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Thread: Lock Demo Behind Veterancy12 Jan 2017, 16:47 PM The main problem in my opinion about demos is all the timing issues that go along with it. In the first 10-15 minutes of the game you will not have the manpower for largish army (50+ popcap), yet at the same time; the SU player can afford to setup multiple demos about the map. Mine sweepers for OST are a flat dps loss. Minesweeper on OKW leads to them having weak AT vs light vehicles which pop up at the same 10-15 minute mark. Also building multiple sweepers at this time is just not very viable as one does require a balanced fighting force. An early squad wipe via demo at this early point in the game is just devastating. Yet at the same time going two sweepers to fully protect your forces (main army and point capper) is such a massive burden that the pros will hold off as long as possible in getting a sweeper. Not uncommon for the sweeper to appear only after a squad has exploded! I suggest that the demo be locked behind both Vet 2 and 3. Locking the demo behind vet would also give the opposing players a 'tell' that they now have to be aware of squad wiping explosives. Vet 2 would unlock the standard demo. Vet 3 would unlock a demo that also has a small (10-15) sight range on it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 1 Month till February, changes within scope30 Dec 2016, 23:56 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Dec 2016, 22:55 PM__deleted__ Chance that demolition squad will wipe squad moving in open field (not clumped) is really small. He would have to directly go through that demo and enemy will have to detonate demo in exact moment. Simply chance of wiping squad in the open (full health) is really small. Even smaller with new patch spacing. So this leaves demos good to 3 things. Place them on capping point Place them near areas where squads clump on Place them on buildings. They will still be placeable on buildings because thats what you suggest to change. Demo on capping point cannot wipe your squad if you use some king of micro. Simple move from other direction than normal capping direction by shortest route and don´t cap near circle. By this enemy cannot wipe your squad with demo - most likely, if you know how to position your squad in circle. If he detonate demo, you lose 2-3 members and he lose 90 munnition. Only think where there may be problematic are areas where squads clump on because this may lead to several wipes and you cannot counter it. So all in all if we allow demos to be placeable on bridges, houses AND CAPPING CIRCLES they should be fine. If you don´t cap without sweeper its your problem. OKW have the same ability for 50 munnition on obersoldaten Except Obers booby trap point often only kills two men. This makes it very costly when a 30 muni mine will do the same thing. Will prob be even worse after patch and it only gets one model due large squad spacing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Winter Balance Patch: Wrong Direction?22 Dec 2016, 07:35 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Dec 2016, 01:26 AMZombiFrancis The only thing elite about Obers is their price. Four hundred manpower for a unit that has virtually the same survivability in the lategame (when it arrives) as Grenadiers. They really bring nothing to the table except for a particularly good LMG. And the LMG34 has definitely seen better days. Not since the original/initial days of the lulziest LMG34 have I feared Obers. And even then I really wasn't afraid of them or felt they were that scary. They were just a big fat juicy targets that sometimes made my paratroopers or shock troops deathgods. Then the Brits came out with their Sniper and everything to add insult to injury. Vet four Obers are really good as they suppress like a MG team. Problem is that getting vetted is a small miracle due to how squishy they are.. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Winter Balance Patch: Wrong Direction?22 Dec 2016, 00:11 AM Latest changes to Penals are the wrong direction :c Killing SU faction flavor as the faction wins via swarms of cheap units. Also I request that the balance people take a hard look at what tier that the Penals come out from. Compare Penals with an actual "Elite Infantry" unit such as Obers that come out of the final OKW tech building. The power creep is insane. Ober's have to get at least vet two (accuracy bonus) in order to be any use and are only able to buy One (1!) LMG. And also Obers suffer from 1.5X damage from explosives which provides a (overly) huge weakness to their anti-infantry strength. GGMachine recently stated in a youtube vid that Penals were pretty much done. I sincerely hope that you can take a step back from it all and see just how out of sync the changes are with faction flavor and power creep. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sandbag cover should be 50 percent larger.20 Dec 2016, 02:05 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Dec 2016, 12:10 PMAradan Polar Lights: If you prepare defence, you have time build two sandbag cover. Smaller squads need only one, but take it as they advantage. You mean build cover during capturing? Pro players buil one, but close to the flag, so that the enemy can not use the cover. Larger cover would go against this tactic. Think building one close to the flag (except for vp) has fallen out of favor as it can end up hurting you. Watching high end casts looks like the new thing is to build at the very edge of the capping circle. That and the tactic is to cheese bag the other side of the cover so it can not be used against you -.-' Problem is you do not have time to build two of them. You lose map control and you just have such a horrible time clawing the map back as OKW as you do not have a sniper or mobile flamers or a real mortar.... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sandbag cover should be 50 percent larger.20 Dec 2016, 02:00 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Dec 2016, 10:29 AMDonnieChan every day i see the wildest ideas here... Wish my idea would be put in game! Can't be worse then giving Penals every upgrade known to man lol. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sandbag cover should be 50 percent larger.20 Dec 2016, 01:58 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Dec 2016, 20:48 PMtightrope I agree with ferwiner it was intentional design. I think sandbags are good enough already. How does the health of the WFA sandbags compare to the conscript ones? How does getting suppressed "work good enough"? I watch your casts and you know just how bad OKW gets bullied by MGs :c Appears like mistaken (terrible) design to me. The bags do look like they have five spots for cover. But they do not actually provide cover. As such it seems totally reasonable that they be updated to reflect this. And we all know how great the former balance/design team of Relic is so..lol...lol... Hoping the new crew does a lot of good work going forward! My logic is that a defensive structure such as a sandbag should be able to fully protect the unit that builds it for the most part. Although there is something such as a UKF trench that was put in so a Vickers would have something to mesh with its vet bonus. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sandbag cover should be 50 percent larger.18 Dec 2016, 23:26 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Dec 2016, 22:03 PMferwiner Its quite simple - if you want better protection you stay around for another segment. If you want more resources you go to the next point leaving sandbags unfinished. Coh is a game of decisions, here is the one. Mind that you still are in better position than soviet conscripts, whose sandbags are bigger but are impossible to build during single capture of normal point. Sandbags should provide protection. Thats why you build it. Only providing 90 percent protection is just plain retard mode. Half arsed design does the game no good. Sandbags were made to protect 4 man squads. OKW and USA have five man squads but they did not update the bags to cover the entire squad. I would consider this a bug fix or quality of life as opposed to anything else. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sandbag cover should be 50 percent larger.18 Dec 2016, 21:48 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Dec 2016, 19:08 PMVuther Gonna have to agree with Aradan. Just build another segment. I'm pretty sure WFA's sandbags build faster because of that. Because building one segment is the same time as capping a normal point. Guess it would be better if they could be sandbags 2x as fast. As you do need two in order to actually provide yourself with cover. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sandbag cover should be 50 percent larger.18 Dec 2016, 18:24 PM Sandbags built by Okw and US provide too little coverage for a five man squad. Length of sandbags should be increased by 50 percent in order to fix this. This lack of coverage contributes to their weakness vs MG spam. You can build a defensive sandbag but the 5th model will often not be covered; therefore the entire unit will end up suppressed then pinned. Also many green cover map objects tend to only have 3 or 4 spaces of protection. Sandbags are basically just large enough to cover the four man squads of Ukf (before five man upgrade) and Ost. Su con sandbags by comparison are able to provide ample cover for their six man squads. It would be awesome if this could be fixed under "Squad Spacing" as five man squads do not fit behind the current sandbags that can only really cover four models. In: COH2 Balance

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