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Thread: ridiculous russian buff5 May 2014, 16:01 PM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2014, 15:30 PMChacineiro If soviet snipers were composed of one model like the german one, counter sniping would come back into play, just like it was in vCOH. Right now you can just keep sniping fearlesly until a model dies, then its just retreat and reinforce, not to mention hyper-speed granted by super cheap sprint, so you are risking very little compared to the german player, wich can lose his equaly expensive sniper much more easily. Go back to vCoH forums and you'll see that sniper mechanics were among the biggest gripes people had with the game. The sniper, counter-sniper gameplay compounds the effects of twitch micro and RNG into a slippery slope mechanic where the first side to reach a critical mass of snipers wins. Fact is, the current sniper mechanics work well for 1v1 but scale terribly in 2v2+. That's not news though. A lot of things scale badly in team games, and Relic has yet to address the issue. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: ridiculous russian buff5 May 2014, 15:24 PM For 1v1: 1 man sniper or 2 man sniper teams wouldn't change much because good players will always keep them safe from harm. The way to counter snipers is not to kill them necessarily but to make it hard for them to operate. Focus on countering the supporting troops and the snipers will be forced to hide. The biggest mistake you can make is to dive in after them. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Poll: USA + Soviets in one team?2 May 2014, 23:08 PM I would say, keep it out of automatch but allow it in custom games, and make it easier for people looking to play custom games to find games. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How do you feel about Grenspam since April 24th patch?1 May 2014, 18:52 PM If you have encountered 4 or more grensquads at once in a match, how do you rate their performance? If you think there's an imbalance, how would you fix it? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Cruzz's fantasy patch thread1 May 2014, 18:28 PM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2014, 18:02 PMCorp.Shephard I would actually move away from trying to slap on bonuses to powers that just don't belong. Accuracy bonus on all infantry while Rapid Conscription is active doesn't make much sense. "Yes comrade! You are easily replaced so fight hard, da?". It makes the game more complicated in a way that is more inaccessible to newer players as well. Instead I'd prefer such abilities to be refined and improved until they actually are valuable. Rapid Conscription has great potential I believe. One the the innate weaknesses of these powers it that they give you a basic infantry unit without veteran levels late into the game when the power of such units is diminished. Those units are more likely to hurt your income through their upkeep value than help you. However conscript's merge power lets you kill squads while reinforcing others. If a conscript unit is actually utterly useless then you can burn the conscript squad to reinforce a better squad. That's a good point. Certainly any additional effects added to an ability would have to fit the description or see the name and description changed. Another idea would be to reduce the infantry reinforcement cost for the duration of the ability, thus reducing the inherent manpower drain. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Cover seeking aka repeating DoW2 all over again1 May 2014, 18:02 PM +1 In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Cruzz's fantasy patch thread1 May 2014, 17:09 PM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2014, 16:39 PMCruzz The problem with leaving these abilities in already weak commanders is that they're just not generally that useful abilities. There are plenty of game moments where I really wouldn't want to trade 120mp-240mp and 120 (or 100 for my change) munitions to gain 1-2 osttruppen squads. Meanwhile I'm pretty much certain to want to get G43s if I have access to them. They are good "filler" abilities in commanders like Lightning War that already have good abilities overall, but they should be the first abilities replaced in commanders that are clearly underperforming right now. My underlying point was that these shouldn't be "filler" abilities. Rather than replacing them with better abilities, I'd like to see them become something you would gladly trade munitions and manpower for. An accuracy / fire rate boost for the duration of the ability would add an offensive nature to its use (much like the G43 would) but would retain the unique flavor of the commander. I'm sure other ideas are worth exploring here. Jump back to quoted post1 May 2014, 16:39 PMCruzz Because the outer ring of molotov is 15 range, the 3 members over there are taking roughly 0.6 damage per second from a ppsh. By comparison a mosin nagant will be doing 1.7 damage. Also for an opposite side SMG comparison, the MP40 the pioneers have would be doing 1.6 damage if they were standing still. The one pioneer member a bit closer is roughly at 11 range. He would be taking around 1.7 damage per second from a ppsh. By comparison a mosin nagant will be doing 2.0 damage per second. MP40 3.4. PPSH is an absolutely crazy downgrade at all but manhug distances. Even with my change mosin nagants would STILL beat ppsh for the 3 pioneers slightly further out, but atleast the one closest would now be taking 2.9 damage from the ppsh, still less than the MP40 but atleast more than the nagants. Good point, I didn't know the distance units were so small. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Multplayer numbers and will they keep us alive?1 May 2014, 16:22 PM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2014, 10:01 AMBabaRoga I have considered that. Still point remains, some people just don't care about ranks, stats and competitive matches. They like to play game for fun I play for fun, but I rarely have fun unless I'm playing 1v1 automatch. I guess the underlying question is: What is it about the competitive aspect of a game that people don't find fun? Or what is it about the single-player aspect of games that makes it more fun than multiplayer? In my case, I've played so many single-player games that they all end up feeling like battling with excel sheets in the long run. The only fun I have playing video games is in multiplayer. There are rare cases like "The Last Of Us" that still manage to draw me in, but that's about it. In: Lobby
Thread: Cruzz's fantasy patch thread1 May 2014, 16:01 PM Exemplary balance thread, whether you agree with proposed changes or not. Well done, Cruzz. My comments: -Instead of replacing "Rapid conscription" and "Relief Infantry" with other abilities, I'd rather see these made more useful. (eg. Add a small accuracy or fire rate boost to all infantry while ability is active.) - I actually think PPSH is in a good place now. I don't think it should be better at mid-range than it already is because it's not a global upgrade so there should be a tradeoff to getting it. You're paying for the opportunity of having a more specialized unit in the end, not for pure DPS. If anything, I'd like other purchasable weapons to have stronger tradeoffs as well. (eg. Even lower lmg42 DPS at close range to emphasize its use at mid to far ranges.) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The new Stug IIIG30 Apr 2014, 21:20 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Apr 2014, 21:17 PMTri86 i'm as nice as how other people treat me. same as everyone else. That you, Nullist? In: COH2 Gameplay