Profile of Mittens

I rly like (4) Hamlet. My playthrough felt like a better version of crossing in the woods with extra space for flanking and more areas to play with. Cover felt pretty good and overall flow made me wish this map was always in rotation.

I felt like I had a lot of freedoms given to me with flanking options. TOD changes were a welcome extra that made the map feel more alive and reminded me of old CoH1 maps. Most of those maps came with day and weather changes giving you more variety in the ascetics. Its a shame that such a cool feature is never rly included in the current map pool outside of port of hamburg.


All in all the only glaring issue I saw was its art, the yellow/red tinted loading screens and map overview made if feel less refined and a little out of place. The starting TOD and how fast it changes is also a little awkward as well but that can easily be fixed. Another issue is the use of Grass assets, the green grass he/she uses doesn't seem to get affect by the TOD and seems to always be rly rly green.


*Edit for update on annoying green grass and jarring TOD change. My opinions still stand lol

No one is playing due to bugs in current build. Pls wait till hotfix drops today to pass judgment.

Previously people were getting paired against high levels and most of the time they would drop on load after seeing cELO. The patch hasn't even been out for 24 hours and already passing judgment is shortsighted and wrong.

Your question is flawed. No game ever reaches perfect balance, and the community will always consider it unbalanced no matter how balanced it actually gets. It's actually been extremely good lately, especially considering the amount of diversity in the game.

+1

Sega should put their foot down and sack your testers for incompetence. This is unacceptable as to be released in such a state.

Test your shit before you wreck your shit.

I mean its not like they addressed a HUGE bug and tried to roll it out a fix as fast as possible that had unforeseen consequences and then released a statement saying they would release a "Hotfix" within a given time frame. Im sure they tested the hell out of the other changes.

As much as they dont fit I feel like it would be more refreshing to see this over Afrika korp. While Afrika would give us interesting maps, a Japanese faction (theoretically) should have some very interesting mechanics.

That being said it would be kind of an insult as most Japanese fought to the death and would suicide even before capture.

Gameplay wise yes, ethics wise its a gamble.



Edit: it would be interesting to see melee banzi charges where your units could center around officers (kind of like the old brits) that rly push your army. tripwire nades (pressure nades) would be a cool thing to see such as the ones in "Rising Storm" for red orchestra. If you rly think about it Japanese would be a very heavy team weapons faction with a huge infantry core.