Profile of cr4wler

just checked the replay format again, and seemingly relic changes the format more often than some people change their underwear... looking at it now it seems the header is missing information about bulletins, but instead contains map info (like x/y coordinates of all flags).... which makes no sense to me. then again, a lot of relics decisions make little sense to me. as for the commands themselves: never fiddled around with them much, but that setup shouldn't have changed all too much and you should be able to get that info from here: https://github.com/ryantaylor/CoH2ReplayParser

I guess you can count Balsi and me in, since CoH1 2vs2 still is incredible awesome, I would also love to see some people cast the semi - or finals.

My Nickname: Korb
Mates Nickname Thunderfuck

Ballsi's current nick is RapeyTheMidget iirc

sorry, but the "we'd like coh2 to be esports" efforts come 2+ years too late.
the game at its very core has multiple things (and i'm specifically NOT talking about "chance") that were decided on somewhen pre-release that pretty much rule out esports. the commander system and how it works is one of those. dividing the player base with addons is certainly not helping either. and don't get me started on spoils of war.

if you go back to the very first interviews quinn duffy and his team gave after coh2 was announced, it became very apparent that even the multiplayer part of the game was an afterthought. everyone who was there at release knows what state the game was in (and i'm not talking about balance) when it was in beta and later on at release.

ofc one could argue that the game has changed... but in most areas it hasn't. and were it has changed, it was often for the worse (from a competetive standpoint).

relic never wanted coh2 to be esports. they did nothing pre-release, and now, like almost 1.5 years after release all they added was observer mode.
the replay system for example hasn't changed since coh1 (which was released over 8 years ago), and in fact (and i don't know how that's possible) was WORSE than the coh1 replay system when coh2 was still in beta (as in, it had less options and some of those were even non-functional).

sorry, but no chance. try to make (competitive) multiplayer the core focus of the game when developing coh3. you can still release 20 singleplayer campaign moneygrabbing dlcs later on (or even on release).

trying to make coh2 esports is the equivalent of trying to turn your lawnmower into a F1 racecar.

short answer: all of them.

which one is best for you? go to a local shop and try them out. i liked the blues best, that's why i got them (the shop didn't have browns though, so i could only test red, blue and black)

The file that contains all unit stats for a given game version is 22MB right now. It does also link to art and soundfiles, but a script that automatically swaps these to the one found in the latest version would not be too complex.

i might have been thinking of the extracted archives then... still, yes, a script or little program that swaps the files out should be very easy to do (i expect something like 1-2 mins of work). that still leaves the problem of getting the appropriate archives with the attributes.