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Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback10 Dec 2020, 16:52 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Dec 2020, 16:48 PMHannibal As you said, I think your idea is super complicated for something that is not an issue anyway, BUT: I actually like the idea of giving the capture bonus to the officer. Maybe even as an ability: officer unit and IS sections in a certain range get increased capture/decapture rates for some time. Arbitrarily I'll just pick for 30 seconds or so. Then make the ability relatively cheap for 30 mun. Would not promote blobbing (rather even spreading out units) and the officer has a utility ability that would be in line of a "command" unit. This ability would also be relatively useless in a game with constant fights, but if you manage to win a bigger battle you can capitalize quickly by activating it and decapping a couple of points quickly. I mean, I don't think it's THAT complicated a suggestion, It's not too much removed from adding further "upgrade" options to Tommies. The Assault Officer is a nice platform for somewhat more meaningful abilities/upgrades to than Tommies, due to his status as an "unique" unit. He would also be a good candidate for the UKF's smoke calldown ability, rather than giving it to Tommies, incidentally. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback10 Dec 2020, 16:13 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Dec 2020, 16:04 PMHannibal Unless it gets heavily nerfed, no. I also don't see the design benefit of having a CQC assault unit as the starter unit of an otherwise defensive and static faction. Or did you have a specific idea in mind? I'm not sure, really. The Assault Officer would definitely need to be changed to accommodate being their starter unit. Vague thoughts that the Officer could, instead of being necessarily an "assault" Officer, begin the game as an infantry section, with different upgrade paths, and perhaps without the cover requirement. Upgrades include: "Assault" (Becomes as it is currently), a reworked "Raid" upgrade, including the scoped Enfield, but without quite such schizophrenic design, or whatever else could be suggested. If the Balance Team are set on removing the Section capture bonus, I think it might be interesting to then give it to the Officer. Given that it's an unit limited to one being on the field at any one time, I think it lends some potentially more interesting design space, rather than trying to give tommmies every option under the sun. The Officer is apparently not a terribly popular unit at the moment, after all. EDIT: Really, I keep thinking about these rather complex design solutions to issues, I feel as though it's a little naive given that there are likely rather simpler solutions possible. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback10 Dec 2020, 15:58 PM I wonder if it would be possible at all to balance the Assault Officer as the Brits' starting unit? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] USF Feedback9 Dec 2020, 21:39 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2020, 21:17 PMRaxzero This right here. If the balance team is insisting on making Scott barrage-focused artillery unit rather than a frontline auto-fire unit, range of the barrage should be buffed so that it's actually useful in the late-game. In exchange, smoke cannister can be removed to make the unit more vulnerable to dives. The unit would likely need a health and armour reduction as well, if this were the case. It's approximately as survivable as a Stuart, an unit that's intended to be on or near the frontlines. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: why not nerf pathfinder？9 Dec 2020, 20:52 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2020, 20:41 PMKatitof That is old design and it doesn't apply for 6 years now, since this is when first exceptions started appearing. It applied exclusively to vanila eastern front. All of the cost changes without vet req changes over the years also prove that this is not only a weak argument, its laughable one. Powerful vet bonuses to weak base stats result in ok vetted stats, not op unit. Neither extra sight nor anti bunker ability helps win engagements. What's wrong with them now? The same reasoning applies here. They are not JLI, they are not independent infantry capable of fighting and beating opposing mainlines. Extra sight absolutely helps win engagements, it allows you to far more easily circumvent prepared positions, particularly MGs. It's not a direct combat stat, but it's still quite good in terms of helping to win engagements. If you're talking about I&R pathfinder's artillery callin when you're talking about "Anti-bunker ability" I'm not entirely certain how that can't be used to help win engagements, either. It allows you to displace/destroy team weapons... and displace infantry in cover as well. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] SOV Feedback9 Dec 2020, 18:14 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2020, 16:06 PMAlphrum as they should be. no way in hell are PTRS supposed to counter heavy tanks in anyway. If you use PTRS vs heavy tanks YOU SHOULD BE GETTING HEAVY BLEED. "Last ditch" "upgrades" that cause an unit to be worthless dead weight in the lategame is not exactly stellar game design. If Penals really won't be changed to be a mainline alternative, and remain as they are, the PTRS upgrade needs to do one of two (Three) things: A: Provide solid AT. B: Provide acceptable AT and maintain a level of AI performance. (C: Be replaced with an AI upgrade and Guards be made stock) If they're useless against both Infantry and medium+ tanks then that is bad unit design. Upgraded Fusiliers/Pgrens/ZookREs/PIATREs are still able to threaten heavier vehicles, there's not really any reason Penals should be rubbish just because they thematically have AT rifles rather than HEAT munitions. I still maintain that Penals should become a Mainline alternative and be replaced with Guards (of some type) as SOV handheld AT. Guards have utility to complement their lacklustre AT performance, Penals by comparison are really not fantastically designed units. I'm going to actually flesh out this idea. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] OST Feedback9 Dec 2020, 15:36 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2020, 13:53 PMSmartie The idea of 2 different approaches for a certain unit / ability is great and will save a lot of time. I hope you boys do the same again when you work on the commander rework patch. I don't think it's something that can be done in all cases. Both Osttruppen commanders are picked almost solely for the Osttruppen at moment, so for all intents and purposes the commanders are "identical". That's why doing a split approach is perfectly fine here, but it might not work so well with other commanders. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] SOV Feedback9 Dec 2020, 02:48 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2020, 02:37 AMKirrik Everything Miragefla said about about ISU behind ZiS wall could be also said about Elefant/JT sitting behind Atlantic wall denying enemy tanks and even TD chance to push enemy away. Somehow ISU countering infantry is bad, but Elefant/JT doing the exact same to vehicles is perfectly okay. The fact that JT also has a barrage and it's not touched in same patch ISU AI and ZiS barrage were nerfed is funny I would imagine its because there is a marked difference between shooting tanks and shooting infantry. Without supporting fire you arent going to kill an expensive tank in one shot, whereas is is perfectly possible that you might be able to wipe an infantry squad with one HE, and if not you are able to cause significant bleed. The Jagdtiger has what amounts to an artillery barrage ability, that costs munitions to use. It's not quite the same as the ISU being able to just switch to HE and obliterate infantry at will with autofire. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] OST Feedback9 Dec 2020, 02:27 AM Jump back to quoted post8 Dec 2020, 23:39 PMGiaA I personally don't care about grid keys but changing any hotkeys 7 years after the release of the game is the opposite of a QOL change. For existing players, certainly, but i... suppose it could be argued that its a good change for new players? I still don't know why Lelic didnt give us the ability to just set our own hotkeys. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: [Winter Balance Update] UKF Feedback8 Dec 2020, 22:02 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Dec 2020, 21:09 PMVipper Capping bonus make little sense it if there is a need for it should be move to the officer. (the officer could be moved to T0 and be readjusted as 260 unit) This makes some sense, though I think it might be hard to make a tier 0 260mp "Assault unit" both non-oppressive, and not rather useless in the later game. The fact the unit is limited to a single one at a time likely helps avoid some balance pitfalls, however. In: COH2 Balance