New features in coh3 request/discussion

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Gamers fear censorship and access to Steam games after Creative Assembly partnered with NetEase for China release. Total War: Three Kingdoms is extremely popular in China, so it made sense when NetEase announced that it would become the official publisher of Total War games in China. You might think this would make China’s Total War fans happy, but things aren’t so simple in China.

"She was giving these massive presentations on the story, themes,” the developer said.
“EA executives are like, 'FIFA Ultimate Team makes a billion dollars a year. Where’s your version of that?'"

Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2019, 16:26 PMSturmtigerCobra

Current state of the AAA game industry
Below is a good insider commentary/quote from a lower-tier developer (Plamen Todorov) that work on big franchises such as Assassins Creed.
Credit:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/plamen-todorov-289863106/

The gaming industry is failing apart.
The wrong people are in charge and all they care about is money.
The good people that care about making good games are leaving and are getting replaced by people that do not care.
AAA for the most part at this point is how much money is thrown at a game not quality.
More and more games will fall victim to bad management and sloppy execution. The state of some studios is horrible. The game industry is bleeding talent and is taking unqualified developers that will not question the status quo or bad decisions. The Bioware that made great games is gone. The people that made it what it was are gone.

The biggest waste of money is not graphics or things of the sort. It's incompetence and poor decisions by people who have no idea what they are doing or talking about.
For the most part it's because someone did not do the job they had to do or did not listen to someone that knew what they where talking about. Most studios will push out a broken product that is not working instead of scrapping it to get some money back. That's on the executives not the developers. The top level management also meddles in game development often to the detriment of the game. And it's a strange occurrence but sometimes some people invest more time and energy in finding reasons not to work instead of just getting the job done. For the most part the big studios are not what they started out as anymore. Blizzard is full corporate now so is Bioware. And corporate studios are a (I hate to use that word but it fits perfectly) toxic environment. Talent gets crushed and "yes man" thrive. That's why good people are quitting.

As a Live-Ops Director, you will…
▪Manage and design content, campaigns and features that maximize acquisition, retention and monetization throughout the product life cycle
▪Conduct and communicate in-depth analysis of in-game economy using data insights and strong business acumen to set and achieve KPIs
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Jump back to quoted post20 Nov 2019, 21:11 PMelchino7

12- Double down in Theater of War. Try to replicate the success achieved by SC2 with Coop mode.

Jump back to quoted post1 Jun 2019, 14:52 PMelchino7

Funny enough, CoH released with Theater of War which was basically a coop experience.

SC2 commanders basically "saved" the franchise of been another diablo 3 with skeleton crew game.

Jump back to quoted post31 May 2019, 22:40 PMSturmtigerCobra

I think Starcraft 2 Co-op mode is the big RTS Revolution to target the casual players.
For Relic/Sega Co-op is a good way to make money from paid-commanders (not pay-to-win but pay-to-help). AI are getting more advanced with OpenAI as used in DOTA 2.

OpenAI’s Dota 2 AI steamrolls world champion e-sports team with back-to-back victories, 2019:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/13/18309459/openai-five-dota-2-finals-ai-bot-competition-og-e-sports-the-international-champion

StarCraft II Co-op In-Depth Review - A Real-time Strategy Revolution, 2018


https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Co-op_Missions

Jump back to quoted post20 Nov 2019, 19:35 PMMaret

2. Side armor

Jump back to quoted post21 Nov 2019, 16:21 PMSander93

Side armor would honestly be one of the most important things to add. It would make tank engagements way more dynamic rather than RNG fests, and carry armor meta to a new level. It would allow heavies and tanks like the Panther to receive great front armor protection while still making them vulnerable in overextentions or when flanked, even by medium tanks, and it wouldn't be necessary to give ATGs and TDs over the top penetration values to fight high armored tanks.

Jump back to quoted post21 Nov 2019, 06:17 AMSturmtigerCobra

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Jump back to quoted post20 Nov 2019, 22:37 PMDoomlord52

5. Optional "Only similar skill" toggle in match-making. It's annoying to qeue as a ~100 rank player and still get ~1k+ players. If it means 5x longer queue for me, that's fine; that's why it should be optional.

Jump back to quoted post21 Nov 2019, 19:16 PMelchino7

And TBH it should be a feature of heavy tanks and premium heavy mediums (Panther, Pershing, Comet, KV1, etc.). Don't feel it's worth the work for mediums and lights.

Jump back to quoted post22 Nov 2019, 08:06 AMSander93

I disagree, it would add a lot of flavour to medium tank engagements as well. In the case of mediums like P4 Ausf.J or Sherman EZ8s now winning against cheaper tanks purely because of the armor advantage, with side armor they would actually have to be microed well or they could easily go down to these cheaper tanks.

ATGs could probably get a lot less penetration so they'd have a good chance to bounce off even most medium tanks' front armor, only working well when positioned on the flanks. ATGs in CoH2 are arguably a bit too powerful (making stalling strats or comebacks too viable) as almost all of them are guaranteed to penetrate mediums frontally. Micro will become absolutely vital, and it will allow cheap tanks to become very cost effective when used well, opening up a lot more vitality for medium tank play.

I've played a lot of Wargame (and some Steel Division) and having side armor on all vehicles really helped making tank combat very diverse, dynamic and exciting. It made all strategies (going for expensive main battle tanks, or going for a lot of medium main battle tanks, or going for a healthy mix, or even going for a swarm of cheap outdated tanks) viable as long as they were microed well.