CoH1 was peak Relic. Just play that folks.
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Company of Heroes 3 - set in the Mediterranean theatre
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Drakortha
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COH1 is almost impossible to play online if you are trying to jump into it now. You will be kicked out of every multiplayer lobby for having less than 1000 matches on your stats panel. I had to give up trying and went to COH2 automatch.
ferratilis
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The most fun thing so far are all the strange bugs:
flyingjohn
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And nothing of value was lost.
None
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Bug? Seems like an anatomically accurate representation of Germans to me.The most fun thing so far are all the strange bugs:
Alpharius
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Played this too for a while.
The Italian campaign kinda shit if one palyed previous coh games. The strategic map has little influence on tactical missions and the AI sucks so its quite easy to win any fight, unless you use auto resolve. But you get much less resources and xp with auto resolve and might actually lose. So its always makes more sense to not use auto-resolve.
Sort of like dawn of war dark crusade campaign, but there it was very possible to lose fights (e.g. if enemy retinue has several vehicles but you have no defending anti-vehicle units) and getting new retinue units of your own as a reward for controlling sectors made fights significanlty easier.
Here, i've found the quickest way to win a mission is to make a few m8 scout cars and base rape the AI, usually takes less than 5 minutes but gets old real fast.
Also played some MP 1v1 games and there is still no ranked automatch.
What was the point of releasing the game like that - i have no idea. The twitch streamers and mp connoisseurs are unlikely to play it much until the ranked automatch is in. And by the time they add it back the interest in the game will wane significantly.
I think the Relic made the same mistake with dow3?
The Italian campaign kinda shit if one palyed previous coh games. The strategic map has little influence on tactical missions and the AI sucks so its quite easy to win any fight, unless you use auto resolve. But you get much less resources and xp with auto resolve and might actually lose. So its always makes more sense to not use auto-resolve.
Sort of like dawn of war dark crusade campaign, but there it was very possible to lose fights (e.g. if enemy retinue has several vehicles but you have no defending anti-vehicle units) and getting new retinue units of your own as a reward for controlling sectors made fights significanlty easier.
Here, i've found the quickest way to win a mission is to make a few m8 scout cars and base rape the AI, usually takes less than 5 minutes but gets old real fast.
Also played some MP 1v1 games and there is still no ranked automatch.
What was the point of releasing the game like that - i have no idea. The twitch streamers and mp connoisseurs are unlikely to play it much until the ranked automatch is in. And by the time they add it back the interest in the game will wane significantly.
I think the Relic made the same mistake with dow3?
ferratilis
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Actually, there is. It wasn't supposed to be available on launch, but in the last moment they said they introduced it, however they didn't update ingame UI, so it still says "unranked." Typical Lelic.
Here's the leaderboard:
https://leaderboards.companyofheroes.com/
DemonKing
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After playing for a week or so they actually managed to produced a fairly balanced multiplayer game despite having four separate factions. They still need to fix some UI and sound issues and some of the 1v1 maps are just slightly smaller versions of team maps, but overall it's off to a decent start.
Haven't tried the Italian campaign yet as it's supposed to be buggy as hell but played the first 3 missions of the DAK in single player and they were kind of fun and definitely "classic" COH in the way they were presented. Amusingly your handful of units are getting directly microed by Rommel himself.
Haven't tried the Italian campaign yet as it's supposed to be buggy as hell but played the first 3 missions of the DAK in single player and they were kind of fun and definitely "classic" COH in the way they were presented. Amusingly your handful of units are getting directly microed by Rommel himself.
ferratilis
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Hellraiser
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Opposing fronts closed beta was fun, SAS gliders used to work realistically, that is people abused the fact they were super accurate to mow down scores of enemy infantry for cheap. They patched it out so that the gliders just pushed away infantry.
I also remember a bug in Vanilla CoH where a garrisoned sniper got a turbo buff to the rate of fire to something like half a second per shot.
Drakortha
Liturgist
Hellraiser
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fixed
Did this flop in sales/reception?
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And naturally, the devs were lightning quick to fix this.
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DemonKing
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Critical reception was good but the community have been review bombing it on Steam. I find it a decent game with some good QAL improvements and four reasonably balanced factions but apparently it angered a lot of fans because it didn't have as many maps, balance passes and battlegroups/commanders as the 10 year old COH2...there's literally people who've played the game for hundreds of hours giving it negative reviews. I don't know about you but the only way I'd play a game for hundreds of hours was if I actually enjoyed it.
Not sure if these redundancies are anything more than the usual house cleaning that goes on after a big release or an indicator of a deeper malaise.
L'ennui
Magister
It's a pretty decent game but I feel like I'm wasting wasting my time (even more than usual) whenever I play it, since I know in a few months/years it will be much more fleshed out, balanced, etc. I'm also waiting to see whether they actually deliver on their promise for expanded modding support, as that will make or break the game over the long term for me and my group (who are all still on CoH2).
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Not having the commander system from CoH2 was a massive decline tbh fam.
DemonKing
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Well the Battlegroups are essentially the same thing - would be nice to have more than 3 per faction though.
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