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Thread: COH3 Player Stats, leaderboards and more - coh3stats.com21 Apr 2023, 14:32 PM One could also think of allowing small exceptions: All players 1200-1500 ELO, one exception is allowed, but game is only taken into account if the team's average ELO difference is not larger than say 100 (should sort out games where the match maker adds one random player that is either way too good or way too bad). All values obviously to whatever is most applicable, you have the data to check. In: COH3 Central
Thread: In Conversation With ML Organiser AECoH20 Apr 2023, 06:55 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Apr 2023, 00:44 AMKoRneY Fix the skin colors and lighting and this would look awkwardly convincing In: COH3 Central
Thread: In Conversation With ML Organiser AECoH19 Apr 2023, 11:34 AM Honest question, AE, and I really don't mean this mockingly but out of genuine interest: How does it feel to put out a video that is criticizing Relic and CoH3, but also still emphasizing that Relic has the chance and possibilities to turn the game around, well knowing that you will put yourself into the line of fire of many parts of the community and receive criticism and backlash for it. Only then for Relic to dump this "interview" straight into your face? To be honest, I'd be pissed as fuck... Don't burn yourself out. If you don't wanna do CoH3 tournaments anymore, then don't. If you want to step down as a CoH caster and move on, go ahead. The community will be less without you, but everyone has a right to his own happiness. Anyway, I enjoyed the read of your mock article. There were some really great references in there. 10/10 Edit: Realized I mistyped about his video content. I wrote that it is not criticizing Relic. What I meant is that it is criticizing, but still stressing the potential upsides of the game and Relic. In: COH3 Central
Thread: COH3 April 18 Q&A discussion19 Apr 2023, 07:58 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Apr 2023, 05:34 AMblvckdream Writing words is too much for Relic. They have exhausted themselves with the amazingly detailed faction icons. 5 minutes of MS paint is too much for the average Relic "ARTIST". Dude, Relic had to program MS paint in the essence engine from the ground up first. All new animations and stuff. You'd be exhausted, too. Ontopic: I agree with Rosbone, this post is heavily out of touch with the community. The balance discussion+update tomorrow will be the last straw, but Relic would have to deliver fantastic work. Steam is down to "Mostly negative" at 39%, which just looks really really bad for everyone browsing the game on the Steam store. While after release I still thought that Relic can turn the game around eventually, I've become way more doubtful. They might still make a good game out of it in the end, but it does not matter if the game dies before that's the case. They're losing their player base with these actions. In: COH3 Central
Thread: AE's State of Coh318 Apr 2023, 20:54 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Apr 2023, 19:30 PMThunderhun What I don't understand is how the balance is a mess and meta is one-dimensional after promising community cooperation from the start. It might have been only lip service to boost marketing. It might have also been failed project planning, where the project and implementations how exactly the community will be incorporated have not been laid out properly, then game development lagged behind, Relic fell into damage control and panic mode, went back to the normal dev cycles that everyone knows and community was low priority. This would be in line with the fact that they started out with a very early, surprising and well communicated alpha test, but did not plan for a MP test and only squeezed it in after delaying the game. I wouldn't blame Relic for a one dimensional meta though. A game with this complexity and interactions takes months to years to balance. There wasn't even a meta after one week of MP test and the community put tons of hours in. The devs can playtest, but not all the possible setups and strategies and not at all skill levels. CoH2 took years to balance, even once the community took over we went from one often one sided meta to the next for the first two years at least. CoH3 is even more complex than CoH2, so that task is even harder. That doesn't excuse Relic from taking ages to release a hopefully proper balance patch. In: COH3 Central
Thread: AE's State of Coh318 Apr 2023, 17:33 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Apr 2023, 17:10 PMgunther09 If you do not like a game, walk away Bitching about all bad games out there makes no sense at all. (it will keep you busy though) So why all this persistent raging about COH3? I guess it is disappointment. Emotionally involved, with expectations not met. Relic now has gotten this message for sure. Many are disappointed. They know that. Now what can we do? Keep raging. That keeps you (all those who are not satisfied) in this unhappy trench for a long time. And it will at some point also lead to frustration and bad reactions at Relic. Not good in the long run for you and everybody. Walk away. Good for you (ends the frustration) Wait (do sth else in the meantime) Accept what is, lower your expectations, enjoy what you have (challenging, but possible) Assuming Relic has received enough hate/rage/criticism, and I think they have, I want to be a missionary for path 2-4. They all make you more happy than 1. cheers I don't get this argumentation. Yes, not every rage is fair and good, but walking away from problems only works if you expect them to not come back and bite you. Suggesting to not complain is suggesting to not voice your concern. Why? Why should I not voice it? You're basically saying their opinion should not matter because it has been heard often enough or because it is invalid in the first place (basically point 2, the only reason is frustration). That's nonsense. The gaming industry has seen a lot of cash grabs, Relic and CoH3 show clear first signs of that. If you like the franchise and let them get away with it, complain. That's good and fair. New players need to hear about the issues and Relic needs to have the pressure. If everyone just reads 'the game is fine' and 'I'm having fun', nothing will change and both your favourite game and franchise in particular, as well as the gaming industry overall will become worse. Jump back to quoted post18 Apr 2023, 17:13 PMdonofsandiego This line of thinking is a nonstarter. If Relic thinks they can pull that shit and leave CoH 3 in this state, they're done. I don't know about you Hannibal, but I would be absolutely DONE with Relic. They wouldn't see even a fraction of a cent from me going forward. They would confirm, in no uncertain terms, that they are soulless and motivated only by the drive to provide returns to investors, and not to make a game that is actually worth the space it takes up on my SSD. You had better hope they don't pull this. I'm serious. I guess Relic would downsize significantly, mass layoffs and become a mid sized company developing a new franchise. CoH would probably be dead as well. They might found a new studio if they deem Relic as a brand as taintes. It's not nice, but thinkable from an economic point. If the costs for fixing would vastly outdo the gains, it might be done. Company restructurings like that have been done plentifully. My main point is that we have people shouting both 'Don't worry, Relic will surely fix everything' and 'Relic/CoH will go down and bancrupt', while neither of them actually knows shit. None of us does, we don't know where the manager's currently evaluate the franchise. Both sides who deal in those absolutes are talking nonsense. I doubt we'll see any shutdown in the next months. Not even trying would be an odd decision. DoW3 has been abandoned 10 months in, but the game was dead after a few weeks. Compared to that dead corpse, CoH3 is super healthy. There's still a player base, a lot of fans, probably decentish first sales. It would be stupid not to try for a few more months to fix the game and see how many players come back. Current player numbers won't support a studio of Relic's size either. If the patches don't bring the game back, then I can see Relic ceasing support. But that decision is probably a couple of months away. In: COH3 Central
Thread: AE's State of Coh318 Apr 2023, 16:57 PM AE's video is alright. I don't agree with quite some points or at least the conclusion from them, but a discussion is not about everyone having the same opinion as you yourself do. The comparison to CoH2 in my eyes is a bit misleading. Yes, CoH2 had serious issues too at release and Relic fixed it into a really good game. CoH3 has (my opinion) overall deeper issues, but also a lot of improvements that the player base actually wants. CoH2's release tells us not much, because 10 years have passed and company policies might have changed a lot since then. Will Relic abandon the game? Hard to tell. I don't know why so many of you are sure they either will or won't. We know jack shit. Yes, players are leaving the game, more so than CoH2 at release in relative terms while Relic has likely grown. The higher player number initially however also indicates more potential for a bounce back. It also does not matter if SEGA already made their money back or not. What matters is if CoH3 is from now on a viable investment. Is it worth putting 1-2 more years of updates and expansions into an already released game? Or is it better to invest the time into the next development cycle of a new game? We can't tell, that's a very complex decision and depends on SEGA's and Relic's market research and expectations, as well as current funding. There's also other factors like PR and reputation to it. Point is, unless you're really working in financial analytics or have insights into SEGA and Relic specifics, it's way too early to jump on either of the trains. Average Joes like us don't have the info yet, it's been two months since release. I've seen worse games recover, and better games fail due to a lack of support. Under Microsoft, Relic has shown to be able to support AoE4 long term. Hard to say if they do the same thing under SEGA, but unless SEGA decides to flip the kill switch, Relic has the capability of actually doing the right thing long term. We'll see what happens in the next couple of months. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Leaked CoH3 Battlegroups17 Apr 2023, 19:45 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Apr 2023, 19:40 PMLady Xenarra Do we have any confirmation this isn't just someone's homebrew BGs being pushed into the public sphere? Gachigasm posted this basically two years ago already. This might be "dead data" by Relic and they do not plan to follow up on it but make something completely different instead, but I find this hard to believe. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Leaked CoH3 Battlegroups17 Apr 2023, 19:07 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Apr 2023, 18:02 PMdonofsandiego Leaked == Unfinished Most likely a placeholder name. Although we already know how many placeholders in CoH 3 are still there in the live version after all. Maybe, but I'd almost bet my non existing Merit that the commander will release with this ability name. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Leaked CoH3 Battlegroups17 Apr 2023, 14:18 PM What the heck are "mountain senses"? It sounds like they were unable to come up with a decent idea for the ability. In: COH3 Central