Profile of Frencho

There are not enough concurrent players to warrant splitting the multiplayer into two queues. Same goes for adding a tiered or league hierarchy in the matchmaking. Players don't want to search for 30 minutes to get matched.

This issue is inextricably linked to the size of the playerbase. Fair matchmaking is only possible with huge successful videogames.

CoH 2 is not dead, neither is it truly healthy, it's just the walking dead.

The game is fundamentally flawed, because it has no clear vision of what it wants to be. Instead trying to please every crowd, and not satisfying any.

Relic just hops around with no clear direction from adding new MP content to adding new single player content, while never achieving decent MP balance in between the content releases. It's a vicious cycle.

TBH, the biggest issue CoH 2 has is that it's current content is not solid. How do you expect to build something grand on such a shaky foundation

Firstly, the game engine and current optimization are atrocious. Secondly there is no cohesive design for the multiplayer factions. You have to look at the basics.

Try to put yourself into the shoes of someone who has never heard of the Company of Heroes franchise.

The game runs poorly, you need a beefy PC just for it to be playable. Once in a match the game is quite unresponsive compared to the competition. Dammit when even your fucking menus are unresponsive and lagging like hell you have a huge issue on your hands...

I would not be surprised if newcomers are quickly frustrated by CoH 2, there are too many issues that a newcomer has to digest, that's one too many hurdles in the face of enjoying your limited spare time. This is why; despite being one of the best selling titles on Steam, CoH 2 has a small player base (I would guess 10 000 unique players that play daily online)

Really I could not recommend this game to anyone who is not a CoH franchise veteran or a hardcore WW2 enthusiast. Your average gamer will melt his Laptop trying to run CoH 2, then try it on a beefier gaming rig just to meet the bugsplat screen and move on to a product that fucking works, where menus are snappy and the gameplay responsive.

The Road Map won't help CoH 2 that much either. It follows the same vicious cycle. Flimsy foundation, new content adds countless bugs we can't squash, trying to get the balance right, almost there, the game state is vastly improved... OH here comes the clusteruck! Let's add the Commonwealth faction the anglo-saxon fanboys are raving about. Now we have to balance odd-numbered factions with no cohesive design... squash the new bugs, and the vicious cycle starts again.

Honest question, is CoH 2 a secret Hidetaka Miyazaki experiment? Because with all the endless cyclic tropes that result on dudes lit on fire to sustain depressing fucked up worlds or bring even darker ones, I see a common soulsborne pattern here.

I still love CoH 2, but I'm a CoH franchise veteran who also loved the Dawn of War Franchise! That's why I put up with all the flaws and jump those hurdles, but don't expect John Doe to do the same.

Lastly, don't get your hopes up for CoH 2, instead hope for W40K Dawn of War 3. DoW franchise uses Games Workshop's IP, which will bring a larger & broader audience. Moreover the Sci-fi setting is much more suitable for e-sports/competitive play anyways as Relic can throw authenticity out of the window. Just think of CoH 2 as a 5 year beta for DoW 3.

I think all flamethrowers would be very balanced if they had this

STOP TAKING MY 60 MUNITION INVESTMENT FROM ME RELIC

I think the exploding flamethrower critical is fair on pioneers and combat engineers. They are cheap builder units, not really meant for constant frontline combat. The flamer makes them decent at it, but ads a risk factor. the flamer pio strat back in vCoH was so cheesy.

Also, flamer crit is really necessary to balance USF Riflemen while using the rifle company commander. They are the best stock infantry in the game; spamming rifle squads each one equipped with 1 flamer + 1 BAR would make the riflemen blob unstoppable. Especially on urban maps and Lienne Forest.

Picture this, build munition caches, and spam a squad that can throw smoke grenades, the second best frag grenade, can also throw anti-tank grenades while equipped with an assault rifle and a flamer... get real, how do you stop it, smoke the HMG, AT-nade the light vehicles and a-move. At least the flamer crit exploding and popping 3 or 2 models keeps it in line.

Penals lack AT capabilities and have no smoke
Assault engineers are 4 man glasscanon squad.
They are specialized anti-garrison and urban combat units
Immunity to exploding flamethrowers is fair on them.

But we're going off topic here. Lets leave it here.

As many have stated the KV-2 can deal a good amount of damage against axis tanks if it pens, just don't use it on siege mode while engaging tanks.

KV-2 is a very slow, and often static tank with only 800 hp. But it costs 630 Mp and 230 fuel on a doctrine with a manpower penalty, that as almost as much as an ISU-152 or an IS-2, and these perform much much better.

In my experience, the KV-2 is rarely worth the investment. Good for trolling if you already won the match and are in a very safe position. Anyway with soviet industry swarming T-34s is the way to go.

Furthermore It's true that a CAS player will harcounter it with a stuka dive bomb or a AT strafe, it is also a late CP unit, eventually a Jagdtiger or Elefant will snipe it a few minutes after being on the field. In conclusion the KV-2 is a sitting duck.

For that price, the KV-2 health should be in the heavy's range. It's health need to be buffed to 1000 HP.

in the first video the shots hit ~~4 seconds after the first flare and ~~3 seconds after in the second. assuming nothing fucks up the pathing that's *just* enough time to dodge, also assuming the side aoe isn't really big. if the vehicle has engine damage, is in a narrow section (like a bridge), or the pathing decides it's time to do a 360 you will not dodge it. the first situation i would consider arguable; the second and third i do not.

the scotts were a poor choice of tank for the second video though; shermans would have been much better as they have twice as much health.

Langreskaya is a 1v1 map. Yeah it's tiny, expect a fast strafe. On a 1v1, if an Ostheer player goes for CAS, you can truly punish him for doing so. Also if your tank has engine damage, the CAS player invested either 30+110 munitions or 50+110 munitions, that tank deserves to die.

Curious how people omit the fact that if the JU-87 Anti-tank strafe hits multiple tanks, it won't kill them as the damage spreads amongst several tanks. Similarly, if you dodge it a bit late, you can still avoid half of the flak fire, and save your tank, albeit it will be heavily damaged. The AT strafe will only reliably destroy tanks if the majority of the strafe's rounds connect.