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Thread: COH2 leaderboards unbalanced?10 May 2020, 22:14 PM Jump back to quoted post10 May 2020, 19:42 PMelchino7 Correct me if i'm wrong but it's the same if you play with people from your country or someone from the other side of the world. The game is not P2P as with COH1. You connect towards a battle server located in USA and then that info goes back to you. It doesn't matter where your opponent is located as lag is entirely on how long it takes for the packets info to go to the server and back. Not nearly the experience network wise. Command delay: - Playing with European people, the delay between me clicking a move order for a static squad is 1 second max (latency on average is around 500ms I think which is more than acceptable for RTS games) - Playing with non-European people (Asia, US,...) the delay between a command is around 5 seconds on average (I count at game start how much time it takes for echelons to start moving, each time I see Chinese letters). That means, when I click on any squad that is not doing anything and I click a move order anywhere.... the time between the click and the squad actually starting to move is around 5 seconds. It makes for some fun games with Asians (usually it's Chinese letters that tell you, you're effed). One funny and possibly the worst time was Sturmtiger starting the animation for the kaboom and I was clicking all my squads to move away. No matter how much I clicked any unit to move away, they were just standing there and right before the sturm fired it's cannon they started moving. That doesn't happen with European players. I know that it's not P2P and that you're connecting to a US server, however, if my knowledge of networks from 3rd year is still valid, the packets that arrive on the server from Europe and Asia need to be synced, hence the huge delay. It's not the same if it needs to sync only European players or Asia + Europe. So no, it's definitely not the same. And there only needs to be one person that's far away from you and the server. My download and upload speeds are around 100 Mbps and the router is 1m from me and it's only COH2 + Asians. In: Lobby
Thread: COH2 leaderboards unbalanced?10 May 2020, 18:38 PM Jump back to quoted post10 May 2020, 15:36 PMKoRneY Everyone deals with it. I looked at your match length history and you have shit tons of wins versus your losses. Like 10:1. But in automatch you have more losses than wins and you seem to blame everyone around you. To me it looks like you cultivated a posh winning environment and you don't want or know how to work with what you've got in random team games. My automatch is always random teams while my custom games are automatch conditions and maps but with my friends when they are available (vs whoever joins). And the network conditions are great since we kick any non European players. When it comes to online, as a Croat, I love Germans, Austrians. Best games are with Germans. Large pool of good players which are not as toxic as some others. I honestly dont care if I win or lose. I just want a good game. If I lose vs a better opponent, good. If I win, even better. I dont think of myself as a posh winner. Never really cared about online ranks in anything except ResearchGate for physics. I'm just looking for good competitive games. If I lose 20 games in a row but they were good. I'm truly happy. EDIT: Just to be clear, I ain't blaming anyone for losing, I'm only wondering if it's generally the case of unbalanced games...ok to be honest, I am blaming here because they flamed me for whole 10 minutes for not helping them deal with one OKW player (OKW OP reason, so soviet couldn't deal with sturms rushing him and was complaining about them). I'll admit that this one is a finger pointer. My bad for getting triggered at the flame. In: Lobby
Thread: COH2 leaderboards unbalanced?10 May 2020, 18:29 PM Jump back to quoted post10 May 2020, 14:15 PMT.R. Stormjäger Reset the search every 5 minutes if you don’t want crazy unbalanced teams. I'll do that. Thanks In: Lobby
Thread: COH2 leaderboards unbalanced?10 May 2020, 13:46 PM Jump back to quoted post10 May 2020, 13:43 PMKatitof Random team games make teams based on total ELO. 3 players with say 1500 ELO is the same as 2 players with 500 ELO and one with 3500. This is why no one treats RT games seriously and why they will never be competitive. Do you want a leveled experience? Find team mates and play with them. The number of serious people playing COH2 in modes 3+ is low. Europe, even lower. In: Lobby
Thread: COH2 leaderboards unbalanced?10 May 2020, 13:19 PM 5th game in a row I lose thanks to people like this. Shout-out to those 2 players that flamed me all game while doing nothing. Also, is there a way to not get Chinese people in my game? The ping is usually around 400-500 in games with Asian players. I oscillate between level 18 and 14 in 3v3 games (top 250) and I have noticed a huge disparity in 3v3 4v4 game modes. You'll either get great teammates or you'll get rank 1000 players that are probably new to the game. I'm really tired of waiting for 10 minutes each time (South/Middle Europe location) only to get 2-3 players that are obviously not in the top 1000, let alone 250 in any mode. Is the game dying on such modes or is it just my luck cause I really can't stand it anymore. In: Lobby
Thread: Elite Armour shuts down a Brit player early6 May 2020, 16:30 PM Stormjaeger, how old are you? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Panther6 May 2020, 08:01 AM Panther is in a good spot. I don't know why you want to nerf/buff it. It's not a tank destroyer, it's currently the best non doctrinal tank (possibly doctrinal). With MGs you can easily take on infantry and out of place AT squads. With the speed and agility and hp and armour you can take on any medium armour and TDs (let's be honest, unless the enemy is spamming TDs, panther doesn't really care about a single TD). The range part is easily bypassed by not rushing in when there is spotting on the map (flares, infantry, etc). I know for hell I'm not moving my Jackson(s) anywhere close to any enemy unit, be it infantry or tank, cause it's dead before you can react. Last but not least, the price tag is high but the ability to build 2 Panthers and cruise the map in peace, killing tanks is a blessing on it's own. Of course, if you avoid TDs. And if by any chance you run into a mine, well, tough luck (that's why I always have one pio or sturms behind any tank). It counters every allied medium tank (from Sherman to Comet), but is countered by TDs at range (if you get closer you can make any TD your bit**). Don't know what's the big fuss. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Stronger Fraction in 4v4/3v35 May 2020, 12:31 PM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2020, 10:34 AMT.R. Stormjäger Why? The super skilled 3v3/4v4 players are too skilled to lay down mines? Rhetorical question, of course they are. Putting down mines is too easy. Well, I've spectated games where mines didn't matter. On one hand when you do lay down mines for easier pick off (whether some bomb drop from air or arty or spotting for TDs), you need munitions and doctrines for stuff like that. I'm a USF player that lays down a lot of mines and from my experience, they helped me in around 20% of situations. Usually the enemies are smart enough to send one cheaper tank to the front to cover as much ground as possible before dying and setting off the mines. I've seen good players like that, 3 light vehicles managed to set off 7 mines and waste a lot of my munitions. Not 20 seconds after that, 2 tigers, sturm, and 3 panthers started pushing. Now, I had 2 jacksons and my soviet partner had 2 SUs and the other soviet partner was playing AT squads with infantry and Stalin's organs. 1 Panther got snared twice and 1 Tiger. Rest of the mines were on different chokepoints of Redball. They still pushed like hell and pretty much wrecked us. The jacksons were penetrating around 70% of shots which was not enough to kill large HP tanks before themselves being destroyed by a couple of hits. Basically the Axis played dead, encamped on their side of the map (the 40%). I knew there was trouble on the way when when they weren't even trying to take back some parts of the map. They held the bottom VP and fuel point while we basically held the top and middle. We lost the game even though we were leading most of the game up until that point (400-100 and won most of the infantry engagements). Mines do help and can be a deciding factor early on if you can snare something expensive and kill it. They are most helpful against inexperienced players. I'll never forget that 3v3 Redball. It was a good game even though we lost because it was a bit funny to see how a sh**load of heavy tanks are just slowly closing in on you and you're sitting there knowing it's the end. Mines pop, doesn't matter, snares happen, doesn't matter. The high hp/armour are doing their thing. I respect the enemy players for such coordination. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Stronger Fraction in 4v4/3v35 May 2020, 10:29 AM Allies are stronger early on but Axis can easily push through any defensive line with it's tanks. Unless you spam tank destroyers, if axis fields a brummbar and a couple of panthers, you're done for. A couple of games ago, the OST pulled 2 brummbars out of the blue along with a sturm from OKW and panthers from it's 3rd partner. They pushed through mines, 3 AT squads and a couple of tank destroyers with ease. ATs pretty much bounced on brum and sturm and panthers dove and took out TDs. Even though we controlled 60% of the map and were winning engagements, once the axis tanks get together to push, it's game over. Allies are better early on and in field control but axis have a Hail Marry resort. Which is better? They are even, you just have to [hold out/win early on] depending what you play. But I will say to Xenarra that even if you're decent, it depends on Axis players if they lose the Panther. You can be a good allied player but in 3v3 games, it depends on your teammates as well. One player will always carry the game depending on who they are going against and the spawn position and if the enemy is pushing 2v1. Summa summarum. In teamgames, there is no stronger faction. It depends on a plethora of factors. IMHO, allies are better early on but Axis have a 99% chance of succeeding a Hail Marry push with tanks if they play it smart (you'll be winning 400-100 in VPs and have more points in control across the map but axis will spam tigers, panthers, sturms and brums in secrecy). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Overall community trend3 May 2020, 18:50 PM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 18:21 PMGrumpy I think it depends a lot on the time of day. When the Europeans are playing, I'd agree with you. When it's in the evening on the US west coast, it switches. I just had a game on La Gleize where someone, whose base was on right side, went all the way to the left and started building emplacements. His name was in French, so I think he was trying to build a historically accurate Maginot line, someplace that the Germans didn't need to attack. This is a prime example of top 100 game. Games like this make me oscillate between rank 18/16/14 in 3v3. Of course, it's random teams since I couldn't find anyone from Europe to play with me during these virulent times. EDIT: My point being. One guy will always be super sub par so you'll have to fight on all fronts and keep tabs on at least 7 CTRL-# squads. The 12k dmg guy is top 100 in 3v3.... enough said In: COH2 Gameplay