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Thread: The tiger ace syndrome16 Jan 2014, 23:12 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Jan 2014, 17:20 PMAradan Soviets need tanks. Many medium non-doctrinal tanks, with some power. Like T34-85. German beasts need targets and now Soviets have only tank destroyers. T34-76 is not viable. True, but I was commenting on someone who wanted a soviet counterpart to the TA. The units you mention belong in another context. Nothing super about them. Btw.: I find it irrelevant for balancing purposes if a unit is 'boring'. As if that was one of our major concerns. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Free weekend!!!16 Jan 2014, 23:02 PM Anything goes this week end, I guess. But who needs 10X XP? Anyone here? In: Lobby
Thread: The tiger ace syndrome16 Jan 2014, 16:29 PM The ISU 152 is more than enough for the SU. They definately don't need another super-unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Strategy in Company of Heroes 216 Jan 2014, 16:23 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Jan 2014, 11:11 AMVon Kluge I'm sure they're thinking about it but it isn't easy for them to come up with something. They can't overhaul their business plan entirely. Decisions like these could make or break the game so it's better to be patient and see what they will implement. I'm not impatient. I can wait. In fact I'm not playing the game much anymore since x-mas. Take your time, Relic, but come back with a solid improvement to the concerns in this topic. In: Lobby
Thread: Why is IS2 so godly, and tiger is so shitty?16 Jan 2014, 11:18 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Jan 2014, 09:07 AMDietBrownie As for the forum, ever since Nullist left, it seems like the forum has been much more unbiased and threads don't result in a internet fist fight. A lot of the posts that are discussing balance are about exploits now, not the core balance. Oh, I didn't realise he was gone. Now I can take that filter off, thx. One down, 2 to go As for the elephant, I find it rather rare to encounter. It used to be the big trouble maker, but since the TA arrived, that's the boss you meet a lot now. I suppode the previous elephant-lovers are now sexing up the TA? Anyway: Unlike the TA, the elephant has almost no mobility. Your best chance of a counter is smoke. Put a smoke screen on your approach and move up with guards and Zis. It's not a perfect solution because smoke isn't fail safe (another change from COH1). You'll have to bring a number of units because one or more are going to be killed ny the elephant regardless of the smoke. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Strategy in Company of Heroes 216 Jan 2014, 11:04 AM It does lack depth and it does feel linear. Regardless of what has been added of objecions to the initial ost by Inverse, I think his overall observaton - that the game lacks strategic depth - still stands. The gameflow does feel very linear. And there are no big surprises. Not even the DLC commanders add surprises to the gameflow because as soon as you see for example the first assault gren, you know the rest of the game from that player. It is linear. Remember how in COH1 you had to chose beten two paths down each doctrine? That kept the window of uncertainty open even if you had spotted the doctrine of your opponent. That is missing in the commander system. The new ressource system is part of the problem One cause of the linear feel that I think hasn'tbeen mentioned yet, is the change in the ressource system. I'm not at all arguing for COH2 to be like COH1, but it removed some of the basic strategy in COH2 that all points give all ressources. The gamble is simply too low now. It's been suggested, that nothing major can be changed in the basic game at this point, but technically I suppose this part could? Surely ressourceoints can be reverted to single-ressource points? It would not be unbalancing if ressources are still mirrored. DLC is OK. It's just the stuff they put in it. Finally, I have a hard time seeing how making the commanders free would help anything. As I say above, the commander system is part of what makes the game feel linear. Making them free just means linear along more variations. It doesn't add surprises. If anything, the players' commander roaster sould at least be removed from the loading screen. I have no issue with DLC as such. It's more the way it is used to reserve game breaking units for those who want to dump more money on the game. I had planned to buy all DLCs, but changed my mind when I saw what the Boss Tiger Ace did to the game. I'm not buying anything further if that's the way Relic s playing it. Think about it, Relic. I bet I'm not alone here. In: Lobby
Thread: Why is IS2 so godly, and tiger is so shitty?13 Jan 2014, 15:28 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Jan 2014, 13:19 PMwongtp i think im close to giving up on this forum, this forum is more pro german than pro balance. I'm with you on this. I read these forum sections less and less for that reason. It's one constant cry for nerf of the soviet units allthough german players are in majority most of the time in automatching. I don't know what the thing is with this widespread preference for the german faction. It was like this with COH1 as well, but never as bad as it has become here. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: MG42's getting sniped by scripts and shocks 13 Jan 2014, 15:12 PM The small dog barks 'Nerf! Nerf! Nerf!' Again. As it did yesterday. And the day before it. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Waffen SS comparison to Wehrmacht at the eastern front13 Jan 2014, 15:09 PM A vague answer, I know, but: it depends. It depends what year you are looking at? And if you aggregate the whole war, does it make sense? Because the initial and end-war were two very different scenarios. It also depends on the scale you meassure it on. 'A division' could consist of everything ranging from near 10k to a few hundred men. Why - in 1945 som Panzer divisions had no tanks. And some SS divisions had no men either. Paper will take everything you print on it. Including lies, damn lieas and statistics. In: The Library
Thread: Germans are bad10 Jan 2014, 10:08 AM Jump back to quoted post10 Jan 2014, 00:13 AMakula is it just me or do the signs not appear 100% of the time? sometimes they are there, other times they are not. I wondered that too, but after having been on the receiving end a few times, I started experimenting. The trick seems to be in the positioning. If you get it right, the sign will be behind an object at standard angle. Or it will be close to another object that obscures a quick perception of it. E.g. some of the dead animals or the greyish trunks. As usual, map awareness rules! In: COH2 Balance