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Thread: Hotchkiss3 Jul 2018, 19:24 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2018, 19:23 PMTobis OKW already has a light tank. Time for Ostheer to get something besides the puma They can have the Panzer III. Franzpanzer is for ~~Panzer Elite~~ OKW! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Hotchkiss3 Jul 2018, 19:20 PM OKW, surely? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: GCS2 Citadel faction win rate3 Jul 2018, 17:56 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2018, 16:28 PMSander93 Because revenue is generated by the masses, so the game should be balanced for the masses to be a fun and fair experience. You can't nerf a faction just because it's too good with top player micro and leave the average player to be trashed every game by easier to play factions. Balancing for top players only is a death sentence for the general population health of the game. It doesn't really matter for CoH2 anymore though, but it would certainly be a bad business strategy for a CoH3 if that's ever released. For the majority the automatcher does the balancing. It's how CoH 2 got away with the egregious unbalance of new faction releases for so long. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should UKF get one or more of their doctrinal tools non-doc?3 Jul 2018, 17:27 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2018, 16:20 PMEtherealDragon I suppose a middle ground option would be to add an AT Grenade upgrade to sections that is mutually exclusive with Med Kits and Pyrotechnics Supplies. Tradeoff of on field healing for snares is pretty fair I think. With addition of Forward Assembly Medics a Brit player can choose to focus on AT if they want to. That way AT Sections retain their flavor of having light AT support AND free snare upgrade. You could probably fix the no-mobile indirect fire problem in the same way: give Pyrotechnics Sections the ability to call in a smoke barrage from the base howitzers. Green smoke, decent range, no cost but triggers the global howitzer cooldown. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should UKF get one or more of their doctrinal tools non-doc?3 Jul 2018, 14:26 PM he doesnt understand than this AT boys allows the following: blobb and a-move around the fiel. I guess you could do that, but you can get a similar result with any faction by typing /l in the match chat. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should UKF get one or more of their doctrinal tools non-doc?3 Jul 2018, 13:36 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2018, 13:01 PMKatitof BOYS AT rifle is irrelevant. The AT nade is the primary and pretty much only reason why you would go for AT section. I wouldn't go as far as saying it's irrelevant. If the Relic patchnotes speak the truth it's not a downgrade versus Infantry compared to the Lee Enfield. Light AT capability isn't bad for 20 manpower. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should UKF get one or more of their doctrinal tools non-doc?3 Jul 2018, 12:13 PM Giving tommies snares will fix the majority of UKF holes, but then obviously Spec wep will need a change to make it worth investing in. Would it? It can still call in an AT infantry squad for manpower alone. Getting a PIAT Sapper Squad out costs 310 manpower, 100 munitions and 15 fuel. Getting an AT Infantry Section costs 300 manpower. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: UKF Emplacement Rework3 Jul 2018, 12:03 PM ullumulu, if you want help countering the live version of the Bofors please go to the Strategy Forum. Posting it here is off-topic. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ostheer Build-Order Breakdown3 Jul 2018, 12:02 PM The most common build order is overwhelmingly MG42, T1, Grenadier, Grenadier, Grenadier. That gives you a solid defensive tool, four squads for fighting and capping, and takes long enough to build that you'll know roughly what your opponent has gone for. After that you've got to judge what you need to counter what the enemy is building. Ostheer has a lot of specialized units that are very good at their jobs but you can't afford them all. In: Strategy Desk
Thread: GCS2 Citadel faction win rate3 Jul 2018, 11:53 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2018, 11:30 AMSander93 That's an incredibly bad marketing strategy. It's not a marketing strategy. Relic doesn't put how they balance the game on the Steam Store page. They balance the game for top level because only the top and bottom of the ladder are really affected by it. CoH 2's automatcher works on ELO: if you win your hidden ELO rating goes up, if you lose it goes down. You have a separate rating for each combination of faction and mode. The game tries to match you with an opponent with as close an ELO rating to you as possible. For example, the automatcher doesn't know that UKF is a meme. If you play UKF you'll lose against opponents you'd have beaten as SOV or USF (assuming equal skill with all factions). As a consequence, your UKF ELO rating will be lower than your SOV and USF ELO ratings. Consequently, the automatcher will try to match you with lesser skilled opponents than you'd have faced as SOV or USF. For the majority of the ladder UKF works fine because players on UKF get placed into matches with opponents of equal ELO. That's why most of the ladder doesn't think they're a meme: they're being matched with players who can beat them with UKF. At the top of the ladder the player pool is too thin for the automatcher to do this. You can't give DevM a UKF opponent of equal ELO because there isn't one. In tournaments, there's no ELO safety net at all: each faction is judged on its own merits by top players trying to win and some are found wanting. In: COH2 Balance