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Thread: Zis Barrage need longer cooldown27 Oct 2020, 18:01 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 17:58 PMLeo251 It helps in the way that it is more rewarding for axis to kill one. Killing an upgraded 6men ZiS make sovs losing 75MU. it does nothing to solve the problem behind the zis... 1 zis isnt too oppressive... the real problem starts when double zis comes out and it becomes impossible to do stuff without eating barrage after barrage in the lategame... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Zis Barrage need longer cooldown27 Oct 2020, 17:45 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 17:38 PMLeo251 Right now, for the price of an AT gun, you get a very good AI platform + an AT Gun + 6men squad very durable team weapon. I suggest making the ZiS Barrage a 75MU purchasable upgrade. that does nothing to help... the ZIS barrage is oppressive mostly in the lategame when you get two of them and simply eliminate all weapon teams without the use of rocket arty... nerfing the popcap is better at stopping that imo... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 17:36 PM also i miscalculated... its a 34.94% boost at range 20 and a whopping 60.49% at range 30... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 17:30 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 17:21 PMSerrith I dont understand your terminology, what do you mean by surface area? its a mathematical equivalent to the area covered by a certain shape... draw a torus around a unit with a maximum radius of 30 and a minimum of 20 and you will find it have more area than a circle with the radius 10... it also means there is significantly more area u can put your unit at where it can be effective against an opposing unit... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 17:21 PMSerrith As for whether dps is better to have at long range or short range, long range is easier to use because most engagements will start at your optimum range. But I think that "all range generalists" are more useful to the skilled player. Think BAR rifles, FG42 FSJ, Panzergrenadiers, penals etc. The advantage to generalists is that they can flex. A good player can move them to a range which will best suit them for the situation. Units like LMG42 grens, shocks, MP40 volks etc. Do not have this flexibility. They are good at one range and one range only and if they are beaten at that range they are flat beaten. If they can't stay at that range they are beaten. i both agree and disagree with this... yes generalist units are the preferred choice to specialist units as it is easy to defeat the opposing unit by moving out of its preferred combat distance... but a difference of 17% dps at all ranges really does pale in comparison to a +37.48% to +46.091% damage boost at range 20-30.... its kinda why shocks are considered good units despite being specialist units... they are really really good at what they do (thanks to dps and body armor) to the point that they are worth using... tldr: being a specialist doesnt automatically make the upgrade worse... sometimes the specialized upgrade is simply soo large that it simply overtakes the standard one... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 17:21 PMSerrith Its like bolster and a individual weapon upgrade rolled into one with some juicy extras on the side. Makes sense at tier 4, not at tier 3. Not without additional expenditure anyway. its a bolster that provides +17% increase in stats instead of +25%... it also needs 50 muni per unit and needs an upgrade of 18mp to reach full squad size and is not automatically done... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Obersoldaten and their Timing27 Oct 2020, 17:07 PM idk... OKW doesnt really suffer from the lack of early obersoldaten imo... its biggest issue is related to how healing and vehicles are in separate tech choices making it extremely wonky to get both healing and light vehicles at the same time... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 17:05 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:57 PMSerrith I wouldnt judge the efficacy of an upgrade based on a playstyle that is incompatible with it. If your preferred engagements take place at 20-30 meters then no wonder you think the 7man cons is a bad upgrade. well yeah against ost one kinda needs you to run straight up into them and knife fight them...till the panzergrenadiers arrive at least... then you have to use other tricks before before attacking... in any case i still think range 20 to 30 DPS is more important than knife fighting DPS due to how surface area works (ie there is more surface area between ranges 20 to 30 than ranges 0 to 10)... but i dont have problems with the 7 man upgrade personally... just that its living hell till you get that upgrade... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:57 PMSerrith 7 man Cons will trade COST efficiently even at 20 range against LMG grens. not really... i remember testing it some time ago and at range 20 LMG grens still win (but barely)... under range 20 though they start losing... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:57 PMSerrith If you removed the vet bonus and cover bonus I could see the upgrade at tier 3. i can do away with the vet bonus... but the cover bonus is a must imo... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 16:53 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:48 PMSerrith The dps increase also scales down to nothing the closer the range and reduces mobile dps by 25%. idk... knife fighting and mobile DPS are important but id consider range 20 and range 30 DPS as more important judging by how i play... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:48 PMSerrith The extra model provides 17% extra dps at ALL ranges AND on the move plus the extra damage output from the cover bonus. dont worry... grens still beat cons most of the time in medium to long ranged cover to cover fights... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 16:43 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:37 PMSerrith If all the 7 man upgrade did was give a 7th model (+17% dps and +17% durability) then i would agree. However it also gives +20% increase to vet gain, -2 reinforce cost and +8-15% dps for models when in cover. the LMG meanwhile provides a +37.48% damage boost at range 20... and over +46.091% at range 30... thats a huge difference Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:37 PMSerrith It might be a combinationof these attributes but what makes it SCARY is its AI, not its AT. If you want to reduce its power to make it not "OP" you have to address the anti infantry. its AI is no better than a luchs imo... if the luchs is fine with its current AI then the problem is less likely to be with its AI and more likely to be with the combination of its AI AT and high speed... soo id prolly start from there... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:37 PMSerrith The Su76 scales better than any other vehicle of similar cost. Compare it to aec, stuart, puma etc. Yes it does drop off, so do many units but thats not the issue. The main issue is that the SU76 is inferior in its primary role to the Su85, and by a decent margin. As long as they have such a degree of role overlap, one of them will be obsolete. the main problem is that the bigger unit basically outclasses it outright and renders it obsolete... hence better scaling through an optional upgrade improves its lategame performance and prevents it from being rendered obsolete... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:37 PMSerrith Its just too much. why? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 16:29 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:20 PMSerrith No. The T70 is good because of its anti infantry ability, not anti vehicle. Reducing the cost without reducing the anti infantry performance will just make things worse the problem with the T-70 is because it melded both great anti infantry performance while being capable of punishing its counterparts such as the luchs/222/FHT/flametruck in a fast unit... these changes make it less of a hard counter against the luchs 222 and flaktruck and make it considerably easier to beat it off with armored support... these changes makes sure the T-70 has similar anti infantry performance against the luchs but no longer punishingly effective when fighting it... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:20 PMSerrith I like the idea of the M3 being available earlier but I am not convinced this is the way to do it. Also if the 7 man upgrade is made available earlier with no side tech cost, it needs to be nerfed. the 7 man upgrade at that cost comes no later than the ostheer LMG42... in that case its fine since the 7 man upgrade is roughly comparable to LMG grens anyways... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:20 PMSerrith No. Buffing the firing arc is fine but the upgrade is silly and still won't make it more viable compared to the SU85. The two vehicles need more distinct roles and this upgrade will not provide it. the issue with the SU-76 is the complete lack of scaling for the unit... by adding the upgrade the unit now scales into the lategame and is not rendered totally obsolete by the SU-85 Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:20 PMSerrith The maxim does not need its suppression to be at MG42 levels. It could use a buff yes but Mg42 has high suppression for a reason. I'd give it slightly better suppression then vickers and keep everything else the same. this is definitely a difficult point... we both agree that the maxim needs more suppression but cannot agree as to what value it should have... imo i think MG42 suppression is fine for the maxim so long as it gets a pack time nerf aswell... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 16:20 PMSerrith KV-2 already has a very lengthy setup time. Increasing its setup time further will only serve to make the unit "clunky" to use without actually changing its effectiveness. this unit is extremely scary in teamgames... but im not entirely sure of the change either... thats why i put it in the im not sure part... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The maxim thread27 Oct 2020, 16:05 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 15:55 PMSerrith Nobody decent would go with this absolute mess of a build order. And the reason you go M3 against OKW isn't because maxims suck, its because M3 is extremely strong against okw. This is not exactly advanced knowledge here... that isnt the build order just the units used... the order is usually engie => T1 => penal => M3 though may vary per person... in any case expect to see double flamers and m3... both potent vs OKW unless they go pfussi Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 15:55 PMSerrith I'm also not sure who all these "experts" you are referring to who "agree" that soviets are the weakest faction, I don't know any of them. https://www.coh2.org/topic/106593/why-soviets-are-op lots of people in the thread seem to agree that the soviets suck... Jump back to quoted post27 Oct 2020, 15:55 PMSerrith Now I do think the maxim is weak and could use a buff, but I fundamentally disagree with so much of what you've said. concerning SOV or the maxim? In: COH2 Balance