Profile of Grund

I'll look into getting you guys more information as we move forward.

As Quinn noted in his interview, we are also looking to get a public test server up very soon which should provide everything you are asking for. It will give you explicit details on what changes are coming up and provide some community members the opportunity to get involved in the games future development.

Rest assured, we are reading the forums and taking all the feedback we get into consideration. We do our best to go through all the forums, collect feedback, and present it at our morning design meetings.

If you read Quinn's interview, you'll note that we do plan to put much more effort into COH2. Its not something we're just dropping. Personally, knowing what I know, I think we have a very strong future ahead of us and I think those who visited the studio a few weeks ago will agree.

Now this is much more positive feedback, thankyou Pqumsieh. Very much looking forward to the public test server and getting some idea of what changes are coming up. Allowing us to get more involved shows great respect for the community and is a big step in the right direction. Keep the information coming guys, cheers.

Its not the negative feed back, yes there is heaps of that but what we want is an 'OFFICIAL' sticky post, regularly updated with what the dev's are looking at changing/adding/fixing in the game ATM. We would like this and other possible features they are looking at and MOST of all a time frame of when we should expect this. Look at the Metacritic scores ATM, 5.9 user review, a lot of people dont care about these but A lot of people do and it is hurting the possible longevity of the game. Look at the Steam forums, every post a negative response. Just put some 'OFFICIAL' posts in place and it will STOP heaps of the negativity.

And as for constructive posts form the Dev's ATM there are actually 2 on the first 2 pages in these forums;

'We are looking into this. The larger, somewhat hidden, issue is that HTD modifiers stack with cover modifiers. So if I HTD near green cover im nearly invincible. There are a few other issues but this seems to be the major one. We are working to resolve it though.' -Pqumsieh, with regards to HTD and

'We are looking into this, hopefully we will have something out soon. Unfortunately a change won't be ready by next patch.' - Pqumsieh, with regards to German strafe

That is hardly 'all over the forums' but it is these types of posts (regarding actual gameplay) and more that we are looking for in an 'OFFICIAL' sense. Plus a little more indication of what the dev's themselves are looking to change and not just adhoc statements within other posts.

partly due to the lackluster release. Game lacks polish. So many features missing. While I enjoy the game it is definitely not the awesome RTS I was hoping for. I just can't see Relic improving the game before the MP scene dies out.

I am really hopeful that it does last but given the numbers on Steam and the activity of their forums with so many topics about compstomps and lobbies etc, this crowd will not last. A major change needs to happen extremely quickly or I think the player base will dwindle to less than COH had at the end by the time the first month is done.

I may be negative in my posts but I don't rage like this as it really does get you nowhere and just Irk's people. I absolutely agree though that the 1v1 balance (all things you mentioned are part of it) needs addressing ASAP. I was hopeful that a balance patch was coming today with the new commanders but to no avail. from memory doesn't it usually take about 2 weeks from when a developer wants to make a change, for valve/steam to ok it for download across all the different regions? If that is the case it could still be a week off at least, which is too long. The Steam forums are full of people raging over balance and the lack of lobbies etc. Please relic implement the balance and ladders/lobbies ASAP or there will be no one left when they do come out.

On a side note the forums here are not as busy as I maybe would have expected on the NEW release of the game. The same can be said for GR and the official forums. The only forums really bombarded with topics are the Steam ones, which can only be taken lightly because I must say MOST, but not all, of the people on the Steam forums have very little idea about anything to do with the basics of the game tbh. This makes me worry a bit too as there just doesn't seem to be the interest in the game I was hoping for from the community. The balance patch may make or break this game so maybe it is better they take a little more time, but not too long please.

I really dont have too many problems with HTD (not saying it doent need tweaking, it does) just stay at max range or leave em and cap elswhere. Yes, German is difficult ATM but its just about surviving until you can hit critical mass, not easy but hey thats the game ATM.