If Relic cares about map hacking then you should NOT be able to hear footsteps. Or there will be a bunch of people getting banned for looking around in the FOW trying to hear footsteps. There will be no way to know if they are map hacking or listening.
Given the events during the last year, it seems like Relic now wants to purely rely on system-detected evidence when it comes to maphacking. No more replay-review by a human
Tell me what other game was in 'pre alpha' state less than a year from launch? Tell me what decent game you played that had less than 6 months of beta testing? Tell me what game successfully went from pre-alpha to full on beta in 6 months? Cause I sure as hell can't think of any.
Actually I don't remember a single triple A company game where the public has been able to play-test over a year before launch. Do you know one? Because I'm genuinely curious. The CoH2 Alpha launched in early 2013, a couple of months before release if I'm not mistaken. And looked totally different (and worse) than the release version of June 2013.
Well lets see. The factions are still the same set of units in SP and the faction previews despite being heavily homogonized. The factions themselves still have no faction specific mechanics. The gameplay itself is still an attempt to copy CoH1 despite CoH2 having 4x the playerbase. They have shown no new ideas that weren't present in the previous two games outside of breach, which they are touting as being a gamechanging mechanic despite it being little more than a simple unit mechanic. Literally the only new concept is moving the Campaign into a Total War style system, which itself is a copy of the Rome: Total War campaign.
Changing some unit stats around isn't what I would consider major progress toward designing a good game when the game has so many deeper problems.
I'm increasingly convinced the game is nothing more than a quick, soulless cash grab. Its only chance for longevity will depend on how easy it is to mod.
I get what you mean but we will see. I think the CoH1 US vs Wehrmacht matchup was always extremely popular in the CoH fanbase and personally I think this even improved in CoH3. Not to mention that I am pretty sure that more factions will come as well
Well for starters we need to quit pretending its pre-alpha. The game is less than a year from launch. It should have already (or more likely already has) started beta.
What you see now is going to be very close to the final product. (especially since we have been getting updates for 6 months and nothing of note has changed in any of the reveals)
What you are saying here seems like complete assuming based on 0 sources? Apparently there is a rule now saying "software that is 1 year away from launch must be in beta state"
Who said we are less than a year away from launch btw? The game is *planned* to go live in "late 2022", there is no official release date and the launch could easily be postponed to 2023.
And nothing has really changed since the SP test in July? Are you sure we were playing the same build?
Yes and everyone is allowed to have his own opinion, but many of your takes are either inaccurate or just false. Spending time on counter arguments feels like a wasted effort in this thread I'm sorry.
Your account being only 3 days old on top of your "just a joke" avatar & signature doesnt help here either. Then there is also stuff like this:
Lmao I started playing this game the minute it went out. I even went and upgraded my shitty pc in order to run COH2 at max. I know what I'm saying don't worry.
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