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None of what they said really explains the system or the plans they have for it. All it said is that "War Spoils drop randomly when you play games", which if people hadn't figured that out by now, I'd be worried for them. The only bit that we could've guessed and didn't know for certain was how the length of the game effected it(Which is a function I don't see the point of).

Hopefully they have something bigger planned for War Spoils, a system like this has so much potential and I don't want to see it wasted.

I agree, I wanted to hear an overall philosophy with some insight into some of the creative things they could do w/ a system like this. This "announcement" was basically just a video of Greg skydiving. While that's pretty cool, I wanted some real info on the warspoils system that we haven't already figured out on our own.

It would be really nice if there was a function that would let you tag a target as a priority yourself, that way you could issue move commands without the turret resetting.

So in the ~15 1v1s I've played so far, 3 of them have been d/c's within the first 10 mins. Each time I got given a loss.

2 of these situations, the loss made sense because the connection problem was on my end(I could tell that because I lost connection to Steam etc.)

The third time however gave me the loss even though there was no issues on my end in terms of connectivity.

Is this a bug or intended feature?

I've had the same issue : (

Looks like more info is coming friday

http://www.coh2.org/topic/18932/dlc-commanders-for-western-front/page/2#post_id169675

I think a simple post from Relic explaining their philosophy regarding the warspoils is due. Here are a few of my first impressions.

-I like the idea of warspoils in general, and I love that they are moving away from exclusively paid content. However, there are plenty of people out there that would rather not invest the time farming the commanders and would rather purchase them right off. Giving players the option to purchase the commanders or earn them through game play gives people freedom to play the game the way they want, and removes the P2W accusations, as long as the drop rate is fair. This is why popular F2P games like LoL use this model.You can farm content by simply playing the game, or if you are impatient/would rather look at your time from a practical standpoint (1 hour at even a minimum wage job will pay for 2 commanders that would take dozens, or perhaps more, hours of play time to farm).

-The average player doesn't have hundreds of hours to play and try and farm the commander they want, but I think the warspoils system could provide some interesting incentive. Maybe something like a ~5 game win streak could give you an increased commander drop chance. There are plenty of creative opportunities here, anyone else have any ideas?

Another issue I have is that the vanilla factions still have the old commander system, which feels extremely disjointed. I love that the western front armies have much less overlap in the trees, and each one feels like it has a unique flair. This is in stark contrast to the mass produced feel of the vcoh2 commander layout. IMO a commander overhaul of the original factions has been long, long overdue.