Profile of Rosbone

I wonder what the real review state of Coh3 is at this point.

The Beginning
When the game first released it was missing a lot of things and had other issues. So initially people were Ok with some things since it was a new game. But those soon turned to disappointment because issues became glaring and were not being fixed. Initial reviews were like 60% positive.

The Middle
Over time the more casual players began to notice things that are wrong. Or maybe started to get bored. And the issues like campaigns being buggy were starting to be a real issues months after release.

The Noobs
There are a lot of complaints about balance. Many of these complaints were because the game is balanced around 1v1. So 4v4 players did not feel it was balanced. But a decent percentage were people that just lost a game or two and started whining. One review says the game is axis favored, the next says it is allies favored.

The Patches
Every time a patch comes out, someone loses a game and writes a bad review. The patch is only out for a few days and people are bombing the reviews.

With every patch comes more bad reviews. They have to blame something right? "The maps. The balance. Its not me, I am amazing!"

The Data
So how bad is the game really compared to the reviews? Lately the steam reviews have been around 50/50.

But this includes all of the people with unfounded complaints about balance because they lost a game or two.

So the real status could be as good as 60-70% if we ignore the complainers. But they are customers and their opinions count. But they mask the real status of the game.

Is it a bug? I saw something that made it sound intentional. Like older 4 core CPUs are locked down to 30 FPS. Said the game does a speed check before running and locks it to 30 if your CPU is slow. Which supports the PERFORMANCE setting working since the CPU may be fully clocked?

Dont know for sure. Just trying to add info (good/bad).

I did not see anything about Hyperthreading listed. So is it 4 core single thread CPUs? Or does it include 4 cores with 8 threads?

At least all the cheese mentioned in NorthWeapon's list I could do on many many (1v1) maps

Rant: Really sad that CoH2 automatch pool since 2016 or so followed this trend of just looking at map pickrates/vetorates and add or delete maps based off of that.

There are a few different things that pushed maps towards the laney stuff.

1) Players need to blame something for their loss. Weird map? Blame it. Some trickier to play maps were made and they were universally hated. People were even told "Make an open field map. We are not looking at anything else."

2) Players only have three load outs. They want three useful commanders. If the map is too weird, it requires a certain commander to be viable. Which takes away from your other commanders. The game should have been designed better. If your infantry could be focused short/long by upgrades would help a lot. This is partially Relics fault by design.

3) Many players want to use a variety of weapons. If the map is too much of a maze you cant use team weapons at all. AT guns, for example, become useless. Now you have balance issues for team weapon focused factions.

4) Mappers only get one shot at making a map (unless you are WhiteFlash). You have to make the map as safe as possible. You cant risk people hating a section that is weird to play cause your map will get removed rather then reworked. This is Relics fault. Their apathy towards their own game.

5) Some players just like to play a certain style (A-move???). They will veto certain maps.


ANSWER
Relic needs to be much more active with the mapping community. They need to add maps more frequently and let mappers update them. Instead Relic is saying "We cant add maps cause we have small pee pees". As usual, doing the complete opposite of what they should be doing. I dont know how they stay in business. What other type of business can you be completely incompetent and stay open?

Anyways my views on balance don't matter much because I'm like rank 1,000 in any faction I play, but the ELO system does a fair job of putting me in equal games I think.

This is the other thing that would have really pulled me to Coh3, match making. The only thing I ever complained about in Coh2 was match making. 98% of my bitching was trying to get Relic to fix the match maker.

But Coh3's release was so bad, there are not enough players left to make decent matches.

So I may have finally got my wish of an updated match maker just to have it ripped away a month after release.