Company of heroes V.1 : THIS IS NOT AS KINDER PARTY - Games

The british ruined this game for me.

[QUOTE=Amsay;27475039]The british ruined this game for me.[/QUOTE] What about them? Personally I can't stand playing them on choke point maps (which is all one of my friends plays) but I find them pretty powerful defensively, and if you're ally is American you can work together well.

This is an excellent game, but if you truly want the most out of it, play Automatch-1v1. Don't play against bots - especially on bridge maps - you develop bad habits that become very obvious once you start playing against players that are actually half-decent.

Firmly agreed. Compstomping will not challenge you. 1v1 automatch is a tight fast game of wit and adaptation.

I don't even play online anyways, bots are good enough. Bots don't quit, whine, cheat, or exploit.

[QUOTE=GravyKing;27479152]I don't even play online anyways, bots are good enough. Bots don't quit, whine, [b]cheat[/b], or exploit.[/QUOTE] you obviously haven't played against hard or insane AI

[QUOTE=NomadicNinja;27479217]you obviously haven't played against hard or insane AI[/QUOTE] I have, and destroyed them completely. 1 vs.1 and team.

that's cool

This game is one of the worst offenders of AI cheating that I've played. I don't like it when devs instead of making the AI more clever the higher you notch up the difficulty they simply give the AI unfair advantages such as drastically reduced build times and drastically increased resource rates. [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=GravyKing;27479573]I have, and destroyed them completely. 1 vs.1 and team.[/QUOTE] Doesn't change the fact that they cheat.

I know they get a resource and damage bonus.

[QUOTE=GravyKing;27479672]I know they get a resource and damage bonus.[/QUOTE] What's the point you're trying to make then?

Not trying to.

I bought all 3 on the christmas sales, fucking love the online, you can have such awesome battles with insane stuff happening, I just love it People complaining and comparing it to MoW, I've played MoW and for a long time now, love it to bits too. Sure it's a little bit weird playing CoH after playing MoW, and you may think CoH is just a dumb game with no realism at all. That's the point. They're different genres, they're not supposed to be clones. MoW is the realistic and tactical one, CoH is a rts with not as much realism and some tactics. They're supposed to be played differently. Don't expect them to be clones and you'll enjoy both endlessly. Brits can be annoying online when they start playing SimCity, building mgs and cannons and mortars and shit. But let me tell you, it's your fault for letting them dig in. They lack the mobility of your army, you just have to flank them in the beginning and not let them entangle on crucial spots. Don't stop moving, always attack them where they are least prepared for it. Maps with bottlenecks are more of a problem, but there aren't many on automatch and it's still your fault because they're not total bridgetown. Also, I saw on the gamereplays forums a post talking about the factions that made me laugh a lot: [url]http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?s=&showtopic=527106&view=findpost&p=7242586[/url] [quote] [b]Americans:[/b] this is perfect for the player with Alzheimer's who cannot remember more than 1 unit. Whenever they notice a new unit is available they'll forget any other type exists. Hence we have riflespam, airborne spam, ranger spam, m8 spam, t17 spam, and sherman spam. Occasionally they'll have a burst of genius where they'll remember another unit, however this is rare. [b]Whermact:[/b] This is for the player with anger management issues. He'll spend an hour devising the perfect strat that can seemingly counter everything and take on a force quadruple its size. Upon implementing this strat the player will flip shit and break everything within 2 meters of them once their unbeatable strat gets destroyed by a force half its size and a quarter its total cost. [b]British:[/b] This is the faction to play if ur drunk or overdosed on downers. This requires no more than 5 clicks a minute to work. 1, select unit. 2, press build. 3, select structure. 4, click where to build. 5, click where it should face. The truely pro british players are distinguished by their ability to click 6 times per minute, using click 6 to over repair. [b]Panzer Elite:[/b] Panzer Elite is for the players who have just done every drug in existance. It is important to maintain a clicking speed of 1000 clicks per minute, and hope that your force of paper thin vehicles will dance around enemy units during fights and manage to win. During this time, the high PE player will insist they're trying to click on the dragon on their screen, however once the drug effects wear off they'll tell you its "micro". [/quote]

Always gotta love making wehrmacht players rage when i destroy their panthers + tigers with my kangaroo carriers and piats :clint:

how to be truly gay as panzer elite: go scorched earth doctrine and place infantry and kettengrad booby traps on all strategic points meanwhile get panzer grenadiers with the rifle upgrade and destroy the enemy

Love the SP game and "comp stomping", 1 v 1 AT is the only time i bother with a human opponent because for the most part you wont be experiencing spam and or rush tactics, Such as the now famous spam / rush of Vet 3 Pioneers and bikes against the Brits. Unfortunately relic have now shelved updating and fixing the game and have just left it as is, thank god for blitzkrieg. Also for those wanting massive engagements check out CoH Realism, removes the pop cap, adds realistic skins and units / upgrades, and the base building options are great too, you can build up a base and other time wasting elements, It's certainly not balanced but it is fun to play against AI. Also as a sort of "cheat" against the AI, if you give orders to attack / defend on the map the enemy AI will send the bulk of it's forces to the location you clicked, it is rather cheap but for the purposes of having a laugh it's fun to send all the enemy units to a bridge and then shell the fuck out of it .

[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;27480239]Love the SP game and "comp stomping", 1 v 1 AT is the only time i bother with a human opponent because for the most part you wont be experiencing spam and or rush tactics, Such as the now famous spam / rush of Vet 3 Pioneers and bikes against the Brits. Unfortunately relic have now shelved updating and fixing the game and have just left it as is, thank god for blitzkrieg. Also for those wanting massive engagements check out CoH Realism, removes the pop cap, adds realistic skins and units / upgrades, and the base building options are great too, you can build up a base and other time wasting elements, It's certainly not balanced but it is fun to play against AI. Also as a sort of "cheat" against the AI, if you give orders to attack / defend on the map the enemy AI will send the bulk of it's forces to the location you clicked, it is rather cheap but for the purposes of having a laugh it's fun to send all the enemy units to a bridge and then shell the fuck out of it .[/QUOTE] AI on Hotchwald Gap bridges make me so :smithicide: Also do you have a link for that realism mod? sounds fun but i cant seem to find it.

[QUOTE=Ruskie;27480303]AI on Hotchwald Gap bridges make me so :smithicide: Also do you have a link for that realism mod? sounds fun but i cant seem to find it.[/QUOTE] [url]http://companyofheroes.filefront.com/file/;103283[/url] I think that's the latest / last version, screen shots don't rally do it justice though.

[QUOTE=NomadicNinja;27479217]you obviously haven't played against hard or insane AI[/QUOTE] By the time you have your men up to where they're supposed to be defending, Experts haves M8's on the way already.

[QUOTE=mokkan;27475072]What about them? Personally I can't stand playing them on choke point maps (which is all one of my friends plays) but I find them pretty powerful defensively, and if you're ally is American you can work together well.[/QUOTE] Infantry Section comes with elite armour as standard, and take only 25% damage when retreating compared to 50% applied to everything else. Bren Carrier is a huge nuisance in the early game, especially with an Lt. inside. Their HQ trucks give them free OPs. Trenches are free, make the units inside pretty much invulnerable to bullets and can be left at 99% completion until needed. Kangaroo Carriers are way too cheap (this is fixed in the beta though). Their movement mechanics pretty much force them to blob, the counter to blobbing is suppression but this is nullified by the Glorious Charge ability. Vickers MG Pit can lock down an area in the early game costing only 280 mp. PIATS give too much AT firepower to one unit for only 75 munitions. The list goes on..

[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;27480239]Unfortunately relic have now shelved updating and fixing the game and have just left it as is, thank god for blitzkrieg. [/QUOTE] You are aware that there's a balance beta running right now, and there'll be another patch when it concludes in a few weeks?

[QUOTE=Amsay;27481626]Infantry Section comes with elite armour as standard, and take only 25% damage when retreating compared to 50% applied to everything else. Bren Carrier is a huge nuisance in the early game, especially with an Lt. inside. Their HQ trucks give them free OPs. Trenches are free, make the units inside pretty much invulnerable to bullets and can be left at 99% completion until needed. Kangaroo Carriers are way too cheap (this is fixed in the beta though). Their movement mechanics pretty much force them to blob, the counter to blobbing is suppression but this is nullified by the Glorious Charge ability. Vickers MG Pit can lock down an area in the early game costing only 280 mp. PIATS give too much AT firepower to one unit for only 75 munitions. The list goes on..[/QUOTE] Brits are far from overpowered, the only thing they have that is OP is the kangaroo carrier. [QUOTE=TrouserDemon;27481769]You are aware that there's a balance beta running right now, and there'll be another patch when it concludes in a few weeks?[/QUOTE] Actually no i was not aware of this thanks for the heads up

You should add The Great War 1918 mod to the Popular Mods list. [url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-great-war-1918[/url] It's just about ready for release.

[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;27485536]Brits are far from overpowered, the only thing they have that is OP is the kangaroo carrier.[/QUOTE] Go ahead and ignore everything else I said then..

Men of War is better.

[QUOTE=Uberman77883;27486181]Men of War is better.[/QUOTE] Why? Because it's a bit more realistic?

Men of War just doesn't have the finesse that CoH has, IMO.

[QUOTE=Amsay;27486122]Go ahead and ignore everything else I said then..[/QUOTE] Ok I'll elaborate a bit more, Invariably if a Brit player is beating you, it's because you have done something wrong, that's my overall opinion for the Brits, they are actually rather crippled on the whole because of their defensive nature. The exception to that rule is the damn kangaroo carriers.

I need to get into this again, tanks always beat me :(

then get anti-tank weaponry lmao