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I dismissed the Russians bashing and even blacklisting CoH2 as simple idiocy, I mean, anyone playing CoH for any time knows that it had great storylines, and good historical accuracy, and no real mention of crimes for either side, but of gameplay and BATTLE history. but then after actually starting single player for CoH2, seeing clips of it, and knowing more about history than relic apparently, I understand fully their concerns and outrage, and the last 10 threads or whatever that got locked are full of ignorance. I honestly can't believe this. If I was Russian I would boycott this game and hope for relic to go bankrupt or at least atone for this nonsense....
The "russian that looks like Justin Bieber" was right. Holy crap. I feel dirty and ashamed to even be associated with the game now.
Bracing for flames, ban and lock, but whatever, I had to get this off my chest. This would be like Relic rewriting CoH1 to follow the airborne to Audouville-la-Hubert where they massacre unarmed surrendering germans, or maybe a new DLC expansion to Sicily where we can follow the 45th infantry division and watch a the main characters murder 73 italian and german prisoners?
Ok, so these were in fact isolated incidents? Ok, so were the ones in CoH2, not only fairly isolated incidents, but also still very poorly portrayed and nonsensical which puts russian soldiers pretty much as the enemy of humanity, the nazi hoard destroying the whole country and killing millions is just a sideshow to relic I guess...and to fight the germans was just to take a picture at the reichtstag, not in defense of their country that had been invaded. Maybe they made a gamble that the german player base is more important for the game than the russian playerbase, but why even cater into the nonsense? Why not just portray the hardships of war for all, in a FAIR way?
Maybe when no one cares about the german CoH community anymore we can have some German DLC where we can run the camps and be an SS officer hanging wehrmacht deserters in 1945, perhaps kill some americans at Malmedy? Portray the entire german military as thugs, criminals, rapists, and murders just as the russians are portrayed? Even though a fair look at history shows all nations were guilty of war crimes, but warcrimes by frontline soldiers for ALL nations, including russia and germany, were far and few between considering the amount of battle taking place.
Oh, and before I hear that I am some pinko-Communist, (btw, communism is one of the worst plagues the earth has seen) or that "well, the russians really did kill people, did you know about holodomor or Katyn", no duh, but this is a war game, and RTS, not a political history class lecturing to me about the ills of the Red Army. The whole storyline of coh2 seems based on not a company of heroes, but a company of criminals, thugs, deserters, and murders. COH was supposed to be about battle, not politics or criminal activity.
What if the Eastern European devs at warthunder made some single player missions as US and Brits to burn innocent german, and italian civilians alive, zooming in on the houses as the women and children run out on fire, then another mission where the US nukes japan and shows the carnage of all these Japanese civilians, and then show the red airforce being the gentlemanly hero about it all on the other front? That's how it must feel like from the Russian perspective, only the events in question in the game are truly misrepresented and manufactured to top it all off! ABSURD!!!!
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