Profile of samich

Then you should know better.

Your argument makes no sense:

Dota 2 has a multi-million pound tournament on at the moment, its unarguably "competitive" yet it has plenty of RNG:
- uphill attacks 50% chance miss
- evasion, bash, crit strike, maim - all random
- countless proc abilities
- auto attack min/max

It also has plenty of players fighting the environment in the creeps. The neutral creeps have min/max damage and will randomly target enemies with abilities when criteria are met (3 units within aoe of their spawn).

All of these are obviously in the game on purpose and I could make the same arguments with practically any sport or competitive game with the possible exception of chess (it is described as the "pure strategy" game after all)

You mention lol as your example of a good strategy game, again it has countless random components.


I agree that there are aspects of Coh that go way overboard with randomness.. plane crashes springs to mind, but your assertions that reducing randomness always makes things more competitive or is good "game design" is objectively wrong.

To be fair the grenade is mega strong.

The warning is ample though... when it works... which is like 50% of the time.

You can't always watch the engagement and you'll get caught by a Rgrenade, but that would be true whether it had a timer or not, its also true of all allied grenades.

Then watch Stalingrad too.

enemy at the gate is the choice of soviet kings friend

What he wanted to say is: there is no cooldown after you use DS to be able to DS Off, but there is one to DS again right after.
So you are able to dodge grenades even after you just activated DS

- REsume: DS "on" is no more vulnerable to grenades than DS "off", cause you can DS "off" when you want

In that case I agree.
Defensive stance is generally pretty lame, but its kind of a separate issue.

The effects kind of cancel each other : reduced vision helps offensive play and grants flanking opportunities but deep snow, freezing to death and the lack of arty stifles you when you attack and punishes you when you try to retreat.

Its usually better to wait it out so its just a boring break in the game coupled with a frame rate reduction.