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Thread: Abandon7 Feb 2021, 01:30 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2021, 00:39 AMturbotortoise If we're talking about mechanics and features in spirit of the game, there are multiple missions in the campaign, eastern front and ardennes based around abandoned vehicles but none of that has mattered for years. Cold tech, call in units, and if the new maps are any indication of where the game is headed-- true sight are all out the door. There's no reason to think Truesight is "out of the door", the new maps still have multiple sightblockers, its just that there are actually avenues that units with long sight/range can actually exploit. In: Lobby
Thread: Zis-3 as an AT gun6 Feb 2021, 19:47 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 19:45 PMTygrys Anyone saying ZiS barrage is some kind of nuke and it needs changing clearly hasn't played the game recently. It's so inaccurate at best it will make a unit move but definitely won't wipe anything unless you're blobbing. Even then it's highly unlikely. An unit, especially such an early one, doesn't need to be able to outright wipe units to be extremely effective. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 240 mm low damage output bug or on purpose?6 Feb 2021, 18:16 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 18:14 PMKatitof Well, being devils advocate, Railway arty has also pretty much guaranteed 1st shot landing where you wanted it or very near, while 240mm lands all over the place. That's really no reason for it to be quite such an outlier in terms of friendly fire damage. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 240 mm low damage output bug or on purpose?6 Feb 2021, 18:12 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 17:53 PMSander93 Meanwhile Railway Artillery has pretty close to 100% friendly fire damage lol. Any chance we can get all the friendly fire in the game normalised with the upcoming commander patch? I expect the prevailing wish would be to have them all normalised around one of the lower percentage values, though personally I'd prefer friendly fire for offmaps at least to be 100% to discourage broken arrowing your own guys, I'm not sure if this is something the Balans team would want to ever do. (Or even just your own personal troops, I expect being able to bomb your allies for 100% damage is far too abusable.) Unrelated, but is there any chance for allied and enemy offmap calldown flares to have differing colours? It doesn't matter for (sight blocking)smoke, but if Allied and Enemy offmaps do different damage to your own troops, I imagine random teamgame players would like if your allies' offensive calldown flares were, say, blue. I imagine there's a lot of confusion when a player launches artillery on a position, only for his ally to hard retreat due to thinking it was the enemy's calldown. Is this at all possible, or are calldown flares hardcoded somehow/not subject to team tints? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sturmtiger... why?6 Feb 2021, 18:05 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 15:24 PMButcher So tell me how to make the Sturmtiger useful then. I haven't put any thought into how to balance the Sturmtiger, though this doesn't mean I can't spot a conceptually flawed change when i see one. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Abandon6 Feb 2021, 14:49 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 10:44 AMHannibal Snip I think it's evident that there's no point continuing to argue with MrGame, he's not listening to anything you, or anyone else says, and keeps repeating his weirdly fallacious "arguments" regardless of how you deal with them. In: Lobby
Thread: Sturmtiger... why?6 Feb 2021, 14:41 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 13:31 PMButcher As I wrote in a previous Sturmtiger thread: The unit needs a total overhaul. By sheer design it can not work. With no turret and short range (current state) it is useless as it can be easily dodged. The whole hull will turn to the target making it too predictable. With longer range than the usual vision range Allied players will cry. The best solution imo would be to make it some kind of B4. Give it good range and a good nerf to accuracy to prevent it from being OP. If needed make it immobile after the shot so it can be swarmed and there is counter play involved. If the B4 can oneshot stuff across the map I see no reason the same shouldn't be possilbe for the Sturm (with the aforementioned nerfs to mobility and accuracy). "Balancing" an unit by making it extremely inconsistent is not a good way to balance it in the slightest. The B4 is a stupid unit already, as it either wipes squads/kills vehicles, or does absolutely nothing based on RNG. The B4 shouldn't be able to oneshot things across the map either. This is a terrible idea. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Abandon6 Feb 2021, 00:33 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2021, 00:23 AMKatitof Snip If it is so rare that you "Can't get worked up about it", why do you even care if it's removed? It is a bad mechanic that will not be missed. This desire to keep bad mechanics in the game because they're allegedly "Series defining" in some way is absurd. It really doesn't matter that it's "rare", it should still be removed, because it negatively impacts games. In: Lobby
Thread: Abandon5 Feb 2021, 23:54 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Feb 2021, 23:38 PMKatitof The same way heroes in Warcraft 3 define Warcraft series despite them not being present in earlier entrances. You also completely missed my original point, which is about collection of these mechanics making CoH2 what it is and more and more of them being removed, making the game as basic and plain as your reasoning. If you want to play Sudden Strike so badly, go and play Sudden Strike. Hero units were present in both Warcraft 1 and 2, they were further expanded upon in Warcraft 3. Abandon is not one of the mechanics that makes CoH2 "What it is", in the same way as Blizzard Tech and Flame Crits didn't make it "What it is". Just because a mechanic exists in the game doesnt make it "Defining", nor does it mean it is for the best to keep that mechanic, or at least not change it to become less terrible for the game. Your original point stated that Abandon was somehow a "Defining feature" of the series, which is wrong. It's similarly wrong to say that CoH2 is becoming more similar to DoW3 in some way by the removal or reworking of terrible features of the game. You're making a VERY broad comparison that literally does not exist. In: Lobby
Thread: Abandon5 Feb 2021, 23:35 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Feb 2021, 23:31 PMKatitof "If cars are such transport defining commodity, why weren't they used in 1600?" kind of logic here at work. How exactly is something that wasn't present in half of the entries in a series, and added in the latest of a series "Series defining"? How do you define "Series defining", anyway, because it just seems to be "something I like". Your argument is closer to "Wings are a transport-defining feature" than it is your contrived straw-man. In: Lobby