Profile of Shazz

Hello all,

In what I am sure is a somewhat familiar story, I played the crap out of vCoH, even CoHO, preordered the collector's edition of CoH2, and then quit playing after maybe 8 months out of frustration / disappointment.

- Terrible commander system compared to vCoH / CoHO
- pay2win commanders (Elite for Ostheer was all the rage, or Industy for Soviet)
- Many gimmicky strats that were too effective (lololol sniper clown car or perma infantry pin for 45seconds)
- Poor unit design, way too many things that could one round an entire squad (KV8, ISU-152, Ost anti-inf mines, etc)
- Overall poor balance and tactical decisions, though this was getting better. Things like cover having almost no outcome, that video were a full cons squad chased an MG for about 15s and couldn't kill it, etc. SU85s roflscoping.

It looks like there have been a lot of expansions and changes since then. I won't ask "is it worth coming back" because that's a pretty subjective question. Instead, is there a good cooked down version of this to read somewhere? Has any of the core stuff changed?

Thanks.

I wouldn't mind seeing the aim time come slightly down, but guards are already extremely potent units. The DP28s are great AI, the regular mosins are great, and the PTRs are sufficient.

And of course the holy hand grenade.

While we all enjoy competitive matches for the most part, this game is sorely lacking in "Let's get drunk and build 12 nebelwerfers" types of maps. The kind where regular infantry is not needed and pro strats involve every player going 2 howitzers and mg nests everywhere.

Pripyat summer is close but not quite as legendary as the Scheldt or Hochwald.

These shouldn't be in the ranked rotation for obvious reasons but it could add some diversity to games that doesn't exist today. Small, choke-y maps full of pew pew and explosions.

I want my 12 nebelwerfers. Or perhaps more importantly to unwind with friends or strangers doing absolutely stupid things while the CPU tries to break through my inpenetrable forest of machine guns and atguns.

german s mines also wipe squads .. they cover a large area and can be placed in 5 nano seconds ..

German S mines wipe squads in the same way that infantry wipes squads - through repeated hits. The soviet one is 1shot. That is a very, very crucial difference. The German one gives you a chance to react while the soviet one you don't.

I have never wiped nor been wiped in a single explosion from an S-mine and the explosion noise is unique enough that I know to retreat them in time.

For the record I'm still pro replacing s-mines with just regular mines. I'm not sure why we keep trying to force gimmicks.

Cover is fairly intuitive. If you're up close against something between you and the thing firing, you have cover. If you're not, you don't. Models standing away from the wall or crater or whatever don't have cover unless they wind up just happening to get near some other cover.