Profile of Rosbone

Playing against AI is not good practice. The AI doesn't have any gameplan or use any tactics, it just blindly throws a superior number of troops towards you (in case of expert ai). You can easily cheese them by just spamming mg's and AT guns.

I'd start with 4v4 to get a hang of the game and its units, then play 1v1 to get stomped and slowly improve upon mistakes.

I agree with this idea. And I used to always advocate playing 4v4 first to learn.

However, getting a game in 4v4 is nearly impossible anymore. Your team mates will all be surfing the web while waiting to start. So they will either be AFK or crash when the game starts. Your chances of getting a good 4v4 game are approximately 1 in 5.

Here are my last 7 4v4 games:
1. Losing connection to Relic servers all game. Still win somehow.
2. Losing connection to Relic servers all game. Lose.
3. Losing connection to Relic servers all game. Lose.
4. Enemy crashes on load. Win.
5. Matched against a higher ranked premade team: Lose badly.
6. Matched against the same higher ranked premade team: Lose even worse.
7. Team mate crashes on load. Lose.

Its a fucking joke and a waste of your time. Relic needs to do something about it because its killing the game. But they cant because COH3 will be here first.

Play 1v1 against HARD AI. Never click ahead of where you want to go (never A-Move). This just tells the AI where to send their units. Make MGs out the ass, cause the AI cant deal with them. Also, 4v4 is all about MGs and Mortar so you are getting good practice.

Then play EXPERT AI with MGs and hold both fuels. After mastering that play EXPERT without MGs and get stomped by tanks 10 minutes into the game because even if you hold both fuels they will have tanks 5-8 minutes before you. And that is after making light vehicles.

Then start playing 1v1. And never make more than one MG or you will get rolled.

And of course after playing 1v1 you will see that losing one engagement = you lose. And after RNG spreads your cheeks apart so far you invert, you will uninstall like everyone else does. Unless you have mental problems. If so, welcome to the club.

The best thing you can do is play some 4v4 and start friending people at your skill level. Then make a team. At least then you can get some good games in usually.

NOVGORAD OUTSKIRTS UPDATE for KOTH
File Version: 5.0

1. Church Added for AE.
2. Middle Crossing Side roads changed to RED cover and speed bonus.
3. Pathing adjusted in ditch areas.
4. A few large hedges changed from HEAVY crush to MEDIUM crush.





Funny note: The OST AI loves this map. They take middle VP first then make a bunker pointed at my cutoff. Those sneaky little bastards.

CLIPPING - Why it is important to adjust your volumes.

Clipping is the distortion of a signal that is trying to create a voltage/current that the amplifier is not capable of producing. The easy example is a sine wave that has a loud spike in it. The loud spike requires a volume(voltage) that exceeds the maximum possible output volume (voltage).

In this example our smooth bell tone (SINE) gets turned into a cracking KUH or SNAP sound. The RED line shows what the actual sound was and you can see that the blue sinusoidal wave gets its head chopped off.

Clipping can happen anywhere in your sounds signal chain. Once they occur you will have distortion etc that cannot be fixed in real time (yet).

MIC
The sound starts as air pressure changes with your voice as you squirt air thru your meat. These air pressure changes move a diaphram in an electrical field that acts as an Alternating Current Generator. The movement creates a very small electrical voltage from the generator. If the sound is extremely loud you will cause the diaphram to reach its maximum movement and you will get mechanical clipping. You may also get some electrical voltage/current clipping.

PREAMP
The low voltage microphone output is too small to hear. It needs to be amplified. If the mics out-going signal is too loud it will clip in the preamp. The preamp volume can be on the mic, mixer, etc if you are using standard analog audio equipment. If you are using a USB mic, the preamp volume is usually the WINDOWS sound volume for that device.

At this point, the original air pressure changes have been converted to analog voltages. The next step is digitization. An Analog-to-Digital (ADC) converter is used to convert the incoming analog signal to a digital number. This is done inside the mic if using a USB mic. Inside the External preamp if USB. Or inside your computers sound card if using the3.5mm analog mic input.

Programs in WINDOWS can now work with this digital number stream of audio. Standard audio is 16 bit signed sampled at 44.1 kHz. The voltage alternates positive and negative. So the digital sample numbers range from -32767 to +32768. Sampling means it records a number 44100 times per second, ie chops the sound into little pieces. A mathmatical rule (Nyquist) states you want to sample at least twice as many samples as the requencies you are trying to represent. Humans hear 20Hz to 20kHz. 44.1Khz is over double 20 kHz.

The programs you use on your PC such as OBS, etc can now increase or lower the volume by multiplying these numbers. And of course, if the numbers exceed 32768, they will get clipped to 32768 and the audio information above that is lost forever. So you are never safe from clipping. It can occur at every stage of your audio chain.

VU METER
Many of the devices in this signal chain will give you a VU meter. This is a little meter that tells you how loud you are. These are provided so you NEVER clip your signal. VU METER WIKIPEDIA

You want to figure out what is the loudest sound you will ever make and verify that the VU meter never gets maxed out. Adjust your volume starting at the first stage Mic volume/mixer volume/Windows volume for the device. In a perfect world you would want your voice to peak at around -3 to -6 dB so that you are very loud but not loud enough to clip.

Clipping is also a form of COMPRESSION. As it chops the sounds and limits how loud they can be. So crank it up and sound like a pissed off robot if you want

Team games, OKW need Stuka early or they lose badly. That is all. I would not change it.

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