Profile of Tivook

What I don't get is why the social part of gaming has been left in the shadows as of late?

The most popular online games that I played, Diablo 1 and 2, Starcraft 1, warcraft 3, Company of Heroes 1 and a plethora of MMO's had excellent ways to communicate with others, both ingame and on the forums.

They had ladder systems, customizable chatrooms, map editors and also a super easy way to share those maps etc.

Where do you think DotA came from? From the map editor. That map has now been remade into standalone games that earn millions of dollars a year.

Nowadays, games are shipped completely stripped of one of the most important things about online gaming; Ladders to compete with and chatrooms where you can talk with people who enjoy doing the same thing you do.

I like COH2 but to ship it without any chatrooms or ladders is just weak. Extremely weak.

Diablo 3 is another weak example that comes to mind. No ladder and super weak social tools. What were they thinking?

and buff the pak as well

Well, I wouldn't mind it really because this game should be about strategy, not about having luck with the RNG i.e being lucky wether or not you penetrate or hit the enemy tank.

If the Pak would hit more accurately I would be pleased because lets face it, field guns are vulnerable, slow and have a narrow angle of attack and a player should be able to rely on it actually hitting the enemy.

I liked the way it worked in COH1 where americans would solve the penetration issue by being able to spend munitions to activate penetrating rounds.

I'm not saying we should copy COH1 but something needs to be done because I build ZIS-3 all the time and I always end up asking myself why oh why I didn't build a SU-85 instead.

Also, something I wonder is why the field guns in this game have so short viewrange? In my opinion, field guns should have a permanent field of view like a SU-85 have in "range mode" where you have no vision on the sides but good vision forward.

This would improve both the pak and zis-3's role as a rear defense gun vulnerable to flanking manouvers.

They should just buff the soviet ZIS-3 so that it actually is able to penetrate anything, especially the Panther, and the problem would be solved.

If so the soviets would have a hard, vulnerable counter. Until then, they won't.

Until then, the ZIS-3 will remain an inaccurate, slow firing, seldom penetrating piece of garbage.

I really hate the RNG in COH2. Random building collapse is one thing, completely random grenade damage is another.

Consistency is very important in strategy games because a good player shouldn't lose because he got shit rolls on his dices.

Whoever decided that; yeah, the more random the game is the better should be taken out back and taste the luger to the back of the head.

Because of the domino effect. I suggest you click and hold the shiftkey when you're laying mines to put spaces between each mine.