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Thread: KT thread27 May 2020, 20:09 PM Jump back to quoted post27 May 2020, 08:50 AMPatFenis From a teamgame perspective, I think the KT is okay. Very situational, and I don't believe it needs any tinkering. From my experience the KT is very good bait to get the allied tanks to dive. Mines and raks finish them of and if the KT survives, you can turn the offensive. At Top 200 4v4's allies love to overproduce TD's, giving them not enough indirect fire to deal with raks. With this perspective, a frontal armor buff for KT makes perfect sense. To make jacksons (mostly) and other TD to flank and dive. KT is almost like a panther, but with better AI and HP and worse mobility. Both are used a lot like each other, to set up a clear limit for allied mediums dives and also put some serious drawback on allied TD fron engaging recklessly. KT frontal armor buff might be also used unitentionally to push through a frontline, therefore i suggested to add a stock hull down for it. Maybe Spios should do it to put some extra difficulty in it. A hull down that will only increase frontal armor would be the best (something like a tank trench) I also agree that KT popcap is too high, because its a very durable unit but also its costs dont make up for a reliable performance to push through when allied TD are so efficient kiting it and penning it frontally. No one wants to kamikaze a KT but having one on the field constrains a lot the popcap In: COH2 Balance
Thread: KT thread26 May 2020, 17:49 PM Increase the KT armor. But because its kind of a no-brainer to a lot of players, an increased performance should be paired with increased APM tax, IMO. Being said that if KT had new abilities that demand a lot of attention, like the one in CoH1 Tiger elite that could manually target the main gun, you could add some pretty much needed buffs. Another ideas i can come up with, as suggestrions might be, reduce normal shots AI, a lot. Add a vet0 HE round with the same impact the current main gun shot has. Add a stock hull down to increase armor vs TD at the expense of losing mobility (and become very vulnerable to AT strafes and skillshots). Make blitz Vet0 but after used the tank has a engine damage or cooldown like T34s. KT should not be a one hero army, but currently IMO its the complete opposite, its a big tank to spearhead only if you already have the correct army composition and power. Its a support unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why must the mainline USF infantry cost so much?24 May 2020, 20:29 PM What about rifles vs grens? Vanilla volks vs rifles? Rifles vs OPtruppen? Nono, because rifles are worse than cons or IS they need buff. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Hotfix?24 May 2020, 19:15 PM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2020, 21:19 PMGrumpy Okay, I'll spill the beans. Someone discovered that if an Ost player spammed 9 right-clicks on their artillery officer, followed by 2 backspaces, while "For Mother Russia" was active, the artillery officer could force all nearby Soviet infantry to dance the Babushka. It was first viewed as relatively harmless fun, until a wardrobe malfunction revealed that one of the Penals was wearing women's underwear. Then it had to be hot-fixed. That makes absolute sense! P.S. TLDR Penals in women underwear are being HOT-fixed HMmmmmmmmmm In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Feuersturm] MP40 and Hetzer24 May 2020, 19:12 PM What if volks had the ober IR StG upgrade, with grand offensive and spec ops commanders and feuerstrum gave them the flamenade+smoke. A smoke + flamenade combo is less annoying than the shock smoke+nukenade at least. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Cost of handheld AT24 May 2020, 18:58 PM Jump back to quoted post24 May 2020, 16:13 PMgeneral_gawain About the discount: Then make a 70mun double bren upgrade for IS, or a 110mun triple Super Bazooka upgrade for Rangers. You know what? That would be hilarious, i really don't want that. Because it makes absolutely no sense, that it is cheaper when you buy it at once instead of one after another. But having to pay 100mun for 2x single piat or 2x single bazooka, the same as you have to pay at PGs or panzerfusiliers for double Shrek is hilarious in the same way. Are you bargaining a bren buff because shreks are bundled to an elite infantry and NO OTHER INFANTRY CAN GET IT STOCK? Srlsy? Not even grens or volks can stack up snare+AT but poor man R.E. can do it and no one points that out. Pgren lose 50% of their AI potential to get a couple of "bundled" shreks. Unless you see pgren that can stow away their AT like sturmpios do with minesweepers, the AI lost is part of the cost. No axis unit have weapon racks to "choose" wether to pick 1 or 2 "bundleshreks" so thats a big fallacy there. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Feuersturm] MP40 and Hetzer24 May 2020, 10:26 AM Jump back to quoted post24 May 2020, 08:12 AMSerrith ... The other element is that if MP40 volks become a thing to have players choose between long range and short range, then K98 volks will need a substantial buff, and not just via vet. They will need either better combat stats out the gate, or reduced cost, or an upgrade that gives it to them (like that 7 man con upgrade) for the exact same reason cons recieved it-poor late game scaling for the basic bolt action mainline. And even if this way is done, obers will be a better choice than k98 volks at all ranges, and sturms better then MP40 volks at all ranges. It's just a lose lose. Agreed entirely with all the post, i am quoting the last part because i think the core point is there. I do think that MP40 could be viable, but before i understand that the MP44 "brainless" (Im just picking the words to keep the context) is not a bad upgrade at all, its a better mid range upgrade binded to timing and munition avability. It fills better the wholes in the OKW rooster. I agree that if MP40 becomes the stock upgrade for volks, their kars98 should receive any kind of buff to keep their scalability acceptable. Now, MP40 upgrade could become a new main feature for OKW, you could simply not upgrade volks and have a good and slow scaling or deliberately upgrade them into a less overall, more CQC oriented mainline that would probably vet up faster. Its a hurtful tradeoff but it should be worth it. The upgrade allows your Vet0 volks into CQC to have a better weapon profile early vs IS/cons/riflemen (although less likely) in exange for a mediocre weapon profile in midgame and so on. MP40 surely competes with sturmpios, but the latter are known to be very bad to trade in compared to volks. My point is that the player should decide wether to upgrade the MP40's or take the risk of having a standard volk to keep the medium range competitivity. Vetted volks should not "need" to get the MP40 pack. Maybe adding another upgrade, like a "assault pack" upgrade that enables better grenades or some other specific mid range abilities could fill the missing mp44 place to compensate In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Feuersturm] MP40 and Hetzer23 May 2020, 17:59 PM Jump back to quoted post23 May 2020, 13:56 PMEuan Surprisingly, I agree with Vipper. Make the Mp40 & HE nade upgrade non-doc, and move MP44 & Flame Nade to Flame doctrine. I don't like the MP44 design, yes it's carefully balanced but it's a brainless, flavourless upgrade. With MP40 you have more strategic and tactical choices, by combing long-range & short range squads, both in individual firefights and overall army composition. Flame nade on mainline unit just disables garrisons... why remove such an important part of the game anytime OKW is in a game? For OST and SOV, flamer is a tough choice to delay sweeper, for UKF and USF incendiary tools come even later. For OKW, why not give LeiG flame rounds non-doc, then there will some space for garrison play in very early game (and until then, HE nade is semi-effective against garrisons). For Hetzer, yes it should come slightly earlier. Flame doc is still a shitty doc, needs a buff. +1 indeed. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Feuersturm] MP40 and Hetzer22 May 2020, 22:57 PM Jump back to quoted post22 May 2020, 16:22 PMKONIUX27 hanother 251? Maybe another "elite" (because OKW) 251 FHT is the way to go. It fixes two big issues. Tightly related to predictability. Firstly Axis usefulness. It need to have an impact. Othewise its the same as the current hetzer. Secondly allied already have an expected impact from 251 HT's so if OKW can pull the same trick its a known one. Main differences are, 251 has directional fire and double flame proyectors meanwhile hetzer has a single on a casemate but sturdier and slower. If hetzer is locked in BGHQ and need the second truck released you get a nice timing (much earlier than before OFC) but also there are ATGs already present to give some counter play to allied players. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostruppen cover mechanic is horrible design22 May 2020, 01:28 AM I disagree. The fact that ostruppen are ment to be bad must be respected. I understand that the on/off design due the cover bonus nature of ostruppen is "weird" but its a solid mechanic. You dont see ostruppen blobs A-moving and that is cool for me. In: COH2 Balance