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A little late to the party here, but I found this to be a fascinating podcast. It gives a high level overview of the design objectives of both COH and COH2. Some quick impressions:

* TOV was intended to be a three-part DLC, not a boxed expansion.

* Eastern Front was considered, and work started, but the THC/COHO situation put it on the back-burner, and the idea ultimately became COH2. Also, huge technical challenges in doing Eastern Front environment in original Essence Engine.

* Big discussion on faction philosophies. Brits intended to be turtle faction. (My own take: emplacements were a huge part of their design, things broke badly when they became obsolete in the metagame. This was probably hugely unintended by original design.)

* Interesting discussion about balancing design for casual player vs. design for skilled players. Brits, to some extent, were meant to bridge this gap.

* Some good discussion about the tone of the factions, both vanilla and OF. It really gets hammered home with the types of chatter the units have.

* A really interesting point about how the map after a game is a record of the events that transpired on it. It's almost unique to COH.

Nicely done Quinn and Shane Neville!

As we announced there was no way for us to move the stats over from the old server to the new one. Sorry about that.

Eh, old stats might be important to some, but even with ~1.5K games, I don't care if it gets wiped out.

What I would like to see is:

* Good matchmaking
* Good results tallies
* Some implementation anticheat
* Social features enabled

In a nutshell, what we had before, and maybe some enhanced cheat detection.

Of course, any further development on the game would be greatly appreciated, but not expected. Good luck on the last month of COH2 dev!

Used to have WASD, but a good DoW 2 player basically helped me "see the light". Sometimes when I got the time I'll grid key my hotkeys and finally remap the tac map.

I play with the default button layout with one exception: my tactical map is bound to [Space Bar], and the 'most recent event' is mapped to [Insert]. Having the tac-map handy has really improved my 'away from engagement' management. It's too bad shortcut commands don't work in the tac map, I would love to reinforce guys from inside there.

I've posted the files to do this:

http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?s=&showtopic=914632&view=findpost&p=9419142

Hopefully, all the Relic guys will be OK through this transition.

My heart goes out to all the THQ employees, here's hoping for a smooth transition for them. It's going to be bumpy.

Well, it worked for me last night. Twice. When I couldn't get in before.

Use it or don't use it. Makes no difference to me.

If they're using a load balancer front end, then flushing the dns cache could work to get an available server IP instead of the one cached in your local dns records. So don't feel crazy for trying this.