COH3 reviews are in

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 13:41 PMKatitof

You really underestimate how many people play on 10+ year old PCs and blame everything except their hardware for low performance.

Just go to reviews of any game that does not have pixel art graphics and you'll notice the exact same comments on negative reviews, irrelevant hardware, windows 7 and rant how game is "badly optimized" or has "bad graphics".

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 07:29 AMKatitof

Read them.
40% of them whines it is not CoH2.
40% of them whines it does not run any good on a PC they have played CoH1 on on med settings 12 years ago.
20% is your classic "iZ eRlY aCcEsS aNd LoOkZ lIkE mObIlE" intellectuals.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 15:23 PMTrubbbel

But many say the sound is less boom kapow! compared to coh2 and I thought the sound was even better in Coh1 where it was the most boom kapow!

If realistic is no fun then I don't want realistic, if that is was it's said to be. I want immersion.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 13:41 PMKatitof

You really underestimate how many people play on 10+ year old PCs and blame everything except their hardware for low performance.

Just go to reviews of any game that does not have pixel art graphics and you'll notice the exact same comments on negative reviews, irrelevant hardware, windows 7 and rant how game is "badly optimized" or has "bad graphics".

Jump back to quoted post25 Feb 2023, 14:44 PMVermillion_Hawk

I think one of the issues here is that for a game which is an absolute GPU hog, there isn't much on-screen impressive enough to justify the frankly-ridiculous performance demands. It comes off as either sloppy optimization or just another attempt to sell graphics cards.

Developers used to have to pull tricks like only texturing the visible sides of objects and environments, and now they feel they can just melt your PC for no good reason. I really don't care if the visual fidelity of some tiny environmental object has increased 400%, I'd rather the game actually runs well.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 13:23 PMHannibal

The question is not if the models have been reused, but if the reused models are outdated. Could they have higher polygon counts and neater corners/edges with 10 more years of graphics development? Sure. But it does not always make sense to improve the complexity of your models, especially if you're not going to see it once you're zoomed out. At this point you'll just increase power consumption on the hardware for no benefit. On zoom-in, you'll probably see some of the rougher edges, but there is good reason for the developer to prioritize performance over that last 10% visual fidelity. You personally might weight that differently and not recommend the game with good reason as well, but that's not the only way.

I would have also expected an overall larger graphics leap, but I don't find the graphics particularly bad. For me it was more the overall art design that was slightly off and did not yield this great immersion that CoH2 had, but this has to do with more than just graphics. I have to say that I did not play the release version and that the data that Relic has put out since then looked promising on the graphics side at least.

I find it quite annoying though that many just jump on one single issue and downvote the game because of that. I don't believe that the e.g. graphic issues are so large that THAT many people find it game breaking. The game is more than just graphics or a couple of models ported from CoH2. They just expected better or something different and downvote in pure defiance.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 14:21 PMReverb

What does coh3 bring that make it new game beside slight higher resolution?

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2023, 14:58 PMReverb

COh3 look like it was made by people who love COh1 and hate coh2 instead of being make by people who want to make new game.