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Thread: HOLY POTATOES !!! patch 3/2527 Mar 2014, 22:15 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2014, 21:57 PMSpeculator Says it here: http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/coh-2-balance-feedback/33663-new-pioneers-assault-grenadiers/page3 Ah alright. Ok that is indeed a bit curious^^ Quite a lot of effort to counter a t0 non-combat unit. Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2014, 22:00 PMAerohank Yes I do. They released broken commanders like ostruppen, assault support, elite troops and soviet industry. Ostruppen and assault support were changed the NEXT DAY! The other two doctrines were regardes as OP by all but the most abusive players and were finally fixed a few months later. What does this tell us, if not that they don't properly conduct tests? Does Relic's track record give indication of proper pre-release testing? I think not. The problem is that its hard to predict what will be a problem for the playerbase. Because the playerbase consists of so many kinds of players. What might be a problem for medium skilled players might be easy to fight for pro players or even not be a problem in lower skilled matches because everyone there lacks the skills to actually execute the "OP strat" properly. And then there of course also are the different game modes. At the same time its hard to judge the feedback. Should Relic listen to "noobs" as much as to medium skilled players? Noobs might simply lack the knowledge to identify problems. And then there's always a decent amount of exaggerating and the "It cant be my fault"-Mentality in community feedback. In my opinion Relic and the Beta testers are doing an excellent job. But they are a relatively small group of players and that can never replace the feedback (and game data) of thousands of players. And that's what Relic is currently gathering. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: HOLY POTATOES !!! patch 3/2527 Mar 2014, 21:53 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2014, 21:42 PMKatitof While he does play well, I find it simply mind blowing that he says soviets need 2 combat units or combined arms of tier units or even vehicles mixed with most expensive doctrinal AI unit to counter A BUILDER UNIT. Where did he state that? The post earlier in this topic was refering to Grens and Assault Grens. And really...some of the posts here... The balance devs and beta testers barely testing their patches, favoring static gameplay, being fanboys...do you actually believe what youre writing here folks?^^ In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How the new Patch changed the flow and feel of the game.27 Mar 2014, 21:19 PM I cannot stress enough how much I love the new infantry combat. Gameplay-wise its simply amazing. No "Run straight at the enemy with shocks/assault grens" anymore. Cover deciding who is going to win the engagement. Its great. And I dont feel that there is too little movement, not at all to be honest. Its tactical movement from now on. The gameplay still is very dynamic but now you have to think about HOW to move your units and in certain situations its truly better to have a squad stand still behind instead of a blind rush into enemy lines. In my opinion: Exactly as it should be. Balance-wise I cant really say anything though. Sometimes I felt that Cons were little too weak but then in another game my team and me got utterly destroyed by vanilla cons (superior skill involved aswell though). There is currently so much happening Im surprised that so many players already seem to be able to pinpoint what is OP and what isnt. Let the meta game evolve a little, soviets seem to be more reliant on tier 1 or tier 2 now. Flanking pios are a little bit hilarious though...The pioneer squad does seem a little too strong but then again it also doesent scale well. That might need some tweaking but the important part is not to fuck up the Combat Engineer vs Pioneer balance at the same time. But then again I always thought that CEs should be a bit superior to Pios anyway. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Sandbags!27 Mar 2014, 18:03 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2014, 16:25 PMbuckers and to think, when i was a beta tester they had a really stupid doctrine planned - it's main feature: buildable watchtowers and bunkers for soviets. one of the most useless doctrines ever made imho. i wonder if it'l ever be released typical relic business model: "if we forgot to give a faction something, we'll just sell it to them as a DLC later on!" Hooray for NDA In: Lobby
Thread: Sandbags!26 Mar 2014, 23:08 PM I fully agree but maybe we should start by increasing soviet sandbag usefulness a little bit. With the current meta they can be great, but: They take quite long to build. too long for a game (and especially a faction) that focuses on movement so much. What I did some time ago was giving sandbags to german Pioneers, Grens and Osttruppen while decreasing soviet sandbag build time, increasing hp and decreasing the min left and right distance (so that they are easier to place) and giving combat engineers access to them as well. So while a german sandbag segment was shorter to build it took roughly the same time to build enough segments so that they have the length of the soviet sandbag emplacement, which was far more robust and couldnt be run over by light vehicles. Sandbags for both factions would be interesting, but at the same time asymmetrical balance with soviet-only access is cool too^^ In: Lobby
Thread: Sherman tank on CoH226 Mar 2014, 14:08 PM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 13:54 PMKatitof Now, lets put your post against some facts and things we know. Relic stated there won't be new commanders and ToW THIS MONTH, this is all they have said, nothing more. To specify: Noun stated no ToW anytime soon and in a later post no commanders this month. Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 13:54 PMKatitof We don't know what commanders they were working on, we had a couple of leaks, but there were plenty of other commanders there as well, some with placeholder icons. What makes you believe there was on land lease commander amoungst them? Land lease project existed. Americans on easten front not. What do you think we can expect from the game that holds some historical basics? / Except the historical argument backed up by facts that point out there was not a single american soldier on the eastern front? Youre still insisting that this game will never leave the eastern front. That might be true but it might just as well not. Its CoH 2, not CoH - Eastern Front. Yes, in the previous game they stayed on the western front, that doesent mean that every CoH title will have to stay on the same front with all its expansions. (They actually did think about creating an eastern Front expansion for vCoH but werent satisfied with the capabilities of the engine since they couldnt realize all the stuff they wanted to do with it afaik). Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 13:54 PMKatitof Its called marketing. Building up huge hype for small things. Remember mud tech? Much hype. So useful tech. Wow. I dont remember a big hype about mudtech. Just a trailer^^ Marketing also has something to do with knowing what people will expect and meeting the expectations. Speaking of mudtech: That couldve been cooler Relic. Way cooler Deep snow reversed: Less problems for infantry bigger problems for tanks for example. Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 13:54 PMKatitof D-day also could work and be easily implemented. That doesn't mean it will be in. Thats true, Im just saying that some possible scenarios are more likely simply because they require less work. Africa or the pacific for example would require much more work than D-Day or the Ardennes. Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 13:54 PMKatitof Land lease commander and Kursk(since they plan something bigger for it) make sense. More then that is day dreaming really. Game isn't even 1 year old, if we will see new armies, it will not be soon considering commanders give close to infinite expanding on current factions. Opposing Fronts was released one year after vCoH. Lend-Lease makes sense since they havent touched that subject at all so far and they probably want to implement all the aspects of the eastern front that can potentially be fun and interesting for players. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Sherman tank on CoH226 Mar 2014, 12:50 PM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 11:02 AMKatitof Still people deluding themselves with americans? You probably expect your fav characters in game of thrones to survive, right? Concerning that the friday announcement will probably be something big and Noun stated that the next commanders and ToW missions wont come too soon AND since we already know that Relic worked on different commanders (not including a lend-lease one) months ago which probably will be released first, what else should it be? Furthermore this kind of teasing, as we can see by having this debate, can be very misleading...and is not something I as a developer would do just to promote a future commander dlc. And I bet that the folks are Relic are smarter than me! On the other hand there are no arguments against an american faction. Battle of the Bulge simply works: Not too much work (compared to the pacific with 2 new factions and they can reuse stuff from vCoH), ColdTech and the US army being quite popular. It can also be a lend lease commander (since we've seen what appeared to be one in an early video) but considering the facts above that seems odd to me. Except if Kursk is known for lend-lease US weaponry, since that is going to be the "next ToW-step"...such a DLC would be big enough for this kind of announcement as well. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Patch Notes 03.25.1426 Mar 2014, 12:12 PM Wait Assault Gren spam is a thing now? When trying the patch yesterday I thought the opposite is going to be the case, since unlike before the patch you actually have to micro them well. If you approach without shotblocking objects or very good cover they will loose horribly 1v1 against a vanilla conscript squad afterall. I havent seen their sprint ability in action though so if thats causing an issue we should make it their vet 1 ability. Way too early to tell though In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Sherman tank on CoH226 Mar 2014, 01:29 AM Battle of the Bulge expansion pack, 82nd airborne. Anybody wanna take some bets? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: HOLY POTATOES !!! patch 3/2525 Mar 2014, 21:26 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Mar 2014, 20:45 PMCapacity_gear Now a tiger rushes base,. kills a t-3/t-4 building, bam! 140fuel damage done + the mp,. if it kills 2 of them bam! 280 fuel + mp damage done to a target that cannot move or fight. I agree. I already had an issue with that with the current prices. German tier upgrades are part of the price but have the major advantage that they cannot be destroyed. An unnecessary disadvantage for the soviets, which is why I reduced the soviet building prices by 50% if that building was already build once in my small gameplay-test mod a few months ago In: COH2 Gameplay