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Thread: Reducing Random Events25 Oct 2013, 16:08 PM +1 In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The game IS a click fest now25 Oct 2013, 16:05 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Oct 2013, 14:51 PMvoltardark There is one thing i am never fast enough: It's when i'm in a building and nades are incoming... I can't never exit before the building is obliterated. Those random building crits must go, they are no fun at all. Too much random events or critical hits are to be minimized in any serious strategy game. Random crits on anything must go, to be honest. Immobilizing a Tiger at full health with a ram from the front, flame crits on full-HP models, flamethrower exploding on the first shot, rifle nade building crits - all of the extreme cases must be taken out of the game because although they do not happen often, they take all the fun out of the game when they do happen. I don't mind light RNG in the form of mortar shells, firefights, and even basic engine damage crits on fausts or nades, but these extreme cases that happen randomly add no value to the game. Just yesterday I had a flamer engineer crit 3 grenadier models on the first burst (grenadiers at full HP). Saw it happening and couldn't even retreat fast enough because the last guy decided to stand there in front of the flamethrower jacking off. This outcome is not warranted because the enemy player did nothing more than attack-move his engineer - the game decided the rest. Winning the game needs to be based off of making good plays and proper positioning, not attack-moving and and hoping for the best. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The game IS a click fest now24 Oct 2013, 20:31 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Oct 2013, 13:54 PMherr anfsim Timing or movement in itself isnt a problem, those were important aspects of vCOH as well. The problem is that the reduced lethality of infantry has made good use of cower less important, thus encouraging more running arround, charging head on, while givig tactical movement and positioning less impotance. Its a very different style of gameplay, mowing away from the more realistic aproach of vCOH and more in the direction of "spellcasting" of games we dont wat to compare it with. It shifts the focus from the more chess style stratgic/tactical focus, to the more reflex and speed oriented pinnball kind of play, while none of the games being at any of the extremes of course. I started playing vCOH while in the army, against others in my squad when we had spare time, and what struck us was how intuitive it all was for us, who had a good understanding of companysized combatoperations, having participated in a lot ourselves. This isnt as true for COH2, and that makes an understanding of basic tactics and those aspects less important, while favouring the "clickers" more. Im not saying that one path is better than the other, but what I, and obviously a lot of others, seems to preffer. I agree with everything this guy says. Also, someone else earlier wrote this too but squads need to stop jumping back into Molotov flame because of auto-cover seek. It's just stupid in so many ways. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Love that OPing points can be fuel or munitions.24 Oct 2013, 05:05 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Oct 2013, 09:22 AMBabaRoga Yeah, I agree. It sort of takes a lot of strategy and tactics out of the 1v1 games. And enables to much resources in team games for spamming units and CP call-in abilities. That's a problem with resources not being shared amongst players in team games, not the caches themselves. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: German sniper survivability24 Oct 2013, 05:03 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Oct 2013, 04:43 AMakula can anyone tell me the mathematical odds of a zis gun sniping a sniper in a single shot I believe in another thread it was stated that Zis, Pak, and Su-85 have a 10% chance of sniping an infantry model. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: German sniper survivability24 Oct 2013, 04:14 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Oct 2013, 03:33 AMatwar ????? watch this video noob http://www.twitch.tv/helpinghans/c/2988227 german snipers are op if anything they are invi almost 100% percent of time. if you buff them against splash damage how the fuck are people going to kill them? and they buff them in that patch LOl wtf joke game My troll senses are tingling. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: German sniper survivability23 Oct 2013, 22:50 PM @link0: Interesting. I've been trying to work a sniper into my german build since the meta is very T2 focused for Soviets at the moment and have found quite some success as you say (I only build it when I've confirmed they went T2 and no 120mm mortars). How does the unit measure up when the Soviet goes T1? Is it still worth getting or is it too much of a liability to countersnipe? What about against the 120mm? I'd love to hear the opinion of a better player on this issue. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: German sniper survivability23 Oct 2013, 16:08 PM Soviet snipers become really survivable when the squad cohesion glitches out and the spotter stands like 50 meters back from the sniper. Guaranteed indirect fire protection all day. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic: Please beware "The British Curse"23 Oct 2013, 16:01 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Oct 2013, 15:49 PMCardboard Tank I agree with the OP. I hope a faction this static will never ever make it into CoH2. Coh2 should stay true to the original tactics that made it a good game. Mobility, flanking and tactical placement of units (aka no blobbing or camping). FHQ FTW, MVGame. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The game IS a click fest now23 Oct 2013, 15:57 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Oct 2013, 04:59 AMMarcoRossolini I have a feeling it's a case of both grens and cons requiring something to tip the balance in their favour in a one on one fight, therefore a grenade works wonders for them because it can instantly tip that balance... You bring up a good point, Marco. In CoH, the firefights were a lot quicker and shorter, meaning less time spent staring at the same two infantry squads slug it out. In CoH2, it takes literally minutes sometimes for a conscript to kill a grenadier squad (or vice-versa). RTS players are not patient people (otherwise we'd be playing turn-based strategy). We don't want to have to keep watching all these units slowly shoot each other like blind monkeys. These slow firefights also lead to staying in cover being less beneficial since it provides less protection per second. So what do we do? We start spamming grenades to see some instant effects (and gratification). While having slower firefights isn't a problem by itself, it is when coupled with the vastly faster teching speed in this game. We're all pressured to keep teching up and get a tank by eight minutes but the infantry are taking two minutes to kill each other. I guarantee if the firefights were faster there'd be a lot less grenades needed to be thrown around. In: COH2 Gameplay