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Thread: T4 and the Panther6 Mar 2014, 19:35 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2014, 16:24 PMPorygon Seriously? You just have to learn using the maxim different from MG42 (1) Use in choke (2) Use in buildings (3) Use TrueSight to ambush (4) Use deep snow bullshit preventing flanking (5) Much longer forgiving time against flank because nothing beside PG can wipe them down quick (6) Use as aggressive weapon instead of defensive weapon, you just need to use the maxim to fire their bullets for 1 sec, suppressing the gren, then your cons can rape them, and change to another target That joke "In Soviet Russia, MGs flank you", it can be true. But MG42? Before T2, you need a backup MG42 protecting another MG42 from lolotov, only Gren cannot stop Cons flank. A successful lolotov land on MG42 face = Ostheer no longer own that area. COH2 MG42 is ultra micro intensive. There is no more MP40 Volks, 25 muni mines, For the Papaland saving your ass. I disagree, all Soviet games I played is like (1) Spam (2) Flank & Swarm oooooorrrhhaaa, without risk (3) Use ability, if almost dead, "T" (they are quite surprising durable) (4) Get map control (5) Camp at cutoff (6) German died There is no real quality > quantity in this game, if yes, Soviet should feel like Zerg, numerous but weak (that I loved in SC2), but in the end I feel like their speed and spamming natural like Zerg, but having the power of Protoss. If you play Starcraft you know what I mean. But as playing Ostheer, I always need to take risk, worrying where would he flank, worrying when will he cut me off and need to come back and defend, worrying a partisan come out from nowhere fucking my support weapon, worrying mines squad wiping my hard vetting dudes, etc, etc. But I still prefer Ostheer because I feel like playing an RTS, not lazy faceslaping my opponent. This soviet strat is exactly how you beat me a few days ago No but honestly - MG42 is "decent" when there are two to back each other up. But since the Maxim can park outside your arc of fire and murder your MG42 without a single bullet reaching it I would say that the favor is leaning toward the Maxim. There are maxim may not pin units quickly but it kills them faster, and soviets don't need to kill more units at the moment. Lose 1/4 grens = a 25% loss in DPS lose 1/6 scripts and its a 16% loss. And you will most certainly have 5-6 conscripts (or mixed infantry) who can easily get around both MGs and molotov them. The fast reposition of the maxim and generally fewer supporting infantry makes flanking and being offensive much harder as german. I know I've been getting my ass handed to me when I play germans (keep in mind I'm an average player) in this patch and when I switched to soviets, pretty much nothing can stop me from winning and I go on 3-4-5-6 win streaks without too much effort. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: PC Upgrade 6 Mar 2014, 07:32 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2014, 21:22 PMBasilone My tip is this: Upgrade your computer with other games in mind. CoH2 is possibly the worst optimized AAA title ever released. So if you want to spend $1.2k or more on a computer that also runs games like Battlefield, Arma 3, Assassins Creed, War Thunder, Rome 2, Watch Dogs, etc. then go for it! But I would never even consider spending that much just to run CoH2. If you've played hundreds of hours already and you absolutely love it, then go ahead. But IMO unless you are making this upgrade to also play some other titles, I think you would be better off spending that kind of money on a nice vacation, spoiling your girlfriend, more clothes, or on any other hobby like sports, cars, music, etc. Thanks this kinda makes senseto me. I sometimes give the big AAA titles a try (AC, batman games, Rome) but I'm always super-dissapointed and almost never finish them because they reveal themselves as one-dimensional garbage. AC Liberation comes to mind here. In many ways Rome II as well. So most of my gaming hours are spent in COH1&2 and FM. With the exception of a few weeks per year I don't really have time to play a lot at all so that's why I've been happy with my rig all this time. Although some more detail and higher FPS would be nice, this right now is horrendous. maskedmonkey: I've looked into this as well, and I might stick around until a friend can get me a hand-me-down for a knock down price. Also looks very good in terms of what you get for the money. In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: T4 and the Panther6 Mar 2014, 07:17 AM Well I don't consider the panther to be a good choice in 1v1 either but since T4 from soviets is up between 8-10 minutes there is very little option. SU85 are going to hit and to be able to do anything against one of them you need 2 PIV's. Or tonnes of supporting infantry for shrecks and fausts. But we all know those supporting infantry are all dead by now. Also even if the soviets went for T3, 2 T34 are a perfectly viable counter to a panther with ram+extra tank. You said you need to support your units? Well one shock troop (maybe + a conscrpit) is basically enough to chase away 2-3 grens a pgren and a pak witout a problem. So basically its like you say, if you get a panther out you're screwed. And if you don't? well you're screwed again. That's why I think this game is horrible at the moment. I guess it took vCOH a year or two to get good, but this is really dissapointing considering the expectations. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: T4 and the Panther5 Mar 2014, 19:53 PM @JHeartless You may be right about the ISU152 but considering how much AI the soviets have, and how much MP you end up losing to mortars/flames/cons/snipers/ppsh/lucky zis/insert whatever it costs far more to be in the game and to pre-emptively tech to a panther. it feels even more stupid to then actually build a panther when there is a majority of crazy infantry on the field. show a brummbär? and there is the IS2 already waiting. and T85 will ALWAYS come before a panther. but considering their power or considering ram+at-nade you need to be 2v2 (tanks) to win that engagement unless you have shrecks (which you dont because of reinforce cost) or paks (which you don't because a T34 destroyed the entire gun in two shots). anyways i'm just frustrated at playing soviets but still this is coming from a pretty average player (although i've played the series for years and thousands of games so i'm not completely retarded). oh and my biggest problem is not even the un-viability of the panther but rather how soviets are all about elite infantry smoking PCP not giving any fucks. surpress a shock with an mg and unless in negative cover they will ALWAYS just crawl all the way to the mg and drop a nade in its face. but i dont want to litter the thread with more rants. Katitof: seriously? as german, you never have 150 spare fuel just sitting around. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: PC Upgrade 5 Mar 2014, 17:44 PM Yeah, I'm running similar - but slightly lower specs on my machine and my GFX Card is a Radeon 5770-series. Lately I've been thinking about upgrading but I'm getting a lot of mixed signals about what's more important to actual performance increases. ATM I have COH2 at low on everything and I can't even run it in 1080p. Even then I have framedips below 25-30. I know this is because my GPU is 3 years old but at a glance the newer GPU's (like R270 for example) don't seem to be such a big bump up in terms of comparisons on sites as the one linked to above. Then at other places I read about how super amazing intels processors are for gaming. So is it all down to the GFX-card? Because I would really want to be at 1080p with high on everything since I spend most of my gaming time in this game. Tips? Hints? Advice? Clarifications? In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: T4 and the Panther5 Mar 2014, 10:58 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2014, 23:09 PMJHeartless Wow this thread sure degenerated into Germans UP and completely off topic with walls of text that have nothing to do with Panthers or T4..... well they kind of do. the reason is that as a german player, you will never, never, never ever get to build a T4 in 1v1 with the exception that you were bossing your opponent around and decided to have a little lol with the brumbär. soviets on the other hand will have their T4 up before 10-12 minutes and before 15 mins there will already be a hard counter to the panther in the su85 out. i think that it really is relevant that the meta is shifting in that way. if soviet players largely play doctrine supertanks (IS2, ISU152, KV8, T85) and their only "natural" non-doctrinal counter is the panther (what if i picked a doctrine without a supertank?) it becomes important to me to be able to have a chance to put out that unit. what i said before is more of a rage rant about that the most powerful tanks in the game also come with the two most powerful elite infantry units in the game - imo that situation doesn't lend itself to good, balanced gameplay. i stopped playing germans and i'm winning left and right by just building 6-8-10 cons and maybe some guards here and there until i hit a supertank. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: T4 and the Panther4 Mar 2014, 21:58 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2014, 19:05 PMKatitof Brommbars also don't cost 240+ fuel and aren't doctrinal. And the 'soviet absurd anti infantry' as you say it, is all doctrinal, late game armor. This is pretty much an irrelevant statement because there are only 3-4 commanders at a max that are used in soviet 1v1 play and they all give ridiculous early and late game units. they also ALL include elite infantry (which the ostheer lacks completely) in -Guards -Shocks the same doctrines frequently come with call in flame arty or the howitzer (which completely eliminates any usefulness of MGs AND PAK40/43 and at least 3 of the commanders come with one or more ridiculous tanks as the KV8, IS2, ISU152 etc. oh yeah they also come with PPSH upgrades. At least 3 doctrines overlap in this way. Did i mention that the same doctrines also frequently have the skillplane in there just for good measure? this is bad because the soviet commanders give you an all-in-one package while germans usually have 1-2 useful abilities at most (like the G43 or tiger). with germans the commander choices are narrowed down to -"do i want a tiger at 10cp when i'm already defeated?" or -"do i want G43 to stay in the game but get roflstomped by a flametank or -"do i want to get squadwiped by a single 30 muni mine" or -"do i just get completely wrecked by a single mortar shell" or "do i want to pay to have a commander with both early and late game perks (elite troops) with immense risk/reward implications you see the difference? as soviet you just rock on the same path with the same killer units or as german you either pay or have to be a much much much better player on top of his game. just waiting myself for a DLC with a german elite call-in infantry. an 8-man squad with 2 shrecks one "marksman" and 5mp 44's. oh yeah and a KT late-game tank. i'd pay €10 right now to get a half-fair matchup as a german. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Balance4 Mar 2014, 21:36 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2014, 21:08 PMNapalm Scout car should be faster, have the health of a P4, and be one shot kill with the auto cannon upgrade. /Thread finally someone with a little sense in there +1 In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sniper Balance4 Mar 2014, 14:36 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Feb 2014, 20:06 PMkorgoth Great idea! and it would allow the 221/222 and M3 to get some changes! would absolutely love to see this unit as a counter to soviets being op in general In: COH2 Balance
Thread: IS2 are you kidding me?3 Mar 2014, 14:07 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Mar 2014, 12:42 PMMr. Someguy Oh come on, the IS-2 isn't that much slower than the Panther Tank. Yeah, the Panther will beat it in a drag, but that's besides the point. The IS-2 is the fastest heavy tank in the game. It's in a fragile place right now, you can't buff anything without nerfing something else on it to balance it. It's a powerful tool for those who can use it. not only that but crappy pathfinding and terrain difference (road, obstacles etc) affect the big tanks a lot. its not the easiest thing to "just circle strafe it". a teller reduces IS2 health a lot too. but the point is that it is very hard, too hard, to deal with a unit like it. when a pak (the only weapon that is solely AT and nothing else) gets wrecked in 1-2 hits and when the same pak will not penetrate the tank reliably as well as line of sight being an issue it makes it hard to even think in terms of that units have other units that soft/hard counter it. at the moment, heavy tanks don't have hard counters unless supersupported and with maybe a recon run as well for los (everyone knows that there is no such thing as 120 spare munitions in the german gameplay to give up just for los). so why even care when you play 1v1? soviets are going to go heavy on the cons/T2 spam an AT-wall and just keep sending out shocks who are still the craziest unit in the game and easily stall out of a massive wall of AT-guns/SU85 and/or heavy tanks. the natural counter is more infantry since all tanks are hardcountered already but soviets then have 900 spare munitions to drop flames everywhere or drive a completely indestructible tank into your base and melt everything you have in <10 seconds. a single shocks requires at least 2-3 german inf units to deal with so how the hell is the game meant to be played. germans may not be as constricted to an "auto win" playstyle but russians can easily dominate more of the map with less units and therefore can afford to stall for whatever wtf-loltank they want. In: COH2 Balance