Profile of herr anfsim

I'm not saying who is to blame or not.
I'm saying that these half arsed workarounds exist only because of this vocal minority and aren't even used by them.

Remember that this wasn't even supposed to be in game in the first place.
Fans of lobbies of noob stomps conveniently always forget about that.

If they wanted to please the players that wanted lobbies they should make lobbies, not workarrounds that nobody uses. You can hardly blame the people that wanted lobbies for the failed workarrounds.

As you said, this lobbies wasnt supposed to be in the game in the first place, Noun and Relic just cleverly avoided clarifying this before they sold the game, and later "forgot" to clarify wether they would be included after release.

We're looking into ways to make it easier to find people to play custom games against. There are the chat lobbies but posts like this show that people aren't using them the way we had hoped.

VP games have always been the focus of CoH and have always been the focus our Automatch.

You had a feature in vCOH that made it really easy to find custom games. I dont understand why you are wasting time and resources with all these workarrounds.

Rifles also very quickly recovered as soon as you stopped shooting at them.
Cons shake in horror for 20 more seconds.

Cover was more important only because we didn't had automatic weapons in 3rd minute of the game, which both factions now have and still the one in better cover wins.

Wether conscripts stay supressed is totally irrelevant concerning wether or not his example was "extremely similar to vCoH". I find your response verry revealing though.

We have discussed the damage received by small arms several times on this forum and though I dont have the stats at hand im quite sure that the reason for the less importance of cower isnt the time at wich automatic weapons are introduced, but the overal tuning and design of the game.

I had a lot of great battles on Vire River Valley where the battle raged back and forth for a long time. I really liked that periode where both sides had dug in, and started prodding the enemy lines for weaknesess and coordinating your attack in order to breach the enemy defences. Too bad those days are over.

I get the argument that the absence of upgrades removes some of the strategiv depth, but in my oppinion there are other important adjustments and missing features that reduce the tactical and strategic depth.

One such aspect is that the core factions are lacking certain important abilities, like FHQs, tanktraps and viable mines, sandbags and bunkers depending on choice of faction. Adding these in commanders, in stead of to the core factions, makes the commanders even more awkward as you need specific commanders to access what you would expect to be basic abilities, thus limiting strategic options a lot.

A more subtle, yet verry noticable, aspect is how they changed the entire infantry dynamic, resulting in slow firefights and the importance of cower drasticly reduced. This again reduces the importance of positioning and turns the game into more of a clickfest that it had to be.

Lastly, I would like to mention that I feel like COH2 rewards spamming more in some ways. The MGs are nothing like they were in vCOH, and they never really seemed to know what do do with them. Cower is less important, so overrunning well positioned units isnt an issue anymore. AT-Guns arent that effective anymore, and the absence of tanktraps and decent mines for the germans does little of what could even out the battle between man and machine. This all makes spamming masses of tanks or infantry more of a viable tactic, wich of course is a dumbing down tacticly and strategicly.