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Thread: Artillery scatter mechanic3 Jan 2019, 13:08 PM Hi folks, I just came back into the game and I've been playing 3v3 and 2v2 with my friends. Now we like to really make an effort to combine our commanders and I normally go spec ops, because it feels close to mandatory for team games in 3v3 and 4v4. Now that being said, I'd like to know how artillery scatter is affected by sight abilities. I do know that scatter gets reduced by sight, but I'd like to know if when I use the leFH to shoot blind into the fog of war the scatter reduces, once I pop arti flares in the middle of one barrage. Or if it just keeps the scatter it had when it started shooting blind into the FoW even though now it can see. Obviously it would make a huge difference as I would pop flares before it starts shooting, but it would naturally be better to wait for its barrel to go up and it actually lobbing its first shell ere calling for arti flares. Cheers In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to counter MG abuse?3 Nov 2018, 19:57 PM If he's spamming MGs, he has nothing to go forward with. What do you do now? Spam motars. If you can snatch one, it's terrible for him, because soviets have 6 men MG42s then In: Strategy Desk
Thread: Unsuspected Ban3 Nov 2018, 07:42 AM If you really got banned and still want to get back into the game with a dirt cheap new copy, get a mouse that has configuration software. I set my gaming up, so that all my abilities like retreat, attack ground and such are bound to my 12 thumb buttons of the MMO gaming mouse. That frees my left hand up to use the arrow keys. In: Lobby
Thread: Artillery Flares of OKW's Special Operations Commander29 Oct 2018, 07:06 AM Maphack abilities and units in general are lame. 222 with spotting scopes was OP as hell. T70 revealing the frontline and deep into enemy territory is still just dumb and should be nerfed. Arti flares should be nerfed also. Maphacks are just as bad of a design decisions as unitwipers like AVRE and out of fog of war Sturmtiger before its nerf. You should have to rely on game sense and awareness instead of having a stupid units and abilities light up the battlefield without repercussions. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch17 Oct 2018, 08:31 AM Jump back to quoted post17 Oct 2018, 08:27 AMjagd wölfe The entire post can be turned on you by asking you what is the point of Panzergrens if Sturms are so good then ? Panzergrens are useless because the doctrine already gives you Sturm, like you said. I don't recall Shock and Partisans being both elite high cost squads, but considering how short sighted you are, you probably can't tell the difference. Now use your main account and stop making a joke out of yourself even more katitof. As we are talking about the new patch, pgrens will have good syngery with vehicles. Pgrens will get BIG buffs when pushing an objective in tandem with say a flamer HT or scout car. Their intended engagement range is medium, therefore when the sturms are dropping off, the pgrens are getting good. You dont need to run headon into infantry which is very dangerous in the late game, because 4 men squads can be wiped at an instant when sitting on enemy mainline infantry backed up by T34/85, cromwells etc. Pgrens are much safer, because they sit at medium range in heavy cover and can blast away. The different units have totally different applications on the battlefield. Sturms = harassment and abushing deep behind enemy lines (on their side of the VP) Pgrens = heavy assault support for mainline infantry with big bonuses when next to vehicle. Just watch Helping Hanses video, he showcases it perectly. He's better than both of us by a hundredfold and he retreats his sturms pretty much immediately after wiping something, because being so deep behind enemy lines, you face wipes when on the retreat back home. I would however agree with you if you pick the sturm doctrine and apply the camo from the commander to your pgrens. Then both units would work almost the same. But by having camo its a difference like day and night. In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch17 Oct 2018, 08:18 AM So now I brought facts in form of replays and video evidence and you dont even try to argue it? Do I have to assume your argument lost value due to my evidence and now you do ad hominems to get back to me? Did you even watch the recommended times in the replay and see how the pgrens never couldve pulled of what the sturms did (running next to the enemy base to wipe 2 engineers, running zigzag over the battlefield to spot snipers and dispose of them etc.? Do partisans and shock troops have the same function for you because both have smgs and overlapping combat ranges? In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch16 Oct 2018, 20:32 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Oct 2018, 20:23 PMkdragoonD JP4 is supposed to take out other tanks from a longer range, that is what a tank destroyer is for! By the same logic the 45mm is supposed to inflict heavy damage on elefants and tiger, because its an AT gun? Why is there an elefant or Jadgtiger if all you need would be JP4s to engage all tanks effectively? In: Lobby
Thread: Feedback for Commander Revamppatch16 Oct 2018, 20:12 PM How can you say that pgrens can cover the same role as sturms? Can pgrens run over mid VP 30mins into the game when its 90% katied, panzerwerfed, land matressed and is one big pile of medium cover? No? Then they are not able to ambush squad after squad after squad. I posted a replay of Helping Hans on just how useful the sturms are in another post and will do so here to underline my opinion. "If you have time, educate yourself and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdVrJ2xyK8. 27:55 is good to shwo their lethality. They dismantle the AT crew in seconds. 33:25 absolutely annihilating that conscript squad close range. Its a replay by Helping Hans in which he uses Stormtroopers hunting down 2+ snipers, several retreating and normal squads and made them ultaimte terminators." I dont see how pgrens could walk up to repairing engineers close to the enemy base, to snipers or set up an ambush with flame nades + high DPS. Fact is decently skilled enemies will retreat their mainline infantry 1v1 vs vet 3 pgrens when they see them coming. You dont see sturms coming and that makes them extremely deadly. Fact is pgrens are for flanking when mainline engaged to force the enemy mainline off. Sturms are supposed to be deep behind enemy lines, wiping repairing engineers, mainline infantry coming back on the field, hunting snipers, setting booby traps (!) and to give vision for call ins. If you see a pgrens close to your ambulance and you hear a stuka sound, you sure as hell will know that your shit got reconed. With sturms you dont even know that they are there. Pgrens cant do any of this. In general units like repairing engineers are too far away from the action for pgrens to get to them and snipers just retreat when seeing pgrens waltzing up to them. In: Lobby
Thread: How to counter heavy OKW blobs (or blobs in general)16 Oct 2018, 07:55 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Oct 2018, 00:20 AMStorm Elite This is the kind of logic that makes tech startups go belly up. This has nothing to do with player capability/skill. It's a UX design issue. You can't allow a feature to be designed in such a way that a slight twitch in an enemy unit's movement results in the complete collapse of a frontline because of a tearing down HMG squad. Nor should an extremely vulnerable suppression arc weapon be chargeable head on by the very units it's supposed to hard counter. But yes, keep blaming players for bad UX design. It's well in line with what Relic have been doing for ages (see Dawn of War II and how the Eldar Warlock's long range psyker AoE ability did nothing regardless of how accurately it was aimed and was never fixed). You mix two different games and expect them to work the same. It's a design decision to make the MG turn slowly from their normal position. I think its a good one. You rather have to see the MG as the 2nd half of the grenadier squad. In german infantry you have 2 halfgroups in one group. You have the 1st which is the assault group and 2nd which is the covering group. 4 in one, 4 in the other, they work in tandem. If you sent one without the other, they arent nearly as strong. This is how the MGs are portrayed in Coh2. If you leave an MG sitting alone, you are meant to be flanked, even from within the arc if they only sit in it for a second on the edge. Use the HMG in their intended role without expecting them to rambo everything down. For that you are a bit too late to the game. 6x maxim spam rolling through the country side is luckily a nightmare of the past. Use HMG wisely and they are a nightmare for the opposition. Also its a blatant lie that a squad can charge headone and not get suppressed. If 4 squads attack headon, thats "tactics" which worked before in warfare and why shouldnt 1000+ manpower not win over an MG? In military doctrines to assault a position you are supposed to have a number advantage, but once you have that, you are good to go. I dont see a problem if 4+ squads charge an MG headon. In diaries you can read all the time how the MG was indeed a great weapon, but it was also the most dangerous for the gunner, because all the firepower just centered on the MG. Rifleman, mortars, snipers etc. all focused down MGs. That's how its portrayed in CoH2. And its portrayed well. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: So Axis SMGs really are intentionally inferior?16 Oct 2018, 05:37 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Oct 2018, 00:11 AMStorm Elite Correction: Relic SAYS they're designed to be good at long range as a "defensive faction". They aren't though, objectively, observably. "Good" means extremely threatening, lethal, absurdly high DPS. Allies have that at close range, with literally all units, from infantry to light vehicles to tanks, while ALSO having high model count squads, allowing Allied players to bruteforce Axis units, ignore all tactical mechanics in the game (cover, line of sight, etc.) and get reliable wipes. Ostheer, on the other hand, doesn't have that at ANY range with the sole exception of Panzergrenadiers who have a four-man squad and thus get instawiped as soon as they get in range of that high DPS (as well as to artillery shells, satchel charges, booby traps, etc.). All other Ostheer units have low DPS at far, medium and close range. Ergo, Ostheer is never threatening to anyone. And then on top of this Ostheer also gets worthless SMGs. So literally every base unit Ostheer has is not threatening to anyone, ever, and we get spat upon by also being given trash SMGs from call-in units and upgrades. So fair. So balanced. So well designed. That's because Ostheer is a serious combined arms faction and will always be. US barrelrolls its way to victory with rifles in the early game. If this does not work, because of good MG placement, they often lose the early, the mid and it snowballs to a sound defeat. Ostheer however can go Osttruppen to cap fast and hold the ground, have an HMG in the back to turn engagements into Osttruppen favors, take pgrens on merry flanking adventures, bring the pain with flame HT and finish off with p4s, even panther if its needed. There are not many units who breeze through engagements on their own, but by having them combined, they become lethal. Or how do you explain Ostheer as the most picked faction in GCS2? Also did you know that pgrens BEST engagement with their STGs is medium range? Its totally possible to fight with your mainline infantry (pgrens ARE NOT mainline infantry), then slightly flank with pgrens and let them stand in green cover at medium range. At vet3 which they gain quite fast with their high DPS they can even chuck their bundles from medium distance. Conscripts are good in their indended role, however they arent lethal, have absurd DPS etc. etc. Not everything has to be broken to do the designed job. Mainline infantry never has and never will be broken OP on their own. Thats where paras, pgrens, obersoldaten and other high cost infantry comes from. Pgrens and obers are even nondoctrinal! If you have time, educate yourself and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwdVrJ2xyK8. 27:55 is good to shwo their lethality. They dismantle the AT crew in seconds. 33:25 absolutely annihilating that conscript squad close range. Its a replay by Helping Hans in which he uses Stormtroopers hunting down 2+ snipers, several retreating and normal squads and made them ultaimte terminators. Their MP40s rule and they dont even cost anything in upgrading. So to sum them up: no cost other than manpower, brutal DPS, high utility, good stealth for jumping over non-cover ground from cover to cover, sniper hunter. You dont even need a counter sniper anymore. Just pick these badboys and go onto sniperhunt duty. In: COH2 Balance