Profile of sherlock

Avatar Area

Offline Unknown SteamID unknown
Posts: 550 | Subs: 1

General Information
Broadcast: https://www.twitch.tv/il_sherlock_ll


Thread: Something is wrong with IS-230 Nov 2017, 22:38 PM The IS-2 is the second worst heavy call-in in the game after the ISU-152 in my book. After the DB patch, it is likely going to be the worst heavy call-in. It is unreliable, missing point blank shots. I also don't get why we don't tie all heavy call-ins to tech and then finally either tone down the KT or just buff the tiger and is2 to KT levels In: COH2 Balance
Thread: December Balance Preview29 Nov 2017, 22:03 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Nov 2017, 21:59 PMZombiFrancis Also, especially concerning the raketenwerfer, when the team weapon is killed, and raketens are easy to kill, the whole crew dies. It is good to note when a raketens gets wiped if there's still a gun leftover. The crew does not die when the health of the weapon is depleted. This was fixed quite a while back. What can happen is that the gun's health has already been depleted when the crew dies, which will then leave no gun behind. The raketen has 350 hp and 70 armour just like a zis or pak40. It's target size is however 10 while the zis' and pak40's is 20. It is therefore harder to hit and consequently harder to "kill" (get its health to zero) (with regard to the gun, not the crew). In: Lobby
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback25 Nov 2017, 16:39 PM I tried the new il2 and it seems better now. However, it will completely wipe a lone squad. Then again, the squad needs to be in the open, if it has any cover it survives, so it might be fine since in the late game yellow cover is common. It still feels like there could be situations where rng will mean that the strafe does really well or poorly. For example on Langre on the northern munitions many shots targeted at squads in the munition capture zone seemed to hit the shrubbery. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback25 Nov 2017, 14:39 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 21:28 PMMr.Smith What if the commander gave penals also access to ppsh and hit the dirt? We could try reverting the ppsh nerfs, and se how they feel with more expensive oorah and lower cons RA. Hit the dirt is tough, and ideas are welcome. Hit the dirt for penal could be something to look at, but it might exacerbate the problems with penals as well. I think the current hit the dirt is interesting. It takes getting used to though, but I think it has potential. Well done ppshs for penals don't seem to make sense. Penals are able to deal good damage close, but what makes them good is their mid to far damage in comparison to cons. ppshs would just remove the part that makes them attractive. This is due to the fact that ppshs, unlike all other weapon upgrades (bars, brens, lmgs, thompsons (slight decrease at long range), stgs, g43s) in the game, come with trade-offs. They trade near damage for mid to far damage. ppsh damage falls off sharply after 10. It can be frustratingly hard to get any wipes with shocks (for example) even if you manage to flank because the damage falls off so sharply and is for all intents and purposes 0 after a distance of 15. (Edit: sorry, this has nothing to do with the point of this thread and is just my frustration with the weapon, or rather all other weapon upgrades (a-move enablers), speaking ) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 19:15 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 13:27 PMMr.Smith It's more powerful than before though. Old hit the dirt gave 0 benefits when used either in-cover or out-of-cover (due to bugs). Now you also have the option of holding out MUCH longer in a green-cover vs green-cover fight. The question though, is if hit the dirt & ppsh is good enough to pick this commander over, say, AT gun ambush & recon (which would give you the other combined arms commander). I do see the benefit and there is a point to be made for the added staying power. But one of the issues is that the ability is now entirely defensive as it requires cover (to be effective, in my view), renders the unit immobile, reduces dps and defensive use seems the only way to be able to break out of the ability to dodge nades. Played more. The more I use it, the more I warm up to it Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 13:27 PMMr.Smith I think that's because accuracy is set to 1. This means projectiles start to miss (especially in craters), and the ambient area matters. The AT strafe skillplane ability from OST also has accuracy set to 1, but it practically never misses vs tanks (conversely, USF/UKF rocket planes have accuracy set to 0, which is why they don't fire heat-seeking rockets). If we keep skillplane loiter as is, we'd probably bump up its accuracy by a lot and, if necessary, reduce damage. That way it can produce consistent results. Absolutely, this seems a good approach. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 18:57 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 15:40 PMROMEAT Is it possible to add area of suppression so IL-2 will suppress target and nearby squads? Like Stuka AI loiter from ostheer Assault Support doctrine (or whatever it's called, the one with Opel Truck), but with suppression instead of insta-pin? The loiter does deal and has dealt suppression. But the old implementation was rather weak there. I think the new strafe is better at causing light suppression because of the 2 planes now firing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 02:03 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 01:54 AMferwiner I think the idea about revamp is that these commanders were considered bad becouse they had situational abilities, like il-2 strafe, which normally doesn't do much but when it does it is way over the top. In example of strafe it could lead to massive infantry wipes, which is much more damage than soviet player payed for. This means that to make these commanders competitive, but without making them overpowered or frustrating to play against, they had to change abilities in a way that is more predictable and doesn't swing battle so much. That is why some of these abilities may feel weak for their former users compared to old ones even if they have been in fact buffed all in all. I am an advocate of changes like that. But the new strafe seems overall weaker because the old strafe, even if it was bad, still managed to successfully inflict some manpower bleed on the first pass. The new strafe spreads its damage so evenly that it is quite rare to see (any model losses on the first pass). The impact of the 2nd and 3rd strafe is immaterial since no one in their right mind will stay for that long. I am okay with the strafe being interpreted as more of a area of denial tool, but for that it seems too expensive at 180 munitions. As described in my intial post, there is also the problem of a lot of projectiles hitting world objects like bushes, houses etc. I'm not sure if it is worse now than before but it was that behaviour that might have made the (old) il-2 a rather unreliable. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [DBP] Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics feedback24 Nov 2017, 01:30 AM Hit the dirt Hit the dirt in it's new form seems to me to be more restrictive since the only way to use it effectively seems to be to use it in cover (which requires the presence of cover) so that it stacks with other cover bonuses. For the stacked cover bonuses the trade-off is however immobility, the initial inability to break the state and less dps. Suppression immunity, is quite powerful but underutilised by many. It can be used quite effectively to dislodge mgs (which can be seen as bad play and if that was the general perception, then it seems fair to remove it). After more games: The ability seems potent if paired with vet 3 cons. But then again, it's usefulness is almost entirely limited to cover. IL-2 This ability seems weaker to me. While it wasn't very strong before, there was the occasional situation where it would deal massive damage to bunched up squads. The damage is so evenly spread now that the strafe does seem to cause very little manpower damage on the first pass. After testing the ability in 2 1v1 games with little success, I tried to test some more with the cheatmod: Even units in the open suffer hardly any losses even when standing still for an entire minute. I tested this several times with 3 bunched up cons in the open (no cover) and the strafe managed to kill 5-7 cons on average, if they remained the entire time in the zone (60 seconds). (I realised after some more 1v1s that testing against cons is of course quite unrepesentative with the exception of panzerfussiliers and osttruppen.) One of the potential problems I saw was that a lot of projectiles collide with world objects (bushes, trees, buildings etc). I am not sure if this was exacerbated by the minimum range change. But overall the strafe seems a bit worse. What does the tracking change do exactly? After more games: I still think there might be a problem with too many projectiles missing but it seems I was a bit unlucky in the initial games because cover seems to strongly influence the performance. I still think the ability is weak for its cost. Jump back to quoted post24 Nov 2017, 01:24 AMinsaneHoshi Where exactly is the changelog for the commanders? Here you go: https://community.companyofheroes.com/discussion/comment/272941#Comment_272941 In: COH2 Balance
Thread: December Balance Preview19 Nov 2017, 14:36 PM Jump back to quoted post19 Nov 2017, 13:31 PMAlphrum increased cost was for the health buff. They slightly nerfed the reload vet for the much Bigger reload buff The nerf to vet is not slightly and the buff to reload is not comparatively speaking bigger. The reload buff is exactly 15% (4.675/5.5=0.85). The vet reduction is 15% as well. The vet 3 Jackson will on average have a slightly longer reload than before. old reload: 5.2/5.8 average reload: 5.5 vet 2 bonus: -20% old vet 3 bonus: -30% 5.50.80.7 = 3.05 new reload: 4.375/4.975 average reload: 4.675 vet 2 bonus: -20% new vet 3 bonus: -15% 4.6750.80.85 = 3.179 If I've done a mistake somewhere, please let me know They cleverly adjusted the reload to make the jackson perform a bit better early but avoided it getting more powerful at vet 3. Updated the calculation factoring in vet 2. All conclusions remain the same. In: Lobby
Thread: WBP V1.3 Stuka18 Nov 2017, 13:38 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Nov 2017, 13:13 PMDangerous-Cloth It won't matter. They won't listen lol. Good news Jump back to quoted post16 Nov 2017, 22:15 PMmiragefla Well I just got a list of weapons so we'll probably start hammering away at that before 1.5, but after 1.4. In: COH2 Gameplay