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Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2015, 01:03 AMacosn

I got bad news- horrible news- the MG42 wasn't that special.


Yes, to be blunt, it was good. It was inexpensive to produce and light, but that's about where it's perks end. It's fanatical rate of fire lead to issues where it would literally eat itself alive. There's fundamentally no good way to engineer a gun firing 1500 rounds a minute to properly seat each round. Sometimes it missfires and destroys the barrel, sometimes it missfires and it's junked. And that rate of fire? Irrelevant. 600 rounds per minute firing at you, 1500 rounds per minute firing at you. You know as well as I do that the difference is irrelevant, you're hitting the dirt regardless.

Jump back to quoted post4 Oct 2014, 21:13 PMschnuersi

You do realise that the SP campain will earn them money and bug fixing won't?

If you look at how CoH2 developed from its release they put a lot of effort in making the game more what the fans wanted.
With WFA they stirred it up again. That is bad and I don't like the state the game currently is in either. But sooner or later it will change for the better.
If we look back at vCoH it was exactly the same there. The MP part was in a good and balanced state and everytime they released an add on they broke it again. The impact the Brits had was absolutely comparable to how the OKW now is. It was very close to auto win. They managed to balance it and then came ToV and its new units wich even though they were just two units per faction wich could replace one allread existing unit screwed the game up so hard it really wasn't much fun. But after some time this was fixed.

The war spoils system IMHO is a vast improvement over the previous system... basically there was none. You had to buy camo and commanders. Geting the bulletins was just tedious. Grinding vs the computer provoking stupid situations. Or organising a friend for a 2v2 and boosting them. Complete BS IMHO. Just wasting time.
The war spoils system is far from perfect but its better than before.
BTW this is allmost exactly what the community or better parts of it asked for.

This IMHO is one of the huge problems. The CoH comunity is heterogenous. Its not the one big group in wich everybody wants the same thing and shares similar opinions. The really competative players and hardcore fans are very different form the bulk of the players. Who are casual players who like the game but will only play a few games per week. Not several per day. There is even quite a large group who only plays SP and doesn't care for MP at all.
SP is where the money is made. MP might sell you some extra copies but server upkeep and maintenance cost money. They tried to generate profit from the MP comunity by selling commanders... wich didn't really work. Now you can get them for free by the warspoils.