Profile of Gloating Ghost

Relic isnt the best at managing this game. Agreed. On the other hand, I don't believe you need to be biased towards relic to support their decisions though. I personally prefer to look at the good things relic has done rather than the bad. I believe relic needs more positive feedback on things they are doing right rather than what they're doing wrong.

Imo, bias is never a good thing as it will always cloud your judgement against someone/something. Customer loyalty and support is always a good thing as long as it's not blind. I remember back when Relic were releasing the Brits, (up to that point they were improving) I wanted to pay for the extra DLCs and skins to support Relic. Now to be honest, they can go fly a kite lol. There is very little Relic is doing right at the moment. (ESL and community interaction are two positives I can think of) You'll notice though, most of these positives aren't even to improve the base game. Funnily enough, even goals like reducing call in meta several months back wasn't that effective as a lot of soviet metas will rely on KV 8s and IS 2s. (although call ins have improved with Wehrmacht and USF) I've actually switched to DoW 2 Elite mod and there's so many ideas Relic could pull from it. E.g nuke abilities require you to tech as well as some of the call in units.

Maybe I'm just a bit pessimistic, I'm quite sad my favourite game of all time has been ruined for me. I like to think I'm not biased. Dota 2 used to be my game of choice with 1454 hours accumulated. However, I switched to CoH 2 after the USF was released. Now I have 1168 hours of CoH 2 in about half the time period I played Dota 2. Even though Dota 2 is balanced waaaayyyy better than CoH 2, with P2W being non-existent, CoH 2 is just a more exciting game to play in my opinion.

If Relic's focus was actually fixing the game's engine and doing small balance adjustments, instead of this shitty DLC and and patches we're getting, I think they would make more money. People would want to buy skins, faceplates and decals to customize their army and support Relic's good behaviour (I know I would). However, they would have to get more artists working on these cosmetics but I'd say it would be less work than trying to balance new commanders which pulls away balance from the core units. It would simply lead to a better game.

Edit: Going back to Dota 2, I wanted to add that I've probably spent around $60+ on cosmetics and compendiums(which are basically 'interactive tickets' to the Dota Internationals). So I've pretty much spent full price on a game that's free. I don't regret it as Dota 2 was constantly improving with incredibly few hiccups when they introduced new heroes. Can you believe a game with 111 heroes is more balanced than a game with about 40+ commanders? Also DoW 2 Elite has 7 factions (these can be mirrored) which are asymmetrically better balanced than the 5 CoH 2 has.

i replied because i thought it was humorous that someone would ask for the power to patch daily. who asks for that? like seriously? which game do you know patches DAILY

I would agree with you that daily patches are never a good idea (breaking replays and all that). I would assume he meant he could have an internal build which he could privately patch daily then release a final build later, although he wasn't very clear in his idea. I don't think brushing someone off that quick (especially a respected map designer) is ever a good idea. You generally want to add an argument to a differing opinion for healthy discussion... LMFAOing @ blatant trolls if fine though

Mfw some random nerd thinks I'm biased

As more of a forum lurker than poster, I do agree with Penile here... You and Lemon are very vocal posters on coh2.org and sometimes that's a positive thing against trolls and people who are unaware of relic announcements/news. However, recently I've seen you (and Lemon) defend relic with their latest patch on your streams and telling everyone to just relax when people start criticising Relic for they're shoddy updates or behaviour which does show a bias on your side. At this point I feel Relic should be heavily criticised as I can't even remember the last time they introduced a patch which didn't have a bug or balance problem. Personally, I've taken a break from CoH 2 after the Feb patch broke all infantry vet as I was sick and tired of the incompetence coming out of the devs (good timing too as I just started university). Even though Penile can sometimes be extreme in his views, some of which I don't agree with, I don't think you should completely disregard his opinions if he's trying to be constructive or making valid points.

In the end, I do respect you and I do enjoy watching you play as you're quite a good player. I can have a good laugh when I'm watching your streams but when I see you defending Relic at this point of the game, I get the impression that there's a bit of 'white knighting' going on.

P.S I do understand why you wouldn't want to be too critical of Relic though since you're close to the devs and don't want to ruin your relationship with them.

Edit: I know Penile was criticising Ciez originally, but personally I see more of Lemon defending Relic. You can see his post when replying to Whiteflash's comment in this thread which isn't constructive at all imo.

mirror matches are arguably ultimate balance though. both players have the same exact tools at their disposal.

I have to disagree with this, because commanders can play a huge part in 1v1s. I remember scrimming with a friend on mine before the OCF tourney. We went USF vs USF and my friend went the Jeep against me which was almost impossible to deal with, as rifles don't have enough penetration. After this match we tested the Soviet clown car and my rifles would never pen on the frontal armour, even the WC51 Jeep got absolutely wrecked by the car's MG (the rear MG also did decent damage against it).

Voted no from my personal experience as some early game units are impossible to counter with mirror matches.

Thought I'd upload this not only to show how to beat back an Ostruppen player using USF rifle company but also to highlight this shamefully display of SturmTigerN.W.Fresh. This was a sweet victory especially when his whining got some of his squads wiped.