Profile of Kurobane

While I personally hate to see things like this happen, Relic 100% deserved this.

The last good game that they launched was Dawn of War 2. Every game after that has been an epic failure on release. Company of Heroes 2 launch, Dawn of War 3, Age of Empires 4 and now Company of Heroes 3 have all had terrible launches.

Combine that with anti-consumer tactics (Modding has been stripped/locked down compared with COH1 to make way for DLC)

Recycling the same game numerous times with the same bugs across all titles Relic got what they deserved. They really needed to put out some quality work but instead they were too busy damaging their brand with how lazy they are.

For example tooltips that are not accurate, broken things left in the games for monthes.

Relic used to make top quality products. Now they only make trash.

COH3 just makes me feel like the majority of Relic devs are lazy and don`t love the COH-franchise

Well this is seen in COH2 with how Relic couldn't be bothered to fix something as basic as Tooltips which took like 15 minutes at most to do. They just couldn't be bothered.

Also in COH2 just off the top of my head, UKF when choosing Anvil there is an ability called Advanced Warning which is passive and increases the sight of territory that you own. It has never worked since day 1 and it is still in the game to this day lying to you. Relic made a typo and a quick 2s fix would fix the ability but they couldn't be bothered once to fix it.

They did however have plenty of time to push out numerous paid DLC commanders.


Many of you people are thinking this is new for Relic. It isn't. It is the same lazy ass Relic. It took 20+ years for Relic to finally give people the ability to change keybindings. These guys are the laziest pieces of garbage I have ever seen. Zero pride or effort put into the work that they do.

I found the blizzard idea really cool, but it just does not fit CoH. The blizzard gives you special phases of preparation and pushing. You can move your army to a prepared bonfire spot during the blizzard and don't be spotted and then attack from an unexpected direction later. It also made transports more useful.

The game overall is just too fast for these additions. Armies also became a bit smaller overall as far as I can tell. These huge preparation phases just don't work since there is not logistics, and unit positioning is non-existant if all units are hurdled across a small bonfire. There is just nothing to prepare. The CoH concept is basically to continuously throw units at the enemy and outmaneuver and outmicro him in the meantime. The resource territories and strategic points also force you to constantly attack. Not doing anything valuable for a minute or two during the blizzard can just cost you the game, especially if it happens multiple times.

Other concepts like the deep snow and mud also fell short. The maps are just not big enough to allow for that many different areas of slow movements but potentially high impact after flanking. There is just too much pressure to actually make use of the units on the front line instead.

They worked great for bot matches though. I actually liked them very much in this context.

I liked the winter mechanic but it should have been baked into the summer maps and not split off into its own separate map. So for example first 5 minutes of the game would be summer, 2 minutes of winter, then it would go back to summer and so on. Having the entire map be winter and then spreading 95% of the map with deep snow/mud making it impossible to flank any MG in the game is going to piss off alot of people. Map design was bad enough as it is. Spreading Deep/Snow and Mud across the whole map didn't help.

The Blizzard aspect with water freezing, lack of planes, vision , bonfires etc was fine and would have worked well if the maps were designed properly for it. The issue is Relic was too lazy and the community made all of the maps since they couldn't be bothered to do any real work (just like in COH3). For example during the summer plenty of Rivers would create choke points on the map, winter would come and open the map up.

Maybe Relic devs are just lazy?

They couldn't be bothered to fix Tooltips in COH2 which many were often inaccurate or outdated. Something that takes literally 30 seconds to fix they couldn't be bothered to do it.

They have no pride in the product that they are working on or love.

The guy in charge of COH3 is David Littman who was a former EA dev which explains alot about the current state of COH3.

The game is just a quick cash grab with no real effort or work done and a focus on console to make a quick buck so the game can be Xbox Game Pass.

They had 10 years to work on COH3, they had a publisher (unlike when COH2 was in production) and there is no excuse for COH3 being in the state that it is in.


Dawn of War 3 was a terrible game and a massive failure but Dawn of War 3 was significantly more polished than COH3 was. Despite being a terrible game, it ran great on Day 1 and had very little if any bugs. Dawn of War 3 was probably one of the best Relic Games in terms of day 1 polish but failed miserably due to being a product that no one wanted. No one was asking for a warhammer game with bright colorful world in a dota 2 style gameplay with RTS elements.

They literally copied and pasted COH2, threw on a borderlands color filter to make the game bright as hell (the opposite of what COH was known for, a dark atmospheric ww2 RTS) and pretended like they did some work.

The only thing that they did was finally give people the option to rebind hotkeys....something that has been requested for almost 20 years ago with the release of Homeworld.


Relic honestly should all be fired and the IP should be given to another company at this point.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxjo0OBSE5Ku4lK0uZAbJ60yf93fgLMVlZ
I lost 3 squads and several wounded down to 2 men throughout the match. I believe this is the CP bobby trap ability from the Dak doctrine? Seems really solid in 1v1.

It shouldn't delete entire squads, at the very least 1 man should be able to survive.