Profile of Protos Angelus

Lots of anecdotal experience being applied to everyone else.



88 games.

My personal experience is pretty in line with Sander's. I have noticed a fair amount of unranked 4v4 teams consisting of the same high level players and a smurf - it seems their sole purpose is to bash lower ranked players. Arranged teams should still have their games made via individual account elo.

88 games in matchmaking. Of course I don't play a lot of it. Custom games are my thing since automatch is dead for me.

EDIT: I average at 2 ranked games per week, rest is custom games with identical ranked setups since I can control the variable location much more there. Eg. As a host I ask if there is anyone from east Asia or Australia or US (you get the jest). First I played automatches before US Expansion on a different account and was quite good at it, games were balanced and there were no huge skill differences (shame you can't see overview of each games, you'd get what I mean. My teammate and I score 45k dmg while our 3rd players scores 11k with 50- kills and 150+ deaths). Lately the game quality went to the sewers to have a swim. Either the latency is 3 sec min or the skill difference is colossal.

I do not think that it will ever be fixed and I honestly do not care. COH2 has been dead for quite time now for me so all this talk about imbalance here and imbalance there and OP this, OP that is non of my business. If you don't believe what I say, fine, it's your right and I won't argue with anyone here. For me, the summa-summarum of this thread is that I agree with the OP.

Yeah I don't know why people say this. The game is 7 years old and still in the Steam top 100 active players list.

The only RTS games with more players are Age of Empires 2 and Total War: Warhammer 2. For non-steam games, there's probably Starcraft 2 also (seems like 2 is a successful number for RTS).

Amazing achievement, to be honest.

EDIT: Okay, you ninja'd me with the Steam player numbers. My question would remain, how can you call it dead when it's the 3rd most popular RTS on the list? And why treat Asian players differently? There are Americans also, I find it possible to get a game in any mode pretty much 24/7, that's an advantage of an international player base. Go play Steel Division, HoI4 or whatever and you'll see what it's like having to log on at a specific time and still wait for 30 minutes.

I'm treating them geographically-differently. I have nothing against Asians. I only have against their location with respect to mine and server's. One US/Asian/Australian/South American/South African will set my latency to at least 3 seconds. That's it. That is why I do not like playing with/against them. Purely technical reason. Being top RTS game in a time when RTS games are dying is not really an achievement. COH2 is an amazing and (was) popular game. And of course it's aged well.

And for the record. I play in the evenings and I have noticed that people don't usually care about the time. I'm guessing the playerbase is younger. I've played vs Koreans when it was around 5 AM at them (and Japanese and Australian...).

It's a pretty much dead game. Most people play vs AI and the ones that do play online are long gone. I myself play automatch less and less. Since I like teamgames because of the asymmetry, I seldom get good games in 3v3 mode. You'll either steamroll the enemy team or you'll get teammates that are "super casual" players. No in-between. You would need a prearranged team but in Europe, it's hard to find. And last but not least, the network problems (at least for me). If I get into a game where there is one outside-of-Europe player, welcome 4000 ms ping (4 sec delay in commands)

Regret you weren't here, when axis bois kept screaming HMG42 was bad, because when soviets stole it, it was impossible to counter during first 6 months after release.

achpawel can't even refute arguments anymore, he just repeats the same things for last 5 pages and if someone completely shoots down his argument, he just repeats it more times.

That's not even stubbornness anymore, that's plain denial of reality.

I went through the thread. Some people really do believe their brain is a God's gift to the world. It's not new to be biased...we all are to some extent but some of the arguments here.... My God... It's like that

Basically this thread is this meme one reply after another.

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  You can find it on 3v3 US.
  I was top 25 in first 20 (had 19 wins 1 lose in first 20 games in the mode) games then a losing streak of 11 games sent me to position 230 and now I oscillate between 200 and 300 depending on the team/lag. Only "recently" switched from standard custom games to standard automatch games.

This is what I'm getting match after match. So I'm seriously thinking of quitting the automatch.