Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Thursday, July 19th, 2007 - 5:02pm
Lots of stuff going on!
Beta started to open up slowly. Various contests going around on Relic news, Bloggo, for keys into the beta.
Gametrailers has this montage of gameplay footage showing off all new units.
So far I only recognized the Priest.
I just want to see the Tiger II and the Jagdpanther.
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I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
I want to see the laser commandos.
"All that time you waste dating and having sex could be better spent scouring the web for new game developer press releases." - Quintin_Stone
Bah, if I never seen another Tiger tank it'll be too soon.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Alrighty. I'll just stick with the Jagdpanther then. It's a freakin 88 mounted on a Panther with improved armor.
Yes please.
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I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
ZERG RUSH! KEKEKEKEKE! ^_^
Fedaykin98 wrote:
I am very excited just to play from the German side...
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All the beta keys are out. If you didn't get one you have to wait for the Fileplanet beta.
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I want a Japanese campaign very badly. CoH2 is my hope.
Prederick wrote:
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis.
I just want the Indian/Asian areas in a WW2 game for once in a game that I would like.
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Yea it would be nice to see the British fighting the Japanese for a change. Also it would be nice to see some African WWII campaigns which is also sorely neglected.
Prederick wrote:
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis.
Stalingrad fits the CoH gameplay style so perfectly it would make an obvious choice for a future add on.
My days of not taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle.
Whoa!
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That's what I want. Eastern front stuff would be awesome. The tank engagements were huge too.
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I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
I don't care if it fell in a few hours, I want a Hong Kong map! I wanna choke Princess Road with their dead, destroy landing craft with gun emplacements atop Kowloon Bay...
Just so sick of capping nazi ass. Yelling 'Eat Detroit steel, ya kraut mofo' at the screen has lost all it's charm on me.
-a triumph of lowbrow consistency
They do eat detroit steel. For breakfast.
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I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
Yes, changing the racial epithet in that sentence will make it a completely different game.
Looking forward to this one too.
Well, it'd change more than just the epithet. I could now say "The .303 round is far more suited to the foreign constitution, as is green tea, sir. Regards from Her Majesty and the lads in Manchester!'
That's a whole new gaming experience.
-a triumph of lowbrow consistency
Anyone in Vancouver listen up.
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DAMN YOU CANUCKISTANIAN JERKS
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I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
In!
Thanks for the heads up
-a triumph of lowbrow consistency
I'll certainly be picking this up when it drops. I only put about 1/16th the amount of time into Company of Heroes compared to Dark Crusade, but the former was a solid game from start to finish. I <3 Relic.
Off topic: Did they ever announce what it was that was suggested at the end of Dark Crusade? You finish the single player campaign and the screen fades out and says 2007. Did anyone hear anything on what that was for afterwards?
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"I may be out of ammo but I ain't out of chainsaw B*TCHES!" - Sinister's warcry for Gears of War
I found COH much more enjoyable then the Dawn of War Series because of the awesome, very scenic, maps with destructible environments. It made it all that much more enjoyable when you tested new tactics. It would be awesome if DOW embraced this revamped level editor with some havoc physics mixed in.
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I cannot wait for this to drop into stores so that I can swoop in and pick it up. I read somewhere, sorry for the lack of a link, that Relic was working in beta to adjust the King Tiger so that it was play-balanced... to me, this would have been easy had they decided not to go British, but Russian instead. Heeellllllooooo KV and IKV!
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Play balance a King Tiger? I'd say more air support and overwhelming numbers ought to do the job!
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Yeah, but that's not overly practical in a RTS game either, unfortunately. Game Designers tend to make 'opposing' units.
Well, Cooking Mama didn't help me become a better cook, and Trauma Center certainly didn't help me become a better surgeon. I have the proof of both sitting in my freezer. -- imbiginjapan
You think Jerry cared about play balance? Huh?
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Wordsmythe is my hero. - rabbit
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No, but Jerry never had to concern himself with whiners and babies who demand that the Sherman be able to stand more than one crack from an 88.
Well, Cooking Mama didn't help me become a better cook, and Trauma Center certainly didn't help me become a better surgeon. I have the proof of both sitting in my freezer. -- imbiginjapan
I'll leave the whiners and babies to themselves.
As in the time of Gary Gygax splitting from the gaming club at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, there are two sides to this room. On one side, "wizards" throw "fireballs" with the same rule sets as medieval catapaults. On the other side, bearded grognards scoff fro behind their Napoleonic miniatures, content in their historical accuracy and thus superior knowledge of history and tactics.
I'ma go grow a beard now.
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Unfortunately, games don't allow for truly 'creative' tactics that could go beyond the scope of the game -- often, its seen as more of an exploit of programming unfortunately or of the rules if you're tabletoppin' it.
There's nothing like when the Vikings under King Harald, "...through ingenuity, he and his men were able to besiege and defeat a number of castles. A contemporary source reports such tactics as attaching burning resin to birds, setting the castle ablaze, and feigning reluctance to fight, only to launch an attack at the most advantageous moment."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Hardr%C3%A5de
Or when the Desert Fox decided to fight the British in North Africa with fake armies and cardboard cutouts -- can you just see that ability in one of the command tracks in CoH?!
Well, Cooking Mama didn't help me become a better cook, and Trauma Center certainly didn't help me become a better surgeon. I have the proof of both sitting in my freezer. -- imbiginjapan
Land Mines and Rangers were my favorite counter to King Tiger.
And remember, the Japanese aren't commercially whaling. They're conducting "research". Like "researching how delicious this whale is". - Paleocon
Coordination between team mates is key. Taking some M10's and running circles around the tiger while some airborne AT guns land out of sight of the tiger.
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