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Thread: Impact of smoke on AT grenades12 Aug 2018, 22:49 PM The concept of LMG been trash at close range is practically false. I was referring to the LMG itself because of the inverted damage profile, not the LMG squad. A Gren Squad's still got three models with the default guns. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Impact of smoke on AT grenades12 Aug 2018, 18:09 PM nd is it really that hard when Cons long range DPS gets decreased? Normal conscripts can fight at range just fine, like Riflemen. The PPSh's damage drops off almost entirely beyond 10m range. If a PPSh Conscript squad fights outside of effectively melee range it's doing about half the damage of a normal Conscript squad. It's like having half a Conscript squad fused with half a Shock Troops squad, minus the body armor. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Impact of smoke on AT grenades12 Aug 2018, 16:44 PM Thanks for the testings. In my opinion this makes the whole situation even more broke. Just imagine getting snared out of nowhere. You still need one squad with LoS on the vehicle to do it. Tbh I'm not sure is this possible to fix, it may be an animation bug with the panzerfaust and USF AT grenade. If it is possible to fix I'd lean towards removing the LoS check from all snares rather than adding it to SOV and UKF. The cancelling snares still allow you to target them when they can't actually be thrown so they feel unresponsive. Doesn't the same apply to US LMGs and PPsh 41 too? No. The USF BAR, OST G43 and OKW STG are the only weapon upgrades I can think of which are absolute improvements: the other weapon upgrades make the squad worse in some respect. LMG upgrades make squads trash close up and don't fire on the move, SMG upgrades make squads trash at range. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Concerns of a COH fan12 Aug 2018, 12:12 PM That's not unit-to-unit balance though, that's lethality. the immersive features Do you mean stuff like the Abandon mechanic? The issue with stuff like that isn't the mechanic itself, it's that it's hugely impactful but has a very low probability of occuring. You can't really plan around it. Deflection stuns were a similar issue before they were removed: being hit by a Tiger had a 5% or so chance to hard-stun your vehicle. Losing a fight to a 1 on a d20 was incredibly frustrating. In: Lobby
Thread: Concerns of a COH fan12 Aug 2018, 11:42 AM For reasons like that, I would say that in case of mortar and stug, the nerfs were actually the right call, although in many other cases I would go for the buffs instead. It's all relative. Say instead of nerfing the StuG you buffed all the other tank destroyers to the StuG's level. That'd have the same effect on the StuG. However, it'd also make all tank destroyers more effective relative to generalist tanks. That effectively nerfs all the generalists in tank battles, which wasn't something you were trying to do. In: Lobby
Thread: Concerns of a COH fan12 Aug 2018, 11:19 AM You end up in a road where we all fail. I say stop nerving and give the opposit some decent counter abilities. For example? EDIT: That wasn't very clear on my part. Take the StuG. Before the last patch it was putting out too much damage and eclipsing OST's other AT options. The balance team decided the best way to fix this was to lower its rate of fire a bit. How would you do it differently? In: Lobby
Thread: Concerns of a COH fan12 Aug 2018, 11:04 AM Mortars are fine, they just got tweaked to be better at their jobs (attacking static positions and team weapons) and worse at attacking moving infantry. The StuG's fine too. It's a casemate tank destroyer that's cheaper and more efficient than the Panzer IV. That hasn't changed. In: Lobby
Thread: Concerns of a COH fan12 Aug 2018, 10:43 AM https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/67/coh-2-changelog/p5 All in there. Things that are too strong get toned down, things that are too weak get tuned up. In: Lobby
Thread: Impact of smoke on AT grenades12 Aug 2018, 10:10 AM So I did some testing myself and it turns out this issue is a symptom of something different. The Panzerfaust and USF AT Rifle Grenade require the squad itself to have line-of-sight and the other snares don't. USF AT Rifle Grenades and OST/OKW Panzerfausts require the squad itself to have line of sight to the target vehicle for the firing animation to start. If the squad itself doesn't have line of sight when the animation starts the ability will cancel. Once the animation starts you're safe: if you lose LoS during the Panzerfaust animation the ability will still fire. Other AT grenades do not require the squad itself to have LoS: provided the player can see the vehicle the squad will throw the snare. This doesn't just apply to smoke. They'll throw their snares through hedges and buildings too if they can get the target in range. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Impact of smoke on AT grenades11 Aug 2018, 22:06 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Aug 2018, 20:20 PMmr.matrix300 Something so minor? I bet if it would be the other way around it would be considered as the "ultimate bias towards axis" By the type of poster that treats balance as some sort of competition, maybe. But nobody with any influence over the game listens to those posters. In: COH2 Balance