Profile of BabaRoga

I don't understand what people expected from stream:

Information? Do you ever get any information from stream? No, why expect any at all.

Answers? You know you are only getting answers to questions that don't have negative implications on quality of COH2. Why bother asking at all?

Expecting that your insightful view on state of the game will suddenly make Relic devs realize their beliefs and views are wrong? They have same strong belief that their way is the right way as you feel strongly about your views. Don't bother typing

Expecting good balanced E-sport game to be priority? I think Relic has made it perfectly clear that that isn't what they want the game to be. Single player campaign and cool units and abilities with nasty super strong tanks that can troll everything in comp stomps is where the money is...
If they have time and resources, sure they will have a look at balance and MP.

Have problem with NDA? Then voice your displeasure and stop watching streams until they loosen NDA. If enough people do that, then Relic might do something about it.

I Have no problem with streams because I don't watch useless 'we are excited about cool new stuff but cannot give you any info" Why would I watch it.

I still have faith that things will turn around

The goofy thing about the 300 *ahem* 400 *ahem* whatever levels is that they still max out at an arbitrary number. If you're gonna count xp for everything everyone does (so basically it's a meter of time spent in-game doing something), why stop counting at some made up number? It just boggles the mind how ridiculous that system is. But really they can just leave it because nobody cares about it anyway.

What they need to do is introduce a system that relates to skill in automatch. Guess what, they already have one, it's called ELO. So show everybody their own ELO (at least), and show enemy ELO and all players ELO changes in the endgame stats screen. That's such an easy change from a programming/design perspective and it would make such a huge difference to people who actually play this game to compete.

I have to applaud Relic on their effort to be honest. It must have been very hard work taking supper successful game as COH and making sequel that was hitting rock bottom many times.

Even now, we have so many fanatic COH players that circle game forums but don't play.

This game has been sabotaged by multitude of weird and stupid decisions from the get go.

Ladderboards
Ranks
Custom matches
Lobby (whispers, friends, etc)
Automatch (still cannot search as random for example)
Sledge hammer balancing
Pay to Win commanders

Saddly these are ^ only few of the decisions Relic made that drove playerbase away in large numbers.

IMHO this game should have had 10k+ players averaging after 6 months, not dropping down to just over 2,000 at the peak of Relic's refusal to pay attention to playerbase feedback.


At best my expectation is that Relic might do some half baked attempt to do something about it and deliver something in useless, unpractical form. Like they did with Leaderbords or custom game lobby

Lost all faith

-Someone outplayed me

The only possible reason for losing, rest are just excuses.

Mistakes are forced by opponent

-Random team games? Outplayed by other team and bad automatch balance...

Brian Wood died long after ToV was released http://www.inquisitr.com/84128/game-designer-brian-wood-dies-protecting-his-pregnant-wife/ At the time he was working on CoH: Online

compare the credits for CoH and OF

pretty much identical

ToV is where it starts getting a bit different

Well I stand corrected, so much for that theory then

@ ^
Thats because same people who designed Brits and PE designed COH2. VCOH was designed by different people (as far as I know)
At least people who make final design decisions