Profile of PatFenis

Thanks for the write up Ros. We will see if Relic starts pointing at their own nose on their "balance stream" or if it will be a big nothing burger, filled with PR buzzwords.

I start having hope again when relic acknowledges their mess and humble themselves towards the community, which to this day is passionate enough to beat a dead horse about the state of this game.

No one is going to come back from a tiny update.
There need to be 3 pages of fixes and 2 pages balancing to convince people that stuff improves.

Exactly. I would have cared for the hotfix if it came out 1 day after 1.1 was released, but im already worn out by blob-pany of medtrucks.

The only hotfixes which come in an express sort of manner, are when it affects the store and ppl. "cheating" the system.

Dont get me wrong, this makes sense from a business aspect, but leaves me bitter given with what was presented and reported during the play tests, and how the game is today.

I opt for a large patch if they communicate that properly BUT relic needs to man the fuck up, take blame & be honest for once. Until then all means of communitcation are worth jack shit.

To add to injury, the entire narrative of "coh-devlopment" was such a kick to the gut post release. All of their promotional work was misleading, saying that there was any sort of actual community input & engagment.
Clearly shit was only changed if hell broke loose (They really worked hard to still make a UI which is less functional than coh2, we have a tac. pause button in MP for some reason but no surrender button).

Witnessing the little amounts of actual play testing, and then seeing many of in the only MP play test observed bugs and issues still persisting, is insulting. Furthermore all the errors of coh2 were redone in coh3, with things such as broken call-ins with minimal cooldowns which leads in some cases to skipping entire tech trees.

The defence of "oh yeah they were working on good SP experience for launch" is such a cop-out answer. The SP content was and still is majorly scuffed and relic clearly has their priorities on making a quick buck for their coporate overlords. Judging by the 60€ price tag for a bare bones early access experience, and the incoporation of bad faith MTX this early.

Good thread! It is really a slap in the face what mechanics relic introduced and left out and on top of that dumbed down.

- Free abilities were never a good idea (SU-76 barrage anyone?)
- Crushing was a good mechanic as you needed to understand on how the game processes your commands and how inf. AI tries to avoid it. (not in coh3)
- Auto reinforcing med trucks makes even the utmost mouthbreather into an secondhand-Aerafield, in coh2 it was atleast finicky and micro intensive to do so. (I myself was too clumsy to abuse the OKW medtruck for example)
- Again we have factions which are lacking in crucial aspects of the game e.g. AA-capabilities. Brits are done if they only have the polsten AA-truck.
- All call-ins have laughable cooldowns and are easily abused. Brits armored company dont need to tech at all for example. Inf spam -> Crusader AA spam -> Churchills spam.
- All the SP-people who played the SP content and paid 60€ for the game are screwed. You dont get the same experience like your first playthrough and as of right now the experience is attrocious.
- Even after 1.1 (Actually 1.0 if you ask me) we dont have any information about buffs/debuffs affecting our units.

Coh3 feels like its the creation of two first-cousins. Its a dumbed down version from the predecessors while the games end before they start to be satisfying.
In coh2 you could bask in the breakthrough you achived after a long struggle/stalemate. In coh3 it simply ends the game. Currently this game is not as satifying to play as coh2.
Usually after 3-4 matches im burned out with coh3.
This didnt happen with coh2, given though, at that point it was properly polished.