Profile of Troglodyte

Completely blindsided by this. I thought the SEGA transition was removing gameplay-affecting DLC from the game, especially given this from the AMAA:

how many commander's will their be total for each army when the game is release?

5 per faction for a total of 10 at launch.

That's per Greg Wilson five days ago, and it turns out it's complete bullshit. There's seven, apparently, and they just didn't mention that two per side were paid DLC. Really quite frustrating. I hate this model. That Commander that Inverse linked is a textbook example of why paid Commanders are a bad idea-- it's just rearranged abilities, but "all-star" commanders are really good.

Relic has talked about the development they've put into place specifically to appeal to Scheldt Annihilation players; while most discussion online revolves around Automatch-style games, the "Scheldters" are numerous and influential. I think they'll migrate, especially with the multi-version maps-- those will be huge. It allow fair maps for competitive games while also allowing imbalanced-but-interesting maps for Scheldters.

For what it's worth, I suspect that we'll see significant migration to CoH2 when it releases. Automatch will be scarce for a while in CoH, but it seems likely that some people will fall back to CoH, at least for brief periods. CoH is a game that still looks and plays great, with SIX YEARS of balance data and metagame development. CoH2 is bound to be frustrating as they work out inevitable imbalances, cheese, and bugs; some players prefer to fall back to a game without those issues and wait for resolution. Some people won't buy CoH2, or their friends won't. It won't die-- it'll attenuate and fluctuate in population, but dying isn't in the near-term future for CoH1.