is EF dying?

i barley see anyone playing EF anymore..i take off my filters and still nothing...im sad  :'(

MaxConners wrote:
i barley see anyone playing EF anymore..i take off my filters and still nothing...im sad  :'(

It is too unstable. Would you rather play a regular CoH matchup and know you will be able to finish the game, or chance an EF match and have a pretty high certainty that at least 1 person will crash, thereby ruining the entire match?

the crashes are killing the mod for sure

I don't blame the crashes as much as I do *most* of us have school or a profession.

The crashes are annoying, but I think its worth it to have an added country =P

hmm well thank you cause i thought it was just my internet..im still sad but what happens happens..

I've never had a crash, never! Its not dead to me. Now quit your noise and enjoy all the years of hard graft ;-)

The next patch should significantly lower the amount of crashes that our install base is experiencing.

Aye, that'd be refreshing.
On a related note, the crashes freeze my computer, and
upon reboot, I need to defrag after a few times Grr.

WartyX wrote:
The next patch should significantly lower the amount of crashes that our install base is experiencing.

Awesome

Anyone else experiencing livekernelevent crashes?

I only have experienced them recently after playing some games in EF so hopefully by time the next patch rolls around it will be squared away.  ;)

That is sad :'( :'(....I really like the patch....I've only had it crash on me once in the begginning and never again... :-\......anyway i still like the patch and am going to play it tonight.!!!!!!! See you in the game.!!! :) :D

The game have crashed me only once. Even when I'm playing with my friends nothing happens.
Thou it lags a little, but that's nothing that we can't handle with or that we haven't faced before...

The game, this MOD rock and it will stay like this for a long, long time :-)

Loupblanc wrote:

Aye, that'd be refreshing.
On a related note, the crashes freeze my computer, and
upon reboot, I need to defrag after a few times Grr.

Sounds more like your RAM might be going bad. Or how much do you have?

Or if you apply static virtual memory; How much did you allocate?

This weekend, no doubt it will get busier.

Jagged wrote:

Loupblanc wrote:

Aye, that'd be refreshing.
On a related note, the crashes freeze my computer, and
upon reboot, I need to defrag after a few times Grr.

Sounds more like your RAM might be going bad. Or how much do you have?

Or if you apply static virtual memory; How much did you allocate?

He told me 8GB.

How could something that was released a little over a week ago be "dying" - this is a stupid thread.

On the channels, we can see many people asking for where downloading EF. So I beleive the game is not dying but there are more and more people coming there.  :)

Well, also, there aren't all too many people playing CoH in general. When I do log on, I can see maybe 30...40 games at max.

QuoteWell, also, there aren't all too many people playing CoH in general. When I do log on, I can see maybe 30...40 games at max.

Could easily be due to chronic RO issues.

Number of people online =/= number of people enjoying EF

I play it daily offline because my connection is too crappy to handle smooth online gameplay.

QuoteWell, also, there aren't all too many people playing CoH in general. When I do log on, I can see maybe 30...40 games at max.

I hope you were joking. The last couple of weeks has seen record numbers of people simultaneously playing CoH.

thebomb wrote:
How could something that was released a little over a week ago be "dying" - this is a stupid thread.

Agreed. I cycled 3 miles to get this Mod off a friend in snow.
If this dies then I was cold for nothing.

Dedication... I like it ;)

actually i can't seem to find a game in multiplayer EF.  i am filtering for locked and full games but over the past few days, can't find any games.  i then tried turning off all the filters and then a few games showed up.  however i couldnt join any of these because it stated we had different versions of the mod or an incompatible version of the map (which is very odd).

essentially what appears to be happening is not everyone has upgraded to the latest version of the patch.  and also since the patches aren't "mandatory", there are people playing with all kinds of different versions.  this is splintering the user base unintentionally.  hence i am finding it very hard to find a game.

anyone else getting this is or is it just me?

You make a good point Isildur, I'll bring it up to the rest of the team.

! Hmm, I see and play plenty of games.
Perhaps he's not in the right player channel?
Helps tons, trust me.

Mandatory version might be nice, though?

Yeah I think it'd be good to make updates mandatory.

Also, it'd be great if you could figure out a way for custom skins to be used with the mod. Or let us know how to make our own skinpacks compatible.

Maybe get in touch with the guy who made the skininstaller?

As for the original point of this thread....ha  ::)

Hi,

Just extract the WW2 art SGA into EF/Data/Art folder and replace the files of the custom skins you want to use , This way you can get the skins to work and play on-line ....I think this would only effect your file config and will not effect the on-line compatibility

or try this , Its an extract from the HSM installation guide , Instead of the myWW2 folder use the EF folder ..

WARNING : Altering ww2Art.sga and relicCOH.module files doesn't prevent to play online, but prevents to make a game update so it's necessary to save the genuine files and put them back before any patching.

Phase one: Unpack used archives

•Launch Corsix;
•Select load single sga archive
•Select "THQ\Company of Heroes\WW2\Archives\ww2Art.sga"
•On the left, top window, an "data" folder appears. Right click on it and select "extract all files in this folder", then "go!"
•Choose where to extract folder... Create a new folder where you have space enough, call it "myWW2" then 'OK'. You will see the extraction in progress. Then close Corsix. or \Program Files\THQ\Company Of Heroes\Eastern_Front\Data\art

Phase two: Insert Skin pack files in 'myWW2Art' or \Program Files\THQ\Company Of Heroes\Eastern_Front\Data\art

•Copy the files in ww2/Data/art from the mod .zip file
•Paste it in 'myWW2' \Program Files\THQ\Company Of Heroes\Eastern_Front\Data\art, the one you've created. You will be ask to overwrite existing files. You have to answer yes.

Phase three: repack ww2Art.sga

•Open Corsix again
•Open an sga archive (or open or create a mod)... this steps just allow you to access some options of Corsix.
•On the top left menu bar, select 'MOD', 'SGA Packer'
•In the Input directory, browse to 'myWW2' or \Program Files\THQ\Company Of Heroes\Eastern_Front\Data\art directory
•In the SGA to create browse to 'THQ\Company of Heroes\WW2\Archives\ww2Art.sga' then click 'Create'.
•This process might take few minutes.

Phase four : Modify relicCOH.module

•Edit the RelicCOH.module file with notepad and modify the following part that way:
Genuine file :
[attrib:common]
folder =
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\AttribArchive

Modified file :
[attrib:common]
folder =
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\Attrib***
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\AttribArchive

***the name of your mod . This is already present in the EF module file , So no changes required there,  if you are using the EF folder.

Phase five: Play

Regards
funnyme

Last edited February 2, 2010 at 4:25 AM by funnyme

These drop in numbers everyone's seeing are caused by the patches as Isildur mentions above - the mod is certainly not dead and on release helped Relic break their record for online members at any given time.

I think a mandatory online version would be nice but, offline, people should be able to play with whatever they want as not everyone can download big patches all the time (although the patches have been ridiculously small for EF so far, which is great).

BurroDiablo wrote:
Dedication... I like it ;)

Redmax get speciel prize>?
:L

Have an Air guitar signed by the ghost of Hendrix. Treasure it.

luz777 wrote:
Yeah I think it'd be good to make updates mandatory.

Exactly what I suggested. Didn't want to say it out load in case people started bitching. Its understandable that people wouldn't want to be force fed patches, but in the long run it would be the best system for the Online community.

Highly doubt the mod is dying. Me and a friend are playing it on and off and decided not to do the same thing we did with Opposing Fronts by getting burned out after a couple of weeks of playing nonstop.

It died a little bit more today, my friends and I all uninstalled the mod.

It is fundamentally flawed, and just another POS mod that creates invincible late game allies, just like cross of iron mod.

When I play russians I don't have to think, and finding people to play against becomes hard as nobody wants to play the totally gimped faction.

Good try EF, I was hoping you wouldn't succumb to the typical mod cliche, but you did.

You're fine with the 3 years of constant balance patching from relic and you kept playing the same unbalanced stuff over and over again...didn't give up...

We give you a FREE NEW faction which of course wouldn't be perfect but we keep patching it like  from day 3 to get to the right balance and what do we get...???

BULLSHIT...that's what...from anyone who expected a perfectly balanced faction within a couple of weeks something even relic never achieved in vanila COH with 2 factions in over 3 damn years!!

And you're all too happy to give up on this mod and go back to playing what...same old OP ROOS, Pak bug, OP Geshutz PE where you can only ever use 1/2 the units cause the rest are crap and useless...Its because you've not paid for it like  ToV expansion that's why appreciation of what you've been given is so low...

Some times I do question if its worth any effort when the community acts like this...why waste our time for such poor response?

Last edited February 5, 2010 at 5:31 PM by Zerstörer

Dont get too downheartened by the basement dwelling e-peen cretins that are too cynical and spoilt to actually appreciate and enjoy anything other than their win/loss ratio.

The majority of people here really respect what you've managed to do  :)

Why is this thread even here? Its like a dusty bulb attracting really, really stupid moths.

Keep it up guys, all the worthwhile people can't wait for new updates  :D

Cheers

Some people have just been brought up to complain at every opportunity. Every single one of this guy's posts was a complaint, so the fact that he kept EF installed for 2 weeks is a miracle for a POS mod.

mostpeople wrote:
It died a little bit more today, my friends and I all uninstalled the mod.

Don't be a hypocrite , If you have not got what you wanted , Put it in a more somber way . The thousands who play this mod are not stupid .Try to appreciate ones effort however small or big it is .

The "Art Critic" (English version)

Haha I love that film  ;D

+1 good sir.

QuoteIt died a little bit more today, my friends and I all uninstalled the mod.

You and a few friends uninstalled it, what a fucking shame, think i'll go slit my wrists. Or maybe i'll think about the hundreds of people have downloaded it and installed it today, and the hundreds that will do so tomorrow, and the next day and the day after that and they will keep doing so until the servers die. A mod only dies when the Developers stop caring for it...

I like this mod very much.

No other mod can match them in my opinion.

No the mod isn't dieing, but I will be looking forward to this same topic in about a month.  and the month after...

What a stupid thread, its growing not dying.
These whiners, I swear

It make no sense this thread.

Activity can be saw all the time in Eastern Front.

One little bird told me about patch 1.05 to come next weak.

So..?...

What's the point...what is usefulness for this thread..?..
i try to find one...but i fail...

is somehow possible to add something like counting of people who are online and play EF? something like in VCoH when you click news you see number of players online and players which are in game so i mean that but only it count those who started EF so anybody who thinks its dying will see its not like that...

Zerstörer wrote:

We give you a FREE NEW faction which of course wouldn't be perfect but we keep patching it like  from day 3 to get to the right balance and what do we get...???

I agree:it is free and they are working again:let's them work!

yea i love that i commend you
way to kick some mental ass!! :D

Think I saw from Relic server stats that peak time was 24/1/10. That was around the time EF was released. From the data, EF surely attracted much attention upon its release.

If you find Soviets not fun to play, you may at least give the new AI a shot. This is not the same vCOH AI so try to look at it from a different perspective, for e.g. don't expect the same of the difficulty settings. Just by playing with the EF AI alone (+ the new sound effects of vCOH units), is a whole new gaming experience for me. I enjoyed it very much.

it's unfrotunate that when i play EF there isnt much on.

U.S. East coast, from 8-11 pm, i maybe see 4-5 people on at most playing EF....

i love the mod, but if this continues i dont know how im going to be able to play it without getting bored because there is no one to play the mod with.

now, 2-5 PM on the East coast is fine, mostly because the Europeans are still up, and they are fun to go against. but i can only do that on the weekends when i'm free.

-Narizna

The balance right now is damn near perfect....devs if you are looking at this post, please advertise a bit more (adding a Soviet Strategies section on gamereplays.org is bound to turn heads!!!)  I love this mod, but it really is getting hard to find a game.  Please make it mandatory to patch, and don't patch too much anymore...patching constantly also destabilizes the mod!