Profile of Enkidu

There's been some talk that the new patch notes have nerfed grens and buffed penals and etc.

However, in line with relic's reasoning for changing small arms:



DPS values MOVED VERY SLIGHTLY (less than .5%)

Example:

Kar98k:
Prepatch: 3.8 near / 2.42 mid / 1.03 far
Post patch: 3.78 near / 2.40 mid / 1.03 far

Penal SVT:
Prepatch: 5.73 near / 3.62 mid / 1.50 far
Post patch: 5.78 near / 3.61 mid / 1.50 far

They did the math to get the numbers to work out to be the same. Why they changed grenadiers from 20 to 16 when it wasn't overkilling units is unknown, but their dps is still unchanged and they still do more dps than conscripts. Penals will no longer overkill units which may be a usability buff but their overall dps remains consistent.

Thanks for that Endeav. I'm pretty surprised they didn't tweak the Mosin Nagants as cons just feel so unimpressive right now, but I guess with the MG-42 changes and support weapon changes they need to be careful.

Idgaf about Tiger.

Im concerned about those Gren Rifle changes. Whats up with that.
I thought Cons/Grens was supposed to be solid.

I'm honestly kind of surprised that they didn't touch the Mosin Nagants at all... Conscript damage output feels so bad, especially as you transition into mid and late game. Perhaps that responsiveness change will make a difference though as they won't constantly be jumping around with every little thing. I do like the increased accuracy for grens at range though, guess we'll just have to see how it plays out.

P.s. When is this patch supposed to go live?

Hey guys. I've seen this brought up a couple of times before but I was just wondering, now that the pio/combat engineer match up has been normalized a bit with pios winning up close and engineers winning at range, do you guys feel as though the 240mp cost for the engineers is still justified? The only reason I can think of as to why Relic may want to keep the cost on the engineers higher is that the soviets tend to float munis a bit more and Relic may be leary of a return of pio (engi) spam 2.0. Without global vet and med bunkers though, and with the engi flamer tank's likely hood of exploding, it seems to me that such an engi spam strat would be much less viable or cheesy and it would be nice to have a 200mp repair unit later in the game.

This brings me to my second topic: Flamers. As of the last patch, I've been messing around a little with a 4 pio, muni cache into T2 opening as the Germans and I have noticed that it seems as though the pio flame tanks explode less frequently when under focus fire than their Russian counterparts. Is this true? It feels as though the combat engineers have a medium to high chance for their tank to explode when focus fired, pios a medium to low chance and penal battalions a low to very low chance. Could someone who is a little more stat savvy dig into the game files and actually come up real values for the chance for flamer tanks to explode please as I would love to know if there is a real difference or if it's just an rng observation. Thanks.

Thanks.

Yes, before COH2. Remember the time when you where young and had those inexplicable feelings towards heavy tank destroyers?

Indeed; those awkward times when the other boys were thinking about getting skirts off and penetrating from a side position while I was thinking about penetrating side skirts from an ambush position...