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Thread: Next patch in March 31st7 Mar 2015, 03:35 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:47 AMVuther The 57mm's AP shells are less of a bonus and more of a requirement for it to work against anything tougher than a StuG, as the AP shells will more or less just bring it back up to everyone else's penetration values. It'll still have the advantage of the fastest reload speed though, but I certainly would pay 20 more munitions to always penetrate and do 25% more damage like in CoH1... Nope Pak is still faster. I thought it too had the highest reload. Sadly it doesnt. Obers will always be with Panthers. So when you WOULD use the ATG against the Panthers a good Player will have them nearby. At which point you must pull back the ATG making it useless. Not a problem with Ostheer but for OKW where the Panther is the biggest problem. The Range is very nice this is true but again Panther we are talking about. Lowest Pen at the highest Range wont do crap to the Panther. The Jackson has the best chance but EVERYBODY likes to look at the damage per shot not the DPS. The Jackson will not Alpha strike a Panther. And compared to the SU85 the DPS isnt anything special. The only thing going for the Jack is Alpha strike against Mediums speed and a Turret. The speed doesnt help very much against a Panther. Its MEDIOCRE at best not game changing. When they released WFA everyone seems to forget the original design concept video was the Jackson had an equal chance to beat a Panther as the Panther had to beat the Jackson. If the Jackson was supported and got first shot advantage and was microd away it would kill the Panther and if the Panther got the first shot it would win. The buff changed this ENTIRELY for no specific reason other than LETS JUST REVERT THE PANTHERS NERFs. Please when comparing the two look at the Time to Kill the Panther for the Jackson and the Time to kill the Jackson for the Panther. This more then anything has broken the late game USF against OKW. The King Tiger is gated and appropriate for fuel and opportunity cost. The Panther can arrive at the same time as a Sherman. That has no opportunity cost for the Performance it provides in the faction in which is resides. In: Lobby
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 03:13 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:39 AMAlexzandvar It would be cool if it could inflict mini-crits that reduce turret speed or ROF. A utility tank is a cool concept. OMG I agree with you! Next World Peace... I dont think RNG mini crits though but I think its supposed to be a utility tank and its a really cool concept. Except the utility is too weak and the munitions cost way to expensive. I mean the Stun is good its like having Target Weakpoint on a SU76......yknow can stun but not kill by itself like the Pak. But the Point Blank engine shot come on 60 Muni? SERIOUSLY? I think if they kept it craptastic as is. Gave it 640 HPs and reduced the cost of its abilities it could take a few AT shots go in do its Job of just debuffing Vehicles by spending Muni (point blank engine shot and stun) and be useful as a utility vehicle. It would be odd though being a light having THAT many HPs. May just give it Luchs HPs and make Point Blank Engine shot just REAR engine shot. Has to go behind the tank but can get an engine shot at max range something like that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 02:31 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 02:26 AMBrachiaraidos The thing is that the tank could be made very good against infantry without making the gun into an unfairly good one shot boomstick. Just do one simple thing; Introduce every machine gun the Stuart had as fully functional. One .50cal on the roof, and five (yes, five) 7.62mm brownings? That should mulch infantry all day.It has more machine guns than crew members, that's how much it loves MG's baby. That i did not know LOL. Or worse...suppresion platform.... But i would stick to Infantry destroying Dynamo. Of course with it hitting so Early Ost would be in a bad way. Which is why I think its not as good as a T70. But it should be good at SOMETHING at least. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Next patch in March 31st7 Mar 2015, 02:21 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 01:51 AMAlexzandvar The Panther is the most expensive Tank Hunter in the game, and the most expensive Tank for Ostheer period. It's good at what it does doesn't mean it needs a nerf, it means that it's worth building. If you want players to use things other than Panthers you need to actually give them options. Also the Panther isn't a medium tank, don't compare it to medium tanks. Oh and if you were wondering how to counter Panthers, the answer is "What in this game has a gun, and is fired by infantry units who move said gun around the map by dragging it?" The very thing that gets erased by Obers almost instantly and has less then 50% chance to Pen the Panther and is in the Craptain ball punching fuel wasting Tier? That thing? Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh In: Lobby
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 02:05 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 01:36 AMRollo The Stuart was never meant to be an AI tank to support the jackson, it's a tier 3 unit to fill the gap before medium armour to help you deal with OKW tier 3 but primarily to counter the Luch and doctrinal/light OH vehicles as otherwise US would lack a real mobile platform to do that (greyhound is only good as an inf gibber and AAHT dies too easy). See but this doesnt add up. There are alot easier ways to make it deal with Light Vehicles and Luchs then to give it Stun and Point Blank Engine shot. This is by the way one of the very very few snares USF has available to it. If thats all Relic wanted it for then just make its gun 100 Pen with a high ROF and let it roll around the map erasing vehicles (which it can really already do pretty decently) Who would blow 105 muni to just kill a Luchs anyway? Not this guy. A quicker Sherman does just fine (and building a Stuart GREATLY delays a Sherman on two fronts because Craptain and the 70 fuel it needs.) In fact what you spend on Craptain and Stuart is the Tech cost of LT plus Major..... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 01:33 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 01:31 AMpigsoup pretty much same sentiment here. trying to use pack howi lately and tried stuart a lot of times. and it has got no umph to it. only way for me to use it is stay close to a part of the frontline where paks or other AT arent there and just try to pick squads off. or catch lone squad, which isnt as rewarding as when catching lone squads with t70,luchs, or whatever. basically, it is like catching a lone squad with a panther. the squad will have to fall back, but it is going to live for sure almost always. the most agreeable part is its nimbleness. it doesnt move or feel like light tank. feels chunky and slow. but i guess the catch is its stun and engine damage ability on wheels, which might be game changers themselves in right situations. For half the Cost of a P47 they better be game changes in certain situations! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 01:30 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 01:27 AMferwiner Stuart could get a kind of anti ober accurancy buff just like the puma had against rangers in coh1. That wouldn't make it overpowered but it would create a unit that is desirable on battlefield. As for current usage you can use mechanised commander to send it back after it's window of opportunity getting 75% of resources invested. Ofc it is mostly viable vs heavy okw t2, luchs rush or good micro on 222. Yes I have experimented with that a bit but still couldnt get good use out of it. It was risky and sometimes I lost Stuarts and couldnt refund them. Overall their impact wasnt worth the risk and the rest of that doctrine is garbage save for the Offmap. Withdraw and refit could be excellent if it was more along the lines of 80-90% so you could exchange Jacksons with Shermans without losing a ton of fuel (it adds up another thing I have tried). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 01:23 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 01:15 AMBrachiaraidos I wish I could love the stuart more, not going to lie. It can arrive wonderfully early, keep in mind. Fuel for the captain and stuart combined, as your first investment, keeps its arrival nice and timely. Against an OKW player that's thrown some nades it can be kinda neat. But it's certainly not good, just an option to capitalize on a fuel advantage and possibly chase down some flack HT's/222's. Which is a shame, yes. Yes I am seeing that which is a shame. I would like one aspect of the whole Scout/Light Tank functions to work better. I love the Luchs as a Scout and the T70 even more so. One sees farther the other can cloak. Both are viable and both can punish infantry but neither can do anything to real armor. The Stuart has abiltities to deal with real armor but they are just too expensive and too risky for the cost of the unit and its Tier. If Relic doesnt want it to be an early arrival infantry eraser I could understand that but allow it to be a better scout or lower the cost of its abilities ALOT. 60 Muni for engine damage is the same as an M20 mine that immobilizes armor and does really good damage. Understanding that the Mine is part good placement and part luck and should be better I see nothing wrong with the Engine shot doing a nice large damage buff along with light engine damage. Or lowering the cost of both abilities to 30 per. 30 to get the stun so you CAN do engine damage then 30 for the Engine damage since its high risk. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 01:09 AM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2015, 01:05 AMsneakking Couldn't agree more about the point blank engine damage ability, Heartless. Maybe if that shot also stunned the enemy tank for a breif moment, like the way the stun shot does, just so it can actually escape a situation like that, it would work. Otherwise, going in for that engine damage ability will almost always result in a dead Stuart vs a P4 or anything heavier. There are some things in USF that are OP, some things that are fine, but the Stuart could really use some loving. PS, love your signature. MVGame Great minds think alike I suspect! But what do you think Relic was thinking on how it could be used is more my questions. I think I understand it based off of my post. But I am curious what other think. Obviously Relic made some VERY SPECIFIC design choices with that unit and did thing to prevent it from being a T70 clone or Luchs clone on Purpose it seems. Almost if they thought there would be a Stuart Abuse Meta or something. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Lets talk Stuart7 Mar 2015, 00:59 AM So I am messing around trying to infer the vision Relic had when they thought that adding the Stuart to the game was a good idea. Thinking that Relic must have had something in mind I have been investigating possible uses for this useless piece of crap. So we all know its AI isnt anything to writehome about, Its AT is just not there, Its HPs are low, It costs 70 fuel and its in the Captain Tier which is overpriced. So now that we all know and agree on its weaknesses lets look at its strenghts: It gets a modest amount of vision at Vet1. It gets a large amount at the Unicorn phase of Vet 3. It can stun armor when it feels like shooting it instead of Deter or Franz and it can cause Engine damage. So it seems to me if I were relic I am thinking" "Ok we will make the Stuart the Perfect buddy for the M36! He can spot for it and protect it with its AWESOME AI and then if anything gets too close it can stun it! Then come back around to ass hugging distance and cause engine damage! Then the Jackson can get the KILL!" Ok well great idea. However there are a few small problems with this. 1.) The Stuart is hardly fast or nimble for being a light tank. 2.) The Stuart has very low HPs like a light tank getting close is BAAAADDD 3.) To pull off that Maneuver I just brought up costs 105 Muni! WTTTTFFFFFFFFF 45 for the Stun ok I could kinda see this if the Stuart say had other good qualities like T70/Luchs level AI (which of course it doesnt) but 60 damage for LIGHT ENGINE DAMAGE!? Holy Munitions Batman what was Relic smoking? Point Blank Engine Shot has to be the highest Risk lowest reward and overall most expensive vehicle snare in the game. Its like the Old RAM T34s but not as good. Because you better bet on it blowing up when you do it. So what do you guys think Relic was thinking when they had the Stuart in mind? In: COH2 Balance