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Thread: Scott in LT or CP as the OKW Walking stuka.2 Sep 2019, 08:04 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Sep 2019, 06:51 AMRiley What does it mean "people are already pissed at the thing"? Axis funs dont love Scott? But at the tournament in the Masters Cup, not Scott wiped the squads in every battle, but a walking stuka did it. So why not transfer it to the Schwerer Panzer HQ, or transfer Scott to the CP or LT? Moving the Walking Stuka to T3 would be a sideways buff to OKW. The Stuka's high cost makes it rarely a good pick in the mid game, so your SPHQ is usually up by the time it's a good idea to build one. All this would really achieve is saving T1 builds the cost of a Mechanized HQ. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Move Vet 1 Smoke Pot from Scott To Stuart1 Sep 2019, 18:42 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Sep 2019, 18:20 PMShadowLinkX37 I'd be all for removing smoke canister from scott or 400HP -> 320HP (2 shot kill), but I'm not really a fan of giving the stuart smoke. Its problem IMO is its main gun doesn't do nearly enough damage to vehicles. It survives well enough already being practically immune to luchs and 222 fire. Only the puma and larger can harm it. So I don't really think it needs to extra suvivability. I'm more of buff the AT damage, lower the armor and AI damage guy. It doesn't need extra survivability against light vehicles. It's fine in that ecosystem. Its problem is, unlike the AEC and Puma, it becomes obsolete once the medium tank phase hits. That extra armour means little against a medium tank's gun and, as you said, its main gun is almost worthless against mediums and up. The tooltips and loading screens suggest the Stuart's a control unit: its damage sucks but it can swing fights hard when supporting a medium with Shell Shock and Point Blank Engine Shot. Those abilities are questionably useful when the Stuart rarely survives the attempt. A smoke canister would make those abilities more practical to use. Your suggestion of reworking it into something more like an AEC would also work. The AEC and the Puma are proven good designs for AT lights. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Obers arriving earlier1 Sep 2019, 18:32 PM Early Obers are an interesting idea: they're apparently about on par with Penals without their rifles. The biggest balance concern is this gives them more time to vet up, so Vet 2 LMG Obers (the point where they become serious business) hit the field sooner. That may be offset by the brutal manpower bleed they inflict though. Could be worth a try. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA September patch discussion1 Sep 2019, 18:14 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Sep 2019, 18:01 PMDangerous-Cloth Right. They can't stun heavy tanks then? They can't stay relavent until late game by this crit ability whilst being a good flanker and harassing infantry? They can't decrew and reduce pop cap whilst hopping back in and supporting the other vehicles again? They can, much like a T-70 can kill a King Tiger. Like I said, strong in theory. In practice, dead Stuart. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Move Vet 1 Smoke Pot from Scott To Stuart1 Sep 2019, 17:53 PM The Scott's smoke canister is often cited as the reason it's such a bitch to kill: any unit that dives the back line hunting for it has to content with its ability to throw down a sight blocker whenever it's in danger. Based on the game's tooltips and loading screen text, the original vision for the Stuart was a utility tank: its 80 damage main gun is fairly useless against anything bigger than a Puma, but it's got powerful support abilities to help Shermans and Jacksons take down big targets. In practice, a Stuart in a medium tank fight is a dead Stuart. So why not kill two birds with one stone? The Scott becomes less survivable, finally making it vulnerable to dives. The Stuart gets a Vet 1 escape ability, helping it scale into the mid and late game without tweaking its firepower and messing up its light vehicle matchups. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA September patch discussion1 Sep 2019, 17:45 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Sep 2019, 15:11 PMDangerous-Cloth That would require it's other abilities to be looked at, as its crit ability is quite powerful. It's powerful in theory. In practice, it's so janky and slow that it's a good way to get rid of an unwanted Stuart. Stuarts are all but useless against anything larger than a Puma because they only do 80 damage. The game's description text and tooltips hints the original vision for them was to be support tanks that did pretty minimal damage but had powerful utility abilities they could use on larger units. With the Scott's smoke, they could actually do that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA September patch discussion1 Sep 2019, 12:52 PM Move the Vet 1 ninja smoke from the Scott to the Stuart. The Scott can now be dived. The Stuart can now actually use its utility abilities without getting blown up. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet September patch discussion1 Sep 2019, 11:21 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Aug 2019, 21:41 PMGrumpy Please take out all of the changes to mobilize reserves. I realize that it started as an attempt to improve it but it's turned into a dealbreaking nerf. If you want bolstered squads that can snare and throw molotov's, you pay 305mp/45fuel plus 240mp/50muni per squad. I usually get 2-3 so the average cost per squad is at least 340/15/50, which seems like it should get you an Ober or Falls instead of a slightly less shitty Con squad. Seconded. This new sidetech undermines everything that was achieved with Mobilize Reserves. Global upgrades are not worthwhile for one or two squads, so you're restricting Conscripts to all-in Conscript builds all over again. If you can't make this work at T3 without sidetech, please just return it to T4. Furthermore, why is the Balance Team partially reverting the T2 price cut when T2 is the weaker tier? The T-70 rush speed is set by T1, a stronger tier that doesn't have to pay a drop of fuel on Conscript sidegrades. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance Handbrake28 Aug 2019, 17:02 PM Shift-move is the biggest benefit of doing this. A second perk is you get the Brace icon, which makes you much less likely to issue to a move order to a locked down ambulance. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ambulance Handbrake28 Aug 2019, 16:14 PM The USF Ambulance currently has a toggle for its healing aura. You turn it on and the Ambulance heals everything around it but can't move. You turn it off to move it again. Why not replace this with the more user-friendly Handbrake ability? USF Ambulance Add the Handbrake ability. Make the healing aura turn on automatically when the Ambulance is stationary. This is a straightforward QoL change. It doesn't change what the unit can do at all, it just makes it a lot less fiddly. In: COH2 Gameplay