Company of Heroes Online Eastern Front??

Seeme wrote:
What Relic should do Before COH2
-Fix COH 1.
-Make another Expansion for COH 1.
-Start Listening to the community for ideas.

I would say that's what relic should do instead of Company Of Heroes II....

I'd rather see a fresh start then a new expansion. A new expansion will introduce more balance problems while some of the flaws inherent to the game wont be fixed. Doesn't mean I'm opposed to real expansion, though, I just don't think it'd yield much success.
Personally I'd love to just have a better CoH with CoH2, still with WW2 setting and with a lot of the gameplay from CoH, but I think if they make a sequel they'll probably choose another scenario as the market seems tired out of WW2 games. Regardless of the setting or whether it's a sequel or an expansion, what I think should be addressed is:
- Better mod support
- Custom map integration, i.e. the possibility to download custom maps in-game
- better map selection in automatch(maybe possibility to untick more maps?)

and some very personal things that won't happen
- No Brits or brit-like factions (complete redesign if still present)
- No High resources annihilate ^^
- no chokepoint maps (esp. the scheldt)

WartyX wrote:
I'm not actually excited about a possible CoH2. Everything Relic has done since Opposing Fronts, in my eyes, has been an extra step away from what I want a game to be. I hated Dawn of War 2, as well. Would have been quite happy with CoH-style gameplay, rather than this silly Hero and 5 people on the battlefield nonsense.

I think they will try again to be really 'innovative' again, and try to 'reinvent' the RTS genre. Not what I want at all.

Yes. Fully agree.

But I maybe I can understand ToV with something new like Operations (Stonewall, PzKrieg, Assault) and units (totally unbalanced, actually the Kangaroos and before 2.601 the T17) but all other stuff over ToV it's just only for commercial reasons and profits.

WartyX wrote:
I'm not actually excited about a possible CoH2. Everything Relic has done since Opposing Fronts, in my eyes, has been an extra step away from what I want a game to be. I hated Dawn of War 2, as well. Would have been quite happy with CoH-style gameplay, rather than this silly Hero and 5 people on the battlefield nonsense.

I think they will try again to be really 'innovative' again, and try to 'reinvent' the RTS genre. Not what I want at all.

I agree with this post. I didn't like Dawn of War 2 as well, especially because of this "silly Hero and 5 people on the battlefield nonsense". I don't want that CoH follows that path.

I was gutted in many ways with DoW2 where as I loved and was heavily involved with DoW until I moved up to COH.
Re-inventing the genre is something most developers want...an ambition. But relic should have taken a page from Blizzard's book and do what they've done with Starcraft2
COHO, I believed to be just a test bed to see what direction to take with COH2. I think it was almost 3 yrs ago when Buggo left relic that she said they were working on COH2 but didn't know what direction to take. That seems to be the case still. Possibly working on an engine in the meantime and testing the waters with products like COHO...
Remains to be seen I guess...

Why fix what's not broken? Vanilla Company Of Heroes didn't need to be 'reinvented', or 'redesigned'. I really hate it when developers leave fixing things to the modders...

Well that's because these people make a living making games. And they don't earn much,if anything, patching a 5 year old game, and make (probably) very little making an expansion for a 5 year old game.

So? It's their game, their responsibility. Company Of Heroes was fine, but they released Opposing Fronts and Tales Of Valor with much less polish, and they shouldn't have....

Sorry if this is off the topic that you guys were talking about but, I accidentally put my bros new gold edition on my account ( :'( ). I contacted THQ and filled out their email thing, but do any of you guys know how do I take off a "Product" from my account.



Edit: Fixed some spelling errors

Try making a new account an assing the new keys :-\(it's said that you can migrate keys from registered accounts to newer ones up to three times before they get banned)... I had an issue 3 months ago similar to yours but i didn't get any help, neither from THQ nor Relic.

I don't get it. Surely COH is 5 years old game, but it's afaik the best strategy ever. And engine isn't so bad. I really don't see anything to fix here. Some more expansions would be great though.

pariah wrote:
So? It's their game, their responsibility. Company Of Heroes was fine, but they released Opposing Fronts and Tales Of Valor with much less polish, and they shouldn't have....

Well the point is that it's about profits, not about what you particularly like about a game.

cephalos wrote:
I don't get it. Surely COH is 5 years old game, but it's afaik the best strategy ever. And engine isn't so bad. I really don't see anything to fix here. Some more expansions would be great though.

From our point of view it is, but for the mainstream? That'll be SC2. CoH isn't immensely popular and as such expansions won't give you such a big profit as a new game might.

Last edited February 3, 2011 at 11:38 PM by Analpirat

Analpirat wrote:

pariah wrote:
So? It's their game, their responsibility. Company Of Heroes was fine, but they released Opposing Fronts and Tales Of Valor with much less polish, and they shouldn't have....

Well the point is that it's about profits, not about what you particularly like about a game.

So now, that it all finally became clear to all of us, we should all bring our apologies to Relic for disliking their policy, bring 'em some money, and, on the top of the pie, do some dick-riding for them, right?  :D

In order to promote the development of games such as CoH ppl should rather stop buying overpriced and consolized crap like CoD.

Analpirat wrote:
In order to promote the development of games such as CoH ppl should rather stop buying overpriced and consolized crap like CoD.

+1

I believe this thread has run its course now. We've established COHO is dead and hence there is nothing further to say about it other than....well...it's dead!