Profile of BibiHesten

I played my first game in the new patch yesterday. Hadn't played wehrmacht for quite some time. We got reked and I was called a noob by my opponent.
"okay".
I suppose 850+hrs is what you'd call a noob compared to the 2000-4000+hrs players

No and I'm already looking forward to CoH3, next year or whenever.

Reason are imo the following:

* Ridiculous stats system. People love those and Relic offer very barebone stats in game.

* No proper ladder system with leagues or something similar. People need something to look forward to. Besides what they currently have should be in game and not on some third party site.

* frustrating unlock system. Again people like to be rewarded and have something to look forward to. The current system is a gigantic FU.

* Faction imbalance. Whoever thought "herp derp these should be ridiculously hard to enjoy in the early game" should find himself s new job. Balance is out the window and the game isn't exactly new either.

* performance issues. The game only looked mildly better than the first one back when it released and yet even today with s high end system i can have weird issues like flames outright killing frames.


Why do I look forward to s new game? Because Relic was acquired by Sega after the collapse of THQ. This must've hurt the development and I'm thankful for the product we got. It could've likely been much worse, but in reality it turned out alright.
Now a sequel with a good development and focused goal (e-store?) combined with what they learned from COH2 (ladder system, costum games,RNG issue, asymmetric balance issue etc) could POTENTIALLY give birth to the game we deserved back when COH2 launched.

Truthfully we do need a sequel and a good one at that. This one is just a walking husk that should be put to the ground. If a good sequel is launched this one will die in seconds, I'm sure of it. And while I realize that Relic do "try" to fix this on they don't really. They'll milk it some more and come next year we'll hear about the next Coh.. Or Dow. I doubt they have many members of their team working on this, likely just a few to keep it a float which would also explain the long wait between patches.

Sega own Relic and Sega want to earn as much money as possible. A sequel would be a good way to do so. The game is still popular or at least well known and can easily sell s lot given the right circumstances.

And that is why KT have more HP then IS-2 therefore it survives better.

Does it though? The KT have quite a significantly worse Max Speed. You cannot get out of sticky situations quite the same.

This is just speculation on my part. Personally I stopped using the KT.

Clown cars and the ridiculous flame half track back then was hilarious. Remember burning retreating units like it was nothing

HueHueHue Warhammer Fantasy such a great game (its been so much of my life)

I have seen it too many times, players who try fantasy out and instead of putting any effort forward they give up and go back to playing bro brainer space marines in 40k.

Which "hard" and "easy" armies did he try? I'm guessing the latter was Chaos warriors

It's not actually a "hard" army, but he started out with Skaven. They're very good, but still require you to not completely derp around because they rely on certain stuff.
Unfortunately his first games was against my lizardmen and saurus warriors makes minched meat out of regular clan rats.

He also didn't like the randomness that comes with Skavens.

So he obviously switched to Warriors of Chaos and might lose 1 every 10 games. As a Lizardmen player I have to rely on skinks redirecting because I cannot possibly win any engagement other than very specific ones chosen solely by me.

Can WoC be beaten? SURE, especially by people in tournaments. WoC is a very melee centric army and most people regard the melee aspect of the game as the core of it. Which means that 99% of the time my regular saurus warriors are up against his warriors they'll get beaten into a green pulp. I have to drastically outplay him and my gaming experience is way above his, both game time spent, but also knowledge of the rules. And yet he beat me from the very first game he played with them.


So the issue with CoH2 is that unlike say Starcraft 2 you don't really have a lot of choices. You're either the allied OR the axis. Not a third or fouth option. I remember back when I played SC2 Zerg was generally considered "hard mode", but very playable also among tournament players. Back then you could just switch to either terran or protoss and be happy, it didn't matter that much unless you really wanted to with Zerg.

Now I can either play as Axis and be stressed or Allied and have an easier time having fun. Since I cannot play 8 hours a day and just "learn to adapt/git gud" I've switched sides. I don't overall enjoy playing Sovjets more compared to Axis - I like how OKW plays much more - but ultimately I'm here to have fun and not make this into my second job.

I am, however, confident that eventually the call-in meta will change. Eventually