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Thread: Reply to "relic looking for map feedback"27 Aug 2014, 20:56 PM I think youre being too critical of choke points. Depending on their location they can almost break the map. But some maps should be more condensed than others. They dont all need to be uniformly open. Different tactics should work with different amounts of success on different maps, thats what keeps it interesting. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Volksgrenadiere merge ability27 Aug 2014, 20:46 PM I dont like the idea because volks are fine as they are now. Theyre already better than conscripts, its conscripts and/or penals that need changes. I dont see a reason to change something just for the sake of changing it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Hotkey-change27 Aug 2014, 20:41 PM you'd have to use an external program to remap your keys. IMO though you should just turn off classic hotkeys and practice with grid keys. It's probably the best logical layout that there is in any case. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: You are able to see where the enemy spawns.27 Aug 2014, 20:38 PM i never even thought about this. I guess its related to how you can see a fence be destroyed through fog of war (and infer a tank or something is running over it). It certainly needs to be fixed so you cant see buildings. i presume this even works for seeing MG bunkers placed in the field. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Error loading replay. The replay file may be invalid.27 Aug 2014, 20:35 PM hard to tell. At the very least the error message should explain why you cant watch the replay, so in atleast that way its a bug. Its kinda BS to lock out replays for DLCs though. You have no control over what maps you get in automatch. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Disappearing war spoils27 Aug 2014, 20:33 PM this confused me too for a while, it turns out you can get war spoils for armies you dont have (eg the western front armies). Another thing is you cant watch your own replays if you played on a western front map and dont own western front. Just very poor design IMO. To me it looks like the original game had all 4 armies then at the last minute they decided to cut it up to sell half of the game for more money and they didnt pay attention to the details. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: A.I. in automatch game drops27 Aug 2014, 06:35 AM Jump back to quoted post25 Aug 2014, 16:29 PMrofltehcat I don't know about CoH2 but when we played 3v3 or 4v4 in CoH1 with a wildly mixed skill team, there was only one real problem in that the AI cheats. I'm not talking about the resource bonus or anything because the "hard" AI that replaces players is really too stupid to do much with that. The problem was that the AI would use pios and other small units combined with its knowledge about player unit positions to sneak through lines and capture cutoff points on non-Scheldt-style maps. For some players this distraction is a lot worse than just having an increased amount of units thrown directly into their killing zones. I can only guess this is the same "problem" in CoH2. The answer is to get better at the game but until then, actually having light vehicles (and using them to hunt those infiltrators, US ones can even recapture) instead of just static units and artillery should help. If you are higher skilled than your team mates, picking up their slack in this department should be your job. They probably won't learn much but at least that way they can enjoy the game without being stressed out about sneaky units. The game simply can't decide if it should replace a player with easy, normal, hard or expert AI. In any case this would probably just create more problem. Hard AIs really aren't that hard to beat. I absolutely believe their game impact can be higher than some players' but that ultimately isn't an AI problem. i dont think sneaking behind enemy lines is really a "cheating" thing, its very easy to do by pure accident. Just stroll anywhere away from the heavy fighting. The main difference is that most players play with a trench warfare mentality. they want to dig in, set up defenses and maintain the land they get. then use arty to soften up the enemy and push up with whatever tanks they can build and push the line foward. The ai plays more neutrally, it doesnt dig in, its forever in "skirmish" mode where it just wants to poke at the enemy and distract them, run off and cap a point somewhere else. It sends out small units all over the map, and some of them are going to find the holes in your line. Bassically its playing 1v1. Unforuntately 1v1 tactics dont always work well in 4v4. In: Lobby
Thread: Company of Heroes 2 is too zoomed in.27 Aug 2014, 01:52 AM i just wish they had an alternate/minalimistic hud design for experienced players. a lot of the hud could really be trimmed down, the entire center section for instance is just general unit information and doesnt really contain gameplay information or buttons. the unit vet info really isnt that important. i like to check that stuff out when i see replays sometimes, but during the game i dont really ever stop to check out how close a unit is to vetting up or how many kills he has. I'd rather have that section of the screen opened up for a larger gameplay view. The commander buttons could just be slid to the bottom of the screen. then add a new hotkey, maybe something like ctrl+g which toggles between minimal hud and full hud. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Suggestion: third icon row for unit list26 Aug 2014, 19:58 PM I like the change from coh to coh2 where theres only 2 rows now, one for infantry and one for vehicles (instead of rows by hotkey groups) just recently buying the western front armies. I think it needs a third row: support units things in this row would be like your ambulance, medics, undeployed okw trucks, ir scanner half track, and anything else that i havent immediately thought of which are units with no direct combat purpose (eg youd probably keep them out of combat/ the dont shoot back). I constantly misclick these sort of units in the heat of battle when i say need a vehicle to quickly flank around the enemy. I'd rather only have actual combat vehicle on row 2 to look at rather than 4, where 2 of them i shouldnt even be thinking about since they arent combat vehicles. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Donations-Helpings Hans26 Aug 2014, 19:50 PM Jump back to quoted post26 Aug 2014, 13:26 PMsteel If you think that's bad, try coming to Malaysia for a breakfast. We eat rice with cucumber, boiled egg(only half of the egg), nuts, anchovies and some spicy stuff. what do you do with the other half? In: COH2 Balance