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Thread: What happened to Relic?30 Aug 2014, 21:21 PM The real killer of a competitive play for COH2 was the "nanny" like stance Relic took. All the great competitive things from vCOH were gone. ie. Ranks that meant something In game ladders etc, etc. At ANY time was there even a hint of being able to determine somebodies actual ability via a graphic/rank/star or whatever - the nanny designers at Relic shut it down. This wanting to appeal to the "general" gamer at the detriment of the competitive player - that's what killed it. If Relic wants to build a large cash cow community - they should have realized that people want to see the "elite" - the best of the best - and they will follow that competitive crowd and the game would grow from there. The way it went - the game was bogged down to be "friendly to all" - and thus the competitive types were not catered to. I mean - come on - 18 months out and they're NOW trumpeting "observer mode"....and how are those in game ladders going? In: Lobby
Thread: What happened to Relic?30 Aug 2014, 17:42 PM Optimization Anybody who's arguing that this game is "reasonably" optimized - just wow. The game doesn't even support Dual GPU's - a base standard for any game in the last 5+ years. For those with a medium spec PC, this game is a nightmare. P2W/DLC The ghost of COHO is still very present - about the only thing Relic DID learn from their last game that was brought into COH2 - they built this game to be a cash cow. The game took a massive hit from negative sentiment and has never recovered. The problem is they cut too much out so they could sell it back to you as DLC that it left many vCoh players going "Wha? I just spent $60/$99 on this and if I want to have repair bunkers - thats another $2.99 for the Soviet Industry?". Oddly enough its funny to see that things people are claiming were abused in vCoh - such as Repair Bunkers etc were all made available in COH2 for additional coin$$. Overall - COH2 is what it is - It'll never be vCOH as the staff that made it have long gone. The core design of the factions (with the exception of Ost/Wher) are poorly thought out and lead to very boring game play overall. In: Lobby
Thread: GPU Recommendation28 Aug 2014, 22:25 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Aug 2014, 20:51 PMTheDesertFox I'm leaning towards a 7950, any brands that are better than others? I'm thinking of the sapphire brand. Also, my PSU is a 650 EA-650 Earthwatts. From what I read this can handle the card but if any of you experts feel otherwise I would love to hear your opinions. Thanks. The 7950 is a great chip - you won't have any problems with it at all - they easily overclock to 7970 speeds too. That said - IF you can - get a better than reference cooler, the best of the 7950's coolers were the Gigabytes, but the MSI Frozen was good too. I believe the ASUS was also a sweet one. The standard reference 7950's go for $90 on ebay now, the better cooler ones a little more ($110-$130). In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: GPU Recommendation28 Aug 2014, 19:50 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Aug 2014, 13:50 PMLt.Baumy Is anybody really using 2 GPU's ?I always thought it would be a great idea and considered doing it. But then you have higher power consumption + Frame erros a.k.a micro stuttering. Micro stutter is what you're referring to - and that's pretty much gone - though it is game dependent. The "modern" GPU's are pretty good on PSU's - I've known guys running dual 7970's on 850W PSU's with no trouble at all. The problem with COH2 and dual GPU's is simply that COH2 doesn't support dual graphics cards - which is just simply unacceptable for a modern title. In regards to 270's and 280's - they're rebadged 7950's and 7970's accordingly. The great part of the 7970 and even more so the 7950 is the overclocking ability - you can get a LOT of bang for the buck with those cards. Dual 7950's for under $200 is ridiculous for the performance you'll get. In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: GPU Recommendation28 Aug 2014, 02:50 AM If only this game had - I don't know - SLI or CROSSFIRE ability. You can Xfire 2 7950s for less than $200 and have more GPU horses than a 780Ti. In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: GPU Recommendation27 Aug 2014, 22:57 PM 7950 for +/- $100 on ebay is a steal if you want to do it on the cheap. In: Hardware and Tech
Thread: 7:45 and cannot find a 1v1 game as axis...SAD22 Aug 2014, 15:24 PM Jump back to quoted post22 Aug 2014, 10:50 AMGinnungagap I'm really confused now as to which faction is currently considered OP. I mean the steamroll argument with allies is pretty good, but so is the hold-out-until-armor-arrives-for-axis one. We really need more search percentages statistics to determine exactly which faction gives more reason to complain about. Thats because the "balance" of the game right now is OP Allies for the first 15 mins - then OP Axis the remainder of the game. In Relic's eyes - that's "Balance". Hence depending on your game variant you play - in larger team games (2v2 or greater) the longer the Axis can hold out and the more OP they become. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Foucs on the details, Relic, Plz20 Aug 2014, 15:44 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Aug 2014, 14:15 PMpigsoup This. no offense to SNF 5 itself but from quite a few i watched, it was same strat over and over again in most games. sure the game has come a log way but i do not want to see same strat repeated over and over in ESL. +1. ESL will flounder given COH2 is played by the same 10 people who use the same cheese or spam strats that they can exploit from the patch/OP unit/DLC of the day. It is what is unfortunately. I think the core of COH2 is too fundamentally broken to be repaired at this time - especially so long after it's initial release to change. In: Lobby
Thread: What should Relic do to increase allies-players?18 Aug 2014, 16:00 PM Remember when Shocks were OP and came out extremely early? Remember the %'s looking for MP games as Soviet then? You'll remember that the players would ALL want Soviet. The problem is the design of the Soviet and US factions are so bad that the ONLY way people will play them is if they're ridiculously OP. That's the problem really. And before anybody says it - yes - OKW is a dog's breakfast of poorly designed muck as well. Basically I feel they nerfed Wehrmacht simply because people chose to play them more given the design of that faction "made sense" compared to the others available. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Faction Imbalance14 Aug 2014, 21:27 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Aug 2014, 21:13 PMwooof people already dont tech because it costs too much. you want to increase teching costs? They don't tech because this is Company of Call In's - where T4 is so badly designed for all factions that teching makes zero sense. There are serious design issues that just never seem to get the love they deserve. In: COH2 Balance