Profile of PatFenis

You mean gunshots and explosions?
Didn't they stated they wanted to go with realistic sounds this time instead of hollywood ones?

Because if you've heard a gun from some distance, it certainly does not sound as is portrayed in coh2 and coh3 indeed is more realistic here.

I dont mind a more realistic approach as long as they still adjust it, fitting the eye-candy. (Its a casual game after all)

That said my main problem with the sound in the play test was simply that the sound mixing and volume were all over the place and made it impossible to pinpoint where each sound was coming from. Reinforcing the notion that often times the game just did blend in to a blurr. (Helped by the lighting issues and unfinished graphics)

I Especially had problems with far off noises being way louder than the sounds happening on screen.

Got a source for that? It focusses on early war units yes, but its like all coh games representing rather the entire timeline of the war.

If it was as you said we wouldnt have panthers, wirbelwinds, black prince and more.

That said, I like that these kind of units are mostly battlegroup bound.

2. You don't see them, because the game is set in early war, 1939-1942, not 1945, like CoH2 was.

Now refering to OP:
- Please dont give all factions snipers. I would prefer there wouldnt be any snipers but oh well.

- Territory based pop cap sounds like a huge snowball effect, I didnt play coh1 online but given how coh3 is already so fast paced, this would reinforce the punishment of one bad early game engagment. Coh3 so far feels very punishing to play and this would be legit worse imo.

- Axis tank variety is bigger than the allied side from my initial experience, this post in general sounds very monotone when considering that there are 4 factions.

- Given how prevalent the availability is with static defence for each faction give the non-doc howitzer units a definite purpose in the game. You simply dont have the time to get at guns in position and slowly work through the bunkers, pits and flaks due to the fast VP tick rate.

- Clown cars are a tough one, on one hand its a nice game mechanic but on the other side in the right hand it can be quite punishing. I am undecided on that.

Edit:
- Please leave out super heavy tanks. Its quite refreshing to have mostly medium tanks as your armored fighting force. It quite refreshing and makes it more micro intesive in late game.

What I struggled with in the play test was to hit pop cap without inflating my army with 4+ inf squads.
If off-maps remain as batshit crazy strong and all explosions including zooks/schrecks deadly to clumped up inf it might not be as bad as in coh2 but blobbing feels kind of encouraged due to the point drain especially if you are on the side under pressure from VP bleed.

With the brits it was hard to get real playtime with T3 due to the fast tickrate/games.

What I found out was spamming bishops while skipping t3 until churchills unlock with the armored battlegroup.

TBH - I'm not sure. I was microing somewhere else when my Grehound took the damage. All I saw in the area before and after were the Guastatori. I would've like to have been able to save a replay and watch it to verify what happened.

I'd assume that they'll add saving replays to the final game. In COH2, Most of the time when I thought BS happened, it was cleared up by the replay.

How I observed it, Flamethrowers do damage to all vehicles. Tanks for example take only a tiny amount of damage though.

So probably the italians roasted your greyhound a little.

I have to say, all the issues so far which i am having with the game are fixable at the latest post-launch.

After 20 hours the gameplay is top notch if you ignore balance issues and some bugs.

Like others have said before me, the variety of viable units is really good. But one has to consider that nobody has fully figured out the game yet, thus no meta is established.

I am really critical of relic, but the game is fun and refreshing to play, I am curious how the game will look at launch.