Profile of Highfiveeeee

TBH I honestly don't think that any other war could get so many people to play the game than the WW2.
People are interested in WW1 right now because of Battlefield. And the image Battlefield showed was more WW2 in the locations of WW1.

WW2 is the perfect setting. 2 Main rivals (Axis and Allies) that are somehow equal in terms of strength. "Cool" units, tanks that are not invincible or way too weak (like modern tanks)...

Also stuff like Vietnam, Korea etc. doesn't fit to the franchise. You cannot control other units than vehicles and inf in CoH (which I think is pretty good). How would you add airplane/helicopter control to the game without fucking it up?

Also think about balance. In a Vietnam setting it would be: Vietnam player: Hide inside buildings, US player: Napalm everything. These are all GUERILLA WARS! That means a war where 1 side is extremely weaker than the other but manages to stay in the conflict because of urban tactics and stuff. Not fitting for CoH if you ask me. It would be a CoH that relied purely on cheese tactics for the Vietnamese player, lol.

I voted for Normandy, but my dream CoH3 would include The Western Front, The Eastern Front and Afrika.
3 Allied Factions (US, UK, Sov) vs 3 Germans (Ostheer, Westheer, Afrikakorps).

Also make a nice campaign that also shows the German point of view. CoH2 campaign absolutely sucked balls IMO. I never finished it because it was so boring and uninteresting. You could have 3 'small campaigns' with 10 missions each, 5 for both sides. UK vs Afrikacorps, USF vs Westheer, Sov vs Ostheer.

Yeah, another list with some pro player bullshit, just reading through...

TSIA

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sully

highfive

sturmtigervorgo
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what the fuck.

So probably there is another highfive player which is better than me (I really think there is?) but still I don't get the point.

You know there is an intention behind the possibility to VOTE for surrender and not automatically surr when one of your mates lost all his units because he is a jackass.

There is something that is called comeback. And oh boy how good it feels if you got your ass stomped first but then you get the courage to fight back and finally win in the end.

Btw, can somebody explain to me what BM means? I feel a little dumb in here.

Nah, tbh I never really got behind what which armor did in vCoH.
If I read through your list I also remember why because they make absolutely no sense.

Why are elite armor units 100% sniped on retreat? Where is the difference between infantry and soldier armour? Why are airbornes more likely to dodge snipers?

It probably makes all sense somehow but for non pro players which make about 95-99% of the player base in the 'best time' of the game it is just irritating as hell.

Thanks a lot guys! While some changes might be a bit tricky after the meta has set I want to say thank you for doing an amazing job and keeping the game alive.

2 years ago I was sure that CoH2 would be dead by 2016 but thanks to your passion it is better than ever before.

The question is... Why are maps like Pripyat Sector (which are really beautiful, sorry Tric!) in the map rotation while they have some obvious 'flaws' that are distracting competitive games, e.g. only having 2VPs, having only one fuel (like the map that started at night), etc?

There are a lot of maps that are really well made and also good-looking that never find their way into the rotation. And also it takes ages to change the rotation, Stalingrad has been in 1v1 for almost a year while it clearly favored allies because it all revolved around close quarter combat.