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Jump back to quoted post28 Mar 2024, 14:45 PMHannibal

After seeing nigo's post, you are likely spot on regarding DLCs. I think MS would have disclosed if they bought Relic. They need to make money fast, otherwise they're not interesting. I guess Relic released their update early to frame its "independence" to be a good thing, but I doubt it is.



Jesus. That company looks like the worst locust swarm possible.
Some gaming, some fintech stuff, some "rent an employee" company. I don't think that's the best environment for creative game development.

• The company [SEGA] decided to transfer all shares of Relic, a consolidated subsidiary of the Company. As a result, a loss on business restructuring of approximately 4.7 billion yen is expected to be recorded as extraordinary losses
  
  
• The transferee is a holding company to be newly established by the UK investment company Emona Capital LLP, but details will not be disclosed due to the request of the transferee.
  
  
• Transfer value is not disclosed due to the request of the transferee.
  
  Transfer value is determined through negotiations with the equity transferee based on the earning forecast of Relic and the result of analysis by a third-party and other, and is recognized as a fair value.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2024, 12:36 PMKatitof

.......

CoH1 was a game.
CoH2 was pretty much a mod to CoH1, reusing assets and code everywhere while stripping everything that made CoH1 belowed only to add it back later after their "casualization beam" failure.
CoH3 was made from scratch as new engine had to be written for it, so things were not hard coded as they were in previous games, therefore development time had to go into engine itself instead of using engine to build on, couple that with experienced developers and designers leaving and you have release CoH3. It got to where it should be with 1.4 and is mechanically superior to CoH1 and 2. What's missing now is QoL of low relevance, hence it is not in yet.

DoW3 was management of relic completely losing touch with playerbases of DoW (DoW1 players are not the same as DoW2 players) and their attempt to cater both spectacularly failed on both fronts, the game had absolutely nothing to do with CoH3 or vice versa.

• You state that Relic failed to satisfy either group of DOW players. But it looks as if history may be repeating itself with COH3. Is it not possible with a new engine to apply different balancing and values to team games as opposed to 1v1? e.g. is it possible to create different BGs for team games only which could not be selected for 1v1?
  
  
• Since developers presumably wish to maximise their income, would Relic have been wiser to concentrate on team games rather than 1v1?
  
  
• Is the relatively crude COH3 UI indicative of the loss of ability and/or experience of those Relic Devs who departed the game pre-COH3?

Jump back to quoted post31 Aug 2023, 17:32 PMSneakEye

This was posted today on the CoH3 discord, the reason being legal stuff. No idea what makes it different from community content in CoH2.

"We're still working on other things behind the scenes that aren't on this roadmap. Community Maps are one of these. Because of all the legal work we have to do, we were not confident as to be able to make it happen before end of this year." - Gabby_RE

Jump back to quoted post23 Jun 2023, 17:36 PMRosbone

Yet, community maps is not even on the list. Wouldn't any competent manager make this #1 priority before release even? If you know you are going to be low on maps and will take time to make some, wouldn't you start making sure you can bring in outside work?

Two maps for 3v3 and 4v4? I have seen free download game demos with more content than Coh3 has.

This is the thing that sucks the life right out of me even remotely hoping Coh3 will ever be good. There is no one at the wheel with the slightest clue what is going on around them.

And the roadmaps are like "The house is completely engulfed in flame so we are going to a pull the kitchen table out and maybe next month the couch".

Zero sense of urgency at all. Even after 120 people got let go. I just dont have the words to describe this level of incompetence. Maybe someone can help.