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Thread: Let pio/engie autorepair?8 Sep 2013, 07:45 AM Agree with the problem, not with the solution. I think that, once you order a repair action to occur, the game needs to make sure that the pio/engy will carry that order until the end (repair finished / dead / told otherwise). But autorepair, IMHO, takes micro away from the game, as you could just build a bunch of pios/engies and let them sit around the tanks. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Why would I build a Panther?2 Sep 2013, 18:57 PM I agree in terms. The problem is the current state of the SU-85. However, once you got a Tiger or Elephant, you can complement it with Panthers and try to make a push on the SUs. This, of course, only works on late game team games. I guess that when the SU-85 gets a well deserved nerf in the next patch, we will see Panther usability increase. In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: Relic should see this2 Sep 2013, 10:19 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Sep 2013, 06:12 AMBabaRoga While I agree that mg42 is Op'd atm (especially in the building) I don't see much wrong with this video. The way I see it, Soviet player did good micro play to flank Mg, but German player did well 2 to micro his mg, evade molotov and pin other squads. Then Soviet player for some reason attempted to keep fighting mg'42 and supporting eng while pinned down. Good play by Soviet, Good play by German player. Soviet player was just fractionally late on couple of occassions. This video doesn't say much about anything +1 The German player did an awesome micro on that 1st vid. On top of that, in both videos we see Soviet units facing their hard counters head on. Not the best way to prove anything. Put 3 PGrens in front of a KV-8 and you will see a 30-second barbecue. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What I view as very pressing issues1 Sep 2013, 13:56 PM It might make the game a bit less competitive, but this is the nature of CoH. The previous game was also like this. Without the RNG, what you have left is essentially Starcraft. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Give me a reason why KV8 is OP?1 Sep 2013, 12:26 PM In the line of previous comments, my only problem with the KV-8 is that sometimes (lots of times) it kills an entire PGren squad with a single burst, even after the German squad began retreating. I understand that, by design, this tank is supposed to be an infantry destroyer, but I disagree with anything that cannot be countered/reacted to. It happened more than once that I saw a KV-8 and immediately retreated my PGren squad... and it was not sufficient to avoid the entire squad being killed. So, I'd probably tone down it's damage just a little bit, just to avoid a single burst killing 4 PGren models. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread29 Aug 2013, 09:02 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Aug 2013, 08:19 AMLeiwoUnion I hope you realize that SU-85 rusher is in deep trouble, if you actually don't rush a tank yourself. Discretion people! That's relative. You mean that the SU-85 won't have any viable targets at all? Well, but you will still have 2 problems: (1) rushed SUs mean you are probably denied of non-doctrinal tanks, which is a huge problem for your strategy; and (2) even if you have no tanks of your own a fast SU-85 can still march into your base - unless you did some serious preparing with AT before it arrived. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread29 Aug 2013, 09:00 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Aug 2013, 06:58 AMNullist Imo Stugs need to be brought to where 2 Stugs can reliably defeat a single SU85, frontally. Panthers are alright, with the slight problem of SU85 rotation rate, which imo needs to be reduced a tad. Im ok with SU85s being able to reverse out of a Panther flank, but not with them rotating as fast as they do, to take advantage of buggy circle pathing and heavy micro reliance to pull the circle off. Reverse is ok, as the Panther can withdraw to avoid a mutual frontal facing chase which the SU85 wins hands down. But all too often SU85 just rotates on the spot, soaking dmg, while waiting for the Panthers circle to bug on a pebble. The idea about the Stugs makes sense. I thinks there is still something quite off in the Panther x Su-85 engagement. I understand that the SU-85 has a longer range, and can reverse itself out of trouble. That's the role of a Tank Destroyer. What annoys me is that there is a clear cost x effectiveness problem here. Panthers are much more expensive than SUs, and are totally denied by them. What I think it should happen is that flanks have to be more rewarding. The way I see it, if a Panther flanks an SU, it should be able to destroy it on nearly all cases. What happens is the opposite, with the SU very high durability coupled with the high speed allowing it to always get out of danger, even when flanked. I think the SU-85, retaining its current cost, has to be modeled after any of the Tank Destroyers of vCoH: either a "glass cannon" like a Marder 3 / G-Wagon / Sherman Firely, or something durable bit with reduced damage, like a Wolverine / Hellcat / Hetzer. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: SU-85; The Thread29 Aug 2013, 06:42 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Aug 2013, 05:01 AMNullist Stug buffs may be the best way to laterally correct this imbalance. Stug certainly needs them. It might work, although it would be a bit strange to have a Stug be able to counter a tank that a Panther can't counter. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet unit composition approach question28 Aug 2013, 11:54 AM First of all, forget other RTSs. CoH is pretty unique, specially when it comes to unit composition If what you are looking for is a main damage dealer that will work against every unit type, then of course there is no solution. Almost every unit in CoH is (or should be) specialized in killing some specific type of unit. And they will all have some sort of hard counter against them. So, what you really should be doing is trying to play more combined arms, rather than having this "central element" you are talking about. For instance, snipers and shock troops are highly specialized to kill infantry, with extremely high DPS against them. But they will fluke at the sight of a simple scout car or flamer halftrack. It should be like this for every unit in the game. If a unit doesn't have a hard counter against it, then it's probably a balance problem. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Tips vs Snipers with SU85 (1v1)27 Aug 2013, 07:58 AM Is the Tiger a viable option against SU-85s? The problem of going directly to a doctrinal tank is that your opponent can then go to a fast T3, with T70s and T34s. In that case, pak's and schreks are your friends. EDIT: Also, how many SU-85s can an Elephant take head-on? Definitely 1, definitely not 3. Can it take 2? In: Ostheer Strategies