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Thread: The state of CoH28 Apr 2014, 23:04 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2014, 21:20 PM5trategos Yeah, this guy's right! Come on guys, are you telling me you would rather listen to someone with "experience"? Pah-leeease, stop yer crying, all you need is common sense and a bit of logic. All that's left is a bit of adjusting, nothing major, just the lmg42, g43, the speed of gren vet, Tiger Ace, that whole doctrine actually, call-ins being too cost-efficient (and spammable), wait aren't commanders supposed to "supplement" your strategy? how does that work with Soviets?,KV8 BBQ, the useless defensive doctrines, that vehicle detection ability, NKVD, inefficient KV2, useless ostruppen, Langreskaya north spawn being a death sentence, Kholodny east being way too easy to cut off, RAM!, the new scout cars, rifle nades increase in effective AOE without cost increase, Panther vet 2, pio spam is a thing again, s-mines a bit too spammable now, the MG42 having no place in the meta, weak field gun without vet, no hold fire on tanks, at gun camo reduces speed too much, sandbags still pretty useless, wire as well, tank traps need to be non-doctrinal but I guess that ship has sailed ... Thanks you made me spit out my beer. Much Sarcasm too funny... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Call-in vehicles8 Apr 2014, 17:16 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2014, 16:55 PMKatitof Before you get P4 you can put up an additional tier giving you even better unit variety. The convenience soviets can't afford. Couple that with inferiority of all soviet armor except SU-85 and you have pretty simple conclusions why soviets still stall to call-ins. Also, CP costs were tweaked first, 2 patches ago. PQ himself said it they went with CP increase before tier cost increase. With current soviet armor state all call-ins could be set to 15CP and soviets would still stall for them, there is no reason to pay such a huge tax for vastly inferior and inflexible unit choice, its much better to wait for the armor that actually matters. This In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The state of CoH28 Apr 2014, 16:03 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2014, 15:41 PMDerBaer Yeah, mortars are a pain since the patch. I have lost many squads, even on the move. I don't know if it's just bad luck or a broken game mechanic. My units are usually on the move to avoid getting hit, but at some point, the mortar just snipes them. I agree that the 81mm is super strong now, it's like a grenade spitting machine gun... Back to the Panthers... whats your defintion of Pantherspam? I haven't really had problems with Panthers trying to flank as I usually always have guards to pin and mark vehicle in team games. Well the panther spam is really a strat I usually see it go like this: Player 1 picks what ever doctrine and techs to T4 ASAP Tank 1-4 is usually a Panther or he may mix in a single T4 unit like a Werfer or a Brummbar. Player 2 picks good old OPELS. Usually a nice sizeable blob of Shrekd Pgrens mixed with Regular Pgrens.(This is to counter T34s so when they are ready to assault they cannot be rammed) Player 2 abuses skill plane and Stuka to try to take out your Zis since you only have 5 seconds to move the gun. Player 2 Spams Tigers. Since they have usually 1+ Cache plus Opel depending on how aggressive our team is on taking them out they usually at the end of the game have floated 300 fuel. So the only barrier for entry is Manpower. Map Control is largely irrelevant. Then they get the nice size blob of Heavy armor and A move it at your defenses. In my case the hit my 10+ mines and get picked off by a wall of Zis plus SU85s. But if I didnt expect this type of tactic it would always be successful. You pretty much need to dedicate most of your Pop cap to AT hard counters and Mines are required. Either your scripts will bounce AT nades off the ubermensch armor or they get pinned by the skill plane spam (Thanks Opels I love ya) It more or less forces a campy style of game play where SU85s and Kats are all I end up with. The same thing cannot be accomplished by P4 spam or any other armor Spam. Even Tiger Spam is weaker because they are so slow and easy to pick off with a well protected and microd SU85. Panthers speed, durability, ease of availability (Thanks Opels), Ease or replacement (again Opels) lack of support infantry requirement (Skill Planes) and very large HP pool makes even a failed attempt relativiley unpunished. Often failed assaults end in damaged Panthers that get vet and Dead Tigers. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Boss units8 Apr 2014, 15:08 PM ISU doesnt have more armor than the Tiger Ace. Its a fragile butterfly. Once a panther sneezed and mine blew up.... Thats why its nic named the easiest way to throw a game... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The state of CoH28 Apr 2014, 15:01 PM Well I only play 1v1 and 2v2. 2v2 is where I see it as a problem. 1v1 there is no resource for it or another teammate to protect you from the tech gap. I beat Panther spam all the time. But this is because I am middle of the road and people I usually face climbed the ladder through more inexperienced Soviet players that cant setup the majority of their pop cap and munitions for mines to counter it. Even when I do beat the Panther spam it takes a ton off effort. More than what it should. If you know its coming it should be EASY to counter. As it stands I know its coming and it can still be a bitch to counter. Thats an example of a unit that is easier to use than to counter. I dont think a single unit in COH2 should perform that way (German or Soviet) And I am sure if we looked at Relics stats 81MM would get more kills than a Vet 1 82 just because of its turbo fire. I feel that those two units are balanced ONLY when the 82 is vet 1. I play both factions too (but only Ost in 1v1) and never really have a problem with Vet 1 Mortors. I have taken two entity losses many times from it. And had 1 unit that was at half health get whipped since the nerf. Conversly prenerf not a support weapon or Pak could be on the field as I would snipe every single one with the 82 (once racked up 96 kills in 1v1 with it) but its a far cry from that now. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Shreked PGrens... Balanced or no?8 Apr 2014, 14:28 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Apr 2014, 12:01 PM__deleted__ The only problem here is that no soviet infantry unit has same performance against german tanks as shreks pzgrens against soviet tanks, and this has 2 reasons: 1. historical - that is the way it was 2. at the most general level, soviet units are more efficient against infantry while german units are more efficient against tanks. But for balance sake, maybe something must be done related to this issue, like maybe buffing AT rifles or give a bazooka upgrade to one sovient infantry type unit (except partisans. But then, the squad wipe problem must be corrected, because it's not ok to see a vetted pzgren squad with pzschrecks to be one-shot blasted without having a retreat chance. Almost ALL the squad whipes have already been addressed and some new ones created What we have left: KV8 SORT OF i mean if you sit in front of it or it gets in your retreat path it will still whipe consistently IS2-ISU152 Kat Prec Strike but the same could be said about a standard Werfer strike since they are almost the same scatter yet the werfer fires more rounds. Now we went and created alot more through nades so with you there. Guards nade has gone full retard i think. Thats it really. Everything else that used to do it has been adjusted. And FYSA reading Peters latest update looks like the T34 is getting a price increase and an AI Increase so problem should be solved there I hope. No more LOL Shrek blobs without consistent punishment. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Next patch predictions8 Apr 2014, 14:14 PM Maxim damage and accuracy increased slightly, and suppression reduced. Less of a suppression tool than a "oh, you're in my arc of fire, you die naow!" weapon. E.g., the .30 cal from vCoH. Yes Please.... It isnt that good at suppresion now due to its arc and lack of area suppression any how. There is another thread talking about maybe making the Maxim an LMG Gren squad more or less and turning the DSHK into an MG42. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The state of CoH27 Apr 2014, 23:18 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Apr 2014, 20:53 PMVonMecha Really so you are saying just build panthers and win...cmon now. That would mean no Soviets would win ever, since the panther can kill everything and not be stopped. I build panthers that die all the time, every game I build them almost. I guess Im building the wrong ones or something.You say its fine then imply it's unstoppable, lol what a curve ball. Your right it did come across that way. They aren't unstoppable just really hard to stop. More then they ought to be IMHO. If they didn't go into super tank mode at vet 2 and could be snared as easily as they used to be then it wouldn't be hard to take them down when they foolishly over extend them selves. The amount of effort to take them out with soviets current tools is disproportionate to their ease of use. The only real weakness is they are mediocre to infantry. But without infantry AT barring captured shreks you really can't take advantage of this fact. And with cache and opels that are common with this strat fuel isn't really a barrier to spam them. I don't feel any tank should be able to go marauding into enemy lines that have plenty of ATGs and get away without support. Not even the feared IS2 can do this like the panther can. I prefer tiger spam to dealing with Panther spam. That doesn't pass the smell test to me. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Shreked PGrens... Balanced or no?7 Apr 2014, 20:54 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Apr 2014, 19:51 PMDanielD Still think there should be an option to upgrade just one shrek. Everyone talking about how you can't punish shreks charging across roads is full of it, had someone try to charge 2 t34s with a couple of vet 2 pgrens with shreks and the PGs got absolutely destroyed after getting only one volley off. I have too. I don't think anyone thinks it's impossible. But it's RNG. Some times you'll kill one or two models and lose a tank. I would prefer it to be reliable or barring that reduce the last kiting nerf slightly. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The state of CoH27 Apr 2014, 20:39 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Apr 2014, 15:31 PMDerBaer Well, if you are going to start putting words in my mouth, then I really do not want to discuss anything further. Nowhere was there talk about soviet fanboyism. I never said anything is OP, I suggested that players use the arsenal they have (on both sides). Also, I recall myself writing that adjustments need to be made. Looking for a forum fight, ey? You are coming across that way. When you say how devastating something is and when informed it's been "nerfed" sure comes across as you implying its op. Basically your post comes across as a l2p remark. I can also post a lot of read between the lines comments and when called out on it and deny it as well. My point is obvious I would think. The panther as a unit may be fine. But patch after patch the things that countered it were weakened which is why it's probably the most spammed unit in team games. It's literally an A move win unit that isn't punished by anything other than mines. Every other soviet thing you brought up as a problem or an issue exists on the German side in a more effective form barring the su85. But even that could be argued to be an inferior version of the panther. I am hoping next patch T34s will perform as we'll against panthers as grens do against shocks. But of course I doubt relic will make tank battles skill based as they did with infantry. In: COH2 Balance