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As currently functioning, mortar smoke barrages, special commander abilities dropping smoke, and units' abilities to drop smoke - hereto referred to simply as Smoke - are a rather inconsistent and unreliable strategic factor.

Smokes are intended to obscure vision, purpose being hiding units movement. As it currently works, the smoke in CoH2 simply prevents small arms from engaging enemy forces, but STILL it grants FULL vision of enemy movement THROUGH and BEHIND the smoke, which in itself is head scratching... Not to mention the fact that support weapons, vehicles, panzershrecks, and flamethrowers can just target ground at where the enemy is, whatsoever negating the effect of smokes.

Afterall, vision of the player in CoH2 is restricted to the UNITS' vision - e.g. you cannot see in fog of war, you cannot see behind corners, buildings, etc. Yet for some inexplicable reason, you can see through smoke.

The reason for me being (to some extent) frustrated about this mechanic is that it could add so much strategic maneuvers to the game. In conclusion, I believe Relic's work on smoke mechanics is rather mediocre, and needs additional attention from developers. Unless of course I am missing something here...

Thoughts?

iirc, unchecking and rechecking the dlc will fix the problem.

if that doesn't work, you may also want to try starting the game after unchecking the dlc, close it, then recheck them.

Thanks man i really appreciate it

It worked. Had to de-select all of the DLC, start the game, quit game, select all of them back, restart the game.

a pain in the ass because I pretty much own ALL commanders, skins, and faceplates on my main ))

I don't think it's possible as Steam now thinks you own CoH2 on account2. You could try to deselect AA in the DLC box below achievements but idk what good that'll do. A third account could possibly work but the DLCs won't merge. You would have to share with account1 (account1 alone) to play the game normally and share with account2 (account2 alone) to play AA.

thanks

in case u have ardenne assault, can u tell me how it works in-game?

is it part of the theater of war? or is it a separate game altogether? or how does it work?

thanks!

Hi

I have only recently started focusing on 1v1. Between this and my other account, I have around 1.8k hours of game play. But only after playing some more 1v1 I came to realize that I suck at the macro game.

My micro game is superb, not going to be humble or anything...

- all 10 number keys assigned to my most active units
- use all hotkeys in the game (grenades etc)
- can insta-dodge nades because I never mis-select units
- I even micro my tanks ALL the time to speed up angle selection (that is U in the right derection, so that the gun faces the target and I don't get ring-around-the-rosed)
- I can even bait enemy tanks shots (or force turret rotation) while my tank goes peek-a-boo from bushes
- When enemy is bombarding my base or forward headquarters when I'm healing my units, I take 2-2.5 seconds at most to move all my units out of the danger zone (in different directions that is) without panic retreating or blob-moving them

BUT THIS DOESN'T MATTER because I suck at the big picture

- often get flanked
- can't guess the enemy movement
- don't know when to play passive when aggressive
- always get territory/cut-offs taken away
- often get baited into traps

PLEASE PLEASE give me some advice on HOW to improve my 1v1 game. I watch the Propagandacast but it's not helpful. I might start watching some replays of my own but I wouldn't be able to tell if I'm having a bad game or just my opponent is too pro.

Sad face

You can only share factions, no commanders-skins...


but also i have OKW on my (now) main, and have eastern front on another, and cant share those, so i cant play ostheer, soviets. Which is bad.

sorry mate but thats not true

You CAN share DLC purchases - ANY DLC - can be commander, faction, skin, faceplate.

War Spoils Drops are NOT shareable. Maybe you just didnt buy the commanders, just got them as drops...