Profile of Antilles950

This is total bs. Noggano earned his spot. They should just let him play from Russia jesus christ Relic must not have put an ounce of thought into these rewards. How did they not consider the fact that 2 of some of the best players in this game are from Russia jesus christ.

Tbh they should probably just unlock other rewards in lieu of not being able to fly players out at a reasonable time.

+1

+1 Big fan. I started playing coh1 when coh2 came out and I got into the community by watching old SNF seasons on youtube

Call-ins are a problem every match.

Call-ins have major advantages over teching. The most significant are probably larger infantry army's/field presence early on, and providing a comeback/winning mechanic.

Essentially, someone who techs extensively for a midgame advantage can get fucked later on for their decisions. For example, an ostheer player could be "winning" in terms of map and resource control, get a PIV, and then get punished down the road by an IS2 call in, when they would've been better off investing the tech/tank resources into infantry and holding out for a tiger. It's not hard to hold 1 vp and a few resource points for 9CPs to call in a KV8 or Ostwind.

This fundamentally breaks the game in that something that could be a "comeback mechanic" becomes a winning mechanic. This is exacerbated by the fact that if you get one call-in out, usually, it will last long enough so that if you lose it, you can get out a second, so there's effectively very little punishment.

This leads to things like less diversity; few games include soviet and ost t4, and USF/OKW t4 is also becoming more rare as of late. There's also less variety in commanders and abilities; it's very rare that people use doctrines with ostheer infantry stealth or conscript support tactics, etc.

Major examples: OST puma and stug-e doctrines, USF m10 and calliopes doctrines, Soviet lend-lease and shock rifle doctrines, OKW ostwind doctrine, Brits land mattress and vanguard doctrines.

Each of those have at least 2 call in units for some critical role in the game, and often, they allow factions to tech a single tier and play from there (soviet t2, ost t2, okw t1, etc)

This problem also ties into a lot of other problems, such as how soviets often just stop at T3 and spam vehicles from there because they are sufficient in combination with t2 or guards to hold the field against all threats until the call in.

Potential fixes:

1. Tie call-ins to tech. So puma = tied to Ost t2, command PIV to T3, tiger to T4. This would kind of eliminate the resource penalty a teching player faces vs a call in player, because the call in player would have to invest manpower and resources in tech as well.

2. Limit call ins. I liked the tiger ace cap at 1 call in; maybe this would make sense for all call in vehicles? Then it would be a genuine comeback mechanic, and players would need to tech in order to survive afterward/mitigate risk.

General Improvements:

- I think the linearity of COH2 commander choices was a poor decision on relics part compared to COH1, where you had to make a choice as to which "tree" you wanted to pursue for any given commander. This creates less diversity/meaningful choices, and would've been a good mechanic to keep in game.



These are just a few thoughts and obviously this isn't categorically true, but I do think it is significant.