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Jump back to quoted post20 Jan 2017, 19:48 PMMr.Smith

The Penal demo charge, is, actually the same as the sticky AT satchel people have been seeing throughout WBP.

Jump back to quoted post6 Jan 2017, 08:15 AMCastledCard

I think that the Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer is lacking in basic functionality. I don't mean game play, I'm talking about options. Things that are just the basics in other multiplayer games.

Kick players in game

I can't count the amount of times I've had a player AFK, or troll in my matches. Being able to kick players while playing the actual match would be awesome and help half of my issues with the multiplayer features. As the host I should either be able to instantly kick someone from the match, or initiate a vote kick. I can kick anyone while in the lobby, so why can't I in game? It'd be simple to implement as all Relic needs to do is add the option to kick players from the player list in game.

Rank requirement

As I play more and more of Company of Heroes 2, and improve my skill, I'm getting tired of having teammates with only 6.5 hours on the game in my match against expert bots. I also have Spearhead on which is a lot harder than vanilla. I don't want to kick these new players just for being new because I'd feel like a dick, so being able to set a level requirement to keep these new players out would be awesome. Having PvP matches would be funner for me as there is always that noob, or two that make the match super unbalanced.

Improved workshop support

Another thing that happens constantly is someone in my match not being able to download the mods I have enabled. The most prevalent one people can't download is a very small mod that increases the population limit to 150 and allows me to zoom the camera out more. It's probably less than a MB big. People not being able to download maps, stuff like that. One of the biggest issues for players with slow internet speeds are downloading skins. The best way I can think to fix this is to either A. Make it so workshop skins, victory strikes and decals aren't required to download to start the match, or B. Give players an option to to not have to download anything in the first place other than the map, tuning pack, and win condition. I can't tell you how many times I've gone from a full lobby to an empty lobby because someone couldn't download the map, or something.

Edit:

Some of you guys gave some good ideas I didn't even think of.

Reconnect to game matches

As someone who's crashes quite a bit after the winter patch... yes.

Create a custom server name

As you all know, the server name is just your username. It wasn't like this in CoH 1 and it was a cool thing that was there. I could finally let people know what mod I'm using and other stuff by just looking at my server.

Voice communication

As someone who uses a hotkey program to make my arrow keys WASD, it can make typing a little tricky. Voice communication would be pretty cool to have considering how many Russian's I get in my game.

Ability to close slots

Jump back to quoted post13 Jan 2017, 20:02 PMMr.Smith

If we go for the PTRS-flavoured Penals (especially the ones you've been seeing for 1.3-1.5), their PTRS will not bet gated behind the AT grenade upgrade. This is because:
- AT Grenade upgrade is rather expensive
- PTRS Penals are already a downgrade for most part, compared to guards; we don't want to make them any worse than that.

However, from v1.6, and for a few versions, we will be trialing a PTRS-free version of Penals.

The reason locking flamers behind molotovs makes sense is so that you can't rush flamer + scout car and murder everything (without very little consequences). We'll see, though.