Profile of MajorBloodnok

I cannot understand why Relic permitted the Opel crush to progress to the game. I know many pointed out the results of this crazy, early exploit, but it still obtains.

Coupled with Kubelwagens and Fallschirmjaegers, where do Relic think they are going with this? This is only vs standard UI - but I have a point to make, and my micro is cr@p. So a better player will win faster against the UI - and still win against a harder AI

My point is that these trucks are an exploit which need to be nerfed.

IpKai is up a mountain in Wales, wearing his Tesco fleece, sweating. In a good way.

Ami: "Ipkai! Get down off that freaking mountain of yours! I need help right now with the OKW stats. "

Ipkai: "Ami!It's quite easy really. OKW have 5 levels of veterancy, and so I shall start by telling you how these apply to each OKW infantry unit....."

half an hour later.............

Ami:"You cannot do this to me, Ipkai. QD told me there are stories to be to be told. Good Grief! How can I tell their stories, without taking a masters in calculus?

Ipkai (smirking): it's quite easy really. BTW, do you like my Tescos fleece?

Ami:" Oh nooooeees....I just need observer mode, vet 3 Rifles, and Inverse, and I am good to go"

Inverse: " click.. click.. click... click...click....(croaky voice).......you were sayin', Ami?"


((((SPLASH))) Ami throws himself into the Berlin lido...........

Still going in circles, you can join the military for the money. Even if you take your oath very seriously and are loyal to your country, not very many people would have taken the contract if it was a non paying job. If this entire time you have been defining a mercenary as "A person primarily concerned with material reward at the expense of ethics" which is the very vague usage of the word and can be applied to someone of any profession, then technically you could be right, if you honestly believe no security contractors have any ethics. But according to usage which refers specifically to hired guns, you're wrong.

I think you may be wandering into murky waters.....

A mercenary is a hired gun who fights for money as his reward,irrespective of the cause. On that, I hope we can agree?

So,were the Mexicans mercenaries, who fought for the US in Fallujah, in the hopes of surviving and obtaining US citizenship and/or a sponsored college education?

Is the French Foreign Legion a band of mercenaries?

Are Commonwealth troops mercenaries, who are attached to UK regiments?

Were UK SAS troopers mercenaries, who were attached to the Australian SAS in order to to fight in Vietnam, when the British Army did not deploy there?

Are private contractors from USA or UK mercenaries, if they leave the army and then go back to fight alongside their former comrades?

I would say they were all mercenaries, but it is not clear cut

Actually not the same people at all. To set the record straight, coh2.org handpicked experts from the original game to provide private feedback for COH2 before it was launched, over a year ago. That same group (with some additions along the way) continued to give feedback throughout the initial patches and during SNF S5. That same group became so frustrated when Elite Troops and Soviet Windustry Pay 2 Win commanders were dumped into the game (the problematic commander DLC business model was one of our core complaints from the very start) that the relationship between that group and Relic degraded entirely. Relic then abandoned that group, and selected entirely different people to test the Alpha for WFA.

I probably shouldn't bother recounting all this, but I don't like to see wrong information spread about on this point.

I fully respect your evident transparency here,Ami. And so I am not going into detail, but...irrespective of how talented the chosen Pros may have been, it was not their game which they personally funded, it was Relic's amd Sega's. And it was always clear(to me,at least) that Relic were not in the business of promoting pros at that stage: what they were after (rightly or wrongly) was income and numbers. So for an elitist self-regarding consumer group to (once again) set up their stall and be demanding was,at the very least, naif....though others may say supinely arrogant

Relic appear to have succeeded on the income target, by all accounts, but their player base did seem to start to shrivel bcs of the various problems:the Russian mafia, the Commander hiatus, and perhaps most importantly, the evident lack of micro requirements in early/mid game which was missing until the pre Xmas patch.

Since when, ofc, the game has altered radically.

As for a degrading relationship with Relic, (especially considering the amazing generosity of the Relic hosting exercise in Vancouver), I would say many of the pros who felt they could take the cookies, then cut and run, have a hell of a lot to learn about loyalty, respect and commercial life. You have to take the rough with the smooth: I am certain you know that - it is a lesson you need to inpress upon the others.

tbh im quite patinet with everything bad about coh2: balance issues, dlc, no observer/modding, etc

but the one thing that will make me abandon it for sure, would be mirror matches in automatch. seriously...

I'm with you on this - as I suspect many on here are. But many e-sporters seem to covet the idea.