Profile of GachiGasm

I am also concerned about the asthetics and UI. So many things look like plastic, cheap figurines sold to tourists at trash shops. It starts with the people on the main cover, the soldiers on the loading screen, the soldier's heads in game when selecting a squad, many of the vehicles, sometimes also infantry models.
Literally all clickable buttons and abilities. Everything is rectangular or square with 90° angles, mostly white background and visually fully floating above the actual rest of the game.

Art style aside, I somewhat can see where this UI came from.

There are pottentually multiple reasons:
1) The fact that its DoW3 making CoH3. If you compare DoW3 UI to the skeleton we have in CoH3, its pretty simple to see a lot of similarities. The same way core idea behind vCoH was taken fron DoW1, it also shares a lot of similarities.
2) Considering who was invited to be in "closed testers" group it also makes a lot of sense why it has such state. AE himself was very vocal, in one of the first videos regarding CoH3, that he as a caster likes this new UI idea, that it gives more visability so to speak. Top players most likely said something the same along those lines, since they dont really care about UI, because they do everything via hotkeys anyway and pottentually said that vCoH\CoH2 UI unnessesry massive.
3) No-one was kinda vocal about the whole UI thing. CoH\CoH2 still has one of the best UI in RTS games if you ask me and most of the people take this for granted never actually telling that UI was almost perfect, if slightly too big. And since no-one actually praised old UI, but at the same time few complained that it is too big/old looking, relic decided that changing the whole philosophy behind it is worth doing.

What I dont understand, is why they just take CoH2 replay UI as a basis for CoH3 UI, because it contains all nessesery space and possitions for the ideas of CoH3 and it can fits perfectly this minimalistic yet stylish UI.

At least this is what I am thinking, because its still kinda strange how Relic keep telling us that they care about "old players" and we can see it in mechanics and gameplay choses, yet they slapped complete UI overhaul, noone ever asked for.

Most of the balance team shittalk and conspiracies are a great example of this.

While a lot of people seem to blame balance team for the problems game has, without acknowledging the fact that with rotten foundation layed by relic its really hard to build something solid.

Balance team over-all did a good job into bringing the game into more or less balanced state, but the path to it is very subjective.

As an example, we can at the whole situation with the TDs in the game. Are the TDs right now balanced? Yes they are balanced. But they ultimatly made game less fun and spammy (at least outside 1v1). Because the aproach of TD balance was strate-forward in other words giving them insane penetration, since they needed it in order to fight heavy tanks. But in proccess of doing so, TDs become supper effective against all vehicles. The same way TDs could have had lower ROF, but increased damage making them less deadly against mediums, but better against heavy tanks. In theory at least.

Other stuff balance team had fixed was pretty much shit stains from old relic design, which were objectively bad choses. I mean, its cool that ISU\CB\2 model sniper and so on were fixed, but I'm pretty sure it took longer to get those in Relic "scope" rather then finding the solution. Still its good to have them fixed non the less. But again we dont know how much times "scope" thing was just a convenient excuse and I am pretty sure it was used in that way at least ones during CoH2 life.

But again balance team are far from being saints themselfs and they are known to ignore even resonable feedback about their ideas. The most recent example is B4\ST changes, even before fist changes were made to mentioned units, majority is good players have said that it will be broken\OP but it was ignored, just to be nerfed later. And we have plenty of such examples like VSL, penals and so on. I mean sure, its good that it took less time for balance team to accept that their idea is not working (unlike relic back in the day), but yet it still takes more then a week to fix. And it doesnt really makes players happy that they will be forced to play god knows how long with VSL\Penal\Cons blobs, ST\B4 nukes, Osttroopen LMG hordes and so on, especially considering the outcome was predictable from the beggining.

Also the whole situation with "bandaids". When there is no easy solution to address the problem balance team rather nerf this thing into the oblivion for it never to be used again or be super lackluster.

Personally my own and single complain, is that balance team are kinda lacked "creative approach" and "out of the box" thinking about some problem solving. But again, we dont know what relic allowed to change or to add to the game, but at least for some problems which relic allowed balance team to adress much better solutions could have been found. Some of the units\abilities after such changes became merely "side options" being marginally better in something so specific that they are not even woth picking if they are not part of the meta.

Speak for yourself. I am a casual player, and from my perspective it's a good mechanic because it's fun and doesn't happen often enough so that it's a big issue, but happens rarely enough so that when it does happen it's kind of an exciting moment.

Well and as I was saying aside from "wow fun and exciting" factor it brings absolutely nothing into the game, but frustration when it happens in actuall semi-competitive game.

Just look from a progmatic perspective:
What cons/pros does it have for a fun factor
What cons/pros does it have for a competitive factor (not e-sport one, just regular automatch MP)

As far as I see, its cons outweights the pros, sure it happens rarely but when it happens you either dont care about it, or it shift the game in one RNG roll.

Speaking of zoom and scaling, I belive its actually very simular to the one in CoH1. CoH2 compared to CoH1 have a very zoomed in camera, which is probably was made due to the crappy CoH2 optimisation, because "out-of-bounds" area in CoH2 (essentually when things stoped from rendering) is also much smaller in CoH2.

Also, as I was saying in different topic, Twin Beaches had very distinct elevation across the map, with right and the left side of the map having much lower elevation level. I was posting a screenshot for comparison sake. Essentually unit on the beach side was like x1.5 smaller then the unit in a base sector, with max zoomed-out camera.

I was playing mostly 2v2 during alpha, and 2v2 maps didnt have this problem in most cases. Especially on maps like Farmlands which has very little elevation, max zoom feelt alright.

I don't get it. Vehicle abandonment is a good mechanic in COH2. What's wrong with it. Definitely adds another layer, especially to 1v1s

No its not, not in a single way its a good mechanic. Not from pro-players perspective, not from the casual perspective. Abandonment is an example of pure, non-player dependant RNG.

Abandonment either gives one player a second chance when he player wrong or it punishes the player when he player right. Not speaking about situations when abandonment happens in the middle of the map, so it just as good as dead anyway.

But for instance I had games, where I miss player and let enemy dive my rocket arty, instead of being destoyed it got abandoned. Or when I dived to finish the enemy and in process my tank got abandoned.

Not even talking about the frustration aspect, but from a pure army value perspective. Because any tank is a huge boost to your army value and quite big res investment and the fact that one player can essentially get such unit for free based on RNG is just a bad mechanic.

CoH2 is full of RNG, but most of the RNG is predictable. Sure BS sometimes happens, like PIVJ being able to either deflect all shots or being penetrated all the times, but its predictable RNG.

Abandonment on the other hand is like downed plane killing your whole army, because RNG event decided that you need to lose the game, just because. Without your involvement and without any possible counter-play, because its either happens or its not.

Aside from "Wow, lol, cool haha" factor, abandonment has absolutely 0 possitive value.