Company of Heroes 2 Review: It's Very Cold in Russia
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I liked the first COH, but I'm sitting this one out for a while until the price drops. Relic can still tide me over with Retribution.
Why can't I copy parts of the article I want to quote? Dumb site features, blargh.
Anyways, in regards to why the use of weather-effects in the multiplayer didn't happen often, the reason is that pretty much none of the beta testers, including me, liked it. It slowed down gameplay too much. Most CoH multiplayer-veterans played the game for the very mobile and tactical style of play that the game rewarded, but the blizzards made that go really, really slow. It just wasn't as fun as the alternative.
Anyways, in regards to why the use of weather-effects in the multiplayer didn't happen often, the reason is that pretty much none of the beta testers, including me, liked it. It slowed down gameplay too much. Most CoH multiplayer-veterans played the game for the very mobile and tactical style of play that the game rewarded, but the blizzards made that go really, really slow. It just wasn't as fun as the alternative.
I actually do like these games, but really the Dawn of War series was better. Dawn of War 2 was incredible. So i'll just be waiting for Dawn of War 3...
Wait, when/how/who/why/what did this come from? I was completely unaware of a sequel!
Anyways, the first one was fun, so it's good to know the second one didn't totally crap itself.
Anyways, the first one was fun, so it's good to know the second one didn't totally crap itself.
Oh look, another WW2 game ignoring the two years of pre-Barbarossa events. As much as I'm glad that we've broke out of the old "Normandy and the Bulge were the only things that mattered!" mentality a few years back, the Eastern front has become another theme which everybody does. Where is the September Campaign? Where are France, Norway, Crete, the Baltic states, the Winter War, the Battle of Britain... ? The old unit types and tactics which were largely abandoned by 1941 (I want cavalry in my WW2 games!)? And I'm only restricting myself to the European theatre. Is it because Germany was the winning side and in popular imagination, that period is squarely entrenched as the March of the Evil Empire?
Anyway, looking good. I was pretty much sold the moment they announced it (as I adore the first game) and I'm increasingly happy that I've decided to PC out the coming generation. That is, once I get around to actually getting a desktop PC.
Anyway, looking good. I was pretty much sold the moment they announced it (as I adore the first game) and I'm increasingly happy that I've decided to PC out the coming generation. That is, once I get around to actually getting a desktop PC.
I bet that's exactly what Hitler said circa 1942: "Blizzards seem to happen all too often in Russia.."wooty said:
The online portion of the game was horrible in the beta, the game depends too much on P2P connections and what usually ended up happening was huge lag that made the game unplayable. Especially during snow storms, even people who weren't lagging up until that point would start lagging as well, due to the extremely demanding graphical effect. There is zero mention of these problems in the review, so I suppose... they have been fixed? And Relic actually invested in some proper server support to handle the matchmaking? That does seem unlikely, given their past of horrendous netcodes and unforgivable issues with many router manufacturers, which they never bothered to resolve for some strange reason.
I would be cautious if I were you. The beta is still up for the next 20 hours. Download it and try an online match, throw 3 or 4 players in, see if it's playable before making a purchase. Unless you feel like spending 60$ for a single player RTS, then cool.
I would be cautious if I were you. The beta is still up for the next 20 hours. Download it and try an online match, throw 3 or 4 players in, see if it's playable before making a purchase. Unless you feel like spending 60$ for a single player RTS, then cool.