Profile of Rosbone

if you make bad teching choices you're going to open yourself up to nasty counter play options that you can't really defend against.

Can you expand on this?

This is why I never play 1v1. You just want to have fun and pick a fun commander, but instead you get punked because you didn't try to guess what the enemy was going to pick and pick to counter it. So you get stuck playing some lame commander you don't want to play at all.

That is the opposite of fun to me personally. I can see the benefit of it in a 1v1 chess match though.

wanted to share my screenshots

Yes, I was not complaining. Lots of cool shots in there indeed.

I still cant believe this is how Coh3 will look when released. I wont believe it. As I stated, if it looks like this on release Relic should die as a company.

The textures themselves look much better than Coh1 or 2. Much more detail and variety. Object variety looks better. All of the things that will make this game pop much more to everyone playing it.

The limiting factor is the washed out renderings and the horrible color choices.

As I stated above, the graphics look like they are being heavily fogged. So all colors are being blended to the fog color. So everything pixel on the terrain is a version of RGB(128,128,128). This makes it very hard to make out units and everything lacks punch.

There is also a whole part of the rendering pipeline missing: Specular. This is the thing that adds shine to reflective objects. I have only noticed Specular highlights on windows in Coh3. This is why all of the vehicles look like dust covered plastic.

I think when the final version appears, Relic will turn off the fogging and add the specular back in. And when they do things will look glorious.

If I still see ugly green text on the points when released I will have to assume the company has been taken over by 3 year olds who are just learning colors. And no one should buy the game. That is the canary in the coal mine.

EDIT: Note that both the Fog and Specular are things that are edited on a per map basis in the worldbuilder. At a minimum, custom made maps have the chance of looking good.

The only hope for release is that they are showing an old build on purpose. So there is more pop and excitement when it finally releases.

I have not played it, but downloaded it to examine the graphics. The image histogram shows that every map is using a dense fog. So all colors are being pulled to the fog color. In a bright day scene there is not a color anywhere over 150 brightness generically. This has to be intentional because every picture on the Steam page looks amazing.

The weird green text on point flags looks like someones kid did the graphics for them. No longer are we seeing nice white/black contrasted UI sprites. But these bland horrible colored garbage. This has to be on purpose. There is no way this got out the door unless it was done on purpose to lessen the pop.

My guess is a good many things will be fixed upon release. If they are not, I would not even bother buying this game because Relic are so disconnected from reality they dont deserve a dime.

Sadly, that has been my fear all along with my few workings with them. They live in a "Relic is cool bubble" and cant see that we are throwing them a life raft to save them.

The crowd goes silent as Rosbone steps up to the microphone to address the peoples of Coh2 land. Lets take a listen....

The absolute stupidest thing of all in Coh2 that should not be in Coh3..... Rosbone

[cheers]

The crowd likes that one. Rosbone sure knows what the free peoples of Coh2 land wanted to hear and he has not hesitated to say it. I have not seen a crowd this happy since the launch of Coh1. This is an historic moment I shall not forget and will be telling my grand children I was there. I was there.