Profile of TychoCelchuuu

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Basilone, you're right and you're wrong.

You're right that I don't want CoH 2 to be an esport in the sense that people better than me can just wipe the floor with me, like they can in SC2. I like how I can be pretty great at CoH just by being smart because the APM requirement is so low.

But you're wrong because SC2 gets around this problem by having a TON of players and an AMAZING automatch system, so if I automatch, I'll get matched up against someone at my skill level. Thus it doesn't matter that a master will destroy me even when I'm in Platinum, because I won't get matched up against masters. I'll be matched up against other Platinum players.

So maybe the best world would be one where people like me who will only ever be so good at CoH 2 get matched up against other people like me, and people who can get even better at CoH 2 have the opportunity to use those skills to win. That's not the game we're getting, I think, but it could be, given some gameplay changes (and a massive player base and amazing automatching).

It's kind of hard to tell - aside from not being able to talk about the alpha, a lot of the stuff like the cold mechanics are likely up in the air. My impression is that CoH 2 is still going to have quite a bit of randomness and fairly low micro requirements for high level play, both of which are always going to limit the game competitively but both of which are also a big draw for players who aren't so great, because they make the game more exciting and because they let people compete at a fairly high level without high APM. So far, in terms of what has been talked about, mirror matches make things much friendlier for competitive players, and True Sight lets people with sweet micro hide their units better, but aside from that it seems like it's going to be pretty similar to CoH.

That's not to say Inverse isn't partially right when he says the biggest issues were lack of marketing and the size of the player base. Even though you and others in this thread are 100% right about the skill ceiling and so on, and even though CoH will never be like SC2 when it comes to competition, CoH could've done so much better just on what it had.

I'm more excited for CoH 2 now than I have been in a while. The release date getting pushed back suggests that Sega care about the game and wants to give it more time in the oven for polishing and balancing. I hope we get a nice long beta to iron out issues and I hope most of the stupid microtransaction stuff gets weeded out of the gameplay now that THQ doesn't need to sell us Panthers for $5 to keep from going double-bankrupt.

People used to accuse me of hacking so I just started hacking and it stopped making me mad when people accused me of it.*



*Not a true story.