Profile of Rosbone

Offense taken. Just kidding

Anyway, I think it is a good time to sort this thing out.

There is something a little bit weird when we type Chinese. Our keyboard layout is the same as the US one but requires secondary input software. We may turn that thing off by pressing the Shift key. And you should also know what else the Shift key does in the game. Anyway, if we accidentally trigger that in the game, it may lead to a crash. This is why, especially when playing with Chinese players, you will not receive any response from them at all or, for the best, all capital letter wired messages.

Yeah, I also know Chinese players tend to be very selfish. You can blame it on us, and then we can blame it on our education system. At least in school, they taught us not to trust anybody and treat everyone we know as a competitor.Treat all suggestions from a foreigner as lies unless they are from your supervisor. However, there is one thing I can promise you. We care about winning a game more than everybody does. So, maybe your Chinese teammate won't give a shit about your request, but they for sure are doing things they think that will grant you guys the victory. Like what we liked to say in my city: Seal up your dirty mouth and do your fking job.

This is a very cool and insightful post! Thank you. Removing some of the mystery between races does a lot to erase the xenophobia (racism) we as humans tend to fall back on (from 100k years of evolution).

A friend of mine used to say how people from different cultures all think differently. Be it from schooling, day to day life, and even your language structure. It all affects your logic.

When we would work with people from other countries and ask important questions they would always say "Yes". No matter what we asked. But maybe Yes meant, I understand your question and not affirmitive the answer is Yes. So we would go in circles for days. Is the building on fire? "Yes".

Add this to not speaking the same language and technical issues like the shift key issue really helps explain all of the weird things you see in random games.

We need more of this. If everyone spoke the same language it would go a long way to world peace as we would have the same basis for logic, etc. And if people explained their gaming cultures maybe we could all stop spamming "NOOB" in games

This is why the most important thing Relic can add to COH3 is more pinging options that help communicate / coordinate things like recon, arty, pushes, etc. because many games can have 4-6 different cultures and languages. With NO WAY to talk to each other.

Posting this here to show how to include the options and date range which could be very important.



And here is a smaller time span to show the latest patch games.


As far as the discussion of the balance team and other games modes there were changes made to all of the major 4v4 commanders. Mostly all nerfs. That is an indicator, to me, that the larger modes were considered.

The 4v4 stats are not perfect due to 100 variables like:
- Premade teams.
- Were all players the same faction.
- Which maps were being played.
- Time of day the gamers were played.

From the last patch my low rank games were all B4 commanders for a couple of weeks and Allies were doing very well. Lately the B4s have stopped but the Sturmtiger has taken over and you see 1 to 2 every game now. Most games I see where allies are doing well only lasts until about 7-8 minute mark. From then on Axis blobs start to overwhelm.

Then early Allied tanks show up for a few minutes and Axis gets pushed back a little. Then panthers show up and it is usually GG from then on as most players do not make enough AT. Watch 1v1 games and they have 2 AT guns next to each other. In 4v4 I see games where no one has an AT gun at minute 20. Like their first tank will stop the panther swarm.

And if the panthers dont end the game, then the KTs and ELEs finish it by camping a VP.

If artillery starts falling its a roll of the dice who wins based on the shit RNG of the garbage game we play and whether your team mates speak the same language and can coordinate.

The other major factor is late game axis takes much less micro. So I see low skill players do very well with a giant blob and one good tank.

I dont care about balance and I dont play 1v1 cause it sucks. But here is the balance for the last several months according to PagePs legendary stats site.


These numbers vary widely from week to week. Some weeks Brits are getting 47% WR and the next week they are 53%. Is this because better players were playing them that week? Probably?

From this batch of numbers I would say OKW is getting rekt right now (which I have been saying for years in team games). But this does stretch across a couple patches and new OKW tech is better from what I have been told.

Just a single data point in a sea of data. Everyone should stick to their anecdotal data points of that one time when RNG raped you but you blame it on the map or faction balance

EDIT: I noticed I forgot to check top 200 on the chart. This paints a clearer picture from what is seen in tourneys etc. My bad. I am noob.


EDIT 2: For shits and giggles here is 4v4 for the same period.


This data says Axis is smashing Allies all day long. From the games I have seen recently the server is dishing out even Axis games. Where each game is 2-OKW and 2-OST. And Allies are all USF etc. So there are a lot of variables in play.

So if I change the size of mm_preview.tga., say make it 30% bigger then it is and save, it will be bigger in lobby???

Making it bigger will make no difference. Coh2 resizes it to fit in the preview window. You would need to crop it if you want to see more of the map interior.

When you crop it, Coh2 will have no idea what you have done so the points it draws will all be in the wrong places. But if you crop it correctly (evenly) you may be able to adjust the MAPSIZE field to get Coh2 to draw the point sin the right place.

The amount you need to adjust will depend on how much OOB area you have and how much you crop the minimap.

It will not be easy. And is usually not worth the effort. But you asked.

2020 and onwards

So the 64-bit patch broke this program also? This program is life. I dont want to live in a world where this does not work.

If you run 32-bit Coh2 will it work?