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Thread: Why has the USF regular sherman become so bad...1 Mar 2019, 23:56 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Mar 2019, 23:44 PMTobis It's fine. It's cheaper than both p4s. It's the best AI medium tank. You don't buy it to fight armor. +1 If you really want a tank to bitch about go look at the comet or cromwell. The sherman does a lot of things pretty well, especially compared to those two. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ostheer with British commanders bug/hack 25 Feb 2019, 04:01 AM The funniest part is that he hacked to get tactical support of all commanders. Not commandos, not sextons but the commander that gives you the US mortar of all things. In: Lobby
Thread: Overwatch flare ability25 Feb 2019, 00:57 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2019, 04:40 AMaddvaluejack I believe the reason is the flare could kill one model several patches ago. Wait really? That's... weird. Be nice if it was removed though IMO, since flares aren't really supposed to reveal camo'd units anyway (okw spec ops flares and brit arty commander flares don't IIRC). In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Received Accuracy for OKW JLI and USF Pathfinder25 Feb 2019, 00:50 AM Jump back to quoted post25 Feb 2019, 00:01 AMaddvaluejack At least JLI with G43 is only good at long range. But Pathfinder with one Bar? Should I close in or stay at distance? I don't think JLI have any advantage over Pathfinder for this topic here. Any thing wrong with combined blob? Combining blob is strong for every faction, for example, combining Pathfinder and Rifleman is strong, too. Fair point but the pathfinders are considerably less tough and their snipers have almost twice as low the crit threshold. BARs make up for that somewhat, but they don't get the bonus against cover, which is really what negates counterplay for those particular blobs. How is one supposed to realistically outplay the blob if its tougher and is able to deny your cover? And you're also forgetting that JLI can sprint, booby trap, self heal, and get a short 50% accuracy bonus out of camo. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Received Accuracy for OKW JLI and USF Pathfinder24 Feb 2019, 23:21 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2019, 22:51 PMaddvaluejack Is this really comparable? Will you move your troops out of cover/garrison simply because you see a squad of JLI is closing? I laugh if jaegers are closing in. They should be at max range and stationary. That being said, if I engage them and my troops can function at short range, yes I do move out of cover and close. If not, I just cry and retreat or suffer losing the engagement or bring in other troops because how are you supposed to win if your cover is negated and his isn't (and his infantry is tougher than yours)? Bottom line is, I'd disagree with Lago and I don't think they're comparable to flamethrower troops. Flamethrowers have significant caveats in that they're short range and don't work as well on troops out in the open since they're dependent on AoE. They're also only available on squishy engineer squads, for good reason. Jaegers, meanwhile, are long range, not so dependent on whether the enemy is in cover or not and completely self sufficient in that they're tough enough to stand up against most other infantry units (indeed, they're actually man for man a lot tougher than a lot of infantry units), and can even sprint away from unfavorable engagements. On top of that, them having a cover denial role in a faction whose mainline infantry have incendiary grenades makes no sense. They didn't ever have the 0.9 accuracy against cover until they got revamped, and didn't serve in that role before then. IMO all it does is encourage blobbing them up with other infantry and just a moving to victory since you can't outplay them with infantry because using cover gets voided and all the other okw infantry has stgs out the ass to counter closing/short range troops en masse. A mixed blob of JLIs and volks is pretty annoying to deal with in that regard and is really only possible with vehicles or indirect. They even get great sight range to avoid mgs if their commander has half a brain (which would be fine but for the reasons above IMO). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Recon Support this patch24 Feb 2019, 18:43 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2019, 22:16 PMFlyingsmonster I don't hate it, it's just hard to justify spending the 40 ammo when there's so many other things in recon support that require ammo; support paradrop, greyhound mg / canister shots, BARs for your I&R pathfinders / riflemen, butterfly bombs, zooks / LMG on the paras etc. I'll try it out when I have an abundance of ammo though, see how it works with the greyhound. Another issue is I generally avoid the M20 and just get a Greyhound currently, as the M20 is great, as are its mines but I avoid teching Lt. most games and just go Captain for the AT gun and rush out a sherman after my Greyhound. Also, it's hard to justify using it with the Greyhound because I don't want to waste time capping points with something I can constantly be on the offensive with. Also I hate having to dump 70 ammo into M20s armor skirt to make it survivable, it's just more ammo I don't really ever have unless I completely avoid getting BARs. +1 That's the only reason I don't use it a lot more; the commander is just bloated with munitions expenditure as it is. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Received Accuracy for OKW JLI and USF Pathfinder24 Feb 2019, 18:32 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2019, 18:07 PMLago The two units have very little in common now. Almost all small arms are 50% less accurate versus a unit in cover. Heavy cover provides 50% damage reduction on top of that. This makes a squad in heavy cover about four times more durable than it is out of cover. The damage on the JLI crit rifle is low, but it has 90% accuracy vs cover instead of 50%. It also has chance to instakill models below 75% health. These two bonuses combined heavily mitigate the benefit the enemy gets from cover. Pathfinders don't have that accuracy bonus and can only crit models below 40% health. They're more of a force multiplier unit: they can do a lot of damage if a Rifleman squad is around to set up the crits for them, but they're pretty weak on their own. IMO jaegers should be more like pathfinders. They have somewhat similar costs and the same reinforce costs, but jaegers are way tougher and have plenty of abilities, and their sniper is much better. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Urban defense mayhem 24 Feb 2019, 01:30 AM Don't focus the buildings themselves when soviets make the urban defense things. If you can force a retreat on his units then the structure is useless (but it does give him sight so keep that in mind. Like others said, use suppression and instead of shooting the building with leigs use them to kill his infantry instead. Honestly don't even bother trying to raze the building unless you've got like a flamer HT or some real arty/offmap arty. Kinda wish infantry could decap the building like in coh1 though. In: Replay Reviews
Thread: AEC treadshot is super inconsistent.24 Feb 2019, 00:32 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2019, 00:07 AMKatitof And there it is. Oh lul. I think it might still be bugged though, since it seems to play the sound of the second shot without shooting sometimes (and from the scenario I described in the last post, since it worked the first time and not the second). In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Overwatch flare ability24 Feb 2019, 00:04 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2019, 23:47 PMelchino7 TBH, that's the first thing i thought to compare with on the concept of "free" recon. Radio intercept gives you audio cues and only works on 1v1 mostly as in other modes it's actually contraproducent to the player (you miss important normal audio cues due to sheer volume of them appearing). You know what units are arriving. You don't know where and when. But the most important aspect of OW ability is the vision it provides as it helps other units fight as well. We all know the penalties of say firing into FoG. Giving it the same behaviour as booby traps and a symbolic small cost, will lower the current powerhouse which is Overwatch as a commander. I like that solution. Just having to set the things would at least make it feel more "fair" I guess. It's also kind of annoying that it reveals camo'd units because it it puts them "in combat" when they try to cap points too. In: COH2 Gameplay