Profile of Basilone

1) Coh1 wasn't plagued by snipers ACs etc because the game was inherently flawed it was simple balance fixes Relic didn't care enough about to invest in. You know this already though Von but ofc you're going to discredit coh1 because you're known for being a good coh2 player far moreso than in coh1.

2) Plenty of "meta" scrubs in coh2 as well, half of the games I played in coh2 were regurgitations of the flavor of the month strategy, which is even more depressing in a game with far more units and commanders. Even if the t1 build orders varies a bit more the mid and late game unit compositions are more monotonous than in coh1.

In case someone misunderstood what I said earlier, I never encouraged people to break the NDA. As retarded as the NDA is, you should honor what you sign up for. What I did say is this

1) coh2.org has no business being the NDA police, that should be solely Relic's responsibility
2)coh2.org is the main CoH news outlet, and for all forms of journalism (gaming most definitely not excluded) it is important to report on important news from reliable sources to maintain your journalistic integrity

I'm not saying we should have a thread devoted to people in alpha spilling the beans on everything they aren't supposed to talk about, or encouraging those types of threads. But if there is a big discovery, it is the responsibility of this site to post about it. If there is a video posted on youtube that shows Brits playing against a new 3rd Axis faction, shame on the guy that broke NDA and posted it, but at that point there is no turning back. At that point it is already news, and if Relic expects something like that to not be shared here they are out of touch with reality. News for the game should be shared, and this isn't exclusive to NDA alpha stuff either. Same thing goes for anything we find out before Relic intended us to. We already went through this a few months ago with some things discovered in the game files pertaining to Brits and war spoils changes or something like that. This site was buzzing about changes that were coming even though Relic hadn't intended for us to know about it, and no relations were soured then. Nor were they soured when we made the news post about CoH2 being leaked for the first time in pics from PCGamer magazine.

So in summary it is Relics job to enforce their NDA, and if this site only persecutes people for breaking alpha NDA and spilling classified information because "Relic doesn't want us sharing information before they officially reveal it" but not giving a shit whenever we share other classified information that wasn't bound by an NDA, well that is being really hypocritical because in the end Relics marketing strategy was undermined whether there was a NDA or no.

@ OP Your history is wrong, but this thread may continue, so long as nobody goes beyond the mark, otherwise, consequences may ensue

Have anything to back that up?

Posters should be aware that basilone is apparently abandoning the franchise for his own best reasons and has little to lose.

Your history is wrong. I have taken an indefinite hiatus from CoH and because of financial circumstances I have put my PC up for sale, but I never said I am permanently leaving the CoH franchise. I don't see how this is relevant anyway.

and has little to lose.

What are you suggesting? Did you forget who owns the site? Your attempt to discount everything I said makes me believe these NDA policies were made by you in the absence of the people actually in charge of this place.

I didn't vote for you and I find the audacity that you would install yourself as a liaison hilarious after you and your ilk abused alpha testers for issues in the game when ultimately they had no say on what went into the game and also there are many other people who I would appoint who have had a massive hand in contributing to the scene.

Well put.

Napalm the whole "lets interact with the company to help them improve their product" approach has tried and failed. You aren't breaking any new ground here. The top coh1 experts had a private forum here for discussing coh2 design with Relic in its early days, and even though some of the Relic people agreed with what they had to say it was futile because it wasn't consistent with the vision that the more senior Relic employees had for their game. Way back in 2013 Reborn had really close ties to Relic, Eagleheart regularly came on our ventrilo and talked to us about concerns and he made several changes as a direct result from his interaction specifically with us. Pqumsieh came around a few times as well, but mainly we interacted with Matt who could only do so much and we're glad he did. I don't really know what all you've done for improving coh2 but as far as I can gather you've mainly reiterated some concerns that get said 50 times per day here, basically playing the role of a middle man. Though Reborn (and other people too) have made significant contributions, changing the game for the better as much as we possibly could, the reason I never went to Relic is distance and money. I think it is pretty arrogant to self proclaim yourself as some sort of community ambassador because you, being a Canadian, are more able to just casually drop by Relic HQ. Other people have contributed just as much or more to the game without going to Vancouver, just because you met them face to face isn't an automatic +1000 community contribution brownie points.

I'm selling my gaming desktop to get some much needed money right now and I doubt I'll be getting another one until I'm done with college. The past 3+ years have been great, from staying up until 6am watching Arma and Pez play 2s or making fun of superworms and always being the first one to die in DayZ. When all my friends moved off to college and I took a break from school for a while I no doubt spent more time chilling on Reborn vent than I did hanging with them so for over a year Reborn vent was basically home. Thanks for taking me and mmp in even though at the time I was still a scrub and not really at that elite Reborn level. In all the time I've spent gaming over the years I don't think anything not even having my mind blown playing Halo for the first time tops how happy I was to officially become a member of this clan and in 20 years I won't forget how awesome it was to be in the greatest clan for one of the best games ever made. Special shoutout to Budwise for bringing me in and being my coh1 mentor way back in the day

I might hop on for a quick game or chit chat over the next week or two, after that I probably won't be playing any PC games for a few years. When I get a new laptop I'll hop on vent occasionally but thats about it. If anyone stops by the Atlanta area drinks are on me. Always Reborn though, I will eventually be back as a real adult if we are still around.