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Thread: THQ is Bankrupt for Real This Time4 Jan 2013, 08:43 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Jan 2013, 01:03 AMIpKaiFung Don't take tychus or tychuu too seriously. Both of them have issues. I don't have any issues In: Lobby
Thread: THQ is Bankrupt for Real This Time3 Jan 2013, 23:07 PM Why is everyone getting so mad at Jim/Tychus? He's just posting articles that say investors aren't happy about this, and obviously they aren't - they're getting screwed and I haven't seen anyone dispute this. If he's shorting THQ stock (which looks like it was a pretty good idea...) then he's doing it because he thought he could make money from the company failing, not because he hates Company of Heroes and wants it to die. Can't you divorce business from gaming? Can't you be a fan of CoH and also think that THQ was horribly run and that they're screwing over investors to try to make sure their stalking horse company wins the bidding? In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match31 Dec 2012, 21:55 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Dec 2012, 13:39 PMThrill Football for example is really an unfair sport. Yet is the most popular one. The game doesn't have to be 100% fair, but it must be FUN and entertaining. You can have a game that is super duper fair and boring at the same time. Yes but football has mirror matches. If in each game, one team was always on offense and the other was always on defense I don't know if football would be as popular. Imagine if a really good defensive team lost the coin flip in the Superbowl and had to play offense, or if the Superbowl was a best of three and two good defense teams were up against each other and one had to play offense twice. Football also has mirrored maps too. In fact most competitive sports have mirror matches and many have mirror maps... In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match30 Dec 2012, 22:37 PM That's probably the best argument against mirror matches - they add more work to balancing the game and add two more matchups that can be unbalanced. There's really no good ansewr to that - it just comes down to whether you want to place more emphasis on the competitive community/ease of running tournaments/ease of getting competitive players into the game because they only have to learn 1 side perfectly or whether you want to place more emphasis on the game being 100% balanced. For 100% balance I don't really think CoH is a great game for that - it's too random. If you want 100% balance your only hope is a game like Starcraft. I'd rather focus on what makes CoH great and also keep the competitive community strong, and I think mirror matches are worth it along those lines even if they mess with balance a bit. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, though, we're talking about one kind of balance - the other kind of balance, which is "obviously mirror matches are balanced automatically," is a good enough balance for competitive players not to feel bad about playing mirror matches in tournaments. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match30 Dec 2012, 20:43 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Dec 2012, 19:44 PMomn1vor As for the rest - it's just that starcraft is mentioned very often in this discussion. Maybe too often. My point boils down to this: if Relic allows mirrors and makes mirror maps, it would be steps towards SC, not just steps towards some e-sports requirements. "Steps towards SC" is hardly the same as turning CoH into SC. Dawn of War II had mirror matches, swarms of aliens, and space marines, and yet it didn't turn into SC. So there's no worry of CoH turning into SC just because it has mirror matches. Jump back to quoted post30 Dec 2012, 19:44 PMomn1vor Why can't CoH be itself (very asymmetrical game, both factions- and map-wise) and still be good for competitive purposes? The problem with BO1s and maxVP-choices can be solved by putting more effort into map-making and longtime support. FFS, given the appropriate man-hours budget you can make north ango playable for wehr and north langres playable for amis, no need to be genius to do that. If (at least) ranked maps allow both factions to play with even odds of success, the old tourney system will work nice. Relic is never going to be able to do this. Let's just be honest with ourselves. Making maps is hard. Making non-mirrored maps is harder. Relic made Kangaroo Carriers and thought those were a great idea. If your argument against mirror matches is "the game can be perfect and a perfect game doesn't need them" then you're wrong, because the game won't be perfect, and competitive players who have a lot on the line in a tournament aren't going to be happy if they're forced into a side they don't want on a map that doesn't favor that side. Jump back to quoted post30 Dec 2012, 19:44 PMomn1vor What CoH2 needs for the competitive purposes is: 1) balance (and constant support) 2) tools (spectator mode, modern replay system, after-game analysis, modern matching system) 3) uniqueness of gameplay. And there is no NEED for mirror matches. There is no NEED for anything if you mean "this game can't happen without this feature." CoH 2 could be a tic-tac-toe game with ZERO features and it would still exist. We're talking about what CoH 2 could use to make it a better game. Relic has already said we're not getting spectator mode, and I doubt the replay system is going to be anything other than what we had in CoH/DoW 2. And frankly we likely won't get perfect balance either. But even if we did get all this stuff, mirror matches would be nice too. Jump back to quoted post30 Dec 2012, 19:54 PMFeynmaniac Why can't you just do what's done in chess? Coin toss picks side, players then alternate for best of three. If one player happens to be not so good at Ostheer and is unlucky and gets them twice... tough! The best players are those who master both factions, not simply one. Because chess is played on mirrored maps. If we can have mirrored maps but no mirror matches that would be OK - not as good, but better than nothing. But all the "WHAT ABOUT MY IMMERSION I WANT TO PRETEND IT'S WORLD WAR 2" people probably won't like mirrored maps either. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match30 Dec 2012, 18:42 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Dec 2012, 08:41 AMomn1vor If SC is such a great game, why don't you play it instead of CoH? My worst nightmare is that CoH would become another SC-clone. Why yes, that is a perfectly relevant response to my point that mirror matches do not destroy competitive play by causing players to specialize in one race and thus have no sense of balance. I'm glad you've managed to argue against me effectively and I hope we can now all agree that I am wrong and wait hold on nope you're an idiot. Just because I wrote "Starcraft" in my post doesn't mean I want CoH to be a SC clone. If you had any idea what we are talking about or why we are making the points we are making maybe you would have been able to realize that. This entire thread is 40% good discussion, 30% unsupported claims, and 30% people attacking points that nobody is arguing for because they don't understand the discussion. It's frustrating but hey, welcome to the Internet I guess. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match30 Dec 2012, 03:58 AM Yes, just like Starcraft and Starcraft 2 have been ruined by competitive players only playing one race instead of 3. In: Lobby
Thread: Red Orchestra 2 23 Dec 2012, 18:59 PM RO2 is nothing like CoH. CoH is fast paced and completely unrealistic. RO2 focuses a huge amount on realism, at least in the Classic game mode which is the only good one. The closest strategy game to RO would probably be Close Combat, Men of War, or something like that. The CoH in the world of FPS is probably Call of Duty 2. In: Other Games
Thread: Natural Selection 223 Dec 2012, 18:57 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Dec 2012, 09:25 AMrejfor Damn, I want to play this a lot but why the hell it costs so much? It's just a mod, no? It suffers from low number of players online just because of it. Haha, costs so much. Compared to CoH 2 it doesn't cost anything. It's not a mod, it's a full game, and it suffers from low player numbers because it's a complex and interesting game that appeals to people who like teamwork instead of earning XP to unlock their next gun. It's fast paced and brutal and if you just like to run around earning achievements you won't like the game. That's why NS had a die-hard fanbase that stuck around for a decade even if it wasn't always huge, and that's why NS2 always has games going even though it doesn't sell 100,000 copies. In: Other Games
Thread: Mirror Match23 Dec 2012, 18:55 PM Jump back to quoted post23 Dec 2012, 17:42 PMBasilone Lots of people? Guderian/DrHorse Seb/Contador Jim/Rainbow Symbiosis/Lollypop have all won 2v2 tournaments in case you forgot. My friend and I beat DrHorse in a 2v2 once. 2v2 is fun but it's a joke when it comes to balance. 2v2 tournaments are fun but there's a reason Sunday Night Fights are 1v1 and it's not because they can't find enough players. DanielD is 100% right. If you love the WW2 feel of CoH then there's a great single player campaign waiting for you. Or you can just play non-mirror matches. Please don't make the game worse for competitive players because you want to play make believe. You're hurting CoH 2 for people who care about competition by REMOVING a feature they want. Mirror matches would ADD something to the game, and if you don't like them then just don't play or watch them. In: Lobby