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Another stream going on, this time focusing on the Werms. https://twitch.tv/relicentertainment
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Turns out they're releasing this on console also https://twitter.com/CompanyOfHeroes/status/1601049268449837056?t=xfC3gZ6eGdRbdAZ47tbLxg&s=19
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Paracausal posted:Turns out they're releasing this on console also Waste of time.
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Buying it on Xbox and plugging in a keyboard and mouse just to flex
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If I hadn't already played the beta which was very good I would be worried but eh, go for it I guess.
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I did a "GPR" for CoH2 and now I think I like Steel Division II better. I bet you'll have to pay several bucks for any unit each time you deploy it; beyond basic rifles. https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/443-and-now-it-is-time-for-the-glorious-peoples-reinstall/
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Multiplayer tech test is live on Steam. I believe it's an open beta MP test so have at it!
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Yup, it's also got all the factions/divisions available on launch.
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It seems very, uhh, dim. Might be something on my end I guess, I've been cranking the brightness but it's still very muted
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So they still haven't updated the graphics yet? Playing the tutorial mission, everything still looks like a high altitude video of the middle of the desert at high noon, with almost no shadows and everything looking super flat and featureless. Seems like there's still a lot of placeholder UI elements too, like the flag capture marker. Fuligin posted:It seems very, uhh, dim. Might be something on my end I guess, I've been cranking the brightness but it's still very muted I'm surprised, I am the complete opposite, and normally i need to turn brightness up for my monitor. I sent it down to zero percent and it still looked way too bright and washed out, although it did help a bit. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Played a round with a friend, the AI Does Not gently caress Around but we rallied around and beat the poo poo out of the Nazis. Everything feels pretty good though I think vehicles are still way too zippy. I played US Armored and found out that they do not have access to crewed heavy weapons so I was floundering a bit until I called in my SPGs and got more than one bazooka squad in, very sloppy of me but it was cool to find out that your core lineup might be a lot smaller than you think and thus you'll need to actually play your company's gimmick. Also, for those multiplayer-shy folk, while co-op matchmaking needs a party of 2 minimum, you can still create a custom game and do a 1v1 against the AI. I didn't check but you could probably also pick an easier diff AI if you want, since the standard diff is kind of a bastard when it comes to flanking. EDIT: FWIW the heavier AT option for armored company that isn't your first seems to be a halftrack with a 75mm, and of course you do have the usual halftracks with .50s. So yeah, the cavalry boys get their support weapons in the form of vehicles vs crewed guns for the other companies. toasterwarrior fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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CuddleCryptid posted:So they still haven't updated the graphics yet? Playing the tutorial mission, everything still looks like a high altitude video of the middle of the desert at high noon, with almost no shadows and everything looking super flat and featureless. yeah i'm sure it's a bug or its trying to run my monitor in HDR or something. As for the gameplay itself, so far I like it, though I agree vehicles feel too fast and floaty. And apart from whatever brightness issues im having, the visual effects are kinda wimpy
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This feels..disappointing? Had to put a thumb on why, but something doesn't feel right.
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The gun sounds are definitely very weak compared to the booming sounds of the previous games
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I watched some streams and it seems closer to coh1 than coh2 which is good. But it also seems a little ugly? I hope it was just the streamer I was watching but the game looks nearly the same as the original from the clips I watched but with maybe worse lighting
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Cognac McCarthy posted:The gun sounds are definitely very weak compared to the booming sounds of the previous games Yeah the HMG is where it really shows through. The current guns sound like the needle gun from Team Fortress 2. The Russian HMG in CoH2 was the same way but the others were fine.
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CitizenKain posted:This feels..disappointing? Had to put a thumb on why, but something doesn't feel right. Feels like we are playing a CoH 1 DLC? I agree with everyone here who is saying the sound just seems weaksauce and the graphics feel dated. Like the textures aren't crisp or something. edit: Is everyone else locked to 60fps? My options are greyed out but my CPU and GPU are nowhere near stressed.
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CuddleCryptid posted:I'm surprised, I am the complete opposite, and normally i need to turn brightness up for my monitor. I sent it down to zero percent and it still looked way too bright and washed out, although it did help a bit. coh3 is a land of contrasts, or lack thereof i played a bit and yeah it seems weird as hell, doesn't have the same crispness or weight in animations and sound that coh had. also laughing at the voice line profanity filter option
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No cursing in my murder game
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I logged into multi-player, started a map, and when we started playing I said "hello" to my teammates. Which then got caught by the profanity filter for having "hell" in it. Another thing about the maps, do they seem super barren? It's more obvious in the tutorial where the map is like two barrels and a bush per square kilometer but I was holding a victory point down on the side of the map and going "goddamm there is just nothing here". Previous games had tons of low fences, stone walls, artillery scars, all kinds of stuff running all over the place. Here it just seems like a loooot of wide open fields. E. According to the Steam forums it looks like Relic locked the graphics at low, and you can manually change it to help. I won't be able to test this til tonight but some have said it helped a lot. quote:Fix for Graphics Settings CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Jan 12, 2023 |
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Yeah those settings changes did help, and the game actually runs better with higher settings on my machine. Overall I like it so far. Infantry seem a bit squishier against tanks, which is a good change IMO. Units also bunch up more, making specials like grenades more potent.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/CompanyOfH...nt=share_button A post on reddit about contrast hierarchy and why the graphics might seem 'off' to some people.
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MikeC posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/CompanyOfH...nt=share_button That's a really good post. I said it on their forums too but it really isn't just a visual issue, it comes down to a gameplay issue. Since everything looks the same it all blurs together and it actually causes some serious issues with parsing what is going on for the maps. I just hope it's fixed in the final version alongside the placeholder icons.
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I'm also having some visual issues with the game. It doesn't look particularly good or even better than their previous games but for some reason the performance on it is very bad, I get frequent frame drops and it even just feels sluggish to pan the camera around sometimes. That being said it's kind of my only complaint at the moment. I really appreciate some of the newer QoL changes. Like auto reinforcing squads, it's just a no brainer. I love that I don't have to dedicate a part of my brain to that anymore and can just focus more on the battles.
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I played the campaign beta awhile back and enjoyed the game. Was watching a Twitch stream yesterday and I thought to myself "if I didn't know I was watching COH3 I would have believed this was COH1". Hopefully they can polish up the graphics to some degree before (or even after) launch but I enjoyed the campaign when I played it that I'm still in for it.
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Any goon discord or other hangouts for this game? 9407552 friend code on steam if you want to do comp stomps or test 1 v 1 or something.
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The graphics and overall art is so bad it’s unbelievable they actually spent time on it, just to recreate some assets from coh1 and 2 and have it look worse. I love coh1 and 2, and the idea of a total war style map is awesome. But good lord they should have literally just copied assets (visual and sound) from the first two games, been totally honest about that and then put 100% of their time into making the overworld campaign. That post on their forums about visual design is such a scathing blasting of their art direction, which is warranted. It’s like they hit up the unreal asset store to buy models and textures.
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Sometimes I remember playing COH 1 and how great it was until they hosed it up with the expansion packs and cry. I'm old enough to remember the beta, back when barbed wire trapped tanks and other vehicles...
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Janissary Hop posted:Sometimes I remember playing COH 1 and how great it was until they hosed it up with the expansion packs and cry. I'm old enough to remember the beta, back when barbed wire trapped tanks and other vehicles... PE and Brits weren't that bad, it was mainly the dumb units from Tales of Valor like the Staghound that really hosed it up. Them trying to cash in on the free-to-play craze with Company of Heroes Online led to some truly hilarious poo poo though.
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Janissary Hop posted:Sometimes I remember playing COH 1 and how great it was until they hosed it up with the expansion packs and cry. I'm old enough to remember the beta, back when barbed wire trapped tanks and other vehicles... I liked the expansion a lot. Played a lot of PE on multiplayer. Blobbing with Mp44 Assault grens was kinda stupid though. I always justified it as payback for US player sniping my guys with M3s.
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Captain Beans posted:The graphics and overall art is so bad it’s unbelievable they actually spent time on it, just to recreate some assets from coh1 and 2 and have it look worse. I love coh1 and 2, and the idea of a total war style map is awesome. But good lord they should have literally just copied assets (visual and sound) from the first two games, been totally honest about that and then put 100% of their time into making the overworld campaign. link this post pls i agree completely Janissary Hop posted:Sometimes I remember playing COH 1 and how great it was until they hosed it up with the expansion packs and cry. I'm old enough to remember the beta, back when barbed wire trapped tanks and other vehicles... its been a decade+ the bangbussy shouldn't still be raising my blood pressure 
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Oh god I forgot all about the loving Kangaroo
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Yeah, not sure what's going on with the gun sound, it's really quiet when in CoH2 they boasted that all the small arms sound are recorded from real guns and they are all loud as gently caress. I like that infantry are somewhat more agile, able to jump over fences automatically if that's faster. And apparently you can assault buildings now. I was forced to play the tutorial and Relic's in-engine cut-scene is still as terrible as ever...two lines of guys and tanks shooting at each other from 5 feet apart that presentation just feel early 2000. I like how a lot of basic units have some free to use ability now. Scout vehicle like bikes and jeep can be decrewed and re-manned. Vehicle and AT both seems to come out earlier if you want to go for it. There's reinforcement overwatch now, that's good.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/CompanyOfHeroes/comments/10alr32/turn_anti_aliasing_off_for_better_unit_clarity_in/ In-game setting visual clarity fix (maybe?) Will have to test it myself tommorrow.
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I think you guys are remembering the first two games with rose-tinted glasses thick as my thigh. They look nasty now, especially texture-wise.
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Tankbuster posted:How's the Voice Acting? it's good, it has a lot more character than CoH2 had and is reminiscent of the good old days of CoH1 (although nothing has yet stuck in my mind like "Jesus, Conrad, tie your loving laces!") so far this feels like a variant of CoH1 and I say that as a positive. I like the breadth of options and potential strategies around midgame unit choices and the battlegroups seem decent (they have more identity than CoH2's bland poo poo doctrines). Graphically... I'm running it on Low and it looks pretty much the same as CoH1 on max settings, but I don't particularly care about the graphics and it runs well for me, so that's a plus. The initial Alpha they put out ran like garbage and played like it too so I was expecting not to like this at all but I'm really pleasantly surprised and will probably pick this up on release.
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Me, an almost entirely SP campaign-only player for CoH1: Hey, the expansions were kick rear end! Alpha, light those assholes up!Det_no posted:I think you guys are remembering the first two games with rose-tinted glasses thick as my thigh. They look nasty now, especially texture-wise. The textures weren't detailed but there is certainly something hosed up here. I mean, compare   E. So the Store page on steam still says "coming soon" for the release date. Some online have said it previously said february. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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The thing about the COH games after the first one is that the original was such a game changer and everything since then has diminishing returns. Regardless of the bugged lighting/personal thoughts on the art style, COH3 technically looks a lot better than COH1, of course, with higher fidelity textures and models and some legit cool looking building destruction and vehicle scarring. But it maybe doesn't look *that* much better. Similarly, the games have received a bunch of QOL features as they've gone on that sometimes makes it hard to go back to the first one, and I'd say COH3 might have the best doctrine system of all three games, but again, it's all very iterative. At the same time, no other RTS games by other developers have really "evolved" the genre since COH1 either, and its few imitators haven't been all that good (Iron Harvest so disappointed me), and I've been having a great time actually playing this new one so roll on February. E: The DOW2 pre-vis still sticks with me as something that would be a real step forward for the genre if it was ever actually made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzVlpUf7e5w
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CuddleCryptid posted:Me, an almost entirely SP campaign-only player for CoH1: Hey, the expansions were kick rear end! Alpha, light those assholes up! 
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