Profile of Eupolemos

BR2049 was pretty bad, most people who liked this trash either weren't fans or didn't watch the first movie.

Why do you think so?

Personally, I didn't like the quasi-religious take - but then again, the first BR was a perfect storm IMHO, I never expected something as good.

Only took them 7 months to realize something that was obvious after the 2nd month of release and the game having a 50%+ return rate on steam.
http://steamcharts.com/app/285190#All

What's your source on the return rate - not challenging, just curious.

Absolver had a rocky start* and it isn't a RTS-title - but damn am I loving it (I had never played brawlers before).

It is basically "The Matrix Re-imagined". It invokes the feeling of CoH1 for me in being simple but deep, with a super compelling art-style.

It has a minuscule campaign (3 hours or so) and then it is all online PvP, mainly 1v1 (if you don't live in the EU, N. America or Asia, check out other people's recent experiences in your part of the world before buying, since they are adding and improving servers).

The gist; you fight and learn new moves by toying with an enemy that has moves that you don't. You don't learn if you don't win. You can equip 16 distinct moves for 8 openings and a gazillion^2 combinations.

There's also a "CP" system, where you can use small "powers" or pull weapons - which can also be taken from you and plunged into your soft, squishy belly (And then there's even more stuff than you'd care to read about, of course - I'm just giving you the basics here).

The Dev-team is small and pretty independent, so communication is honest when it is there and they seem to be very much on the ball with the patches, if not day-to-day communication.

If you're in need of game in which you can get good without meta getting stale and shitty devs, give it a look. It can be played with mouse and keyboard, but a controller is recommended. Let's you build up that controller confidence, so you can come back to CoH2 and beat Luvnest at his own game with a steam-controller

Steam

Good Twitch Player

Reddit seems the most healthy Absolver community

* They sold way beyond their indie expectations, crippling their servers. This resulted in mixed reviews and dedicated steam-trolls. There are legit criticisms of the game (it was released without anti-cheat measures and still haven't got a rank-system; it has bugs) and there is baseless whining (people wanting it to be a PvE game instead, people who claim it is just spam without understanding how to counter the simple stuff), but the gameplay is really solid IMO.

l2p, all of you

THAT'S SO KAPPA!!!

*swoons*

I think the lack of an "emergency CoH3" to save Relic's economy can be a good thing.

What I loved about vCoH was how the verisimilitude (suppression, having to flank, armor that went "pling") made for beautiful gameplay. IMO, CoH should be more about simplicity than the messy diversity of OF or CoH2.

The thing is, simplicity really isn't easy. It requires more thinking, time and patience than coding. When you're going bankrupt, you just can't afford that.

So a pause for Relic, while they figure out how to do CoH3 in a simple manner that satisfies the vCoH (Wehr vs US) crowd, could turn out to be a blessing in disguise.