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Thread: Mod support15 Jul 2021, 17:11 PM There's mention of a toolsdata.sga in the files which might hint at possible modding tools either at launch or later like with CoH2. But yeah definitely CoH needs an upgrade to 64 bit as well along with mod workshop support instead of it just being with maps. Some fixes and balance issues being addressed would also be nice along with some new graphics but that's in the sphere of a remaster. CoH2 I only really wish for more expanded mod support since people will most likely be migrating over to CoH3 and the modding community is what has kept the original game and I would argue the series in general afloat all these years. In: COH3 Central
Thread: COH3- Vram issues15 Jul 2021, 06:25 AM Just a note that you've posted the specs about your RAM, not VRAM. Video RAM is what your video card has, you can quickly find what model of video card you have by going to the device manager and seeing the display device there to deduct the specs by the model. In: COH3 Central
Thread: CoH3 File digging14 Jul 2021, 17:52 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 17:33 PMGachiGasm Updated german units a bit. Nope. Its impossible to open them right now (at least without modifying them, which I dont know how, and it might not be even possible). I used hex to extract contents from them. Ah, because I remember people putting in CoH models in CoH2 before they disabled that and implemented the official modding tools. Thanks either way for the info. In: COH3 Central
Thread: CoH3 File digging14 Jul 2021, 17:27 PM Excuse me good sir but how did you gain access to the insides of the files? I'm guessing either you used CoH2's tools or Corsix to open up the .SGA files? In: COH3 Central
Thread: CoH 3 German Campaign!!14 Jul 2021, 14:54 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 11:32 AMBenKenobi Let's not kid ourselves, German campaigns were pretty common in RTS games. Panzer General, Sudden Strike 1 and 2, Blitzkrieg 1 and 2 or Axis & Allies to name a few of the important ones. I would even say not having a German campaign in an RTS game is an exception. Yes, however I would argue that they weren't as "mainstream" games so to speak as something like CoH, which I would say was highly popular for historical strategy fans. I myself have played Blitzkrieg and Blitzkrieg 2, however fewer people sadly know about them as they were made by Russian developers and were thus not as popular in the West as in the East. STALKER and the Cossacks as well as American Conquest series followed a similar trend, they were developed by some Ukrainian guys called GSC and never really took off in the West unfortunately even tho I would say they were some very brilliant games. Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 12:57 PMVermillion_Hawk Ah yes, I'm a socialist liberal (neither of those things) for saying that actual Nazis are attracted to World War II games. I thought this was fairly obvious but of course, if you ask around there are about as many Nazis here as the Nuremberg trials, thankfully because it has been obviously stigmatized to hell and back. It's funny because forums like these for World War II games are the last places that I see the myths about the Wehrmacht that were debunked by actual historians still spread around. Myths that were written by the actual SS and former high-ranking Nazis looking to avoid a noose and garner additional sympathy from their occupiers. Company of Heroes 2 got in trouble for its campaign which largely (save maybe burning its own soldiers alive) depicted actual atrocities that happened at some point or another in the Red Army over the course of the war, without touching on some of the real atrocities, as you've mentioned, also lovely things like using penal squads as human minesweepers, etc. I'd wager this game would get an equal amount of backlash if they realistically portrayed Rommel as a lucky opportunist and not 4D chess-playing Nazi Jesus as his popular portrait seems to make him out as, which was, mind you, part of that postwar propaganda which was encouraged by the British because it made them look better for beating him in North Africa when he didn't have a chance of winning it to begin with. And I love the "Wehrmacht wasn't racist" thing, pretty much every army was fucking racist to whatever degree, it's just the British wouldn't have turned their colonial troops into soap and candles if they didn't have a crippling manpower shortage. If you missed it that was intentional hyperbole by the way. For the record I don't really have a "side". I think, generally, the glorification of war is troubling, doubly so when it leads people, in whatever small ways, down the path of sympathy for an awful regime, whichever one. I also think the American army committed a ridiculous share of war crimes and incited a racial hatred against the Japanese that at least approached the level of Jews in Germany, but you see a lot fewer people reacting to that with denial or deflection as opposed to merely mentioning that some people harbour sympathy for the Nazis. I never called you socialist or a liberal, or both but okay I guess? I said that your socialist liberal education has gone to your head based on things that I've read about Canadian education and most recently, people being angry and breaking monuments for the tragic events of Canadian schools killing native kids which is not going to bring them back unfortunately, it's just trying to erase the history which I don't really agree with but I guess people don't really have anything else to direct their anger at. And yeah, WW2 and history is in general a hotspot for extremists, on both sides unfortunately. It's very rarely that you can have a civil discussion that's not full of bias or shit flinging from either side. Extremism, regardless on which side of the political spectrum it falls on, ends very badly as history has proven but that's something a lot of people seem to disregard and keep to it that they're right and that their views and their side are the right ones while the others are bad regardless of any evidence and historical proof. I also never said that the Wehrmacht wasn't racist, I'm just saying whenever I see somebody say they were while defending the Allies or Soviets, who also held contempt for the jewish people and called them capitalists, not to mention that they outright banned religion, but again this is rarely ever even mentioned for some reason. As far as you picking a side goes, again I never said that you did altho your comment makes it look like you're suggesting that only right wing extremists play and enjoy these games while in reality there are many nationalistic and extremist types also on the left that play and enjoy them but again, only the Nazis are ever mentioned. And I think that's dangerous because people grow up with these Hollywood like beliefs that life and the world work in absolutes and that things are black and white and not grey and complex as they are in reality. One example that I can give is actually as you said that of the 422nd Infantry Regiment of the US Army which was the only Japanese-American unit in the entire US military during the war I believe to serve in the war due to America's distrust towards the Japanese after Pearl Harbor happened and the segregation policies that followed. Roosevelt is often blamed for the US concentration camps set out for these people and this is never mentioned as well because many people want to believe that he was the good guy that established the "arsenal of democracy" and took America out of the great depression while in reality it was a bit different. I also find it ironic how after the war the Lend-Lease plan was turned against the US as the Soviets started lining up tanks between the East-West border that was set up in Europe. The West basically traded one dictator for another, arguably an even bigger and more cruel one as history shows. In: COH3 Central
Thread: CoH 3 German Campaign!!14 Jul 2021, 10:57 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 00:48 AMOrphan Very few games have you actually play as nazis in the campaign, so I doubt relic will buck the trend. Especially in campaigns that want to have characters and stories you can be sympathetic towards, which relic seems to want to do with coh3's CoH and Codename: Panzers were literally one of the first few RTS games that had a German campaign lol. CoH had the Panzer Elite campaign in Opposing Fronts telling about the German respective of Operation Market Garden, which I would say was a very huge failure on the Allies' part, particular in Monty's pompous mind that he could just drive a huge ass tank column on a single road with little to no resistance linking up paratroopers along the way up to Berlin instead of more supplies and support being diverted to Patton's 3rd Army which was the fasted Allied unit in the ETO but that's just my opinion I suppose, Britbongs still defend him regardless of any historical facts since they had no other national hero to rally behind besides Churchill. And then the Tiger Ace and Falaise Pocket campaigns in Tales of Valor, which talk about Villers Bocage and the encirclement of the 7th Army in Normandy. I guess the Germans became experts at encirclements because they did it to the Soviets almost constantly in the early days of the Eastern Front and then had to defend from encirclements of the Soviets later. Kiev for example is the largest encirclement in history up until now at least with more than a half a million Soviets encircled which dwarfs Stalingrad but hey, as Napoleon said, history is what the victors agreed on. You can read more about it here even tho there are probably better sources for it but I'm too lazy to get them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941) Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 04:55 AMVermillion_Hawk That's because Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists are naturally drawn towards WW2 fantasies where Germany is portrayed sympathetically or treated like they had a chance of winning. I think your socialist and liberal education has gone to your head my friend. Anybody that has gone to war or at least participated in a battle or any other sort of similar "competition" really will tell you that something can go one way or another at any certain point in time so it's not just black and white like you probably think that "Huhu German man bad cuz Nazy, Soviet man good cuz they beat German man". Here is a comprehensive list of Soviet war atrocities which are seldomly mentioned because it wouldn't fit the narrative of the Soviet propaganda portraying themselves as heroes while conquering half of Europe and wanting to conquer the rest as well but I guess you won't even bother reading it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes Why do you even think that the hammer and circle is drawn on the globe of the world, or is that just a coincidence? And I also think the starvation of Ukrainian citizens, invasions of Poland (twice), Finland and other countries, mass executions of all "non-believers" in the communist manifesto and overall treatment of civilians show that the Soviets weren't really any better and I would say were even far worse than Germany but again, this is an un-popular and controversial topic and thus any opinions on it as well. Hitler was a fool in believing in his thousand year Reich which as the Soviets also proved is very unrealistic, the USSR only lasting for around 80 years or so and the Nazis probably would have met the very same fate even if they won the war with political instability and power hunger in the upper upper echelons. So my point with all of this is that there are no good or bad guys, everybody has their own view points and are the good guys in their own story and the bad guys in the other guy's story and whoever says that only Germany or only the Soviets did bad things is very biased and that quickly becomes obvious. In general both sides were dictatorial regimes with power hungry lunatics in control of them that killed millions and only maybe the Western Allies can really plead to be the least guilty during the war with minimal war crimes and so forth, the US even rebuilding Western Europe with the Marshall plan. Altho it's also funny to see people calling WW2 Germany racists when they probably had the most multi-ethnic and racial military with many nations and races, even blacks and muslims, Asians and hell jewish people as well, homosexuals and so forth serving while the US Army was segregated until the 50s and have you seen a non-white officers from the aristocracy in the British Army during the war as well? Hypocracy and propaganda have no bounds and it's important to be able to look at things from different perspectives and view points to get the best possible picture instead of just taking a single side and sticking with it because that honestly makes a person very ignorant if nothing else. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Fans have been playing Company of Heroes 3 for years14 Jul 2021, 10:26 AM CoH always looked and felt a bit better than CoH2 in how it played, at least to me that is. There's something about that art style and more gritty feeling from the 2000s that really did it. I mean the game still has around 2000 people playing it daily and it's like, 15 years old now. Not a lot of games can boast with that at that age which I think is proof in itself. Of course many people are playing mods as well out of those 2k so again, modding and the community behind it are big parts of CoH. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Am i playing Warpath or some mobile game?13 Jul 2021, 22:34 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2021, 21:11 PMpvtgooner how and where do you see cartoons? All I can see is brighter coh1. If you really zoom in the colors become more saturated and start looking more cartoonish for some reason, at least for me. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Am i playing Warpath or some mobile game?13 Jul 2021, 20:15 PM CoH definitely had darker and grittier graphics compared to CoH2 where they were more saturated. But to be honest CoH3 seems to go back to CoH's graphics rather than pushing them to something as cartoonty as AoE4 from the looks of things. Altho yeah the campaign did look a bit like Total War: Rome II's campaign or a modern day mobile game one for one reason or another. We'll see tho, only time will really tell as it's still pre-alpha as others have already stated. In: COH3 Central
Thread: CoH 3 German Campaign!!13 Jul 2021, 20:12 PM Notice the German dudes on the right in the desert with the pyramids? Plus with the teaser at the end with Rommel, most likely the German campaign will be set in Africa yeah. In: COH3 Central