u/madenewredditaccount

I know randomness can be fun and totally fine in RTS games, CoH2 has tons of randomness and I love that game and thrived in it.

It's just that, the SAM randomness in this game is just completely obtuse and unsatisfying to play with.

I've been with this game and its community from beta, I've been here through all the controversies and ups and downs.

since launch to literally yesterday, 100% (not exaggerating, I mean exactly 100%) of feedback I saw with ECM calculation and helicopter vs shorad, plane vs plane, plane vs SAM random damage discussion I've seen has been extremely negative.

I will emphasize this

LITERALLY NOBODY LIKES THE CURRENT RANDOM ECM FLARE RE-ROLL MISSILE NEGATION SYSTEM WITH HELICOPTERS AND PLANES

this is not exaggeration or rhetoric,

literally 0% of players enjoy the game's random missile-immunity system.

I see two solutions here

1. make the game server-side like they promised, so the server state vs. user PC state doesn't diverge as much and the logged blast location vs helicopter and plane actual location gap is not affected by network.

it also helps against ECM's effect getting boosted unfairly, as your SAMs waste less time aiming (giving more time to close distance and accumulate flare effects) with less network delay.

2. re-work flares and ECM

every individual flare drop re-rolling ECM calculation is extremely dumbd, obtuse, and amateurish garbage system.

whoever came up with that mechanism should be fired from the company, and missile dodge chance should just be flat ECM based percentage + flat 5~10% increase (no accumulation) lingering for 1 second or so, with no additional re-rolls.

I suspect that they can't even implement this correctly because the game is not server-side tho. But the re-roll idea is completely unnecessary and is the dumbest idea ever.

Literally just add like 3 minutes spec delay wtf?

Are the devs really that incompetent

I've tried EVERYTHING and sometimes it still does this

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1. tried borderless window for everything

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2. tried lowering graphics settings to minimum possible (beefy PC with 165 fps normally)

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3. tried process lasso to always prioritize bar and never efficiency mode

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4. tried disabling frame limit in background etc

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game still lags my entire PC (like 0.5fps for everything including inside and outside of the game)

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so I have to press physical power button on my PC