Profile of donofsandiego

I'm hoping we can settle on some ideas that improve the situation but do so in a way that doesnt affect people who micro units individually and space them out properly

In my opinion, the best possible way would be as such: First, to implement actual hitscan weaponry. A soldier points their weapon at the enemy, the bullet travels instantly along a line from the muzzle of the gun to the enemy, with a small amount of scatter. From there, when it hits a model, there it does the calculations as to whether or not it's a hit or a miss. Additionally, I would want there to be a "reverse zeal" mechanic but where troops are easier to hit when clumped up together. Say 3 or more squads at least.

The reason why I think this would be best is that it makes sense. If the hitscan weapon misses the unit that it's aiming at, it's still likely to hit someone else, due to the fact that the models are so close together.

That would probably be too resource intensive, though.

Other ideas? Simply adding a "reverse zeal" mechanic where 3 or more squads within a certain range of each other share suppression and damage, maybe even lose accuracy, which increases/decreases moderately quickly depending on how many squads are in the vicinity.

I've always wanted MGs to work in this way:
When firing at a group of squads, any missed shot is then re-rolled and then fired at a squad closely adjacent to the squad the MG is firing at. In this way, blobs recieve way more damage from an MG.

I think that suppression in CoH 3 has its upsides and downsides. I can understand why Relic removed "lingering suppression" (I.E. suppressed squads fired upon by nearby squads stay suppressed), because, hot take, I think that suppression in CoH 3 is way more powerful than in CoH 2. Suppression makes squads waaaay slower. Painfully slow. I don't think that infantry squads should be able to keep suppressed squads suppressed indefinitely, but I do think that they should be able to prolong it, unlike how it is now where it does nothing.

Easy 8 - Overpriced when penetration is barely better than 76MM Sherman. Needs cost reduction so you can actually afford the damn thing without saving up Tiger-levels of resources for a marginally better medium tank.

Yes please god. It's a glorified Sherman 76 (they do the same 160 damage on pen) with better pen and an ability that adds a whopping 20 extra damage to the main gun in return for giving up the best medium tank ability in the game (HE shells). It also costs nearly as much as the Tiger but can only deal a third of HP damage to it in a 1v1 before Tiger turns it from a pile of shit into a pile of burning shit.

It's also got another 160 HP over the default sherman. Which means instead of getting 3 shot by the tiger, it gets 4 shot instead. Big deal.

The main menu has some of the laziest UI design you can think of. From the splash-screen artwork that looks like someone gave up halfway painting it from the sketch to illustration.

To the small details like the radar is being replaced by the spinning dots, or the loading bar no longer ammo-belt being loaded but just a flat rectangle. Call these cosmetic bits tacky, but whoever made them put some effort in.

There is no grand-mastermind plan for the UI, just Relic doing the bare minimum poorly.

I agree with you about the UI being shit, but I'm not talking about the aesthetics of it, I'm talking about the implications of it and the back end.

After cutting so much from the game, why would they choose randomly to add the in-game friends list back from CoH 1 when nobody asked for it? It's not useful to steam users, they already have a perfectly fine friends list to use provided by steam itself.

It just doesn't make sense to add it back, considering all the other things that were removed. Maybe they are just incompetent and have weird priorities, but to me it makes the most sense that these are the foundations for crossplay.

If not, then Relic really doesn't know what they're doing.

I opt for a large patch if they communicate that properly BUT relic needs to man the fuck up, take blame & be honest for once. Until then all means of communitcation are worth jack shit.

Highly agree. A "we fucked up" post is sorely needed. Lmfao.

1) They fixed team colors a little. But never explained why the colors are what they are. They probably had a reasonable answer. Would have taken less beating if they explained it better.

Agree with most of the post but this part is something I keep talking about in other threads on here.

The idea was good with poor execution. Truly unique player colors is a new concept to RTS games I guess, so I guess other people didn't like it, but I do like it, so I'll defend it anyways.

Every other CoH game with "unique colors" doesn't actually have unique colors. It would be more appropriately called "distinguishing colors", because there's nothing unique about the colors assigned to players. Although everyone else is assigned a "unique" color to distinguish them from each other on your own screen, each player is actually blue on their own screen, which really takes away the "unique" part of it.

If you've ever played a game like CSGO, and used voice chat there, you would see why this kind of color system can cause a bit of confusion. In CoH 2, if I'm looking at the map, and I see someone's tank get red flares dropped on it, I immediately see the color of their unit icon. I know it's green, for example. But maybe in the heat of things, I forget momentarily who exactly green is.

Now, I want to tell them to move their tank, but I have to first click their unit to figure out their name, which wastes a small amount of time and micro. That or I have to spam ping it and say "watch your tank in middle" etc. and annoy everyone else in the game.

In CoH 3, all I have to do is say "green, they just dropped red flares on your tank!!" and the player I'm talking to will immediately know they're being referred to, because they are actually green on their own screen, and not blue.

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Obviously, this is not to everyone's taste. I think that they should have added a CoH 2 style "unique (distinguishing) colors" option. In addition to having some common sense when implementing the new system in the first place and not causing teammates to be pink and red and silly things like that, which probably would have made players more open to the idea to begin with. In the end, I think it will become a preferred feature for everyone who isn't insane, like grid hotkeys did in CoH 2. (No offense to classic hotkeys players, but I prefer not to play Twister with my hand on my keyboard when I have to reverse my tanks or retreat my units ("U" to reverse--are you serious?!)).