Company of Heroes 2

Hi everyone,

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Company of Heroes 2 has been announced. And we will fight at the Eastern Front! No kidding. ;)

http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/company-of-heroes-2/news/company_of_heroes_2,47637,2567450.html (sorry, it´s german)

And the article from PC Gamer. (english)

http://imgur.com/a/67xoi/noscript

Last edited May 3, 2012 at 5:07 PM by beagletank

There are already two threads. One in the balance and one in the Dev forums :D. So yeah... now we have to speed up with our work I guess.

What will be with EF when will appear a new part of CoH? :'(

777mais777 wrote:
What will be with EF when will appear a new part of CoH? :'(

That depends on the community. So what will you do? Continuing playing EF mod or ditch it in favor of Coh2?

Last edited May 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM by Killar

Well sh!t... I half expect this to go the way of Dawn of War. If that's the case, we can expect better graphics, more factions (at least after official add-ons), and a change from company-strength forces battling to platoon-strength at best. If anyone has played (and loved) DoW, then played DoW2, you'll know what I mean.

I guess it will be only two factions; Wehr vs Soviets. I don't think they will add others here because it is not an expansion. A brand new game with a new designed Wehrmacht and Soviets.

777mais777 wrote:
What will be with EF when will appear a new part of CoH? :'(

IMO it depends on how well this new COH game goes. If its trash then Im sure ppl will defect here. If not then it was nice knowing you all :D

Okay, on the factions debate...

What happened with DoW1 was they saved a very popular faction and released it as a primary faction in DoW2. They later released 3 factions in expansion packs (4 were in the core game).
I expect 2 armies will be featured in the original release, with more coming in expansions.

I agree. Relic is no novice at creating interesting and downright addictive RTS experiences. Since Relic has stated they aren't leaving the CoH formula behind, but rather expanding and branching out with 'something that ain't broken, so they aren't gonna fix it' type of plan going on.

I would honestly have to be in favor of a CoH Eastern Front over a mod Eastern Front, as I trust professional game designers to do what they do best. But only time will tell if this new game will be worth it. If it is, well, nice knowing you guys. But lets wait and see =D

Unless COH2 is somehow substantially better than EF I will continue to play both. I've no doubt that Relic will try a few innovative things in COH2 that may not work out to well and will actually ruin the feel of CoH. I'm talking here about this mention of the snow drifts having an effect on tanks and such. I don't want CoH to be realistic. I don't want it to be small scale/tactical like DoW2. I want it to keep the awesome arcadey feel it always had. For now, I can say that most of the balancers and dev team are as committed to EF as ever and will work even harder to get OH to the community as fast as possible.

The new snow features sounds awesome. !  :D

"After retreating his Soviet soldiers from a German MG squad pinning them... "Another machinegun is waiting for them. This one is operated by fellow Soviet soldiers. They glumly open fire, carrying out Order 227 and killing their own."

I guess if you retreat as Soviets, your base mg rapes you :D So No retreat no surrender = carnage!

some one plz translate the russian text in the coh website
http://www.companyofheroes.com/

most likely implying it is released on 7 march I guess

Брифинг начнется 7 Мая = The briefing will begin 7th of May

я makes a 'Ya' sound, not an 'R' sound.

This concludes our lesson in elementary Russian :P

We will see on 7 may. ;)

7 мая - увидим. ;)

I find your name funny... almost... prophetic ;D

:P

http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/55300/ss_a3ade218ba36c2f1d635f28ded84eae06afae0a7.1920x1080.jpg?t=1336410365

Just wondering if someone had noticed this :D

This picture looks photoshopped to me.

IIRC its on COH2 magazine :P

Killar wrote:
This picture looks photoshopped to me.

I've see it also on their forum, it should be true.

It is even annouced by Relic on their Facebook page.

Just for information: looks like they took a lot of objects from CoH 1. I see a tractor, bushes, fences, splats from CoH1 :P.

Walki wrote:
It is even annouced by Relic on their Facebook page.

Just for information: looks like they took a lot of objects from CoH 1. I see a tractor, bushes, fences, splats from CoH1 :P.

Increases the chance for a worldbuilder being brought by CoH2 :D

it better be modder friendly, considering what they ripped off.

More stuff! Wow!

http://blisteredones.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=2851#p2851

Though it's German, here are some more news:
- Tanks able to cross frozen rivers/lakes
- Summer? "The soldier's equipment changes with times of the year. In Summer, infatry doesn't wear gloves."
- Frozen soldiers
- T-34/SU-76/Panzer IV spotter
- Wreck models from COH 1?

Tanks can be mounted (tank riders?!), thin ice breaks when tanks roll over it, line of sight be be opened up or reduced with the destruction of objects and terrain.

Also, does anybody else see what looks like Panzer IV's stuck in snow banks?



I wonder if Tanks crews will be able to abandon tanks in that case... and will tanks be capturable? Unless these are just map objects.

looks like a p4 to me.

First one is clearly a Panzer IV wreck stuck in the snow. That H key comes in quite handy from time to time.. ;)
Taking a closer look at the heap of pictures, a skilled mapper will recognize many objects from the current CoH. There's a truck on the ice behind some floating boxes, that one was already in CoH1 for example.

I believe those two images are the same place taken from different angles, the PzIV in the second image doesn't look like it's a wreck at all. This may be a campaign mission, judging by the frozen corpses behind the sandbags, I doubt corpses will stay on the field and freeze in MP/Skirmish games, simply because it would lag lengthy and/or 4-8p games.

Oh, and the confirmation of soldiers changing their gear depending on the map is pretty awesome, I hope they allow the customisation of units in MP games, even if it's picking tank paint jobs or period uniforms.

If I read it correctly from the link you gave (maxi's link), in the second pic, it would be a squad of russian ingenery or Sapper squad equipped with ROK flammer. Also I'm surprised about the squad size too, it's a five man squad would be a trouble to counter in early game if the German counterpart pioneer is the same 2man squad as it is now.

Last edited May 16, 2012 at 1:24 AM by Mr.ious.Q

;D

Wah?

LOL:

Hi, Im Stalin.  And welcome to my Crib ;D

Relic are gearing up to show the rest of the gaming magazines/websites CoH2 stuff, judging by that image I guess they'll be letting them play a bit too. Not sure when this is, sometime in the week probably, but I expect more CoH2 news and images soon from various places. I'd like to see a unit list or something.

Cat wrote:
LOL:

Hi, Im Stalin.  And welcome to my Crib ;D

Pfft, more like 'Hi, I played Red Alert 1 when I was 12, welcome to my crib' :P

Yeah... I wouldn't mind a house like that :-[

I wounder if the germans in COH2 will have something changed or new? Or if they are going to be COH1 wehr but in better graphics :>

Well it's an Eastern Front based game so they better have an Elefant and captured T-34s

You will be able to steal enemy tanks, by the way ;)

Well I can see gameplay is going to be much different now :P

MaxiKing6 wrote:
You will be able to steal enemy tanks, by the way ;)

That'll be tough to balance I fear. What will the Axis do if the Soviets capture a King Tiger? They literally have nothing powerful enough to penetrate it save for the Flak88 and maybe a lucky Panther

Capture enemy tanks? I love the idea but, thats a really big change from the first game. Like Cranial said, what if they capture a king tiger?

Well one option to fix that kind of issue would be to have equal tanks on both sides, if not an exact copy in terms of stats. May be boring, but would balance things at least :/

If the Germans lose a King Tiger, they capture an IS-3. Easy as that. lol
Kidding, what was the counterpart to a King Tiger IRL? :P

There was none

Well then why should CoH2 have one? :P

I mean in all seriousness, who's gonna let a King Tiger alone in the open field to flank the enemy? Imo, even if it might be overpowered, players would have to worry about supporting their tanks with infantry now.

You guys are thinking in COH terms. There will obviously trained German ninja assassin commando robots ready to steal that KT back :P

You never know. Maybe there wont be a KT. Maybe they'll be buildable. Who really knows?

Cat wrote:
Who really knows?

devs i guess

I wounder if they will replace the knightcross holders with something more.. realistic? XD

3 nazi rockstars with panzer uniforms, cruiser hats and mp44s killing everything without any spare mags on them aint realistic no..


_{They should have capes ;3}

Nazi Rockstars? XD

I had to make a quick sketch of it!


YEAH. Thats badass,

Well they have Knightcrosses. Thats like having the medal of honor, you will be praised like a hero back home!