Profile of omn1vor

While I do agree with NuVion's last post, there's one big opinion missing in this thread. I'd like to know what Magpies thinks about mirrors.

Best wishes to Relic under the new bosses. SEGA looks like the lesser evil indeed.

I don't know if it's interesting for the bulk of the community, but: there is a good historical series about the eastern front. It's Russian (and Russians are heavily biased on the WW2 subject, that's a fact), but I find it refreshingly neutral and facts-driven. And it's very detailed. Plans, facts, numbers, archive videos, reconstructions, personal notes of the participants - the coverage is very good. For the western majority of our community it might be a great thing to watch while waiting for the game.

I wanted to ask some senior members of the community to take a look at this and, in case you liked it, maybe we could translate it? It's helluva lot of work and I have no experience whatsoever for this, so I can't even say it's possible. That's another matter for your opinions.

It would be great to have feedback from other Russian players on this as well.

Link for the first part (of 18) on youtube

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Just because I wrote "Starcraft" in my post doesn't mean I want CoH to be a SC clone.
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<some 'I'm-the-only-one-who-understands-the-game' shit>

I'll ignore the shitty parts for now and wait till you grow up.

As for the rest - it's just that starcraft is mentioned very often in this discussion. Maybe too often.
My point boils down to this: if Relic allows mirrors and makes mirror maps, it would be steps towards SC, not just steps towards some e-sports requirements.
Why can't CoH be itself (very asymmetrical game, both factions- and map-wise) and still be good for competitive purposes? The problem with BO1s and maxVP-choices can be solved by putting more effort into map-making and longtime support. FFS, given the appropriate man-hours budget you can make north ango playable for wehr and north langres playable for amis, no need to be genius to do that. If (at least) ranked maps allow both factions to play with even odds of success, the old tourney system will work nice.

What CoH2 needs for the competitive purposes is:
1) balance (and constant support)
2) tools (spectator mode, modern replay system, after-game analysis, modern matching system)
3) uniqueness of gameplay.

And there is no NEED for mirror matches.

Splitting the community is far worse than having mirror matches. It's not a way to go. The question for me is "can they do a balanced enough (for ivory tower dwellers) asymmetrical game?" If the answer is "Yes" then I'm strongly against mirrors for the reasons stated already. If "No" - well, that's sad.