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Thread: Addressing the issue of ELO-hell.16 Feb 2022, 12:07 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Feb 2022, 10:44 AMProtos Angelus sniper I'd also like to point out one logical fallacy in Elo Hell conundrum. If you leave games because CELO said that the MM skewered it to one side, you have never tried to entertain the notion of other players existing in the said ELO Hell. If Elo Hell exists, then surely there must be many more players in it. Meaning that if you get paired with lower ranks, you might actually be getting good players stuck in low ranks (I have played with plenty of low rank players that were ACTUALLY QUITE GOOD). So if ELO hell exists then you are not the only one in it and should play every game until you can clearly make an educated guess that the game is unwinnable. You lost too much, the enemy has a much stronger grip, etc. If you leave games because of bad MM, then you are lying to yourself by saying that ELO HELL EXISTS and I'm the SOLE occupant. No other low rank player is good but me, so I'll leave and not even try to win a game. I mean, do have a quick glance at those pictures that show endgame result/stats and tell me which I've won and which I've lost. Go ahead. To quote the words of great Ghandi: "Gid Gud and don't leave" In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame Suggestion16 Feb 2022, 11:54 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Feb 2022, 11:36 AMDonnieChan So in every popular competetive multiplayer teamgame you have a fixed number of players (5v5, 6v6 etc.): Counter Strike, LoL, DotA, Rainbox Six, Overwatch, you name it. The ranked matches are fixed by this teamplayer number. One of CoH2's problems is the unbalanced 4v4 mode. This is partly due to the playerbase. The teamgame playerbase is divided in 3v3 and 4v4. Random/Solo searchers usually want the big battles of 4v4. There are like none people who specifically search random 3v3 and not also 4v4. So my suggestion is to remove the 3v3 Mode in Ranked matches: -Its easier to balance out maps, because there are only 4v4 maps -more maps (the specs for making a new map are easier, there is no dire need for mapmakers to make 3v3 maps) -you have more time to polish existing maps - you have a larger player pool - with the larger player pool its much easier to balance out the player search - teams of 3, guys who want to play with 2 friends play with 1 random which works absolutely fine in other games (counter strike, DotA, LoL, Rainbow six, etc.) and is widely accepted. -you can keep the 3v3 maps in custom games Relic should consider to just scrap the 3v3 Mode. LoL. Play the meme mode that is 4v4? I specifically search for 3v3. This is an unconventional but ultimately retarded idea. 3v3 is the best mode concerning teamplay/skill but the horrible map design is what keeps it seldom played. Across the rheine -> a lane map with retarded building/cover placement/elevation Redball -> Just no Port of hamburger -> retarded map of the century winner Ettelbruck -> too small and tight. Favors only one style of play. Best thing is that it's extremely dynamic. Rhzev -> snow map -> fps drops -> due to the orientation, favors super heavies. Also badly designed. Lienne -> Spawn dependent and laney. Extremely retarded map with horrible pathfinding Angermunde -> MG/mortar/pak43 map Essen -> Too wide/big for 3v3 La Gleize -> Too big + snow map You are left with: Whiteball, which is a good map, could use a rework for 3v3 for the spawns. Oka River Winter. A fine map but it's a snow map so it's unpleasant to go lategame with FPS tanking from 140 to 20. Winnekendonk -> A fine map, but also favors one spawn over the other and some cover positions are sketchy. Also, since it's wide-oriented, super heavies dominate it (ele parked around mid can shoot at anything, anywhere). Hill 400. Great map, biggest downside are the elevations which screw with the engine/hit chance/ground attack/cover Steppes. Great map, albeit far too large for 3v3. Munition part of the map favors kubel/222 spams vs USF. If you spawn deep, you'll have a harder time getting to the frontline. General mud. Also a great map but too large for 3v3. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Addressing the issue of ELO-hell.16 Feb 2022, 10:44 AM My first 10 games as USF were all wins. Out of those 10 games, I carried 8 or 9 of them (and I was a worse player back then). After those 10 games I got the rank of ~480 if I'm not mistaken. I proceeded to carry games up until rank 300. After oscillating around rank 300 I slowly but surely started improving my game and adapting and reached rank 100 as USF in 3v3 only random. All those MM fails and leavers and crashes work both ways. I've literally had a losing streak of 9 games where in each of those 9 games my teammate either left or joined but were afk for 10 minutes -> can't surrender -> have to leave I've crashed on won games, crashed on lost games. Although after the 64bit patch, I seldom crash. I've had MM fails where I got paired with rank 5000 and wondered why I'm playing 2v1 when I check the ally base to see mass retreated IS spam, no AT gun, no vickers and I figure, amazing. However, all those things happened to my enemies. I've had games where top 10 axis players got paired with top 6000 against an average rank of 100 in my team. Meaning that the games were laughably easy. I've also had games where the enemy crashed and we turned a losing game into a winning. I've also had games where I had a winning streak of 3-4 games purely by random enemy crashing on load screen. So in other words: "God giveth and God taketh away" Statistically it all evens out and I believe that by being top 100 for more than 2 years now proves the point that, while ELO hell exists, it's not inescapable. Again, I ONLY play 3v3 RANDOMS as USF. I play OKW mostly custom games here and there on random maps with random people and OST/sov/brits if I want a nice calm 4v4 with expert bots (eg. 20 panthers minute 13 on Lienne and USF "expert" bot charging them with HE Sherman or Brit "expert" bot placing a mortar pit on middle VP). You win some, you lose some. The point is that when you get into a 3v3 game where you're the outlier (recently had such a game, 2 easy bots on my team vs 3 easy bots on the enemy team, PGren blobs, 222 ultra spammers, penal spammers, etc) you need to show skill and carry. You NEED to push back the enemy in your lane and flank to help your bot teammate. Examples: . . . . . . . . . You win some of those rank MM Hellspawns, you lose some. Sometimes I get paired with 2 mouthbreathers, sometimes I get paired against mouthbreathers. Point is, if you're good, you'll get where you want to be. EDIT: ALSO, never leave games. CELO is a cancer and doesn't paint the whole picture. Uninstall it. 3v3 or 4v4, doesn't matter, never leave games until you see they are unwinnable. I've played against top 100 mouthbreathers and I've played with rank 800 exceptionally good players. I've played against top 50 premade teams that had the skill of a boiled potato. Great teamwork, but poor individual quality. They knew how to coordinate and throw stuka sector + zeroing + offmap arty to completely deny 80% of the frontline but when it came to micro skill -> EXTREMELY POOR. Don't leave games. Want an example of a great coordinating top 10 premade team that is just abusing one meta? If the abuse fails, they lose. I owned OKW Gardening Lelic in Lienne town part of the map even though he played triple SPIO with flamers (abuse of spio strength and town part of map CQC), flanked to help out my teammates (who are also premade and EXTREMELY BAD) and they just ragequit all 3. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pioneers - the biggest broken OST unit.16 Feb 2022, 00:47 AM Pioneers having such a large sight is not really a problem in most scenarios. Sure, on some maps it's a bigger deal than on others, but it's still fine. They are a close quarters unit meaning that they can only really defend the MG42, and not trade with anyone cover to cover. Sure, you could make the bonus sight a vet1 bonus, but then oorah would have to go to vet as well; probably the IS cover bonus would also have to be redistributed onto veterancy (nerf vet0, buff vet1 cover bonus)... too much hassle to balance it at this stage of the game. Also it's more of a teamgame issue where one MG42 can lock down a VP and a fuel point (Across the rheine, west spawn-bottom). And only for brits and USF. Brits lack a good smoke dispenser and the USF mortar will only be a population strain later on (having sh** AOE). Going for the 81mm mortar as soviets is even encouraged in teamgames on such maps, so the pio/mg42 will be negated. All in all, it's a map design issue at most. Not an "OP unit" issue In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Addressing the issue of ELO-hell.15 Feb 2022, 20:36 PM I agree with Jaeger. If you really are much better than the enemy, you will 2v1 them easily. Heck, I've had games where I had 3x the damage of the rest of the players -> check ranks -> rank 1000+ Generally you are always in the ballpark of the rank you deserve. Sure you can have drops but you will always get it back one way or another if you deserve it. I was around rank 250 for a year until I really started improving my game and now I'm constantly rank 10-60. During the weekends I creep closer to top 10 (I play more games) and during the workdays I'm generally around 40 (I play one game a day max). When I was rank 250 I didn't really know the weaknesses of OST/OKW. I used to think that because Rifles are 280 and grens are 240, that rifles will win any cover to cover fight, provided both are in identical cover. I didn't know that pioneers had 42 vision. I played all factions a lot when I started, to get to know them, but never really troubled myself with numbers and stats. When I actually checked what/where/who/when/.... I started having a much more consistent gameplay. That's the main line really... consistent play. Sure long games are cancerous because everyone loses concentration and the FPS drops hard (unless you have 10000$ machines), so it's much harder to control multiple units with 20 FPS in 3v3s. Hence why often enough in 3v3s and 4v4s you see lategame blobs from all sides. Hell, in competitive play I only go for USF and I play Heavy Cav 80% and airborne 20% of time, pretty much figured out what goes where in terms of countering (I still don't build USF mortars because they suc* hard) and can win and even carry top 30 games (which are seldom but eh). EDIT: 4v4 is a meme mode. It's literally just a question who has a larger AOE, more armour/hp and stronger bullets 1v1 is all about individual skill/performance 2v2 needs more micro than 1v1 due to the extra enemy (you push back one guy, another might flank you) 3v3 is also micro intensive and population dense, meaning you are never really "safe" and flanks can be brutal. Teamplay is extremely important, so it's a toxic mode because the MM can be horrible. Had games where I played against 4x PGrens with 8 shrecks that just mega blob and run through the middle, and I've also had games where a penal blob runs into an MG and mass retreat (even though that MG was sitting there for the past 4 minutes, didn't move a cm). Such games, if you have the skill needed, you will DOMINATE your "Lane" (speaking in 3v3). Push back the enemy that is fighting you around your VP and flank wherever is needed, helping your teammate. Sure, horrible games can occur but I've learned a couple of things: 1) Don't queue for more than 7 minutes 2) Don't queue while Europeans are still at work (GMT +0 -> GMT +3) 3) Check how many players are playing. It's good to add good players as friends. From experience, when the people I've played with and had great games are playing, the MM tends to be much better. 4) From my experience, I get better games when the ratio of Axis/Allies queue is 60% axis/40% allies. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pioneers - the biggest broken OST unit.15 Feb 2022, 14:55 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Feb 2022, 14:17 PMRiley Pios have sight range 40. This means that they can know in advance where the vickers or maxim is located. And suppress your machine gun. For a long time I did not understand how the mg42 was shooting at me from the fog of war. Everything turned out to be simple - this is the sight range of the pioneers. How easily I take fuel or another important point in the early-early game, this is guaranteed. This is not a problem in general, it is only debut problem and the solution to the problem is very simple. Move the sight range 40 to the 1 vet. The base sight range should be 35, like other units: combat eng, royal eng, and RE. It made more sense to give such to the rear echelon in order to coordinate the mortar. I remember Sturmäger talking about the pioneers a long time ago, but then no one else paid any attention to it. It's actually 42 range. They ain't broken though. Giving them 42 range at vet1 would nerf them a bit in 3v3 and 4v4 I guess. Don't know how that would impact 1v1 and 2v2. Maybe that would be too big of a nerf. Who knows. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Hetzer does not suck; it actually is excellent.13 Feb 2022, 10:06 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2022, 00:24 AMKatukov the hetzer is alright because it torches infantry alive, but then you realize that both your standard medium tank (p4) and your nondoc heavy tank are infamously known for obliterating entire infantry squads with 1 shell randomly making the hetzer pointless in most people's eyes A couple of games had P4J wipe a full hp 5 model rifle squad in one shot, on neutral terrain, unclumped. Really don't know how it calculates the AOE damage. Same goes for the King Tiger. It will either miss the whole planet, or it will wipe a full squad. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: FRP12 Feb 2022, 01:19 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Feb 2022, 00:27 AMGachiGasm vCoH vibes with even larger maps. Imo you are wrong. The fact that FRP even exist for 3 out of 5 factions, just removes the punishing mechanic for mentioned factions for bad play and blobing. UKF\OKF\USF blob AF in teamgames only because they can afford to, since they will spend much less time to get back into the action in case they are suppressed and being artyed. Forcing ost\sov to retreat means you can win considerable amount of time by doing so, forcing WFA factions on the other hand hardly means anything because they still will be back much sooner. Thats why (especially in teamgames) you can somewhat win against EFA factions just by coasing a lot of retreats, while against WFA its all about wiping squads if you want to actually coase significat losses. And while FRP are reinforcing at lower speed, you still will be spending this additional time to heal up your squads, since UKF\USF\OKW have access to forward healing so slower reinforcement hardly means anything. FRP was cancer in vCoH for British, and it become even bigger cancer in CoH2. The only good feature of them is that they allow you to end the game in one good arty salvo against braindead flower who likes to blob and mass retreat. What should be done in CoH3 - all factions should have access to forward reinforcement tool, so you can play properly, soft retreat, reinforce and come back into the action, if you failed be punished by long retreats. But this brainless "Press R and come back 10 seconds later", definitly should go away. The only real map where forward retreat points are hard to punish is the Steppes. Mainly because it's so open and wide that chances are, if you try to use ISG or Pak howi or 120mm mortar, they will get wiped (ok, mortar has retreat, so a bit harder) trying to barrage the forward point. FRP is in itself not really a problem. You can either place it aggressively and risk extra bleed (barraging the FRP) and destruction or place it conservatively and shave off a couple of dozen seconds for retreat. Soviets don't have a FRP in stock, but they have durable 7 man squads and no USF style upgrade racks. I guess only the British FRP is without major "disadvantages". OKW FRP is tied to the teching, so destroying it yields a big bonus. Advantage: OKW units have no racks. USF FRP is tied to ambo + major. Major has great abilities and veterancy that adds bonus sight and ambo costs "quite a lot" (late game, 250 MP in teamgames for destroyed ambo is A LOT) and USF units are dependent on weapon racks to upgrade, so it's not as clear cut. So you lose a utility unit + ability to upgrade fast + risk getting ambo destroyed (which is extra easy). All that for a forward point, which is the most mobile of the lot, so that's the advantage. OST is basic when it comes to forward points, with no clear disadvantages. So all in all, considering pros/cons, the biggest loser is USF when it comes to FRP, followed closely by OKW. The biggest winner are British, followed closely by OST. .... And Soviets have no FRP without the commander (arguably the best FRP but it's locked behind a choice). So to sum up, FRPs are fine and well adjusted and contribute another layer to the strategy in the Real Time Strategy game In: Lobby
Thread: Top100 3x OST vs 3x top100 USF Ettelbruck11 Feb 2022, 19:43 PM Step 0: Maximum effort Step 1: Apply pressure Step 2: Hope to God step 1 works Step 3: If step 1 didn't work, pray Step 3.5: What is this retreat path? Step 4: Profit Ettelbruck. I believe the term is "A quicky" In: Replays
Thread: Why Stuart is sh*t compared to T7011 Feb 2022, 15:26 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Feb 2022, 14:45 PMKatukov the Stuart costs the same as the t-70 it can start taking down models, but yeah the dps against (exposed) infantry is inferior to the t-70 unrelated, but the t-70 actually doesn't do good on the move dps, its way stronger when stationary, although it can get lucky additionally green cover is rather really good at blocking T-70 shots, yellow cover clumps up your squad and lets it get damaged easier Stuart has better AT capabilities while T70 is more for recon/AI. Having an alive stuart later on in the game can give you vision boost, anti-dive engine damage ability and decent enough AT. It won't wipe infantry as well as the T70 does, but it's far from being a bad unit In: COH2 Balance