Profile of PatFenis

I was on the bandwagon of hating on coh3 with the previous versions we got to play, but I have to say so far I am positivly suprised. The game so far has been fun to play, there are definetly balance concerns but that is rather a secondary objective of this test.

As many have said before there needs to be improvement on several things before launch:
- UI
Especially feedback of your own actions among many other things which have been said before
- Sounds
Hit and miss sounds of weapons and explosions, bad and missleading sound level differences between sounds from afar and nearby, good voice acting.
- Graphics
In general I am okay with the graphics considering its an play test release. Things definently need to be more polished.
Tanks dont give the impression of hunk of metal plowing through the terrain, while also looking a little bit like plastic.
Infantry really easily blends in with the environment and dont stick out on the default graphic settings (AA high, 50% brightness). AA on low/off aswell as 15% brightness helps alot imo.
Certain effects look way more bombastic than others while sometimes haveing a bigger visual effect than actual effect on the target.

One big problem they need to takle with the UI is feedback of queueing units for production.

When you hit the hotkeys there is no feedback at all of your actions. You have to look at the awkward corner where the production queue is hidden between all the clutter on the right-hand side.

A problem that occured with me is also that I produced units by accident without knowing until it was too late due to this.

I really hope they give the UI another attempt, like others already pointed out there needs to be more feedback on your actions, everything just feels like a blur throughout the game.

General UI is okay in my opinion. Nothing particularly great, but it is okay.


- can't nail down the exact reason, but both me and a friend had issues seeing what is going on in the game. One reason surely is thag we had to read a lot of the descriptions, but it feel that this is not the only reason. Something about the overall readability is off.

I feel the same way, im unsure if its due to the fact that everything is kind of new or if the game in general just feels like a blur.

more points to add:

- pings are now the exact opposite of coh2, you dont notice them at all. no sounds, minimal animation on the map

- creeping barrage indicator completly wrong again... relic clearly doesnt learn from past mistakes. In general indicators are all over the place

- no kill counters, for me a big deal for learning the game and seeing what my top performers actually are. ( I fell like the italian field howitzer doesnt kill anything) Kill counters displayed when hovering over the XP bar

- no pop cap information on some call ins (Afrika korps non-battlegroup call ins)

- confusing and/or missleading unit-portraits.
Short and long barrel stug version are mixed up for wehrmacht
Towed Flak-88mm hiding in unit description of a utility car for Afrika-Korps

At the state where ladderplacements dont mean anything anyway, does it really matter?

Even on 558, you will still get scuffed matchmaking.

Why is it so difficult for Relic to create a simplistic and useful UI. I spent 5 minutes in MS paint and provided a cleaner look and more screen space used for controlling units. I left the VP tickets as a super rough edit to show how much space their current bar is taking up.



There is still a ton of unused space in the tool bar that can be used for unit information, tool tips, or whatever else you want. You should also be able to change the transparency of the UI background and/or hotkeys/commander abilities.

I like this alot, good job!