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Thread: Why flamethrower on Strumpios?2 Nov 2015, 01:51 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Oct 2015, 08:08 AMdaspoulos Needs to be dual flamethrower to be worth it. No it doesn't. Sturmpios greatest weakness was being shot from garrisons or heavy cover. Flamer heavily mitigates that except for at very long ranges. Any engagement in medium range sturmpios can win 1-1 more or less with the flamer. I've found it incredibly useful. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet barbed wire fields1 Nov 2015, 23:54 PM These were my favourite thing. I'd always put them on strat points to make my opponent just a little more vulnerable while capping. imo the way to balance them is limit you to 3 max like pathfinder beacons. Maybe increase the build time a little bit too and let them be crushed by vehicles. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Pershing & Rangers Speech Audio is Bland1 Nov 2015, 21:09 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Nov 2015, 18:24 PMvarunax Commanders cost more than the dlc of vcoh lol. The cost to the consumer is irrelevant. It's all about development resources. Most DLC like that is a couple of people. Maybe 1-2 artist, someone to implement it and then testing/balance. An expansion is a much more sizable production. Relic hasn't done a proper expansion since Retribution though. Everything is being cut out and sold individually and Ardennes assault was massively overpriced. Always felt lke Relic of old would have made Ardennes assault and WFA as one $50 expansion. Wouldn't be surprised if a Brit campaign pops out for $60 tomorrow. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW Infantry versus American Infantry(Rifles)1 Nov 2015, 19:42 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Nov 2015, 19:25 PMmiragefla That's actually not how it works. Pretty sure it makes them worth less XP when being shot at, but gaining experience is another thing which is separate. Generally the XP requirements tend to be double the unit's cost and the next level is just the previous amount multiplied by two. Not sure on OKW as they have five levels though the gap I don't really notice with Obers as they consistently hit and kill things with ease. Responding to Dullahan: Main issue with the OKW vehicles is that their hardcounters are generally on the field and they are risky investments. They can be high-risk-high-reward, especially vs unprepared player, but the most common build orders have their counter. Brits have mines and can get a very quick 6pdr, USF captain tech is a major counter and Soviet T3 does have response units as does T2. Of course they can help win the infantry war, but they can be overwhelmed as well or forced to pull back before they can do enough. Regardless, the main issue I'm talking about is that the OKW's starting roster tends to crumple without any sort of doctrinal support or Obers to anchor the line on, especially when the WFA/Brits get vet. Obers are good, and are godlike when vetted, but that's resting a whole lot of the army on their shoulders to defeat hostile infantry. They don't have snipers to inflict MP bleed or to ignore those received accuracy bonuses and leigs aren't a replacement for MGs. I wouldn't mind making Ober vet less ridiculous in strength along with the doctrinal support if the doctrinal/Obers weren't completely necessary to compete in the later stages in the game against infantry. Just because a counter is on the field doesn't mean your vehicles have to tuck their tail between their legs and skulk in the command sector. Of course you're going to struggle (without doctrinal support) if you ignore more than half your available options. The best units to deal with veteran infantry are all vehicles: Flak halftrack, luchs and stuka. OKW also have the best tools for map awareness: Kuvel vet 1 and flashlight ht. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW Infantry versus American Infantry(Rifles)1 Nov 2015, 18:33 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Nov 2015, 17:49 PMBananenheld are you really sure that okw has stronger map presence? i dont know your rank but i just got ranked 400s after 10 games as usf and i just steamroll them from early to late (mostly no late because surr) Trucks give them a ton of field presence. They have a large variety of potent light armour units. They have theoretically the best field defenses. (shame flak emplacement is broken). Brits are a little harder to move, but a well placed panzer command can basically prevent your opponent from capping a third of the map. (Unless they are smart enough to use smoke.) I'm generally of the opinion that most people playing OKW right now are doing it wrong (tm) but I don't have enough prestige in these here parts to flaunt that opinion. Too heavy on volks, not enough vehicles. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Pershing & Rangers Speech Audio is Bland1 Nov 2015, 18:20 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Nov 2015, 12:33 PMvietnamabc Just reuse vCOH audio, seriously Relic this is lazy even by their standard. They can't. There's a lot more legal entanglement here than y'all understand. They'd have to pay all the old voice actors just the same as they had recorded new lines. It'd be better to record new lines for the same cost and have more responses to new units etc in coh2. When Dawn of War 2 retribution came out, they had to re-record dialogue for every single unit. They weren't able to use any voices from the original release or the first expansion. I forget why they had to do it, I believe it had something to do with the game beng a standalone release that was utilizing steamworks rather than GFWL. There's also the matter of budget. An expansion like Brits will get far more resources allocated to it than commander DLC. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OKW Infantry versus American Infantry(Rifles)1 Nov 2015, 17:31 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Nov 2015, 16:27 PMJunaid I never advocated a fuel rate adjustment. You misunderstood the intent of my post. I was just saying that an OKW player can get a luchs out at the same time as he can rush a JPIV. The Luchs is horribly placed in the tech structure. It'd be like moving t-70 to soviet T4 I'm not saying you're advocating for normalized OKW income, I'm saying that multiplying OKW fuel costs by 1.3 is really silly. OKW get less income but have stronger map presence and can temporarily double their fuel income with resource conversion. A little bit of micromanagement with resource conversion and OKW actually have a resource advantage over other factions. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW Infantry versus American Infantry(Rifles)1 Nov 2015, 15:52 PM Jump back to quoted post1 Nov 2015, 12:44 PMJunaid The Luchs is in a horrible place tech wise. They ought to move it to Battlegroup HQ or Mechanized HQ. It costs 195 fu (adjusted) to rush out a Luchs. For comparison: JPIV costs 202 fu (adjusted) Adjusting the fuel is very, very silly. Rate of fuel income is affected by territory you control. OKW get less income because they can divert resources from muni to fuel. Not sure on the exact percentage that gets converted but I'd wager it's significant. So in other words, if you want a fast luchs you can absolutely have it very quickly. The only real limiting factor is waiting for the sws halftrack to spawn. The reason the luchs is in the panzer command is to make rushing oanzer command a viable mid game build. If you get BHQ--> PC you need a light vehicle. Even building mech at the start of the game then panzer asap after can mean a really fast luchs + pziv. You just have to micromanage resource conversion so you have enough muni for sturmpio medkits. If Relic ever listens to you guys and swaps okw units around they'll be a much lamer faction for it. No one else has the teching variety OKW has. Experiment sometime and you'll see how neato they are. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: COH2 player base1 Nov 2015, 13:45 PM I'm happy with 100-200 people playing 1v1 automatch, to be honest. Anything more than that is enough for me. The genre is in a state of relative unpopularity thanks to moba's, so it's not really a reflection of COH2's quality that it has less people than CoH1 when every RTS released in the last ~5 years has had troubles getting a sizable playerbase. (Even SC2 is struggling these days.) In: Lobby
Thread: Sov sandbags' size disadvantage1 Nov 2015, 13:43 PM Sov sandbags are the best designed ones for exactly this reason. It's become a disadvantage now that everyone else has coh1 tank traps or sandbags that they can build. In: COH2 Gameplay