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RNG makes every game entertaining for the exact reason you listed. Sometimes a given squad will win the engagement and sometimes it won't. This adds suspense as the outcome isn't always forgone and unpredictable outcomes can often have a dramatic impact on the momentum of the game.

To use football as an example. A corner kick can sometimes result in a header and goal or sometimes not. The rules that create a corner kick are consistent but the results can vary widely. The suspense of not knowing what is going to happen is what makes the sport entertaining. I would compare this to throwing a grenade in CoH2. Sometimes the grenade will wipe a squad but sometimes it will do next to no damage. As long as using the grenade ability always throws a grenade the rules are constant and only suspense of RNG remains.

I think we have an agreement on the fact that 2 situations can have different consequences, i'll use your example: yes of course a corner kick can end in sometimes a goal, or not. The big difference here, is that the result is driven by the players actions. It has nothing to do with RNG.

To compare with a CoH2 situation: sometimes you engage at long range a squad of conscripts with your squad of grenadiers in green cover. Statistics are on your side, your action is perfectly legit, yet a string of bad RNG can mean you lose 2 grenadiers in the first 5 seconds of the firefight, and proceed to lose the engagement from there. In another case, the exact same fight could have the probable outcome, with grenadiers winning handily the engagement.

The player has no control (contrary to football players of the example) on the outcome, he/she can just position and control his units in the best way he/she should adopt, and you have different results. This is bad (even though i like this as a gamer, it means you always a chance of doing incredible things while being on the backfoot), and might confuse spectators of the game (given they don't know the mechanics of CoH before watching a game, for us players of CoH, it wouldn't be that surprising - "what a string of bad luck", happened to all of us at some point in time).

But as already pointed earlier, this is too late to change (since it is at the core of the CoH franchise), and i think it shouldn't be. Aiming for eSports is a noble quest, but it shouldn't alter the game we already know and love as it is. I for one, would rather not have CoH2 become an eSports games, rather than have it being dull and predictable, like SC2 is (just being an economic simulator, with lots of spam and macroing involved, rather than pure tactics and unit preservation).

It wasn't better than Panthers gun on long range. Very long 75mm barrel excel than the tigers shorter 88mm cannon. I mean, if we talk on pure long range accuracy, panther was better.

I was about to reply to his statement also. Panther's main gun had more penetrating power, yet lower inflicted damage in case of penetration. Very high muzzle velocity (thanks to the longer cannon and bigger propellant charge), but smaller shell.

unfortunately you aren't the one determining what their jobs are.

what i think of the customer is always right philosophy.

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Well put, and nice read by the way

I knew i wasted my time posting in that thread. Anyway i'll try to answer both of you in one post, without quotes:

I don't know what baffles me the most, the fact you think you understand how it works, or the fact that you read what was written, then still counter attack with claims such as "i am the customer, i don't care if you have problems delivering the product i paid for, i am entitled to whine about everything i do not like".

The fact is, when a bank customer is displeased with the service provided, he/she can just pick the money, cross the street, and register an account somewhere else. Hence the special care that those companies provide to their customer base. In this case, what will you do ? Uninstall the game and buy Starcraft 2 ? Relic already has your money. Sure it will be one less player, but who cares ? Haters gonna hate anyway, so the community may be better without you.

If, like you claim, you are a software engineer, you would know that no product is bug free (not at release, not ever). If this is a sign of bad work for you, i do not have anything to point you at, rather than pure experience in the industry.

And to be fair, customer relationship management has nothing to do with bug fixing, sure it can have some impact in the trust the customer has towards you as a game developer, but (again), it is not handled by the same people within the company. I'm not saying Relic is perfect in their PR or even the technical department, but i'm just saying you can't step in, and blame them for releasing a new campaign for the game, while "ignoring" the issues which are currently running in the released version of the software. It is simply not realistic.

You think i am acting like the smart guy, fine. You can delve into your own inner misconception for as long as you desire, i won't try to enlighten you anymore.

Well I actually read it. Not saying it's untrue, but still debatable.

Debatable if you had at least a little clue of what is behind the scene. I'm a professional in banking software, and NO it is not gaming developement, but YES, most of what is written about large projects, resource management is true.

What do you want to contest ? The fact that devs are not interchangeable in their tasks ? Or the fact that some bugs are hard to fix and require lots of overhead control to have the right person working on the right issue, at the right time ?