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Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch3 Oct 2018, 08:38 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Oct 2018, 07:09 AMSander93 Well baseline is that OKW faces basically the same problem, as Volksgrenadiers are the only thing they can build early on which leaves little room for yet another infantry squad at 2CP. It's a bit more nuanced than the USF but in the end the core issues are similar. You build 3-4 Volks right off the bat, perhaps a Kubel, and the next thing around 2CP you're gonna want is ATG, HMG, light vehicle or save manpower for Obers. There's no room for a just-not-elite squad like JLI. Moving JLI to 0CP with the deployment cooldown would really allow them to be integrated into the core army as a replacement to a Volks squad. If it turns out their current combat capabilities too good for 0CP, some of their performance at vet0 can be nerfed and moved to vet1-vet2 (like camo and the scoped Gewehr43 accuracy) so they will be at full capacity around the time of 2CP. As an OKW player I would really appreciate it if there was actually a bit more variation in starting build orders because besides the occasional Kubel or second Sturmpioneer, it's just the same 3-4 Volksgrenadier strat every single match. The sight (50) that JLI give would also be extremely useful in OKW's early game to help avoid HMGs. True. Just pointing out that it’s even worse for usf so you really see the extent of the pain XD If the prove to be too strong at 0cp they could have their scoped g43 on a free upgrade that’s locked behind 2cp like I proposed with paths. They’d probably need be infiltration nade (they still have that right?) to be locked behind cp as well since it’s way too cheap to be available in the early game. Theo only thing that worries me is that 2-3 of these backed by a kubel to damage squads so they could crit would be blatantly op in the very early game if they had the g43s at all right off the bat (I get that you wouldn’t have volks but it wouldn’t matter because the game would be over in like 4 minutes). IIRC it crits on models at 70% health or lower and has a very high accuracy. Same with pathfinder snipers, but at 40% and with lower accuracy according to the Cruzz’s Things to Know thread if I’m interpreting it right. In: Lobby
Thread: Battlefield V WW2 - Weapon and Vehicle List3 Oct 2018, 00:08 AM PIAT will be an interesting weapon for sure. I’m curious to see how they balance it, guessing it’ll be sorta like the rpg in bf3/4 (slow velocity and high drop but high damage). I’m overall very impressed with the primary weapon list too, especially considering it’ll only get a lot bigger as time goes on and Americans and probably Soviets are added. In: Other Games
Thread: About KV-2 in Patch3 Oct 2018, 00:05 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2018, 22:47 PMmiragefla KV-2 Reload Tank Mode: 9 (Currently in the Revamp) Siege Mode: 10/12 (Same numbers as live) Wait shouldn’t siege mode reload be faster than normal mode? In: Lobby
Thread: Axis artillery/Lefh overperforming3 Oct 2018, 00:04 AM Meh it’s pretty balanced IMO. It’s not really stronger than any of the other artillery guns. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pathfinders did they useful?3 Oct 2018, 00:01 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2018, 22:39 PMLago 1CP would be good for any other faction, but USF pretty much has to deploy their whole mainline force up front. If I go Airborne I find myself getting the ambulance early again so I'm not floating manpower, which delays teching further. A good solution would be to tie Pathfinders to tech so they have a build time. If that build time's a fair bit longer than Riflemen then deploying them off the bat will hurt your field presence. I meant locking only the sniper rifles behind a free unit upgrade like volks stgs but at 1cp, with paths coming at 0cp like assault engineers. That way you can still have the field presence without them being overly powerful for a unit that hits the field right off the bat. Whether they come with a build time or not I don’t really have an opinion on. And I’m certain that IR paths only have 1 sniper rifle in exchange for having the arty ability. Airborne paths have 2. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch2 Oct 2018, 22:34 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2018, 19:47 PMSander93 So Jeager Light Infantry haven't really been discussed beyond their initial changes, but the Pathfinders discussion brought up a good point about their timing. JLI are a squad that supplements other squads rather than being able to fight on its own. The problem with using such a squad is that their timing (2CP) makes them awkward to use. By that time there's already a stack of mainline (Volks) infantry around with elite infantry (Obers) soon on the way. Manpower at that point is needed for the transition into midgame: for ATG, HMG, light vehicles and elite infantry. I think this is the main reason they aren't used much in the live build. I would therefor propose to put them at 0CP, and let them start on a cooldown of 1-2 minutes so they can be deployed as the third unit instead of a Volks squad. Having a long range unit early on would also help OKW as a softcounter to HMGs and snipers. It would supplement the faction really well I think and they might be used much more often this way. If this were to be changed and proven succesful, it would be obvious to give Pathfinders the same treatment at a later stage. I agree to an extent in that they sort of face the same problem but there’s a lot of distinguishing factors that make it not nearly as bad for okw. Things to consider about usf are that riflemen bleed significantly more than volks and are also meant to pretty much carry the faction, and usf doesn’t have access to anything to cut bleed in the early game like sturms, a high cqc dps squad that’s very efficient (as opposed to overly strong or something) on the flanks if used carefully (in the early game anyway) or the kubel, which can go around and cap and fight but not bleed any manpower. Also, usf officers are great but that means even more mandatory infantry squads, and the free infantry are instead compensated by lots of side teching and fairly expensive (manpower wise) healing. All that has its own ups and downs and isn’t necessarily bad or unbalanced for usf but the bottom line is that it makes it harder to somehow shoehorn in even more infantry in your army without lacking support weapons/vehicles or bleeding so hard you can’t reinforce your units. You’re also meant to go and get even more infantry in the form of paras, further exacerbating the problem. Airborne company is also pretty poorly designed, with 4/5 of its abilities being manpower heavy callins that are nice but draining (and 2 of which are literally just stock units to compensate for usfs shitty teching). If you compare just the two units too, okw is a bit more advantaged. While it’s true that JLIs are pretty expensive and perform best as supporting infantry, they also do very well on their own due to having combat oriented abilities, which pathfinders don’t have at all. Their scoped g43 is also significantly better than a single scoped garand but I don't know how it stacks up against 2, and they also get better camo right off the bat IIRC. In: Lobby
Thread: "balancing" discussions are ALL pointless2 Oct 2018, 19:29 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2018, 18:00 PMLeOverlord There's a reason people are hostile towards them. Give advice, do it in a gentle manner. When you go to get a job, the boss doesn't tell you "learn how to work". He TEACHES you. He's there to answer your questions, help you do something a little bit better than you previously did. This is how you teach/advise someone. Does this thing exist in this forum? No, not at all. I don't degrade Imperial Dane and every Imperial Dane when i say i don't like him. I don't like his attitude, i never questioned his ability as a player. I have watched his streams and i like how he plays (his playstyle as Wehr is what i want to deal with when i play games, not the irritating MG spam i see in my rank). But when he starts the shit about balance, i really wish i could punch him in the face. Unlike your boss, they have no obligation to you at all and if you go around insulting them, righteously or not, they’re probably not going to have the best/most useful attitude towards you either. I’ve personally only really had positive interactions with top players, probably because I don’t go around bitching that the pros only go around abusing stats or don’t actually know what they’re doing among other things. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pathfinders did they useful?2 Oct 2018, 19:21 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2018, 19:06 PMLago They're not really mainline+ in the sense that they need tougher squads around to do their thing. CP0 but starting on cooldown is probably good for Pathfinders. CP1 is too late in practice for USF. Glad someone thinks the same way. I think them having the scoped rifles at 0cp might be a bit much and apparently their carbine’s dps is still quite good, which is why I suggested locking them behind a free upgrade that requires 1cp. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pathfinders did they useful?2 Oct 2018, 17:14 PM The carbines they have are actually much better than the M1 garand that riflemen carry IIRC. They are more accurate at all ranges and do normal rifle damage, whereas relic decided that the full sized M1 garand firing .30-06 should do less damage than most rifles (including the M1 carbine that fires pistol rounds lol) for whatever balancing reason I guess. They aren’t supposed to be fighting on their own and aren’t supposed to be sniping on their own but work great in conjunction with riflemen or 1919 paras. The one thing I find annoying is that they come at 1cp. I wish they came at 0cp without the snipers and could upgrade them for free at 1cp so they could properly replace a rifle squad, making using airborne/recon support a lot more natural and less manpower draining and overly infantry heavy without sacrificing early game presence. They are expensive to reinforce and somewhat fragile so they can’t be spammed and don’t have nades or snares or anything so I don’t see how it’d be op provided they don’t have the scoped garands at 0cp. They also drop BARs a lot but that’s just one more reason to not use them like some kind of front line unit and keep them sniping in the back. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: "balancing" discussions are ALL pointless2 Oct 2018, 17:08 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Oct 2018, 14:53 PMLeOverlord This is why i don't want to have any kind of advice or conversation with "pros". Everything comes around "learning to play" A lot of it really does though. And that’s an area pros are very useful in giving advice. It astounds me that there’s so much hostility towards the opinions of the people who are objectively the best in the world at this game as a whole. In: COH2 Balance