Profile of Hirmetrium

This isn't about free and instant, and never has been. It's about having a game that is playable, with a progression system that is great and fun and fair for new players and puts them on a great footing. Nobody said it was about instant gratification. It was about getting a commander, like the rifle commander, to make endgame USA competitive. Even now you have to buy the ranger/pershing commander to have competitive heavy armour. Especially with the nerfs to Jacksons that seem to stack up over and over.

It's Magic the gathering. People LOVE blowing money on that. Doesn't mean COH2 needs to follow the same example. And in COH2's case, it actively drives people away. RTS's have never lent themselves to micro-transactions, and COH2's bold experiment has failed.

I disagree with you strongly on the last point. I loved defensive. And Terror. What was needed was Variety, more trees, still unique. Soviets suffered for so long relying on specific commanders.

This quote quote quote back and forwards is getting us nowhere. I don't think scratchedpaintjob is insistent on instant gratification, he's done a service for the community by allowing people to circumvent a poor system. And this isn't really a thread for complaining about this generations instant gratification loot need.

I didn't get anything MWNL3 related, already had all the MWNL2 things.

The fact that people seem to be generally OK with the Churchill nerfs is very alarming and disturbing. The number of people saying "great patch" is really, really concerning. I know OCF showed a lot of... questionable things, but seriously?

I need to try the patch, but the Centaur is now useless against buildings and too slow to catch/kill squads. I'd like to have seen it gain more mobility in a trade-off for it to punish inattentive attack move players and reward AT gun flanking (which it's currently terrible at).

Churchill is now a joke. No reason at all to go Anvil, it makes the Comet tank a no-brainer choice, or even cromwells which have flanking potential especially with emergency war speed (a superior ability in Hammer tree). If anything, it should of had a fuel cost increase. Late game team games or even regular games, it's just a massive waste vs Axis armour.

Commando's doctrine massively overnerfed. Commando's are expensive (they ARE 500MP for a squad - the return is only for a second squad, and if you have more than 1 your likely lacking AT) and air superiority is a massive munitions sink that is slow and static (even has a giant GTFO symbol on the map for crying out loud). Royal Engineers will be the defacto go to for command tank to buff fireflys to usable levels. I agree that they were overperforming, but I felt they were in a really good place and reward skilled play like Aimstrong's in OCF.

It doesn't take a genius to see that British early game is going to be deadly now (IS costs to screen for sniper, WASP as a good alternative) while late game is going to be pure Hammer with command tank buffs/AVRE (probably not worth the cost, will be destroyed before it fires it's so slow and static) to counter Axis armour or AT.

The lack of emplacement changes or other doctrine buffs is a huge slap in the face to British players. Artillery doctrine needs some buffs desperately, and it's synergy with Anvil has been crippled now with the churchill nerfs (airburst was so good with it). Royal engineers play will still be hampered by lack of decent skills outside of command tank.

And yeah, that's theory-craft backed up by my feelings of the current patch. But I'm pretty confident in those calls. Axis players still struggle to counter heavy armour - they just aren't familiar with it and want their Pz4's/StuG's to counter end-game units without teching...

CasTroy, I don't see what is wrong with this thread at all. Discussing stuff like this is what improves things, and when it comes up again you can say "we discussed this last time, and this was agreed". COH2.org has a very passionate community and this sort of response is expected.

I think the main criticism of the tournament format was warranted. The number of sign ups was clearly far larger than expected, and it should of been pushed back, waited for the hotfix, and have players work steadily over the next few weeks.

Casting is, and always will be, subjective. Having casted previously myself back in DOW2 days I've seen how brutal it is and how difficult to both engage audience and inform audience. The problem is Ami has to choose between informing new/interested folks, or entertaining existing players and fans and sponsors. That is a fight he was never going to win. Missing critical stuff happens.

I feel that OCF has been professionally run, but there have also been a lot of mistakes, but those can be learned from and have not ruined the tournament. I do feel sorry for the players and think that some sort of apology/acknowledgement for the format would be forthcoming, especially with Ami having been on the receiving end as much as anybody else.

The fact is this is the first, genuine, large scale tournament for COH2 I have seen for a while, and I hope further events will occur and will be even greater. Thing's can only get better from here.

Between the Gammon bomb and comet nerfs, hammer looks much less appealing compared to Anvil now. Literally just has war speed going for it.