Profile of Rosbone

LARGE CUTOFFS
One issue with Hill 400 cutoffs is how large they need to be. Since they have to stretch across the map to be cutoffs. This territory is constantly being contested and is congested with pathing blockers. So placing trucks, ambo's, and reinforcement bunkers in any of this territory is a bad idea.

The cutoff areas also favor the LEFT side of the map since both the North and South side have plenty of open clear area to place reinforcement items. The right side has a narrow road (north) and a cluttered area with tank traps (south). Placing any items from the right side = bad pathing thru that area from then on.

CUTOFF BATTLEFIELD
Add to this the fact that ALL of the fighting takes place in the cutoff/VP/fuel areas. So it is very hard to lock down an area compared to other maps. If you start to camp in these areas and they become contested you will not be able to reinforce and hold. Maybe that is a good thing, especially in a 3v3 format?

The other issue is how narrow the areas are near the cutoff areas. Since you will need to fall back thru here to heal, it is always a clusterf**k of units and poor pathing. And since there is a lot of cover items your units will clump meaning more wipes when the arty starts flying on your reinforcement point.

REALISM
The map accomplishes the feeling of being a real environment. Since it is not perfect and has environmental obstacles you need to strategize around. Sometimes this makes a map feel real. Sometimes it really annoys you to the point of a veto. Ironically since it was also talked about here, the opposite of this would be White Ball. Where it is so open that it stops feeling like a real place but makes playing on it much easier and more competitive. We need something in between that captures the best of both maps. For all of you soon to be Coh3 mappers.

Maybe this is why people tend to like playing on Red Ball and Hamburg even though they have other issues. They are open enough in the right places to set up a camp and clustered enough to also feel like real environments.

EDIT: Rosbone has legit concerns. He might not take the most diplomatic approach to getting his points across (lol) but it is in all of our interests that the matchmaking system is better than what COH2 currently offers. Defending it in its current state and accepting the status quo is effectively the same as saying "I don't care if I have to play against people that are hundreds to thousands of ranks better/worse than me" - you do you if you think that creates fun games.

Me when I tell people buying Coh3 is supporting Relics decision to abandon Coh2. They wont fix the match making but Holeee Sheet drop everything if some portrait has a couple of tiny S letters next to each other. Relic = worst management ever in any company ever. I personally hoped Duffy was the guy making the COH experience so bad. But he has left and here we sit. It is some other tard above him. He may have been an unsung hero fighting for us all along.

This mysterious tard who needs to be fired and is single handedly killing off the whole IP. Other games would kill to have the community Coh2 has with tourneys and streamers etc. Just insane that these so called "professionals" at Relic have no clue what they are doing in their jobs. Living in an echo chamber bubble is dangerous. Please someone at Relic out this weirdo so we can cancel their ass on social media and finally be rid of this cancer.

Hill 400 is stupid map. Right side tend be harder to pushing + defend the fuel/cut off in Northside while Left side is easier.

The left side north has a building that is much closer to the VP than the south building. We missed that issue when we patched the map last time.

The left side North also gets green cover right on the cutoff, where it is mostly yellow for the south. Another thing we could have tweaked a little more.

For reference here is an overhead shot of White Ball:


And here are some of the combinations of cutoffs that can be done. Generically the idea is to reduce camping on the fuel. And most maps reward control of the middle VP, again, to pull forces off the fuel area. And all Rosbone 4v4 maps have the double complete cutoff for Close the Pocket fun.

Lmao they sure are. But playing usf without them will give u cancer everywhere