COH2 - General's mode

Lengthy intro:

So, the other day I was playing a 4v4 comp-stomp custom game with two friends. My PC - erm - potato had some issues that day, but ended up hosting the game including the five AIs.

Quickly, the game became less and less responsive for me although for the other two it seemed ok. We were on TS, so after checking we found that my game was running about 15% slower than for the other two. Surprisingly, it didn't crash or desync. The other two were telling me that we won at one point when I still was about like 7 minutes away from that victory (so I could observe the events that I before only heard via TS).

What was most interesting is that my commands seem to have been registered instantly when I clicked. Like, when I would issue a "move" command, the other two were telling me that my unit indeed started to move. I myself, however, could see that movement only a few minutes later. So, it wasn't really input lag, but actually more an output lag

This caused some issues for abilities (e.g. a barrage ability would become available again only in my UI after I saw the barrage (i.e. a couple of minutes late) and the cooldown wore off locally). But otherwise it was kind of ok: With the direction of my teammates I managed to move my Jagdtiger around and get some shots off.

• helping one of his teammates micro his units (while also only see what this players units do) and
  
• having a complete view of the battlefield (only subject to FOW of the whole team) while also being able to adjust the resource allocation between teammates but not being able to micro any units.
  

Jump back to quoted post12 Jan 2018, 17:18 PMTiger Baron

There is already TrueSight in place so I fail to see how... additional TrueSight would work, unless of course I'm missing something or I'm failing to understand you.

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2018, 02:15 AMLugie

I'm not exactly sure how the command lag could work. Maybe instead of using TS or in-game chat, the lieutenants have to use a unit/ability to communicate with the general.

Jump back to quoted post15 Jan 2018, 08:51 AMSiphon X.

Well, in teamgames FOW currently works so that you can see anything that you and your teammates can see. For this I would change it so that each player can see only what his own units can see, and not what the units of your teammates can see.

That is, unless you are in the "commander's mode".




Ah, I wouldn't say the command lag is relevant, and actually could be kind of annoying in game. You would automatically get a "lag", because the commander would have to communicate his ideas first, and the other players would have to implement them then.

The idea is more about having one person that coordinates the team, makes strategic decisions and distributes resources.