Profile of sluzbenik

Mines and ram success are the biggest culprits in my opinion.

Mines are just aggravating. The AOE effect obviously does more damage to clumped units but there's no way to control squad formation so you can't avoid it as far as I know. Maybe someone will find a way to shift right click moves when walking through narrow spaces to avoid clumping (I may today a bit). The AOE is basically messed up from what I read somewhere, it should not do as much damage to more distant members of a squad as what it's doing. Compared to vCOH, the effect is much less predictable. In vCOH a full-health squad might lose some members and a significant amount of health, but would never just get wiped.

Ram is a game-breaking failure of design given the RNG probabilities Relic have built in to it. Disabling a piece of expensive late-game armor is too big of a strategic event to be left to an RNG roll given the number of times it will occur in game. The Tiger Ace simply brought this problem to the forefront where everyone could clearly see that many games in COH2 are won or lost on dice rolls. As Inverse said in another thread, it's not the RNG, it's the scale of the event the RNG is affecting. Many small RNG events contribute to the game's complexity and actually do raise the skillcap, but huge events with major consequences that will not re-occur often enough for the RNG to affect both players equally are completely detrimental.

For those who don't know statistics a brief explanation - with enough occurrences of an event determined by probability in game you approach the programmed probability. But given one or two events in game, you will not hit it, just as flipping a coin only 6x will not always result in 50% heads/tails. You need a really large number of events for the actual game to reflect the programmed probabilities of the event occurring.

You can get the probability on your side though - you need about 3 well-microed T34s to have above a 75% chance of disabling a Tiger (if I remember someone's math from beta forums correctly). That's why the best counter isn't AT guns or SU-85s, but ramming. But that's still, in my opinion, an unacceptable level of RNG for such a major game event.

I AM STILL KING OF TIGERRAM2 AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT TRISTAN. I don't care how many more CPM you have...

That said, gg wp.

Ah, but streams are an excellent way for people to learn the game too. If you stream, then other people can watch you play and give you tips and other assistance.

So how about some kind of "expert" logo next to high-skill streamers? Honestly, only Hans and Stefenn really commentate their games well, and explain what they're doing and why they're doing it. So that should be the biggest hurtle applicants have to get over, being able to talk and play. I'm sure there are a lot of top 100 players who can't/don't want to do that but may stream.

In any case, I really don't think you should make it some elitist thing. I think all streamers should stay on the same page on COH2.org. What Relic does in featuring people is their business...

Also, the people who have viewers have either been doing it for a long time and have followings, or give stuff away to attract them. I know there have been a couple of new streamers, who are definitely not top tier, doing that...

This unending negativity is really dragging everyone down. As I said in Sib's stream the other day, this community is like a bunch of heroin addicts complaining about their needle. If you don't like the game, stop playing it and GTFO, please. Noun's "wall of text" is chock full of good ideas about how casters could make more entertaining videos and support the game.

For myself, I have to say I was casting a bit when it came out but stopped because of lack of viewership. I never got many comments, good or bad. I tried to do a more tactically focused cast with specific explanations of what was clever or how someone won engagements and so on, with a dose of humor. They're here if you want them: http://www.youtube.com/sluzcast.

I think Noun really wants to see more highlights and so on, and this is not really in the COH casting tradition at all, but serves as something to draw people into a game. But let me tell you that takes real editing skill and time. Editing video is not easy, you need a powerful computer, etc., whereas talking over a replay is not very hard at all. I might go back to some regular casts if there was interest and particularly if I could find someone who I really "banter" and have good casting chemistry with, but editing is certainly not my forte, though it's a really good idea.

I just hope this battle servers will also make impact on streamers, I hate when everything is delayed by 2-3 seconds lol

Still waitin' on that laptop?

The patch notes have leaked, ask around.