Profile of Basilone

I think the idea of comparing this with Call of Duty or Battlefield is a bit off the mark. We're really looking at games as a service more than a title that gets a new full priced game every year or two. We're not going to drop a $70 CoH 3 next year. We intend to support CoH 2 for the long term, even more effectively than we did with the original.

But with the current DLC pricing and the rate that they are being pumped out, you would spend less money on the annual title. CoH2 and the content that is available right now not even 5 months after release is slightly more expensive than two years worth of CoD and all of its DLC.

There's no need to buy all of the DLC, we don't expect everyone to.

You don't have to buy skins and all the commanders, but that doesn't make the price ok. I could opt not to fill up at a gas station that charged $6 a gallon but it would still reflect pretty badly on them either way. A game like War Thunder can get away with selling the premium planes pretty expensive because it is F2P and players want to support the devs. But charging $6 for a camo pattern for light/med/heavy tanks is like asking for charity and this a full priced game we are talking about. Plus many of these commanders are a requirement if you want to be a member of the OP unit of the month club, and even after they are balanced they still offer an advantage through more diversity. All DLC released between now and Jun 2014 should total no more than $60 unless this is some attempt to reinvent the wheel.

Did the preorder folks get the same commanders that the CE did?

You paid 100 for a preorder where you knew exactly what you were getting. Period. Stop trying to make it more than it seems and own up to your poor financial judgement. All the information was there right in front of you. This silly argument needs to stop, because the entirety of your butthurtness seems to emanate from that.

Heck, I even know the collector's edition was crap the moment I saw it, all collector's editions are that. It is your fault for falling into that trap. What's more, Sega sets the CE contents, not Relic.

But we didn't know exactly what we were getting. The store page description is at worst a downright lie, and at best intentionally misleading...or the person that wrote it is just completely incompetent and fucked people on accident. It says:

-25 camos
-List of new commanders (which had no individual store page for preview at the time)
-Theater of War Minipack
-faceplate

25 camos is a total hoax, it is like 8 camos but they consider the same pattern a different camo because of different tank sizes. New commanders were in fact nothing new at all, it was just content that I already owned jumbled around differently. The amount of misrepresentation there, intentional or no, is in no way acceptable. The worst part was a day or two before the game released I asked to cancel preorder on a steam ticket and asked if the money could be added to my paypal (I paid with steam wallet funds). The response I got was "no you cannot transfer the money back to your paypal" and completely ignored the request for a refund. Whether Valve or Sega was responsible for that I don't know, but either way that should entitle me to a refund if they blew me off the first time.

Moving along, even if those two major pitches in the CE were true, that is still a horrendous value. I bought that thinking $100 would set me good for almost if not a year, like it does for any BF or CoD game. If I knew that the $100 of extremely minimal content would be spanned out over 2-3 months and I would have to buy even more shit as early as September, I probably would have never even bought the game.

The last 3-4 times I tried using this it slowed the entire site down for several minutes.

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And how exactly are you supposed to fight off Piv's / Panthers if you take away the only deterrent, aka AT nade engine disable? By staring at them?

PTRS and Zis could use a penetration buff but even right now you still have buttton, mark vehicle, SU85, T34 spam, cheaper mines, etc. If Soviets aren't good enough at killing armor then the solution is to fix that, not dumb down the entire fucking game. Everyone is scared of aggression when a AT nade or faust can damage engine on any tank that was only in the zone for a fraction of a second.

No matter what is done the AT mechanic in this game is probably going to be shit anyways since there are no flanking TDs, they just sit safely in the back while dealing out 25% dmg to most tanks with one shot like this is a Men of War game.