Profile of skemshead

Of course its noob friendly. Loose a squad, just make another. Its nowhere near as important to keep units alive as it was in coh1, where vet was important.
I am not even going to start on about soviets or okw, both noob freindly untill you reach higher levels.

I play Ost when i get sick of Okw.
I play soviets when i get sick of maxim spam,usf elite troop meta.

I don't understand why relic doesn't put more work into balancing the current maps in automatch instead of mostly putting effort to balancing units in factions. I mean both maps and faction balancing go together. Shouldn't they both be worked on together?

^Exactly

How can anyone even try to balance a game where maps are working against you. Situations arise where balance may exist for certain map, but change maps or starting positions and everything goes to shit.
Houses are still a major headf***. They need major adjustment since 1 grenade will bring down some houses. Also flamers need adjustment as exploding flamers on first engagement is just rage quit material. A lot of maps also need to be cleaned up, there are just to many little bushes etc that block line of sight and prevent mg/at gun firing..

Back on topic. I veto this map largely due to western front sides having forward retreat points which makes blobs and camping the norm. As Ost it is painful starting north and irritating trying to get allies out of houses.

I don't understand the point your trying to make. Are you saying they're op with two schreck because early schrecks delay lmgs.

It's true though. You're playing a game where the main objective is to defeat your opponent. In general, winning in a boring way is a lot more fun than losing in a creative way for most people.

This is sadly true for many players. It has has to be or why else would a player A-move a six squad blob around the map simply annihilating any thing he encounters. Many features of Coh set the game apart from the rest of the rst genre and it what so many people love about the game. But the direction that western fronts and to a lesser degree Coh2 has taken, has reduced that differentiation dramatically. Sure it looks like Coh, and feels like Coh but under closer inspection the real substance of the game is gone, replaced with gameplay from games designed years ago.

Pehaps they encouraged it through Western Front design because so many old school Coh1 pro's bashed Coh2(and rightly so to some extent) and they realize they had lost that part of the community and decided to allow the game to become more mainstream by lowering the skill ceiling. They still need to make money, right.

The thing is, i feel no motivation to become better at this game, not the way i did with Coh1. I started like every other player in multiplayer. I lost hard at first but wanted to improve and play like those above me. I spent numerous hours watching top Coh1 casters and tried to replicate what they could do and over time rose through the ranks. Each rank i achieved was a feeling of satisfaction and onward i would go practicing, refining builds, learning niche things about the game.

But this game, i barely give a shit any more. I often just quit because of frustration with many features throughout the game. Rank is a distant thought most games. I am just looking for a decent opponent who doesn't abuse some feature just to win.

I live in hope that Relic is addressing the issue and something will happen with the next patch otherwise i think my participation in Coh2 will be limited to watch casts.