Profile of Grumpy

Avatar Area

Offline Unknown SteamID unknown
Posts: 1958

General Information


Thread: Anyone else find the regular Sherman useless?17 Apr 2024, 23:19 PM The problem that the Sherman has is that it takes two of them to equal the AI of the Dozer, and then you lose the ability to dive against wounded tanks because you don't have a Hellcat. Also, the performance is not good unless you go Armored and get the upgrades. If you go Armored, get the upgrades and can survive for about 40 minutes then the Shermans get good, but that is a lof of if's. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 1 Jun 2023, 03:37 AM Jump back to quoted post29 May 2023, 21:23 PMRosbone I posted this on the official Discord May 15th talking about how important it is for Relic to address the community more often: "Seriously, your jobs are on the line and you sit in your ivory towers watching the peons eat the last grain and leave the town? Cant spare 15 minutes a week". Then today I posted: "121 people layed off. Man I wish I was wrong more often. It is a curse." I keep thinking that working at Relic must be fun and laid back. But if it is so good there, why doesn't someone stand up and say "Hey guys, Coh3 is going to fail if we keep doing this. Maybe we should do this?". People are either too afraid to do it or management is too dumb to accept good ideas. Either way it doesn't sound like a good place to work. Its like being a bartender on a train watching the conductor drive the train off a bridge and saying nothing. This is all easier said than done. I've worked at a couple companies that were dysfunctional. When the management thinks they're doing a great job but are not, you're really better off saying nothing, doing your assignments as best you can, and looking for a job while watching the managers mismanage the company into oblivion. Relic still has 300 or so employees. That still seems like an awful lot for maintenance releases. If pushing updates through Steam is as easy as it looks, I'd bet my PMP certification that a competent project manager could get the game fixed in a couple months with about 1/4 of those 300 employees. In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 20:48 PM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2023, 18:35 PMdonofsandiego Running With Scissors Lol - that used to be my online name. Can't live up to that 25 years later so I'm just Grumpy. In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 17:58 PM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2023, 17:00 PMaerafield Don't think any patch could make me want to go back to CoH2. It would also send some weird signals that Relic abanonded CoH3 I've been gaming since Pong and don't think I've ever seen a company abandon their latest release and go back to an earlier one. I doubt the franchise would survive that. Niche genres like COH basically bet the franchise on each new release. There was a game I used to like called MechCommander that had similar player numbers to COH and had a lot of the same characteristics. It only took one bad release to kill it. Microsoft buying Relic won't help. They also bought FASA, which made MechCommander, and supervised the release that killed it. If it isn't Flight Simulator, or some type of word game, they don't seem good at it (in regards to games). In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 16:07 PM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2023, 13:11 PMGdot What its like to work at Relic: "working" at Relic Obviously this isn't Relic but we can assume its not far off. Lets not forget Relic won the "best places to work" in Canada 2022. They won the 'health and well being award' in Canada for 2022. COO Heidi Eaves won the best boss award in all of Canada for her Work/Life balance (you win this award by being favored heavily on the life side) and her 'COMPASSION DURING THE COVID-19 pandemic." whatever the fuck that means. Source for mouth breathers (fantoschmuck) https://www.sega.co.jp/en/release/221107_1.html https://www.sega.co.jp/en/release/211118_1.html Now, im all for a balance but you sure as shit better be taking care of business before playing BOARD GAMES and other ridiculous bullshit you are doing at 'work' The culture at Relic needs to change if its not too late already. This reminds me of a situation at work where I was buying a software package at work. We met weekly with the sales manager and the main developer. After a couple weeks, I could see that the developer wasn't really doing anything, except maybe for an hour or so right before the meeting and sometimes not even then. I'm sure that the developer thought he had great work/life balance. The problem was that the software was missing necessary features. I ended up having to contact the sales manager and politely explain the situation and consequences if a change wasn't made. At the next meeting, they commented about how hard they had to work, but they did show up with the problems fixed. It seems like Relic needs someone who can do something similar to what the sales manager did. In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 15:46 PM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2023, 10:46 AMaerafield Here we are, on a CoH gaming forum discussing dog breeds and whether they're dangerous or not since 1 page already The "everything is wonderful" statements and interviews from Relic don't give us a great sense that anyone at Relic realizes the actual situation. They see the great reviews by the "professional" game reviewers and think they've done a good job. In short, they made the Pit Bull more interesting than their game. Sorry In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 06:07 AM Jump back to quoted post25 May 2023, 16:55 PMMajorBloodnok I guess it comes down to how you might want to present a company for sale. If you have some workers apparently working on a new project as well as a core title just launched but ripe for improvement and exploration, maybe it might appeal to e.g. Smoking Gun? This could be. If they are planning on selling it, they might want to make it look like it isn't gutted. I don't think that will work especially well considering that any company that buys them would normally want sales numbers anyway. My first job out of college was with a company that was managed into bankruptcy and then bought by a Japanese firm. I'll never understand why, but the Japanese left the same managers in charge that put it into bankruptcy and they continued managing the same way. A similar thing happened to one of my relatives in a different industry. Maybe it's a cultural thing? In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 06:00 AM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2023, 02:08 AMRosbone Yes, my focus was more Pittbulls and the smooth brains that own them. Not sure I have ever heard of a doberman attacking anyone. When I was a kid I played with some rando dobers and they were fine. Been bit by several shepards as a kid. I knew a woman who had a Doberman that bit her once. Not sure why it happened. It was kind of odd because she said that the dog was fierce and protective but the first time I went over to her house, it came over to me and wanted to be petted. It was always really nice to me. I still think the problem with pitbulls is more the owner than anything else. One of my nieces has had two and both of them were no problem for people. One of them was aggressive towards other dogs so I stopped taking mine around it. In: COH3 Central
Thread: CoH3 mod - reBALANCE Tuning Pack25 May 2023, 14:55 PM Jump back to quoted post22 May 2023, 14:32 PMnigo Complete full changelog here: - Fallschirmpioneer Squad is overtuned relative to their timing - Can only be dropped within LOS - Mechanized Zeroing Artillery Barrage is overperforming for its cost and leaves little reaction time for players For all parachute squads, wouldn't it be better and more realistic to just greatly decrease the precision where it drops? The problems with parachute squads are: -The drops are super accurate so you can drop them in the fog of war with no risk, generally right behind something like a MG. -Units can't fire at them until they finish dropping and can shoot. They shouldn't be invulnerable while parachuting. Changing that would eliminate most of the BS. The zeroing arty change is good. It currently guarantees wipes of any team weapon without a retreat button. In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???25 May 2023, 14:44 PM Jump back to quoted post25 May 2023, 12:25 PMblvckdream Weird comment. Dobermans are amazing. Dobermans have a bad reputation in the United States, as do Rottweilers, pit bulls and a few other breeds. The problem is that assholes are allowed to have dogs and they teach the dogs to be assholes like them. In: COH3 Central