Profile of Diogenes5

Intel I5 4670k @ 4.4 ghz.
16 gb DDR3 @2100 mhz (OC)
GTX 980 TI (Evga Classified ~1430 mhz clock)

Settings for testing AA (Maxed) varying AA from None to Medium.





Low AA has only a slight performance hit. Medium AA has a substantial one.

Everything set to Low (how I normally play for max FPS).



Not much of a delta between low and high settings on my 980 TI. On my 290, I had large performance gains from turning settings down.

I'm coming from a GTX 1060 and before that a 290. The 290 was OC'ed to 390x levels but always generally had microstutter in end-game situations. The GTX 1060 is only suppose to be about 10% faster but perfromed much better in general with less stutter. It was still only 20 FPS at 1440p in end-game situations for me. It's weird how upping settings with Nvidia cards doesn't seem to slow it down much.

To be fair, COH2 performance has actually improved over the last 3 years so that may be on relic's side of things.

Nothing works. At all. Tried everything I could find on google related to:

"Entered Unhandled Exception Filter
"Bugsplat
"Application closed with error code 1129468744

etc. etc.

Game crashed for me after the big patch that fixed mortars (at least a little) but then the game magically started working a few weeks later. Now we have this stupid skin patch which has broken my game.

What the hell relic. Test your sh*t.

The genre is dead. It takes good design chops to create a diverse meta and also a fun game.

MOBA's get around it with insane variety and metagaming.

RTS's today fail hard. SC2 is the gold standard and it had errors of rampant imbalance that David Kim refused to fix for 6 months to a year. Things like Brood Lord Infestor and Blink All Ins.

LOTV is better but SC2 lost way too much momentum because of it. Blizzard's other games subsidize SC2 esports. As a game it is played but probably their least popular PC property.

And COH2 is a distant 2nd but the only other RTS game in town and it's a pretty mediocree game too. On a technical leve, Response times are bad and the engine is poorly optimized. Balance is wonky as well. There's been too many incidents like the american mortar where they buffed it for no reason (and this time they had a long beta!) and left it that way for weeks or months.

RTS can be fun single player but for multiplayer, you need a design lead that is tweaking and open betas to test ideas.

I think RTS development and design is simply too hard to get right. DOW is much more popular than COH and that's because it is closer to a MOBA than an RTS.

doesn't stop it from being a bug. It's not a balance/gameplay feature. They have never addressed the issue adequately either way.

It should be removed from the game period. It's literally up half the time. It was a tiny little bullshit nerf because they don't want to stop people from buying the commander.