Profile of herr anfsim

Why didnt they include sidearmor?

Isnt this kind of a problem with COH2 in general? The infantrydamage is extremely forgiving, so if you carelessly throw your troops arround you arent punished that much if they run into an ambush.

Shocks just takes this to the extreme, but it seems like a natural continuation of the general direction of COH2, as opposed to vCOH.

But you can alleviate the problem and an ELO based system is the most effective way (assuming the playerbase is big enough).

That gives you marginally fever griefers, while limiting your options imenesely.

Relic's inability to deliver on all the features expected by players is likely due to their lack of funding during development and the whole THQ ordeal.

I doubt thats the reason that lobbies arent included as Noun recently stated that lobbies were never planned. I just wish they had been honest about that all the way.

That being said, they have shown a great willingness to continue improving their game. So a choice of gamemodes and specific maps could still be added to some form of casual (custom) automatch. These features are not tied to lobby games, only one thing is: the ability to choose your opponents. That's the issue here as far as I'm concerned.

Honestly I dont see that ever working. Dont get me wrong, if I could chose map and gamemode, while filtering players with bad connections, I would be a happy camper. Problem is, such a system would require a huge playerbase. The current system dosent even take connectivity into account and still sometimes has a hard time finding players. The simplest and most effective way of pleasing the players that want such basic features would be a lobby. A lot of players use and enjoy the lobbies in vCOH. With smurfing removed and stats harder to come by we would see even less griefers.

About the lag issues, and if you're interested in making the game better, I encourage you to join the Alpha and help Relic iron out the kinks.

I dont feel like beta(alpha)testing a game I bought more than half a year ago. I think its great that they are trying to fix the lagg issue, but its still annoying knowing that I could avoid the issue if I was allowed to filter out players who were sure to lagg, like I could in vCOH.

I would be for any custom match system that matches players based on ELO rating and against any system that allows players to manually filter other players.

Again, the point is to avoid griefing and impose a level of fairness. I want players to have a good time just as much as you, but I want to make sure (as much as possible anyways) it's not at the expense of others.

Traditional game lobbies wouldn't hurt me if I play automatch only but I do believe they would hurt the image of the game, if left unchecked. So no, I don't want them back. Not the way they were before anyways.

You will never be able to fully avoid griefing, even the babysitting approach that COH2 imposes has several easy workarrounds, some of wich I already mentioned. Given smurfing is gone, and stats at least more than a click away, trolling other players would probably be easyer in automatch anyways.

Youre afraid that lobbies would give the game a bad name. I know for a fact that the absence of such features already have, as a lot of people have left the game because they dont like the gamemode they are being forced to play, or the maps, or the gamebreaking lagging in larger games. Considering all the negative feedback in different foras in response to the lack of lobbies I would say not having lobbies hurt the image a lot.

"2v2 noob game, 2 stars/lvl30 max"

you join in, you see a team of 2 5 star players.

thats pretty much a sum up of lobbies and the purpose they existed in vCoH.

the only real balanced games were custom games with friends, but these don't need custom lobbies to play together in coh2.

So the question is-does the game need a feature that is all about noob stomping by experienced, but horrible/bad players?

Simply put, youre wrong.

Those of us who actually play custom games through lobbies, and not just bitch about them, and want it back have had a lot of great and balanced games on the maps we favour and with the gametype we like. You may claim that the public lobbies was all about stomping noobs, but then you clearly did it wrong.

Lets look at the facts: Smurfing is gone and there is no visible stats, so reintroducing lobbies wouldnt satisfy those who wanted to troll noobs. On the other hand, you can "smurf" by joining and quitting automatch games, and you can have your friends on teamspeak and automatch together if you want easy wins.

Lobbies allowes people to play the maps they want, the gamemode they want, they can talk with the other players and do some basic planning and you can filter out the players that would make the game lagg. Sounds like a great deal to me.

And if you dont like lobbies there is an extremely easy solution: Keep playing automatch. How would others having fun hurt you?