Profile of Volsky

As someone with a lot of time invested in vCoH, I'll say that most of the people I game with (a lot of vCoH players, especially in the mod community) tend to snicker a lot at CoH2. We've made CoH2 the butt of so many jokes; bugs regarding the Vickers, balance stuff like the ollllldddd KV-8, 'Glorious Heavy Battle Tonk Thing' (ISU), Leig, Konigskubel, and other abysmal balance choices, including several under the supervision of the old balance lead, PQ (who was balance lead in the mod I code for, EiRR, before we cast him out with much torch and pitchfork waving).

Tl;dr, I find vCoH has more character, better mods, better voice acting, and none of the silly shenanigans that run rampant in CoH2. I'd say stick to vCoH, but others will be quick to tell me to 'sod off, CoH2 is better, you're just stuck in your ways, CoH2 can do no wrong, etc etc etc' or somesuch. -shrug-

It's just absolutely a clusterfuck of unprecedented proportions. Because of this bug the Brits don't even get access to one of their three early game units. WASP is quite weak now damage wise, vickers k upgrade was always weak, at least tommies are facing down snipers that are slightly easier to kill now. They're going to get eaten alive regardless.

How does one go about 'mounting' said scope? As I understand it you need to put the MG in a building, get Vet1, exit, decrew it, recrew it, get in a building, reach vet 1, rinse, repeat. Is it simply applied every time you enter a building (which makes it even more retarded than I previously thought)? If it's only applied per recrew I swear we could just hold players to an honor system, and if they attempt to cheese that shit, DQ their ass. /shrug

Lategame vCoH US was by no means as weak as people make it out to be. We seem to be forgetting the utter troll that was a pair of RRs, and how the 40 MU AP rounds ability on the M1 57 mm was a massive, throbbing cock of an F U button against pretty much anything on treads. Pop it, and enjoy nearly guaranteed penetration vs. anything that's not a KT. Damage through the roof etc, only issue was that the 57 seemed to be built by a gentle old grandmother, knitting it in her rocking chair (unless you chose armor doc, if you did, then it was just stamped out of a single piece of sheet metal and shit out in ~5 seconds ))))))) ).

Anywho, I really fail to see the point of the USF. Their infantry is...meh, and the only inf that bleeds harder than Rifles are Tommies, and Tommies can lay the boots on Jerry tbfh. Their 'WAW MOBILITY' Sherman is basically a re-skinned clone of the T-34-76, and, oh, is mirrored (as far as I know) by the new Cromwell. Their ATG is worse in every respect, other than +10 range which...really doesn't count for much. Sappers (ain't no stinkin Royal Engineers...only Sappers!) are far and away better than RE. The Jackson trumps the Firefly, that much is true, but you don't have much to meatshield for it. I just...there's nothing to do that's outside the box for the USF.

The enemy knows EXACTLY what's coming unless you attempt some braindead Cheesetruppen-RE spam build, and that just doesn't work. It then comes down to who executes their going-through-the-motions routine the best. That magical timer is always counting down, since there comes a point where you simply can't keep up with the micro burden, attempting to keep EVERYTHING moving, spitting out all of the abilities (smoke, HVAP, smoke, grenades, smoke, mines, smoke...did I forget smoke?) that you absolutely must make use of to get the most out of the factions.

The most irritating issue for me is the lack of field control, per se. Without docs, you get no mines, no sandbags (and when you do get them they die if they get sneezed on), no elite/CQ infantry, no specialist assault/AT troops (double bazooka rifles/REs/Captain? AT Inf? HAH!)... I mean, yay, you get tanktraps and wire, that's something, I guess. The HMG is meh, expensive, and tends to drop dead thanks to the excellent coding quality from Lelic (COUCH rec. acc. mods COUGH). Pak Howie is still 480 MP, 11 pop, yes?

The list goes on; tl;dr, they're stale and boring and repetitive to play, you need to be smoking crack to effectively micro everything, and every second the game goes on, you start to lose. Hard. And that's assuming you're "winning" at the outset.

...back to vCoH and play something like the Europe in Ruins mod? Beats the endless whining that seems to perpetuate these forums. Okay, as an ex-EiR RGD coder, this is sort of a shameless attempt to get a few players to play, but it's not a bad mod and we need bodies to populate the launcher. That, and we have stuff like the Comet etc. so you can rub off your UKF boner with a persistent British company or something while you wait for the release.

www.europeinruins.com

Sorry if this isn't off-topic-y enough of a spot to put this thread.