Profile of Fanatic

1. We announce stuff when details are finalized, and things are locked down/fully known. I definitely know that you guys want more information in advance. In this case, the time slot was up in the air for quite a while so I was unable to pre-announce any further that we did.

In former times Relic CM´s promissed many things, the most wont become true so the chance their policy. Better say nothing then say something wrong. Maybe there is nothing they can tell us know, maybe the don´t work on a patch. Sometimes there is just nothing to say.

Plus Relic seems to focus on their forums now.

Sure, it would be interesting knowing about Relics Roadmap but i wouldn't share such informations either.

I give Xcom credit for never leaving CoH1. Even after the release of CoH2 he stayed with CoH1 and continued streaming. Streaming sniping is bad, no doubt about that. But Xcom isn't exactly a innocent victim. There is a reason why those people do what they do and as long as both sides aren't willing to change their behavior and their attitude nothing will change.

Oh damn, i misunderstood the question. :-/

I had high expectations for Ardennes Assault. And in fact Ardennes Assault was a bit disappointing from me.

First of all a expected an actual campaign which means unique missions with unique objectives. Sadly there are many "dynamic mission" which is an euphemism for skirmish. And that sucks.

The MeaMap was also a big disappointment. Did someone of you play Dawn of War: Dark Crusade? This was the frist Relic game with a MetaMap. You chose one of 7 (7, not just 1!) armies and try to conquer the howle map. And the other factions, played by the ai, tried the same. There was a dynamic on this map. Territory was lost, reconquert and so on. The only way to beat a faction was to conquer there fortess. This mission where scripted with unique dialogs for each faction. So you wanted to play with all factions to know the howle stroy. There were also some Territories which over special boni. You need to fulfill specific objectives to conquer these Territories. You also had the requisition point mechanic which allows you to garnision convert sectors, or buy new units for your commanders honour guard. Sucess on the battlefield also gave you the chance to upgrade your commanders equipment. The only problem about this mechanic was the repetitiveness. You played on the same map severals times, sometimes as attacker, sometimes as defender.

I expected Ardennes Assault to be like DC, just better. Which means:
-i wanted more cool, scripted missions, playable from both sides as attacker and defender (not just as attacker and as US Army), maybe even maps which keep there status of destruction to represent that there was already a fight going on in this area
-i want my enemy to move around the MetaMap and try to beat me

I like the company mechanic and the fact you have to minimize loses. The briefings and intro´s are also very nice. But the MetaMap is just there, nothing happens on it since the opponent is nothing more but a punching ball. Okay, there are random events but they are nothing but props. Oh and yes, you have to decide about which territory you conquer in which sequence because oft he retreat mechanic but thats it.

Thats just not enough for 40 (!) Euro, considering i payed about 50 Euro for CoH2. And CoH2 had a singleplayer (a campaign, singleplayer missions, coop mission, skirmishes) and a multiplayer. Also DoW 1: DC cost around 50 as well and you got 2 new factions plus the campaign. I´d say 15 - 20 Euro would be ok, 40 are way too much. It should have been a part of WFA for this price.

I guess they are just part of the game files but are not in use. There is a lot of data trash in such huge programs.