Imagine all of the cool things Coh3 would have if it was built off of Coh2.
What could have been:
1) It could have a fancy ping viewer to let you know why you are lagging.
2) It could have alternate voice line options. Like select funny or ridiculous lines.
3) It could have native language voice lines.
4) It could have a Terrain UI alpha blending toggle to turn down the obnoxious terrain colors.
5) It could have Fortnite style taunts so you can tea bag the enemies in an MP match. You could have soldiers yell stuff at a sniper.
6) It could have built in CELO menu option.
7) It could have an option to turn off or set alpha on the stupid unit ability icons covering the screen.
8) It could have intelligent ping system with recon, attack here, I have arty, etc etc
9) It could have Multiple sound stages. Washed out like it is now or tight like Coh2.
10) Black listed players. So you dont have to play with the toxic/bad person you just played with.
etc etc etc etc etc etc
If I was in charge of Coh3 it would have shipped with 100 new features. Instead we got a game with LESS features. Ooooo how exciting! A half assed game thats not even half as good as the original! Look they put in minimal effort, lets praise them!
I cant even look at Coh3. All I see is failure. Complete and utter failure. We can sit and say its because it shipped early, but some of the things I just mentioned would have taken literally minutes to add to the game. They were never even a thought. Zero vision at Relic.
This game had zero chance of expanding its player base because Relic does not play it. Every person who plays this game clocks 1000's of hours. I guarantee Relic employees avg time is like 24 hours of Coh. Every streamer plays other games then comes back to Coh in less than a week. It is that good of a game. Super high replay ability.
Coh3 should have increased the player count 4-10x over Coh2. Instead it is half. Because people feel like they are dating their sister instead of a super model.
There is nothing for me to enjoy about Coh3. A much better post question would have been what is good about Coh3. Because the answers would be much shorter. Because I feel like I had a 2019 BMW and my parents said I was getting a great new car for Xmas and they brought me a beat up Yugo from the 80's. Just gutted at how far off the mark Coh3 is.
Now imagine all the impossible to change due to hard coding BS it would have, like no real side armor and hard coded mechanics that are impossible to change and tweak.