Profile of Hux

It depends what kind of films you're into. VCoH is cinema wise just game version of Saving Private Ryan, while coh2 has obviously more of real war cinematography.

By 'cinematic' I wasn't referring to any film in particular. The SPR/ Band of Brothers homages are obvious but I think you'll find even if you watch those films they themselves are pretty drab in terms of colour. What I meant was that VCoH had a much more 'intense' feeling to it's atmosphere than CoH2 which, in a word, is beige.

The 'Gimmick' of this faction should be based around rewarding combined arms (he says...) I'd like to see something like a small Bren squad that is similar in squishiness to Pathfinders but with like half the ability of MGs to supress (maybe as a muni based ability) that can be used in conjunction with mainline infantry to push on enemy positions.

In fact I'd actively discourage turtling by making this unit vulnerable to indirect fire or something similar.

If this faction gets any kind of early T1/T0 light vehicle it should remain purely for recon purposes or if it does have offensive capabilities, similar to that of the bike in VCoH, although if this wasnt the Carrier I dont know what it could be... maybe like a Dingo, Ironside or a staff car?

Proper British voiceacting.

That OKW audio is a fucking disgrace. Every piece of information you get sounds like it's coming from Arnie while he's half-way through curling off a fat one.

Ugh.

I got the impression that Quinn hinted that once the Brits/Commonwealth are released then something new would take its place on the roadmap, although this may not necessarily be a new faction. In any case, the uneven number of factions could easily be balanced out with a larger number of diverse commanders on the axis side.

I was satisfied with the stream last night. I'm hoping that bug fixes in the future fall under the umbrella of 'optimization' which has been acknowledged and apparently worked upon so we'll just have to wait and see on that.

I think with the last patch they really took on board a lot of the communities gripes about a lot of things and so this shows at least they are using the communities views as a platform for balance, PQ never did that... I hope in future this more open dialogue continues and that can naturally filter into future issues such as cover mechanic tweaks/squad wipe potential of units (Scott) and bug fixes being focused on in patches.

The only real concern I have is that original design aim 'every battle tells a story' it's a great idea in paper but does anybody really sit down with their friends after a match to say 'whoa, I almost killed that IS-2 with a Faust until that Scott one-shorted my full health grens.. That was crazy!' ... Not really. They look at how much damage they dealt, click quit and go back to searching.

Every battle may tell a story but then again, every well participated esports event makes a shitload of advertising and revenue.

The lighting is a bonus.

I felt like I was fighting on the moon....