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Thread: MARCH 28th UPDATE25 Mar 2017, 09:21 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Mar 2017, 03:47 AMaomsinzana You can ask VonIvan Lol his conscript spam only exists to support the inevitable kv8 base rush. KappaClaus In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW's Current Design Problem: The Why and How25 Feb 2017, 01:11 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2017, 18:23 PMelchino7 1-Moving the JPIV to Med HQ. ...It made sense on a low fuel income, no upgrades, OKW. Not in the current version of 100% fuel/muni and upgrades OKW. I know it doesn't work currently. The reason that Ost spam is viable is specifically because of the changed resource mechanics in the first place! OKW should be returned to the state it was in prepatched and balanced from there. 2-JPIV vs PV JP4 is a low profile (harder to hit), 60 range non turreted TD with good RoF and has great veterancy (abusive cloak). PV is a slugger mobile 50 range tank hunter, with MGs which help to soft deal with infantry. Only thing which suffers is that Comet is OP. Although the JPIV and the Panther are different vehicles, they still function as OKW's dedicated heavy AT units. When referring specifically to 1v1s, there is little incentive to go for a panther over a JPIV because the panther's AI is extremely lackluster, and it is significantly more expensive than the JPIV. 3-T4 starting with half tech and having to upgrade Flak. A)One of the objective of the change is to make it less harsh losing a deployed Flak HQ and been able to replace it again. B)Current Obers arrive too late, having issues dealing with infantry till they at least hit vet2. From vet4 onwards they are OP. ATM is more logical to just go with infantry call ins which can scale at the same pace allies infantry arrive. If Obers arrive earlier and can be balanced by the time they arrived, while we are nerfing the late game scaling of allied infantry units (right now Guards, Penals and Rifles. In the future IS/other units), their late game powerhouse could be adjusted. C)JPIV is only an oppressive unit due to the cloak mechanic which is gonna get fixed. I'm not seeing Stug/JPIV spam OP threads. A) Last time I checked this wasn't in the patchnotes.That aside, doesn't that still screw with the unit timings for all of the tanks in T4? Also doesn't this incentivize building the JPIV over the Panther even more as a heavy AT option? B)Obers are a problem in their current implementation, but halving the T4 initial build cost isn't the only way to fix that problem. Smoothing out early vet could also provide the power spike that they need to be more competitive. C) I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding here, in my post I meant to specify Ostwind Spam with the JP, not JP spam. I don't know where you got the "stug" spam from my post, although I do remember seeing threads on Coh2.org specifically consisting of people complaining about the Stug being overly cost effective at high vet. 4-People are already going mechanized (on 2v2 even more) just to deal with Stuart/AeC or Penals/Maxims. Even more in the future when we would have vet0 medkits on SP. This is part of the problem! In order to deal with the Stuart/AEC/T70 people go specifically for mechanized to build 1 counter unit, either the luchs or the puma. With the JP in the med truck they have the option of going either for the med truck & the JP or the Mech truck with its associated resource bonuses, and then you could tech to the other building OR the Flack HQ. Does putting the JPIV in the med truck work in the current OKW economy? No! And OKW will continue to suffer from a lack of strategic diversity as long as the current OKW tech system remains in place! 6- Building outside the safety of your base sector is an option and a risk you decide to take. No shit its the decision of the player, that doesn't mean that it isn't heavily discouraged. Even if the medic truck would be 1 shot by a t70 its still "the player's decision to put it outside of the base." Right now the vulnerability of OKW's trucks means that the risk simply outweighs the benefit. Just like all the factions have to tech in order to get tanks unless they want to rely on call ins. What a surprise! Which was not something that old OKW had to do, and it worked just fine for the faction! The whole point of my original thread post was it was an argument that OKW has systemic design issues from when they reworked the faction, and that the old version of the faction didn't conform to the same tech structure that other factions had to, and it made OKW better for it, despite the issues that the faction had! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW's Current Design Problem: The Why and How24 Feb 2017, 17:02 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2017, 14:23 PMelchino7 What i would like implemented or tested for OKW (reminder this is post WPB with v1.9) Sturmpios: test in Spring Balance patch, having them be able to upgrade both Schreck and sweeper Kubel: passive xp gain such as officers ISG: reduce auto attack range to 80/90. Reduce cd on barrage and barrage keeps current range. Give it smoke. Vet1, modal mode which switches shells to Hollow ones (AT). Mechanized HQ: get's a tech upgrade which let it gets resource conversion. Schwerer HQ: no longer comes with Flak gun. Cost is reduced to 1/3 or 1/2 of it's current value. Units available without Flak are JPIV and Obers. Flak upgrade cost 2/3 or 1/2 and unlocks PIV and PV Obers: arriving earlier solves some issues with them. If some cost/performance adjustments wants to be done, i'll remove some of its power level at higher vet level (specially passive suppression which is stupid). I feel like all that will do is heavily incentivize People to continue to build T4 in their base and just never upgrade the flackHQ, pumping out 1-3 JpIVs and obers for the endgame. Hell if it's cheap enough, Luchs rush into jp and obers will be the meta until the jpIV gets hit with the nerf bat, or just jpIV and Ostwind spam. Also the wait time for building any flackHQ units would be stupidly long. If you wanted to build a pIV, you would have to wait for: 1.) the building to finish 2.) the upgrade to finish 3) the p4 to finish. Even if I'm wron on my above points,, this still doesn't solve how okw is forced to tech to Flack HQ, or that the panther and JP4 still compete for the same roll. It's like if the stug and panther were both t4 for ost. The JP I've should be moved back to the medic truck and the amount of resources you have to put into each truck should be reduced. Hell if people really want to avoid the old tech system that much, trucks should be made a call-in with a cool long cool down for a much lower price. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW's Current Design Problem: The Why and How24 Feb 2017, 08:57 AM Perhaps I wasn't clear in my post. The issue with OKW stems from when they switched the tech system from timed trucks to purchasable units while also switching the units from truck to truck. In particular the JP4 being moved from the med truck to Flack HQ and the Luchs being put into the mech truck. This screws up OKW's army synergy and makes teching linear. Although there are balance issues that OKW currently suffers from, the core of the problem is the underlying tech structure. Although you could "fix" OKW by just giving them all of the tools that other factions have (T0 MGs, Smoke Nades, Caches, etc...), that doesn't solve the underlying tech issues that OKW has and it ultimately makes them less unique and interesting to play. The Luchs/Puma problem still exists, the JP4 and Panther still compete for the same roll, teching is still linear, volks are still in an odd place, OKW is still over dependent on the T4 building, the cost of the trucks is so high that it is impractical to put them outside of the base and you are still punished a disproportionately high amount for losing particular units in your army (light vehicles/ sturmpios)! Unless the fundamental design of OKW changes (either to what it once was or to something new) many of these issues are not solvable while still keeping OKW balanced. Even if they do manage to make OKW a balanced and competitive faction, without the aforementioned design change, a significant portion of OKW's kit will still be gimped! In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW's Current Design Problem: The Why and How24 Feb 2017, 02:24 AM It is my personal opinion that OKW has an underlying problem with its design that stems from the decision to change the trucks from being timer based to being purchasable units in combination with shuffling the placement of various units in each of the trucks. (note this applies to 1v1s and to an extent 2v2s, 3v3s and 4v4s are not considered for this post) Pre-Rework, OKW had this tech structure: Base Truck Volks Kubel Sturms Rakketten King Tiger (when all other trucks had been built) Medic Truck Leig IR Half track JagdPanzer IV Free Heals and up-gradable retreat point. Mech Truck Flack HT Puma Stuka Free Repair and resource conversion Flack HQ Obers Luchs Panther Panzer 4 The BFG on the truck itself This non-linear tech system is what all of the units in OKW were designed to work around. Notice that none of the trucks have units with overlapping roles. This is because each tier is balanced so that you can tech from any tier to any other tier (with the exception of T3 being unable to be your first tech). Teching from T2 to T1 was just as viable as teaching from T1 to T2, or from T1 to T3, etc... Each tech combo has its own benefits and drawbacks. Unfortunately, Relic had a hard time balancing OKW and there were several abuseable units and strats, in particular the Volks Spam, Kubelwagons, and the mech truck's resource mechanic and so relic decided to rework OKW to be more enjoyable to play against while also becoming easier to balance. Post Rework they now have this structure: Base Truck Volks Kubel (now a capping unit, OKW has no non-doct/vehicle suppression) Sturms Rakketten KT is now a call-in Medic Truck Leig IR Half track Flack HT Heals and up-gradable retreat point. Mech Truck Luchs Puma Stuka Repair Flack HQ Obers JP4 Panther Panzer 4 The BFG on the truck itself There were several other changes as well in the initial rework OKW no longer had its own unique resource system, and the conversion ability was removed from mech truck The Kubel is no longer a suppression platform and is now a capping unit Resource fuel cost tweaks for most of OKW's vehicles Trucks no longer come in on a timer, they are now purchasable with fuel and MP These changes effectively kill the non-linear nature of OKW's teching and create numerous obvious and subtle problems with the faction. Obvious problems: The Panther is now competing in its role with the JP4, as they both do the exact same job, and the JP4 does it cheaper and arguably more effectively It makes less sense to buy the Flack HT, its overly expensive and very vulnerable to light vehicles and even infantry. Volks Shrek Spam is heavily encouraged due to: a.) no other AT options besides the lackluster pupchen (rakketten) until you hit T4 b.) No longer resource limited by resource mechanics c.) Volks are very lackluster until they get high vet, where they become extremely durable Losing T3 in a 1v1 is essentially a game loss, as they now have to pay roughly 150 more fuel for the option of buying a tank again. OKW now essentially has no suppression, making them more vulnerable to allied "blobs" If you want a MG, you have to get one from doct. Subtle Problems OKW's tech is no longer non-linear. People are now encouraged to rush for T4 as quickly as possible Now that OKW's tech is normalized to other factions, they essentially get free heal/repair when other factions have to pay for theirs. Going for T2 is much riskier than it used to be because you no longer have any healing for your units. The luchs and puma are now directly balanced against eachother. If the Puma has too good AI, it makes no sense to buy the Luchs, and vice versa. It also means that if you decide to buy a luchs, your only AT will be pupchens and Shreks, unless you are willing to now delay the more expensive and necessary T3. T2 becomes much riskier as you are punished heavily for losing a single light vehicle. It's simply not worth the cost of replacing it, as you need that fuel to tech to T4 as quickly as possible. Relic's responses to this (there are other changes, but those relate to balance, not design issues): You now have to pay to unlock healing and reapair from mech in both fuel and mp. Volks have vet nerfed and Shreks are replaced with Stg44s Sturms now have shreks T0 now gets the (worst in game) MG after you tech. More fuel tweaks and minor performance tweaks. These changes provide additional issues Sturms are now extremely overloaded. They now have the role of repair, AT and sweeping and are too expensive to get multiples of. You are also penalized extremely by losing your sturms Volks are now in an odd place. They don't perform well at range, but don't beat out close range units either. Going Mech truck is even less incentivized, because you have to pay for the previously free repair. The Puma and Luchs are further stratified into their roles and it is even less practical to buy both. There is absolutely no reason to ever buy a Flack HT. Its cost and performance are completely out of sync. OKW is now forced to choose between being extremely vulnerable to mines, or having to rely on the lackluster pupchen to defend against vehicles OKW's extremely lackluster indirect fire options leave them very vulnerable to MGs. Each truck is now an even larger investment than it was before if you also pay for the benefits that used to be free with the individual trucks, which makes it even less worthwhile to place them outside of the base. These changes have resulted in an extremely limited OKW that relies almost exclusively on Doctrinal call in units to shore up the weaknesses of the base faction. Scavenge and Spec Ops are dominant because it allows OKW to skip the expensive T4 and instead invest that manpower elsewhere (a problem all factions due to the current light vehicle meta, but hits OKW particularly hard). OKW has gone from a dynamic faction that was unique in its non-linear teching to a mess that relies on the beefy nature of its T4 units to smash its way to victory. Although OKW still has the choice of deciding if they want to go T1 or T2 first, they are punished severely for their choice regardless. Either you will play with nothing but infantry for 3/4ths of the game, or you will have no healing/indirect fire for 3/4ths of the game. The possible unit combinations that you can field is also quite limited, giving you a small reactive toolset in which you are forced to respond to what your opponent builds with little possibility for variation. Now before you type up your response calling me a nostalgic noob Axis fanboy, I'm NOT saying that old OKW was perfect. There were numerous balance problems with the faction that made it very un-enjoyable to play against. Shrek blobs were still a problem before they reworked OKW (although it wasn't encouraged by the design of the faction nearly to the same degree), there were other units that clearly needed to be adjusted for both larger games and for 1v1s alike. (anyone remember the old suppressing leig or autowipe stuka?) What I am saying is that the rework changed the nature of OKWs problem from a balancing concern to an underlying design issue, and made the faction extremely less fun to play to boot. I think that attempting to balance OKW in the manner that it has been handled post patch is merely treating the symptoms and not the cause. Unfortunately its extremely unlikely that OKW will ever get the rollback/rework that it needs, however I do feel like exposing the issue with how OKW functions will make balance discussion more productive when talking about OKW. If given the option, I would want to roll OKW back to pre-rework statues and then set out balancing the faction from there. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Problem with CoH2’s RNG: Consistency2 Feb 2017, 08:50 AM lol hearthstone is the very picture of a game rendered non-competitive by rng. Literally any other card game would have been a better example. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: sad but true2 Feb 2017, 08:48 AM Q U A L I T Y T H R E A D U A L I T Y T H R E A D In: Scrap Yard
Thread: [OKW] vs [USF] Don't underestimate OKW light vehicles! 20min2 Feb 2017, 07:25 AM OKW Vs USF game (myself as OKW) Game Description: Had a fun game playing OKW against an USF player. Started off at a disadvantage, losing both a volks squad and a mg34 early in the game. Seeing that my opponent springs for both racks and med truck, I go for a luchs to try to push him back to the base before he gets his stuart. The game gets pretty rough with my opponent controlling 90% of the map at one point, but with light vehicle play, I manage to slowly even the playing field until my opponent gets his pershing out. Both players secure several more wipes and win minor fights until the game quickly ends with a fight in the bottom of the map, with me losing a luchs but securing a couple wipes. Game includes: Definitive proof that the MG34 is absolute garbage Elite Armor's radio intercept use that was actually helpful A Puma gunner with impressively bad aim A visual bug that really should be fixed the world's luckiest Kubel Post Game thoughts: My opponent kept me bottled up for most of the game, but was unable to make use of his stuart due to my light vehicle play with the Puma and P2. Had he micro'd it better I would of been in significantly more trouble. Towards the end of the game he started to get overwhelmed by everything happening on the map and ended up dropping a couple of squads for no reason, although they would not have had an impact on the game regardless. I made several mistakes during the game which resulted in me having a much smaller army than my opponent (having dropped a kuble, volks squad and a mg34). I was quite lucky in that I was able to see him put down mines right at the start of the game, which allowed me to identify his doctrine right off the bat. Considering 90% of Pershing players go for captain and Stuart I decided to go for mech to make up for my earlier errors. Seeing that he went for weapon racks and had a med truck, I went for the luchs figuring that by the time he had his stuart out I would have enough fuel for the puma. I was able to take advantage of his poor micro and evened the killcount by the time he got his pershing out ( I also grabbed a rakketten about the time I expected him to get the pershing). I go for T4 for obers to counter the absurd amount of damage that his rifles are doing to me, but I end up not having enough mp to actually get them. I do end up dropping the luchs by playing overly aggressive and taking a poor route back to my base, however it had done more than enough damage to make up for its loss. In: Replays
Thread: Daily thread: Disable offmap to use in base.8 Jan 2017, 07:17 AM They already disabled off map arty in the base sector in the preview for the next patch you putz. Look at the patch notes before you make a thread whining about a problem. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Command Panther's Buff Tooltip Error16 Dec 2016, 07:34 AM When the Command Panther hits vet 2, its aura increases accuracy of other tanks. However when you hover over the description of the buff on an affected unit, it notes that the aura is buffing accuracy and range, which should not occur until it hits vet4. In: COH2 Bugs