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Being able to react to blizzards is surely PART of being a good player. If you're just idling during a blizzard you're worse than I am, which is not enormously good. Fire pits need a better radius so being near them is less unintuitive. Other than that they aren't a huge problem. Yes they can give a player who's suffering a shot at recovering but they can also let one who's ahead really consolidate their position.
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Blizzards are a terrible terrible terrible game mechanic. It slows down the game needlessly. Aside from CPU requirements, how can a fan of fluid top-play want to keep the mechanic in the game? It instantly makes the game STOP for roughly 2-3 minutes. It makes me cringe every time that stupid clock comes on the screen. It becomes a mad race to get your units to fire pits, cover, and buildings and its always a great idea to take the VPs right before the blizzard hits as your are guaranteed 3 minutes of uninterrupted ticking down VPs while units sit frustratingly idle. It interrupts all flow... allows players to erase mistakes and recover (i.e. reinforce seriously diminished squads, tech and get their resources back up... it punishes the good players. It's a terrible mechanic that destroys momentum and stifles top-level play. |
Our current knowledge:
At launch:
No Ladder
No Anticheat
No Chat Lobby
No Spectator Mode
Later:
Ladder
Anticheat
Lobby
Spectator is a maybe
Wow, this is troubling. The lack of anticheat especially. Ladder seems pretty important too. Hopefully it won't be long after release. |
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Forgive me if this has been discussed ad nauseum somewhere else on these forums but I just started posting here...
Where is the E-Sports support for CoH that was integral to the development of the first game? Now I haven't seen the numbers so I don't know... maybe of the thousands of people who logged on to CoH1 over the years only a small percentage played online skirmishes... much less ranked... but the fact is that I bet, over that same amount of time of the game's release (almost 5 years now), most of the casual or campaign players stopped playing whilst the majority of online players kept coming back over and over.
Do we know if a ladder, chat rooms, etc. are going to be added to the game at release?
Once again forgive my ignorance.
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LOL. Girls scissoring...
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This one was pretty intense. My neck was tight after. |
hehe nice one 
where is my signature ?
You don't have yours from before?! |
I guess I'm in the minority when I say that I absolutely love blizzards and the chaos they cause.
I never liked vCoh, I never liked CoH1 in any way shape or form. I have 30 hours or so on record and none of it was fun.
I have over 250 hours on this game to date, and frankly if all these fixes you mention are going to be applied I might just quit. I didn't get this game to play CoH 1 with new units, I bought this game because of the squad-based action alongside with environmental hazards.
When a Blizzard shows up, I line up my artillery ready to fire at confirmed Fire Pit locations, I send out my Pioneers/CEs to lay mines and boobytrap locations. I call-in the units I've been saving for, safe in the knowledge that the enemy will not have LoS to see it coming. This, for me, adds a magnitude of depth and -entertainment- to casted games. Why isn't coh 1 an esports title, why does it not qualify as being entertaining to watch in states like S. Korea where gaming is a sport in its own right?
I can guarantee you that it has less to do with these "issues" you are citing, and more to do with entertainment value.
CoH1 is actually fun to watch, but after the 500th game you just go "Yeah. Seen it all." 10 M10s in a 3v3 charging at Panthers like tards is funny the first 50 times, then it gets stale. But losing an IS-2 to a PGren grenade because the Soviet didn't see it coming? Oh man, the tragedy.
You are in the very small minority. |
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LAID in the house. No. seriously, I got laid in my house last night. |
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Hey guys, great site...
Here are a few suggestions...
Would love a member control panel that allows subscriptions to certain threads and centralized location to view all of the threads mentioned. That way you don't have to go hunting for threads.
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