Profile of Rosbone

I don't really get the hate for RNG. Real life also has RNG if you think of it. Nothing is perfect.

The problem is Relics version of RNG. It is not random at all. If you are playing and can predict what is about to happen, it is not random.

Relics RNG focuses on drastic changes in game dynamics. Planes always land on your army. Mortars sniping your units outside the FOW. Mortars landing no where near their target so they can blow up a mine you just laid. You pen a tank every time until the tank starts to retreat, then nothing will pen ever again (always at around 5% health it becomes invulnerable) etc etc etc

As I said, the RNG gives the game a lot of replayability. Which is great. But it also drives a lot of players away from the game because there is too much "RNG".

1. NERF THE SHIT OUT OF THE MORTAR AND ARTILLERY!!! Manual barrage only with huge scatter that dials in after each shot. Complete no brainer here. WTF?
2. Fix the map objects that block sight. Some bushes do some dont. And when you put them all together in a bunch TrueSight falls apart fast. Sight blockers need to be obvious.
3. Fix the buildings with no windows that people can shoot into but you cant shoot out of.
4. Return the COH1 resources options Low, Mid, High, etc. Some maps have points so far apart there is no reason to take them. This leads to camping. Could help team game maps as well.
5. Fix the "server decided you die" code. COH decides the outcome then plays it out regardless of the players interactions. You dodged that Katy barrage? Too F'ing bad your shit got rekt! Too much of this game is out of the players control. If an FPS can be played over the inet, I think you can actually let projectiles travel a random path and see what happens. Instead of imposing the "this is what we decided" so the projectile turns 45 degrees mid flight to kill you.
6. Make it more obvious that 1 or 2 models cant see the enemy they are targeting. It looks so bad when 3 guys are in a heated gun battle and guy #4 is smoking a cigarette because a leaf is in his way for sight. Maybe blink the guy or put a small icon on his head. It would be best if they actually moved into a fighting position but that is some tough code to write.
7. Get rid of the "a vehicle is driving around so I cant shoot now" code. I would rather a tank phases thru my army and still gets snared than have a high priced squad all upgraded that never shoots???
8. Maybe add a third status bar for units that fire slowly so you know when they are going to shoot.
9. Nerf snipers health a little. And remove 2 man sniper team. Again, no brainer. vCOH snipers felt more squishy, less tanky. Maybe reduce cost a little.
10. Variety. The different factions keep the game fresh. But some of the maps are just no fun to play after the weaknesses are found. Rotate maps in/out of the game more frequently. Have a voting system in place (Count vetoes on the server maybe) so the really bad maps are removed/fixed. Cycle could be add, fix 3 mos later, remove if vetoed by all factions frequently.

2-3 of these maps are worthy. 2 because of one of the threes atmosphere being to hard on the toasters many play on.

In only takes a minute to turn off rain or snow and instantly have good playable maps. Except maybe revert that one back to only a single cutoff

There was a mini update for coh2 2 days ago, but that was a bugfix for campaign. Could be something fishy with that patch. Sometimes verify files doesn't always work, a fresh install might.

You said you are on an SSD as am I. My backup PC did not have enough space to do the update and failed. Steam then gave me a message saying I needed 22.5GB for the 89MB update. Because steam made a copy of the COH2 program and then never deleted it when it failed. Check your SSD for available space. Mayne something happened and your SSD is out of space so Windows is having trouble paging RAM to the SSD. Its along shot, but the timing is right.

Steam made the copy under C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Downloading. The directory has a long number assigned as its name. I believe this folder should be empty after everything is updated. Mine was not. It had a copy of COH2 in it.

You also stated ONLINE is the issue. Network issues?

I am pretty sure most of you encountered this already: Someone in the load screen is using a PC built in 1995, and needs 5-10 minutes to load the match. I am not even over-exaggerating here, I have seen people who need 10 minutes to load a match.

This issue sucks. But what is the answer? The variable is people with laptops. Laptops have very slow hard drives and if the person has low RAM it will add even longer load times. But once the game is up and running these people may play fine.

1. Separate searches for potatoes and PCs? Then your rank is meaningless if better players are on potatoes.
2. Server side kick of slow loaders? This means Relic pisses off customers.
3. Call the game a draw or No contest. This makes some sense. But people could abuse it if they load into a better team. Just start a heavy HD process so your PC slows to a crawl.
4. Add more time to allow the sync? Maybe the best answer to keep the match valid is just wait longer? But the servers may get busy with a lot of empty "GHOST" matches waiting for them to timeout.
5. Roll the Bones and let the RNG gods figure it out? Oh right. That is the COH way