Profile of Hux

What the developer is referring to in that second quote is that a better player can win even with a worse army. I can own people in Counterstrike even with a shitty gun because I'm good at FPS games. 12azor can destroy you with zero intelligence bulletins because he's 12azor.

the worse army point is what I was concerned about. there's two threads for balance now in this game. The obvious one of player skill (and It would seem logical to expect that if you are good at counterstrike -or any other game, and I am bad then you are going to beat me) needs to be solid in terms of balance for the intel bulletins to function fairly. Secondly (and this is the issue i find confusing) If you have a 'worse' army because of the bullletins you chose (and I can see this being a kickstarter for many a '...is OP thread') but you are a better player than me and you beat my 'better army' then why even have these bulletins in the game at all?
If the effect of them is not going to close the gulf somewhat between a bad player and a good player then it's surely going to widen that gulf in which case I would ask, again, why are they in the game?

Jesus I couldn't work with those guys.. Bald guy seems like a prick.

And what a waste, You put all those bottles of Stella out so the table doesn't look empty and nobody even opens one.. people at Blizzard are just weird.

what you guys going on about? I got my BETA key two days ago.... and its arrrmmmmmaaazzzziinnnnggg!!!!!ONE

Right now I see CoH2 as like a cake analogy. CoH was a delicious cake to start with and there was loads of it. In an attempt to add more to this delicious cake, it was covered in icing and sprinkles. That tasted strange at first but hey, the cake underneath is still great.

CoH2 is another cake made by the same people, but they forgot that it was the cake that made it delicious and not the icing, so this time the cake is mostly one giant block of icing covered with sprinkles and edible bits of paper and all the other shit that's just there to look nice. For most people it looks like an even more delicious cake from a distance, but for everyone who sampled the original they know its no comparison.

What a shame the original cake is getting a little stale by now.

Thread should have been closed after this post.. bang on the money

Think of how many potential strategies each of those different bulletins spawns - true, more variety is never a bad thing but the fun from playing (and watching) the original for me came from being able to see people using certain recognisable strategies and then trying to counter them (and often failing spectacularly). I'm not opposed to lots of strategies and innovative ways to play but I think they're adding too much complication to the game now. There was no problem with strategies in the original and so why it has been 'fixed' is beyond me.
EDIT: I'll stretch to staghound spam

I really deep down hope half of these ideas were just clutching-at-straws attempts in order to generate interest and sell a product to stop the demise of THQ and now that Sega have stepped in, they can take extra time and make a game worth playing for the 300+ hours I've spent playing the original. I would be happy if they came out and said that - 'give us 6 more months!'

But it'll fall on deaf ears. So, whatever, Bring on Company of Heroes 3: where before each match there's 3 cups and under one cup is a ball, if you guess it right your men get a 76% boost to invisibility and you take 96% less shit from dickheads through chat.

if you post, and that post could have been avoided by just taking 5 minutes and think about it yourself... be prepared to receive snide remarks about it.

If you'd[/b] have taken an extra five minutes with this post and laughed out loud to yourself with this 'snide' comment then this off-topic sortie could have been avoided...

Regardless, if beta does run for a year, I don't mind. Personally I'm not really ready to stop playing CoH so if they take ages with a beta....whatever. I would like to be purchasing a balanced, well polished game to be honest.