Profile of Basilone

9: bulletins are retarded and should be removed
10: many of the original commanders are extremely redundant and should be removed/consolidated/restructured
11: zone capture timer should reset if player A leaves and player B enters radius
12: the only infantry weapon that does consistent dps is the MP44, everything else is far too random
13: mid game lasts like 90 seconds
14: infinite range AT nade + Faust
15: P4 and T34 main gun really inconsistent vs soft targets
16: Tanks miss other tanks too often, should only happen from very long range. You already have a chance of not penetrating so also having a chance to not even hit makes it even more RNG dependent.

Congrats on the success. But as a fellow streamer, I don't really feel like anything we do merits any personal monetary gain whatsoever. Its as simple as downloading a background recording software and interacting in chat while we play games we would have played anyway. Being a active youtuber is like a part time or even full time job for some people. They spend hours a day recording stuff so that hopefully if they are lucky, 15-60 minutes of it will actually be worth watching. Then they do their own unique thing, whether its be funny or give analytical commentary for the duration of the footage, or whatever else makes them special. And only after you have put in the effort and/or creativity to have content worth viewing, you still have to spend hours editing and encoding it. So basically what I'm saying is don't collect $200 as you pass go, give it all back to the viewers through game or hardware giveaways like most other streamers with subscribe buttons do.

I'm not saying that because I want to potentially win some good shit for $5, I'm set in the money department for now and I don't watch often enough to have a good chance at winning stuff (no offense). And I'm not really jealous of the viewer numbers either, I actually prefer chat that can be read opposed to walls of text and emotes quickly cascading down the window. On youtube there is a pretty obvious correlation between expertise/effort and channel growth, but twitch is pretty low maintenance (even sushidad made your overlays for you). Do you really think its fair to collect money as part of an online popularity contest? Maybe your intentions were to use this as a way to fund giveaways and I apologize if thats the case, but the thread title just screams "Hey I can collect $5 from you guys easier now!"

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Maybe you like Inverse and Tommy more since they have youtube channels, fair enough. But I've done more elaborating in my own words in just this one thread, than you have in all your posts directed at me. I also have more in depth gameplay constructive criticism topics than you, go figure. In reality you are the one that started following me around with the same old "you aren't good at coh2" "another nostalgic vcoh fanboy" "you don't even play the game" etc. etc. etc. because I wasn't even aware you existed before then.


PS: You attack me for not knowing the meta game because of what I said about the Conscripts/Grens/tanks thing, even after I specifically said that was a reiteration of something Twister said in another thread. But you do enjoy debating with Twister. The ignorance is strong with this one.

There is a counter to everything, be it commander selection, standard units or playstyle.

If a player is struggling with con / gren spam then once again that is their problem not the games, regardless of their skill level.

Every unit has a counter but its not that black and white.

A) You don't always have the best doctrine to choose from to counter scenario X because you first have to be lucky enough just to have it in your loadout when you need it.

B) Lack of hard hitting global upgrades= less ways to outsmart opponent. Making the right choice between BARs, WSC, M8, or whatever else was extremely important. So was making the right choice between heavy T2 with vet, fast T3 for Pumas, big T1, and so on.

C) Tech pace makes certain back teching playstyles less viable. If someone goes for the cheesy one dimensional a-move strategy, your time window to expose the weakness in his infantry unit composition is really short because tanks come so much faster.

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Like Kolaris said, the 'competition' are not equally skilled players. If the top 50 players had lower W/L rates because they lose almost exclusively to other top 50 players, great! But thats not the case here. If this new blood rises to the top because they really are that talented, fantastic. But in reality its a combination of the games lacking strategic depth making it easier to master, and the exodus of a lot of really good players (which is cause-effect, but nonetheless makes it even less competitive as the net result). And you are right somewhat that the game does take skill, but the gap between mid and high level players is a lot smaller.

But no matter how many well elaborated points are made by the critical crowd, in the end it doesn't matter because Ciez refuses to believe anything other than he is a great player in a game that is really hard to master. You never even try to debate our reasoning, you only attack us on the basis that we aren't actively playing the game anymore.

Like Kolaris said, if you pay for more options (even if you won half your games) it is pay to win. Even if you can only have 3 choices in any one particular game, it is still an advantage to have a larger pool to select from.

After balance some doctrines will still be better choices than others. In vCoH going infantry instead of armor was the better choice 80% of the time vs a Wehrmacht opponent in 1v1, and this was after 6 years of patching. Even if Tiger Ace, Soviet Windustry, and whatever else comes out in the future have been made more reasonable, there will always be doctrines that are better choices than others, and some of these will happen to be DLC commanders. There is zero argument against that being P2W, just stop.