Profile of Noun

Update September 10th, 2013


Units and Abilities


Focus on improving the usability and appeal of abilities based on their performance and design. Abilities which were underperforming were improved and vice versa.


SU-85
• Acceleration from 2.4 to 2.1
• Rotation from 20 to 18
• Max speed from 5.3 to 4.8



T-70
• The T-70 can no longer crush infantry

Guard Troop RGD 33 Grenade
• Cover modifiers set to be consistent with other grenades

Shock Troops
• Price from 480 MP to 440 MP
• Population from 12 to 9



Penal Battalion Flamethrower
• Fire aim time max from 1 to 0.5
• Fire aim time min from 1 to 0.125
• Post firing aim time from 1.5 to 0.5
• Ready aim time max from 1.5 to 0.125
• Ready aim time min from 1.5 to 0.125
• Suppressed reload multiplier from 1 to 2
• Horizontal tracking speed from 90 to 45



IL-2 Sturmovik Attack
• Loiter area radius from 70 to 60
• Target lead out from 20 to 8
• Target lead in from 20 to 16
• Delay between attack from 4s to 18s
• Attack sway width from 4.5 to 3
• Attack sway frequency from 3 to 2
• Search attack target from false to true
• Duration time from 40s to 75s
• Recharge time from 75s to 165s
• Modified UI Barrage Radius to be more noticeable
• Rate of fire from 13 to 10
• Damage from 15 to 20
• Penetration from 50 to 42.5



JU-87 Anti-Tank Support
• Loiter radius area from 50 to 60
• Delay between attacks from 4s to 18s
• Target lead in distance from 12 to 10
• Target lead out distance from 6 to 5
• Loiter timer from 60s to 80s
• Duration time from 50s to 100s
• Recharge time from 90s to 190s
• Modified UI Barrage Radius to be more noticeable
• Damage from 100 to 80
• Cooldown from 0.25 to 0.125



Demolition Charge
• Damage from 250 to 312
• Additional building damage from 550 to 488
• Area radius from 6 to 8
• Area distance far from 3 to 5
• Area distance near from 1.5 to 2.5
• Recharge time from 30s to 0s



Small Arms Weapon Profiles



Focus on better aligning infantry small arms within our health/damage system. This reduces the amount of overkill and better enables us to control how small arms functions within the game.



Grenadier Rifle
• Damage from 20 to 16
• Accuracy near from 60% to 65%
• Accuracy far from 30% to 35%
• Cooldown from 2.2 to 2
• Cooldown modifier near from 0.5 to 0.3
• Cooldown modifier far from 1.5 to 1.4



Panzer Grenadier SMG
• Damage from 6.4 to 8
• Accuracy near from 50% to 40%
• Accuracy far from 15% to 12%



Shock Troops PPSH:
• Damage from 9 to 8
• Near Accuracy from 50 to 56%
• Far Accuracy from 15 to 17%



Penal Troops Rifle:
• Damage from 14.9 to 16
• Near Accuracy from 50 to 47%
• Far Accuracy from 28 to 26%





Reaction System




Reduced the degree of reaction squads commit to while in combat to better improve unit control and responsiveness. The reaction radius modifier on all weapons was adjusted to better align with the weapons AOE values. Weapons with very low AOE will no longer cause infantry to take action in response to the attack.



Reaction Timers
• Squad reactions while in combat from 15s to 30s; this will reduce how frequently a unit reacts to incoming fire while in combat.
• Out of combat reaction timer from 5s to 25s; once again reducing how frequently a unit reacts to incoming fire while out of combat.



Heavy Tanks



One major issue we sought to resolve was the viability of heavier tanks within the mid-late game. Their cost and performance was refactored to better take into consideration their effectiveness at the later stage of a match. Additionally, heavier tanks should be more viable in smaller matches.



Tiger
• Reload from 6.25 to 5
• Armor from 350 to 300
• Acceleration from 1.25 to 1.8
• Max speed from 4.7 to 3.9
• Deceleration from 4.2 to 3.9
• Price from 600 MP and 250 FU to 720 MP and 200 FU



IS-2
• Armor from 375 to 325
• Damage from 160 to 240
• Penetration from 140 to 170
• Deflection damage removed from the main gun
• Price from 680 MP and 300 FU to 760 MP and 240 FU



Brummbar
• Price from 520 MP and 170 FU to 680 MP and 140 FU
Panther
• Price from 440 MP and 165 FU to 600 MP and 130 FU



Weapon Teams




Focus on improving early game flow and balance. Weapon teams should be support units rather than front line soldiers. The Maxim and MG42 had their weapon profiles adjusted slightly, resulting in some performance modifications. As a result of this change, the Maxim should suppression slightly faster than before. Their overall DPS remains relatively unchanged. The changes to weapon traverse make flanking a MG easier when using multiple squads.



HMG and Mortar Teams
• Now receive 25% more damage



Soviet Sniper
• Cooldown duration multiplier far from 1.5 to 2



Maxim
• Damage from 9.5 to 5
• Near accuracy from 0.6 to 0.64
• Far accuracy from 0.16 to 0.32
• Near rate of fire from 1.1 to 2.1
• Weapon horizontal traverse speed from 90 to 35



MG42
• Damage from 4.4 to 5
• Far accuracy from 0.1375 to 0.11
• Far cooldown from 0.8 to 0.85
• Suppression from 0.00159 to 0.00085
• Rate of fire near from 1.2 to 1.1
• Rate of fire far from 1.1 to 0.9
• Weapon horizontal traverse speed from 60 to 25
• Suppression modifier applied to suppressed targets from 0.5 to 1

@ Noun -

First of all thanks for the involvement here. 2nd, loved hearing that SEGA has a long term outlook. A young company like THQ that hits it out of the park on the first try starts to think that that is the only model, when in fact it is a low probability way to do business.

A different question - what is the percentage of people who buy the game and then try playing online either co-op comp-stomps or vs. other players? In theory you must have some access to these stats from the game-keys. Do 95% just play campaign and move on?

We have those stats but we really don't share them.

Roughly it breaks into 1/4 play the campaign.

1/4 play comp stomps and with friends.

1/4 play multiplayer.

1/4 play everything.

That's pretty rough. Obviously as time goes on those numbers change with less and less people playing the campaign and more of the people playing taking part in comp stomps or multiplayer.

But lots of players do buy the game as a single player experience and nothing else. They're obviously hardly ever on these forums and even rarely on the official ones.

That's why we're trying to keep them around with ToW which we hope extends the single player experience and eases them towards multiplayer.

It *sounds* kind of neat, but I'd expect those sorts of mechanics to just end up frustrating players.

Agreed.

I think it's a good suggestion, but what we have to consider is whether or not it makes for a good play experience for players.

As pointed out by others a scripted breakdown during a single player or co-op ToW mission may be cool but in general players don't like it when random things happen during multiplayer play. As it is there's a segment of RTS players who won't really touch CoH/2 because of the random outcomes that can happen in the game, and would rather it be predictable like some other top RTS games.

We do like having the random element in the game, the chance for things to occur every so often that bring the feel of real combat to life, but something like having a unit simply stop working would infuriate the majority of players.

Whining about your former benefactors makes you look petty and weak. When will we hear whining about Sega? After Relic is sold by Sega.

I was pretty open about it at the time they did it. I quit rather than move to California in part because I believe that the role works much better at a studio.

Which I think goes to your point about the great job the Creative Assembly team does while working in studio.

Which again isn't to say anything bad about Lynx (Bobby). He is great and if there was a way we could get him back that would be great. Us being in Canada makes it trickier, but it would be wonderful to have him back working on the franchise.

I think they must just have not restarted their browser.