Profile of van Voort

You sure ain't the first person to be harassed by TAB let me tell you

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos and I don't feel the urge to support anyone else in their internet warring just because I wear the same clantags

there's a difference between balancing for low level players and listening to bad players who whine on the forums. Making units easier to use or less punishing helps new players more easily get into the game and doesn't take listening to every noob who just started playing the game.

Nailed it. The attitude of "well, only top XX skilled players count towards balancing" is doing nothing for the over all health of the title.

"Yeah but if we have a perfectly balanced game for e-sports we'll get millions of viewers and everything will be awesome"


Not sure why millions of people are going to want to watch a game that isn't fun or accessible for them to play, maybe I should try hyperventilating into a bag full of paint whilst chanting 'ESPORTS' to myself whilst banging my head against the wall until it does

This is it.

The only Stat we should care about for team games is top 200 vs 200 AT ONLY. Anything else is open to many more factors than a balanced AT match.

However:

1) Not that many people play AT v Random (would like to see some stats on that if we can get them)

Yes ok the usual suspects will drive by and say "Get friends noob" but that's beside the point. But then you are in "Just about any game is fun if played with friends" territory, says nothing about the quality or balance of the game


2) Of those that do play AT, they don't always play with the same people and don't necessarily get ranked.

You may check my player card for evidence of this.

Despite all my 4v4 games I am ranked with I believe only two teams


3) The great advantage of AT over random means the win proportion for AT is very high


4) As a result of all the above you can break top 200 AT on or soon after your tenth game.

I know that, because I've done it


5) AT has access to synergies that don't work in random, and are essentially fringe "exploits" <Cough - fuel drop cough>


So, if the idea is to balance around the best players, you won't get them in 4v4 AT, because I will estimate that 95% of getting ranked as 4v4 AT is playing lots of games rather than anything else

Ok:


In the site banner there above this post you should see:

NEWS FORUMS LIVESTREAMS LADDERS MODS REPLAYS GUIDES


If you mouseover replays you should see the option to UPLOAD

The file to upload can normally be found in:

Documents/My Games/Company of Heroes 2/Playback

By default only the most recent game is there


So if there is a game you want reviewed, but want to keep playing before uploading it, remember to save the replay in COH2 as a separate name (this option is I recall available at the summary screen at the end of the game)


Once you have uploaded it:

You can link it here

Or in replay reviews as below

http://www.coh2.org/topic/34356/welcome-to-the-replay-reviews