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- Old Soviet barbed wire where squads had to crawl under
- 221 which needed 60 munis to become 222s which were still shit
- Sniper Partybus
- Blizzards, including driving over a fireplace for instant engine damage
- Kübels with suppression
- Volksschrecks
- Elite Troops with buyable Vet somehow like KKC from vCoH
- USF instant Vet 2 rifles that came along with the first rifle squad (3 squads after one minute)
- USF having no fucking mortar.
- USF smoke nades that could be shot ON TOP of a vehicle
- Panzergrens being able to upgrade only one shreck
- Good old Soundbug
- SU85 being a uncounterable best unit of the game, sniping tanks and infantry alike
- SU76 being shit
- Panzerwerfer in T3
- Flame HT being able to reinforce still (oh how I miss that)
- Crew inside M3s not taking a single scratch when the vehicle blew up
- Instant engine damage from AT nades/fausts no matter of full HP
- "Cap here" / "Defend here" pings (the are still mentioned in the manual as hotkeys)
- Those cringe videos for Sov/Ost after the game when vicory strikes weren't in the game
- The connection system for OKW from Beta where all HQs had to be connected.
- OKW fuel/ammo distribution
- Crits on flamers that instakilled the flamer thus killing the whole squad (this was stupid but fun)
- LeIG/Pak Howie with suppression
- Buildable Tigers / Elefants (CoH2 Alpha)
- Vehicle blocking OKW wire
- Burning forests on prypjat river after a long fight - The FPS went down to about 5 but damn that looked amazing
- Units chatting with each other way more often
- Female partisans
- Obersoldaten with instant MG34
- British Cancer commander with invincible Sim City
- Uncensored chat (though garden is pretty funny)
- Being able to see the opponent's rank ingame
- Unlockable Commanders / Bulletins (it was unfair but fun)
- Ost Blitzkrieg that transformed all Panthers into Lamborghinis
- OKW HQs with instant Medics / Repair Pios
- Being able to see what the enemy build through the fog of war
- Being able to detect wether a house was taken by an enemy squad (flashing red)
- Deep snow everywhere on winter maps, slowing down everything, even retreating units
- 100 Range Pak43 shooting through walls
- Jagdtiger shooting through walls
- Multiple King Tigers on the field
- Sturmtiger in Mechanized HQ
- CAS doctrine instant ammunition
- Pripyat river in automatch
- Stalingrad in Automatch (instawin for Allies), especially the bug were every 1v1 game was Stalingrad for 2 days.
- Commanders on the right side of the screen under the unit icons (pre Alpha)
- Ost MGs in T1
- First Soviet industry where the German player faced the first T34 after 5(!) minutes



That's not per se a list of everything I am missing, but a list of a lot of things that were changed in CoH but were some kind of funny. Still some were absolut cancer such as the Sniper Partybus but still they are part of CoH2 history.

Honestly I am content with the current amount of RNG.
The only thing that sucks are mortar wipes but with the spacing coming in WB 1.7 hopefully this won't be that big issue anymore.

CoH2 got rid of most of its RNG. Without RNG the game would be boring.

I want to see the dev who thought making bulletins like these was a good idea. Genuinely intrigued to see what they look like, how they talk and what they think.

It was the whole attitude of Relic at the time (and maybe today too).
They looked at Free2Play games like League of Legends which were (and still are) the most played games of all. Then they tried to copy the key aspects in CoH2: Skins (champion skins in LoL), unlockable content (new champions in LoL), Bulletins (Keystones & Masteries in LoL). In addition they got the big $ sign in their eyes and decided to lock everything behind real money transactions which was absolutely ridiculous.

League of Legends is a Free2Play game, CoH2 cost about 60 bucks. League of Legends offers an ingame store where you can buy everything besides skins (which are cosmetical only) which ingame money (IP). CoH2 offered skins nobody could differentiate ingame that cost about 3$ per skinpack, commanders which were clearly OP and pay2win for also about 3$ per commander. The ingame store that is more or less a copy of the LoL one came more than 2(!!!!) years after release when about 99% of the players already left. And then they added the bulletins which are plain useless (the stats are so immensely low that there is no noticeable difference) in addition, many (most?) bulletins were bugged. For example a mortar bulletin made the mortar worse instead of buffing it.

League of Legends offers their Keystones & Masteries where you can REALLY feel a difference. As each champion is clearly different from all the others, you can create different Masteries (for example more health, life regeneration per damage, an extra shield, etc.) for every champion. These are noticeable and not having Masteries will affect your gameplay because you are clearly weaker than your opponent. CoH2 on the other hand offers 3 bulletins per commander layout. 3 Bulletins which affect one single unit each. If you don't play said unit because you use a different strategy (for example you play 2pio + 2MG -> T2) you have no gain from some bulletins (in this case no use of grenadier bulletins).

In LoL you have 30(!) Masteries which all affect your single champion. That means every single one of them will be noticeable in every game. Some of them also stack up to 5 times (+1%/+2%/+3%/+4%/+5% more HP) and have various effects. I am no LoL fanboy or whatsoever but Riot implemented bulletins the right way. Bulletins like "Get 1 CP from the start" if you stack them 3 times would be interesting in CoH and more interesting to play with. But they would be immensely OP and not good in a RTS game. And that's my point. Bulletins in RTS games are dumb. Age of Empires III had an interesting system with their home cities but a big part of the game revolved around that system.

In CoH2 I simply have the feeling that some Relic guy thought "wow, all the top games currently (LoL, Call of Duty, etc) have bulletins! - WE ALSO NEED THEM!"

Sick and tired of these tanks missing shots all the time even when shooting from rear or back side.

Welcome to the Ostheer life.

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How good to see Axis players suffering from what the allies have suffered since the beginning of this game. XD. Learn how to micromete units, scout the enemy's technological evolution line to see if there's a light tank, medium tank, artillery or heavy tank. Learn to have to avoid facing enemy infantry with a vehicle without infantry support. Learn to spread your troops during engagements so as not to see them under suppression or to vanish with a heavy artillery hail. Welcome to the game mode where you have to use the brain and not just click and wait for the AI ​​to do everything else.

Well as obvious trolly as this is I still have to say that as a player from the very beginning (CoH2 Alpha), there were not many times where there was an overwhelming Axis superiority in the game.

The things that come into my mind right now are

• OKW Shreckblob
  
• Ostheer Flame HT Rush (from the VERY early days of CoH2 where almost nothing was balanced)
  
• OKW LeIG with suppression
  
• Days of the invincible Tiger Ace
  
• Close Air Support Meta
  

(This is what came into my mind after some minutes of thinking. If you have more, just post it, I will add it then)

That's about it. All those things have been fixed for a long time now. They were also fixed in a relatively fast time (about some weeks to some months).
The current state of the game is that only one guy from Relic is left working at CoH2 and for this reason patches became very rare.

And there is no doubt that the current game state favors the Allied factions.