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I mostly agree with Romeo. The design for USF tools are sufficient, just some of them need some tweaks to fully fit in to the multiplayer environment. Other problems are issues with other factions efficiency just being too damned good. Riflemen work well throughout the game, but since okw's obers are broken (which I'm sure that comment about lategame infantry came from), it seems like there are no viable late game infantry. That's a problem with OKW, not USF. You really need to amass a lot of experience with USF to fully understand it, they have the highest micro tax, but there is usually an answer to all problems.

I do not agree with that. If you "pre order" a car fx are you okay with it if it sucks? Companys offer the pre order to be sure to sell something, for that reason they offer you some exclusive extras. it has been like that for ages. I dont think the majority of the gamers of CoH2 are totally invested in helping the company. Pre order has always been for the exclusive content, and i could have accepted it if they had released it some months later, but not on the same day, for practically the same price!

I don't know how old you are, but this isn't the whole story. It actually became most popular in the 90's if I'm not mistaken, when an awesome game would release and could not be found. I remember multiple times where I would call all the stores I could possibly think of to try and find the newest release I wanted and all of them telling me sold out. Back then, bigger stores that happened to sell games had NO way of giving you any kind of way to guarantee getting what you wanted. No preorder, no waitlist, no ship it when it comes in or holding, just nothing. Here in America Babbages and EB, which only sold games, did do pre-orders. So any game that you really really wanted the day it came out, had to be purchased at these places by putting money down on a reservation/pre-order. Not doing this tended to be a great risk.

The little extras that started coming with the games likely originated from Japan, where they would include a lot of cool little trinkets with game sales. As the game industry got bigger, some of the Japanese trinkets followed Japanese games sales in other countries. Here in America, there were trinkets from American games, but they were usually distributed another way (like posters where distributed in magazines).



Fast forward all the way to how we are gaming on steam. Pre-ordering is a completely stupid idea, from the initial reason. There is an infinite number of possible copies (likely not really infinite, but the number is way higher than the total amount of intelligent beings in existence on Earth), so it's impossible for the game to sell out and not be available to purchase. The ONLY way that a company selling a digital game can hope to entice anyone to put down the money first, is with trinkets, now in an electronic format. That is what Fox Company represented. The problem with Relic's implementation is that the trinket is too damn good to seal away and not try to monetize to those who didn't pre-order. TBH, the only thing that is anything close to good, is the "pre-loading" of some preordering, where you have all the product assets already on your machine and simply have to wait for an authorization to play.



TLDR: Preorders initially came about from games selling out, extras came later.

I don't know why USF vehicles seem to suffer so much from this. Sometims I get stupid crap like this with SU85 as well, but never with ostheer vehicles (yet).

pre-ordering sucks. Most of the time it does not benefit the customer.

I've been noticing sometimes in the last few patches, including the current one, that sometimes Grenadiers rifle grenade will shoot before it's animation, delaying all detection to significantly less than 1/2 a second. I don't know why it occurs or if it's controllable, but here is some proof and documentation.

I'm including a replay, which you can see the event at the Church, between a Grenadier and Airborne squad. The rg is launched and right after the midpoint of the arch, the grenadier begins the animation, at time 19:17. Here are some photos if you don't want to download the replay.

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