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Thread: Coh3 \| The Last Hero30 Jan 2023, 04:02 AM I love this nostalgic filters, which some people put now on coh2. I played coh1 right from the start - i played coh2 right from the start and i had a lot of fun with both. But i dont ignore all the "massive" problems which both had. For example - coh2 release version was a flop, you could buy coh2 in the same release-year for 12€ on sale ( a drop from 60 € to 12 € in under a year tells you all you need to know about the state of a game ). Coh2 was far away from the good "nostalgic" version, which some describe here. But after many years of ups and downs with support, addons and work - coh2 became, what people now defend as the holy grail. And dont know where the problem is. Nobody force anyone to switch to coh3. It is basically the exact same stuff when coh2 came out and people trashtalked on coh2 and that everyone should stay with coh1 ... for my part, i cant wait for coh3. I loved the playtest a lot and cant imagine to go back to coh2. its the first time, that i seriously like all 4 factions, were each feels interesting and unique with a lot of diversity and options in playstyle. Compared to coh1 and coh2 at thier release, coh3 will start with the "best" foundation and most content for a good success. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Auto reinforce 22 Jan 2023, 03:21 AM I like the autoreinforcement. I understand the 1 on 1 competetive players where "maybe" clicking 3 - 5 times "F" is something to think about or maybe has 0,5% impact in a top level tournament final between 2 topplayers, if one of both forgets to reinforce parts of his retreated units because the game went chaotic and lost some sec later if he realized, that his retreated units are still not reinforced. But for most player it will be a QoL addition. I never looked in my base in coh, instead reinforced my units with hotkeys while keeping my eyes on the front. But this simple clicks adds nothing to the gamefun or anything. It just has a impact on real toplvl matches in 1on1 if a game reach a high level of intensity. But thats just so rare. And what keeps the game alive is mostly 4on4 where player want a good time and action on the screen without wasteing thier attention to keep the hotkeys in mind. For everybody above 100h it becomes nothing else than a routine, like checking if the stove is off before leaving the house. Some may see it as skill - but basically i see it just as a automatism for everybody which is expierenced in coh. So there is no downgrade for all, which do this anyway by automatism and learnd it that way since coh1. And coh never was or is this "hardcore" micromanagement game. There are way better games for this kind, where you can micro every single soldier etc. - while coh was always a way more userfriendly alternative with things like "retreat function" ( which is basically a no brainmove compared to other rts games where you just lose your units if you retreat through enemy units or you have just 1 - 2 soldiers left and escape with retreatbutton because suddenly after a exhausting heavy fight, they can jump up with full gear and run like hell through mg fire with a damage-reduction??? ) and also the whole concept of "squads" where you have a full squad and not single soldiers etc. .... CoH is the more "casual" alternative and should stay on that road. It has a reason, why this heavy micromanagement games have a small playerbase compared to the CoH-series. In: COH3 Central
Thread: COH3 is going to be a massive flop14 Jan 2023, 23:41 PM Jump back to quoted post14 Jan 2023, 19:55 PMKatitof This is the very same thread we hat at release/open beta of CoH2. Hits the nail on the head. No joke, i remember the very similar threads over 9 years ago. "coh 2 is such a shame." "They had so much time for a part 2 and then it's just a bad copy of coh1." "Coh1 looks better with mods than coh2." "coh2 will have no playerbase and die soon and people will come back to coh1." "Coh2 has a lousy balance, is full of bugs and is no fun." "The sound in coh2 is so crappy, mg42 sounds like plastic, every mod in coh1 has better sounds than coh2" .... "modders from coh1 could have made a better coh2" .... and many such complaints. Even serious accusations that every idea for coh2 was stolen from the eastern front mod in coh1 ^^ Daily greets the groundhog? I don't understand the excitement. Who wants a new game and loves the variety will be happy. If you love coh2, you can continue to enjoy the game as before. I am glad about coh3. It's not quite my desired setting - but coh2 has become more than predictable and boring after over 9 years. The large selection of different skills, ways to tech, units and possible strategies is simply a joy compared to coh2. Same as in the threads back in 2013 ... dont know why people hope and wish that a game will be a flop. And at the end i saw this players in coh2 with 1000 - 2000 hours ingame DDD In: COH3 Central
Thread: 8p Bridge of Ramelle29 Dec 2022, 07:08 AM https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2908746034 Still work in progress but ready enough to have some matches on it, since i dont even know if i will have the time to ever finish it fully. Have fun in the streets of ramelle and a good new year! In: Map Sharing
Thread: Grabenschlacht 8 Player ( trench warfare ) 7 Dec 2021, 16:18 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Dec 2021, 13:12 PMMajor Shentypoo Sphinx this looks brilliant looking forward to it Thank you - i uploaded it right now. Enjoy the hell of trench warfare ^^ In: Map Sharing
Thread: Grabenschlacht 8 Player ( trench warfare ) 2 Dec 2021, 18:19 PM Steamlink comeing soon I started to build this map maybe 3 years ago just for fun and it was never planned to make it detailed or ready for upload in any way. I just wanted some few trenchlines for myself on a empty map to test some things. After a while it reached a point where it was too much to just stop - but because doing a detailed 8p map takes such a massive amount of hours, i totally lost motivation to finish this map and also 2 other 8p maps and stopped working on maps completely. While we had the corona lockdown last year, i had a bit more time and started to finish it. And now finally its nearly finished and i will upload it soon after testing it a few times with AI to check for bugs etc. In general its just a funmap with trenchsystems - to save myself a lot of time, i mirrored the map, so both sides have the same trenchlines, objekts and paths. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2675951955 In: Map Sharing
Thread: Hell Let Loose: CoH FPS?1 Oct 2017, 20:20 PM https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackmatter/hell-let-loose In: Other Games
Thread: Iron Harvest7 May 2017, 19:55 PM http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/iron-harvest/artikel/iron_harvest,53798,3309358.html German Iron Harvest Preview with 2 new Screenshots and more Infos. In: Other Games
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Thread: CoH2 - World Editor28 Jan 2016, 13:00 PM i had exactly the same problem. but now i found the solution. i have the gtx970 and since i installed a new driver ( since then because of the battlefront beta ) after the new driver I needed for newer games, it was impossible to work on my maps. constantly and seemingly random freezes with the Worldbuilder. most frequently if i moved objects and splines at the map edge. not possible to work longer as 2 - 3 mins on a map befor the WB freezes now i reinstall my old driver from aug. 2015 and it runs again perfectly and without problems. if i install back to a newer driver after aug. 2015, i immediately have again the described problems. sorry, my english grammer is not good. i hope relic fix that. with older driver i cant play battlefront & co but with current driver i cant build on maps in coh2. In: Mapping Discussion