Profile of SShaker

IDK if anyone else noticed this but it was almost the first thing I noticed when I got into my first game. When you hover your cursor over a squad, their models go into what looks like the cloaked state. They become sort of transparent. I guess it's to help people select the right squad but I hope we have the option to turn it off. It confuses me more than anything, especially for snipers because I'm not sure when they are cloaked or not (if someone can explain this that'd be good). Like can snipers move a bit when cloaked if they are moving in cover the whole time ?

I can't remember who mentioned this, and upon playing I noticed this as well, but you can no longer manually pick off specific units in enemy squads. It was a way too give you more control over your sniper in CoH1 by targeting the gunner of an MG squad or the stray rifleman while they capped a point (to keep your sniper at maximum distance). I hope it's just an oversight and that Relic can restore the feature. Unless someone can provide a valid explanation to the change, I don't think removing control like this is a good way to go.

I feel compelled to step in to avoid false information being spread. Both Grenadiers and Conscripts have 6 as their population count. The only unit that has a lower population count than it's direct counterpart are the pioneers with a population count of 5 versus the 6 of the combat engineers, which is understandable since they do not perform as well.

Thank you sherlock I was just about to rectify this. I like you.

Edit: might as well add something more relevant to the topic. At first I thought upkeep was really bad. After reading a bit, I decided to withdraw my previous opinion and attempt to adapt my play style. After playing more games as Ostheer, I don't find it as bad anymore. Sure I can't invest in T1 as much as I'd like and I feel you're forced to tech ASAP which reduces your strategic options. I don't think it's viable to stay in T2 and rely in paks for AT for example (good or bad thing, idk). Maybe as the game changes some more, a different pace will be established and more strategies will become viable.

I am enjoying the game though.

Although I agree about the sector "problem", luckily as someone mentioned on the Sega forums, and I think they brought fourth a valid point, the better maps are made by the community. So people will be able to fix these problems themselves (putting in more dedicated fuel/ammunition points, less of those new strategic points and more cut off points).

Basically I'm saying don't worry about that too much, especially since the two 1v1 maps we have access to in the beta are average in my opinion (though I am getting used to them).

Hey guys. I agree with all of this, I just want to mention that now territory sectors don't give a manpower per minute boost like they used to in CoH1. I think they problem is there but I guess fixing that would be too big of a change for Relic and simply adjusting the values is a quicker potential fix.

I however strongly prefer playing with the sector values for 2 main reasons: (1) it rewards you for controlling the map and (2) makes cutting your opponent off all the more important/rewarding.

Picture it like this: You have a mid-sized army of let's say IDK, 60 population, so your upkeep leaves you at is 300-(60-25)*4=160 mp/minute. With the old system, you'd have more MP income because of the controlled sectors, which was I believe +3 MP per sector? Anyhow, you get the drift, the effect of your upkeep on MP income is lowered, leaving you with 200 MP/minute. Now you get cutoff and you fall to 160 MP/minute, now you actually have to reclaim your cutoff to be able to properly reinforce tech.

^This strategic aspect (which imo CoH partly revolved around) is now completely gone .