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This is exactly how I felt after watching your stream for a few minutes once.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Sig worthy burn for sure. Although, I do wonder what does watching my stream have to do with the content of this thread? 90% of my stream is just my playing the game. Speaking of childish behavior.

another russian with buttheart...

I'm not russian...I'm also a big opponent of the very ideals of communism, and the soviets...I just really think the storyline was pretty stupid and missed the point of the whole war, to put it shortly.

Alright I'm super confused here, how is the campaign a misrepresentation of history again? It sounds to me like the OP is only upset because the Soviets were shown to have committed war crimes...just like every other nation during WW2. We shouldn't have to be shown the Germans doing the same thing, as it's already implied anyway, and it's something that is already shown time and time again in the game/movie industry.

Again, I have to ask, what has been shown that is so terrible and wrong, that it warrants complaint?

It's a misrepresentation because it took isolated incidents, threw them all together, then falsely reconstructed things that happened, and made it appear to be so rampant that you would be part of war crimes and murder for almost the entire single player. Killing your own population with flamethrowers? Killing your own men for saving an officer of your army? Murdering partisans that are helping you? Machine Gunning your own soldiers? Also, then there's the more ideological issues like the protagonist saying millions died for a picture of the unused, and thus unimportant Reichstag, I mean, that is beyond laughable at it's face.

This is all so crazy. I mean, it would be one thing to represent the "take no prisoners" attitude that occurred a lot on the east, but to do all these random, nonsensical, and criminal actions that didn't actually happen the way it was portrayed is just stupid. It's like someone at relic watched enemy at the gates and lived through the cold war...

How are you so confused about this? How do you portray the entirety of a 30 million man force as a bunch of cowards, criminals, murderers, and thugs, when the game was supposedly going to represent the harshness of the eastern front, and depict the soviets as protagonists against the invading nazi hoard. It's like the game gives all moral authority to the nazis ffs....

Think of the examples I mentioned earlier. They could have easily put war crimes in any theatre coh has covered, many by the allies, hell, why not depict us soldiers slaughtering unarmed german PoWs? Or using PoWs as human meatshields to clear land mines? Or murdering unarmed wounded? This happened to a much greater extent by the allies than we've all been told, so why not include this in COH?

It's not that the soviets didn't commit crimes, it's the fact that every nation did, and the entire fucking single player is a nonstop crime wave of murder and war crimes, meanwhile you're fighting an invader who is destroying your country and committing countless war crimes against you but there is nothing about that. Does not compute...does not compute....does not compute...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieuBkWHfCuc

I gave up on COH on release. I played through alpha and beta, on release I played for about a week before facepalming and uninstalling.


I recently just started playing it again for lack of anything better to do I guess. MVGame

Since they managed to condense the wartime experience of 30 million red army personnel in this quintessential industrial total war of the 20th century into 15 episodes of epic war crimes (notably depicting the duty of every soviet political officer as shooting my own troops in the head with a pistol, from Stalingrad all the way to Berlin). I was genuinely intrigued to see the way the relic writers were going to treat the nazi occupation of eastern europe in this game. We've had operation Barbarossa and case blue so far, although nothing remotely comparable has come out for the german side of the campaign. What does it say about these writers?

It says things I dare not say out loud for fear of being banned. What a joke. You know, maybe if the german DLC was equally as dark, with a logical german soldier trying to make sense of atrocities and prevent them, as well as showing similar, and indeed much worse atrocities as shown from the russian side, it would have led to some fairness. But still, there is no excuse for the complete misrepresentation of all those who fought and fell in the russian military, for the complete nonsense like burning your own citizens and soldiers alive, and executing your own men for things, of which, even in the maligned red army, would have won you HONOURS not an execution...like saving a trapped officer amidst a firefight. Laughable.