Anybody felt unimpressed by the trailer? The game feels more like Red Alert than the old BK. BK is all about giving a limited number of unit and stacked them against nearly impossible odds, not base-building like Starcraft. BK 2 gives multi a nice idea, call-ins unit after gaining points, why do Nival stray from that?
Dude, this game battle scale is much larger than COH, remember the first BK came when most RTS is about basebuilding and annahilating your opponent, with BK u actually have to run around, capping map, setting AT gun ambush(AT gun in BK is VERY EFFECTIVE against tanks, tanks can only move when AT gun is cleared, not yolo around like COH, the game tanks actually have side armor, and true sight in around 2000? The two games are completely different, it is more like MOW: AS on a larger scale than COH.
Its the 30-40th most played game on steam. The players swing between 3000-5000.
I hardly call that dead. It is still the N.o 1 ww2 rts when it comes to players.
Also, WW2 + rts just doesn't amaze many people, unfortunately, in general WW2 games are way out of flavor these days.
Look at red orchestra 2, that not only had a free weekend, but was free if you picked it up during the weekend, if you got it , it was free FOREVER.
Yet still in 2 weeks of being completely free, it once again dropped to the 1000-2000 player range.
The reason why coh 2 is not popular is because 90% of vcoh players played nothing but 4v4 brit scheldt annihilation slugfests. COH 2 is not the game for this kind of crap. Hence the low playerbase.
The game could be completely pay 2 win, could have way more horribly unbalanced commanders than it has now, be 100% RNG, but if they added proper player lobbies, the playerbase would skyrocket.
Look at war thunder, horrible damage models, flight models to the point that a bomber can outmanuever a fighter, yet has way more players than COH 2,granted war thunder is completely free, but red orchestra 2 was also completely free to pick up recently.
Than how about MOW2: Assualt squad? Compared a traditional RTS with a F2P game (War Thunder) is not really fitting?