Profile of sluzbenik

There are stone buildings on a couple of maps that don't burn and take two stuka barrages to destroy. And I'm not even sure two stuka barrages will always kill them. Stuka + time for two barrages is a little extreme.

On every other map it's insta-win for Axis if you're not idiots.

Thanks Marcus for that.

This is what I've always meant but been too lazy to explain when I write sardonically, "it's a fun, casual RTS," ie., not meant to be taken seriously. It's what long-departed Dave meant when he coined "for noobs, by noobs."

The strategic options aren't there. The RNG is frustrating and stupid. Instead of entertainment coming from appreciation of high-level skill, we get planes killing entire armies, tanks chased down and abandoned instead of destroyed near bases (I'm 100% sure this is in the code, it happens far too frequently to be chance), random mortar hits sinking tanks, and flame crits out the wazoo.

And a lot has to do with the resource system, the popcap system, as Marcus said. I'd add comebacks were harder but just as rewarding in COH1 because the teching was slower, so you had time to change things around before your opponent could capitalize on a 3-5 minute resource advantage. The game just swung back and forth better and more critically when it did.

Never forget the most popular vCOH map was Scheldt.

Relic has a large casual player base.

I don't understand why Relic doesn't just use community members to check maps. They could have a free QA team of mapmakers in exchange for promising to give the maps created by those volunteers special consideration for inclusion in the automatch pool. That would be a win/win situation for everyone - mapmakers could increase their skills and Relic gets free QA, and we get more people making better maps, with higher quality control.

I really don't understand how you claim to have QA and don't playtest enough to notice US vehicles can't enter a map because of the base placements. It's already happened on some maps, I can understand the mapmaker overlooking this, but they really ought to have a checklist somewhere with stuff like that on it when looking at new maps.

During the WFA beta plenty of people complained about the US base layout, it making pathfinding in the base more difficult, etc and earlier issues with vehicle entry. Did Relic give two shits and change the design to something more sensible? No.

Relic was a bit unresponsive back in the old days, but it was never this bad...

Maybe it's Sega. Someone active in the Total War community could probably comment on how they handle developments stuff there.

I think they have this unending hope that if they keep stuff under wraps, the NEXT big thing will somehow get the game more attention and respect. It's a failed strategy.

I'm really not sure they care that much about multiplayer to be honest. I'm sure expansions and campaigns are making them more money than the commanders ever did, so that could be one reason we haven't seen any OKW or US commanders. The Sega managers look at the bottom line and tell Relic to do what increases their revenue stream, E-sports and long-term longevity be-damned.

The attitude is just different than it was toward COH1. COH1 was a groundbreaking multiplayer RTS and they emphasized that. The OF campaigns (was there even a Brit campaign, honestly can't remember) were nowhere near as developed as their single-player content for COH2.The COH2 emphasis has been much, much more geared toward singleplayer.