COH3 Patch 1.6.5 Balance Changes

A look at the latest balance changes to Company of Heroes 3 arriving in the 1.6.5 patch.
00:00 Out of Combat delay
01:26 How out of combat works
02:45 Smoke Bombing run
03:20 Howitzer Health
04:58 Rearm and retrofit
07:24 Survival training
07:42 USF engineer buffs
09:19 Pour it on em
10:13 Designate assault position
11:13 M2A1 Freefire drills
14:56 Infantry Assault
15:30 Mark Vehicle
16:15 Grenadier nerfs
18:01 Bundle Grenade
18:42 2.5 Tonne cargo truck
20:27 Call the reserves
21:02 Stuart side tech
21:35 Crusader 6 pounder
22:10 Footguards damage increase
24:12 Grant Side tech
24:56 CMP supply truck
25:44 Indian artillery battlegroup
26:26 Goliath
29:30 8 rad commander mode
30:11 Sound the alarm
31:26 Propaganda War
32:25 Bug Fixes
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[@stoogemaster7000]

Who at relic legit thought that rangers needed a buff, like where's the logic there

[@ArcticChonk]

They're so stupid easy to use. Being able to fire a rocket while running is ridiculous, I would remove that and reduce the squad's weapons slots to 4.

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

#JustLelicThings

[@Cecil97]

i bet they didnt even think about rangers when buffing DAP, but yeah rangers were in a good place before this. If anything US issues are its late game armor or how bad tier 2 tech is.

[@diego2817]

COH 3 is a 69% recent reviews, 1% more to move from mixed to positive and the game will start to gain more players.

[@devoli85]

there is some ass**** still leaving their negative review while having 400h+ on coh3

[@Faust64]

It absolutely deserves the positive review category now

[@Damo20]

@@devoli85You can simultaneously play the game a lot while also thinking that it’s still not worthy of recommending to friends. I’ve got 1300+ hours in CoH3 and I’ve played it since the multiplayer tech test, but it’s only since the most recent patch that I would even consider recommending the game to friends as there were just so many bugs, missing elements, and major balance issues.

[@nicolasnicolas2801]

OK ILL CHANGE MY REVIEW TO POSITIVE

[@diego2817]

@@Damo20 balance issues ? People still complain about balance issues in coh2 and never stopped complaining about it

[@NguyenHoang-mo7hs]

Rangers and Footguards are going to be quite oppressive at low to mid-level games here. A single Ranger squad can be focused down or kited, but it's insane when you mass them and then support them with Captain and Designate Assault Position. They can absolutely kill everything in the game with just A-move.

[@MrSmokincodz]

Great stuff. The game has been progressing so nicely over the last year. Im happy to see. Thanks again for the excellent breakdown.

[@chomis5000]

I love your analysis of new updates, great video.

[@schmidbag]

thanks for the upload tightrope! great breakdown as always

[@michajagielski8381]

I feel like wehr needed that gren utility in early game. Foot guards and rangers might turn into an oppressive meta.

[@channeldud]

tightrope opening the video with an "ahoy" ....most unusual..... I think with the new hit show Shogun centering around an English pirate in Japan, he's trying to signal to us that the next DLC for CoH3 produced by Relic entertainment, which was an English company, will be featuring a faction that is predominantly known for its navy, Japan. Clever way to sneak around the NDA. Got your message buddy, hear you loud and clear. Imperial Japan coming to CoH3 woooooo!!!!!

[@tightropegaming]

🤔

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

The funnier part is how captions interpret his name in that first sentence 😂

[@ChaoZonic]

11:55 - the emplacements having about 5 more range might be because the range may be measured from the edge of the model rather than the centre? I don't know for sure, that's just a guess but the emplacements seem to have a radius of about 5.

[@haaansolo8568]

Fantastic work as always 😍

[@mastershake9551]

10:34 that feels so wrong 😮

[@raadpttrr3674]

Thanks!

[@alexandertoucan4956]

Im sad they removed chaffee's smoke. Also does the canister debuff still apply if you flank the cover?

[@RTUK1]

Great to see the Guards buff

[@jandamz1119]

Rangers are and have been pretty oppressive, honestly they should lower or outright remove any reduced suppression on the squad itself. Cover-to-Cover also really needs to get looked at for how effective it is (giving CqC units a way to close the gap really easily should have some downsides or at least a not so simple way to proc it) They an still keep the DAP reduced suppression because it'd benefit other infantry; but Rangers are a huge outlier due to their kit in general. Not to mention the Captain, that's almost always guaranteed to be there because of ISC benefits, has the ability to Unsuppress and speed up a squad. Also Indirect Fire at Vet 1 to displace MGs. The purpose of the MG for crowd control and keeping squads at a distance gets really poor when facing Advanced Infantry + ISC due to how it has really effective ways to get around suppression.

[@rafaelkutby3846]

I shifted my review, i would recommend coh3 now, but i still think some broken things will remain.. i hope they remove shooting on the go special weapons...

[@mariusjansen5345]

pls more Ranger buffs we need more ... what about camouflage? or maybe capture a vehicle? or just oneclick delete enemy base?

[@brianthewolf1]

Prettt sure it’s because they can’t fire up front for the artillery that’s why they gain the 5 extra range no?

[@wesleycoats]

10:40 only 1 model lost HAHAHAHA

[@MilkerName]

"The finest fighting force in the world!!" 😤 Always a fan of guards getting buffed as they're my favourite unit in the franchise! But truth be told- despite only being continually buffed each patch: man for man, they've had the highest close range DPS of any infantry in the game for a long time now..! It's just that, as Tightrope pointed out: they only have a maximum of four Thompson-wielding troops at full strength, which means their anti-infantry DPS drops off sharply with each man lost cuz' of the two zooks they mandatorily carry. So, I've been wondering for while now- if Relic could somehow implement a way for them to 'stow their bazookas' to make them more suited to anti-inf engagements - similar to how SSF can swap to Johnny LMGs. But with their current DPS profile, the resulting damage potential might just be a little too spicy! 🤭

[@zulu0489]

Stowing heavy squad weapons for everyone or nobody...

[@arcturus64]

Merge is bugged right now, it gets on cooldown even if you target a full squad. Kinda problematic if you missclick in the heat of battle.

[@duskworker8469]

IMO axis gets too many powerful infantry options early game

[@diego2817]

Ability is active! Thats super grneric, it should say something like, call the reserves !

[@tightropegaming]

It would be nice but given the financial issues I wouldn't expect them to get the voice actors back in for post-release abilities

[@diego2817]

@@tightropegaming :(

[@zulu0489]

Just like with the "younger" CoH 2, the voicelines don't make sense anymore sooner or later.

[@zulu0489]

​@@tightropegamingfinanial issues?

[@frankiepoo3542]

Me watching this but plays console 🗿

[@JohnBigby]

Playing this game since first one, over 5000 hrs gameplay online, COH 3 worst balance and content on the franchise... 10:40 rangers running through mg is just sums things up... Why do you have suppression mechanic if u gonna pass it anyway.... Atleast 3 to 6 models down would be fair. Really bad balance desicions. I remember too many idiotic changes from other games but by far worst desicions on 3th game...

[@nicolasnicolas2801]

THIS GAME IS BORED AND DUMB

[@MrSmokincodz]

Then go away.

[@nicolasnicolas2801]

@@MrSmokincodz I came back with coh1

[@diego2817]

@@nicolasnicolas2801 Coh1 is great but it is already old, time changes and coh2 has better multiplayer, coh3 introduced a lot of QOL changes.

[@geheimratecke799]

Why then watch content about it? Go spend you free time somewhere else

[@nicolasnicolas2801]

@@geheimratecke799 because I have 7k hours in coh2 and I have 3k hours coh1. This is my favorite franchise.,....

[@johnbreitley2389]

lol that kid got virgin eyebrows 😂