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Thread: Let's talk Soviet faction.21 Sep 2014, 10:05 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Sep 2014, 06:57 AMMarcoRossolini To my mind, the Soviets need a complete faction redesign. Relic needs to throw out everything and start again. The units it has are fine, but the way they are balanced and tiered and called in are just plain stupid. Relic has the tools, but does it have the backbone? Absolutely agree. I also wouldn't mind if they renamed some of the infantry. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Tiger ACE current condition19 Sep 2014, 19:09 PM afaik it's simply a vet 3 Tiger. It surely is worth it's cost. Just don't throw it into battle unsupported. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic: Rebuff the 34/7619 Sep 2014, 14:46 PM Completely different approach: swap the T-34/76 with the T-34/85 In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Fallschirmjager 17 Sep 2014, 13:09 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2014, 12:52 PMGreeb In 2vs2 with both enemy players spawning shit behind your lines is more an issue. I almost exclusively play 2v2s. Usually the first squad that spawns behind our lines manages to do some damage, because sometimes you'll get surprised by it (no mg34s for example). That's when I usually start to wire, mine, demo, burn, occupy (rear echelons can be used for that purpose) the crucial buildings. Yes I know that might not work very well on every map, that's where you need to be a little more cautious with unit placement. Infiltration units should be more weak and less combat oriented. With a bunch of useful abilities like grenades to kill support weapons, faster capping of points, demolition charges or AT mines, wire, etc. Units like that would be much more interesting and fun than having elite troops with schrecks spawning at your back. Infiltration combat-oriented troops should be airborne like paratroopers. I thought that was the concept of fallschimjagers, which oddly enough don't appear from planes. Would certainly be very interesting, but this is rather a design than a balance issue. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Fallschirmjager 17 Sep 2014, 12:43 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2014, 12:37 PMAlpharius These are latewar Fallschirmjäger, where Axis were outnumbered in air, so these mostly arrive on foot and infiltrate. Now with Kubels operational we may not see that. Also it's not uncommon for 2vs2 Ostheer+OKW, for Ostheer to bring MG's. Last thing - OKW can wait before choosing doctrine. So what? the first time you'll run into them you'll know they're here. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Fallschirmjager 17 Sep 2014, 12:27 PM See mg34? expect units spawned from buidlings. It's one damn squad behind your lines and not a whole army and it's not like they can be spammed every 6o seconds. Falls and JLI can be anticipated and it's always big fun when that squad spawns, exits the building and gets blown up by a demo Seriously they are fine. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: A historical comparison in the Game14 Sep 2014, 12:13 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Sep 2014, 10:42 AMThoseDeafMutes It's sub-company level really, more like platoon size. Over a long game you will get there but on the field at one time is usually less than 40-50 guys. But they certainly do try to model "world war II cliches" in this small a time scale. The Russians are all large squad sizes, their core infantry are poorly trained conscripts who use improvised weapons. Well actually the number of soldiers is a secondary indicator to determine the type of formation. Much more important is how it's structured, equipped and led. In CoH2 you lead an infatry based "army" that uses a variation of different equippement and at some point gets supported with a few tanks. That's imo what indicates that the game takes place on the company level. The OKW are fuel constrained and have economic difficulties bringing units to bear, but have super elite soldiers and supertanks and high tech gear. Their units have five levels of veterancy instead of 3 for some reason. There's a new Wehrmacht commander modeled around the idea of encirclements and closing pockets. Closing a pocket in a Platoon sized engagement?! A lot of things in the game give this impression that they're trying to model strategic considerations and broader national stereotypes about the period that don't apply at this scale. I do see what you mean, and you are right. Also this game is set around a local engagement and with the right equipment (aka tanks) Germans achieved local victories. The thing is that on other fronts, where there wasn´t that equipment around, they would get overrun. But unless we don´t see horses in this game, the game is set at a place with a well equipped German force - so late game advantage isn´t illogical. +1 In: COH2 Balance
Thread: A historical comparison in the Game14 Sep 2014, 10:25 AM Jump back to quoted post13 Sep 2014, 19:05 PMSteiner500 This Game is based on the 1944's in the WW2 And Relic has the Claim of Historical Accurazy Do they? I don't think so. I don't get why people complain about factions not having certain stuff other factions have. You know, nobody forces you to play one faction only. If you bought WFA and vCoH2 you have access to the WHOLE gamecontent. So as milka said, instead of complaining that axis get all the "good" stuff you might wan't to play them for once. But obviously some people can't distinguish the virtual from the real world and won't play "dirty nazies", "imperialist yankees" or "filthy communists". If the barrier in your head limits you one side only, then that's your problem. All joking aside though, it's really odd that the game's conceptual design is seemingly the opposite of reality - the Germans are strongest in the late game, while the Allies are strongest in the early game. For WFA, I mean. It would make more sense if the Germans started strong and had to drive the allies off before they inevitably succumbed to the "Allied Steamroller". It's not like the whole war is represented within a 50min match. The engagements are centered around company level. The game is actually even at all stages, the problem is, that the skill requirement to use a factions to it's full potential varies strongly. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Call-in design philosophy - backwards? 10 Sep 2014, 16:57 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2014, 16:06 PMLucas Troy Hi all, This is another pipe dream, but I think it'd work much better if the call-in tanks were things like T34-76, tanks that you unlocked for free and could maybe use to skip a tier, but doing so meant giving up a bit of fire power. Absolutely agree with this point. I think the USF Armored Doctrine is quite a good example of how call-ins could be handled. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Stormpioneers post patch10 Sep 2014, 13:43 PM So ok, the're optimal for mid range combat. My only problem is that I don't know where midrange is sure I know the numbers but it's not like I have a damn ruler to measure distances for every engagement ingame I mean staying at long range is easy, stay at maximum shooting range of your troops. Closerange is also simple, go hug your enemy. But stay midrange? In: COH2 Balance