Disregard Donnie aka ZeroShiftReloaded, he was above average and by no means a vcoh metacyclopedia. Snipers could've used a little tweaking no doubt but every single COH2 patch I have played has had something equally or more problematic. There's a reason SNF wasn't airborne+snipers vs bikes+snipers every game.
^ this. End of story.
Every high level player agreed the game was balanced perfectly before they closed the books.
I don't see anyone spamming snipers is beating DevM/Aimstrong/Alijaz and countless others (nor see them doing sniper spam), and definitely NOT Donnie Mr.Playercard.
Coh 1 is on every level better.
Better gameplay, design, tactics/strategy, commanders;
GRAPHICS if you get mods and still runs perfectly on outdated Intel Graphics laptops.
And it doesnt fucking MEMORY-LEAK all over like CoH 2.
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You never caught on to how brittle sniper heavy strats are did you?
More like He never l2p, but l2whine. |
Yes. Individual model drops, even if you don't lose the squad, cost you Company Strength. Therefore, researching a vehicle-based army composition is very helpful in maintaining company strength.
Alternatively you can blob support weapons so that you never suffer any losses from enemy units (either insta-pinned or one-shot) 
Blobbing support weapon is a bad idea. They still get +25% or +50% (dont remember which) damage taken like in Multiplayer.
Losing each model cost strength, and for shit like AT gun/Mortar, if somehow AI gets a mortar/nade to land on it, there goes 4 men (2 Strength) and ALL vet you got there. |
That's quite a bit of experience. Rise of Nations takes me back. I remember waiting for the demo to finish downloading for about an entire day on my dial-up connection. Unfortunately, it wasn't until much later that I had a PC good enough to run it at decent FPS.
Back to Ardennes Assault though, do you know how decreases in Company Strength are calculated? I've been playing missions without losing any squads or vehicles, but I'm still losing much more strength than you. Do I really have to make sure that I lose only a few models as well?
I remember I could run RoN on my Pentinum III computer LOL
I bought the remaster version on steam. Still fun today.
Yes, EVERY inf model counts on your strength, it's 1 CS for every 2 casualties.
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I'm playing through Ardennes Assault on hard as well. Man, I wish I was able to achieve even a fraction of the smoothness you demonstrated in your videos. I have a lot to learn. Did RTS games always come naturally to you? What's your secret?
I played CoH for at least 8 years now.
Before that I played Rise of Nations so that's quite a long time of "training" and experience. |
I saw this coming a mile away, I spoke out, few listened, and now its over. I'm just an old COH fan who will disappear soon enough. From what I have been told my reputation is at the Relic offices, and probably most of the modders, I'm sure many will thank fuck for that lol.
Thank fuck for that lol.
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LOOOL
Sniper gameplay? 2 snipers vs 2 snipers? Snipers a moving? the sniper roulette: work your ass off for a good counter snipe and then see your sniper missing --> oh yeah so much balance and totally not RNG...
finally take off your rose tinted glasses.
I don't see Aimstrong, DevM (or alijaz, Inverse, Budwise, or any top players for that matter) complaining about sniper wars.
Maybe it's time to tune down your ego and l2p. |
Despite myself being one of coh2's top players and streamers, we've never talked. Despite my decade worth of experience in esports, including a specialty in rts esports scenes, we've never talked.
ok |
It really is hilarious that this cycle has been repeating for over 4 years now where the old guard gets shit on by Relic, new blood comes along and think they are in tight with Relic and things will be better next time, realize the old timers were right, and so on. A huge chunk of the starting staffers here had interacted with Relic devs for over a year, whether it was organizing events, making the last patch, investigating cheating reports for them, and more. Then someone who has been on staff here for 3 months and has Kyle on their steam friends thinks they will become the new community liaison messiah and prove to Ami, Tommy, Sepha, Razor, Aimstrong, Marucs, etc. that they just didn't know what they were doing. I remember Ciez was one of the first people to say that the old school guys were assholes yada yada yada let me be the bridge...and now he is like 10 generations removed from the Relic inner circle at this point. Its futile people, when history repeats itself every 3-5 months for 4 years its time to take a fucking hint.
So that's why Ciez and some guys vanished lol
It all makes sense now. |
Oh come on. We have partisans in the game who are pretty much terrorists. No reason not to have a German capaign about regular soldiers then.
On topic: I didn´t buy DoW 3 since DoW 2 was a huge disappointment for me. At least the Coh series kept it´s basic concept.
Oh right, at the end of that mission, those partisans got executed by soviet soldiers xD |
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