Profile of kamk

I play 2vs2 with a buddy of mine. Me as Soviets, he as USF. I bring Terror Tactics, Shock Rifle and Armored Assault. He usually takes Calliope now, but has the rest as well.

How should we choose our ways along the build orders to compliment each other best?...

If he goes Callis anyways, then you could go T2>T3, get a fast T70, or some SU76, to support a Stuart / Rifle push even further, then wait for Callins - waste your fuel on further units of course, and keep the agression up. He can be your speaheard till late game, then you switch more or less. At the switching point his job is attrition and (anti-) infantry dominance.

But this kind of slow bee swarm depends a lot on the map, and is usually more suited for Axis.

Depends anyways, mainly on your playstyles. Around mid- / lategame you certainly have the better staying power as soviet with the mentioned doctrines, so make use of it.
You can of course also split, and you should, but i guess that's where your trouble starts: teamplay.
Try watching the mini- / tactical map more often, and get a feel for the situation, position your stuff slightly closer - don't do full splits across the map - so you may intercept enemies if your mate ends up in a 1v2 scenario.
And last but not least: proper pinging.

Just a few random thoughts. I would need to see a replay to have a better idea on why it goes downhill.

So, your improvement is from actual ram frequency AND CPU OC?
I get the feeling it comes from your heavy CPU OC. Would you mind comparing?

CieZ, i always like your posts, but this is a part where we have to heavily disagree i guess. Let me elaborate.

I think the community can do a good job of self-policing.

Plus Relic has logs from their battle servers of where each player is located (you can see this on Relic leaderboards).

I guess some one could make a new smurf account, use a good paid VPN service to game the system... but that is a lot of extra work just to play in both regions - but if some one really wants to, they will.

I don't think the system is intended to be perfect but to start to address the issue of EU players having a significantly easier time playing in both EU and NA (also causing additional NA no-shows) than NA players playing in both cups.

It is good for ESL and for the community I think. EU will remain the stronger region by a wide margin, and probably become even more competitive. NA could become more of a "minor leagues" where newer competitive players have a chance to make a name for themselves.

The whole "welp I lost EU ESL this week, let me go sign up for NA even though I live 5,000 miles away" was a tad silly and really defeated the purpose of having two distinct regions.

Well, how do they call those again... qualifiers? Lower divisions?
So why do they have the same price money? Right, they usually don't, except in COH2

Just to give a few NA players an easier time winning the same amount of money due plain lack of competition?
Sounds like a lot of marketing money down the drain to me, even followed by a bunch of rather boring games.

If someone plays hours and hours to go through a tourney, then directly signs up for another one, and even wins it, then he deserves it, not? Isn't it actually easier to get up in the morning, than playing till the dawn of next day?

Let's be real here, nothing is gonna change for the broader audience, that's a really bad excuse. The same people will make it to the final spots, excluding the EU guys now, with just way less competition, which results in worse games overall.

And that doesn't even include the issue of "outside timezones", they basically - excuse my language - piss on. Again: yay asian / eastern market being forced to play at ~4am - great idea, and really fair, right?

I want to see "minor leagues" and divisions as well, but creating arbitrary rules based on citizenship is absolutely... retarded stupid not thought through.




Salt aside, i hope you get my point.

The 21:9 FOV isn't disabled, and everything ingame works properly.
Cut scenes and main menus are forced 16:9 though.

Maybe something system related on your end?

Which GPU?
(for comparisons)