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Do your eyes feel strained from playing CoH3?

Can you not distinguish units from the terrain?

Does it look to you like the game is using some kind of filter?

Then this might be the guide for you. Reshade is a post-processing injector that allows you to change the way the game looks. I've personally used it for CoH2 for years and now updated it for CoH3, taking into account feedback of people who used it.

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Without Reshade (medium settings):
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With Reshade (medium settings):
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Installing the configuration
1. Install my configuration here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11TflkcEfwNL89e7p93KIVTTnZaYlFbCZ/view?usp=share_link
2. Ideally you want to put it in your CoH3 installation folder, but any folder where you won't accidentally delete it is fine.

Installing reshade
Make sure CoH3 is closed during the installation.

3. Go to https://reshade.me and download the latest version without add-on support.
4. After downloading, run the setup.
5. Select the CoH3 executable, it should automatically show up as RelicCoH3.exe, NEXT.
6. Select DirectX 10/11/12 as API, NEXT.
7. Select my configuration when it asks, this will automatically make it select all required effects, you can then spam NEXT until the installation is done.

Reshade should now be working for CoH3, if you run CoH3, you should see text in the top left appearing about it loading effects, if you want you can leave it here. To make the text disappear after first install Reshade, you want open the in-game Reshade menu by clicking the default key "home".

Optional reshade settings
There's two things you probably want to do still after installing in the Reshade menu. The first is enabling performance mode, which disables configuration so reshade runs more efficiently. The second is setting a toggle key, so you can see how the game looks with and without Reshade.

when opening the Reshade menu, make sure to skip the tutorial and then keep clicking continue until you can click finish.

A. Performance mode - Open the reshade menu and check the toggle for performance mode in the bottom right.
B. Reshade toggle key - Go the the settings tab on top, there you will see "effect toggle key", set it to a key you don't use, like \ or end.


Troubleshooting
If you don't see RelicCoH3.exe when running the Reshade installation, you either have to wait a while until the setup can find it, or manually browse for it by going to your CoH3 installation folder. (By default: Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Company of Heroes 3\RelicCoH3.exe)

If you don't have a "home" key on your keyboard, I would advice googling how to change this in the Reshade settings file. You can find this file where you installed CoH3.

If you did something wrong during the installation, you can rerun the setup and select modify. You can then do the same steps again.

If you truly want COH3 to succeed more than anyone then you would not solely post negative shit. Someone who wants COH3 to succeed would write constructive posts. I really despise your (and Rosbone's) negativity. All your posts are the same and are honestly ruining this forum experience for me. At the moment this forum is dead to me because of it ... bye.

My advice to you:

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I wouldn't mind exploitable gaps in base defenses, akin to Sturzdorf in CoH1, as long as they're intentionally designed and balanced that way.

Base inspections were a solid option in CoH1 but really took a backseat in CoH2, with harder to kill buildings, no off-maps in HQ sectors (that one is fine being left out imo) and in some cases completely exaggerated base defenses (looking at you, okw and usf). It served its purpose in CoH1 mainly as a tool to quickly finish off weaker opponents and also as a way to break up the conventional 3 VP grind.

Jibber
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Ah shit, here we go again

Auto-reinforce in base only sounds like l33t tax that doesn't help the game in any way except making more micro, because you're adding clicks based on where the unit is reinforcing. That's not consistent design.

I'd rather see auto-reinforce available wherever one can reinforce, and then merge becomes the combat version of reinforce. Maybe it should take twice as long to reinforce outside HQ.

I get your view. Baseline is that with halftracks, a player makes the deliberate choice to help increase the staying power of his units on the field, at which point auto reinforce becomes less of a QoL thing and starts impacting balance.

Balancing it in other ways could be fine as well, like increasing reinforce times outside of HQ or reducing reinforcement radius (so it’s easier to force away). Right now in CoH2, halftracks range from being very cumbersome in 1v1 to being very dominant in 4v4. Keeping the ease of use, but adding some drawbacks might help smoothen this difference.

"Audible Footsteps
Footsteps in the fog of war give away infantry positions. Predicting infantry movement is a major part of CoH and hearing the footsteps prevents this layer of depth."

You have this in both previous games, also units speech in fog of war is a thing.

Recently played CoH and I heard infantry movement in the fog.

I do have a vague memory of it being a thing in CoH1, but pretty sure it's not in CoH2, or at least it's so mute as to be unusable. You can hear things like mines being planted and flags being raised though, and I think some units have some setup noise like Raketen.