As a harsh critic of relic & coh2, I'm a fair man and will give DoW3 a chance. If Relic learned from their CoH2 mistakes, they could have a good game. I would be willing to help if they asked.
I don't expect it to be the 2nd coming of #ESPORTS but I have hopes it could be good and from there, grow a decently sized esport.
So firing from cover, and cloak, how long will be the re-cloak time? I just want to be 100% clear. As this is the biggest change I so far disagree with. If it however, promotes better play then its fine, as it originally sounds like that it made using a sniper receive a 10 second "out of cloak" debuff after every casual shot or ability.
Did a cast of this a day or so ago, here's the link
Just my thoughts on the map, and a great game.
Ninja Edit: To clarify, the replay might be messed up VERY soon, as when the map is updated (which mono will assuredly do after the tourney), you will receive a sync error. Also if you grab the replay and try to watch, change the file name as it is most likely to many characters long and just needs shortened.
One thing to keep in mind is that most people that play automatch play only automatch. Therefore if it isn't in rotation, people most likely won't notice it.
It's a major barrier to mapmaking. Custom matches are hard to draw people when you have an unfinished map.
To expand on this, that is also why they don't receive testing until near finished, since most won't help before hand..
You have really good points, I guess I tried to capture this with higher level live casts on the maps. If we had some people with video editing skills (I sure as hell don't), I could get together content to explain the maps (at least mine) and try to get any others available. This would be a pretty large undertaking overall though, as each video would be anywhere from 1-3 minutes in length.
I would be glad to help with this in anyway possible and come up with a format. Once my IRL stuff the next few days dies down. I have A LOT of things I need to get going on here.
There was a good video, I saw earlier from one of the maps that didnt win. I think it was stanvicks "nevel" map.
Edit: I was right, here is the vid I'm referencing, we could try to do something similar to this.