Profile of Turtle

I think the first patch of Commanders should have been free, but any later ones would have been fine as paid.

The first new commanders in any design scheme will always be made with any current deficiencies in the balance scheme in mind, as such they serve to shore up or make the current game more interesting in case it's getting stale. And let's face it, it has been getting stale.

They just need to go and make the multiplayer free to play already, and give their fans this early DLC free for buying up front.

If you need a monetary motivation. Well, no one buys DLC for a mutliplayer game that no one plays. You need both older dedicated players as well as new blood to maintain a good community.

Only problem with canceled infantry AT from going out of range is that it becomes much too difficult to land grenades, or any infantry based AT.

The grenade/faust lock on allows for infantry, hiding behind a bush, to ambush with AT as the vehicle speeds by. A full speed vehicle going by is surprisingly fast, and the wind up animation takes too long to actually throw.

Penal battalions with AT grenades would be too much. Not only is that too many abilities on one unit, it also allows them to AT nade, then satchel charge on a vehicle blow it up.

Yeah, but if you check the two screens I posted, the UI size between CoH1 and CoH2 are also pretty similar.

I do think Relic completely missed the ball on updating their UI sensibilities. They went with a skeoumorphic design that doesn't really add that much more charm to the game, while taking away a lot of functionality.

I was also responding to a very specific argument that people make, which was the camera height/zoom. I just wanted to prove to people that this was false. But understandable, it does feel like it is closer, but feelings can lie.

Keep in mind, Head On for an Elephant often means you're still half-way across the map while it's still firing at you. And in team games, there could be multiple Elephants, as well as other tanks.

For as much as some Germans hated immediately losing their tanks to SU-85s, which doesn't happen that much lately, imagine losing it to things half-way across the map.

Then again, they're finding their hatred for the ISU-152 and IS-2 since they were buffed to be useful in the very late game.

Have a look at the size of infantry in both games, in vcoh they are tiny and you get to see a much larger portion of the map. In coh 2 it seems like you are looking through a keyhole, this really frustrates and stops a lot of possible attack avenues.

The infantry are the same size.

There are differences in terrain, but the camera pretty much the same.

Here's a direct comparison:



To get a better example, try saving those two images and use preview software, or open them up in their own browser tabs and quickly flip between them. The infantry are pretty much the same.

If you want, I can see about digging into more comparison images. I can even try plotting out the perspective on the images to see if there have been any changes in the camera tilt and such.

There is something different, but camera height and zoom isn't one of them. There may be other differences, such as focal length changes. Changes in focal length, along with positioning of the camera can make certain objects the same size, but.

Also the default terrain height for CoH2 might be different than CoH1.

Lastly, the focus (center) of the CoH2 camera is in the middle of the screen. However, because the UI covers up a large portion of the bottom of the screen, it means that the center of the play area is moved up, but now it's offset from the camera center.

Other gameplay aspects, like movement rates and ranges also can skew your perception.

Like you, I thought that the camera height was different, but I made sure to check exactly back in the beta to make sure. It is not.