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Thread: British Faction, what do you want to see?13 Apr 2015, 16:22 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 16:13 PMAlexzandvar This poster doesn't know what a nearby multiplier is maxim: Suppression Suppression far: 0.0175 Suppression radius: 10.0 Nerby multiplier: 0.4 Suppression Suppression far: 0.06 Suppression radius: 10.0 Nerby multiplier: 0.8 Suppression Suppression far: 0.012 Suppression radius: 11.5 Nerby multiplier: 0.8 Can we spot the difference? Suppression is multiplied by the ROF which the Maxim is faster. They have right around the same suppression with the 50 being slightly better. But in practice they both will suppress on the first burst. Reload, ROF, Targetting all comes into play with more than one squad. That is the Area the 50 sucks at. It has a mediocre ROF reload and terrible targetting. If you use a Maxim it will work better at the Job of being an MG for less and arrives earlier. Also the MG42 of course. Nearby multiplier is how much of a bonus it gets to suppress units that are close. But bascially you need to figure out the ROF to put your suppression values against. The Suppression value does not stand on its own. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: British Faction, what do you want to see?13 Apr 2015, 16:09 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 16:03 PMAlexzandvar How can you be so wrong about so many things at once!? Every machine gun in the game does AoE suppression, just not a lot of it in the case of the Kubel and Maxim. And it doesn't cost more either! .50 cal Suppression far: 0.06 Suppression radius: 10.0 Nerby multiplier: 0.8 MG42 Suppression far: 0.012 Suppression radius: 11.5 Nerby multiplier: 0.8 Reload on the .50 call is also better to: .50 cal Reload Duration multi far: 1.0 Duration multi near: 1.0 Duration min: 3.0 Duration max: 4.0 Frequency min: 12.0 Frequency max: 12.0 versus MG42 Reload Duration multi far: 1.0 Duration multi near: 1.0 Duration min: 6.0 Duration max: 6.0 Frequency min: 5.0 Frequency max: 5.0 They all do! Including the Maxim. Which is EXACTLY the same as the 50s. In practive a Maxim will only suppress one squad at a time without manually retargeting. The MG42 is better in this regard and will regularly suppress more than one. I should have said NO ADDTIONAL AOE suppression than the Maxim. I.e. its an expensive Maxim that acquires targets SLOWER and can only handle one squad at a time. Instead of having the fastest Packup like the Maxim it uses the wide Arc to target another squad. Sadly since its targetting is SLOWER then anything but the DSHK (which also sucks) It isnt as good as the Maxim at handling more than a single infantry squad. Add to this its high cost, tech requirement and low health means its the worst in game. Based on stats its a crappier DSHK not an analogue to useful infantry control MGs like the Maxim or MG42. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: British Faction, what do you want to see?13 Apr 2015, 13:04 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Apr 2015, 10:33 AMOmega_Warrior Here's a fun fact. A US .50 cal will die 33% faster to a gren squad then a mg42 will die to a soviet conscript. Here is another fun fact and why it sucks so hard: Ma Duece: Aim time multi far: 1.0 Aim time multi near: 0.5 Ready aim time min: 0.375 Ready aim time max: 1.0 Post firing cooldown: 0.0 Post firing aim time: 0.5 Fire aim time min: 0.25 Fire aim time max: 0.625 Hitlers Buzzsaw/Maxim: Aim time multi far: 0.5 Aim time multi near: 0.5 Ready aim time min: 0.125 Ready aim time max: 0.125 Post firing cooldown: 0.0 Post firing aim time: 1.0 Fire aim time min: 0.125 Fire aim time max: 0.125 As you can see its the Rakentenwerfer of Machine Guns. Not only is it fragile, has no AOE Suppression (exactly like the Maxim not the MG42) but it costs more comes later and has no health at all. So Pros and Cons: Good Suppression for a single target Arc Be Damned Average Light Vehicle damage but not as good as the DSHK Cons: Comes late No AOE Suppression Takes FOREVER to target anything ever like EVER Is expensive Is Fragile Its Terrible. Please end all discussions that says that its anything but. Because your arguments are invalid. TLDR the M2HB is a nerfed version of the DSHK which also is lackluster. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Ostheer, the never ending struggle11 Apr 2015, 02:22 AM That's called encirclement. Flanking is well....attacking from the flanks....there are two flanks. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Advice on 50 cal and 240 mm?11 Apr 2015, 01:56 AM My problem with the 50 is the aim time. It's the worst MG for acquiring targets, changing targets and reacquaint after reload. You can circle strafe any building that it's in being half awake and clear it out. Often times I have set it up in a building following my rifles to just se it stuck aiming at infantry until it dies. It also has the same aoe suppression of the maxim. It's a gimped DSHK basically. Very similar just less damage to vehicles and less health. In: US Forces Strategies
Thread: The Mortar Thread10 Apr 2015, 21:22 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 21:13 PMAlexzandvar Whether it's better or worse than the Ostheer 81 is debatable, you say it's worse, I say it's about the same. But by absolutely no means is it terrible, the ISG and Pack Howi are finally useful with suppression. The Soviet mortar is cheap, accurate, and is shooting at smaller squads than it. These things don't translate into "useless". Cool. Maybe you can show me a replay of you using it well in 1v1. Getting say 20+ Kills which is pretty common for Osts. Its bad. If the accuracy was 300% Better then your point would be fair. But its not. Even having less accuracy the ability to fire 3 more shells means it will get more kills and thus be more useful. I dont even know why your debating this lol. Its a pretty well known fact that Osts mortar is fantastic and the Soviets isnt. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Mortar Thread10 Apr 2015, 21:06 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 19:01 PMAlexzandvar If we are talking about kill power the Soviet mortar is more likely to kill more squads because it's shooting at 4 men squads more accurately so it doesn't need to fire as fast. Wether I play 1's or not it's relevant to the discussion at all. Oh it is relevant. Because in team games when your talking Balance you can have a Jackson AND a Soviet Player with Mark Vehicle. In ones you dont. In team games having dead weight squads is perfectly ok because the other team member can make it up for you. Things like FHQ will not be seen in 1s. Also the Soviet 82MM in 99% of the games will not be seen. Because its a waste of MP in most cases. Its good enough if you can spam them maybe but for just one 240MP squad....not so much. Where Osts will be seen quite often in fact....because...it just does more in the way of killing things. And the current cover mechanics dont make for a good excuse for it to be so terrible. Because its been this slow to fire since release. Its just the SU76 of Mortars. The only thing worse is the PackHowi or ISG. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Mortar Thread10 Apr 2015, 18:22 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 14:44 PMAlexzandvar I do see a lot of them, I use a lot of them. .5 AoE less than the highest AoE mortar in the game is fairly good! Especially considering the current bunching mechanics making 1 shots a lot easier to pull off, especially with AT guns and Mortars which always need at least 2 crewmen to use them. I'm not talking about grens and con's dude, I'm talking about the support weapons. The Soviet ones are more durable by design thanks to all support weapons having 25% more received accuracy, but soviets are unique in the 6 crewmen aspect. Yes the Soviet mortar fires less often, but when your a magnitude more accurate then you need to fire less shots to hit your target. I think your also forgetting that Axis in general is more campy, which makes the accuracy of the Soviet mortar important because you need it to dislodge enemy bunkers, machine gun nests, and trucks. Which is perfectly safe to stand under because its terrible rate of fire LOL. You dont play 1v1. Team games all kinds of rules apply. In team games individual performance isnt as important. Grens and Cons are the basic infantry. They are the counter to support teams. If Grens can kill 6 models JUST AS FAST as Cons can kill 4 the only thing left that applies in terms of surviability is HE. If there is a tank in your face or a mortar barraging your mortar and you havent moved it...its L2P. So the benefit of having 6 men vs the benefit of having over 300% better ROF are not equal. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Mortar Thread10 Apr 2015, 13:59 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Apr 2015, 03:54 AMAlexzandvar All the support weapon teams regardless of model amounts gets 25% more incoming accuracy, which means a Ost mortar always dies faster than a Soviet mortar and MG42 dies faster than a Maxim does. The reload isn't that bad since you don't need to pick up and move nearly as much due to the added range and accuracy of it. The precision strike can almost always kill and decrew an enemy Ost mortar or an AT guns. And your blatantly wrong about the AoE on it, it only has .5 less AoE on the precision strike than the 120 does. EDIT: This is yet again another instance of people hyping up the power of Axis weapons over Allied ones. Both the small mortars are good and worth the investment, the 120 is great, both the Mortar HT's are good. Mortars are one of the few things in this game Relic did very well. Please go check the DPS of Grens and Cons. Youll see that Grens are designed to DPS down 6 models as quick as Scripts are meant to DPS down 4. Thus its the same. Same amount of time to kill async balance. This was an intentional change in the first March deployment for just this type of situation. Please tell me how .5 less AOE is the same as the 120MM lol. Your argument is blatantly wrong. 300% less ROF is a huge magnitude less. For example to dislodge units from cover or a turtle to get the same Performance of one Ost Mortar the Soviet player must build 3. That is ALOT worse Prec strike or no Prec strike. Which is why you WILL see Ost Mortars ALOT MORE OFTEN then youll see a Soviet Mortar that isnt the 120MM. The proof is in the pudding. If having Prec Strike on the standard mortar was as great as folks make it out to be you would see more of them. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Mortar Thread10 Apr 2015, 03:10 AM Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2015, 19:41 PMAlexzandvar The current Prec strike is amazing for killing enemy weapons teams, and the reload is to make up for the fact you need to pick up and move more often with the Ost mortar, not to mention the Soviet mortar is much less prone to getting wiped. They are both about equal in performance, which makes sense since they cost the same. The 120 is in a class of it's own in terms of effectiveness. Of course, but the assertion that the Soviet ones are bad is insane. You guys need to stop living in the vanilla COH2 days. Prec strike cannot whipe full health support weapons since the last nerf to it. It used to use the 120mm AOE which is why you'll never see them in 1v1 anymore. You will see the 120 however. Since the infantry rebalance, support weapon incoming accuracy they can be whiped out just as fast as Soviets can whipe 4 man squads. The extra entities only come in handy vs HE. With having over 300% slower reload it is worse then Osts in every way. Having 30% more models doesn't make up for that piss poor reload. In: COH2 Gameplay