Relic wants your vote about blizzards

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 11:49 AMwuff

But it isn't?

What if negates your commander choice, what if your army if infantry based? What if you're OKW with cold winter clothing? What if you lost a squad to mortar because their health got drained as they weren't near a campfire?

A competitive game should be player vs player and nothing else.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 11:58 AMwuff

Put rain in
Put snowfall in

Just don't let it affect gameplay (or performance)

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:00 PMJadame!

Plan ahead. If you choice strategy on the map which is not suited for this strategy its your fault.

Hp don't drain in cold, models just die until you put squad in warmth.

There already whole lot of RNG in CoH, which affect by great degree competitive play.

Map design may be problem, blizzard mechanic may need some tweaks, but just removing whole thing coz it changes how game plays on certain maps? C'mon.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:07 PMHelpingHans

This is why I love Pinskmarshes. The rain and lightning is so cool!

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:09 PMwuff

Yes, people dislike RNG, planes smashing into their infantry squads wiping them, maybe they should plan their strategy around that happening.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:18 PMsquippy

Yes, they absolutely should. As von Clausewitz said, "Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult." If what you're doing is so fragile, stretched so thin that it relies on absolutely nothing going wrong, then you should not be doing it.

Complaints about RNG are totally wrongheaded IMO.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:09 PMwuff

Yes, people dislike RNG, planes smashing into their infantry squads wiping them, maybe they should plan their strategy around that happening.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:32 PMsquippy

Yes, so am I. RNG is NOT inimical to competitive play, as countless games and sports demonstrate abundantly. You're entitled to a stylistic peference, but the assertion that randomness is bad for competitive play is total junk

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:35 PMJadame!

Plane crashes not an RNG, they just stupid. You have no control over them whatsoever.

You have perfect control over blizzards harm in comparison.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:42 PMwuff

The player has no control over when a blizzard will strike just like when and where an RNG plane will crash.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:41 PMwuff

Not it isn't, A fair playing field is at the heart of all competitive games, from chess to soccer, from LoL to COH2.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:41 PMPurlictor

Do the blizzards occur randomly on blizzard maps or are they scripted to occur at a specific time every game?

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:47 PMsquippy

RNG is fair, because it applies to both sides. That's all "fair" means. Just as it is fair when you call for a card while playing blackjack, even though that card is provided at random.

This is getting off topic though.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:50 PMImagelessbean

Also troops dying from the cold is incredibly irritating. Having one faction basically get to ignore it (OKW) does not help.

Jump back to quoted post30 Jul 2015, 12:53 PMwuff

RNG shouldn't be a deciding factor in a competitive game, you think it is fair that an RNG plane could crash into a retreating squad just arrived at the HQ? Winning the game for the other player, even if that other player was losing?

A card game is not comparable to a competitive video game.