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Thread: Why shouldn't CoH3 be set in WW1 instead?16 Jun 2018, 10:19 AM It'd be difficult. If you say WW1 everyone expects trench stalemates. It'd be hard to meet expectations and make a good strategy game at the same time. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Late game mg bunker spam15 Jun 2018, 17:19 PM How about you remove ALL current emplacements and replace them with weapon teams that you need to actually train from your base, walk up to a position and then setup and "dig in" (spawning their emplacement around them). That'd be a flat out improvement in my view but we're not going to see that level of extra animation work done at this point in the game's lifetime. In: Lobby
Thread: Is COH2 played competitively?14 Jun 2018, 22:39 PM I think he meant having every random function in the game return the exact midpoint of the possible range. In: Lobby
Thread: Request for some new voice Acting14 Jun 2018, 21:59 PM It'd be nice, but it won't happen at this point in the game's lifetime. Voice actors need to be paid and lines need to be coded in. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW HMG3414 Jun 2018, 21:53 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jun 2018, 21:00 PMVindicareX Ah right, forgot everyone on this site has no interest in serious balance debates - my bad. If anything there's too much interest. It's just that the vast majority of them are between very low level players with very severe biases in favour of their favourite factions. I bet you'd say the same thing if Rakketen, in some other reality, didn't have Camo by default and you'd say such a unit would be fine because of the faction's "internal" balance justified it. You say this, yet offer nothing to justify exactly what in the internal balance justifies the state of the MG34. In my view the balance of individual units matters versus units in the same faction: this is what I mean by internal balance. If one unit is simply better than another in all aspects then the inferior unit isn't built. If a single Volksgrenadier squad is simply better than an MG34 then either the MG34 or the Volksgrenadier needs adjusting. I don't believe that's the case. I could be wrong. In faction versus faction the whole matters more than the parts. Relic believed OKW could manage without an HMG entirely for a time. They later changed their mind and added the MG34. If OKW needs a better HMG to get by then yes, buff the HMG34. But the general consensus seems to be the HMG34 is "good enough." In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is COH2 played competitively?14 Jun 2018, 21:26 PM You'd be hard pressed to find a WW2 strategy game without RNG because it's the easiest way to model armour penetration, a key element of tank versus tank warfare. In: Lobby
Thread: Is COH2 played competitively?14 Jun 2018, 20:22 PM At this point you're probably better off finding a different game. RNG-based accuracy and penetration is how CoH works. To represent those differently would take a total rethink of the very design of the game. That's not going to happen in a patch and it's definitely not going to happen in a five year old game. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW HMG3414 Jun 2018, 19:25 PM "It's the only HMG you have" isn't a balance argument, it's the reason you build it. Factions are balanced as a complete package rather than on a unit to unit basis: the question isn't "is the HMG34 worse than other HMGs?", it's "does OKW need a better HMG to be a viable faction?" EDIT: To be more accurate, "it's the only HMG you have" isn't a balance argument in terms of balance between factions. Balance within factions is a different story: if you're facing a blob of BARed up Riflemen two HMG34s will do a better job of controlling it than two more Volksgrenadier squads. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW HMG3414 Jun 2018, 19:05 PM It's a worse HMG42. OKW's suppression platform used to be the Kubelwagen. When the whole faction got reworked the Kubelwagen became a capping jeep. OKW proceeded to get stomped on by blobs so Relic gave them the MG34. It's not a very good HMG and it's not amazing value for manpower, but it's your only HMG. If you need suppression it's there. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is COH2 played competitively?14 Jun 2018, 18:34 PM How do you know Coh will not be better without RNG? Did you try it? You could easily mod it in, setting all accuracy and penetration values absurdly high so in practice they never miss or fail to penetrate. You'd essentially remove accuracy and armour. It would make for a very strange game, but you could do it. There are times when AT shell bounces off 3-4 times in a row while opponent hits every time. With players having equal level of skill, sometimes this becomes the deciding factor. It should not be like this. You've got this mentality that a tank battle is decided by a single roll. It's not: it takes several shots to take down a tank in CoH and you can react after each. If a fight goes against you retreat. In: Lobby