Profile of HappyPhace

I'm probably one of the few in the 1-200 rank range that still use the arrow key type movements to replace mouse edge scrolling. When I started playing CoH2 I got ahk and made a script that shifted arrow keys to WASD, my fps habbits are just too hard to kill off lol. I wouldn't recommend this unless you are like me and have played FPS for thousands of hours.

Buildings doesn't really need hotkeys, we are talking the difference of miliseconds here that don't really have any effect on the out come of a match since you build very few of them.

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if you are new to the game, learn with mouse scrolling and minimap clicking with your hand placed over the grid keys, at the least. Learn control groups if you want, but like said earlier its not necessary, but I think it can be a nice addition to your "skillset" if you get into the habbit of using them.

I use the arrow keys, anything else is uncomfortable. I'd use middle-mouse, but middle-mouse is inverted and that really throws me off when I'm trying to move my camera up and it goes down. There's no option to turn inversion off either, so I stick to arrows.

Yeah, if its too hard for you to move away from arrows, you can use my method. My hand places over WASD which become the arrow keys, and I can hit all hot keys qert, I moved middle row of keys over, except f and zxcv for all special abilities. I also rebound tactical map to ` (key next to 1), if you so wish to use it. PM me if you want the script

Sounds like Aussie CoH2 gamers are pretty stuffed then, we always have 200+ pings when dealing with the US and 3-400 pings when dealing with EU. Doesn't sound promising to me I must say... that said Battle servers are a step in the right direction.

Its not horrible.. its not great either. If the servers were based in LA, it would be fine, since east coast aus will ping ~150ms to LA which is decent for RTS. But I think they are actually in canada, the lag does feel about 300-400 ms delay in command inputs.

If I had to choose these servers over p2p, definitely these servers, p2p is just too unreliable even though most of the time you can connect to the other person just fine. The rest of the time they can be pretty horrible, this is a decent middle ground.

AAA games aren't meant to work on 7 year old rigs.

That's quite a broad statement. World of warcraft? SC2? They run perfectly fine on 7 year old rigs, just saying and they aren't indie games I'm sure you know.

If I'm thinking this right, correct me if I'm wrong, but as of now the player who is closest to the servers will have an advantage no? Or are pings equalised based on who has the highest? 3v3s and 4v4s and have improved dramatically which is great, I'm sad to say my input lag is akin to a particularly bad 1v1 match up pre-battle servers. Compromises have to be made I suppose. I don't know what system SC2 runs but I play on the NA ladder despite living in aus and input lag isn't an issue at all. Curious as to why its not the case here.

That's because they were full-on expansions: OF added 2 new factions and a campaign for each of them, ToV added 3 new game modes and 3 mini-campaigns. And they were always reasonably priced.

Just to get 5 CoH2 commanders costs $20 USD. That's about how much one of the CoH1 expansions cost.

To be fair the ToV expansion was a joke. Oppossing fronts was worth its weight in terms of content and new features. It was a balance night mare for a while though.

@BabeRoga, I disagree. Relic and Sega are not one in the same. They are both businesses wanting to maximize profit, but any respectable dev company will not add controversial DLC like commanders which affect MP. It was more than likely pressure from Sega to add DLC. For the community as a whole and the game's longevity, more importantly, its reputation, a bundled expansion containing the commanders and new tales of war content would have been a smarter decision imo.

It probably would have been a joke expansion like ToV anyway, nonetheless more respectable and appeasing to the average consumer than "dlc whoring" as steam tags have been aptly applied to the CoH2 name. Just put yourself into the shoes of someone wanting to get into CoH2 browsing the steam apge, its easier to digest a $30-40 expansion below the main game with all these new "features" than a full page of $4 commanders and content.

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lol. Yeah, no. Calm down buddy, its just a sub button. He's not obliged to do anything, give aways or no give aways. People who find his stream/personality entertaining will support him for those two reasons alone, any viewer who expects giveaways isn't really the kind of viewer you want in your "community" anyway.

That aside, congrats Hans. Do whatever the fuck you wanna do and don't listen to anyone else to tell you otherwise. Hopefully you get some o dat sweet gigabit internet in Japan to stream.