Profile of SemInt

Don't worry, a girl's dried up clitoris beneath your tongue also makes you a better public speaker!

If I'm not mistaken, the sailors didn't eat every dodo (maybe just every dodo in sight), but it were the animals and vermin the sailors brought with them. Macaque monkeys, pigs and rats were introduced about 400 years ago to Mauritius and wreaked havoc on the dodo population. I think the macaque population especially has been flourishing there. On the bright side, there's a significant export of those macaques for laboratories. We lost the dodo, but at least we got test subjects back.

i was just joking... i have no idea who you are or how good you are, for all i know you could be ...and everybody LOVES the sniper mechanics of 2.602, don't they? :-D

no matter who you ask, you can always go wrong...

Nothing about snipers was changed from 2.601. The way the accuracy modifiers play their role also got in the way of easily adjusting things. Regardless, just because the most knowledgeable people get it wrong doesn't mean their opinions are worth as much as anyone's. RTS multiplayer is obviously a pretty complex environment and you just don't get it right in one go.
Also: the MG re-setup time and the reduced cost of Wehr Tier 1 units came completely out of blue if I'm not mistaken.

For competitive objectives, you can listen to the good players, but those objectives don't have to be the developer's objectives. The idea is to sell as many copies as possible: if "increased competivity" through mirrors (still rather speculative, I know) among things leads to CoH 2 being high profile, then that works out. That's assuming there's a proper "e-sporty" thing going, which isn't guaranteed in any way.
Alternatively, if it doesn't go e-sporty, I don't know if people are turned off by the inclusion of mirror matches up to the point where they don't buy the game. I don't know how people would decide without buying the game... maybe the reduced word-of-mouth marketing that would have otherwise gone through people such as yourself seriously damages sales.

If you want to install a custom map, the easiest way by far is using the program that Seb wrote for it.

Get it here

First time only

• Download the custom_map_installer.zip using the above link, and extract (to any folder).
  
• Launch GR_Maps.exe: it will search for your Company of Heroes folder, if it doesn't find it it will ask you to locate the folder. Typically, this is something like "C:\Program Files\THQ\Company of Heroes". This location will be saved for future use.
  
• When the folder has been located, it may ask to run with administrator privileges. Do so. It will set the right permissions and you'll be able to use it without admin rights.

General use
Run GR_maps.exe. A window with three tabs will appear.
Adding new maps:

• Before adding the maps with the program, download the custom map you intend to install. It will have an *.sga extension.
  
• Click the "Select new maps" button, find and select the *.sga map file. You can select more than one at the same time.
  
• The selected maps will appear on the right. Click the "Put them in the game" button. This will copy those maps into the GR_Maps folder and it will add a reference to them in the RelicCoH.module. This allows you to play normally on that map; it will also allows you to record and watch replays - No special commands required.

Removing maps:

• Simply click the "Select maps to remove" button and choose the map you wish to remove from the GR_Maps folder.
  
• Click the "Remove them" button to remove the maps.

Removing everything:

• Click the "Remove everything" button to remove all custom maps and the GR_maps folder from your Company of Heroes folder.

Note: Each time you remove or add a map, a backup of the RelicCoH.module is made and stored in the GR_Maps folder. The backups can be removed if you want; should problems arise, these backups will help you restore the settings.

Indeed, I don't think they show up.

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=862082&st=0

You can follow the instructions there on how to get Argentan installed. It's pretty easy with the GR_MAPS thing.