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Jump back to quoted post22 Feb 2023, 14:09 PMCartoonVillain

Personally, I'm thinking 3-6 months depending on how many issues there are at launch. I also want to see the meta stabilize a bit first.

• I think the most interesting part of a multiplayer game is when the meta has not been defined and players are exploring different options. This keeps games fresh and full of surprises. On the other hand, strong meta games such as CoH 2 in 2023 guarantees repeat strategies (such as Pathfinder meta for USF)
  
  
• Early versions of the game are truer to the game developer's original vision and is less "tainted" by community forum complaints that result in mirroring of gameplay mechanics in the name of balance as we saw in CoH 2. The most enjoyable experiences in CoH 2 was immediately after releases (such as WFA). There we saw exciting elements of the game such as OKW 33% fuel handicap, USF's flamer riflemen and powerful Easy 8s and M1919s, m20 scout car with the bazooka, refuel & refit mechanized company, non-doctrinal Panther and Panzer for OKW, locked trenches for UKF. Unlike most other games such as BF2042, CoD, Starcraft where you do not see significant changes to the design of the game besides bug fixes, Company of Heroes 3 most likely will be a different game within 6 months.
  
  
• You will have a progressively more difficult time joining in multiplayer as the game advances as the community accumulates experience and hours in the game. An example is how new players today struggle in CoH 2 due to facing a veteran community of anywhere between 500 - 5000 hours in the game since 2012
  
  
• Considering Relic Entertainment is unlike other developers, in that they have a track record of listening to community members throughout CoH 2 and CoH 3, there is a benefit in you joining in early as you may have influence in the decisions of Relic.
  
  
• If you have played the playtest and have enjoyed the game, I see no reason to delay it for further inspection. It is understandable if you had qualms with the game, though.
  
  
• If you care about making a name for yourself in the competitive or content creator community, it is a good idea to start early
  

Jump back to quoted post31 Aug 2022, 18:47 PMGbpirate

Would be cool to let players know that they can disable UI for a few seconds to take a cool screenshot!


Tactical Pause and the marketing behind it is a great strategy to onboard new players. There's a GeneralsGentlemen video from a couple years ago talking about RTS games and the statistic that always stuck with me was that, on average, 80% of RTS players only touch single player. The more Relic can do to get those players in and increase sales makes the game look good from the SEGA POV. And the new Italy campaign will increase replay-ability of the singleplayer so we're going to have high player numbers which is a great thing.

For lots of us hardcore multiplayer fans like me tactical pause doesn't matter too much. But for my 60 year old dad he'll love it.

Jump back to quoted post17 Aug 2022, 07:56 AMHannibal

Your ELO was higher than the enemy team's. The ELO estimate expected you to win, but you lost. Therefore, you get a "high" penalty and downranked.

Second game, your ELO and the enemy team's ELO are more closely matched. The game is closer to 50:50, therefore you don't get as much of a bonus if you win.

Basically, everything working as intended.

The same thing occurs if your ELO was always higher than the ELO of the enemy team (which, if I get you right, probably was not the case). Then you get penalized for losing, but don't gain much from winning since you were expected to win in the first place. Also here, everything working as intended.

Jump back to quoted post17 Dec 2021, 20:00 PMPip

You can solve this "problem" by just zooming in yourself though.

Jump back to quoted post16 Dec 2021, 14:27 PMGachiGasm

Well without nitpicking, few core concepts are already coping/improving the ones from vCoH.

Point system alone is probably the biggest change so far, because CoH2 system pretty much affected littery the whole game. And every single point on the map is pretty much point of interest worth trying to capture. Problem with CoH2 system, is not even the amount of points, but rather the fact that usually in total (excluding the VP), there are only 4 points of interests and unless you just want to either delay or cut-off the enemy, there is no reason to go beyond this (unless its 1v1), since regular points are effectively pointless to the economy, making game more static and predictable.

Well and the fact that faction actually have choices now, which will affect the economy. Not the ones UKF had with "Duh, should I delay my AEC by 30 seconds by picking grade" or "Side grades are here to delay tanks".
Those are at least two core differences which arent subject to change.

And if we start speculating about what balance of the game will be, considering relic keeps vCoH in mind, we can expect much less survivable inf, powerfull yet vulnerable tanks, soft-counters actually working as support units (hello deflection damage), over-all slower teching\teching and maybe even the fact that rebuilding LVs\Vehicles or going multiple of them wont put you in instant disadvantage economy vise.

As for commanders, I honestly think, that its just an over-all improvement over CoH2 system, but I have no illusions about them. There still will be top picked commanders and there still will be meta with the most commonly picked abilities, simply because its hard to balance so many battlegroups (since we will be getting more then 3 per faction) and abilities to be equally worth picking. I see them as a massive QoL improvement and game improvement, but not something game changing or ground breaking.

vCoH nailed doctines because there was only 3 per faction with 6 abilities in each, it was much easier to make them distinct and usefull.

But to make it clear, I didnt play vCoH super competitively back in the day so I might not have super deep knowlage about it, but it was enouth to see the difference between it and CoH2 in how gameplay changed and especially after all CoH2 patches.

Point being, a I hear a lot that CoH2 is masterpiece RTS (at least gameplay wise), while imo a lot was really downgraded in CoH2. QoL and UI was improved in it, thats for sure, but not the gameplay. Thats why I doubt that they will like CoH3, if they didnt like vCoH gameplay in a first place, since its a reference for Relic now.