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Thread: AOE Suggestion to prevent squad wipes 31 Jul 2015, 22:09 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2015, 22:00 PM__deleted__ Also they still haven't fixed the zombie crawlers. They keep stopping my squads, sometimes even from getting in cover. If they can fix the spacing out problems and the irritating crawlers, I would be so happy This is another HUGE issue that relic has largely ignored. I have no idea why crawling troops can even be targeted. I thought i was just clicking on the ground issuing a move order and next thing I know my guys have stopped moving and are turning a crawler into swiss cheese. Even more infuruating is that troops will waste shots on crew members that are running away - I've had tanks move their turret and fire off a round at crew members running off the map - it can be pretty critical when your in the middle of flanking operation, just decrewed an AT gun and then your tank is off shooting at nothing. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: USF Rangers31 Jul 2015, 20:52 PM This is my 2 cents on how rangers should be implemented: 2CP Rangers 380MP: 5 man squad with 15% received accuracy buff. They have sprint, cooked grenades. They are all armed with Garands. Unit has unique option to pick up to 3 weapons instead of the normal 2. Vet 1 bonus is sticky bombs - AT 'grenade' that does little damage but higher potential for more severe snares. 2CP Thompson SMG: Adds Thompson to weapon rack 1x for 30MU OR 2x thopmsons cost 60 MU and only take up 1 weapon slot. In that case Rangers would only have 2 weapon slots available. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why no countdown for rifle nades?31 Jul 2015, 19:30 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2015, 19:11 PMImagelessbean Agreed. Also squad clumping makes American support weapon teams very vulnerable. The micro tax is much higher than other grenades and I think this unfair. Rifle grenades need to better transmit their purpose and firing. How about instead of insulting people, we actually try to have a discussion? I think Wher players underestimate how deadly all of their weapons, but especially grenadiers are to USF weapon teams. I hardly use any weapon team vs Ost because one a grenadier shows up in LOS of a USF team weapon it's toast - either with rifle nade or just shooting them. It's more a problem with USF 4 man crews also having a +25% received accuracy debuff. Wher has best long range small arms so its natural for them to easily decrew USF weapons. More of a problem with received accuracy than Wher. I think the RG situation is better than when it had the vet2 bonus. People say there's a long animation but I swear it comes out of nowhere sometimes. Maybe the animation is buggy or something. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: AOE Suggestion to prevent squad wipes 31 Jul 2015, 18:38 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Jul 2015, 17:50 PMMr. Someguy Instead of fucking around with AoE, Relic just needs to increase the spacing on Infantry squads. That would instantly solve most problems with AoE and squadwipes. Spacing isn't the only issue - that just fixes some squad wipes in the open. It still doesn't fix squads bunching up in cover, or when they are squeezing through a hole in a wall, or all get stacked on top of eachother inside shell crater. It also doesn't fix squad wipes inside trench/bunker/fighting position. I'm not "F-ing around" with AOE so much as just setting a limit to how much damage it can do. Right now damage in the middle of a grenade radius can kill an infinity of soliders if they are stacked on top of eachother. My change simply makes it so that 1 grenade doesn't kill more than 2 soldiers. As far as things like large caliber shells you'll see less of a difference, since I would assume their max damage would be set a lot higher. Heck they might not even need max damage. Things like tanks/grenades/mortars (in general light AOE) would need a max damage. I've seen plenty of T34/P4/Sherman wipe full health squads because the shell hit in exactly the right place. It's not balanced. Same thing with mortar/grenade/Zis3 barrage etc. One shell shouldn't be wiping a squad. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Why do YOU prefer Axis over Allies?31 Jul 2015, 18:10 PM I'm primarily an allies player. I don't play German often because I find their design to be cheap and boring. IN team games the trick is to really just drag it out, if the game lasts long enough you'll probably win. When I play Axis it is for these reasons: No friends online and I want to play a team game Pak 43 Walking Stuka Panther Pak 43 is just hilariously awesome. Walking stuka is a lot of fun to play with. Feels so rewarding when you massacre a soviet defensive line with a well placed barrage. Panther play is a lot of fun I have to admit. Being an allies player I tend to use it more aggressively than most Germans do anyways. Unlike most tanks it does exactly what you want it to for the most part. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Myths of American Armor (food for thought)31 Jul 2015, 17:56 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Jul 2015, 19:18 PMcoh2player #1. Myth- the endless false comparisons with armor, forces, etc. Authors like Zaloga add to this problem. Did you read Zaloga's flagship book about the M4 - "Armored Thunderbolt"? If so, what specifically was he so wrong about? I've read several of his books and Osprey campaigns. Yeah you can say they lack some depth I guess but what are you comparing it to? Way better than a lot of popular sources out there. Eye-witness veteran accounts can be pretty skewed, history-channel/documentary have even less depth usually, not even going to even bring up mainstream movies. I see Osprey as "chewable bites", yeah sure their book doesn't cover every possible detail about a vehicle/campaign but so what? In: The Library
Thread: Relic wants your vote about blizzards31 Jul 2015, 17:31 PM Relic > Blizzard Kinda weird that relic is hosting a poll if they are better than another game company... jk In: Lobby
Thread: AOE Suggestion to prevent squad wipes 31 Jul 2015, 16:57 PM Since I'm getting bashed pretty hard right now about all my posts about USF problems I'm moving on (at least for today). Since forever CoH2 has had a pretty serious problem with full health squad wipes - from all types of sources. It could be anything from a 30MU grenade to a shot from a 203mm howitzer. The real problem is that some of theses (epsecially in the case of a 30Mu grenade wiping a 240MP squad) it is highly unbalanced. In some cases (203mm howitzer direct hit) should still wipe the squad. Have AOE weapons have a max damage modifer added to AOE weapons. What I mean is that an explosive entity can only do up to X amount of total damage. The way it works currently is that it does a set amount of damage within each ring of AOE extending out from the blast - a single grenade can kill 6 men because of this if the are all in the closest ring because of this mechanic. So lets look at how this works in the case of a grenade. It lands under a 4 man squad but now has a theoretical max damage of 160 - so it kills one model that is directly on top of it, that's 80 right there, and damages two others that were farther out from the radius for 40 each, the fourth guy was in the farthest AOE ring and doesn't receive damage at all. Now lets say all four guys were right on top of each other when the nade went off. In that case it would kill 2 models at 80 damage a piece and do no damage two the other 2. The amount of damage would be determined by distance to AOE, in the case of a model being in near_AOE or mid_AOE the one closest to the AOE would take priority and get to absorb the max amount of damage it can, and then gets passed to the next closest level of AOE and so on. This would have to be done entity by entity to determine what is fair. I say 160 total damage is pretty fair for a grenade - so no more than 2 models would ever die from a single grenade. For a HE tank shell from say a Panzer 4 I'd say 240 or so is fair. In the case of a 155mm shell I'd say 320 is fair. To balance this mechanic out perhaps some units accuracy would need to be increased slightly. That way AOE weapons could do more reliable damage without the risk of squad wiping. Please understand, I am not actually suggesting we reduce/increase the base-damage of AOE weapons, only the damage potential to bunched up soldiers. In fact in the majority of cases you won't notice a difference, the way damage works and everything would be unchanged - only that a single mortar shell wouldn't be killing 6 guys now. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Fighting positions are the USF's missing link31 Jul 2015, 16:28 PM Yeah, fighting positions refund would be pretty great. One thing I don't get about fighting positions/units garrisoned in bunker/trench - why do they have to be AOE deathdraps? One grenade will kill an entire squad, mortars and other things of that nature frequently wipe/severely damage the entire squad. A 30MU grenade should never ever wipe a full health squad IMO. Grenades should have like a max damage modifer added - like do a max of 160 damage, whether that is absorbed by 2 models or 6 would just depend on how they are stacked. Garrisoning inside FP/Bunker/trench is squad suicide. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: How to enhance USF early game options?30 Jul 2015, 20:36 PM Other than T0 mortar this is one of my suggestions: http://www.coh2.org/topic/36929/suggestion-rear-echelon-rework/page/2#post_id359210 In: COH2 Balance