Profile of TychoCelchuuu

Actually, if you want to find out:

For the CoH credits, go to this website.

For the CoH 2 credits, go to Steam\steamapps\common\Company of Heroes 2 - Test Build\CoH2\Movies and play "credits.webm."

Big changes:

Lead Producer of CoH: John Johnson (gone to Smoking Gun Interactive) replaced by Jonathan Dowdeswell (producer of Relic Online team from CoH)

Art Director of CoH: Angie Radwan-Pytlewski (gone to Smoking Gun Interactive) replaced by Ian Guise (artist from CoH)

Lead Designer of CoH: Joshua Mosqueira (gone to Blizzard) replaced by Quinn Duffy (senior designer from CoH)

Lead Audio Designer of CoH: Crispin Hands (I think he works at some specialized audio company now?) replaced by David Renn (audio assistant from CoH)

Lead Animators of CoH: David MacLeod and Erin Olorenshaw (dunno what they are up to now) replaced by Brett Pascal (new to CoH but animated stuff for Sleeping Dogs and TRON: Evolution among other games)

Lead Development Testers (whatever that means) of CoH: Ryan McGechaen (recognize that name?) and Lino Conti (I think these two were tied to THQ?) replaced by Matt Philip (he worked on Space Marine)

UI Art Supervisor: Not specified in CoH credits, but in CoH 2 it's Robert Westwood, who did not work on CoH (which shows...) but who was an artist on Space Marine.

Gameplay Engineering Supervisor: Not specified in CoH credits (maybe didn't exist? I dunno what this position means) and in CoH 2 it's Alex Lam, who worked on Space Marine but not CoH.

Senior Artists from CoH: they are all gone or promoted - Alun Bjorksten moved up to Principle Artist, and is joined by Ian Cumming who worked on most of the WH40k games but not CoH. 4 of the senior artists are from CoH - two were artists and 2 were animators. The other 14 aren't from CoH but I didn't bother looking up where they worked.

Artists from CoH: basically all gone, I think. Of the 19 CoH 2 artists, 2 were CoH artists, 1 was a CoH animator, and 1 was a senior artist supervisor on CoH. The rest are new to CoH although probably a lot of them worked on other Relic stuff like a WH40k game or 4.

It also appears the 1) the credits are unfinished so some people might be left out, presumably the SEGA people, because 2) Sonic is in the credits!

It only took 4 seasons of SNF for Yoink to learn to say "Wehrmacht". How many will it take to get "Ostheer" down?

Yoink is only allowed to pronounce one German word correctly, unless he forgets 'Wehrmacht' he's not going to get to say 'Ostheer' right.

As for "it lets the winning team keep snowballing," that's true, but so much has been changed in CoH 2 to make it harder for the winning team to win (so much manpower income no matter how much of the map is decapped for instance) that maybe it's not a huge issue.

I hope Relic doesn't fix this. There's no reason to lock this stuff away and force us to grind for it. CoH 2 is an RTS, not an MMO, and the challenge should come from using better tactics than your opponent, not from having a better doctrine unlocked.

Holy fuck I think it would be hard to overdescribe how amazing you guys are. Between the stupendous production qualities, the "we do not give a shit about the game" attitude, the feigned lack of expertise, the genuine lack of expertise, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, Steve's familiarity with and love of awkwardly adverting to bullshit aacademic philosophy that I adore, the alcohol, and the absurdist humor creeping in at every available opportunity (both in the editing and the commentary), I'm fairly certain this is the best Company of Heroes related stuff in the entire history of the world. I'm sad I missed Thirsty Thursdays Season 1 when it first came out but I marathoned them all when Season 2 was announced and now I wait with bated breath for the next episode where Steve tries to work in even more words from his vernacular.