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Thread: Late game performances of Volksgrenadiers and veterancy5 Apr 2021, 17:05 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Apr 2021, 16:33 PMSpoof It doesn't matter if they reach their peak earlier/cheaper, the fact of the matter is that you can't have an infantry unit that loses at every single range to another AND have it be more expensive. Again, Volks can still defeat double BAR Rifles and double Bren sections at specific ranges even though Sections and Rifles are much more expensive. While I agree that volks late game are the weakest unit... considering who wins/loses I mean.... one unit will always win. A 120 muni and 280 MP unit has to win vs a 260 MP/60 muni unit. Always. A lot of people think that late game, units have to trade equally until they both have to retreat. Why? I mean, early on, OKW stats with sturms which can turn the tide since volks: vs IS: lose long range, hence you need to be the first one in cover or use sturms to 2v1 the IS squad and then establish the foothold and force the brit to assault your cover position vs rifles: win long range only vs cons: lose only short range So early game is quite balanced. OKW has a bit of a harder time, true, so they start with a unit that can shred close range any other mainline unit and trade evenly behind cover at mid range. So you have to survive that period. Then you get your first power spike, that can occur on the field and does not require retreat to base (a big plus) and you start winning engagements. Then later on, volks become inferior and obers take over as the shred machines. Considering the armour and stuka that supports volks, I'd say it all evens out. What you could do to volks without breaking anything is buff their vet 5 survivability. In other words, not add offensive capabilities, but defensive ones. That way you can hold your ground for longer to engage stuka or something else to dislodge the attack or make it easier for vetted volks to close in on a covered squad to again, engage something else to dislodge it. EDIT: If this site is truthful: https://coh2stats.com/stats/week/1615161600/3v3/wgerman then you can clearly see the 50/50 win rate on 1v1 and a respectable lead in the 2v2 and a massive 57% winrate in 3v3 and 4v4. If I remember correctly, when OKW came out it was a "survive until later on" kind of a thing. A faction that peaks later And agree with Carmine. If anything, obers need a buff, not volks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback5 Apr 2021, 16:13 PM The game should be mostly balanced around 2v2 because of the symmetrical nature of 1v1, there really isn't a reason for COH to be an asymmetrically balanced game. You cant balance around 4v4 because its a general shitshow of a mode. 3v3 is my personal favourite because IMHO it's the best combo since it's usually one v one on one VP. 1v1 is easiest to balance around. One thing that would immensly help the 3v3+ balance is the map pool. It's no secret that a good player can use JP4 + heavies to lock down an area if you do not have the exact commander to deal with it (or if you're playing against arranged, when your smoke will be followed by an enemy flare/recon and you jusr cant push 1v1 without some sort of offmap. Hence, redball and other shit maps go bye bye. Maps like Whiteball, Steppes would go a long way to counteract the "park heavy tanks on the front and bombard with stukas and werfers" balance problems of 3v3+. You have ettlebruck station which is a Lefh heaven. Redball for super heavies. Angrymundy for encampments and heavies. Port of Hamburger the same. Just a lot of maps that favor one particular playstyle and little to no chance of flank, gank, going the long way... Still. In response to MMX, I doubt the patch notes will change much. I'd like to be proven wrong though, because the current AEF ones are all over the place and doing nothing except nerfing important stuff without really reworking other underused units In: COH2 Balance
Thread: AVRE needs auto attack5 Apr 2021, 13:15 PM No it doesn't. Stop with the BS "I cant play with it so it must be UP" threads In: COH2 Balance
Thread: kv8 underperforms5 Apr 2021, 13:10 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Apr 2021, 12:36 PMChukiki I do notice the difference, and if the difference was "insignificant" they wouldnt have lowered it to that amount. How exactly do you use it? Because calling KV8 UP is laughable at best. Area denial with ground attack, good AI, good survivability, in good commanders, great synergy with SU85, can go vs LVs and even some like Ostwind with the 40mm. What more could you want? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback5 Apr 2021, 12:57 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Apr 2021, 12:25 PMMMX wtf even? both sturmpanther and jibber play all factions on a pretty high level, something you don't do for even one faction as per your own admission. won't go into detail about the rest of your rant, which is dunning kruger at its finest. If you say so. The number of games played on their matchcard says otherwise. Even more so if you factor in that they play from the start (do they?). Truth is that I play competitive 3v3 with USF only. And I play top 10 once in 20 games that I get queued with/against. Most of the time I play with top 200 arranged teams, which is not really anything dangerous. But I've enough games to make an educated judgement about the current state of affairs... And what? For past 3 years I play one competitive game per week in the 1000 hours I racked up so far. In the end I dont care really about any of this... But still care enough to make the custom leisure games more fun (which I play more) While I agree with the majority of changes, from all factions, buffs and nerfs, I do not understand why such inconsequential changes are being made in my fav faction. Can you say with a straight face that the 5 muni decrease or the "pershing" rework will make those units worth it? Calliope was OP, no doubt about that. But does it's timing and price and doctrinal only availability justify 2 hit/100% penetration/low agility justify it? I dont care, since I never play Calliope, but the "logic" and the constant "in line with" BS is not really consistent. By all means, make it 1h kill (justiy as if you hit it, the rockets explode and destroy the tank), and non doctrinal and cheaper. Copy paste every unit and call it a aday. Or stop the BS changes and reworks that do exactly nothing. Heck, I even advocated that they do not nerf 5 man grens. Had no problem dealing with them in 3v3 (but they were cancer in 1v1) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback5 Apr 2021, 12:44 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Apr 2021, 11:39 AMSander93 Combined Arms doesn't have any utility in 3v3? Excuse me? This is one of the best abilities in the game. Especially in teamgames where you can blob up your tanks and infantry easier. Jacksons in particular wipe the floor with anything they encounter with 65 range, fast reload and high sight range. Though I'm personally against changing it, because I think it's fine to have these kinds of very strong abilities in the game. It takes quite a lot of work to set up and use. Another issue is that lowering the vehicle reload bonus to -15% is actually only like a -9% effective bonus, because many USF vehicles (all the open topped ones) have wind up and wind down included in their reload which do not get affected by the bonus. Dont know which map can you blob Jacksons and not get punished for it. Once or twice that I have used it was to make a hail Mary push with Shermans and unupgraded rangers. And even then it was a shi* ton of bounces and barely managed to break through. But that is more of a map problem. Except for steppes and whiteball, the rest of the 3v3 map pool is lane-y BS that prioritizes ele/jagd/isu/lefh and campy stuff like that. Heck, couple of games ago one guy managed to spam more lefhs than we had solutions to kill them. Lucikly the major recon exists. Combined arms is overrated. I've seen olays with it a couple of years ago in a 3v3 where 2 USF player spammed jacksons (literally, jacksons and a rifle or two, basically no AI) and the axis player spammed P4s and Panthers (something that is wrecked by your scenario). Other than that. No. Combined arms is good on paper but only ever useful for Hail Mary's. Besides, its in a commander with a pershing, and if you take the pershing, good luck getting other tanks out. So one commander that can actually use it in the end In: COH2 Balance
Thread: kv8 underperforms5 Apr 2021, 11:04 AM K8 is very strong. You have to support it. Don't expect for it to do all the work for you. Support it with an SU85 for AT and some infantry and you'll see the enemy burn. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback5 Apr 2021, 10:58 AM The whole AEF commander update is pointless. Pershing: The problem with it is not the repair part, sure REs repair it slowly but it's still useless with it's low armour/HP and an overnerfed main gun without any pintles to deal steady dmg. If it had it's old AI gun, then yeah, it would be useful, but the current one won't wipe anything, and it's armour won't be used as a breakthrough and it's agility is not really that high to drive it around like a deja-vu drift session. Rifle nade nerf: One of, if not the weakest upgrade. Only situationally good in 1v1s. And that's a hell of a situation as well. E8 changes: Sure you can add the 5 more range and if penetration scales linearly, you'd have slightly better penetration on close to mid range but it's still a useless tank. Not any faster than a Panther, not armoured, mediocre AI, mediocre AT. Sure, 1v1 it will brawl with P4s but nobody builds only P4s throughout the game and you'll be forced to go 2x Jackson and abandon the E8s once Panthers and heavier duty armour starts rolling out. Combined Arms nerf: Never used it, don't think it has any utility besides looking good on paper. At least not in 3v3s. Haven't seen anyone use it so it's a quasi change, only for the sake of having a bigger change log. 240mm barrage: Could be useful, who knows Cav Rifles: 5 muni buff is memeworthy. Because you know, those 5 muni really gives you the upper edge since you'll be calling it non-stop now and we all know that brick by brick and you get a palace Fired up: Meh, it's still in a commander that is downright useless and costs a full ability point so don't think anyone will pick Rifle company to make their rifles run Heavy Cav smoke: This is a super useful thing. Even though it's inferior to other smoke drops, it still has it's uses. 10 muni change won't make much of a difference. Again, change to make the log longer IR Barrage: Stupid nerf. If you spend so much muni just to displace an MG, it must mean you're playing 1v1. Don't know why nerf it. Recon company is weak as it is. Calliope: What is the point of it with the nerf? It comes super late and only takes 1 more shot to kill than a stuka which comes much earlier and is much cheaper. Not to mention it has a much higher chance of wiping, whereas Calliope is more of an area denier with large scatter. Armour nerf is justified, but the HP one is not Ranger change: Non sensical, didn't need any buffs RE flame package: another buff that is not really needed. Only there to give a sense of a longer change log ..... All in all, the balance team proves once again that they are biased. Nothing new Sturmpanther: http://www.companyofheroes.com/leaderboards#profile/steam/76561198046481660/standings * Pretty much only plays Axis AT 4v4 JibberJabberJobber: http://www.companyofheroes.com/leaderboards#profile/steam/76561198090318538/standings Wehrmacht player Aerafield ( http://www.companyofheroes.com/leaderboards#profile/steam/76561198062101687/standings ) plays anything and from his post history you can see that he advocates for good axis/allies buffs/nerfs. Justified and unbiased (probably the only one in team) Whorunbartertown: http://www.companyofheroes.com/leaderboards#profile/steam/76561198155221839/standings * Everything except brits Rest of the balance team plays everything. Now I would never want to balance this game as it's toxic to balance and I'm biased towards USF, but not biased enough to know that USF has it's toxic traits, especially in 1v1 where it is quite strong. Still, if these [https://coh2stats.com/stats/week/1616371200/4v4/wermacht] stats are true, why the hell would anyone do the changes they have done. It says it's top 200, and in top 200 the disparity between the win rates goes up to 10% (60/40) in team games, in favor of axis. Even in 1v1 the brits lose hard. Everyone saying how IS are OP and everything but still having such a poor win rate and such a sh pick rate. In the end. Having a balance team that exclusively plays axis AT team games, paired with some of the loudest screechers on these forums, you get the balance patch we have now. Sure, some of the balance changes are welcome and needed, especially some of the OKW buffs and nerfs (flares) but the AEF is really nonsensical. The winter balance nerfs pak howi which won't wipe for s* now. Scott becomes a barrage weapon for team weapons, nothing deadly, just to displace. Pershing still has a weak AI gun (Strongest among the heavies but other factions actually have stock AI AOE weapons like katy, stuka, werfer....) Now a Calliope over nerf where one Panther can easily kill it and get out, especially if you don't have one AT + snare to catch the speedy panther (stock mines are meme). Considering the cost and timing, why would anyone get it in anything above 1v1? I mean, the graph goes to 2000 in COH2 match statistics for 1v1s and up to 20 000 and 5000 for 4v4 and 3v3 respectively. So many more games played in those modes where AEF is memeworthy already if Calliope is not picked and Axis pretty much dominates late game unless an ISU 152 (assuming at least 1 soviet ally) is picked, which forces an Ele/Jagd doctrine pick, which are picked anyway due to the sheer power of those doctrines. I understand that if you buff AEF for 3v3, you could break it in 1v1 but over nerfing stuff that is not OP does not seem logical. Calliope: Restore HP to 400, leave armour/range nerf OR lower price/CP if HP is 320 Pershing: Buff armour to 290 or 300 OR buff armour to 280 (3% less chance to pen) and buff AI slightly in gun IR barrage: Reduce back to 5s. The flares thing is justified E8: Buff armour as well and increase the price further. Don't say it's "in range of Comet" when it's not even close. Putting 60 range on a Stuart would not put it in range of Jackson. M8 Greyhound: Buff something. The 5 muni reduction is idiotic at best. Useless unit in a generally nonsensical commander that adds no versatility unless you really need that pak howi alongside the Stuart. Rifle nade: One big LOL. I'll let you figure out if adding even more micro on the faction, and micro on a weapon that has a long fuse, low dmg, costs 60 muni and is downright useless unless Skippy spams it in one of his meme 4v4 matches where he only builds REs all game. AEF needs many more meaningful changes, not the BS you've put out. "Team! I have it! You know that useless commander unit? I've got it! Reduce ability cost by 5 muni. That should put it on the map again!" "Wow, such brilliance!" In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brummbar performance29 Mar 2021, 11:29 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2021, 11:19 AMmrgame2 it is. when against 60td with almost 2x range, and faster rof and speed. maybe you don't a-move your infantry blob? spread them out? i mean ost 5 men grens got a huge nerf, what's left to hold back allies blob rush? lmg grens? lol You really don't play anything except axis and even when you play axis your obviously don't play on any level that would net you a decent problem solving COH brain. "when against 60 TD with almost 2x range" --> infantry moves in front of TDs and if you're skilled at all, you will be able to nuke infantry while keeping away from those pesky 60 TDs (which are not 60 range because of the brummbar but because of other weaknesses). 5 man grens got a deserved nerf. Again, if you considered them not OP then you obviously needed their OP status to win anything (eg. a good player can win with worse units while a bad one needs to only exclusively play with the best ones, that's why in low rank games you'll se a much narrower unit roster). Holding back any allies blob rush is with the following: Early game: MGs or mortar + infantry behind cover or flanking with a bait Mid game: Stuka, werfer, MGs, LVs Late game: Anything Again, you're clearly biased, which is not condemning. However, you also have very little knowledge of how to play COH2 because you compare apples and oranges, have no clue on how to play with apples vs pears and consider -10 armor on brummbar a considerable nerf. The bias part I understand, but you really need to play vs better opponents to force yourself to be flexible with the axis. EDIT: Considering "weaker" or "stronger" units. There are no "weaker" or "stronger" units just units that require less micro and have better stats than the opponents "counterpart" (if one exists). If you really think that allies have stronger units or that axis have stronger tanks or that any faction, axis or ally is in any way OP, play them and you'll get a sense. You obviously play against people that also have no clue and hence can't judge on the faction's weaknesses. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Jäger Armor is still the same BS than before28 Mar 2021, 13:04 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2021, 12:57 PMZyllen Nerf allied TD´s first then. The reason why everybody goes jeager or breakthrough is because of those units. That will happen only when axis won't have stock heavy tanks and stock tanks with 960+ HP and 250+ armour. If you need jaeger to counter TDs then you should improve your game. Ele is the easiest, no effort counter, true, but not the only one. In: COH2 Balance