Jargh.
I took a month break and come back to this. I was getting decent at 1v1, I think I'm still 100-110 German, have beat Symbiosis and SageoftheSix, etc., but this is all so disappointing. I'm not playing 1v1 until there's a patch for this FHQ crap (I tend to think the assault grens should be ok, but 0 CPs is a little bit stupid). So I've been playing some random 2v2s-4v4s for fun when I have 30 minutes to spare.
And as for that, it's just godawful. Custom lobbies did allow GOOD teams to challenge other good teams in COH1. You had to wait 20 minutes for another team to show up, but at least you got a good game. Back in the day I used to play 4v4s against a small 4v4 "pro" community of 20 players or so. Was a good time. I really did enjoy getting on Vent with my team and screaming at each other (just like Hansy).
Automatch just doesn't work, period. And except for Rzhev winter, the 3v3 and 4v4 maps are just crap. Montargis needs to come back, and stat.
Unfortunately custom lobbies aren't the answer if you're looking for randoms you'd want to play with (or noobs you want to bash), because we don't have in-game win/loss stats anyway. But still it would help, as people who play a lot get to know the other "good" teams and so on...
this before the move to steam everyone in the 4v4 community new each other, who were hackers, who just sucked, etc. i had a few battles on monty that last 3 hours. now alot of people would hate that. thats the kind of game i want though. i dont think im the only one. some of the user made maps took a half hour before you even met each other. also being able to do custom pop caps, weather(whether it stays sunny or you could have an active enviroment,affecting air strikes of course) time of day, etc would be cool.