Profile of Brichals

Im sure if i switched to play USA for a while the win loss ratio would be alot better.

It's worth doing just to see the matchup from the other side.

In other news, maxim spam is still rife and Jagdpanzer sucks (insert random primate) (insert random genitalia)s.

Do you mean to say once you reach level 100, and get prestige rank 1. The game treats you as if you're level 1 and start to get level again really fast?

No it's not like that. The thing is it takes more and more ingame XP to level up the higher level you get. So in the beginning you can get 1-2 levels for a long game, but to get from e.g. level 95 to 96 it takes a few games. When you get to prestige 1 you go back to level 1 and level up fast again.

These levels are rather meaningless, they used to allow you to unlock bulletins and skins but now it's all war spoils dependent. In DoW2 they had these levels but then your units would look much cooler as you levelled up. It's kind of a remnant of how Relic games have developed, nothing else.

The Elo ranking isn't dependent on ingame XP.

You could be playing somebody with more ingame XP than you for many reasons. Maybe they are worse than their level would suggest because they are playing off faction (each faction has a separate Elo I believe), or in an unfamiliar gamemode, or maybe they just don't have much experience or natural aptitude for RTS games. On the other side of that, you may be better than your level. I would guess you should be around 50% winrates, at least in 1v1s, it works OK. Even I can find people to beat

Relic are like Marie Antoinette and war spoils are like cake.

I'm OK with duplicates as long as there is the commander rotation or other such events.

The worst problem I see is having my box full of icons and it being totally confusing.

One thing I have thought is that you are allowed to 'flip' an icon once, and it randomly generates a new icon with the same worth. It would help speed things up a bit but then it's not the situation that you can get the things you want too fast that it becomes boring.

I don't want to "craft loot," I don't want to "grind for legendary drops," and I don't want to buy commanders.

Here is what I want: I pay $60 ($80 now with this expansion) and I receive all of the content that I paid for immediately.

I don't understand the hatred so many people have with the DLC model. Sure, maybe people don't like it but there's so much pitchfork waving. I remember there was the same problem with Civ5, people went nuts. And that community is extremely civilised compared to most multiplayer type stressfull e-peen games like RTS/FPS etc.

Here is the reality, they are continuing adding content and patching the game, so they can justify to the publishers to let them keep working on this game if there is a continued revenue stream. Game companies that release a game now and never touch it again will never compete with games that have regular patches and development cycles. It's not Relics fault, it's how the industry is.

And do you know what, it works really really well. Come on, a few commanders in a steam sale cost you the same as a big coffee. You can pick up CoH2 for next to nothing if you are willing to not get it on release, just like most other games.

I remember gaming pre-internet. You paid a fortune for a console or computer (an old Amiga would be about 3000 bucks at todays prices probably), then you paid a pretty hefty amount for a cartridge or disc and these games never got patched and you couldn't get 1000 hours out of them in multiplayer. These games had much less production value than current games also. The value you get is so much more than pretty much any other form of entertainment. How much does it cost you to book a 5-aside football court for 1000 hours.