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Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...4 Feb 2015, 23:44 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2015, 23:28 PMnigo 8 new maps from AA in custom games + 4 from community maps + Red ball Express = 13 make it happen Mr. Duffy Woah! That's how rumours start. In: Lobby
Thread: Are there any RTS games coming with great potential ?4 Feb 2015, 23:41 PM RTS is a niche, but has the potential to be a very compelling, decent-sized niche. My first serious non-Amiga games were all RTSs. Warcraft, C&C, Friday afternoons at work playing Warcraft 2 (the sound of bloodlusted ogres will never leave me) and Red Alert. Loved them. Still do. There are challenging pressures on many game genres - stagnation in innovation/sequelization feels like it's turning people off the big games a bit, audiences that are aging and have other things to do (kids and stuff), the requisite time consumption of RTS gaming, 'new' genres like MOBAs or the WoTs, mobile gaming... But there are some standout hold-outs. The Total War series does really well, we're certainly not chopped liver, SC2 maybe isn't living the high life of old, but still pulls them in. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...4 Feb 2015, 23:02 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Feb 2015, 22:23 PMNapalm I'm going to break my own rules and submit another question. Whats going on with multiplayer maps? There were some maps added for a community spot light and a couple added during the AA release that can only be played in custom games. Can we expect these to be added to the normal map pool sometime? How about additional community created maps like Red Ball express (which is AMAZING)? We'd like to work those into automatch. We were just talking about it the other day in fact. More to come. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:50 AM Hey guys - heading home for those hotdogs I mentioned. Have a good weekend. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:48 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2015, 21:12 PM5trategos WTF does Oorah mean? There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their heads from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother... Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:44 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2015, 20:28 PMImagelessbean What units do you consider to be under preforming, which over, and which are currently doing their job well? For those that are UP or OP what is your plan with these units? Is it possible to have 3v3 and 4v4 run with a standard mod developed by Relic to help address balance issues without throwing 1v1 and 2v2 completely out of whack? What is the time table to address problems with maps? Why not just increase drop rate on war spoils and call it done? Why spend huge amounts of resources fixing a problem that could be addressed in one line of code? Currently the micro required to play as Allies is much higher than for German, are there any plans to address this and how? These were the ones I thought of right now. I would be interested in answers to any of these. These are all interesting questions. I think the unit thing is too big to cover in terms of specifics. We know what units are underutilized and I'd like to see a broader use of more units in general. I also know which ones don't quite satisfy my historical itch, but that might be very different in focus than purely balance. I honestly see balance come alive in variety. Whether you call that an active-meta or whatever, I like to see lots of variety. 3v3 and 4v4 scale very differently. The idea of a mod is interesting, but I honestly don't know what the impact would be. We're looking into map balance and increasing the automatch pool. Drop rate increase...not quite that simple. We're looking at a few options right now and we're hoping to test some changes shortly. The micro thing and concentration of power concept between Allies and Germans is a very interesting challenge. I think there are a number of possible solutions (design and technical) to consider. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:36 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2015, 13:37 PMscratchedpaintjob if you could go back to the beginning of coh2-development, which design decisions would you change and why? Geez, that's a tough one. Games are a product of their times and the chemistry of the teams making them and that's often where you get those little bits of magic. You also get scars and you get experience and I don't think I'd give that up. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:31 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2015, 08:23 AMJohnnyB What time is it? Miller time. In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:30 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2015, 05:24 AMNatural When will we have replay ability like SC2. APM/rewind/etc. Just copy them, seriously. Rewind is incredibly challenging with the way our simulation works. . In: Lobby
Thread: If you could ask Relic one question...31 Jan 2015, 02:27 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Jan 2015, 01:38 AMpigsoup chance for an implementation of side armours? Slim. It does a decent job of providing flanking opportunities and making tanks more interesting in combat. Adding side armor is possible, but I don't think the benefit would feel that tangible. In: Lobby