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Thread: Base building automatons15 Jul 2021, 10:33 AM As Katitof said, the main issue was that in CoH2 the factions are not treated equally. Lost your Combat Engineer? -> Rebuild within 2 minutes or you will not be able to tech in time. Lost your Rear Echelon? -> Does not matter, you can tech anyway. Rebuild only when you really need the repairs/sweeper. It would not have been an issue if all factions had to build tech buildings like EFA or if all factions just unlocked them like WFA. But the way they split it was suboptimal. The main question is: Is there any tactical/strategic advantage to being forced to build tech with pioneers? Is it a meaningful decision potentially having to retreat your pioneer just to build the next tech building earlier or simply wait for another minute until the unit needs to retreat from combat anyway? Especially considering that this decision needs to be made only 2-3 times in a whole match, and always within the first 15-20 minutes. It was not really impactful decision in CoH2, it was mostly annoying. If we additionally consider that CoH3 will feature more different types of units, a single pioneer unit won't be as important as in CoH2. Overall, I think it will be a good change. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic Announcement in 24 hours! GTF IN HERE!14 Jul 2021, 15:19 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 14:53 PMSander93 I'm not really sure what you'd expect. The core gameplay has already been established and perfected over the first two games. There's really not much more to add, or you'll risk ending up with more Blizzards. The only thing that a sequel needed to do is combine the best of both (resource system from vCoH with flag capture system from CoH2, etc.), tackling the major issues (garrisons, faction tools, etc.), and polish up the things that didn't work too well (side armor, pathing, etc.). And CoH3 seems well under way to doing just that. Getting the best stuff out of both games is totally fine, but the game would still only be a "best of". I hope that they at least try for some real novelty. I'd actually be very happy if something like blizzards, deep snow, mud etc would be implemented again, even in multiplayer. CoH2 did not properly tie these (especially the blizzards) into other mechanics and the overall pacing of the game. This and the fact that all DLC factions were designed in a semi-broken state lead to CoH2 feeling fairly constrained compared to what the single player offered. Coh2 is a good game and I sunk and still sink a lot of hours into it. But in the end I can't deny that most of the matches feel very similar to each other. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Automatic Vault feature in COH314 Jul 2021, 12:33 PM I always thought that vaulting squads should get a modifier like red cover or so. After all you're a big huge target jumping over a fence. Haven't played yet, but I always felt that manual vaulting was very satisfying and created a more commando-style feeling. In: COH3 Central
Thread: COH3 minimum specs14 Jul 2021, 12:26 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 05:25 AMmrgame2 rx560 probably cant cut it. hopefully coh3 uses 6gb of vram minimum its a no choice but relic needs to stick with a higher minimum specs for long term gains. Partially yes, but on the other hand their minimum requirements are what has been a very decent mid tier gaming rig ~3 years ago. Increasing the minimum specs would mean that you basically need an almost new PC to run the game. And given that PC components and especially GPUs have been super expensive, many people (like I do) will still run "older" systems and did not upgrade in the last two years. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic Announcement in 24 hours! GTF IN HERE!14 Jul 2021, 12:11 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jul 2021, 06:14 AMKurobane snip Couldn't play the pre-alpha yet, but judging by the UI of your screenshot I find this atmospherically bad too. The UI looks like modern computer productivity programs: clean, sleek, orderly - and sterile. Yes, I can see most of the information I want, but not in a pleasant way. Just look at the CoH2 UI: Gritty metal plates that have been nailed together. The top right menu are buttons that I can press to request units and abilities. So are the commander abilities. VP bars have a Somewhat similar function. Unit symbols are not great, but at least to me they look a bit like shoulder patches or so with the slight grey. It feels like I'm the commander in the HQ watching using some machine to give orders or maybe even sitting in a command vehicle while the reports come in. At least these are my associations. CoH3? Colorful VP bars that are super generic they could be the health bar in a FPS. The whole top bar looks like it was thrown together in 5 minutes without any style. The abilities to the right also look very "flat". The current task looks like the info panel in basically every other modern game. Bottom resource bar is the same as well: Just dull. Yes, the UI gives all the information you need. At the same time it does not set any tone, any feeling, any atmosphere. It is as sterile as it can get. I am the kind of person that would always go for functionality over design, but there is no reason to eradicate any design and go for the most basic option possible. I also don't like that the right border of the window is used for UI either. Why space out all the information over the whole display? It could be all at the same spot, so if I need all basic information, I just look there and not at 3/4 different points. The commander abilities should be on the bottom too. If I want to target them to a specific spot, a horizontal alignment guarantees the overall shortest route to clicking the button and then clicking on the map, potentially even the mini map. To end on a good note: It is good that finally the unit symbols are next to the mini map. This makes the most sense: Click on a unit and see it highlighted on the map without needing to traverse your eyes across the whole screen. These are small things, but they do make the UI better. But since it is an alpha, I hope they still work heavily on the UI. I'd really prefer a more atmospheric one. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Will relic be checking coh2.org forums for feedback?13 Jul 2021, 21:05 PM Well John is checking regularly, so I'd assume so. Maybe he can leave a quick note. In: COH3 Central
Thread: 2020 CoH 3 is becoming more real by every day13 Jul 2021, 15:37 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2021, 15:35 PMKurobane The Balance Team does not get paid. They volunteer their own time to make the game worse with each patch. You're citing someone from 2017, mate... This whole thread is old af. To all the people wondering why we mods don't like necros: That's why. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW - Trucks and Attacking Style 13 Jul 2021, 15:35 PM That's basically a noob trap. OKW starts with strong Sturms, so they think they can place their truck forward. At this point OKW often loses at lot of their early advantage, so there's a high chance everything goes downhill from there onwards. The placement in an open field also strongly suggests that you're mostly talking about players who don't know how to play properly. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic Announcement in 24 hours! GTF IN HERE!13 Jul 2021, 15:04 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2021, 14:33 PMPip Watch it be a mobile game. Relic Twitch chat: "Don't you guys have phones?" They'll call it Company of Heroes - Mobile Warfare. Surefire way to kill the community. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic Announcement in 24 hours! GTF IN HERE!13 Jul 2021, 13:59 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Jul 2021, 13:37 PMSander93 Gotta keep in mind though that the standardization is something that sadly just isn't avoidable because generally we can only tune some numbers. If there would've been a proper dev team working on it, many of these changes could've been done by more creative reworks. New techs or units filling up gaps, etc. Basically if Relic is full on working on something, they can do whatever they want. The standardization is not a new creative direction or anything. Although I'd also hope they have learned their lessons from WFA and UKF releases lol. Well, Relic could still have interfered if they were not okay with the direction you guys took CoH2. But they did not, so either they did not care about CoH2's gameplay at the time or they approved. Under the assumption of a new Italy faction, it would be idiotic if they'd create a new faction with some crazy mechanics, just after allowing changes that bring the other 5 factions more in line to each other. A new faction would have their own gimmicks, but in the end it should be based on basically similar abilities like the current 5 factions. Otherwise we'd likely end up in a broken state again. As it stands, it seems to be a new game (COH3 HYPE HYPE HYPE) anyway. I really hope they don't fuck up their DLC/MTX policy, because for me that's a reason to 100% not buy a game, even if it were CoH3. In: Lobby