Positives for multiplayer game in 2014

• quasi dedicated servers (battle servers) that intermediate between players and ensure lag isn't caused by one person with a bad connection. Leaps and bound ahead of CoH2 2013 or CoH1's p2p connection.
  
• Observer mode, like holy fuck we actually have this now, that's awesome.
  
• Infantry killability, cover, and flanking was all made relevant with diverse weapon profiles - made the game SO much more fun to play. It was unplayable in December of 2013 imo.
  
• Cover spread, men actually stand behind cover now and don't jump out from behind it? Should have always been this way, don't know how we ever managed without it.
  
• New factions are decent and although they need balancing they're not game breaking like the Brits were. Or as overpowered as PE was in 2009 with the fallschirmjagers of death etc. All in all could have been A LOT worse. They only need sculpting now, and a good platform to go off.
  
• They made a new UI for replays and obs mode meaning you can see 30% more of the game, and can see all the units for the opposing team. Made casting a lot more effective and easier to watch.
  
• Map maker and Steam Workshop.
  
• First wave of mod tools.
  

• OKW balance tweaks and faction design tweaks to make them more interesting and less reliant on one or two OP units to make up for their weaker periphery options.
  
• Improve Soviet call-in dependency by making base built units stronger.
  
• Introduce new commanders for USF and OKW giving USF less late game reliance on the Jackson by way of heavy armour - and OKW more variance in tactics.
  
• Fix numerous bugs.
  
• Take improvements from smaller observer UI into real game.
  

• OKW balance tweaks and faction design tweaks to make them more interesting and less reliant on one or two OP units to make up for their weaker periphery options.
  

Jump back to quoted post17 Jan 2015, 13:00 PMA_E

Last night's stream was disappointing. It was just Peter (balance dev) and Cynthia (community manager) streaming 4v4 and chatting. They did a Q+A where questions asked by the community were batted away with the NDA bat. Also some people were banned for asking questions about competitive ladder but I don't know the context they were banned in though or who banned them......

OKW balance tweaks and faction design tweaks to make them more interesting and less reliant on one or two OP units to make up for their weaker periphery options.
Improve Soviet call-in dependency by making base built units stronger.
Introduce new commanders for USF and OKW giving USF less late game reliance on the Jackson by way of heavy armour - and OKW more variance in tactics.
Fix numerous bugs.
Take improvements from smaller observer UI into real game

Jump back to quoted post17 Jan 2015, 23:00 PMNuclear Arbitor

it could have been a lot worse... we could all have starved to death, for example...

it could also have been a lot better. maybe even 72 virgins better (i've never understood where the virgins come from, human gender ratios are 50/50)

Jump back to quoted post18 Jan 2015, 00:15 AMsir muffin

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other than those things i just pointed out, the game is great!