Profile of Stoffa

Very lttle skilled players, that is.

Anyone else will - after running into mines the first 3 or 4 times - get a minesweeper.

Let's not exaggerate the benefits of scale here.

From this comment alone I can tell youre not playing CoH2 at high level. You can't "out-sweep" somebody that spams these mines all over the map. You're always gonna trip all over them, even if u detect a couple of them with your sweeper.

People should really stop justiying op mines by saying they can be sweepered, its just dumb.

Im indeed left wondering why, if Hoyhammer thinks the game was dead on release, he played it like there was no tomorrow.

Nevertheless I agree with most points made in this topic. From what I understand vCoH was made by a different team than the one that made the expansion and introduced the PE and Brits. As we all know, those factions were nowhere near as well designed as the original US and Wehr factions.

Now rumor has it it was this team that did CoH2 as well. No wonder it turned out the way it did.

Some of the design decisions they made such as blizzards are just so weird. The first time I heard about how blizzards would stall the game, and you would have to make campfires I already felt it was a horribly idea. Slowing down a game and making players take care of their units like it's the sims: wtf? And in practice it turned out to be just like that: one big WTF.

Same goes for hammering (pun intended) the game with more and more commanders, one being even more broken than the other. Or the retarded bulletin system. All things that any sensible player would consider a bad idea, but that made it in the final product regardless.

All in all these are indications this game was made by people that just werent as insightful as the people that made vCoH. Talent was at Relic, but left. This is what were left with.

Following the logic of "just get a minesweeper" we might as well have mines with the impact of a nucleair bomb. If you hit it you insta-lose the game. Shouldve gone minesweeper first noob!

Seriously, the fact that u can detect them with a sweeper doesnt justify them being op.

Btw I played a couple of games as soviets using these. They are insanely spammable, and you can have the enemy take some very easy losses using them. Minesweepers can't be everywhere at once, so the opponent often has no way of avoiding them.

Let's face it guys: this game is ruined. You simply can't balance bad design.

- Soviet industry commander revolves around spamming vehicles. First you spam T70s, then you spam T34s and then you spam KV-2s. Say goodbye to combined arms.

- Tiger Ace commander revolves around one single unit deciding the outcome of the game. Once again: goodbye to combined arms. A single unit deciding the outcome of a game is (obviously) just stupid.

- 500MP start means permanent high resource games. This just doesnt feel like CoH anymore, it feels like some sort of spamgame.


So that's it I guess. Quite the "Turning Point" indeed, for the worst that is. There is no balancing these commanders. Their design is completely broken, and balancing that won't fix anything.

Guess I'm gonna have to go find myself a new hobby

Lets just face it: not only is this ability broken, the whole game is completely broken since this last patch.