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Thread: Can Relics roadmap resurrect coh2?4 May 2015, 19:23 PM I'm a heretic. I actually dig what Quinn says about battles telling stories. And I think it is the difference between 'casuals' and competitive players. Our brains are genuinely wired differently. You see, I'd rather lose a madly exciting game with crazy RNG than win a boring one. Seriously. Yeah, skill planes can be annoying but when some dude tries to bomb you and your AA fire makes his plane crash on his (or your) troops it's more fun (much, much more) than Starcraft maths play. Basically, my dopamine receptor is wired differently to other folks's dopamine receptors. Luckily for me, those folks are in a kind of 2% minority. L. O. L. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Can Relics roadmap resurrect coh2?4 May 2015, 17:53 PM Jump back to quoted post4 May 2015, 15:17 PMspajn But you are probably not even a casual player.. most likely a forum dweller or compstomper so i could not care less about your opinion about things way above your head. That's right! I have all these posts on a forum for a GAME I DON'T PLAY! Who do you think I am, Inverse? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Can Relics roadmap resurrect coh2?4 May 2015, 14:53 PM Jump back to quoted post4 May 2015, 13:34 PMBurts Its honestly quite stupid what you are saying here because the most annoying thing for people that play this game at a high level is the high influence of RNG (vehicle crits, plane crashes), yet these things also annoy pretty much everyone else. RNG doesn't overly trouble me TBH. I couldn't really care less what 2 per cent of the player base thinks. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Can Relics roadmap resurrect coh2?4 May 2015, 13:23 PM Jump back to quoted post4 May 2015, 11:51 AMspajn Relics biggest mistake is and will always be that they still think that making the game dumbed down so casuals like it is the way to go. It's probably just as well you don't work in game development. Just look up steamcharts and look what are the most popular games... dota2, counter-strike go and LoL being the biggest game outside of steam... all competative games and made most of its design decisions to work as a competative game. Relic on the other hand sees the competative crowd like 2% of its playerbase. It is less than 2% of the player-base, and easily the most entitled and noisiest 2% And, in other news (with regards to CS / DOTA etc) apples taste very different from oranges. Yeah its true that the truly competative esport players are a tiny part of the playerbase Glad you get that. but even casuals enjoy a competative, fair and responsive game even if they themselves are not competing Would love you to expand on this point because I don't really get it. Are you saying us untermensch love games where we get to fawn over the two per cent who know how to play? I've got news for you - we don't. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Can Relics roadmap resurrect coh2?4 May 2015, 13:09 PM Am intrigued by WTF CoH3 will be / look like? SEGA must have it on their own 'road map.' In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Stormtroopers1 May 2015, 16:37 PM High risk for when you are playing for a fast T1 - T3 transition and have fuel control. Quick and dirty AT. Better versus Americans. Of course I am a large-game scrub but I can imagine it being pretty situational for 1 v 1. I've used them in 2 v 2 as described but like I say, very risky. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: British Faction, what do you want to see?1 May 2015, 16:19 PM The British army of 1944-45 is all about Arnhem, The Scheldt, Ardennes Flank and Op. VARSITY. The British advanced as far as the Baltic sea, east of Schleswig Holstein. What were the obvious, 'army character' features of these operations? Well, the big, obvious one is airborne. The other is fast armoured advances with the British beginning to 'return the serve' by using mechanised infantry like the Germans. The Brits beat the USA into having an operational jet fighter by 1945. The other feature is river assaults, Buffalo amphibious APCs and marines. So I'd like to see a core British faction with dependable but not sluggish infantry, some interesting early game vehicular options and maybe even some light infantry support of the sort you don't usually see in CoH games but central to Brit infantry tactics: the two man gun group (Bren) and light two man mortars. These would require decent micro to get the best out of but would be relatively cheap. The corollary would be less medium-heavy support weapons in the early game tiers. Just a few thoughts. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Do you think this alpha should be in waves?30 Apr 2015, 18:44 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2015, 14:59 PMKobunite Why should they have got in? But, simply put, being highly ranked in the game shouldn't just get you access to the alpha. For this to be a valid test of any kind they need a wide range of players that fully explore the skill curve of the community. Putting in too many of the games top players throws this curve hugely. These are wise words and I couldn't agree more.... except.... Outstanding community members should get a free pass and automatic entry. Hans is one. So is Imperial Dane. Romeo is a no-brainer for entry. Ditto ATR, Team RNG casters and the Generals Gents crew. Barton? No disrespect to the man but (a) his contribution to the community is mainly his skill as a player (he doesn't cast, for example) and (b) his fairly outrageous comments to Cynthia recently deserve some sort of sanction. Yes, a broad spread of players is needed. That elite dude who popped up recently advocating truck-pushing is an example of why the ultra-competitive will invariably strangle every last drop of fun out of this game in order to climb that ladder (q.v. RNG hate). But good community members? Whatever their skill, they should get in automatically. Ami, Hans, The Dane and the others. We all know who they are. Edit - any of these folks are welcome to my key if Relic will waive the usual rule. They deserve it more than me by a country mile. In: Lobby
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)29 Apr 2015, 20:38 PM I don't think much has changed, as Soviets anyhow, layered defence versus Axis heavies with ZiS, mines, SU85 and call-ins. You know it's coming so plan for it. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Balance of power has shifted to Allies in 4v4AT (imo)29 Apr 2015, 20:13 PM * shrugs * I've got two sets of guys I play 3v3 and 4v4 with, one mainly Allies one mainly Axis. I've not really noticed a massive difference except the reliable late game Axis armour surge has to be slightly more carefully managed than before if you are Ze Germanz. However my own personal metric of balance, the hotly disputed Axis / Allies ratio, suggests that something happened after the last patch as it is far more equitable than before. Still want to see the Soviet call-in reliance changed, very powerful in 4 v 4 when for the lulz you simultaneously Zerg rush the enemy with 8 T34/85s... In: COH2 Gameplay