Profile of Kothre

I love CoH3, but I absolutely loathe the 3-second tick rate. I understand what they're trying to do, I understand the pacing is different, I like the emphasis on light vehicles. But the very few games I've had in 3 that actually last longer than 40 minutes are so rare, and they're by far the best games. It really sucks how infrequent the epic late-game battles are. The hour-long 4v4s were the most intense and memorable games from 2, and they're basically dead in the water now. And it isn't just 4v4s, either. 2v2s feel too damn short, too.

The maps and resource system are so much better-designed, and maps are less laney than in 2, and it's somewhat gone to waste because it that would have solved some of the problems CoH2 had where artillery and heavy tanks dominated behind a wall of tank destroyers. You can actually interrupt the opponent's economy so much better now with really well-placed strategic points.

The lack of late game is my #1 complaint about 3. The games just end way too fast, and it really kills so much of the game for me and all my friends. It honestly upsets me people like this god-awful change. I'd give my left nut to revert it.

I want the change reverted completely, but at this point, I'd be relieved to even get a compromise. Just anything to make the average game length longer than it currently is.

There's always annihilation for those who like to stomp noobs for an inordinate amount of time.

750 VP ticket lobbies (and Annihilation, too, I guess) are a total non-factor without them being in automatch. No automatch, no point. The 750 tick games that I have played with friends are so much better than 500, and it makes me sad how we'll never get real games with it.

The only counter to emplacements in 4v4 CoH3 is to contest the frontline and the enemy backline so viciously that they never have a chance to build them, because your only other option is overwhelming armored force (or AT guns, because I'm pretty sure they outrange them. Only issue is that if you're playing US you'll only have an AT gun if you go airborne (T3 is useless) However, US can field the M3 AT gun halftrack which can counter the emplacement so that's nice at least.)

Maybe we live in the timeline where allies 4v4 meta shifts to rushing to the 2 VPs closest to each other while engineer squads back-cap.

Yes, and that's effectively tantamount to "just win every game you play to counter emplacements." I've always hated that excuse people make when X unit is overpowered, and people's solution is just "don't let them get it," as if always winning is a viable "strategy." I know that's not what you're saying here, but I've seen this kind of argument so many times that I'm just going to inb4 it now.

Why on earth would you want U back for reverse key? That was the worst-placed hotkey I've ever seen in any RTS ever.

The faster tickrate is awful. Endgame was the best part of the game in which you fought the hardest and had most tactical options at your disposal.
Now they just gutted the end game. The game didn't become faster as in "everything is sped up", but the end game just got cut short.

In Coh2 end game set in somewhere between 20-30 min mark and a really good and exciting match ended between 40-60 min mark. So about 50% of a "good" match was in the end game.
Now in Coh3 the late game of a good match is only 33% of the whole match.

This is exactly how I feel. In 3, once you get access to your full arsenal, the game just ends within the next couple minutes (but usually before if the match was even slightly uneven). And even if they were to balance the tech pace around the shorter game length, that would just make the early and mid game feel too fast. Even tech balance aside, I just like the mechanics of 40-60+ minute games because they're so personal and intense.

This entire change feels like an effort to fix what isn't broken. If anything, the tech pacing of 3 is even better than in 2, because light vehicles are so much more impactful, which was one of the weak spots of 2, where they had only a short window to be truly useful. I do not understand why they'd fix the midgame problem only to chop off the endgame reward that comes afterward. Totally counter-intuitive, in my opinion.

But again, is it a bad thing?

Yes. It's boring to have games end so quickly.