Profile of The Dave

From Sepha's guide:

"I generally don’t recommend using this ability as it leaves you vulnerable to grenades. When active, your conscript squad loses the ability to move while gaining defensive bonuses, but you are unable to deactivate the ability for a short period of time. Any good Ostheer player will simply move back into decent cover or throw a grenade on top of you, forcing you to either retreat or hope the grenade doesn't do enough damage. Mortar fire is also an excellent counter to this ability."

/drunk.

This is also a game where you collect resources in your sectors over TIME...

If a squad in HtD just sits there for 3-5 minutes occupying a cutoff point or valuable resource point and disallowing you valuable resource/territory it just simply wastes time and allows them to gain resources and/or tech to tanks that they would otherwise not be allowed to do in traditional fashion. Different than the original coh in a more nuanced way, time is a much more valuable commodity than before because of the capping system circles. People just rush your resources and spam HtD constantly sitting there and denying you for prolonged periods of time.

Easy mode.

The new resource capping system is a positive.

The Kholodov map is pretty good.

As I expected...HtD is being spammed by every single soviet player now and effectively ruining the game

Congrats.

Well I dont want to take sides, but we are the consumers. Without us relic nor thq would exist or thrive. And as consumers we expect a product to be to our liking, we especially expect promises to be kept to us by the company we buy our products from. What I am getting at is, we are entitled to a certain degree. We spend our hard earned money (in some cases parents money) on these products. Dont you want that product to be ss good as advertised?? I am a bit dissapointed by coh2 and its condition, however, I still bought an entirely new pc just for coh2 and I eventually will buy the product once my next paycheck hits becusse vcoh brought me lots of joy. I will continue to support this game since I have invested a lot into it. I also hold out hope that coh 2 will get better as time goes on.

^^^^

Video games are one of the only segments of entertainment media (that I can think of) that have an organic quality to them after they are released. By that I mean that you can't simply patch a movie after it's been released to theaters and hope to make it better. Kanye can't release a Day 1 new album because his first go was half-assed. Because of this, there is hope that the consumer can somehow convince the developers to mold a game in a manner that creates a joyful gaming experience (in rts games I guess the appropriate term is a balanced experience). It is this hope that makes the player keep coming back and spending 20-30 sometimes 60 minutes a match grinding out games, but it is inherently frustrating to see kinks not worked out after over 7 years of practice and a continued reversion of course from implementation of the Brits until now (as far as fluid gameplay is concerned). I think the reviews coming in are showcasing this general feeling. I trust IGN's 8.4 and that seems fair. FWIW, IGN said it felt like a massive expansion pack to an earlier product that just builds on a winning formula...something like that. They also said the weather was really unforgiving (as were flamethrowers).

No doubt Relic will work to create a more joyful experience for all to be had with coh2, but some updates on what they plan to do would be nice - transparency. I liked the little survey I got in game about the AI...cool technique to gather data I think. If it was helpful or not I don't know.