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damn thats a big post. some changes i like, some i dont, but overall i see very few of this ever happening. i did have a few things i wanted to point out though.

Flame Weapons

- Reduce the chance of flamethrower combustion scaling with squad health. A full health, 4 man flamer should not get alpha'd because of :RNG:

flamethrowers exploding only happen when an entity dies. crit scaling happens on an individual entity basis. there is no scaling with squad hp.

AT Nades/Panzerfausts
- Remove the chance of causing heavy engine criticals on medium or heavy tanks. Heavy and Medium tanks can still suffer light or moderate engine criticals

there is no such thing is light/moderate/heavy engine crits, unless youre referring to engine damage, heavy engine damage and immolization.

German Blitzkrieg Vet Ability
- Works with engine damage but cannot be used in reverse (applies reverse speed malus equal to max speed buff for the duration of the ability)

also no such thing as reverse speed. all tanks move equally fast forward and backward. this would be impossible without some major changes.

MG42
- Increased suppression to an individual unit as it gets closer to the barrel of the gun. Running a squad straight up the center should lead to a
quick pin while skirting the sides or keep distance will act as it does now.

this is already how it functions. suppression doesnt increase directly, but rate of fire and shots fired does, which increases suppression dealt

The only thing Soviets lacks in my opinion is the ability to field a reliable AT tank out of their standard buildings.

not true at all. su85 is the best non-doctrinal AT tank. if you choose to go t3, youre getting more AI focused tanks. thats not to say the t34 is useless against tanks though, it just needs support. use it with guards and/or zis and dont fight head on and they are effective and cheap.

if t3 got a t34 thats better than a p4, the only tank a p4 could beat would be a t70. i really dont think thats a necessary change.

Hi

Is there a damage modifier for flamethrowers against units in buildings?


Does it make a difference damagewise, from where the flamer is "shooting" into the building?

| | | tp_garrison_cover: {
| | | | accuracy_multiplier: 1f;
| | | | damage_multiplier: 1f;
| | | | penetration_multiplier: 1f;
| | | | suppression_multiplier: 0f;

flamethrowers do not recieve any damage bonus or penalty against garrisoned units currently. im not sure if where the flamer is shooting matters. i assume it will have an effect, just like grenades, but unlike grenades, units automatically target entities inside the building. if two entities are standing close to each other, it should hit both of them.

you could test this on city 17. try attacking the tiny building by the right fuel point and compare that to one of the larger buildings. the squad in the smaller building should die much faster.

Hi,

3 Questions (Q2 has smaller parts):

1. Does the sniper (german) have longer re-camo time if it shoots consecutively? I remember in vCOH, each successive shot caused recamo time to be longer.

2. How long do detected mines by minesweeper remain visible? Are detected mines trigger-able? What is the trigger radius of mines (eg soviet mine), I wish to know how easy it is for infantry to cross a soviet mine and set it off?

3. What's the radius of the infantry awareness ability?

1. i tested this and i dont think they do. firing multiple shots in a row, sometimes the sniper re-cloaks between shots, sometimes he doesnt. however, many weapons have some variation in how fast they can shoot. so if the successive shot is quick, he wont re-cloak in time, if its slow, he seems to be able to re-cloak no matter what. i even tested this with a vet 3 sniper with increased rate of fire. he has still able to re-cloak between shots after shooting 10+ times.

EDIT: verified by devs. they do not cloak slower.

2. detected mines seem to stay visible for roughly 10 seconds after they are out of detection range. as long as they are visible, they wont trigger (they can still be set off by shooting them), once they become invisible again, they can be triggered again. the trigger radius is very small, you have to pretty much touch the mine.

3. i cant find the stat for this, but from in game, it seems to be slightly larger than the scout cars sight radius. scout car can see 50m, so im guessing 60m.

Does friendly AI (god forbid) always start with the same build order or is this dependent on map/difficulty settings? To my frustration the Soviet AI seems to always start out with building instead of capping..

i dont think its always the same build order, but the AI does have some patterns. for example, i find the AI frequently builds penals, especially at the start of the game. t2 seems to be less common. also, the AI builds lots of scout cars and halftracks, even late in the game.

Is it possible to oneshot a heavy tank ?

yes, but only at vet 3. its normal damage is 640. it gains 50% more damage at vet 2 for 960 damage, then another 34% at vet 3 for a total of 1286.4 damage. as long as you hit within 3m of the tank, it will deal full damage and 1 shot any tank.