Profile of Gbpirate

Community managers are Relic employees and they definitely didn't have the sway to dictate how many factions are picked. I just don't think that's their job.

I don't know who pushed for four factions but I'm guessing that Relic took the feedback in from the first two games and realized that a lot of people didn't like the length of time it took to balance the game post-launch.

I think four factions and campaign setting was a big issue. Splitting the art department between Italy and North Africa ate up a lot of resources. There are a bunch of entities (objects in old coh parlance) that we just don't have in coh3 that we did in coh1/2 and a bunch of unfinished ones.

If four factions has been DAK/ITA and US/UK and the game was mostly set in 1942 North Africa the game would probably be much better. I'm not sure how you'd get four factions in an Italian setting, but there could be two Italian factions with a similar core but with some vehicles and equipment from the their allied side. Sort of 3.5 factions if you will.

The importance of the campaign setting is something I don't think is brought up in these discussions. RTS games have about an 80/20 split singleplayer/multiplayer of units sold. I don't know why CoH would be an exception to that, so that's why a lot of time, money, and work hours go into the singleplayer portion of the game.
(this is also why there are so few 3v3/4v4 maps compared to 1v1/2v2 maps; you don't make a 4v4 map for a campaign because it's too big).

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I was never asked but was also lazy/busy/consumed with making this map (it wasn't up to my standards by the 30th May date).

Hi .org! I've made a Steam Collection that has all ten submissions for easy reference. In the description is a link to the original Reddit post where you can find more information there.

There's some good variety here so I'm interested to see how things turn out!

Let's not kid ourselves, CoH3's launch is worse than CoH2, by far.
On a technical level, both games are/were pretty bad. Which one is better or worse is probably up to personal taste and another debate that has been fought multiple times by now, so I'm not going to re-re-reheat it.

Objectively, CoH3 is in a better technical state than CoH2 at launch. CoH didn't launch with the "battle servers" or whatever that made connections more stable and the quantity of crashes per time played was so incredibly higher in coh2 than in coh3. Also, CoH3 has great optimization going for it, unlike COH2, which still struggles to this day. I only heard of a few people with AMD GPUs having significant issues around launch, and that was fixed with an update post-coh3 launch or by remembering to update the driver.


Overall, CoH3 is struggling because of a lack of maps and slow pace of balance changes, among various other issues (clunky friend/invite system; should've just stuck with Steam's features exclusively). Community communication has been quite normal for Relic which can be described as too slow and with too little information which makes players even more frustrated. The glue holding the game together has been the four factions and optimization/stability. But this glue won't hold forever.

Nice guide, thanks for sharing!