Company of Heroes 2 - The Western Fronts

[Jacko]

Shocks are fine in 1v1. It's just 2v2 and up that everything goes horribly wrong. Upkeep wise Pgrens are still more expensive at 45 per troop. It's silly they come in at 1 CP, it ruins the pace of the game if you ask me. Judging by the forums I'm not the only one disliking them either. Just moving them back to 2 CP would solve the issues surrounding them (there is basically no counter to them at that stage of the game unless you want to take 3 of your 4 troops to maybe push them away).

[Leesin]

Moving them back to 2cp with 0cp Assault Grenadiers? no way. They are counterable just like the Ass Grens are, yes the Ass Grens aren't as strong or viable late game, but they force Soviets in the very early game to step up their Anti-Infantry or watch their conscripts get eaten.

[Jacko]

Ass grens are available to 1 pay commander, while shock/guards are on of the most common units in Sov commanders.. And even then, they are not half as strong as either of those 2 units (or as versatile). They (shock/guards) are even earlier than any possibly weapon upgrades for the Ost. It was a bad, unneeded decision to move them to 1 CP, which no one in the right mind support.

Move ass gren to 1-2 CP as well, I don't care about pay commanders, they are already breaking the game enough as it is.

[Leesin]

Jacko typical German player bias, been shook by the Shock Troops, shake quake, Shock Troops fo lyf mang.

On another note I just played a 4v4, got 3 IS-2's and rolled 5 enemy Tigers. I think it's easy for new or not so good German players to crutch on Tigers and when they fail to Micro them vs a 3 IS-2 spearhead their false reality comes crumbling down. Rolled 3 of the Tigers in a 3v3 because they failed micro and I was just blowing the sides off of them and they left it too late to retreat back, lost 1 IS-2 whilst all three Tigers died. Then with my last two IS-2 I found and gang raped two seperated Tigers one at a time. It felt good to get armoured revenge on the Germans because I've often been under the tracks of the Tigers.

[Tor!]

All I really care about is the balance in 1v1, that was the most fun to play imo

[Chagan_Arslan]

Its almost certain they will put shock troops back at 2CP, too many german players complained about them as they dont want to try and adapt to it. And from what i saw germans will probably get something very similiar or even better (stormtroopen) with next batch of commanders.

[Jacko]

New patch released 25/3 changed a lot of stuff, gameplay is much more enjoyable (extended early-mid game, infantry dies easier, cover matters more)
Bottom page: http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/company-of-heroes-2-general-discussion/67-coh-2-changelog/page2

New stand alone DLC announced: "The Western Front Armies"
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-28-company-of-heroes-returns-to-western-front
Trailer from 18:00 and forward: http://www.twitch.tv/egx/b/515002354

Still refusing to buy any Commanders, but I might give the army DLCs a go.

[Jacko]

Coh2 is free to play this weekend. Been some massive updates in the last month, game steadily becoming better and better.

[Ganner]

Wish they would of gone with a pacific theme instead of back to the western front, but i guess they wouldn't really mesh well in combined games. Here's hoping for a standalone DLC or COH3.

[Molly]

Coh2 is free to play this weekend. Been some massive updates in the last month, game steadily becoming better and better.

How does CoH2 compare to CoH?
I wasn't a big fan of the first part cuz it felt way too fast for me tbh.

[Jacko]

Plays very similar. More like Coh 1.5 than 2.0, especially now with all the community driven patches (positioning is much more important than before). In general the game is in a much better place balance wise than at release.

I really really don't like their monetizing system with commanders, but I just bought one during the sale anyway (.83 euro, heh). It's not the price, it's the excluding content by putting it behind a paywall that bugs me. Other than that it's fine (paying for skins and singleplayer/coop content).

[Molly]

Guess I'll pass then.

The whole game speed in CoH felt wrong for me. Way too fast and hectic somehow.

[Jacko]

2 New videos on the standalone expansion:

It's currently in Alpha and shaping up nicely (still NDA).

[LordBerenger]

msg me when they'll ever release a Company of Heroes Mod/DLC/Expansion that covers Pacific Campaign with Japan and USA. Bored of Germans + USA in Yurop and Ruuussssiyaaa vodka vodka

[Jacko]

Previews of Western front is starting to roll out, here is a Propagandacast from Imperial Dane

Still same old Company of Heroes, but they did good work with the WFA. More worth a buy than the base game.