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Thread: No tech demo just poor design.21 May 2015, 19:00 PM Jump back to quoted post21 May 2015, 17:50 PMKurtWilde "reveal and show me your playercard" where did you learn your English? From watching Harry Potter movies? Do we need to insult each other's English? It doesn't seem relevant. Demo has been in the game since day one, it doesn't make it good. Can you be honest and say you've played a lot of game vs soviets using demo? From the bottom of my heart, if you haven't, please believe me, it's really an unpleasant experience. Might I recommend you try playing 20-30 games right now as OKW? You might see what some of the forum users are saying. gameplay is suffering from certain things and demo is certainly one of them. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Mortar Carriage 21 May 2015, 18:54 PM Jump back to quoted post21 May 2015, 15:43 PMFul4n0 There are two possible solutions: 1) Ask Relic to make a patch to stop models bunching up. 2) Make sure you spread out the models when you position the squad. I find that Holding the mouse button and dragging it back from the position you chose helps. You can see the dots appear where the guys will go. As for the range issue, there is a downside to the Scott long range - you can't use it in close quarters...because it will wiped by shreks and ATGuns. just an opinion. I´m pretty sure you know what I did here. I agree) And you're right about dragging the mouse. The problem is, when units are moving they sometimes clump up too and the scott will sometimes hit moving squads. Again it's a Relic-begging issue for changing squad clumping. Daspoulos "Scott wipes, like a lot. You could argue poor survivability, but you can't it has smoke. Was worse last pacth, but after its nerf/buff this patch it instead inflicts more damage at the cost of slightly less 1 shot kill zone. As in less than a 0.5 AOE area, but whatever. Lol if only the brummbar was as good as the scott, but the shells it fires are floating through the air like helium ballons and coincidentally half the time kill like 1 model or nothing at all." +1 In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Mortar Carriage 21 May 2015, 15:30 PM Jump back to quoted post21 May 2015, 15:10 PMBurts Alright, i will give you my reasons. 1) Same range as an at gun such as the pak 40 2) Dies it 2 anti tank gun shots or 3 panzershreck shots 3) same AOE as the sherman And the reason you "dont see good players" explaining here anything, is because when they say something, they instantly get trolled by people who have no clue. Flanking is extremelly risky vs a faction with non doctrinally disabling mines? which faction are we talking about here? Cause it seems like every single faction has non doctrinal mines that cripple. And i honestly have zero clue what do you mean by "un-fun to play againts", the few things that actually work are deemed "un-fun to play againts"? Cause that what most of your post seems to be about. Bitching about the allied units that are good. No, just suggesting there are some allied units that too strong and spoil gameplay just as there are axis units that are too strong and spoil gameplay and allied/axis units that are too weak too. You write with such anger, I wonder what it is in your life that hurts you so much that you have to splurge out your rage here. it's a discussion about a game, not a political fight for life or death. You can disagree with people, explain why. There's no need to let out all that teenage angst against other forum users. Is it your goal to start fights with people so you can feel some accomplishment? There was no personal insult to you at all but you blurted out a steady stream of insults in reply. Is it because you're too scared to express your anger in real life? Is it because you're too small to fight so you keep quiet then come here to vent? In reply to your points: 1) same range perhaps but can fire indirectly from behind shot-blockers, thereby nullifying the pak's range. 2) dies to two hits but can be kept behind the front and far away from AT with a meatshield of infantry blobcking the path. Approaching with AT guns is very dangerous. 3) Same AoE as Sherman perhaps but the Sherman is a direct fire weapon with shorter range, therefore has a big AoE to compensate. The Scott has no such disadvantage. Still, as I've already said I think the issue with the Scott might go away if squad-clumping were fixed. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: No tech demo just poor design.21 May 2015, 14:56 PM Jump back to quoted post21 May 2015, 08:57 AMKurtWilde Mines do squad wipes, OH and OKW mines too. Rifle grenades wipe squads. You lose a squad or two in any game. But if you don't blob up too much spamming demos ain't gonna be an issue. As I told Alex this is mostly an issue OKW blobbers face. Also OKW Strums are the only engies who can toggle their sweepers thus not losing any combat efficency. It does punish blobbers, yes. It also punishes players who don't blob. It punishes OKW and OH. It can't punish the allied factions (who also have plenty of blobbing) because axis don't have it. Would you like to see your expensive elite infantry deleted one by one? Would you enjoy not being able to harrass points because there is probably demo? I'm against blobbing but I think there are better ways to dissuade players from doing it than demo. I don't think either faction should have it. Squad delete buttons go against fun gameplay. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Mortar Carriage 20 May 2015, 21:09 PM Jump back to quoted post20 May 2015, 16:31 PMQueenRatchet123 Wow, really? You're gonna quote Burts to disprove what I was saying? Find me a less biased and more skilled player and quote them. And they have to disagree with what I said. Not with something similar to what I said. Seriously, Burts... And his posts was full of "fuck" and "shit". Quote Katitof too next time, show me how wrong I am. My points: With current squad-bunching it is spoiling the game. Perhaps if just this was changed it would become a balanced unit. I do not believe the Scott makes the US OP. it's just an un-fun unit to face. The Scott is not micro-intensive. It auto-fires from long range and is armoured. It can outrun flanking infantry. It can outrun and out-shoot AT guns. Flanking with a tank is extremely risky vs a faction with non-doc tank-disabling mines. See if you can find several good players who disagree with these points. If you can find someone who can express his ideas without expletives, that'd be great. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic, you gonna fix 120mm, or not?20 May 2015, 15:48 PM Jump back to quoted post20 May 2015, 14:14 PMAerohank With the rampant use of super cost-effective guardspam followed with no-tech call-ins, I have trouble finding the manpower for even 1 ISG. Let alone 2! As for the ISG's performance... It's alright. It deals less damage than the Packhowitzer but it has a lot more range and is safer to use. It's also a lot better at hitting moving targets than the 120mm. I do however thing the ISG needs a damage buff to buildings/units in buildings to justify its price. Big +1 OKW doesn't have much anti-garrison firepower, I think an anti-building buff might be beneficial to gameplay. Even without a buff it seems a pretty effective weapon. proygon, you can really afford two? I'm gonna try that but I suffer from what Aerohank described vs Guards Motor. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Mortar Carriage 20 May 2015, 15:42 PM Jump back to quoted post20 May 2015, 10:36 AMQueenRatchet123 yea... the scott is one of the hardest units to micro in this game. imo it falls in the category of the okw aa HT. no matter how hard u micro. it will die eventually. let me be frank. the set up idea is horrible, ur increasing the micro for the most micro-intensive faction already. the scott is incredibly easy to kill, so I don't understand why u label it as "low risk" u either got unlucky or outplayed, simple as that, no balance issue here (the main problem with this unit is cover-bunching, which leads to most of the wipes. This answer is given with the unit + game in their current state) Queenwretched, Your posts in this thread have been unpleasant to read, certainly for me and quite likely for OP and other forum members. Nevertheless, I will write some replies to your comments. It is a long range auto-firing unit, the most you will ever have to do is move it a bit forward or a bit backward. That is not micro. Riflemen require micro, the m8 and other light vehicles require micro, shermans (pushing infantry, smoke, flanking) and jacksons require micro. This unit does not. Just reverse when in danger. this is NOT micro. The problem with this unit is it can only be effectively flanked by a tank. Infantry units would get off one shot before it is reversed out of range all the while firing at the infantry and probably wiping them. "imo it falls in the category of the okw aa HT. no matter how hard u micro. it will die eventually." If you lose a unit no matter how hard you micro, then your micro is not very good or your macro has failed to prevent a flank. Relying on Paks or Raketens is ineffective for three reasons: 1) it can wipe both within a few shots while you're getting close. 2) it generally has supporting infantry tht will wipe your AT 3) it can run away from AT quickly. If you had said "it is hard to keep it alive because it dies in two shots like the OKW AA halftrack" I could have agreed with you. But you didn't. In any case it doesn't have to get in anywhere near as close range as the AA HT. Feel free to check the numbers on that and please do so in future before comparing a long-range indirect fire unit to a short range direct fire unit. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: No tech demo just poor design.18 May 2015, 23:30 PM Jump back to quoted post18 May 2015, 22:37 PMVolsky Okay. Let's assume, for a minute, that we strike demos from the game right this second. Poof, gone. Now, what position are the Soviets left in; how will they counter a massive infantry push? We must also take into consideration that fact that some players might purposefully avoid #noskillMaxpins, #noskillGuards, and #noskillSnipoorz. How are the Soviets going to defend territory when they can't bunker down like Zhe Germanz can? What about blob counters? The Maxim is...well, I can't say its super awesome since it has exactly 0 area suppression (exaggerated). Flamethrowers? Engies are 4-man Cons, which means they die in the blink of an eye. Backtech to Penals? Okay, I guess; still not mind-blowing effectiveness there. ...SU-76? Yes yes, 'Demos are irritating to fight against'. Whelp, they're also fairly important, I think, in a faction that has little in the way of holding ground. No bunkers, no massive minefields, and sandbags that are themselves constructed of paper mache. Demos are your 0 pop territory defenders, in the same vein as 0 pop MG bunkers. Look, I don't have a super awesome suggestion to fix all this, but wiping demos of the face of the earth isn't how to make everything sunshine and rainbows. To do that, we'd need faction Overhauls, and Mama Relic won't let that happen. We'd need other changes. I don't see why we'd need faction overhauls. "it has exactly 0 area suppression (exaggerated)" Why say it has exactly 0 area suppression if you know it doesn't and correct yourself afterwards? Emotional language betrays a lack of assurance in one's belief. Axis are currently having a hard time hunkering down and holding ground actually. Bunkers can be knocked out in a few hits and MGs are not very effective at suppressing on yellow cover, which is everywhere. artillery spam (incendiary/phosph,etc) make holding a position extremely difficult. And most importantly - holdign a position is no way to win a war. I guess what it would come down to is this: Since the main reason people are defending demo is it is a blob counter, would you support demo being added to the axis side to handle all the rifle and con blobs? Personally I'd just see it removed from the game. I don't see any need for manual demo on any kind of structure. It means that after 4 minutes axis forces cannot garrison a house without risking losing a full squad. Volsky, take a look at what the higher level players are saying (remove demo for the most part) and ask yourself if your argument can really match up to theirs. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: No tech demo just poor design.17 May 2015, 02:02 AM Jump back to quoted post17 May 2015, 01:51 AMQueenRatchet123 ^l2p ^ widely disliked troll. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: No tech demo just poor design.17 May 2015, 01:31 AM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2015, 13:47 PMBurts I like how bulgakov is telling everyone to L2P to people that play this game alot better than him If you are struggling with M3s, get a raketenwerfer, or plant mines. Don't overextend and it's very easy to kill an M3 if he overextends. I didn't tell anyone to L2p. I haven't even suggested it. I think you're so used to seeing it and saying it that you see it where it isn't there. L2Read Easy to kill an M3... no Burts. No. It will eat up your MP, your Micro and your micro and leave you weak in other areas. So yeah, you'll get it eventually but by then you're on the back foot. In: COH2 Balance