Profile of Mortar

Jump back to quoted post18 Jul 2015, 20:14 PMInverse

The baseline has always been proper global upgrades. Anything to spend fuel on besides buildings and units. Without that, it's only ever going to be a decision of which unit is best for any given situation.

Jump back to quoted post18 Jul 2015, 18:59 PMInverse

I come back every few months, watch a bunch of replays, and play a few 1v1s. Every time I try to get into it, and I can't, because it's so fucking one-dimensional. From a macro perspective, the game really hasn't changed. It's still a really interesting game if you're into micro, and a really boring game if you're into strategy. Maybe balance has improved, I don't know, and I honestly don't care, because balance isn't going to convince me to play the game or not.

I watch CoH2 replays and try to approach them from the same perspective I approached CoH1 games when I was making videos, and it's impossible. All there is to talk about is "he saw this unit so he built this other unit, then he saw a different unit and built something else". It's all units units units, the only variety is in units, there's literally nothing else from a strategic perspective. Sure, the micro is interesting, but that's just a single dimension of the game, and it's not enough to make the entire experience enjoyable. If you removed upgrades from SC2 and replaced them with a thousand different units that were minor variations of existing units and a few dozen active abilities, do you really think it would make the game better?

There's nothing objectively better gameplay-wise in CoH2. Every so-called improvement can be viewed as positive or negative based on your perspective regarding RTS games. That's the entire point I was trying to make here.