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We've always curated the automatch map pool, going back to vCoH. Many of the maps while excellent fun are not suited to competitive play.

It was a design mistake to show you which maps that we curated out of the pool in CoH2, as while there was rarely complaints about maps not being included in automatch in CoH there has been a lot of them in CoH2.

The idea of just giving people more vetos is great, but at the end of the day the number of maps that are suitable for competitive play in the game is always changing, and so are the number of unsuitable maps. We'd have to constantly be changing the number of vetos that people had.

Matchmaking would get slower as a result of having more maps vetoed and fewer overlap between what you and others are not vetoing.

Not only that but people would start eliminating themselves from automatch without realizing it. If the community consensus was that these X maps were great for competitive play and most people vetoed these Y maps, and then someone only selects Y maps they'll have a harder time matching with others.

Players have the right to play any map they want in other modes.

If there was a strong consensus in the community that we should just enable all maps for automatch, then we could. However my guess is that the majority of people of competitive players who care about ladder rankings and win/loss ratios would not like that in practice.

Sweet.

Update: Just a quick clarification to the prize of the autographed soundtracks. They're actually signed by Cris Velasco and (most of) the CoH2 development team not just Velasco.

Good to know one of the most requested features and one of the reasons many people are upset about this game is being "considered." MVGame

It's certainly a much requested feature here. It's not a priority for every user though.

You heard it here second. With the implementation of battle servers Relic will have the ability to adding a battle observer mode.

It's important to clarify that this is a potential new feature, not a promise for a new feature.

Edit: I'm not saying either way, I just want to avoid a situation where 9 months from now people are linking to this thread saying we lied.

DLC being available in ladder mode and tournaments is the primary reason. Everything else pales in comparison.

So would you participate in a tournament where only the base commanders were used?

For SNF we locked the Commander options to those already released and then gave the Commanders free to everyone who won in the first round so that everyone had the same options without buying them. That didn't get you to play.