 is EFA-level cheap to unlock. It's only delayed if you go Grenades and Bolster first. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Bolster Musings3 May 2019, 10:52 AM Then make the UC butcher snipers. Simple. There's no justification whatsoever for an ostensible anti-sniper upgrade dumpstering non-sniper builds. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance QoL Change3 May 2019, 10:49 AM Eh? This'd make the ambulance easier to use, not harder. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UKF Healing Section2 May 2019, 22:20 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 22:11 PMTaksin02 they gave the FHQ medics upgrade so it's OK. but hey... can we get both Retreat point and medics in the one building? Currently not. I think they should be able to though. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Bolster Musings2 May 2019, 22:17 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 22:13 PMTiger Baron I'm guessing nobody else likes the idea of going the old CoH route of 5 man Sections and 4 man Sapper squads by default then. Do you mean removing the Bolster mechanic entirely? A few high rank players pushed for it in SBP. Apparently it wasn't up for negotiation. Then again, the same was said about Sapper Snares, and we got those. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Bolster Musings2 May 2019, 22:09 PM i promise this is the last thread today okay One of the hot topics recently has been UKF Bolster. I think the main problem with Bolster is it's a global upgrade. You get more value from it the more Infantry Sections and Royal Engineer Squads you build, and therefore you get less value the fewer you build. That makes spamming infantry the most efficient approach. There's a a fairly straightforward solution to this: make Bolster a per-squad cost. Bolstering one squad is cheap. Bolstering many squads is more expensive. If it's a squad upgrade, you can make it use a weapon slot too. That allows you to make Brens good again. This opens up a second upgrade path for Sections: 5 man with one Bren, or 4 man with two Brens. And remember these are the serious business old Brens, not the sort-of-downgrade new Brens. Bolster Proposal Global Bolster upgrade removed Bolster upgrade added to Infantry Section Costs 60 MU Increases squad size by 1 Takes one weapon slot Requires Weapon Racks Bolster upgrade added to Royal Engineers Costs 30 MU Increases squad size by 1 Takes one weapon slot Requires Weapon Racks Weapon Racks fuel cost increased from 15 FU to 25 FU SBP Bren Gun changes reverted Cost from 45 to 60 Accuracy increased from 0.575/0.4144/0.391 to 0.575/0.518/0.46 Mid range from 28 to 25 In: COH2 Balance
Thread: UKF Healing Section2 May 2019, 21:42 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 21:23 PMaerafield Healing isnt supposed to have the same strength and same functionality on all factions. That's as if I would start complaining that soviet healing is trash, because it is for a legit reason. Brits have very strong healing but they have it on their mainline squad. If you wanna heal a non inf section unit, you constantly must pull an IS off the battlefield. And the british faction still has numerous weak points and limitations in their play style. It's called diverse faction design. IF anything may be changed, it's an increase of the medkit upgrade cost. That's how it works when you build a low number of Infantry Sections. Several patches ago, it played out exactly as you describe and it counterbalanced the strength of the healing. But now the UKF meta is four Infantry Sections. I figure adding a cost on use would make the Assembly healing more attractive, and I think it'd make the Flares/Medkits choice more meaningful too. Strategic diversity is the goal here. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 251 Flak Halftrack2 May 2019, 21:24 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 21:20 PMSander93 Given the limited variety in OKW units, Battlegroup can never be made to match up against Mechanized by shuffling around units. Buffing the 251 Flak HT or the ISG won't really change that either. Instead, I think it's best to try to indirectly make Battlegroup more attractive by splitting the T4 tech in half and by making the Raketten more reliable (longer range, better durability). If Obers (and maybe the JP4) can come soon enough, together with a more reliable ATG, it might be able to contest Mechanized and Battlegroup will benefit from being more attractive to use because its cheaper cost would make teching to "T3.5" even faster. Putting the Ostwind and Hetzer behind the same "T3.5" tech could make it even more attractive. I agree with that tech split. However, I still think the 251 could stand to have its suppression reverted to its previous level. Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 21:21 PMdistrofio The problem with prenerf 251 was it could outperform easily with its fast set up times and could rush into infantry. That's the point of it. It's a mobile suppression platform. If you want a defensive suppression platform, you use an HMG. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 251 Flak Halftrack2 May 2019, 21:16 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 21:09 PMthedarkarmadillo I've seen good use of the flak trak. It's kind of aggressively defensive if that makes sense. It allows for complete domination of the area (provided there isn't an AT gun around) as the the med truck I personally find it to be attractive but not flashy like the mech. It has great tools in it, but they are more passive which players don't generally like and quite frankly passive play isn't why you pick the OKW. I think it's a feels thing more than an actual issue if that makes sense. The addition of smoke the the leig alone makes bghq attractive to many. The SBP changes are a pretty stark difference. The old 251 Flak pinned very quickly. It had less mobility than the Luchs, but you needed a support weapon or vehicle to fight it. The current one struggles to fight off PTRS squads and just seems flat out inferior to the Luchs. Combine that with giving up the Puma option and you've got a recipe for Mechanized almost always being the play outside of coordinated teamgames. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: UKF Healing Section2 May 2019, 21:10 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2019, 20:36 PMaerafield Nah, other factions have very powerful, free healing as well, like the ambulance and all the self heal on vetted OKW squads. On Wehr it costs 15 mun, yes, but there you have it available on every single unit and the heal rate is much faster too. The Ambulance costs 250 MP 10 FU. It's not free, it's the most expensive healing in the game. OKW passive healing is at Veterancy 4 and therefore only kicks in the late game. If it were a viable source of healing they wouldn't have needed to add Sturmpioneer medical crates. Infantry Sections pay 30 MU and get a healing aura they can proc whenever, whereever. It's a very powerful ability with few parallels in other factions. Given the current power of bolstered Infantry Sections, do they really need this level of sustain any more? Section healing is so good it eclipses the other options within the same faction. If it had a per-use cost, you'd see more Flare Sections and healing assemblies. It'd also weaken the Section Spam strategy a bit, which I don't think is a bad thing. In: COH2 Balance