COMPANY OF HEROES 2

Puppetmaster said:
No puma exists in the game.

Game has changed a fair amount since Beta. I like Coh2. Put almost 300 hours into it. Tried playing some of coh1 past few weeks but I actually find my self going back to Coh2.

I'm guessing you have not been playing coh1 all that long, as it took a long time for the game to become balanced.
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Not sure what it was then, some armoured car or something.

Surprised I can't remember since the entire game only has about 5 units.
 
Combat Engineers
Conscripts
Shocks
Guards
Snipers
Penals
Irregulars
Partisans
M3 Halftrack
Maxim
DShK Machine Gun
82mm Mortar
120mm Mortar
45mm AT Gun
76mm AT Gun
M5 Halftrack
T70
T34
T34-85
KV-1
KV-2
KV-8
IS-2
SU-76
SU-85
ISU-152
Katyusha
ML-20 152mm
B-4 203mm

I take it you failed Maths at school? Not even listed any German units there but since when did 29 = 5?
 
C64 said:
coh 1 is miles better it's not even a contest hate how they are trying to kill off coh 1 with the barely working steamworks server
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I don't know if this has changed now, but the lack of a proper ranked ladder killed it for me. I loved played ranked automatch in CoH1 because it meant the games were almost always challenging and interesting. My first couple of games in CoH2 were against people who had no idea how to play which was horribly boring. Then the next game was on a snow map and I think the snow storms are a terrible mechanic.

It's a shame really because on the base of it it's actually not a bad game. It's not the leap I'd expect from CoH 1 but I can't say it's terrible especially since it doesn't have the brits in it :p
 
The balance is far far better than it used to be. They have improved the game quite a bit. Expansion is due out on Tuesday (adds USA and a 2nd German faction).

What parts of the game do you think are dire?
 
Zethor said:
Original better in every way.
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I take it you have not played the game in a long time?

Just a few advantages that I can think of quickly:

Larger Player Base
True sight
Vaulting
Automatch isn't broken (from what I have seen of streams, coh1 will often put you into a random gametype)
Battleservers (Barely any lag compared to using P2P, barely any issues with drop hacking etc)
Regular updates
Better Graphics
 
Right i miss this game so much, i played like 7.2 million hours on the original and I have actually started to harm myself because ive not got this version.

So.... please can I ask the following:

1 - What makes the original better? I mean surely the gameplay is the same?
2 - Will i get online games easy, the original was easy to get games... always circa 5-10k players on
3 - Can you do online 4 player v 4 AI coop?
4 - What DLCs to get? All of them?

So basically I can get the COH2 key for £8.99

Then the Southern Fronts Mission Pack for £1.49
Victory at Stalingard mission pack for 3.49
Case blue mission pack 3.49

Not sure what they do, but i might as well add them

Then there is this new western front thing for 13.99

Talk to me, sell it me
 
Just need to check on those DLCs really... they seem to be more just a case of extra missions?

I mean do i get access to more units in online skirmish by having them? Or maps online that I wouldnt have access to etc?
 
mlbtheshow said:
Right i miss this game so much, i played like 7.2 million hours on the original and I have actually started to harm myself because ive not got this version.

So.... please can I ask the following:

1 - What makes the original better? I mean surely the gameplay is the same?
2 - Will i get online games easy, the original was easy to get games... always circa 5-10k players on
3 - Can you do online 4 player v 4 AI coop?
4 - What DLCs to get? All of them?

So basically I can get the COH2 key for £8.99

Then the Southern Fronts Mission Pack for £1.49
Victory at Stalingard mission pack for 3.49
Case blue mission pack 3.49

Not sure what they do, but i might as well add them

Then there is this new western front thing for 13.99

Talk to me, sell it me
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I loved first one, but this didn't click with me at all. It's just plain worse in every way and it's honestly like they didn't understand at all what made the first one good.

1) You level up and you can earn advantages. So someone who's played more has slightly better units (the advantages are small i.e 2% accuracy).
2) You can buy commanders with real money. To tell you the truth I don't know if any are "better" then the free ones but I hate the idea of selling gameplay options.
3) They decided to hide your actual ranked level and present you with a meaningless level which has no correlation to how good you are.
4) The blizzards are terrible and make all the snow maps rubbish.

It's such a shame because I loved the first one but to tell you the truth I was strictly a ranked player and I just can't get into the ranked option in this one at all.
 
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The ranking stuff dosent actually bother me, I enjoyed 4v4 or 4 v 4AI really... sometimes 3s or 2, but i never played it solo in 1v1 as that just didnt hold any interest.

I like the bigger battles and the tactics employed in them.
 
The original is a bit more story based, where as CoH2 is trying to be an esports game. It's still great and the free updates have been fantastic, even the additions that have come with this latest paid expansion have be surprising (they added a separate lobby so players can join your custom games i.e 4 player v AI). Definitely worth the money if you want a WW2 RTS. The DLCs are for some story based multiplayer coop gamemodes, I'd wait till you try the actual game first before getting them they aren't essential.
 
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