Profile of adamírcz

3s and 4s matchmaking has taken a nosedive, but you can still get decent games often

Player count is moving between 3 and 5 thousand players

I have seen IA used maybe twice in my lifetime, where the hell did you see that?

I had great fun in the pre-release playtest, but yes, the audiovisuals are a weak spot of the game and a big downgrade, you're hitting the nail on the head here

Something I'll never forget is what it feels like when two SU85s in CoH2 hit a Teegor at the same time; that game could really sell the 'rammed by a freight train' vibes

Funny thing is, the sloppy audiovisuals actually complement the nice effort to drive the game to a slower ttk and less instawipe bullshit direction, but that ofc isn't an excuse

I make this post in reaction to seeing a certain other thread and also plenty of ideas and comments under streamers and youtubers

Basically, people always have plenty of suggestions that would indeed do away with the "9/10 matches are a blobfest" thing, but also absolutely garden the experience for people who play properly

I'll give a few examples:

- TTk increase: Double edged sword. Kill blobs faster, but also you are essentially no longer allowed to decap points near enemy base, dive with infantry, stay on field for extended periods of time, etc

- Stronger suppression/ MG buffs: This fucks over individual squads as well. Im sure we all still remember the cancer of having two squads on opposite edges of a 130° cone of fire get supressed at the same time

- Arty buffs: An almost inherently cancerous type of unit, and again, we all remember how BS good it was at wiping lone, moving units in CoH2

So, I'm hoping we can settle on some ideas that improve the situation but do so in a way that doesnt affect people who micro units individually and space them out properly

I actually uninstalled Company of Balance 2 before playing CoH3, now I want to install CoH2 again, so I can uninstall it again knowing that I was playing shit game for so long.

It now actually feels like an RTS and not "wOw esport balance gameplay".

Also on a side note, I cant agree that CoH2 deserves so many 5s in terms of gameplay.

How can it have 5s for stuff in gameplay, when literally in tournaments only 2 factions out 5 are played, with only 1-2 meta commanders out of dozen others, with the same fking builds every single game and on every single map. And the win factor is literally your RPM and knowledge of timings.

I have over 5000hrs in CoH2 and I wouldn´t use such strong terms, but yes, CoH3, for all the unfinished mess it is plagued with, certainly highlights many of 2s horrible issues in a pretty depressive way

Newcomers, fresh and new to the series, will never be able to understand how euphoric it is to be able to actually flank, soft-retreat, or decap territory neighbouring the enemy base in a 4vs4 match later than 3 minutes into the game, knowing that if you retreat on time, you may not be evaporated on the way home by a blob that´s defending a bunch of self-spotting, homing, pinpoint accurate arty pieces