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Thread: Late game performances of Volksgrenadiers and veterancy7 Apr 2021, 01:43 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Apr 2021, 01:21 AMMarkedRaptor My point was that they have entirely different philosophies. Ah, I see and agree. I'm just lamenting that these strategic choices got removed. They solved problems such as the one at hand where volks can't just be sacrificed for obers, but can't really be buffed either without changes to the rest of the army. It's probably too late to change these things, but perhaps the balance team might consider adding in some more strategic upgrades to open up more play styles. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Late game performances of Volksgrenadiers and veterancy7 Apr 2021, 01:00 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Apr 2021, 19:59 PMMarkedRaptor CoH1 vs CoH2 comparisons don't exactly work because coh1 was designed around allies win early axis win late. Allies fought for veterency axis bought their veterency. So late game you would have terminator Grens that even if wiped did nothing to dmg the axis player because they were meant to win at that point. In this case we sort of have role reversal where Volks will be highly vetted before obers come out and obers have to fight for it. Which obers would get help vetting up if the volks were meatshields for the obers to shoot at the opponents vetted squads. I'm not sure how the latter part dismisses comparisons to CoH1. CoH's strategic upgrades allowed for multiple distinct playstyles in the game that didn't necessarily guarantee a win for either side at some point in the game, though perhaps one might have an advantage. USF had the option of fielding absurd amounts of infantry late game, or absurd amounts of armor, or an absurd amount of combined arms units. Wehr could field vet 3 knights cross and other infantry, or push for one of the tiger varients, or even rely on carefully placed 88mms to bleed your opponents of VPs. CoH2 has very little variation along these lines, with most of the strategic choices boiling down to little more than choosing 3x infantry, or 4x infantry. Heavies or spam mediums. All match-ups boil down to allies having ultimate infantry supremacy, and axis having ultimate vehicle supremacy in the late game. There's no war machine to give USF armor supremacy, and there's no vet 3 KCH to give axis infantry supremacy. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The balance to all game modes we all needed?!6 Apr 2021, 23:59 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Apr 2021, 18:49 PMKatitof Inconsistent compared to what? Which other weapon upgrade requires you to manually shoot it? Inconsistent with every other infantry weapon in the game that I can think of... They all auto-fire to my knowledge. That's the point I'm making. I'd prefer the RE grenades be an auto-fire weapon along with every other weapon, but an AOE weapon that has to be dodged, while also requiring no input to fire them is a bad idea despite me liking the RE grenades in principle. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The balance to all game modes we all needed?!6 Apr 2021, 18:45 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Apr 2021, 18:33 PMastonhodge what is the actual issue with my original isea btw without bringing up RE nuke nades? Because it's inconsistent with the game design. RE grenades, a recently added ability, are already borderline inconsistent hence the compromise by making this change. The game is designed from the ground up around infantry AT functioning the way it does, and changing it would deeply affect gameplay solely because you can't be bothered to learn how to fight infantry blobs. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The balance to all game modes we all needed?!6 Apr 2021, 17:50 PM When I mocked the counterbarrage people by suggesting we remove even more automatic features like infantry auto-firing and squad move orders I was just joking... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Late game performances of Volksgrenadiers and veterancy6 Apr 2021, 17:25 PM IMO so much of this problem is the result of streamlining out pure upgrades like the COH kampfkraft center veterancy, or supply yard. I don't think people are frustrated with the economic balance so much as they don't want every game to result in volks being worthless. I think what people want is the option to upgrade their infantry +5% damage -5% RA for like 100 manpower 100 fuel instead of always being forced into the "Axis tank good Axis infantry bad" matchup. The same style of upgrades should be available to allies obviously. The idea is that a resource advantage isn't exclusively realized by simply build moar unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Arty Rework6 Apr 2021, 02:43 AM Generally I think base firing is bad manners, so I won't miss it, but I'm not the bad manners police either. The only balance problem I see is that some factions are able to change their retreat point to counterplay, while others aren't. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance team should watch Tightropes video4 Apr 2021, 04:53 AM Both flavors of grens losing all but a few rare match-ups against other infantry is kinda consistent with the design to be fair. Boring as hell since the game is slowly being balanced into only one gamestyle per faction, but consistent. E: I'm assuming here that you're referring to their combat power level, and not building speed or what have you. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Some thoughts on OKW and their issues.1 Apr 2021, 19:59 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2021, 16:33 PMjagd wölfe So... yeah... about the game... Which game? CoH2? Or the game where you passive aggressively snipe at other posters under the pretense of balance? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Some thoughts on OKW and their issues.1 Apr 2021, 16:32 PM The whole idea of the German army winning while being outnumbered is just post-war memoir cope anyways. When Germany was winning like in Barbarossa they had massive local advantages in manpower because skilled armies simply don't attack without a numbers advantage unless they're absolutely desperate. Late war the numbers advantage flipped on the eastern front, but that has more to do failing logistics and economy preventing them from supplying troops than it does Russians vastly outnumbering them with human waves. In: COH2 Balance