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THQ will develop a new Company of Heroes game

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#130028

Re: THQ will develop a new Company of Heroes game

Given that they said COH2 covers  the entire war in the East including storming Berlin, you will have a mix of units from the entire war, much like we do. They've also mentioned how technology changed throughout the campaign meaning you'll get stuff like T34/76 & KV1, transitioning to T34/85/IS2...how that is achieved we can only guess.
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#130050

Re: THQ will develop a new Company of Heroes game

The Soviets are able to retreat in the MP
The Soviets got a Comand squad, which if it gets Vet can call in Ari (like in EFmod) and Strafes (IL2)
Snipers (Team of 2) cloak like Fallschrimjägers -> in Cover and they are Women ;)
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#130081

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QuoteSnipers (Team of 2) cloak like Fallschrimjägers


Oh joy...
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#130104

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GodlikeDennis wrote:
QuoteSnipers (Team of 2) cloak like Fallschrimjägers


Oh joy...

Yay, finally we get back our 2men sniper team xD
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#130118

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So basically they're trying to duplicate some of the major mistakes of 1.0  ::)
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#130137

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Maybe the reinforce wil be much higher :P. You'd essentially be paying for another sniper but would still keep vet I guess. But yea sounds like this:

Cranialwizard wrote:
So basically they're trying to duplicate some of the major mistakes of 1.0  ::)
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#130142

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We tried high reinforcement. It still didn't fix the fact that the unit itself is broken.
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#130143

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The Sniper-team was never really broken. The only problem was, that only Soviets had them, while other Sniperz were single. As long as Axis and Soviets both get a Sniper-team in CoH2, I dont see any (balance-) problems.
#130146

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and their cloaking is passive. Don't forget.
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#130151

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donthateme wrote:
The Sniper-team was never really broken. The only problem was, that only Soviets had them, while other Sniperz were single. As long as Axis and Soviets both get a Sniper-team in CoH2, I dont see any (balance-) problems.


As long as both factions have sniper teams...I don't know if this fixes the problem. Will there be a Spotter and a Sniper or 2 Snipers? If it is 2 Snipers, there is still something wrong with that.
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#130158

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Im sure its a spotter
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#130173

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Cranialwizard wrote:
donthateme wrote:
The Sniper-team was never really broken. The only problem was, that only Soviets had them, while other Sniperz were single. As long as Axis and Soviets both get a Sniper-team in CoH2, I dont see any (balance-) problems.


As long as both factions have sniper teams...I don't know if this fixes the problem. Will there be a Spotter and a Sniper or 2 Snipers? If it is 2 Snipers, there is still something wrong with that.


I'm quiet sure that the german army is the current one...
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#130190

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Sir wrote:
Im sure its a spotter

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One has a scope and the other one doesn't. So it looks like what we use to have. Like vCOH it will take some patched to iron out the balance, but in truth any unit can be balanced if you teak the stats well enough and I trust Relic. Plus someone mentioned their accuracy not being as good vs moving targets. Hopefully they'll have limited the snipers impact in the game overall. Currently they're too much of a focal point far more than MG/Mortars.
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#130191

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You can't just flip stats around enough to change it's broken design flaws or it's fail. If we hard nerfed snipers by giving them all Passive Cloak then yes, there would be less focus on snipers, but that would be changing design :)

If the Germans do not have a dual team then the soviet team will not be balanced unless it's not a 100% accuracy vs most crap like vcoh.

Probably docking any sort of camo from the dual snipers might be OK.
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#130195

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You can put the reinforcement cost of the sniper team to being the actual "buy price", making it 1-1 in Cost VS Risk for a sniper/spotter combo vs single-sniper, for both persons. As long as you can ensure that the sniper in the sniper/spotter combo will always be favored as a target.
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#130197

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@Rizz
We used to have it like that in the internal version a while ago but it was never released on public and was split into the upgrade system ;D. It will make the unit earn vet faster, but that can be fixed by tweaking either the vet bonuses and/or the vet requirements.

With "faster", I mean that the unit survives to be sniped and lives another day saving it's already earned kills.
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Last edited August 21, 2012 at 4:49 PM by blackbishop

#130199

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Indeed, but against Wehr, who gains vet for "free" (i.e. no reason to keep unit alive), they have an even greater advantage imo.
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#130200

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Rizz wrote:
You can put the reinforcement cost of the sniper team to being the actual "buy price", making it 1-1 in Cost VS Risk for a sniper/spotter combo vs single-sniper, for both persons. As long as you can ensure that the sniper in the sniper/spotter combo will always be favored as a target.


Still not enough really. The fact remains that at the end of the day, you still have half your sniper which can either continue sniping or call in artillery/provide support, and your opponent whom only has one lone sniper has nothing. It doesn't matter that cost are high, it's the fact that even if the reinforce matched the buy cost, it would be useless to reinforce. You'd just make another 2 man squad. Then you'd have 3 sniper/spotter units.
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#130203

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Yeah and plus, I dont think COH2 will have bought vet this time around AFAIK. So while one sniper gets to keep vet the other loses everything.
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#130302

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HQ pics of the already posted ones

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#130319

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Well one has to remember all snipers will now be more on the passive side of cloaking. And when you then factor in the Soviet army will probably be more the agressor. It would make sense for their snipers to be able to suffer a bit more comparitively with a potential one man Sniper for the Germans.

I mean if you look at the Soviets. A lot of what they have is much more offensively minded. Much larger squads for even support units does hint at something more minded towards agression. And the losses that comes with it.
#130334

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When having a release with 2 factions, they have to be either structurally similar(US and Wehr) or symmetrically balanced(PE and Brits). If you give one side a cloakable, sniping unit you will have to give the opposite faction a similar unit.

I can definately see the 1-mans Wehrmacht sniper returning, with possibly an addition ability or reduced cost to balance out the Soviet sniper team.
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#130335

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StuG III looks real low poly... as if it was made for CoH1 but never added.
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#131874

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCaWFOYJU4g&feature=plcp
#131888

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Its nice to hear torough impressions from actual gamers.
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#131913

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neosdark wrote:
I swear this sounds like a total EF rip-off.


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#131924

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Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_bM7L8rWQ&list=UUiAyZWwE-uYhfC8CYisjbkg&index=1&feature=plcp
#134769

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Whooo , When this will be up lads ;)
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#134770

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LOL the Ghost of Christmas Past :)
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#134776

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Halloween isn't for another 2 weeks!
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#134781

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I think we have X-mass in 3 months  ;D
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#135542

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found screen in one of the videos which shows that the coh2 user bar looks pretty similar to the one of coh1 :D

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#135572

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Actually it's the DoW II UI :P.
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#136858

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a few new coh2 screens :D

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dunno but for me relic´s ostheer looks just like a unit mix of wehr and pe :(

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Last edited November 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM by ApeMen

#136859

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Yay! PE and Wehr finally mixed.
Tbh this looks more like a mod of vcoh than a new game. If you already have made a map using WB, you will notice a alot of similarities to these pictures. Also many units are the same. Graphically it didnt improve much too. I guess they finally fixed the DX10 for coh, which is a big improvment. Actually looks like EF mod version made by relic. Maybe it will be epic

Last edited November 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM by Killar

#136868

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I feel like somebody robbed my campaign map... big city, railwaystation :P.
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#136869

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Walki wrote:
I feel like somebody robbed my campaign map... big city, railwaystation :P.


Did you release is yet?  :o
#136870

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No he didn't - and AFAIK it won't be released until the campaign comes out ;)

I can't believe Relic is so dull to use the same fucking buildings for a new game! They didn't even care to create urban Soviet ones.. copy and paste of CoH1 basically. Very disappointing.
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#136871

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MaxiKing6 wrote:
No he didn't - and AFAIK it won't be released until the campaign comes out ;)

I can't believe Relic is so dull to use the same fucking buildings for a new game! They didn't even care to create urban Soviet ones.. copy and paste of CoH1 basically. Very disappointing.


Makes sense because its supposed to be a campaign map, but where did they get it from?

They also use normandy and dutch object assets for soviet urban buildings  ;D
#136872

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maybe these are just bad screenshots
i guess we will see full dx11 support with coh2
dx10 would be a bit outdated^^

lets see how it looks realy ingame when the first gameplay video comes out

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#136873

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These screenshots are for sure no DX11. And i highly doubt they will add such feature, when they basically reuse coh1 assets, but i hope im wrong.

Last edited November 6, 2012 at 4:14 PM by Killar

#136875

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2 boxes behind that T-34! Why? Why they put those boxes there?
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#136883

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Dann88 wrote:
2 boxes behind that T-34! Why? Why they put those boxes there?

vodka storage  ;)
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#136934

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Disappointed by the lack of new urban world buildings... and the lack of new Axis units for that matter. 90% of their budget must have went on ColdTech which is probably just going to piss off competitive players and never be used anway, rofl.
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#136935

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BurroDiablo wrote:
Disappointed by the lack of new urban world buildings... and the lack of new Axis units for that matter. 90% of their budget must have went on ColdTech which is probably just going to piss off competitive players and never be used anway, rofl.



maybe this is the reason why coh2 is now delayed from former jan 2013 to march 2013

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#136937

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this is THQ
Guy #1:hey guys, how about we remake the best RTS ever made, but rip off a mod?
Guy#2: well we got to have somthing different dont we?
Guy #3: i got it! well just put in some ice!
Guys #1and2: yeah! awesome idea!

Later in March 2013......
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#136941

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I approve your post. ;D
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#136942

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#136943

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haha nice video :D

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