Profile of elchino7

Step 1: Watch minimap. How much territory did my opponent cap in the first minutes of the game? If low amount, think if this translate in the opponent wasting time building tech or creating a unit which can't cap.

Alternative: does anyone know if you can still see XP kickers through fog of war? They removed building shadows for a reason but not sure if they removed the alternative method of knowing soviet openings.

Step 2: STOP BEEN GREEDY against teching shock units opening. Obviously you are gonna be forward because your opponent have less unit on the field at a certain point and your capping capabilities are higher.

Step 3: STOP BEEN GREEDY and now STUPID when you are close to hitting the 60 muni mark. For all that it matters, you are mostly gonna have similar resource income so you can check your own resource pool to more or less gauge the opponent resources and timing. If you are fighting forward on enemy territory, with a low health/model count, separated from any other friendly unit, you only have yourself to blame for any loss on retreat.

Not a surprise given how many crazy changes the game has gone through. People get sicking of #adapting.

I played COH1 from very early on, I sort of remember one major patch that changed the game pre PE but that was only once, and it was nothing like the constant relearning you have to do with COH2 every patch. The game probably could have kept more people if it wasn't for that, every time I've come back it's always "wtf is going on now?" Hard to keep even casuals...

Not talking about "pros" playing the game, more so of people who were a joy to discuss with. People who contribute to the game, even if just by discussing matters in a constructive way.

Regarding the retention of players, i'll say i have to disagree. Just take a look https://steamcharts.com/app/231430#All

This is the only reason we still have any kind of resemble of support whatsoever after 5 years. ANY game would love to have similar player retention throughout time.

This is why i don't want to have any kind of advice or conversation with "pros". Everything comes around "learning to play"

"Pro caster", not pro player. I do enjoy his videos but there should be a reminder that the channel is called PROPAGANDAcast for a reason.

This is how you teach/advise someone. Does this thing exist in this forum? No, not at all.

https://www.coh2.org/forum/2/state-office

Shame that most REAL pro players have already burn out through out the years.

I think you are missing a point here n there about how systems works for each game, including CoH.

https://www.coh2.org/news/54445/the-ladder-1v1-matchmaking

Most if not all games uses different types of ELO system, whether they show it or keep it a secret number. Rank/divisions are just a way to give players some kind of feedback on where they are ranking compared to other players and give them some sense of "progress" or objectives to achieve.

When you have a big playerbase, SEVERAL THOUSANDS active players at any given moment, you can take the luxury of putting restriction based on leagues despite MMR discrepancies.

In the case of CoH, you have an ELO system which determines your ranking and the level tells you on which percentile you are within a faction. Top 200 onwards gets lv from 16 to 20. But 201 and above, that's not the case.
A faction requires 4000 players to have properly all lvs distributed. Factions with less players will have missing levels.

Accordingly, faction balance is almost irrelevant in this respect, because imbalances are compensated by matching with a better or worse player. Obviously, this does not work for the top players, as "better" players are simply not available (another reason for balancing from the top).

Thanks for bringing this up. There are certainly better ways to show skill level than absolute ranking or an artificial level 1-20. I think a good way to measure if a faction is up or op is to see if the matchmaker consistantly puts a factions 80th percentile player against let's say another faction's 65th percentile player in a match that should raise red flags. It would mean that the first faction is underpowered since a more skillful player is consistently pitted against a lesser skilled opponent and still have a competitive match. The only way this goes wrong is if there is ample evidence that the average player of one faction is simply better than the average player of another faction.

The ranked playerbase has shrunk throughout the years that you don't really have a proper way to qualify how much better a certain percentile of the base is compared to one or another. Even the arbitrary top 200 have fallen short since a year or 2 ago.
Add to that the CoH ELO sytem is "exploitable" in the sense that basically "ANYONE" can rank top 200 through a small sample of 10/20 games by playing against potatoes or by spamming games and having a W/R above 50/55.

Gauging "balance" through matchmaking is a joke, because players are not restricted from playing against opponents which are much better or worst than them. CoH2charts became relevant only when the difference between factions was at +10% or more on WR. Even worst, the site was a general faction performance which had no information about the specifics match ups against each other.

https://www.coh2.org/topic/36347/cruzz-s-the-more-you-know/post/672650

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7gwy65JLbSRMEJ3M2ZPandMMW8

Download it and then open it up with any browser.