Profile of miragefla

Hey everyone!

With the way things are currently going as we wait for GCS to chug along and waiting for the powers that be to grant us permission to begin work once again, the Balance Team has been doing some work on the side to try and work on certain issues and get them tested as we remain on stand-by.

Given that the main factions we want the others to follow are the EFA, we began working on them first and resolving their issues to see how it affects the rest of the game before we work on WFA and Brits.

Disclaimer: Relic does not support or hold the views of the changes. This is a side-project for the Unofficial Team.

Currently any balance mods that Mr. Smith, Miragefla or GGTheMachine are working on are not part of a planned or future balance patch for COH2. They are currently working on community balance mods out of their own interest and the changes in said mods are not intended for the live game (automatch).

When the time comes to work with the community on curated balance changes once again, there will be a clear distinction and communication coming from Relic around the initiative (i.e. the Winter Balance Preview).

Down below is a list of changes separated between Soviets and Ostheer.

You can also grab the changes here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929737693

Any feedback and criticism is welcome!

EFA Patch Notes
The purpose of this mod is to do an overhaul of the EFA factions, fix unusable units/abilities, and discover interesting, non-abusive, ways to spice up the meta. Fixing the EFA factions will also help us gain a better insight as to what “EFA-level” really means.

Our ultimate goal is to grow this mod to the direction of including all 5 factions. However, in order to be able to establish a common base-line for all factions, we need something to compare them to.


General Changes
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Soviets
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OST
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USF & OKW
https://www.coh2.org/topic/62083/western-front-armies-revamp

maybe dont blobb ur units? recon? a fast push after he shoot?
maybe play smart&clever and not drunk&dumb?

Tell me what recon unit can see through shotblockers at range 45?

I was under the impression garrisons offered no cover if you're right up against the building. I've certainly used Shock Troops + smoke often enough in the past to get up, stand next to the windows and melt the enemy inside. Unless there have been changes...

Shocks deal high enough DPS, with enough members, to damage those inside effectively. If they were not in a garrison, the target would probably evaporate.

Feel free to critique this test, but here's a 34 vs a 42:

Penal far DPS is simply to high and get even worse with veterancy. In addition they get AT snare and AT weapon with very low tech cost.

Penals have high dps because of their more specialized role, tier requirement, high initial cost and their lack of AI weapon upgrades which also prevents them from having crazy DPS by concentrating firepower in a single model like LMGs. The AT satchel is more of an emergency weapon unless you're attacking heavies while the PTRS is a PTRS; meant as a soft counter/deterrent. They lack the proper snares of other front-line units who are cheaper and arrive sooner, cannot build anything such as cover, or the ability to sprint/rush out of HMG arcs. The majority of the time when they are built, they have one role, kill the other side's infantry and serve as premium AI units for a faction that has only one other line infantry unit non-doctrinally that also serves a different purpose.

Yes, they are very good at their role, but they have no grenades unless it's garrison-busting which is a double edge sword as you likely can't use the garrison afterwards, give up map control via building and cost which you must use brute force to take back, and early Penals means no T2 support until later as you really need to build from that tier to make the most of it early game.

Even if Conscripts got their buffs and changes, Penals are still going to be more about damage dealing and killing stuff, though Cons might be more reliable rather than being RNG cannons with their 16 damage but crap accuracy.