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Thread: Walking Stuka6 Jul 2014, 03:24 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Jul 2014, 19:23 PMKatitof Exactly. Stuka is effective, but its not like OKW have other option for effective indirect fire and ISG won't cut it against well fortified frontline with armor. They don't have affordable offmaps or buildable on map arty. Stuka is punishing, but getting it means one puma/jpanzer less and OKW doesn't swim in fuel really. It would be perfectly acceptable to make it more affordable if it wasn't also completely devastating. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 75mm Pack Howitzer UP6 Jul 2014, 03:19 AM Haven't had a heap of success with mortar HT. Pretty inconsistent imo. WP ability is good I guess. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Company of heroes 1>COH2?4 Jul 2014, 06:41 AM 750 hours logged in CoH1, about 200 so far in CoH2. There are a couple of things they improved in the sequel, but up until just recently they didn't even bother to include a game lobby. And at launch there were DLC shaped holes everywhere. The commander system in general is a step back. Having 3 fixed doctrines with 2 branches was better than bringing along a "deck" of three commanders, some of which you can only get through microtransactions, and having a huge number of commanders with overlapping abilities. I feel like there are far more useless options now than ever before. Even if one or two of the three usually worked out to be "generally better". It's also much harder for me to work out which doctrine somebody has gone when there are duplicate abilities and 5,000,000 commanders to memorize. Positive changes: - Jumping over obstcles with infantry - Line of sight system - Units all come from off-map - Theatre of War system is good - Relic servers eventually got added to kill drophacks. Negative changes: - DLC everywhere - Commander system - Blizards suck - Launched in a shameful state regarding basic features being missing that were there in #1 - (technical) Performance of the game is terrible considering the graphics that it is putting out. - Units feel much more disposable than they did in the first game - Early game infantry combat seems to give way to tanks far quicker - Asymmetrical snipers are much less fun than sniper duels in CoH1 I think that we are about 3-4 balance patches away from the game being as good as it's going to get without ripping out core systems and starting over. Even then, I doubt I'm going to have as much fun as I was having circa 2012 or so playing the game with my partner. In: Lobby
Thread: Team balance4 Jul 2014, 05:13 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Jul 2014, 04:01 AMelchino7 As you said, if you SURVIVE the early mid game. We don't abuse volley fire and only get one AA halftrack. It's quite hard to end a game against a comparably skilled player within the 15-20 minute window before they start to become increasingly potent over time. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Official Obersoldaten OP Thread4 Jul 2014, 05:09 AM They don't need to hit Vet 1 to be devestatingly effective though; even when fresh they are probably the most potent infantry unit in the game, as potent as Vet 3 rifles with upgrades. As the game goes on the Obers, who are tough to kill even with their "counter" (i.e. Shermans) will build up vet and become nearly unstoppable. It creates the oldschool CoH thing where Axis steamrollers kicks in anytime the game goes on too long. Which was probably my least favorite part of the original. In my opinion, USA needs to be a little weaker in the early and mid (by nerfing the OP stuff like volley/AA halftrack), but the OKW needs to be weaker in the long-run. I mean, I can't tell Relic to go back and delete supertanks from their core faction design, but at minimum the Obersoldaten need toning down in terms of sheer killing power. The retreat modifier should be deleted outright in particular. I want the game to be competitive at all stages, I don't want OKW to have to stall for endgame, and I don't want the US faction to be dreading the prospect of their opponents surviving beyond 15-20 minutes. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Team balance4 Jul 2014, 02:09 AM Been playing Double USA, finding it very weak if the axis survives the mid-game. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: M10: Does it need buffs?4 Jul 2014, 01:56 AM Idk. My partner has started using them in our team games. They do ok sometimes. Not a major balance issue even if it might be able to use a small buff. The Bulldozer Sherman is pretty hopeless though. Rarely gets good hits. Even regular sherman with HE and a turret gunner is feeling a little weak, maybe its because by the time I get them there's usually obers running around the field. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Official Obersoldaten OP Thread3 Jul 2014, 23:19 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2014, 17:00 PMBled To be perfectly honest, most of the people attacking Obers are the same ones who used to defend Shocks. It really just seems like certain players are upset that Shocks are no longer considered the most elite unit in the game despite the fact that the OKW army essence stated that the force was based around elite units. Not that it matters, but I was absolutely angry about 1CP shocks. Indeed I whined on the forums about it! It was simply too early for such an effective unit. However the complaint here is not a timing issue. We're not mad that Obers come out when they do. We're mad that they are simply too good, period. I've never faced them with STG44s so I can't even comment on that, but standard Obers are more lethal to inf than snipers are, maybe 1 Ober is like 1.5 German snipers in terms of killing power (random estimate, not based on stats). But they can stand up to enemy units, fire on the move, and get a buff against retreating infantry. That last bit in itself is a total headscratcher, considering the design of CoH is supposed to be promoting unit preservation, and retreating is supposed to make your units more survivable, not less. I can't even imagine how bad it must be to have an Obsersoldaten squad with MP44s that negate cover, and then also have an accuracy modifier vs retreating units. Cover and retreating are the two main mechanics that make CoH infantry combat what it is! Vet 2/3 Riflemen with 120 munitions in Brownings are "comparable" to Obers. They will still lose to fresh Obers, but they're in the same league at least. With vet bonuses to the Obers tho, it's no contest, and your squads will start dropping like flies late game, and then more obers will come out, and then they have won the whole infantry game. Countering with tanks is a laughable notion unless you've already won the game and denied them armor, or have managed to kill all their armor / AT guns already. Even Raketenwerfers are effective at countering any US armored vehicle in the game. Maybe Soviets can do a better job at countering OKW late game since they actuially get heavies? Who knows! Shermans are not cutting the mustard even with HE shells, and you almost always need to focus your tanks on Armor killing power because if a Panther or Tiger shows up in a team game and you're not ready for it, you're fucked. Personally, I think they're fine. They're deceptively squishy until Vet 3 and I generally only hit Vet 3 with them in a third of my games when I'm playing OKW. When I use smoke and Shocks it's insane how fast they drop. But enough logic. Their durability is not really the issue, although they do have more than a typical squad. It's their insane killing power, plus the stupid retreat modifier. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Official Obersoldaten OP Thread3 Jul 2014, 12:09 PM Raging again after a loss. Two games in a row where the exact same thing happened - we played well early and mid game, obliterating many squads, but they survive to endgame, and obsersoldaten just keep getting created, heavy tanks start to come out, and we cannot compete nomatter what we do. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Official Obersoldaten OP Thread3 Jul 2014, 08:44 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2014, 05:01 AMKyle Right now before the next patch come out, you can easily kill every OKW infantry on early game isn't it ? Like I said, if you fail to finish the OKW players in 1vs1 early then that's why you lost. But heck, if they buff the Volks to be at least the same as Grenadier then fine, nerf the ober. - Sturmpiooner even with great damage will shit themself against Rear Echelon volley - Volks is a joke. - Panzerfusiller can't hold out that much and it's doctrine. - Falls is good but that's a doctrine unit and only has 1.0 armor. with some grenade upgrade and BAR it's easy to deal with them. I almost exclusively play 2v2. And yes it's certainly easier in the early game than it is in the late game. But that in itself is something I feel is terrible design - every faction should be viable at all stages of the game. As to "easily kill every OKW infantry"? No, that would be ludicrous to expect me to wipe the whole enemy player. Unless you just meant that each kind of unit can be dealt with, which is true. In: COH2 Balance