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I'm with Aerohank, Burts and Sait on this one.

The game claims to be historical authentic since the start. Mixing fronts and factions would cost a lot of athmosphere if you ask me.

Conscripts standing next to Riflemen, T34 next so Shermans? Pls don't..

T-34's next to Shermans sounds reasonable...

55 = Incomplete installation according to one source

I was there a few years ago for a UK Gamesday to show Space Marine. I've lived on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Once you've seen a street person take a crap at a crowded bus stop, nothing phases you.

Not to imply Birmingham is anything like that

So even if you replace the concrete flyovers with soaring mountains people are still miserable and degraded? (Crosses Vancouver off to do list)

Birmingham will be a breath of fresh motor fumes then. If you do have a half day I would recommend a quick trip out of the city - Warwick Castle is a fairly complete fortification and has a full size Trebuchet which fires flaming balls of pitch - or there is Stratford upon Avon also within a short drive if you fancy something less cultured

This relic presentation on Coh1 engine vs Coh2 May or may not be relevant to this discussion

Relic presentation

The biggest concern with battle servers I've seen so far I witnessed in a 4v4 I played last night. This could be maybe somewhat minor in the end though.

I have a fairly well built computer so as a result I have my settings set to the max. Now the game runs pretty much perfectly smooth for me in game, but I do have a long load up time.

What I saw in the 4v4 is my teammates loaded along with the enemy before me and the game STARTED before I finished even loading.

I used to have this long load time when I only had 4GB of memory - 8GB solved it instantly so I guess its probably texture sizes and swapping things to cache. I was thinking that what you describe might occur and that the players that hang at the start of these games would be at a disadvantage but then I guess so will people who lag in games whilst others move freely around them.

Im in Europe and the (admittedly few) games I played yesterday were all silky smooth and I appreciated the instant starts - it gave the game a whole new professional sheen. I feel this is a huge step for the game assuming that the experience is fairly universal.

Those with the lag and slow starts, well, turn down i'm afraid or upgrade though Relic could/should increase the graphic options in game to allow more flexibility. Yesterdays nvidia patch was the first to mention coh2 specifically and there are some additional tweaks people can make in the config file and stopping replay encoding to gain a bit more.

Thankyou Relic for doing the right thing in this case