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Thread: OKW and USF doesn't get alot of love in the last patch27 Jun 2021, 19:57 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 19:36 PMPip Was it? Would you like to link it? "Game Designer" is kind of a vague job description. Interested to know which "collage" he did attend too, and which job offer he received in the UK given his knowledge of the english language In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW and USF doesn't get alot of love in the last patch27 Jun 2021, 17:37 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 17:06 PMKurobane Well maybe you shouldn't have nerfed UKF in every single patch without giving them something meaningful in return to maintain useful. For example "5 man Infantry Sections are OP so lets nerf them into the ground" ok but will the Vickers be good then? Ah Nope? Faction is now unplayable. You guys can't just keep taking things each patch and then act surprised that UKF is now the worst faction in the game. Fixing Commanders mean nothing if the CORE ARMY sucks which also applies to USF and the Easy 8 commander. Relic restrictions to the balance team are probably the true responsible for 5 men IS nerf outcome In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW and USF doesn't get alot of love in the last patch27 Jun 2021, 17:36 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 17:00 PMSander93 Should be obvious that's a no go. There's not a single heavy tank commander that also has an offmap that is powerful enough to kill howitzers or defensive positions, for a good reason. It's also exactly why Jaeger Armor and the ISU commanders just got nerfed for exactly the same reasons. Commanders shouldn't be overly versatile, otherwise they just end up being super meta like Jaeger Armor. Fair enough even tho I think Fragmentation Run is even more versatile. You could replace Panzer Commander with even light artillery barrage, which doesn't destroy any defensive position, but doesn't require you to use a Panzer IV, is more reliable even if more expensive and doesn't punish you for stalling for a Tiger Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 17:00 PMSander93 Spearhead has the mortar halftrack that is pretty situational, and Shock Army was deliberately given Armored Vehicle Detection (replacing the initial pick of Recon Overflight) to help balance out its more powerful abilities. The ISU commanders and Jeager Armor were treated the same way recently, as well as some other EFA commanders this patch. Balancing out powerful abilities with less powerful ones is not exclusive to WFA. Both the mortar ht and armor vehicle detection aren't "wasted slots". An indirect fire platform and a global recon ability are far better than a single paid incendiary barrage for a single tier 1 locked indirect fire unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW and USF doesn't get alot of love in the last patch27 Jun 2021, 16:41 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 16:06 PMSander93 Grand Offensive is a powerful commander that is perfectly in the middle ground in terms of popularity (and strength). The Panzer Commander slot helps balance out the commander that has 4 other very strong abilities, and it's a nice upgrade for P4s (arty) or Panthers (sight and accuracy) anyway. And I don't see how changing Panzer Commander for a 105mm barrage offmap would have made Grand Offensive OP Regarding the sight bonus, Grand Offensive is the doctrine with Panzerfusiliers, the infantry unit with extra sight range AND flare, and the heavy tank means it will only be used at best on one vehicle unless you don't use the Command Tiger This way of "balancing out" is exactly my issue with how WFA commanders have been designed, a rule that doesn't apply to EFA. Purposefully stuffing together in the same commander (actually it wasn't on purpose btw, Panzer Commander was meant to be used with Tiger before the due nerf) abilities that don't work well together is a questionable design choice that just makes commanders bland choices between 3 or less actual slots. What's exactly meant to "balance out" in EFA top picks like Spearhead Doctrine or the new Soviet Shock Army? Nothing, all slots are equally important and great useful abilities. EFA commanders are balanced by making the commander lack in 1 or 2 aspects, be an off map, an elite infantry, an heavy tank, recon, a good loiter... This is a sensible way of balancing WFA commanders are "balanced" by wasting a slot on an ability that will most likely never ever be used or having 2 slots that lack synergy. Would Sector Assault be OP in Grand Offensive? Yes. Would 105mm barrage be OP in Grand Offensive? Most likely not, and would fit better a doctrine that already has recon options and the only OKW tank that can't use Panzer Commander. Probably it wouldn't even change the pickrate of the doctrine one bit. It's no "major" change. Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 16:06 PMSander93 Airborne is a powerful commander that is top 3 in terms of popularity across all modes. It has a powerful offmap and the team weapon drops are still way more efficient than backteching. But at the cost of TWO slots, one necessarily being useless as you'll tech for one or the other. EFA gets a bundle drop. It's a doctrine without any special armor or artillery option that competes with Urban Assault and Tactical Support. I also generally disagree with the notion that used = "good" or used = "doesn't need changes at all". Have the Tigers commaders ever stop being relevant picks if not top dogs of OST commander meta before the Tiger buff (and it was considerably buffed)? If the Tiger commanders were already popular does that mean that the Tiger buff was unnecessary? Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 16:06 PMSander93 Feuersturm is ridiculously strong on city maps and top 4 most popular commander in teamgames. It's a commander with lots of abilities for bonus dps against garrisons and cover and the total OKW commanders are 9, meaning it's slightly above average in teamgames. At least to me it doesn't seem remarkable at all and I don't see how being the 4th best out of 9 doctrines means it should have an almost wasted slot In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Flak emplacement thoughts27 Jun 2021, 15:38 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Jun 2021, 10:30 AMHannibal One question: Why is it that the emplacement never suffers damage on the first 2-3 shots? It's like a second health bar that is not repairable. No, it's just a bug but the actual HP goes down In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Flak emplacement thoughts27 Jun 2021, 15:36 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 15:30 PMMMX not exactly the cheapest option in terms of fuel, mp and pop compared to a flak emplacement. It's actually more cost effective, thus "cheaper" than wasting fuel and pop for a useless turd that serves as target practice and hits the ground half the time In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW and USF doesn't get alot of love in the last patch27 Jun 2021, 15:23 PM I just want to add that I actually think that the WFA commander variety will actually get worse Mechanized, Airborne and Rifle Company will disappear and Armor, Infantry and Urban Assault will be the only USF commanders to actually be used. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Flak emplacement thoughts27 Jun 2021, 15:01 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 14:47 PMKurobane Flak Emplacements are one of the cheapest ways to get good anti-air in the game. Or you could get an Ostwind In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW and USF doesn't get alot of love in the last patch27 Jun 2021, 14:55 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 14:20 PMSander93 OKW had the healthiest commander variety out of all factions and only needed minor tuning. USF isn't far behind in terms of viability for all commanders (across different modes), although it has an inherent popularity problem with the Priest/Calliope and Airborne commanders because those fix holes in the stock line-up that can not be easily filled in otherwise. They didn't need anything big. Unlike UKF which was doing bad as a faction across multiple modes and the EFA half of whose commanders were either boring copy pastas of each other with minor alteration or straight up useless. Vanilla (OST and SOV) had several viable options that were tuned and improved despite several WFA commanders being far more deserving. With vanilla, there was a clear attempt at creating synergy between all abilities of as much commanders as possible The mod team also went above and beyond to make sure most abilities are worth a slot, for example bundling the already powerful but situational riegel with mobile observation posts. Meanwhile Grand Offensive is stuck with Panzer Commander that can't be used in its Tiger and was left there even after it was removed as upgrade path for the Tiger, Airborne still has paradropped team weapons despite backteching for them being made quite cheaper, Feuersturm still has incendiary barrage as single slot for a single special ability for a single unit locked in BTG HQ, despite the same commander having Opel Ambulance. Both the Soviets and Wehrmacht got better and actually powerful defensive option, especially OST concrete mg bunkers allowing reinforcement on the field, but the mod team didn't try to give a veterancy or even just purpose to the flak emplacements. If the Soviets had Infantry Company the Mortar HT would have been removed for something not overlapping with the Priest long ago for example. If Festung Armor would have been an OKW commander it would have NEVER got buffed hulldown, Panzer tactician and superior doctrinal premium tank because it would have been considered a broken combination. If it was just about making more commanders usable EFA would have received half the changes it got and be done with it. A lot of WFA commanders could have benefit from more small changes that would have hardly made any commanders or singular abilities OP but just fixed poor synergy. EFA just got a better treatment, at least that's how I felt about the patch In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Flak emplacement thoughts27 Jun 2021, 14:07 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Jun 2021, 06:16 AMMMX i've seen tightrope using the flak emplacement quite regularly in his streams... with, uhm, mixed results at best. They are always useless In: COH2 Gameplay