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I don't play very often (once a week usually), but would like to get to a level where I can play 1v1 enjoyably. However, recently I've been getting quite a beating as USF - the faction I play normally as. So I would appreciate feedback on the 3 most important things to improve - I know I am relatively bad, so there is many things to improve, but I am not sure I am focusing on the most important ones.

For me, those are:

1) Preserving vehicles - I always tend to use M20 relatively fast (witness the M20 in this), I am trying to resist the temptation to think I got to have the upper hand and drive it into the enemy squad so I maximize DPS (and then get destroyed accordingly)

2) Unit selection - 2nd pack howitzer was useless, I can just about micro 1 (and both got wiped out by the panzerwerfer. My main problem is that as soon as I have many units on the field, microing them starts taking up so much of my time that I don't really spend much time thinking what would be the best next unit and just pick something quickly.

3) Throwing squads at the enemy 1 at a time instead of waiting and synchronizing multiple squad attacks.

Thanks for any feedback

Thanks, this is a really useful post. I've been wondering about tips like these, trying to glean them from replays, etc.

Thanks for the comments.

EFDreamerBG and jeesuspietariI am looking Clevo P177SM details e.g. at the top of this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24686483

Product page is similar to this (though obviously with diff graphics card):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-023-OE&groupid=959&catid=1828

To be honest it looks like the only reasonable option, as Alienware is overpriced (I am buying this in the UK so some things distributed only in the US I don't really have access to). Nice thing is it is very easily maintable meaning you don't have to take apart the whole laptop just to clean off the dust/apply new paste which you will need to do periodically to avoid overheating).

It does have 2 separate fans and heatsinks too so heat shouldn't really be an issue.

The only thing I am worried about is regarding overheating issues... I see people write quite often ("I got a laptop and it started overheating the year after"). Is there any other standard cause for this other than accumulated dust/old heat paste which can be fixed? Like components degrading or something.


Budwise, the tradeoffs you have listed I am happy to make. I have had a 17 inch laptop for 6 years now as I have been flying back and forth in Europe and it's worked fine. I will always have a 17 inch laptop basically, whether or not I have a desktop for gaming.

Pedobear, the PC you have listed would handle CoH 2 on high details/physics/... (with vsync + AA off) OK? I see the card is tested as getting around 36 fps minimum on Tom's HW on a machine with i5-2550K @ 4.2 GHz. I would probably get rid off the spin HDD as 120 GB is enough for windows and 2 games hopefully, which is enough if I only use it for gaming. I don't care that it's not future-proof, I am playing CoH 1 now and it's still pretty good for someone who spent childhood playing Age of Empires 2.

I can get a bigger case too, because by "moving" I mean I will be flying somewhere far, not taking it in a car. So I would need to deconstruct the PC and ship at least the important components by the likes of UPS.

Hello

I am looking to buy a new laptop that could play COH 2 well on high details (probably with little AA). At the moment I am looking at i7-4800MQ + Radeon HD 8970M. I saw some tests on notebookcheck.com but before I spend the money I wanted to check if there is someone here who actually plays COH 2 with that card. If so, at what details do you play it with and do you get any issues like low fps/etc.?

I would probably want 40 fps minimum (i.e. not average).

Thanks