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Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2023, 13:18 PMHannibal

I found the blizzard idea really cool, but it just does not fit CoH. The blizzard gives you special phases of preparation and pushing. You can move your army to a prepared bonfire spot during the blizzard and don't be spotted and then attack from an unexpected direction later. It also made transports more useful.

The game overall is just too fast for these additions. Armies also became a bit smaller overall as far as I can tell. These huge preparation phases just don't work since there is not logistics, and unit positioning is non-existant if all units are hurdled across a small bonfire. There is just nothing to prepare. The CoH concept is basically to continuously throw units at the enemy and outmaneuver and outmicro him in the meantime. The resource territories and strategic points also force you to constantly attack. Not doing anything valuable for a minute or two during the blizzard can just cost you the game, especially if it happens multiple times.

Other concepts like the deep snow and mud also fell short. The maps are just not big enough to allow for that many different areas of slow movements but potentially high impact after flanking. There is just too much pressure to actually make use of the units on the front line instead.

They worked great for bot matches though. I actually liked them very much in this context.

Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2023, 15:25 PMNickbn

(very committed and elaborate) troll

Jump back to quoted post19 Mar 2023, 04:23 AMVaz

I didn't want to say anything, but these guys are breaking coh mechanics. They are winning or at least stalemating engagements at a disadvantage. Meaning, they can fight in open cover against troops in heavy cover with at least a neutral outcome, but forcing a retreat happens. It's sort of understanding for the G-unit flamers, but those guys can solo multiple squads taking little to no damage.

I recently learned that they have armor values, which is funny because Relic eliminated armored infantry in almost all coh2 units that had them and instead gave them Matrix Agent received accuracy 1.5 or whatever. So they are dodging bullets instead of stopping them.

Jump back to quoted post16 Mar 2023, 22:36 PMSnack_Master

If this didn't happen for Battlefield 2042 then it has no chance of happening here. This game is a gets an A+ compared to how that fraud of a game launched.