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Thread: How to make airborne guards better?4 Dec 2019, 03:45 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Dec 2019, 02:56 AMT.R. Stormjäger You don’t even understand what I just said. In your mind guards are a unit that needs buffs and any idea you hear is good. Meanwhile at high level play rocket strafes are quite cancerous and can delete your armour easily if you get caught by a mine, snare or T34 ram. The button suggestion, which would make guards the only squad with button and just LMGs, would make deleting armour with rocket strafe way easier, as competent players would button, then snare/ram and then rocket strafe. I understand everything what you said. In high level play people use mine sweepers before sending their armor in. In ram soviets also lose 90 fuel and 300 mp. To top it, using the il2 rocket strafe requires quite a certain level of skill which if you ask me should be rewarded. I only argue for this unit because i have extensively used this commander. And airborne guards definitely need some changes if not buffs. If regular guards can get a button ability i see no reason why can't air guards get after 100 muni dp upgrades. Regular guards can be paired with il2 precision bombing so i see no reason why strafe can't be paired as well. Also in high level play, players determine the direction of the plane and get out of the strike zone. So yeah people know how to avoid it. There are so many abilities which are broken. I could argue of the smoke in grand offensive but that would be off topic. In: Lobby
Thread: How to make airborne guards better?4 Dec 2019, 02:49 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Dec 2019, 11:47 AMOrangePest Eh. its fine as is. Hi. I know you are a top player in 1 v 1. But tell me how many times have you used this squad? The il2 suppression ability is a gimmick. No damage. No sustained suppression. 60 mp gone down the drain In: Lobby
Thread: How to make airborne guards better?4 Dec 2019, 02:47 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Dec 2019, 13:37 PMT.R. Stormjäger Rocket strafes aren’t broken enough, we need cheap immobilizing from distance to make them even more lethal. He is right. There seems to be no advantage for going 100 ammo dp upgrades. Button ability like regular guards would be nice. If you look at the unit you will realize how badly designed it is. There's no synergy with the commander. It's a dead commander. Tweaking few things can improve this. I agree either make this a proper infiltration unit. Or give some quality bonuses to this unit. Currently it is meh abd will remain unless things are changed. Like there's no first strike bonus with ppsh upgrade cuz no camo. I wonder how they infiltrated a house if they are unable to camo. And yes i stand that the squad must be able to use both grenades for the premium price point. If there's an issue they can spawn with 5 models but with better abilities. In: Lobby
Thread: How to make airborne guards better?3 Dec 2019, 11:41 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Dec 2019, 11:07 AMVipper Shared CD is not a handicap of the Soviets, actually most units that have access to smoke grenade and and HE have them on shared cool down. Unit like: Commandos, MP-40 VGs, Breakthrough PG all have their smoke grenades on Shared cool-down. WP grenades that do damage are not shared CD and that goes for Assault IS also. We are talking about a special squad here which must be able to hold its own. When units cheaper than air guards can get the smokes with no cool down sharing why can't they? Ppsh upgrade gives no first strike bonus. No camo to synergize with infiltration role. In: Lobby
Thread: UKF Air supremacy3 Dec 2019, 10:59 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Dec 2019, 10:45 AMStug life Why not make the bombs scatter ? Too much RNG i guess? Its an expensive ability. Should perform In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to make airborne guards better?3 Dec 2019, 10:34 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Dec 2019, 09:42 AMMaret My IMHO about this unit: 1. Paratroopers without paradrop, you can't drop them like falls behind enemy HMG and kill it. In fact they are 6 man partisans. 2. Only nades have synergy, suppressive fire deny ANY other abilities of squad from using (ability will off, if you try to use any other ability). I can't suppress enemy and throw grenade to him or call this "il2-strafe". This ability should be replaced by something usefull. 3. You can't use smoke nade and regular together. They have share cooldown. Really, i don't understand, why falls, obers, stormtroopers could throw any types of grenades without share cooldown while airborne don't? Even tommies with thompsons could use both types of grenades without cooldown. You could slow your enemy by phosphorus nade and catch him with regular/bundle. 4. Il-2 strafe very awkward ability - low damage, usefull only near to border of map. In center of map, it need too much time for action. Some ideas about improving: With PPSH upgrade 1. Replace smoke nade on phosphorus (vet 1 ability). Remove share cooldown on grenades. 2. Replace Il-2 strafe to Il-2 smoke barrage, like OKW have. 3. Replace suppressive fire by tactic advantage or valley fire (like RE have) or "Suppressing Fire" (like paras with lmg have). SU don't have any off-map smoke. At least will be one doctrine with it, even, if ability will be locked inside one unit with specific upgrade. With DP-28 upgrade 1. Add button ability like guards have. Smoke would be nice. I was even down fr the smoke animation used in testing because it allowed me to spawn my units anywhere. Some maps don't really have much buildings and infiltration role is non existent but we still have to pay 380 fr one squad. In: Lobby
Thread: UKF Air supremacy3 Dec 2019, 10:28 AM Bombs need a direction indicator like il2 bombs In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to make airborne guards better?3 Dec 2019, 10:21 AM I am down for all of your suggestions. Just needed someone from the balance team to participate here. Also shocks unable to throw both grenades have definitely impacted their storming from the front role. If it can't be fixed you're right it should be compensated. In: Lobby
Thread: Tank hunter doctrine underpowered3 Dec 2019, 01:18 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Dec 2019, 23:56 PMRitter is b4 better than ml 20? B4 can be use to directly shoot tanks. It has greater tank busting ability than the lackluster ml20. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Tank hunter doctrine underpowered2 Dec 2019, 23:30 PM Agreed b4 will be nice. Finally it will be 2nd commander with this ability. Ml-20 is kinda meh anyways. Doesn't even come close to lefh in real game. In: COH2 Balance