Profile of Kurobane

I can't tell if this is self-deprecating humor, bitter sarcasm, or one of those "artist becomes dissatisfied with their work after completing it" type things.

Well considering that Relic can't be bothered to make maps or do balancing, they might as well give the community the tools to just make our own COH at this point so that we can actually make something good considering Relic is too lazy to do any form of work on their own. Even COH 3 is using the same engine as COH 2. The new color filter that they added is just to make it look different so people won't call them out for essentially making what essentially is another expansion rather than a full blown sequel.

I dont know any of this history.

Brian Wood was an interesting guy. He was a major in music but knew that a career in music would make less money than making games so he learned programming to make games.


Not only was he responsible for creating immersive sound in COH including unit voice lines and other audio things, he also created most of the mechanics for the game such as capturing territory, unit vet and so on. He was such a huge part of Company of Heroe's success that Relic basically made him big boss man and he was in charge of Tales of Valor and all future COH titles. He died in a car accident sadly. He was a genius and full of talent. Much respect for him.

However if you ever felt that COH2 or COH3 was not as good or didn't have the same charm as COH1 its because COH2/COH3 doesn't have the creator that basically made the series. You have all these new people that don't know/care or understand what is COH which is why COH3 is the hot mess that it is now.

COH 3 is just a shitty color filter painted on top of COH 2 (same engine as COH2) just to make it look like something different when in reality its just an expansion to COH 2 but just called COH 3 since they could charge more for it. No real fixes, no real improvements. Pure laziness across the board with the worst UI known to mankind in any gaming software product.


Look at Age of Empires 4. Its basically AOE 2 with less factions and a ton of bugs (hire elevation units sometimes cant hit just like in COH2) which is exactly why AOE 2 has more active players than AOE 4. It offers nothing fundamentally new while being an overall worse experience which is exactly what COH 3 is.

I find Stormtroopers quite good. They're not the type of unit you'd buy 2 of

This is why they should be remade or improved. Literally every other infantry call in ability within the game you wouldn't mind having an extra one or two, wether its Shock Troops, Commandos, Paratroopers, JLI, Fallshirmjagers, every faction can benefit from having extra call in units.

Stormtroopers are not better than the stock option which is the problem. Grenadiers are just too good that you don't need anything else except more grenadiers which is why 4 Grenadiers and Spotting Scopes is basically the current meta for Whermacht. Since Grenadiers are better at anti-infantry and Panzer Grenadiers are better at anti-tank than StormTroopers there is literally no point to Storm Troopers other than a quick 1 time call-in or if you are trying to troll with Close the Pocket.

The M20 would only be reliable from the rear and bazooka on LT would be mandatory.

USF needs the Initial fuel cost of its buildings lowered and added onto the secondary Vehicle upgrade so that they can get easier access to AT guns (which is why Airborne is so strong, you can skip the fuel cost of tech to get both .50 cal and At Gun) but anyway that has been spoken to death about USF needing a rework.

If it comes to late it would be a pain to get the 250 to VET1 so that it could reinforce.

The Infantry halftrack doesn't need to be a copy and paste of the Whermacht version, just like how the P4 is different in both factions the Infantry Halftrack can be different as well. If it could reinforce from the start, and have its MG upgrade locked either behind vet or with an ammo upgrade (it would have shared vet like kubel) it would be fine. Would need some tweaking for sure.


To get back on topic though with Penals, I have always been against Penals being a main part of the Soviet unit as it doesn't make much sense thematically. I would swap Penals and Guards, even if they are functionally the same with same stats and what not just for the thematic point of view it would make make way more sense for Penals to be doctrinal. One of the biggest immersion breakers in COH2 for sure is having an army entirely of "criminals" instead of honorable soldiers.

Imagine if Relic took Grenadiers and swapped them out with Ostruppen. It would be equally as stupid having doctrinal Grenadiers.



One thing that Soviets do need for its Infantry is to smooth out the veterancy. Like they are complete shit and then once Vet 3 hits they get all the godly buffs for example conscripts gain roughly 30% -received accuracy at vet 3. Instead of such a large improvement it should be split across each vet level. So in this example 10% for each veterancy level to smooth it out. They would end up being the same vet 3 as they were before but you wouldn't see such dramatic shifts in performance due to losing a squad making wipes less punishing. Wipes on Soviet units especially Penals are extremely brutal due to lack of upgrades to carry them.

Like for Grenadiers or Obersoldaten for example, you wipe a squad which sucks but its not as big a deal due to most of the power of these units coming from Mg-34/Mg-42. They can still kick ass without Vet.
Soviet units without Vet suck complete balls due to all of their power being in Vet 3.

With the Veterancy smoothed out Penals would be in a much better spot.

Why can't Relic just fucking trust their playerbase enough to try something a little new? Why do they want to just take CoH2 gameplay with a CoH1 coat of paint and slap "CoH3" onto it?

What a joke.

That would require them to actually do some work. Relic is basically like Activision Blizzard in numerous ways.

They are :

- Out of Touch with their player base (Dawn of War 3)
- Reuse the same engine over and over in every game like Call of Duty. They apply a colorful filter to COH3 and they can pretend like they actually did some work while also blinding us with the extreme color brightness (so much so that some dessert maps look like Mars) This allows them to reuse most of their assets. Relic is all about doing the bare minimum and least work possible (just look at how they have missing, misleading or lack of information in tooltips)
-Took them 20+ years to finally add the ability to change hotkeys which has been requested and cried about all the way back in the 90's.