Profile of Rosbone

Nice write up guys. Looks good.

I did not play the alpha. But what I saw had some good and bad.

BAD
1) The UI color choices made the whole scene very hard to look at. As GiaA stated the unit icons should not be grey. The extra zoom and the grey colors made it impossible to see who owned the units moving around on the screen. Both for players and stream viewers.

2) The point value indicators were some weird lime green color instead of white. And the actual point indicators were a different color, pink? There are way too many colors on the screen. The standard is white with a black border so that no matter what the backdrop is they standout. I would almost like to see these values as part of the 3D model so it has more of a realistic look.

3) Some colors were different hues. Like normal blue on your icons and a different blue for captured points.

4) Mini Map size. Since it was an alpha there are not a lot of graphics around the UI. AOE4 is pretty sparse. Assuming Coh3 is that way also, the MM could be larger or adjustable. Let the player sacrifice some vision to get a bigger MM.

GOOD
1) I like the zoomed out view. The actual distance is still up for debate.

2) The maps looked very good. I did not play so I cant comment on balance, cover, etc.

3) I like the idea of the commander system allowing for less predictable play.

4) I like the Global Unit Overview on the bottom next to the minimap. Lets you click a unit then click the minimap. When making my game, I placed them above the menu so you could click a unit then the menu. Bottom is a nice go between for both minimap and menu.

ALPHA STUFF
1) The weird blinking shadows on the ground etc. Rendering dithering? Z buffer issues?

2) The capture circle that draws on top of game play objects.

STUFF TO THINK ABOUT
1) Everyone hates snow maps because of the reduced FPS brought on by the extra geometry used on the snow tracks. I saw vehicles making tracks in the sandy/muddy areas on a map. I did not see footprints (which is what kills FPS). Having only vehicle track splines that fade away seems like a great balance for realism and FPS. Hopefully that is what was done. Of course people could just not use the mud/snow in the maps if its an issue.

2) I did not see any re cover in matches I saw. Is there red cover in Coh3?

Do you seriously think that Kimbo who is the king of leaking private messages out of context would not respond by now in a lengthy rebuttal showing any hypothetical Sturmpanther threats? C'mon man

LOL I agree. But I was thinking of this earlier. At what point does being banned from Coh2 and ML also extend to this website?

What court of law? What evidence? How does anything we say in here change Relic's ban?

I am not talking about Kimbos ban. I said in the first post "I understand there is probably more to it.". Meaning I am sure Relic had good reason to ban Kimbo. Multiple infractions and threatening community members etc.

I am just pointing out That post is not enough to ban someone in the context of us readers. Because people say I will break your nose every 20 minutes in most casual conversation.

Someone walks into your office then makes that face babies make when they are shitting. What do you say? "Dont you dare fart in here or I will break your nose!"

We as a species have this innate ability to ignore the facts or use logic when something like this is presented. This #MeToo cancel culture is retarded.

I have seen it when doing Jury Duty. These people wanted to send some guy away for a long time as a dealer because he had a lot drugs on him. I had to stop them (talk them down) from doing it because there was ZERO proof he was selling anything. In fact they found the drugs because he was so wasted on them his girl friend called an ambulance. And when the police showed up first to help, he wanted to bring all of his drugs with him to the hospital. So they had no choice but to arrest the doofus. It scares the shit out of me, that dude could have done hard time if I wasnt there to stop it. When were done the judge talked to us. He said "You did the right thing they had no evidence at all. It was a new thing they were trying out".

Why would you report someone if you are dating him? MVGame

Also you gotta stop with these kinds of insinuations...

I am glad someone here is getting the amazing jokes I post here for free

Also this obviously wasn't a joke.

This is my point entirely. It is NOT OBVIOUS. We do not know what lead up to this conversation.

For all we know, Kimbo and Sturmpanther are dating and this is how they talk to each other when flirting. Maybe yesterday Sturmpanther said he would go punch Kimbo in the nose. We dont know.

But I applaud Aerafield for posting what we know so far. Thank you.

And I am sad that Kimbo, once again, has injured himself. We all had a little hope there for a while that he would turn out ok. But now he has been kicked off the island. Time for our next sacrifice.