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Jump back to quoted post28 Oct 2015, 12:25 PMKyleAkira

I personally think that soviet campaign is really boring and dull.

What made me buy that game was the USA campaign of Coh1. I remember I downloaded a pirate copy of the game and I tested it by playing the campaign, I got amazed (specially the mission in where you had to deffend a city from german waves and you had 5-10 minutes to get ready before the invasion). That made me buy the full game and expansions, and after that, continue with Coh2 franchise.

Jump back to quoted post28 Oct 2015, 12:10 PMSkinner

Wehrmacht is the most balanced faction currently, still very competitive without having any too OP units.
The problem is that all the other factions have some obviously over-performing units now , like Kv8, LeiG, pak Howie, Centaur etc. But those are getting fixed/adjusted soon, so future looks good.
It's also the closest resemblance to its CoH1 equivalent of all, wide array of units, reliance on combined arms.
The main difference with CoH1 is that there is no bought vet, and Wehrmacht is not as strong late game, but early game is stronger now and game performance is more evenly distributed overall, no win early for allies or survive late to win for axis.

Jump back to quoted post28 Oct 2015, 11:48 AMferwiner

Wehrmacht is a solid choice, when used correctly it is the best faction in game in any game mode now. The problem with it is that it plays completely different than any other faction, only brits are kind of similar. That means it's somewhat hard to master thing but if you have solid coh1 wehrmacht experience you should get it quickly.

Btw there are a few major differences between coh1 and coh2:
1. Capping circles instead of flags mean you can stay in cover during capping or even cap with set up mg, mortar or AT gun.
2. Camo works only in cover, you cannot camo a sniper in the open field any more.
3. There are no zombie squads that come out of medic facilities, you can heal units but not ressurect them.
4. Commanders are linear and unlock abilities by themselves once you lock them.
5. Units gain vet for delt/got damage not for kills.
6. Infantry snares do engine crit only if after the damage snare does tank has less than 80% of hp. It means you need to hit them first with something else or another snare if you fight any medium or heavy tanks. Snares also usually hit even if you run out of range, to avoid them you need to stay out of range.
7. Produced units also come off map instead of coming out of buildings.
8. You can reverse vehicles without clicking 2 meters behind them.
9. Vehicles can get abandoned and recrewed just like any other weapon.
10. You can vault fences.
11. Team weapons can't be killed while manned, you need to kill the crew first.
12. You can decide what direction should your mg face while it is in a building manually.\
13. Army size cap is static and set to 100.
14. Because of the static army cap strategic points wont give you more of it, instead they also give some muni and fuel.

Well that's it. I may have missed sth but this is definitely the solid overview on differences. Gl on the battlefield!

Jump back to quoted post28 Oct 2015, 11:12 AMKyleAkira

You can't compare a 5 years of balance in Coh1 vs 2 years of "balance" in coh2. Of course Coh1 is better in terms of balance but I am happy to have moved to coh2, reasons:

1- Playerbase: Coh1 playerbase decreased due to coh2 launch.
2- Cheating: On the last year before Coh2 released, the coh1 game was full of cheaters, drophack and maphack was often used. One thing I appreciate is that from 1000 games I could have played, only 10-15 I found a drophacker/maphacker.
3-New variables to add in strategy. The new concepts of Vaulting fences,true sight (I love it for ambushes),snow/ice (I don't like it that much but is a variable) makes the game more fun, I hated in coh1 when you only had to do a bike for scouting through hedgerows and walls.
4-Vet system deppends on the unit conservation, I hated the pay 2 vet system from werh coh1.
5-Live game replays, you can watch the high rank players playing online and it's a great feature to learn how to play.

The game still have failures, specially in balance, but they are working into it, axis may feel you weaker if you compare them with coh1 but they are challenging, I really think that this game deserves a try.