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pq said in the stream that the faust penetration is higher (140 iirc) ten the AT nades penetration (100 iirc) cause the AT nade is lobbed and thrown in a cone and therefore more likly to hit the rear part of a vehicle where the armor is much lower.

So yeah of course like any other weapons they do better vs the lower rear armor. they actually did pre patch but had i think 1000 penetration and did penetrate any armor anyway no matter where they hit.

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ace

The thing with cons and grens seems a little to me as i described the situation about the KV-8: it might look like instant crits but it actually isn't.

A regular Conscript/Grenadier only takes 5 penetrated hits from a regular Kar98K/Nosin Nagant to get killed. thats not much when 4 or 6 guns are firing at a target.
So if you are lucky and your first 5 hits in an engagement are rolled penetrated hits at the same entity it can be downed right away and it might look like something like an " instant critical". But that's not the case.

Tbh the chances for this to happen are very low, but it can happen and so it does happen.

But the RNG specially in small arms combat is what i much like about CoH. This also means CoH2. No engagement plays out like another. Even the pretty perfectly balanced encouter of a gren vs a cons squad can swing in your favor and the next time in favor for your opponent. But I know that and so i am trying to get any tactical advantage possible to swing the outcome into my favor. If i wouldn't want it that way, i would play starcraft.

True, the combat feels different from CoH1, but only to a certain and small degree. In fact the whole weapon system works quit similar to CoH1 from what I have seen. I agree and also feel that small arms could be a little more leathal in close combat (higher accuracy), mainly the standard rifles. But that's about it for this part. And thats more a balance thing than an RNG problem.

Ah and please as a personal note, stop always calling for more damage if something underperforms in your eyes, when more damage doesn't do the whole job and in many many cases wouldn't mean a buff at all. accuracy and firing rate (and scatter for ballistic weapons) are much more key then damage alone.

Another example I read here is about the PAK and ZIS-3 and that they miss to often. That's totally true. But calling it on the magic bad RNG rolling for accuracy is the wrong approach. AT guns have i believe 50% chance to hit by accuracy vs a standard size (20) tank. This means a hit whatever the vehicle is driving, flying or digging into the ground. The other 50% are fired by scatter and that's the more important part. At max range the actual scatter values are not viable for a meant hard counter. they should match the SU85s scatter values which are the reason this beast basicly never misses at the same range.
And again that's a balance thing not a broken RNG. And in COH1 it works the exact same way.

Actually this games does alot much better than coh1 in this department and looks much more matured and professional to me. Things like the normalizetion of health and damage or the introduction of penetration and armor are very key improvements to make the game much straighter and its data control- and scalable, specially for the future with more weapons and units to come (hopefully).

Do you all remember the Opposing Fronts release?
CoH1 was broken at that point and a major reason for that was cause to whole data model was not as is looks like in CoH2 today.

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ace

afaik, units can only be killed by criticals, not by damage. damage simply subtracts from the health of an entity, it only dies when it told by a critical to do so. likewise a unit with 0% will get a kill crit from almost any source then. At least in coh1 that was the case.

So I am still wondering about the explosive crits.

I also felt that the armor zones of vehicles lack a more detailed implementation.

if i remember correctly from coh1 a vehicle is basicly split in half, front zone and rear zone. projectiles are always fired at center of a vehicle, so unless you are actually slightly behind the target you always hit the front armor.

i think it is not rewarding enough for trying to get into the flank of a vehicle and not punishing enough for revealing a vehicles side and leads to gimpy vehicle/tank usage.

but i have no idea if relic actually changed smth within this implementation.
A good example in my eyes is the implementation of bf3 in which the impact degree also is quite a factor.

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ace

3 vids, but nevertheless its just annoying. the PAK itself has a target size of 20 but that doesnt really matter cause you can only attack a weapons crew while as long as said weapon is crewed. and crew men have size 1 as all other infantry. these means when a su85 shoots a PAK its always calculated missus and only fired by scatter.knowing that the SU85 has the lowest scatter values compared to other at dedicated weaponary like stug, su76, pak 40, zis-3 even much better compared to the elefant, leads me to the conclusion the scatter is the reason fot it being able to snipe inf and destroy whole team weapons. the projectile just flies in such a norrow cone that it hits the weapon as shot blocker regulary destroying the weapon in the process.

i can't belive that this behavior is intended. and for the rest of the SU85: granted its meant as a late game TD. but its too cheap for who superior it performs specially since I don,t see any other drewbacks for it.

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ace