Profile of Rosbone

I take it no one has had issues with this being seen a a cheat and being banned. Cool.

I recently sat and thought what exactly is the threshold for many people to start coming back to Coh3.

SCENARIO:
You are a newly appointed manager at Relic. The game has failed to some extent. What will you focus on now to get people excited to play?

If you read Steam, you will probably want to add more content. If you read Steam/Reddit, you will think balance is off. You come here and you may think Coh3 is fine because it is mostly 1v1 player based, which seems to be playable right now.

I am a simple 4v4 MP person so my TOP 5 in order:
1) More maps. Community or otherwise.
2) Fix the disappearing stats page.
3) Make kill counts visible, not hover based.
4) Adjust the voice lines so they are not so dominant.
5) Fix the rendering pipeline. Specular lighting, gamma, etc.

Relic is having to filter a lot of noise right now. What do you think is really the problem with Coh3?

They seem to have a pretty good handle on things announcing new maps etc. The slow pace has many people worried, but what can you do.

You have a certain gift for underscoring the weaknesses. I don't know for how long this site lasts before some young blades finally seize the initiative and start their own site with an up-to-date board.(Discord does not count). I was sorry to see you had to leave staff, but I can see why it happened.

I appreciate the kind words. I know most people see me as toxic, but it comes from a good place. I would love nothing more than to shut the hell up and play Coh3.

And you are right, I hope people are not too beat down from layoffs.

Journalists are a joke, so it is up to the people to voice the negativity.

This. This is the answer. All of those 8/10 ratings from journalists are complete garbage. There is no one left to hold anyone accountable. Only the negativity of users.

To be fair to the journalists, they probably are not hardcore RTS or Coh fans. So I could almost forgive them. And most likely they were told the same lies we were. Its gonna be great, we will fix all of this stuff before release.

Not sure how anyone could score 8/10 for an alpha release game. Unless they only played thru the campaign for a few minutes and it didnt crash or bug out. First skirmish or multiplayer you get smacked in the face with a disappearing stats screen. Which has to be the worst bug of all time. Thats like Programming 101 stuff. 8/10. WTF?

Most reviews are people who have played the previous games.

So you get 4 reviews:
- Positive - Game is unfinished but its fun to play.
- Negative - Game is unfinished, do not give money for unfinished games.
- Negative - Game is trash, missing features, maps, etc. Sucks compared to Coh2.
- Negative - Game is trash. Unhinged reason like I lost to Pgrens once.

Basically 90% of reviews are a negative reaction. Even the positive reviews. If I was a casual, I would not buy this game after reading ANY reviews. Good or bad.

But this off-topic stuff speaks to other games. Another reason why I like to hear what other users are playing. I look at most games, search bad reviews and decide not to buy the game. Even games with a high percentage of positive reviews. There is always one nugget of data that makes me say nope.

I miss the good ole days where you bought a game on disc with no option of update. The game had to be good and it never changed. If someone said "Its good" you knew it. Now, it was good 6 months ago but now it has microtransactions out the ass so its trash. So you never know if its good or bad.

Do game companies rely on this uncertainty now? Sure, push out some unfinished trash as long as its good eventually we will be fine.