Profile of Volsky

Consider yourselves lucky that games have embraced the habit of (attempted) balancing. Typical Wehrmacht soldiers, your average squaddy, could manhandle a leiches Maschinengewehr 42 (lMG 42) with 50-round Gurttrommel (drum magazine--this is what we have in game) from the and maintain pretty reasonable accuracy even from the shoulder. I don't think that the lMG 34 was quite as light or ergonomic, but I'd reason you could shoulder that as well.

Hell, shooting it from the hip like we see in the CoH franchise would 'limp-wrist' the MG (seen here: http://youtu.be/Np6N_JKJaEA?t=3m7s )--the true blue way to bring that mother to bear would be to shoulder it like the DP animations we see in game. And even then, the Maschinengewehr series' of weapons had an in-line design that forced all of the recoil straight back at the shooter, reducing muzzle flip (so, little recoil--looking at you RO series!)

So yeah, Relic, gib MG assault rifles please ;D (or at least change the animations :3).

It's pretty amazing that 70 year old tech was handy enough to tot around like that, contrary to the false image portrayed even by games as 'realistic' as RO2!

well that's out the window. i assume what you mean is that squad formation settings are set in the squad file and can't be changed?

Bingo.

The only way to do that would be to use a swap_squad_action, that would replace your current squad with a new one that had a different formation. This would be abuse heaven as that squad would by fully reinforced and at 100% HP. About to lose your Obers? No prob, pop the formation button to shit out three buddies!

Sadly, one of those 'can't be done' things.

EDIT: And that action doesn't even exist in CoH2 anymore! Bwahaha, it's limited to vCoH. #rekt

A working sarcasm detector should have been on your Christmas list, my good sir (

Fair enough - sort of goes over my head as I'm not skilled in the arts of development.. but in your opinion, why has this been changed from COH to COH2?

It's obvious to my eyes the stripped the game bare from all the important variables and left a empty shell of a game in the form of COH2.

Why would a developer go back to a game, then remove all the hard work from it and make it worse?

Strip the target tables/extensions/other aspects bare and its easy to copy+paste and tweak. It's perfect for releasing gobs of DLC and attempting to keep players focused on the base game, but it's terrible for modders.

Modding was available after release, but Relic pulled the plug on the grounds that it 'allowed hacking and gamechanging tweaks within normal matches' (BS--we tried). They crapped out gobs of horribad DLC, and THEN threw modding in on top once the game was close to flopping.

It's an oversimplified mess and many of the mechanics don't work the same from vCoH to CoH2--projectiles, for example, took me a !month! to get working correctly (for small arms) because Relic's targeting FX applied to each weapon had rounds landing ~20m short of the intended target, no matter the range. Parabolic arcs were also a pain to get working. The list goes on.

It's workable, but cluttered, and the game feels gutted versus vCoH. Relic went ahead and created factions and units that were meant to be useless past the X minute mark--that crap wasn't in vCoH, the units were just...there, and it ended up being the case that X unit is good at the X minute mark and is a little weaker at the Y minute mark.

I'll tell you this. If I happen to slip off in a daydream or get bored out of my head, it's not the CoH2 voice acting and FX sounds that roll through my head--that's for damn sure.