Profile of FestiveLongJohns

I'm on my 2nd play through. I think about $30 is spot on. It's genuinely fun.

A bit of overreaction on my part I admit but when someone says that the British shouldn't be included as a faction, I have to stand my ground and prove them wrong; the British Army is as close as i'm getting for Canadian infantry, artillery or whatever to be playable in CoH2.

As for balance, I'd like to point out that Relic have extensively supported CoH1 for 8 years and will probably still continue to support it for years to come, so what makes you doubt that by adding the British Army, that a balanced game won't be achieved? Like you pointed out, it took 2 years for the Wehrmacht and Russians to be well balanced, and I don't think i'm alone in stating that balance right now is acceptable and fairly good for the most part- so what makes you think that by adding the British Army, Relic won't be able to balance it? They have 5 years to do so so unless you're expecting Starcraft level of balance, there's no reason to appose the British Army being added.

Also, for continuities sake the British were added for CoH1 so a lot of people expect them to make a return for CoH2. Much like the US(Which Relic added so they can get Americans on board with their game), the British Army would also attract a lot of customers(Mainly from Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and etc) which would help the game. If the Americans can make a return to CoH2 then the British can as well.

Again, your putting words into my mouth. I literally never said anything about the British until you brought them up.

I really don't care about what specific factions have been introduced. I would have been fine if Relic introduced the Brits rather than the US if they were a fun and interesting faction. I just don't have faith in Relic to actually invest the time necessary to balance 6 factions. There will always be another ardennes assault that will take priority over multiplayer because that is what Relic has decided pays the bills.

I personally don't want to invest a ton of time into a game that is introducing new content at a rate faster than it can get balanced. We have had the stale as hell call in meta for over a year now, despite the fact that 2 new factions and several new commanders have been released during that time.

Every new patch has a new set of bugs that take a significant amount of time to fix, and while the game might be relatively balanced, it is still fundamentally a commander v commander cheesefest, with a very narrow set of legitimately viable options. Currently, too much of a factions strength (especially the soviets) is locked into commander choice and rewards stalling for call ins rather than actually making a conscious decision on how to spend your resources.

It is changes like these that should be highest on the priority list, as you can't have a healthy long term multiplayer base without an interesting and strategically diverse meta. Eventually people get turned off and leave the game by being punished for playing outside the very, very narrow meta.

Until the fundamental flaws of the multiplayer get fixed, there is no room for more factions in coh2.

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(couldn't resist)

Actually in that case it is "Your".

I really hope we don't see any new factions in coh2. Maybe for a single player campaign, but at some point it just becomes too much to balance, and I can't imagine the balance process going well with 6 factions.

I think we just found priority number one for the modders out there. Make it so!

PS Nice poll.

So the idea, would be to give the OKW Volksgrenadiers a automatic weapons combat package that includes 1x LMG-34/42, 1x STG-44, and 2x MP-40's. Completely removing the KAR-98k from their inventory, locking out panzershreks, and giving them coats for cold immunity.


Perhaps this combat package can also give them a couple grenade options, although I'm just slinging ideas.



This would allow Volksgrenadiers to be less reliant on Obersoldaten and Sturmpioneers, while also providing an excellent and viable munitions sink aside from more panzershreks.

How about spending less manpower when reinforcing? Or the fact that Obersoldaten are dedicated Anti-Infantry specialists who destroy infantry with every shot where as Volksgrenadiers with their poor accuracy modifiers (unless Vet-5) will perform consistently less than.

Uhmm....volks have literally the best vet bonuses in the game.

(This list is quoted from the link below. It is a very interesting read, and I suggest everyone check it out)

Vet 1: 480 experience. Reduces accuracy against Volks by 10%. (.9 received accuracy modifier).
Vet 2: 960 experience. Increases accuracy by 30%, and increases rate of fire between reloads by 20% (a bit more complicated, but that's the gist; this gets messy with automatic weapons). (1.3 accuracy modifier; .8 weapon cooldown modifier).
Vet 3: 1920 experience. Reduces accuracy against Volks by 10% and enables 20/HP minute regeneration. (.9 received accuracy modifier).
Vet 4: 2400 experience. Increases weapon accuracy by 30% and sight range by 40%. (1.3 accuracy modifier; 1.4 sight radius modifier).
Vet 5: 3192(!) experience. Reduces accuracy against Volks by 29%. (.71 received accuracy modifier).


Aggregate veterancy bonuses: 42.5% reduction in accuracy against Volks; 69% increase in weapon accuracy; 20% increase in fire rate between reloads; 40% increase in sight range.

Sorry Sierra, but not only do volks have absurd accuracy scaling, but they don't even have to wait until vet 5 to start benefiting from those bonuses. That post is just pure misinformation.

If volks kept their current vet bonuses, giving them a weapon package like this would be HILARIOUSLY broken. A volks squad with an LMG34 is already more effective than a squad of obers because the accuracy bonuses scale like crazy with it and they are cheaper to reinforce and much, much more durable. Check out this article for refrence.

Instead of blobs of shrecks w/ obers for support, you'd just have cheaper, more effective volks with blobs of shrecks to support. This change wouldn't just make the OKW less reliant on obers and other elite infantry, it would completely outclass them. There would be literally no reason to build anything but volks in this scenario.

That being said, I think the general idea of providing the OKW player with more appealing options for their munitions could help the issue with shreck blobs. Just spitballing here, but perhaps something like a long range accuracy nerf to shrecks, coupled with a (significant) raketen buff, and fuel gated global mp40 upgrade for volks could help diversify the meta and make the OKW less reliant on shrecks as the only form of non fuel based AT.