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what do you define as proper?

and referring to a few posts back. Streaming is way more popular than it was a few years ago with more viewers and more players being able to stream easily and you can't really use replay downloads as a metric of activity.

Also not many top coh2 players post replays very often. I'm not sure omgpop ever has, aside from when required by a tournament. Same for jesulin most of the time.

I think in general people, both top players and average community members, are less keen on replays because of the ease of access of streaming and the live games feature. You don't need to go find a replay when you can watch the game live in a couple different ways. I do wish there were more good replays though.

Also also, there is actually quite a sizable Asian community lurking around. Lots of the top ranked ladder players are Korean/chinese and don't really ever post or visit coh2.org doesn't mean that they aren't actively playing and pushing the meta though.

Actually writing down your passwords on a pc you consider safe and then bring it over on your pc and copy - paste passwords from there is the safest way.

If you think someone could use your computer and steal them you can always encrypt the file, better than using these online services.

Ummmmm.... no...

Okay, let's assume for a minute that you store all of your passwords on a computer that you have disabled ALL network/internet access in, so there's absolutely no way other than physical access that an attacker could gain access to said machine. That might be mildly better than saving them in an encrypted database on your actual machine... but you'd still need to randomly generate your passwords, and then you'd have to type them all in manually. For example, the first few characters of my coh2.org password are:

"wQGNX8zJUY" (go ahead, try and brute-force the rest, it's 64 characters long in my database although CoH2.org truncates after a certain amount - so it isn't truly 64 characters long). It'd take computer somewhere in the realm of 40 untrigintillion years @ 4 billion guesses per second to crack my coh2.org password.

Do you really want to type that out every time you log in somewhere? Probably not.

Furthermore, storing them on that completely air-gapped machine does absolutely nothing to protect your own home network, nor does it do anything to protect you from social engineering/conscious password guessing and it does nothing to prevent an attacker from capturing your password in transit in clear text (assuming the server supports no encryption - like coh2.org's) or the hash of said password if the server won't establish an SSL/TLS connection for authentication (like community.companyofheroes.com - your browser sends the hash of your password to the server, no encryption). Therefore, if your password is at all weak, even on that air-gapped machine - you have an inherent vulnerability.

Realistically the user name/password system sucks, and we'll probably see a major shift in authentication mechanisms in the next ten years but there are a lot of steps that can be taken to provide enough protection that no one short of a state-backed actor can compromise your password (unless you let some nasty malware on your system, and even the NSA isn't going to enjoy cracking a 64-character long password). The safest password is one that you do not know. It is nearly impossible for us, as humans, to generate a truly random password - and we have a hard time remembering them all. Most people (~73%) make the mistake of using the same few passwords (usually very similar) for everything. Think of that for a minute. I, as an attacker, get access to one of your passwords - it'll probably be extremely easy to get access to everything you protect with a password.

Also, systems like LastPass do all decryption locally meaning the only thing they ever store is the encrypted version of your password (aka useless/meaningless to them). They use PBKDF2 with thousands of iterations to further increase the strength of the encryption/protect against brute-force attacks and you can add multi-factor authentication...

There's just no way you can easily beat something like that on your own...

Nah, just calling out ignorance when I see it

Wouldn't you be ignorant of COH 2's competitive scene since you don't play it?

Didn't CoH 2s last big tournament have way more viewers than anything CoH 1 ever did? Just sayin'

Havent read the thread just the title. I havent seen the old guard in the ladders so I guess being good at one game doesnt make you good at a sequel. Many of them are probably struggling down the ladders. And when you lose a lot of games it isnt fun to play anymore. Siberian analyses replays on sunday so they could send in some replays if they continue to struggle.

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Why is this a good thing? Just means the worse player gets an advantage for playing bad.



It's about spamming heavy tanks/call-ins and trying to wipe squads with RNG bullshit. Getting vet is meaningless in CoH2 when you get it so quickly from everything.



Certainly true, the CoH2 commander system had some potential. If only Relic actually balanced them. Right now 75%+ of all commanders are useless and everyone goes the same docs in 1v1 anyway. Docs like guard motor are the best choice in pretty much every situation.



Because everything has AT. There is no more strategic depth to teching. You can't get outteched because AT guns are so easily available and every basic infantry unit has really good supporting AT. Besides, getting your infantry crushed can easily be avoided. They get crushed because you play bad, same in CoH2.



CoH 2v2 meta was indeed boring, but same goes for most of the 2v2 matches in CoH2:

ostheer: spam grens + paks/mortar/HT -> call-in or close air.
OKW: spam volks -> elite inf and eventually KT
USF: spam rifles -> stuart or m20 -> spam jacksons + M4 + paras/1919rifles.
soviets: double sniper/T2 -> guards -> call-ins



Same thing in CoH1: Stugs, panther/p4, paks, schrecks, kintiger, mines, goliath

CoH1 has a boring meta, especially in 2v2 (which elitemod certainly changed quite a bit), but is still by far the superior game. The level of competition of CoH2 is virtually non-existent but when my mate asks me to play, it's gonna by CoH2 every time because at least there's still players playing 2v2s there.

Comebacks are still extremely difficult in CoH 2. Sure you are getting more manpower/minute but you have to push into squads that get to camp cover, you've almost surely bled more MP since you're losing, you don't have munitions for things like mines, off-maps, weapon upgrades, etc and you will be at a major fuel disadvantage. Come-backs are exciting to watch and keep people motivated to always try hard to win, even when they feel like they're in an unwinnable situation. Losing quickly because you can't even field an army is not fun for the players and it is not fun for spectators. The only way any game can be majorly competitive is if enough people like to spectate, because that is where the money lies.

Call-ins/heavies have definitely plagued the meta for a while, can't disagree with that, but hopefully Relic will address the issue in the future. We as the community have made our voices heard numerous times so the ball is in their court now. But to suggest that veterency is meaningless in CoH 2 is nothing short of completely ignorant. Vet is *extremely* important, and is probably the biggest deciding factor in games. I'm not sure I've ever seen a game where some one wins with a less vetted army...

It is hard sometimes to keep your squads alive but this patch is better than any other that I can remember in terms of squad wipes, thankfully this is something Relic can easily continue to improve upon. If you're playing for the "save me RNG gods" squad wipes, sure you might win every once in a while, but it is easy enough to out-play people that this isn't really the meta at all.

CoH 2 commander system is way better than vCoH's doctrines. Sov and Ost have numerous viable commanders, USF/OKW are more limited, but they also have way fewer. (Off the top of my head for Sov: Guard Motor, Shock Rifle, Soviet Shock Army, Guards ISU, Shocks ISU, Tank Hunter, M4 Shermans, Advanced Warfare... plus a few more I'm probably forgetting) the top two are probably Guard Motor/Shock Rifle but the other commanders definitely have their place, and are in some situations better than the two most used.

Rifles don't really have good supporting AT, you can easily get out teched - it happens all the time. That statement is just false =/

Your analysis of the current CoH 2 2v2 meta seems very wrong. Can't remember the last time I got a KT as OKW in a 2v2. Ost T3 is very viable, as are call-ins (of course). Soviet can do anything except T3 in my opinion - Shocks are Guards are both viable now.

As for the level of competition in COH 2, if it is as nonexistent as you claim why aren't you and your mate even top 25 of the 1v1 or 2v2 ladders? Well, maybe you are under a different name? But I don't think insulting the top CoH 2 players with a blanket statement like that is wise. There are a lot of extremely skilled CoH 2 players.