+1 to xHoLyHammerx and +1 to NoLuckyStrike
the game is complete garbage and if you find the game unfun to play to the point you don't feel like playing it any more, then it is garbage plain and simple. So don't tell me it is not garbage when even you will not play it.
It is not a solid follow up to coh1 and just because you guys lay in the same bed as relic and this site would be useless without the game, you should not be backing them when you clearly say it is not fun and you do not feel like playing it.
last time i learned about WWII the Germans was the aggressor not the Russians.
I thought the game was on a decent path then this whole mess with turning point patch came along and now the game is back to the stone ages, unfun, and not worth playing in its current state. It is not just garbage it is garbage that you want to take to the curb a week before the garbage man comes it is so bad.
the unit response was bad and rng was very bad but this patch made everything bad. I can not explain how disgusted with relic i am right now, except to say I wont be playing until this is patched correctly and if you release more dlc before it is fixed, i will just uninstall and never buy another sega/relic product again.
This current product does not belong in RTS category not even close because there is no strategy involved! Just blob till the last man standing, great concept!
I may not be pro but i am in top 20 4v4 Russians and top 30 4v4 Germans and have over 1200 hours logged since release.
I got my moneys worth prior to the failing point patch and until relic gets their head out of their *** I will not be playing or recommending this game to anyone.
Joel expressed his opinion and while I partly disagree with him (while I tend to agree with HolyHammer and NoLuckyStrike on many points, even if not in the way they expressed those points) I also respect what he said. (remembering also that he missed the last 2-3 months on COH2). Be sure we spend every single minute of our free time on these issues that I personally consider CORE. I'll bring you an example: when Rome 2 came out it was full of bugs and things that didn't work as intentend, but instead of leaving the game as it was Creative Assembly worked day and night on many core patches to fix a huge amount of things, at least the most important ones. They showed the community how much they cared to save their game, and while there's still a lot to do personally I appreciated at least to see their effort (they also released the first DLCs basically for free).
On COH2 instead, we got no patch to improve performances, no patch to affect the core game and change the main problems pointed out many times before and the features we have asked (like observer mode, replay features, ladders and so on) seem to be dependant on how well DLCs sell. At this point I can tell you we are working on various proposals that at some point we'll submit to the whole community here, on the official forums and on gr.org (and hopefully even on other communities like HQ-COH, COHJC and so on), and that then, after collecting the feedback from the widest number of people possible, will be sent to Relic. That's really the only thing we can do.
I don't think we can honestly talk of "PRO" players in COH2 because the game is in such a state that you can have a poor micro, macro, unit preservation and tactical decisions but still be able to win because of the number of T0-T1 units you build and all the issues affecting the game.