Profile of Captain_Frog

When you have a feature that part of the community dislikes, only the unsatisfied part tends to come to the forums and complain. And this might give the erroneous impression that "everyone is against this".

So, just for the record: I for once am glad we don't have the vCoH basic matches. That was, IMHO, the worst part of vCoH. The community was segmented into all the different automatch modes, plus basic match, making the time to find a match punishing. If you wanted to play with a buddy, you were pretty much confined to basic match, as the automatch AT modes were deserted.

And that's when the problems started. Most basic matches were set up by a team of buddies, who tweaked the rules as to benefit their faction the most, and played always on a set map, with fixed locations, running a pre-determined "script" every game. Almost every basic match lobby consisted on a game with one team full of players and the other empty. Lots of annihilate games with only the Wehrmacht team filled up. Not to mention that host would often "select" the opponents, kicking anyone who didn't look like an easy win.

It was extremely annoying and it often would take me 30 minutes to start a game, and I'd play a lot of BS matches. Now it takes me less than 5 minutes. If what you care about is PLAY, rather than TALK, I pretty much prefer the current system. I acknowledge that there are things that can be made - a separated chat room where you could friend people and from there play with them could work. But seriously, if Relic ever reverts the matching system to that of vCoH, with lobby, basic matches and everything (which I don't think they will), then I might as well go back playing that game instead.

I for one used to have great fun hopping into a game of my choice. Some of my best memories with vCOH were on Annihilate games on Route N13 the constant back and forth, those games could last for a couple hours. I'm almost certain that a large portion of the COH2 community at launch were baffled at the fact COH2 didn't have a lobby system.

Basic matches just allow you to set up a game that you want to play. Not everybody wants to play an automatch and go all out try hard mode. Some want to just relax and play an Annihilation game or a 1000 point ticket game.

The casual players, I suspect are greatly turned off as they can only play automatch or invite a friend to a private lobby. And even then it's limited because the player in question might not have any friends that own the game. But because there is no chat system the player in question cannot ask others if they want a game. Thus, the player decides to go and relax on a different game instead.

I just don't see how people can say that the absence of the lobby system is a good thing. It adds stability and longevity to the community. But I guess it's just a matter of personal preference. I just think that adding a lobby doesn't harm anyone.

The Soviet Shock Army looks amazing.. I wouldn't want to go an Infantry heavy build as Germans facing that!

1) The biggest problem is the feeble damage that the small arms deal overall. It's ridiculous at some points. For example flanking a MG42 without molotov's is almost pointless. Their rifles just deal such little damage. By the time 2 men are down in the MG42 squad, support is on the way (This can be a good 10-15 seconds)

Another quick gripe is that I do not think they should decrease the MG42 suppression by that much. Maybe a tweak is needed yes, but not a big nerf. If the enemy runs into a machine gun they should be punished. It's a machine gun after all.

2) Solution would be to increase small arms damage across the board (Massive undertaking but I think it would be worth it) this would fix flanking and other BS. Also decrease the suppression in a minor way.

A lobby is really what the game is lacking at the moment. At least community wise.

imo the t34/85 should be a heavy tank for russian t4 to repleace the SU-76 then put the Su-76 as a doctrinal unit ( like the STUH) in coh1 or in t3 as a light artillary/mobile gun or anything the devs want it to be.

In my opinion I think that the T34/76 should be upgradable to the T34/85. Just how the Shermans worked in vCoH. I believe that would be pretty nice! Maybe moving the SU-76 to a doctrine as well.