Profile of pigsoup

RIP OKW in 1v1...

Relic really needs to take the schreck off of Volks, make them not completely useless for killing things, re-work vet 5 and get rid of the silly income penalty.

Maybe Fusilier spam will rise again...? Probably not though. No way to deal with M20 and Vet 3 double BAR rifles.

All hail our new USF and Ost overlords.

Soviet is probably screwed without the KV-8. I guess Cons are still good for the first 5 minutes, after which point they're just free vet pinatas for LMG grens.

word.

Just watch the Operation Charlie Fox tournament and compare it to the last season of COH1 SNF... COH2 isn't even close, regrettably.

Like, the Commanders lack strategic in-game depth, add a P2W issue (MOBA model does not apply in a full price RTS) and are largely bloat. VCOH's doctrines had more depth, were more interesting & were easier to grasp. The tech system is a mess all around and makes for none of the interesting meta-game stuff of COH1. The plays in COH 1 were bigger, lethality was a lot greater in terms of early mistakes actually costing the game rather than games dragging out for ages despite being wildly uneven.

Even the meta in the early stages of COH2 was healthier than it is now despite balance being all over the place, maphacks are rife, playerbase is a bit toxic and watching the Charlie Fox tournament... it's just not particularly exciting, which is a shame because the fan enthusiasm here is just something deserved by a much better game.

you mean Ami or Yoink saying "will he go BARs or M8" like a million times?

depth is depth but the vcoh depth didn't do much for strategy variety in SNF4. extremely great season but in terms of variety of strategies deployed, it was same as SNF5's con spam vs. gren spam.

i like murica.

see, given the optimization and the strong impression I'm getting that the designers of CoH2 are dumber than the designers of CoH1 (agree?), I really just want to know what the designers of CoH1 are doing right now.

someone in other thread mentioned THQ trying to rush this game whilst going bankrupt made this game badly optimised and not fully "done". As in side armour was clearly intended to be in the game evident by in game description mentioning side armour specifically, but it is not in the game.

(educated and totally non-far-fetched theory): Also, if you saw some concept art for the soviets, their main HQ had three variations that it would have morphed into after choosing a "doctrine" like in vcoh. I assume they were going to be involved with some heavy fuel investment.

Because of that, I think the shallow dlc commander design was developed later in the game due to
a. relic thinking this will give the game more longevity, which it does in a way (by releasing new commanders which they don't right now).
b. THQ or SEGA made relic to do this to make more moneeeeeei.
c. or a little of both.

Another thing to note here is that the initial vast quantity of commanders that existed when the game launched are full of recycled abilities while the new commanders they released after, partisan, b4, CAS commanders are very unique relatively. the uniqueness is also same with all USF,OKW and UKF commanders.

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In terms of depth, there are a lot of different strategies you can deploy with all factions but OKW I'd say (1/5). There is no heavy fuel upgrade options which means less depth in itself, but there is enough depth nonetheless.

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so, no, I would not simply say Relic is "dumber". that is a poor choice of word.

^ well said marcus