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This thread seems to be very toxic.

It´s a matter of taste i guess.

At the beginning I really hated CoH2 because it wasn´t the game I wanted it to be. I don´t hate it anymore but I doubt I will ever like or even play it and I think this is because of three points.
- I don´t like the comic like art style at all and it’s really hard to play game which appearance you dislike.
- The hardware optimization is nonexistent. Playing a game without the necessary amount of FPS and micro lags is a pain. And I don´t even got a bad pc.
- But the most important thing is the engine. I dislike the fighting system, it feels unrealistic and unpredictable. CoH1 did this way better. Pop cap, upkepp / income system, Resource System, tech tree, doctrines, retreat mechanic, all this was way better in CoH1 then it is in CoH2. CoH2 unifies and simplifies way too much. Today the US vs WH balance is really good in CoH1 (yes I know, Relic needed years to get to this point) and there are plenty of viable strategy’s. PE and even more brits are still unbalanced. I doubt the will ever be. Especially the brits don´t work fine with CoH1´s engine. They are poorly designed and unfinished. CoH1 went for the worse with OF and ToV and sadly CoH2 continued this trend.

To sum it up, Relic toke away many good thinks (some of them represent CoH), unified some mechanics and introduced some good and some bad new stuff. If you like this stuff CoH2 is your game.

That’s what I think.

This might make some bring out the pitchforks, but one mechanic I actually think DoW2 got better than CoH2 was removing base building.

One of the reasons why i stopped playing DoW2 was the removing base building. It´s a bad idea to remove something which represents a franchise.

The ranking system is important to most players - maybe even especially the basic ranking system. Why? Most players are casual players playing basic games. The majority of the player base. Sadly some top players, like Lucky, feel superior and elitist and don't recognise/understand the problems "common" casual players experience.

Not sure if you talk about the same thing.

NoLuckyStrike refers to the 1v1 or 2v2 (AT) ladder and the current problems but there is and never was such thing as a public ladder for basic games or am i wrong? But there was hidden ladder so i assume you refer to the basic game ranks? Personally i don´t miss them but i missed 2v2 AT which is maybe totaly unimportant for a basic game player. Still, from my point of view it´s something which belongs on Relic´s do to list. Especially since you are right, the most players are casual players.

But it´s funny the skill based pecking order is still intact:
comp stomper < lobby gamer < 2v2 rr players < 2v2 AT & 1v1 players

btw
Top Players are superior and elitist since they play better. Thats why the are called Top Players.

Is it me or does this statement make no sense? The system could not care less how "skilled" top ranked players are - it only cares about their win/loss against others and then some.

If you take his sentence literally then you are right. It´s not important how much skill player x has, just the position on the ladder is important since CoH uses an ELO based system. For the system it´s important how how often you win and against whom you win. The higher a player is ranked the more ELO points you can if you beat him.

And thats the point. There are not enough players and there are not enough good players these days which makes it hard to climb the ladder. Take a look at the Wehrmacht 1v1 ladder. The first page includes about 4 BkModTest smurf Accounts. Since he can hardly paly with more then one account the same time you can´t beat him so you won´t get ELO points. Furthermore no worthy means no funny playing the game so you stop. And there is the next dead account in the ladder which will never lose some points. These are just two reasons why, about 6 months since the ladder reset, there is not a single lv 16 player.

Nowadays it´s really easy to climb the ladder. Some weeks ago i played half of a sunday and stopped playing after i reached #3 at the 1v1 US ladder. And i never had a better level then 15 in the pre steam era. That much about the players skill.

Vcoh pop cap didn't stop anything.

Thats wrong, Sir.

How can you or any other explain why in vcoh blobs were used even more extensively that in COH2?

From my experience its about equal. Depending on the current meta game of course.

Paras blobs, Rangers blobs, Grenadiers blobs. And let's not forget the powerfull british blob. The most efficient.

CoH1´s upkeep / income system is brilliant idea. General speaking. And i am sad it wasn´t implemented in CoH2. Since the popcap system is also gone there are two important monitoring mechanisms missing.

I never saw a Paratrooper or Ranger blob and i am an active CoH1 Player since 4 years. In fact these two units provide a good example that the system actually works since they are to expensive in matters of upkeep and reinforce costs (and popcap aswell) to spam them.

The system works nice in a US vs WH matchup. But it never worked for PE or Brits. Which is one of the reasons why British blobs work (there are several others of course, Lui Boni / Vet for example). But with some testing am sure it would be possible to make it work for OF factions as well. And for CoH2 too. But we will never know, Relic won't consider such a huge chance.

To be honest a gren blob isn´t actually a problem in the current sniper dominated meta game.

I think i don´t need to say anything about the popcap system. It´s just bad in CoH2. Popcap should depend on the amount of sectors you control.

In this two cases Relic chose the easy way. And sometimes the easy way comes with a price someone has to pay.

I have a input lag on regular basis since the very begin. CoH2 seems to have problems with some hardware configurations. That´s my only idea since my internet works perfectly fine and i never had any problems with other games.