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Jump back to quoted post21 Mar 2014, 22:39 PMjeesuspietari

Hi, just thought I'd share, I heard they are going to ditch the current commander model and move to 3 basic commanders available to everyone with branching ability trees. People who bought commanders or the collectors edition are awarded various customization options instead

The Soviet faction is also getting a major overhaul as in the ppshs and molotovs now being global fuel based upgrades. Relic is hoping this will add a new layer of strategic depth to the game. They are also considering making the T34/85 a purchasable global upgrade. More details about the overhaul will be explained at the event and from what I understood there are going to be some changes to the Ostheer faction as well. We will see.

Relic is also hyped for all the recent community activity and wants to support tournaments and events in any way they can, thus introducing the long awaited spectator mode with various customization options to make streaming and content creation that much easier. To promote the new spectating tools, they will also be announcing a new RELIC/SEGA tournament sponsorhip program. Relic is hoping this will gradually result in the game stepping up to meet the needs of the competitive scene.

The large update will also be accompanied by a sizeable amount of balance and bug fixes. Those are not yet disclosed but I heard Relic is doing their best to tone down the RNG aspects in various ways to remove any frustration while keeping the games interesting. Removing full squad wipes and fixing broken or non-functional abilities are at the top of their priority list at this point.

To top it off, they are proud to finally announce full modding support. Relic wouldn't go into too much detail about it yet, but said they are now working hard to make it all Steam Workshop -compatible for ease of use.

Dang, seems like a bright future for CoH2 after all
I was hoping there would have been something for the outdated replay system as well but this doesn't seem too bad to begin with

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2014, 17:53 PMKatitof

Then I have no idea what you're talking about, guard nades, pgz nades, even assault nades are all fine, only assault nades being less consistent, but they wipe buildings clear so its fine as well.
Shock nades also trade aoe radious for better range and need pinpoint accuracy.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2014, 13:46 PMKatitof

There is consistency.
Its about AoE and unit spread.
If squad is tight behind the cover, rnade can easily wipe it, if its in the open, spread, the probability is lesser to inflict casualties.

Jump back to quoted post26 Feb 2014, 14:16 PMDarc Reaver

Oh wow, someone actually noticed this by now? I'm impressed...

Edit: Just to clarify it once more.

You cannot balance snipers if

a) you have no recon vehicles (cheap jeeps/bikes/whatever) and
b) squad sizes allow one sniper to kill the other while he can't be killed off in 1 shot
c) soviet snipers can actually be driven around in earlygame halftracks while the other doesn't.

So, as it stands, coh 2 snipers are broken.

You only have 2 options:

- match stats of Ostheer sniper and soviet sniper and make both a 2man team
- match stats of both snipers and make them 1 man squads
edit: I actually could think of a 3rd option:
- make snipers only drain health until the squads have less than 50% life. However, stats still need to be completely remade for them

Everything else will not work. You can try to bandaid this whole mess (just like relic did with nerfing clowncar/soviet sniper offensive power into oblivion). This doesn't change the fact that the unit design is broken. It only makes the unit so unattractive that nobody uses it anymore (so, they cover up the broken mess by making the units useless).

We spent 4 months trying to balance a 2man sniper team for soviets against Wehrmacht during 1.400 in Eastern Front mod, and still we could not come up with a working solution without changing either unit's design. So, in the end we adopted the working 1-man squad vCoH system to the soviet sniper - voilá, problem solved.

That's not a coincidence.