Profile of wayward516

I like the idea of having more upgrades as a separate talking point from how the Soviet (or German) tiers work. But it can be hard when you choose to go T1 to be aggressive, then feel like you need to tech to T2 for Maxims or AT guns, pushing back your t3 or t4.

I do prefer to have a large and happy community in a game. It's definitely a factor in my enjoyment. From what I see (many complaining about the lack of lobbies etc) others in the community do care about the size and quality of the community, as well.

EDIT - why would you not want a large group of passionate people to share your hobby with you?

Also, the bigger the community, the better matchmaking works. That's important to me as well

Thanks guys! I guess it's just frustrating seeing all the negativity and not personally agreeing with much of it.

I don't consider myself qualified to talk about balance at a high level, and mostly blame myself (or teammates, let's be honest) when I or my team loses. I'm still at the level where it's quite possible to outplay someone or to simply be outplayed, and/or maybe my mindset is just one that would rather take the blame for a loss than to blame the designers of a game?

Either way, thanks for the encouraging words. Maybe I'll see some of you eventually in ladder

Lol looks like you found a problem with the ice mechanic I guess? That's pretty funny tbh. Not a Kv8 issue though, i'd guess that any weapon with an area of effect could have produced that result

So, this is in response to the overwhelming negativity in the COH2 community... I got into the COH franchise starting with COH2. I did not play COHO, VCOH or any of the original titles.

I came to COH after becoming disenfranchised with SC2, which is mechanically complex and has an evolving meta and welcoming community, but requires even the average player to devote tens of hours a week to perfecting and practicing build orders over and over just to float at the same level, to say nothing of actually improving.

Furthermore, I'm kind of getting bored with the average base building macro element in most RTS games. My favorite part of RTS games is the tactical unit control. I enjoy Wargame: ALB, but its community is even smaller than COH2's at the moment (when I'm on COH2 there's usually about 16-1800 ppl logged in, and when I check out ALB, there seem to be ~600). I'm sure when the next Men at War and Blitzkrieg games come out, I'll enjoy those as well.

I spent the better part of a year before COH2's launch deeply involved in the development of End of Nations, which has since derailed to become something of a MOBA more than a tactics or RTS game.

All that to say, there aren't too many other games out there that focus almost entirely on unit and map control over base building and economy management, without going to something like DOTA. But aside from that, I just like COH2.

I like snow maps, and don't mind blizzards. There aren't many RTS/tactics games where the map is interactive and changes over the course of a match, and I think it's neat. I like the Relic model, even if sometimes RNG can get a bit too extreme, I (personally) feel that it suits the game better than a purely deterministic model like SC2 has.

I even like the Doctrines/commanders (though I admit I haven't played COH1 to experience that doctrine model) which allow me to tailor my tools available to me in each match.

Are there problems with the game? Sure! But that's not my point. I enjoy playing.

But, the game seems to be leaking players. It wasn't too long ago when I'd check the Steam community when I got home from work and I'd see over 4000 players. And of course, here and on Reddit, and on Facebook, there's a solidly negative stance on the game. I was hoping i'd get years of gameplay out of COH2, and if the community doesn't implode I still hope to.

So, I guess to sum all this up and bring it back 'round, I wanted to ask y'all if you think it's even worth sticking with and continuing to learn COH2, or if it's just not worth the effort of investing the time... ?