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Jump back to quoted post13 Jun 2023, 13:37 PMNickbn

You'll have to verify your (multiple!) sources, talk to (multiple) people and work from there on your story. Yes this takes more than 5 minutes but if you do that, you'll be more than able to live up to the title of a (senior) editor, and the quality of your content and validity of the work you do will go up by miles.

Jump back to quoted post3 Jun 2023, 00:18 AMFantomasas

Is it good?

I question how is this person the most suitable for the role.

Veteran of design work at Relic? Nope.
Worked on previous RTS games? Nope.
Worked on this caliber game? Nope.
Excelled with his COH3 responsibilities? Nope.

It is the stuff I hate about Relic. Fairly new hire, coming from small/mobile games background, full of linkedin buzzwords and achievements.

When you promote the person who was, in his own words, responsibile for these COH3 components:

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  • Lead designer and Product Owner of the metagame pod (front end menu and feature development) preparing for COH3 live-ops, then continued on that role post launch.
  • Part of project leadership group, who collectively determined feature prioritization and timelines to align with the project's business goals.
  • Served as intermediary between project leadership and data analysis team to interpret KPIs and other live data to validate business assumptions, including making detailed requests to the data team for specific investigations.
  • Determined high level requirements for upcoming features.
  • Assisted leadership group with understanding and addressing deeper workflow issues.
  • Responsible for prioritizing bugfixes and triage for metagame and technical gameplay issues.
  • Provided mentorship and training for more junior members of the design team.
  
  

Front-end menu?
CoH3 post launch support?
Data analysis?
Upcoming features requirements?
Bug and gameplay issues?
Workflow issues?

Quite literally the things we hate about CoH3. Crappy UI, no proper post-launch plans, poor priorities/direction, slow studio work output, game (around launch) completely broken with bugs like suppression, mine collisions, AT shots clipping, AA/Skillplanes - you cannot even start balancing the game when these components aren't working properly.

No, I don't think this is a good direction. If I could have someone promoted to COH3 leadership, I would beg Quinn Duffy to come back.

Veteran of design work at Relic? Yes.
Worked on previous RTS games? Yes.
Worked on this caliber game? Yes.
Excelled with his past games' (COH1 COH2 AOE4) responsibilities? Probably, at least didn't fail.

Jump back to quoted post28 May 2023, 09:34 AMGachiGasm

I'il just live it there for you to figure it out why CoH3 is poopy.

https://www.mobygames.com/person/108570/david-littman/ - big boss
https://www.mobygames.com/person/67141/aaron-janzen/ - lead sound designer
https://www.mobygames.com/person/114702/steven-mele/ - executive produsser
https://www.mobygames.com/person/40562/tristan-brett/ - art director (why everything is so bright and mobile basically)

Also if you want to look at all devs:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/199646/company-of-heroes-3/credits/windows/?autoplatform=true

To sum up, while a lot of devs had good experience, majority of leading roles were left to the guys from EA who worked on a failed projects like BF5\BF hardline or strate up were pumping out EA sports games.

And this is perfectly explains everything. Why game is super good from a technical side? Because it was made by people who worked with RTS\CoH before and have nothing to so with EA. Why overall design is 50\50, because devs are 50\50 here. And why some areas are complete shit? Figure it out.

And on a side note, while you guys shittalk about diversity and why not, female devs at Relic actually have really good and diverse experience in game dev, which is actually some what close to the whole CoH idea.