Company of Heroes 2 announced

**TinCow** · 05-08-2012, 18:50

Sold. The first game was one of the best RTSs in recent years. They'll have to screw the sequel up big-time to make me skip it.

**Monk** · 05-08-2012, 20:28

Originally Posted by TinCow

Sold. The first game was one of the best RTSs in recent years. They'll have to screw the sequel up big-time to make me skip it.

Never count out Relic/THQ when it comes to screwing up a good thing.

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That said I'm looking forward to this, hopefully it will ship with a decent AI. That was always my biggest complain of the original

(never played the expansions don't know if it got better).

**Nelson** · 05-11-2012, 15:43

Originally Posted by TinCow

Sold. The first game was one of the best RTSs in recent years. They'll have to screw the sequel up big-time to make me skip it.

Ditto. I’ve played a fair amount of CoH. It’s great. The East Front mod is very well done and I recommend it. The AI can’t handle the Red Army units worth bupkis though so don’t expect much from them if a person isn’t in control.

**rickinator9** · 05-13-2012, 21:06

Well, we hit the peak player amount today on vCoH. It's probably because of that steam sale. Is it good? No, automatch doesn't work and basic matches usually result in NAT failures.

**The Stranger** · 05-14-2012, 00:43

vCoH?

**rickinator9** · 05-14-2012, 00:50

Original Company of heroes. It was related...

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 05-14-2012, 04:10

Wait wait wait. What was wrong with Dawn of War 2?

**Monk** · 05-14-2012, 05:49

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Wait wait wait. What was wrong with Dawn of War 2?

I felt that the departure from the massive battles of the first series in favor of a more tactical, psuedo rpg focus was pretty lame. What was even more lame was the skirmish AI suffered the same problems that the CoH skirmish AI, in other words, there isn't one. Certain conditions can combine to completely lobotimize the AI and have you playing against an enemy who rarely makes new units beyond its heroes.

Not only that but when I think 40k, i dont think tactical combat. I think massive bombardments, planetary exterminatus, Orks literally swarming over hills as a thin line of space marines struggles to hold the tide. I felt the CoH inspired action of DoW2 and its successors was way too small scale to really enjoy the universe, and i'm pretty disappointed that's the direction they've taken the series. I miss my large-scale battles.

But opinions are opinions.

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