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Thread: Volks mp40 vs stg44 vs no update23 May 2021, 13:21 PM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2021, 12:00 PMGeblobt 270 (370 full) manpower is quite high for just getting healing (leig and flak ht dont offer much later in the game). That could be a mg, a raketen or most of an obers squad. So i dont think the fuel is the problem. Going all 3 tech structures is very manpower draining though. And that for a faction who has mediocre mainline (Cons get 6,26 HP per manpower at vet3, Volks get 4,1 HP per manpower at vet 5; from that point Cons are 50% more efficient than Volks), expensive elite (cost compared to timing window),and just a few mediocre ways to deal with infantry later on. Imo the faction has major manpower problems later on in the game (atleast compared to SOV/Ost; Usf bleed the same but atleast their inf isnt shit) 270 mp is certainly a lot, especially if you back tech in the later stages of the game when there's less time left to recoup that expenditure. but as said before, i'd rather make healing for the other factions more expensive than to further water down the distinction between okw's two tech paths. imho the mp reduction soviets got for their in-base healing wasn't really needed in the first place, but anyway... the mediocre scaling of volks, as you put it out in your example, is probably the most universally agreed upon flaw the faction suffers from at the moment. i'm not sure if a vet reshuffle as proposed earlier in this thread will be able to solve this, but a small bonus to RA at vet5 could certainly attenuate the late-game bleed a good bit. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Volks mp40 vs stg44 vs no update23 May 2021, 11:49 AM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2021, 11:43 AMjagd wölfe No, it wasn't Ostheer has always been prevalent for years in tournaments at this point. Now it's just even worse with the improved Ost Tier 4 and grens damage reduction veterancy bonus as OKW just became even more irrelevant, effectively becoming a worse version of Ostheer at everything i'd say the tourney pick rate is always more of a player preference thing anyway. but since you mention it, asiamint did pretty well with OKW in the CoHrona cup last year if memory serves me right In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Volks mp40 vs stg44 vs no update23 May 2021, 11:39 AM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2021, 11:23 AMjagd wölfe You can't use puma to stall for Command Panther anymore, Volksgrenadiers have been increased in cost, raketenwerfer has been substantially nerfed and can't move in camo anymore. The issue of faction homogenization apparently didn't exist back when every potent OKW clutch was being removed again, all these nerfs date back way earlier than last year, and even with all these mechanized was very popular and very much viable back then. in any case, guess what i want to say is that even if okw needs something to get more competitive it's not yet another reduction to the battlegroup + medics back tech. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Volks mp40 vs stg44 vs no update23 May 2021, 11:23 AM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2021, 10:50 AMGeblobt Cause there was always something to abuse. First there was techless CommandPanther. Just go Puma+Stuka into Panther while you have to pay no fuel for T4. Then there was the owerpowered CommandTiger (timing, performance and price). But since both things got adjusted OKW has not much to abuse (besides maybe Radio Silence vs Tac map player) and you see the flaws they had since the rework. Having costly healing is no problem as long you have other positive things that overshadow this. Currently both tech paths are equally viable, but it feels kind of lacking like the old USf tech structure. If you want to go puma for lights or stuka vs support weapons you have to do without indirect fire and healing. If you want healing and indirect fire you have to neglect rocket arty and a (more or less) secured light vehicle phase. This on top of weak mainline, no groundbreaking commander and a strong counterpart (Ost) makes OKW kinda negligible. But the question is if you want to put every faction on OST/Sov level or just nerf the eastern factions. you're right that things like a techless heavy or cmnd panther skewed the tech choice heavily in favor of mechanized. though even when these were already a thing of the past going mechanized still remained viable. the analogy to usf prior to their revamp feels certainly true as well; if you want light vehicle dominance (i.e. both luchs and puma), you have to skip readily available healing, indirect fire and an early t3 - and vice versa. i'd say this isn't necessarily a bad thing and with now cheaper back tech to medics in the late game also a lot less punishing than it used to be. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Volks mp40 vs stg44 vs no update23 May 2021, 10:16 AM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2021, 09:31 AMjagd wölfe [...] for a pretty long time sturm med crates worked totally fine in conjunction with mechanized builds, which iirc was pretty much the 1v1 okw meta just about one year ago. i'm not aware of any groundbreaking changes to either the luchs/puma or volks that would have changed this so dramatically that a mechanized build with med crates is totally not viable anymore. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Volks mp40 vs stg44 vs no update23 May 2021, 08:29 AM i don't know, this might be a pretty unpopular view but for me the better solution to the healing conundrum wouldn't be to make okw medics even more accessible (for the n-th time) but to make general in-base healing more restrictive across all factions instead. currently hp damage dealt to infantry doesn't really have any impact as healing at base is fast and so universally and cheaply available without any real downside. it would be more interesting if going for a med bunker or base medics actually had a noticable impact on tech timings rather than just being a minor mp/mu expenditure along the way for most factions. as a side effect this would also make stop gap solutions, such as the variety of med packs or troop transport healing a bit more attractive. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Arty rant23 May 2021, 07:52 AM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2021, 05:40 AMShadowLinkX37 I'd just like to stick this note in here, I was using the ML-20 today and the scatter of the shells is actually massive, WAY bigger than the UI indicator would lead on. Maybe it was the FoW penalty after I lost sight but it seems like shells can land exceedingly far from the center of the circle. Yeah i think the in-game circle indicator is pretty inaccurate for judging the actual scatter pattern as it seems to be way too small. Firing into the FoW is also particularly punishing for on-map howitzers as they have a larger scatter penalty (1.75) than most other units. Hence, the actual area where a shot can land gets tripled whenever you lose sight, so recon is key if you don't want to pray to the RNG gods to hit anything. Also, while comparing the in-game scatter with what would be predicted from the values in the attribute editor I've noticed something strange: While none of the on-map howies have a scatter offset defined, all of them seem to overshoot by the same amount regardless of distance. This is quite different from units with a non-zero scatter offset, for which the actual extent they tend to overshoot scales with distance to the target. I'm not exactly about the exact value, but it seems to be somewhere in the range of 3.5 +/- 0.5 m (at least on flat terrain). The pic below isn't perfect (I've eliminated the angular scatter and reduced the distance scatter to better visualize the degree of overshooting) but shows this somewhat hopefully. The red dots are where the shot was aimed and, as you can see, the center of the splat patterns is always offset by roughly 3.5 m. Not too important overall but aiming a bit farther ahead will improve the chances of hitting your target, especially at close range. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback23 May 2021, 06:34 AM Jump back to quoted post22 May 2021, 18:22 PMKurobane I have over 7000 hours on COH 2 and like almost 3000 hours on the modding tools so I usually look for things like that or for bugs to try to improve the game as much as possible though I usually work on adding tooltips to the game. this looks really cool. stuff like this as well as the numerical veterancy descriptions would make great additions to the stock game! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Arty rant23 May 2021, 05:32 AM just as a heads-up, some of the numbers you used for your comparison are quite a bit off. both the ml-20 and lefh are actually almost carbon copies of each other, though the ml-20 has a bit higher near AoE damage (180 vs 160) and slightly more far AoE damage (not sure exactly, but i think sth like 10 vs 8). unfortunately, Stein's sheet seems to have some of these wrong. this may not represent the real life proportions of their respective shells, but from a gameplay perspective i'd think this is a fair compromise. another thing is that the AoE usually extends well beyond the value set for AoE far. for example, the b-4's radius is actually 10 instead of 7.5 (and 8 for both the ml-20 and lefh). as for the new b-4, i think it will be much more potent against infantry, but not so much against tanks. it gets even more max AoE range and higher far AoE damage, but much lower near AoE damage. so the one-shot potential goes down, but since it now fires 3 shells the overall damage output per area will be greater. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback22 May 2021, 11:55 AM Jump back to quoted post21 May 2021, 20:17 PMKurobane Not the best test but when right clicking on a vehicle, the Vet 3 Pathfinder would fire while the non Vet 3 would charge forward instead of firing at max range. Like take Panzergrenadiers for example, sometimes when right clicking on a tank the squad will fire at max range with the Bazookas while other times the squad will be retarded and try to charge forward as closely as possible. Probably not intended but maybe possible due to losing models in combat (as COH 2 did have a numerous Vet related bugs) but the Pathfinder does benefit with the Bazooka at Vet 3 vs non Vet, even if it is simply more responsive with right clicks, the responsiveness is noticeable in regards to right click vehicles. just tested in-game on the test rage map and i can confirm the range increase does indeed apply to bazookas. at least for ground attacking, that is... haven't tested if the auto attack will target units beyond 35 m, but i see no reason why it shouldn't. In: COH2 Balance