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Thread: One week from release and still no official okw gameplay19 Jun 2014, 03:12 AM They probably learned from the initial open Beta and the corresponding cancelled pre-order sales they had from it. I certainly know I saved a good $50 from that open Beta. Also - with the Steam Summer Sale just about to start - poor old WF is going to be buried in the background noise. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: CELO - Company of ELO16 Jun 2014, 14:20 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Jun 2014, 13:42 PMCptEend Never really got why everyone's having so much problems with the ladders. I find that most of the time I'm matched up against players who are quite similar in skill. At least in 1vs1. The usefulness of this app is more appreciated in the 2v2 and greater. 1v1 you get matched with a greater skilled opponent, then rise to that challenge as it just you versus them. The current random partner based system is truly horrible. As some have said "system is fine as it is - the player base doesn't exist is the problem" - well if the system doesn't fit the player pool obviously it doesn't work. VCoh had the system working just fine. Its pure stubbornness at this point why that's not part of the game, nothing more. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: CELO - Company of ELO16 Jun 2014, 04:12 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Jun 2014, 04:35 AMDanielD Because people really would just quit at the load screen if they felt the game would be unfair. I've seen people quit right off the bat because they felt they couldn't win just because they knew how good their opponents were. I hope this app gets used by LOTS of players and causes exactly this - breaking the currently broken matchmaking system. This whole system has been bad since day 1 - and there was absolutely no reason for it. Sequel's are meant to improve upon - not devolve from. As much as the player base has complained about this - Relic continued to ignore it. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: CELO - Company of ELO14 Jun 2014, 04:15 AM Great work. This just speaks volumes about how poorly Relic judged their consumers that their OWN customers are doing the job for them seeing as Relic is refusing to give ingame win/loss, ranks that actually reflect skill....let alone the ability to organize your own game lobby. Can it be that hard to simply do what you'd done in vCOH? Give the players what they want. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Did they remove the online counter?27 May 2014, 18:30 PM Jump back to quoted post27 May 2014, 18:25 PMraw it's rather pointless to remove the counter as you can just look at the steam numbers, what with the game being a steam exclusive title. Much of the "nannying" we've seen in COH2 has been pointless. Removal of rank numeric level. Followed by removal of stars even. Removal of player numbers (on several occasions). I feel this whole move to nanny the community in hopes that the "casuals" will play - and continue to play - has been a detrimental flaw in the game. They catered to a broader base - the problem is by doing so they watered down elements the dedicated base was accustomed to from day one of COH. The real problem was the lack of the public game lobbies - removed essentially to make it possible that new and/or bad players would "get a game" rather than being kicked or be unable to find partners to play with. The problem - the general gaming community don't like games that make you think anymore - and they didn't come to the COH2 party - and then that just left a game that was not geared to those who WOULD play it, meaning you made nobody happy. Hence the free weekends - the bargain bin prices etc. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Did they remove the online counter?27 May 2014, 18:26 PM Jump back to quoted post27 May 2014, 17:34 PMwuff I am afraid I cannot, only Relic and Valve have the answer, or maybe smarties. Though if I was to have a guess I would say roughly 8k give or take. Only off by a factor of 2. http://steamcharts.com/app/231430#3m In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Q:Should the game be free?26 May 2014, 20:55 PM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2014, 19:09 PMDocRockwell "Should" is irrelevant in economics, all that matters is whether people will pay for it. Eventually it will be more profitable to give away the game to sell DLC to more people. I would have thought a 'premier' title would last longer than this though. The problem with COH2 is that it was "Premier" in price (remember that $100 you kissed goodbye on the CE pre-order?) but not "Premier" in content....Hence why you can find it for less than $5. In: Lobby
Thread: Q:Should the game be free?25 May 2014, 19:46 PM Look at the low numbers for BOTH free weekends. They literally can not even give this away. In: Lobby
Thread: Preorder Western Armies for 20% off. 9 May 2014, 05:07 AM Jump back to quoted post9 May 2014, 04:36 AMS73v0 Hmm, I'm thinking of preordering this... hope I don't end up regretting my decision. Gee - I wonder how many Collectors Edition owners said that. I'll be sitting on the sidelines to see how this pans out. If 2014 has taught us anything - you don't pre-order. In: Lobby
Thread: Option to disable western front armies in automatch17 Apr 2014, 15:46 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Apr 2014, 05:44 AM__deleted__ The problem is Relic should not hurry so much with this Western Fronts add-on. The sensitive balance of the game will be completely fucked up again, and after one year it will still be fucked up. The sensible thing to do would have been to wait untill Coh2 gains some maturity and only after this - develop such a big add-on. As much as I would like diversity and different armies on WW2 fronts, I think this add-on will feel like a cheap feature, mixing armies that actually never fought togeher one battle. They could remain on the eastern front and add whatever faction they wanted: italians, finns, hungarians, romanians. One more proof that Relic only cares about monney and doesn't value to much the game balance. Which it's understandable, but in the same time they dont test enough the releases and so we have: OP units, OP commanders, OP factions. The joy of seeing new units and features will be short, in 2-3 weeks after the release forums will be full of "I can't win with americans... whaaaaa, fucking balance.... whaaa", or "I can't win with germans.... the game is shit because I can't win with germans...." So frankly, I'm not too excited about this new Western fronts add-on. This is all about economics - nothing more. Basically players aren't interested in the new armies they created in COH2. They're rushing to give the player base COH1 in COH2's clothing that's all. Basically the players are not only giving up on COH2 - they're giving up on the franchise as a whole - COH1 is a ghost town compared to what it once was (and they probably don't make much $ out of it anymore) - so before players leave completely they're trying to go back to what people want. Balance - "realism" etc - that's not important. Cash flow is. The problem unfortunately here is that the core mechanic differences between COH1 and COH2 - namely the "commander" vs "doctrine" and the asymmetrical/RNG vs near balance/global upgrades still makes COH1 the superior game. If Relic really want a solid flow of $ AND a happy and thriving community - they should go the route of COH1 HD - leave the core mechanics as they were - forget any more DLC - make minor tweaks based on the balance of Tommy etc (ie. leave the COH2 "balance" team as FAR as humanly possibly AWAY from ANY involvement with COH1 HD) and boom - instant hit. The problem with COH2 is that they ignored everything "learned" from COH1 - they just followed what they did in DOW instead - slapped a COH label on it - and figured it'd be a hit. The problem with that is DOW is a game nobody plays anymore - yet COH is still widely cherished. In: Lobby