Profile of Vaz

I'm going to take the side of the OP on this one. I just got WFA on sale and you can see on my player card that my experience with USF has been painful. I'm still provisioning some game types, but I have yet to win a 4v4 LOL. I can't do anything but laugh at that. I'll play soviet and win and I'll play Axis and hardly ever lose. I play USF and the bigger the game gets, the more frustrating it is. The difference is, I'm not playing stupid like the guy in the videos, I'm actually outscoring everyone in the game in damage and often time kills too.

I think there are a few reasons that combine here to make USF such a pain in particular, but overall hard for newbs. We need newbs in this game or it doesn't grow. If it doesn't grow, Relic won't make money and Relic won't be able to make new shit or keep the lights on. So please cast out all that bullshit about how bad this guy played. That's what newbs are supposed to do.

Instead of focus on his bad play(which he acknowledged in the game is partly responsible), listen to what he is saying. I actually kind of like him, because he's very aggressive, which I find is often a problem with newbs. He wants access to more diverse units at the start. I don't think this is too much to ask for. The teching tree for USF is all over the place with a lot of basic shit being locked behind a substantial fuel wall. There is no standard mortar(unless you want to count the pack howitzer, which costs a lot of fuel to get access to), the basic MG is behind a fuel payment that is not given at the start, unlike everyone else. There is no sniper, lol.

The really sad part is that it feels like fixing the USF will actually require design level changes and Relic has yet to ever go back on design. What's here is here.

The other major point I would bring up is the matchmaking logic. I oppose it greatly. The idea of adding up rank and trying to make allies equal axis as close as possible among all players is dumb. This tends to result in extreme skill mixing making for frustrating experiences for ALL players not in 1v1. I feel all the game should try to get players of equal rank as close as possible into the same game, instead of grabbing a newb here and there to complete the addition method. If you join the matchmaking pool for a 3v3 and your prestige 1 rank 1, the game should try to pull you 2 allies and 3 opponents where all those players are also prestige 1 rank 1. If it cannot find an exact match, then it can expand up or down from that point by say 5 or 10 ranks. With this method you will of course still have varying skills in the games, but you will not end up with some that are well versed in gameplay and others that are fumbling around trying to keep up.

Wouldn't it be much better if the noobs play the noobs and the vets play vets? It would make ranking happen perhaps a little slower, since some of these unfair games pay out a tremendous rank increase if you win the handicap, but each individual game would be much more satisfying to play.

I find it kind of funny you say that with yours set to private. I guess your not starting many balance threads though.

I was thinking it would be fun for coh2.org to feature a kind of balance argument through replay/video for the balance forum. It would work like this:

• Some troll claims that something OP/UP
  
• CoH2.org organizes a custom game between troll and a high ranking player
  
• Troll uses OP thing to try and win battles against top player
  
• If troll refuses, thread is deleted and temp ban issued
  
• If troll fails in-game thread is locked
  
• If troll succeeds thread stays open for further discussion
  
  

Obviously this isn't something that can be done for every thread, but it would be fun to just pick one or two a week and do it. This isn't about whether the person can beat the high ranker (like actually win the custom game), this is about whether the unit actually tips battles unfairly and even a high ranking player can't beat it. Obviously if the defender is a high ranker it may not be entertaining.

Afterwards a replay and video cuts can be uploaded to the thread to either prove wrong or support thought.

I'm talking times faster than that. Like a second or less. The plane drops the bombs then the flairs come down. You'll hear your infantry scream about the plane still, but you have 1 second or less to watch them die, since they won't even begin moving if you hit retreat. It's very cheap, much like 1 second arty in CoH1.

Thanks for posting Cruzz