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Thread: Ambulance speed23 Nov 2014, 04:49 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Nov 2014, 00:38 AMVaz If you are USF and your staging area is reached, you should lose your staging support to minimal fire. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying if the US is routed (mass retreat of his infantry) then his forward ambulance should be easy pickings, or should have to start leaving before the opponent completely overruns their position. The whole function of the ambulance is tied to not moving. It's fragile and cannot get away. This makes placement of it absolutely key to proper usage of the unit. It's what makes it interesting. If you remove either of those weaknesses (fragility or ability to escape) then positioning matters less and the extreme benefits of the unit are no longer offset by as much risk. You should have to micromanage your ambulance. If you want him to stick around, have the medic hop out and go to town with his pistol or something. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: AA the latest victim of IGN23 Nov 2014, 00:38 AM Their negatives are what make it actually interesting. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ambulance speed22 Nov 2014, 23:55 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Nov 2014, 11:18 AMVaz I see that you have capitalized "pay". Last I checked, I had to pay for an ambulance. The ambulance is not more powerful than other medics. You can't even really quantify the medic cost for OKW, because they get it as a package deal. It's not mobile, but can be put in a good position, no delay on healing, a huge amount of armor and hp, and it's a shot blocker. It's a different cost for a different level of utility. So ambulance is op, because it can heal more than 3 squads at a time? It doesn't even stay active long enough to fully heal badly damaged troops. The ambulance can only do 1 thing and has limits placed on it's operation, so having a decent amount of acceleration proportional to a real ambulance is not something that will make balance worse. 250/10 is not exactly cheap for something that is going to take up your pop cap and not fight. It's actually pretty close to the cost of half-tracks without the teching cost. You pay less. OKW have a 70 munitions 3 pack of medkits to heal individual squads and the Medic truck. (Which cost 40 fuel to upgrade to, and the medics can be killed temporarily/have to walk to the units to heal them.) Wehrmacht have a 60 munitions upgrade on a bunker, and can only pick EITHER reinforce or heal. They also have single use medkits as vet 1. "pretty close to the cost of halftracks". Halftracks are 30 fuel. And you can't fucking discount teching costs. The amount of time and resources it takes to get mobile reinforcement for other factions is much longer, and they can't heal their troops at the same time either. (Healing reduces bleed in future fights, reducing the amount you need to reinforce.) Anyway I'm not saying ambulance is OP. I'm saying that it shouldn't be able to zip away easily if your army is pushed off because it's such a powerful defensive tool. Kind of like how if you're forced to retreat the enemy can destroy your bunker. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: AA High Score Thread22 Nov 2014, 04:16 AM Reserving this post for when I finish. I hadn't considered my unit strength enough and I might not even be able to beat the last few missions. One guy already is KIA (Just BARELY losing the mission too) but we'll see how it goes. Is reinforcement more effective in general mode? Cause I'd get 30 requisition for beating a mission and then barely be able to reinforce at all, let alone buy upgrades. also RIP (I like how the text reflects what actually happened) In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Recent COH2 benchmark results w/AMD FX CPU & Radeon graphics22 Nov 2014, 03:59 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Nov 2014, 17:44 PMand I suspect the CoH2 is so CPU bound that the most efficient/cheapest solution would be getting a G3258 and overclocking the hell out of it. Buying a G3258 is a horrible purchasing decision right now. Games are transitioning into a minimum of quad core, with newly released games not even booting with a dual core. Anyway I'm running an FX 8350 @ 4.3 GHz & a pair of Asus R9 270X, but only one card can be used by Coh2. I capped my framerate at 32 with riva tuner to try and keep a nice smooth framerate with few drops. Here's my graphical settings and benchmark results. I'm able to run the game on maximum settings with a max framerate of around 55-60 on some maps, but I prefer to maintain a stable framerate with a little bit of compromise on the fidelity. The benchmark is as tough as the game gets, and most of the time I rarely drop from 32-30. In: Lobby
Thread: Ambulance speed22 Nov 2014, 02:55 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Nov 2014, 01:21 AMHati First of all it forces you to blob infantry because cooldown between heals is too damn long, so you always waiting for more squads to retreat before start healing. You could uncrew the medics to heal individual squads... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance speed21 Nov 2014, 19:02 PM Jump back to quoted post21 Nov 2014, 10:32 AMVaz The healing thing has a pretty long timer on it. Every faction but the soviets has a way to heal in the field (doctrinal forward hq doesn't count). Ost has multiple ways, too. All this still includes field reinforcement, at faster speeds, with more health and armor, useful combat upgrades, transportation, etc. So I don't see how a faster acceleration on the ambulance is going to break anything that isn't already broken between okw and ost, considering they do it better. OKW and Wehr also PAY to heal their troops. Ambulance is free AoE heal. It is exponentially more powerful. They also PAY more for their in field reinforcement. Ambulance is vulnerable because it's cheap and very effective when used properly. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance speed21 Nov 2014, 04:27 AM Jump back to quoted post21 Nov 2014, 03:16 AMJHeartless Yes forward reinforcement units should all be weak and high risk. Such as half tracks zooming around the map full of conscripts or flame pips breaking the game I see all the time....... Jump back to quoted post21 Nov 2014, 03:25 AMNuclear Arbitor too soon i might agree with you dullahan, if there wasn't already a precedent set by by the other halftracks and the ambulance didn't require the sector to be combat free, although i'm sure there are ways to exploit that. as is, i think giving it better speed, and especially acceleration, would be good for the truck. Higher teching and unit costs, obviously. The amount of fuel that goes into Soviet or German halftracks is significantly greater than the 10 it takes to build an ambulance. You also need to consider that the healing on the ambulance sets it apart significantly because it prevents squads from suffering as much attrition. Keeping your squads topped up for engagements is a huge boon, and it quite frankly baffles me most people buy their ambulance only to leave it in their base. The ambulance is also pretty much available from the start of the game. While it can only be used if the ambulance is in friendly territory you have to consider that Americans already have a strong opening aggression and can generally secure that territory. With a buff to speed/acceleration, ambulances will be very difficult to pick off and will require you to absolutely overwhelm the american to push them off. I'm not against small tweaks, but if the ambulance starts feeling like a jeep I'll have issues with it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ambulance speed21 Nov 2014, 03:01 AM I would argue that the ambulance should be unresponsive because if your opponent is using it as a forward reinforcement/healing unit, it should be somewhat vulnerable and not have an easy time escaping. There's room for tweaking the values of course. But given the rather generous range of the reinforcement making it too fast would let you escape if your infantry are pushed back a bit too easily imo. There needs to be some risk to using it in a forward position, and you DEFINITELY should not be able to zoom around the map reinforcing squads willy nilly. Also, if it's fast enough I am going to use it to decap your cutoffs instead of the jeep. Unless you want to get killed by combat medic colt action (Seen medics beat a grenadier once...), you best think about what you're proposing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Should I buy Recon Support company? or an other commander?19 Nov 2014, 13:50 PM It's alright, I like it. I like everything though, so keep that in mind. In: Lobby