Profile of ZombiFrancis

You know you got a whole lot of demands here and not a great deal if justification for them. Nor do you offer any suggestions on how one might achieve these changes.

Just sayin'.

Pick one issue, flesh out your thoughts, and address these one at a time. Plenty of these have had significant debate on this site, but few have had strong solutions suggested given the volatility of this game's sense of balance.

You'd probably receive a whole lot more response than, well, crickets at best and flame wars at worst.

I still don't have a full picture on wtf happened with Krebs.

He did a bunch of stuff with COHO and then next thing I knew there were seas of HAET for him.

How did you give the ability to the 45mm to garrison and please consider giving the Brits a mobile mortar while making the emplacement a garrisonable one.

Also please consider making the MG34 Tier 0.

If you're having trouble with the emplacement I can forward what Svanh told me to make it.

To make the 45mm able to garrison I had to change the ebps file extension 'holdable' from 'hold_large_gun' to 'hold_heavy_machine_gun'. The raketenwerfer shares this value and is what makes it capable of both being garrisoned and retreating. It's also why I'm not sure if I can change the kind of arc the 45mm (or raketenwerfer) has while inside buildings either. Essentially the engine thinks the entity is an MG, but it is still using the ATG weapon.

(I had another weird issue where the 45mm was unrecrewable, but I think that was a glitch in the mod more than anything since I had to repopulate the capture_squad_blueprint value for each faction.)

The MG issues for both WFA factions is, in my opinion, a greater design issue. I think the problem that lies in there is that OKW and USF have one less tier than EFA. When you have Infantry, Support Weapons, Light Vehicles and Tanks, Medium Tanks and Tank Destroyers, and finally Artillery and Heavies, all crammed into three tiers and an HQ there's always going to be a block of units that just are ill-timed.

I have explored this issue multiple times in different mods and such, and making the MG34 t0 (it kind of already is) just gives OKW such a stacked arsenal from their HQ. Cramming more units into faction HQs I don't think is the best answer. I'd want to see some good discussion on the matter.

As far as the Brit mortar and emplacement change... Hasn't that Svanh already built a fantastic rendition of exactly what you're describing?

My goal here isn't to completely revamp the game, but rather give a few of the more well argued and discussed points a chance to be seen ingame. There's a lot of design implications and overall faction functionality that would be messed with by those changes.

why not add canister shot to the M42 and buffing the scatter by a bit?

Hm, that would be interesting. That ability used to be ridiculous, but I've hardly used it since it was nerfed to hell and back. I wonder how that would function on something like the 45mm.

I did end up buffing the scatter though, or rather, I realized I hadn't matched all the scatter values from the T70 originally. The 45mm should be much more reliable in hitting its target now.

OMFG CoH2.org and you logging me out every time I make a post. I cannot tell you how many times I've lost an in-depth from this infernal site's machinations.

Anyway, I managed to fix the mod for myself so I've made a few adjustments.

The 45mm now has the same range and scatter as the T70. I also bumped up the cost to 240mp, since it might actually serve a purpose.

The 222's coax damage is now 3 from 4 because the unit really was balanced around the MG being broken. That should suffice to start.

I could easily do that, so I guess the answer is 'not yet'.

I'm trying to base things off community discussions and such, rather than making arbitrary changes, though.

If people start a healthy discussion on it I'd be down to do so.