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Thread: Panzer Tactician15 Aug 2019, 22:02 PM The effectiveness of Panzer tactician heavily depends on the skill and micro level. In lower rank play, it's a "My tank will survive" buttons. In mid and high skill play, people will start to target the ground. Although I don't like to nerf OST much in it's current state, the ability could do with a small delay of 1-2 seconds, since it's instant activation will cause all enemy units to target other squads. With a small delay, OST players would need to think ahead a little bit. Another option would be to make it a targetable smoke shell like the Cromwell. But that would be a hufe nerf, so I would not like to go down that route. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA September patch discussion15 Aug 2019, 21:54 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 21:23 PMShadowLinkX37 Done. Sander did his own post as well as me. Perfect, thanks! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA September patch discussion15 Aug 2019, 21:00 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 17:06 PMSander93 SEPTEMBER 2019 PATCH PREVIEW - Version 1.1 Changes USF Changes to both of the following units were discussed before release. The team has decided to include for testing after initial feedback. Riflemen We think Riflemen are solid infantry that scale very well, but we would like to put more emphasis on the engagement range dynamics between them and long range Axis squads. Their near range (and thereby their near DPS) will be slightly increased, which will naturally slightly increase their DPS up to range 16 - Near range from 3 to 6 (Chart amended from https://coh2db.com/stats/ ) Rear Echelon Troops To make Rear Echelon Troops carbines perform more consistently, as currently they are very RNG dependent with their low accuracy but high rate of fire and damage, their accuracy has been increased. In return their damage per bullet will be reduced, to keep the same total DPS as now - Damage from 10 to 8 - Accuracy from 0.403/0.288/0.23 to 0.51/0.3456/0.276 Could this please be incorporated into the opening thread and the general patch overview thread? Otherwise it's hard to keep track of the current state of the patch. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Remove coh2 in-game chat15 Aug 2019, 20:05 PM Report and mute button would be nice. No idea why Relic did not give it to us from the get go. But I think we'll never get it, as there is no report system in place that would direct the reports from the game to the officials and CoH2 is too old now. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Need help to understand the patch note15 Aug 2019, 12:30 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 11:47 AMinfernoVenom Thanks for you answer, I appreciate it. From 0 to 4 meter it seems close range for me. How come 0 Meter is determined as near range and 4 meter is far? If Negative RA makes the unit harder to get by other units. Then doesn't it more negative RA add more damage resistance to my unit? How come less negative add more resistance. Sorry I'm little confused. I mean -29 is less negative and -90 more negative. You're very welcome. "near", "mid" and "far" are just names for the reference points. It has nothing to do with general discussions about "close range combat" etc. It just means that at this distance, the damage has to drop off to a certain percentage. For the new Tiger, the damage will drop off linearly between 0 and 1 meter from 75% to 25%, and then also linearly to 12,5% at a distance of 4 meters. No damage will be done beyong that. 0 meter is the "near" reference point, 1 is "mid", 4 is "far", nothing special to it. I think you're getting confused about the modifier itself and then the veterancy bonus. RA is the modifier for hit chance. Lower is better. A vet bonus of -20% means that the modifier itself is modified with 0,8. So it lowers the RA which makes the squad harder to hit, therefore more beefy. Example: A unit with 0,9 base RA gets a vet bonus of "-20% received accuracy". This means it's new RA is 0,9*0,8 = 0,72. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Need help to understand the patch note15 Aug 2019, 11:08 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 10:43 AMinfernoVenom Tiger II: AOE distance from 1/2/3 to 0/1/4 AOE damage from 1/0.35/0.05 to 0.75/0.25/0.125 Scatter angle from 7.5 to 5. What is AOE distance, AOE damage, Scatter angle ? what's those three value means? 1/2/3 damage is a multiplier to the cannon damage, distance is the distance from the impact point. There are near, mid and far reference points. So for example for the Tiger as above it means that the Tiger does 75% damage (multiplier = 0,75) at 0 meters, 25% damage at 1 meter and 12,5% at 4 meters. So if you calculate the AoE damage 1 meter from the impact, it would be gun 1600,25 = 40 damage (160 is the base damage of the gun). All other points (for example 3 meters etc) are interpolated. Maybe have a look at that: https://i.imgur.com/VX4rtJy.jpg Scatter is a parameter that determines by how far the tank will miss if it does not hit the intended spot. Higher means the shot will land further off. Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 10:43 AMinfernoVenom Sturm Offizier: Veterancy 4: -29% Received Accuracy What is negative Received Accuracy?* Received accuracy (RA) is a modifier to modify the chance of being hit. So if a Gren would have a weapon accuracy of 50% (so every second shot hits), then this is modified by the RA of the targeted squad. If the targeted squad would have a RA of 2, then it would be hit with 50%2 = 100% chance. Negatve RA means that the squad becomes better. For example if the base RA would be 1 and the vet bonus like above -29% RA, then the squad would have 0,71 RA left. Cover for example gives you reduced RA as well. Less is of course better. Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 10:43 AMinfernoVenom Cromwell: Target size from 22 to 20 what is Target Size?* Basically RA for tanks. The chance to hit is calculated as: base accuracytarget sizeRA the base accuracy depends on the distance. Tanks have base accuracies of about 2-5%. So if we assume a tank with 2% base accuracy shots at the new Cromwell, the Cromwell would have a natural chance to be hit in 2%20 = 40% of all shots. "Unnatural" hits are if the game calculates a miss, but the target is still hit due to projectile collision with hit boxes. Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 10:43 AMinfernoVenom Sniper: Wind down increased from 4 to 4.5. what is Wind down?* As far as I know it's one of the times that is needed after the Sniper has taken a shot. The chance above will decrease the ROF by half a second. Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 10:43 AMinfernoVenom Command Panzer IV: Aura damage reduction modifier from 0.8 to 0.9, as was previously intended. What is Aura damage? All allied tanks near the Command P4 in vertain range will receive lower damage. So the Command P4 has an "aura" around it where it buffs tanks. And these tanks will only receive 90% of the damage now that they're supposed to get, unlike 80% as previously. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet September patch discussion15 Aug 2019, 10:25 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Aug 2019, 10:16 AMelchino7 The nerf on Volks won't change the dynamic. If anything changes it, are the PPSH and 7th man on T3. In the OKW thread I said that I want to see if the Volks nerfs are enough or not, because it seems not enough for Riflemen. But then again I also thought that the JLI nerfs back in the day were completely missing the main point and now JLI are in a pretty good spot. So I give the Balance Team the benefit of the doubt and want to see how these changes fair. Here I meant Cons could now be alright taken together the slight Volks nerf and their buffs. Should have pointed more towards the buff though to avoid misinterpretation. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet September patch discussion15 Aug 2019, 10:08 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Aug 2019, 20:00 PMStug life the cons changes are welcome but again does not fix their early problem and penals being so much better partisan changes still fail to address the enormous reinforce cost, allow cons to merge in to them still no changes to penal, so we will still see penal spam, they just made it easier to back tech for at guns if needed Let's see how Cons fair now with Volks slightly nerfed. Cons are okay against Grenadiere, but Volks broke the balance. Could be enough actually. Partisans now cost 26 to reinforce, so it's far from "enormous". You now pay as much as for normal mainline infantry. Can't say much about their performance though, I have rarely used them. And Penals can't be spammed in the sense of bringing up extreme early game pressure. They cost 300 MP a piece, so the time to field 4 of them is quite long. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet September patch discussion15 Aug 2019, 09:38 AM Good slight buffs to Conscripts and Partisans. Glad so see some Commanders potentially getting back into the meta. I know that Balance Team does not like it, but the Maxim should get a slight straight up suppression buff. Now the ability that no one ever uses has been buffed to more suppression, and now the AoE suppression gets better. But this does not help too much if it's hard to suppress even the first squad. Maxim does not need nowhere near MG42 suppression, but a buff is needed so that one squad can't attack it frontally anymore. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW September patch discussion15 Aug 2019, 09:08 AM Not too sure if the Volksgrenadier changes are enough to fix them. In total, OKW loses about 60 MP (20 starting plus 4x10 for 4 Volk squads). I mean, this will surely delay OKW a bit, but on the other hands it's only worth about 15-20 seconds of MP income, while Sturmpioniere still put on extreme pressure and have been buffed to scale a bit better into the early-mid game. I'd say let's see if OKW early game gets less oppressive, since starting resource management is very tricky, but I do have the sentiment that OKW would need to lose a little bit more than that. Time will tell. Really like the changes to Sturmoffizier, Fallschirmjäger and the Spec Ops commander! In: COH2 Balance