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Thread: Panzer 4 needs a rework15 Sep 2015, 08:04 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Sep 2015, 02:24 AMMr. Someguy P4 just lost it's main advantage over the Sherman, now it's only really superior to the T-34/76, and that isn't worth bragging about you will be surprised at how often people forget to switch round. It's basically giving the pziv a free shot if the sherman get caught with HE. Switching round type also take a bit longer than simply reloading, so that's another minus. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why Vicker HMG is so bad for its price?!!15 Sep 2015, 07:37 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Sep 2015, 04:41 AMCadianGuardsman The thing with the Vickers is that it works as intended. It is supposed to be the anchor of a gunline. The ideal thing with a Vickers is to have it behind 2 or 3 Infantry Sections in green cover and KILL THE SHIT out of Germans. The Brits play like a World War One army, it's best people remember that. They win attacks through brute force and they hold ground through killing and causing manpower bleed, the brits don't flank, they don't close, and they don't dance around cover. They sit in cover and shoot the enemy to death with the MG staying in the rear as a line backer, The MG is not supposed to be at the front, if it's getting fraged by OKW you're placing them poorly. If you're getting OSTH Rifle nades try leaving your MG's out of cover, yes it's heresy, but if you have a good 3 sections with brens infront of it, then it will survive. Nice theory, but it doesn't work in practice. Vickers without the suppression effect will get easily focused down by horde of infantry. the infantry section also have worst close range dps than the grenadier. Imagine trying to use mg42 without its awesome suppression effect. HMG need suppression and damage to be useful. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Centaur15 Sep 2015, 06:59 AM decrease damage in exchange for suppression. Otherwise it's not going to be able to handle the volks schreck blob. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Centaur14 Sep 2015, 21:34 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2015, 19:13 PMCabreza +1 to that. You can just drive up to puppchens and murder them from the front. It's kind of hilarious how easily they go down. I'm entirely fine with an AI vehicle being strong but it shouldn't be decrewing AT weapons that easily. the raketen lack any gun shield and as such will die easily to the front from most tanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pak40 to T1 - it's needed.14 Sep 2015, 12:57 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Sep 2015, 16:32 PMSirRaven of Coventry You do realize that moving pak40 to T1 will only make it arrive slightly sooner, so it can be a slightly faster counter. No Ost player will make the pak 40 his second or third unit, because then they will have no map control. Early vehicle play can overwhelm Ostheer, so having reasonable light vehicles counters other than the engine crit would be appreciated. Note, the pak40 is expensive and will remain so, even in T1. Your argument holds no value, the Soviets can start out with an at gun or a scoutcar if they like, since their first two tiers can be selected at the start, unlike Ost needing to tech for it. As for USF, that faction needs a total redesign an unit revamp, it is beyond saving at the moment. Still m20 comes really early with a free bazooka, which can pretty much shut down a 222 and the m20 can most definitely shut down the kubel. So I ask you to be: A] Realistic B] Thoughtful the pak40 is the main reason why anyone ever build that t2 building. moving the atg from t2 to t1 will allow axis to skip straight to t3. the Halftrack, panzergrenadier, and the 222 have been varying degree of useless for a while, but the pak40 have always been the holy grail of atg. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why Vicker HMG is so bad for its price?!!14 Sep 2015, 12:43 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2015, 11:11 AMofield Yea but that means the vickers deals more damage, since suppressed Units are harder to hit. Makes it better vs single squads less effective vs blobs. it's a trade off. the entire purpose of mg is to stop blobs through suppression and then kill them. The vicker is a bad mg if it have problem handling blobs. Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2015, 06:14 AMRasputin The vickers got other advantages over the 42. A more consistent damage output, longer range in buildings(and oh guess what. brits can build trenches pretty much anywhere they like), pretty nice vet bonuses, the inherent faction ability to place green cover in the form of sandbags anywhere they like - something that ostheer sorely lacks. the extra range in building is a vet 1 ability. the mg42 get its awesome infantry eraser belt at vet1. It's basically extra range verus extra DPS. The mg42 incendiary are also awesome at killing light vehicle as well. the trenches also cost 50 mp. It's not free. It's more of a bunker than a trench. the "sandbag advantage" get thrown around a lot, but aside from the brief period of sov sandbag spam, sandbags are rarely used in the game. Not in coh1, and not in coh2. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Balance Preview Update 09/09/201514 Sep 2015, 12:39 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2015, 06:01 AMRMMLz As far as I remember, people reported this back in alpha... no fix yet. it's actually been nerfed since alpha, quite a hefty one actually. except it's was so powerful that the nerf amounts to taking a 1/4 off mount Everest. In: Lobby
Thread: LeIG is too effective14 Sep 2015, 10:19 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2015, 08:27 AMNuclear Arbitor barrage? last i checked (admittedly weeks ago) the barrage was shit. unless i missed something i haven't seen any changes to it either. Both the ISG auto fire and barrage got a massive buff to their scatter/accuracy with the release of UKF. They are insanely accurate right now. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: M36 Jackson vs Firefly14 Sep 2015, 06:43 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Sep 2015, 02:50 AMJadame! Its my personal preference. Jp4 dies without chances to firefly (it really easy to land rockets on it plus jp4 without vet has only 640 hp, which, if i am not mistaken, one shot from rockets landed on top of opening ff shot). I still think in terms of raw at nothing comes close to command panther for mark target spam and jp4 combo. But its 2 tanks. ultimately this is more due to the tulip than the Firefly's main gun. I do agree that the tulip is very powerful and would prefer to nerf it. The firefly should be more about the main gun and chassis than some rockets strapped to its turret. I know munition problem become semi-trivial in a large team game, but it's not fair to the british if their primary TD is dependent on a 100 mu ability that require a 50 mu upgrade. balance the unit itself first, then balance the ability. and the Firefly's slow rof is for a reason. The unit's high penetration and high accuracy make it useful against heavy tank but its low rof keep it vulnerable to medium tanks. It is for the same reason why the jackson only have 480 hp. The Firefly's low rof keep the panzer 4 and stug relevant against british late game. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Why Vicker HMG is so bad for its price?!!14 Sep 2015, 06:08 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2015, 06:02 AMRetroInferno The MG 42 is getting his damage reduced in the next patch. not anymore. they removed the nerfed. In: COH2 Balance