Profile of Mortar

so many good memories, so sad to hear that Coh2 doesn't live up to its predecessor.

Listen, I've watched this thread get essentially dominated by Basilone's posts. Parts of what he has written is true but the majority of what he writes is simply his opinion (and wrong IMHO).

Try the game. Make up your own mind. That's the only way to really know how it compares for you, because I can tell you Basilone's opinions are nowhere close to mine or most of the playerbase of Coh2.

But don't trust me... simply take a look at his post history going back over the months to see what he and others have said in response. It's eye opening.

Why is vaulting important?

Because in vCoh, sandbagging a bridge could block inf from advancing. I mean....

well, my understanding is that Relic's team changed significantly post vCoH, and that OF had some different designers, which is probably why OF felt very out of touch with what made vCoH great. DoW2 also indicated a lack of understanding of what made vCoH great, since it somewhat haphazardly ported some of its core ideas and felt like softcore poor man's CoH.

Thanks for the responses, I have a few more questions:
1. Regarding p2w: are steam sales for the DLC good? And which factions have strong vanilla commanders? I usually play exclusively a single faction and dabble in the others from time to time to get a feel for their timings/style. If I could pick one of the 5 factions which has a good vanilla commander and be done with it I would be happy.

2. I played mostly PE/USF in vCoH, which factions are similar?

3. Is relic planning more factions/commanders in the future?

4. I just moved and haven't set up a gaming pc, I just have an ok laptop. I can run vCoH on medium settings at a pretty decent framerate but anything higher and it's over. Someone said it was poorly optimized, should I wait until I've bought a new rig?

1. Define "good". I've seen commanders on sale for as little as $1 USD. I would say that Ostheer or Russians have best vanilla commanders simply because they have the most variety.

Also: Regarding "pay to win" commanders. There is a system called War Spoils that randomly drops Skins, Bulletins, and Commanders for free to players at the end of games. It appears to be entirely based upon amount of time played (not if you win or how well you play). It needs updating but I can state in the year or so its been in place I've received somewhere near 10 free commander drops and even more if you count the duplicate drops of the same commander.

2. Really, there is no faction that is identical to these 2 factions, especially PE. I guess USF is somewhat close to vCoh Americans but there are major differences as well.

3. Yes. I highly suspect that new commanders will be added in sometime this month. As far as factions being added...we'll see. We just had Brits added and for the most part it has been a successful launch of the new faction (bug issues aside of course).

4. Buy the new rig IMHO. The optimization sucks unfortunately.

I saw Helping Hans play a game where this happened to him. Don't know if he saved the game, but its available on his Twitch I think.

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