I'm not putting the blame on anyone Basilone. Just try and comprehend written texts better before you decide to reply on them please.
Ipkai more or less blamed the death of CoH1 on the community not doing enough work, and you +1'd his post. So either you changed your mind now, or you didn't pay very much attention to what you were agreeing with. I'd wager its the latter, so maybe you should eat your words and comprehend better next time.
But seriously all it takes is a few good patches to fix flanking and all the more tactical related issues with the game. However the strategical problems are whats really holding the game back, and likely will never be addressed.
+1 to Ipkai
Just as Tommy and Fatal once used to do, put your backs into the game you love. Show us that vCoH is very much alive and kicking.
The game is dead, thats why they left. Its extremely ignorant when you, Noun, Ipkai, or anyone else try to put the blame on the CoH1 community for the games downfall because somehow we didn't support it enough. There were far too many tournaments to count years after release, tons of streamers/casters, new mods/maps, a flourishing fansite, SNF, and most importantly Tommy and Kolaris even made a patch for Relic that both improved the meta and solved a few of the bugs that were plaguing the game (Stags, M10 missfire, etc). And Relic basically said fuck you we aren't supporting this game anymore. There is no where else for that game to go in its current state of stale meta, game breaking bugs, lack of new maps in map pool, etc.
I find it hilarious how these guys are still hanging on CoH2 fansites and CoH2 streams even a year after release. Apparently they can't get enough of the thing they hate so much.
Actually, you couldn't be further from truth.
I've seen pretty much every streamer step over them more then once.
You know why?
Because good players are not AI and only AI can see the fields at all times.
Even good players can focus on so many things at once and its likely they will step on the field during engagement.
DanielD is a better player than almost, if not all of the popular streamers fyi. Maybe a few times someone hit his S-mines and didn't notice it, but just because some streamer you watch hits them often doesn't say anything because the caliber of "high level" CoH2 players is painfully low compared to people like Symbiosis, Aimstrong, DevM, etc.
What they need is a new player retention system, at least 3 tournament winners so far have called it quits (Aimstrong, Barton, and now Con). Anyone else I'm forgetting? Possibly CondemnationWings as well?