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Thread: Let's talk pop cap14 Feb 2021, 11:55 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2021, 11:33 AMelchino7 Stopping snowballing (just build a bigger army than your opponent) and turtling (if you sit on troops doing nothing, your opponent can recover through the difference in pop cap mp drain). Uhh isn't the point of the game to build a bigger army than your opponent? Are we ignorant of Lanchester's square law? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws) I thought the whole point of the game is that players compete over resources on the map to increase their army growth. If it's supposed to just be a roll of the dice and a player with one squad after a series of bad choices should have the same chance of winning as a player with 10 squads after a series of careful engagements then I'm not playing anymore. Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2021, 11:37 AMKatitof Yes, because you have other units that can reduce them to dust. If you were spamming grens vs rifles and thought you'll end up on top - that's not balance problem. But if I spam 2x bar rifleman into a player who literally can't build anymore grens I deserve to win? This is the problem i'm outlining. Ought I be rewarded for having better resource density units than my hard capped opponent? A 100 pop USF infantry army obliterates a 100 pop OST infantry army. How is this fair? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Let's talk pop cap14 Feb 2021, 11:24 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2021, 11:12 AMKatitof Yes. The changes to USF over 100 popcap manpower income. Ah. And this completely solves the resource density problem between armies such as 280 manpower rifleman with 120 muni upgrade capacity being pop-valued the same as 240 manpower 60 muni upgrade capacity grens? Or did you just ignore the whole sickly forest because you found one improving tree? It's great that USF can get around pop-cap. It's stupid that other factions are limited by it. Can anyone give me a justifying reason for hard pop-caps? Beyond performance issues? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Let's talk pop cap14 Feb 2021, 10:53 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2021, 10:46 AMKatitof You don't pay attention to any patch notes at all, eh? Was there something relevant to the topic I missed? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: PAK-43, static Howitzers, and Emplacements rework.14 Feb 2021, 10:48 AM I recall being able to move the PaK-43 very slowly in the campaign. Being able to slightly move any of the 'static' weapons is absolutely necessary for any of them to be even slightly useful in a competitive sense and it'd be disappointing to know they don't actually have animations for that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Let's talk pop cap14 Feb 2021, 10:26 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2021, 10:20 AMUnit G17 Popcap and reduced manpower income are there to give an opportunity to the losing team to come back. Upkeep provides 90% of the come-back mechanism. Pop-cap just punishes EFA with stuff like USF players de-crewing for an extra 25 pop. I'm not arguing against come-back FWIW. I just think hard limits are unnecessary and really mess with game balance. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Let's talk pop cap14 Feb 2021, 10:17 AM Is anyone super happy about pop-cap as a game mechanic? Most of my experience is 1v1 so perhaps I'm missing something when it comes to the larger team games, but whenever this mechanic comes into play it's always been a negative experience. Has anyone actually bumped up against their pop-cap and felt "hrmmm yes this is a fun and exciting mechanic! I'm now forced to sacrifice existing, yet still useful units, to purchase a unit that is a tiny tiny bit more useful!"? While I admit that it's relatively rare for pop-cap to become an issue, the few games that it does are awful. Nothing is worse than handily winning the early-game, and mid-game, and only needing just a tiny bit more force to close the game only to get pop-capped and then watch as your opponent claws back while you float 1000 manpower for 10 minutes. This mechanic seems to affect the EFA the worst. While 240 manpower grens with a 60 muni upgrade might be balanced at the 10 minute mark, how can they compete against double bren 5man tommies at the 40 minute mark? 2x 180 manpower engies might be balanced against sturms at the 5 minute mark, but what value do they bring repairing T-34 76s vs sturms and panthers? Manpower upkeep already enforces a soft limit on unit numbers, so I'm unsure as to why we need a hard limit. Maybe 2-3 years ago the hard limit made sense for performance reasons, but are there people playing on hardware that would struggle with 2-3 more units more in-game? It's my understanding that units used to have a more sensible pop-cap that was normalized a few years ago. I don't want to re-litigate main-line popcaps after years of balancing around the current stats, but I do wonder if it's time to raise pop-cap to 125 or 150. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What to do with Radio Silence?27 Jan 2021, 07:49 AM From a flavor standpoint a speed bonus for radio silence makes absolutely no sense. A speed malus would be far more in-line with flavor. If radios made troop movements faster no one would use them! My first thought is an individual squad ability for 15-30 second stealth with no cover requirements but 40% speed, and maybe 2.5 seconds of a .75 damage multiplier on hostile de-cloak. The idea is you can sneak behind lines for a positional advantage, but the squad is vulnerable if discovered during the stealth phase. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] OST Feedback6 Jan 2021, 05:45 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Jan 2021, 23:10 PMelchino7 I don't think vanilla stock 5 man grens is ever gonna be a thing. It is though in a sense. They're called volksgrens, and all the allied infantry get tuned to their power level. One MG42 can't compensate for four weak infantry squads that are spread out over the map. If the MG42 was really that strong people would only build MG42s. After rifleman and sections got buffed to compete with volksgrens they wreck 4 man grens in every way. VSL and earlier Pgren fix the faction somewhat with a stronger mid-game, but stalling for a mid-game powerspike doesn't help gren performance at all. If the only viable strat is to rush midgame infantry than OST players will never not pick assgrens or ostruppen since they can at least capture a little bit of territory while bleeding manpower the entire early game. Grens desperately need a better role other than "worse volks but with MemeG-42". In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] OST Feedback5 Jan 2021, 22:26 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Jan 2021, 22:02 PMelchino7 You might not like it but that's the direction we have regarding faction/map balance for the last 5/7 years. Stalingrad has been removed from the map rotation and Crossing is still been played. Not sure what you imply here. MG42 is T0 and it's cheap for what it brings to the table compared to others. You are asking to completely rework how OH plays towards something more like OKW. One would expect that if balancing grens and MG42 as a necessary combo was a good starting point that 5/7 years worth of work wouldn't result in grens being the last choice for OST in the current meta, and a balance problem for years. I suggest that the people who have been complaining about MG-42 being OP for years are right, and the people who have complained about grens being UP for years are also right, and the solution all along has been to move away from the meme combo instead of forcing "can only win in wide-open terrain" design pressures. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] OST Feedback5 Jan 2021, 21:10 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Jan 2021, 19:45 PMelchino7 I've been the constant proponent of this. It's not a "bonus" accuracy rather than reducing the penalties on shooting suppressed squads. Which atm is 0.5 for most weapons and 0.75 for SMG/STG. I cautiously suggested 0.75 (even though it could just be fined with 1.0) for their basic Kar Rifles and it would be a simple small buff that goes with the whole design of OH working around the MG42. Engagements against suppressed units don't tend to be that long. IMO OST should really move away from the whole "gren+hmg42" meme, not towards it. On some maps the MG42 works, and on some maps it doesn't. Forcing this meme, even if you can some how balance it in some situations, removes maps like stalingrad from the 'serious map' pool because OST can barely use MG42, and maps like crossing in the woods get removed because allies can't handle MG42. Leaves very little variety in the available map design, and any deviation in maps muddies the faction balance. In: COH2 Balance