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Thread: HOLY POTATOES !!! patch 3/2526 Mar 2014, 10:38 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2014, 10:17 AMjackill2611 Kar.98 k is not a carabine-type rifle! RTF Wiki! Ugh, I have to step in here this hurting me but both sides are right: The K of K98 does translate as Carbine as the K98 was much shorter than the Gewehr 98 which was the standard rifle of the Imperial German Army in WW1. Carbines tended to be rifles that were made shorter for use by cavalry or second line forces because it took much much less room to carry. The term Carbine that Relic uses is the video game definition of the term, Carbine in video games tend to be semi-auto rifles but less damage than the single shot rifles. I believe one of the reasons why carbine is used like this is because pretty much every American made carbine tended to be semi-auto like the Henry Rifle or Spencer repeating rifle from the US Civil War... Its just like Americans calling a game Football even though the rest of the world does not... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Make War not Love14 Feb 2014, 20:03 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2014, 14:33 PMGreeb Well, I partially agree with you, but we need to distinguish between design failures or simply bugs. Rome II had (and still has) a LOT of bugs. But for really terrible design failures I only would say that city micromanagement and lack of seasons are the most important. I can cope even with the ugly interface. Politics, agents, etc are been impreved in each patch to be as good as was in Shogun 2. I'm not picking on you or anything but how can you sum up the political system in Rome 2, in Shogun 2 it worked like this: You gain fame by the size of you realm, armies and the victories in battle. Once you fame has reached a certain threshold Realm Divide happens which grants a massive opinion modifier to the AI which will cause the remaining factions to get hostile to the play increasing the challenge to the player. Rome 2 on the other hand... is... well you have to use certain generals or else a percentage increases and if it get too high or low this amount of units spawns in one of you major cities: Even though they wrote a guide that was DEMANDED by the hardcore fans, the Political system in Rome 2 makes little sense... But CoH2, instead, has much less bugs but it has a pile of absurd design mistakes. A lot of units and abilities seem designed by a guy who hasn't played a single minute to the game, like Tiger Ace, strafes, pre-patched Opel trucks, Hit the dirt, etc... We have DLC commanders, lack of lobbies, game modes, leaderboards... a lot of things that aren't bugs. Oh my god no! Have you seen Romes 2 "Mutiplayer" It has none of the above you listed, with laughable balance, going to be P2W DLC soon AND MP in mainline TW is being dumped for the F2P Total War: Area which is not going to happen to CoH2... Which game did worse? Both did it wrong, but at least Rome II had good intentions that failed when implemented and day by day they are being fixed. Fixing day by day? The AI still sucks, transports ships are still broken even though its easy to fix them, optimization still sucks harder than CoH2 (somehow), politics still makes no damn sense, the music is still terrible and at least in CoH2 very rarely it feels like I am the Eastern Front but that is still more than Rome 2. Fixing the terrible bad decisions that CoH2 developers did seems to me impossible right now. And we will never see a good CoH2 game until mods will be allowed again. And they said the same of Civ V which had the wonderful Brave New World adding in the depth that was miss and they said the same about Red Orchestra 2 until Rising Storm made it more deeper... I know that that fans tend to hate their game more than other games (for example a hater of remake Devil May Cry may think that the new Thief looks good) but really, you CoH2 guys have it so good and if you want to disagree then watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXkWfEIALxM I have been a Total War fan from the very first Shogun, I am been a fan of CoH form the first vCoH beta and at least I know what went wrong with CoH2, they tried to go mass market making the game a bit more simple but with Rome 2 they done stuff that would make no sense to newbies and only serves to piss of hardcore fans like myself... In: Lobby
Thread: Make War not Love14 Feb 2014, 12:17 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2014, 11:48 AMbilsantu Okay, but did you play with the ninth patch? If not, patch seven doesn't matter anymore Oh yes and its still mostly shite, think about it in CoH2 term, boats are all of sudden added to the game and ANY land unit when moving onto the water is transformed into the Bismarck which are able to bypass any land forces and directly attack the base of the other player but the AI is so rotten that they land the ships and the units dont jump off... O/T slightly, Rome 2 is the most disappointing release in years. I love the TW games. LOVE THEM (calm down Beltfed) yet Rome 2 is so... dull. And unintuitive. And broken. Is one of the worst thing in the game, I mean I can play game like Victoria 2 which is a mine field hard of to understand gameplay when it comes to the Industry side or Crusader Kings 2 relatively complex political systems but nothing in Rome 2 makes any fucking sense even though its all dumbed down, like why is the ability of my Roman infantry is them being whipped, what causes civil wars which make them spawn armies from nowhere and why the fuck do all of the agents play the same? Its like CoH2 is the Rage of RTS games, being made by great people and is a bit of let down next to the Colonial Marines mess of Rome 2... In: Lobby
Thread: Make War not Love14 Feb 2014, 10:31 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2014, 09:53 AMbilsantu Even after 9 huge patches? 10 is on the way as well according to news. ahem Calling them huge is a bit of a stretch, I mean this was the AI just 2 months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOqpi-g3Yg I was not was of the ragers 5 months ago demanding CA head but after 5 months fack all has be done to fix the game and the campaign lacks any sort of challenge next to Shogun 2. One of the reasons why I liked CA games over the Paradox was because of how buggy Paradox games used to be but with Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 Paradox has really upped their game and CA has not, why would I want to play Rome 2 campaign when Crusader King 2 has more depth and makes a million times more sense... Also as a note to both CA and Relic, I have not spent a single penny on both ROme and CoH2's DLC but I dont hate DLC as I spent a shit ton of cash on Paradox's DLC (although I only really buy the gameplay packs). Pay to Win Commanders or Cutting out of part of the campaign map and charging a tenner? No thank you but Rajahs Of India? I want DLC to offer MORE game than DLC that forces you to buy it so that orginal does not seem so shitty... In: Lobby
Thread: Make War not Love14 Feb 2014, 09:45 AM Normally I would not make overly negative comments about games but I out of CoH2 and Rome 2 I feel that only CoH2 is fixable. IMO CoH2 is in the same position as Civ 5, it fixed some things but forgot that it was 'depth' that drew people to the game and its possible for a good expansion could fix things. Rome 2 on the other hand is just... broken... for a player who loves to play Total War games on VH and then legendary it just does not work as the AI is just bad, so bad I would say its like trying to play Chess by yourself. Everything great from Shogun 2 was gutted, the mutiplayer was guttered, the agents, the battles, the civil war, the graphics were all guttered... I mean CoH2 is an okay game but the problem is that I a have a whole host of games that are just "better" than it ATM and it does not draw me in as vCoH did... In: Lobby
Thread: Way does the T34 as a female Sound FX29 Aug 2013, 21:58 PM One of the more famous female tank drivers was Mariya Oktyabrskaya who was so badass that her life sounds like a movie, her husband was killed by the Nazis and rather than weeping she bought a tank with her own savings which she then turned onto the Germans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Oktyabrskaya Much like any minority serving in a war soviet women were forgotten afterwards even though made a impact on the war, for example during the rush towards Stalingard the German 16th Panzer Division, despite having some of the best tanks in the war at the time, were stalled by some young Russians girls manning AA guns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1077th_Anti-Aircraft_Regiment_(Soviet_Union) As for the west, had women not taken roles in very dangerous munitions factories then no one would have had anything to shoot with and the only nation that did not use women to the fullest were the Nazis until the towards the end of the war... In: Lobby
Thread: Dear Relic, can I have a word please? (Russian history)1 Aug 2013, 21:28 PM Hm, another person who had to sign on to point something out, some of the more vocal have pointed out about the Men of War games are more "balanced" but it feels like people are selectively remembering stuff. I have a love for Men Of War (and Soldiers: Heroes of World War II) so I am pretty shocked that nobody seems to remember how the plot for the Russian campaign went, after a pretty bad ass defense of train station (I swear that Relic played MoW too) our hero is wounded and even though he is made into a PoW he acts like a total bad ass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lQ8Dm_11LE He then escapes with the help of some Partisans bringing some important intelligence to HQ but the NKVD gets wind of this and they send him into a Penal Battalion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yS4ehgzWIM Oh look, the NKVD are sending these men as a massive human wave directly into a MG42, letting them run through a mine field and then shooting anyone who tries to run! We should have MoW banned for being so offensive! sighs There are some problems with the CoH2 campaign, I think the whole problem comes from it trying to be anti-war but the plot is so weak people assume it being anti-russian. There are lots of western media that shows their armies less than positive light, for example one of the great war movies is Paths Of Glory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtVNDvwGMo Showing off the meat grinder that wars can become, you may say "Hey but the French are not show killing their own" then its clear case you have not seen the whole movie, the movie is about 3 men being sentenced to death (even though one of them is a hero) and its a major plot point that the French General in charge wanted to to drop artillery on his own men for cowardliness but the battery commander refuses. There are lots of issues with CoH2, most of them I feel have not been pointed out and I have to say this for now; you say the Germans are like the shark in Jaws but yet unlike the Shark in Jaws you see the shark killing people and being a threat to the town... (also for some reason the youtube tags wont work...) In: Lobby