New to COH: Gameplay Comments

Hey,

As the tittle suggests i'm mostly a newbie when it comes to the COH franchise, I dabbled shortly with 1 and am playing 2 now. Tbh, I always preferred the Dawn of war franchise when it comes to relic rts, the average length of games was shorter and i'm not the biggest fan of base building.

Saying that, I love the work relic do and i'm really optimistic that COH 2 with some support can live up to its name. It's already pretty dam good for an rts just launched imo and there is allot to love here. Plus a successful COH2 may help bring along DOW3 ;-)

My 1st impressions of COH 2 is, holy crap the maps are big for 1vs1! This seems to make games even longer. The farm map in spring time seems the most suitable for 1v1, the rest really show imo that they were designed to be dual purpose with the team games. Not really a fan of this decision tbh and I feel that the maps is an area that relic should look at over the coming months. Generally speaking, if we got 3 really good 1vs1 maps id be chuffed.

I have touched on the lengths of games already, but this seems to be a COH feature that is intended and liked by the core player base, so I guess ill have to adapt. One comment ill make is, that while it is early doors, it seems relatively easier in this game to make comebacks or prolong games. But then, by my own admission, I may simply lack the killer instinct here. DOW 2 and what I played of CCOH was very unforgiving.

I would have liked to see a bit more differentiation between Conscripts and Grens, such as the former being cheaper and the latter more elite in comparison, but I acknowledge that the map sizes already hamper the krauts as they aren't as mobile compared to the soviets.

I'm not going to comment on balance as that will progress no doubt. So overall i'm really enjoying it and am getting to grips with it, just a pity about those maps imo and no lobby/pub games.

Ramble over.