Company of Heroes 2 - From who? Ze Germans?

I mostly play skirmish vs AI so can't say too much on the amount of players. The skirmish AI is much improved over vanilla AI so give it a shot!

So I'm kinda torn. On the one hand, I really loved CoH and I've enjoyed my time playing the CoH 2 Beta. On the other, I'm not as impressed as I wanted to be (probably too high expectations) and with all the discussion about games going on sale extremely fast lately, I'm not sure what to do.

So the way I look at it, if I pre-order now from Ozgameshop, I can get it for $42. That includes all the pre-order bonus stuff. But if I wait, I could probably get it for $30 or so in a month? Maybe less? Who knows. But then I'd probably have to buy the theater of war thing separately.

So very conflicted here.

Get it for $42. Conflict over.

It'll probably be 2 or 3 months before it goes on sale. And $42 seems like a pretty good price for release day.

BlackSabre wrote:

So I'm kinda torn. On the one hand, I really loved CoH and I've enjoyed my time playing the CoH 2 Beta. On the other, I'm not as impressed as I wanted to be (probably too high expectations) and with all the discussion about games going on sale extremely fast lately, I'm not sure what to do.

So the way I look at it, if I pre-order now from Ozgameshop, I can get it for $42. That includes all the pre-order bonus stuff. But if I wait, I could probably get it for $30 or so in a month? Maybe less? Who knows. But then I'd probably have to buy the theater of war thing separately.

So very conflicted here.

It's a Relic RTS! BUY IT!

Morgoth13 wrote:
whispa wrote:
EvilDead wrote:
whispa wrote:

I miss it already

Back to some CoH Blitzkrieg mod in mean time :D

I was briefly looking into that last night but didn't have the motivation to test the beta version with my "COH (New Steam Version)". Are you using the mod with the original install of COH or the one that was just released on Steam?

I am using the original install still. I will have to switch over to the CoH New steam version soon. Blitzkrieg mod really is a top notch mod that adds tons of new units and puts the game in hardcore mode. Running infantry into a machine gun is pretty much insta kill for example.
I highly recommend it!

i downloaded the blitzkrieg mod. but does anyone play it? where are the players?

It looks like the mod is broken. A few of my friends and I all installed the CoH new steam version +Blitzkrieg 4.70 and we couldn't see any games including each others. Invites also caused "Failed to Join" errors. After wasting a bunch of time troubleshooting we decided to try the unmodded game and it worked fine.

Any word on if (when) there's going to be next open beta?

UCRC wrote:

Any word on if (when) there's going to be next open beta?

I don't think they've really given specifics yet.

Thin_J wrote:
UCRC wrote:

Any word on if (when) there's going to be next open beta?

I don't think they've really given specifics yet.

But it's happening, right? Right? (I need my fix and CoH is not doing it anymore!)

UCRC wrote:
Thin_J wrote:
UCRC wrote:

Any word on if (when) there's going to be next open beta?

I don't think they've really given specifics yet.

But it's happening, right? Right? (I need my fix and CoH is not doing it anymore!)

Yes, and I am guessing rather soon because release is a little over a month away.

Anyone up for some CoH comp stomp or 2v2 this afternoon? Be available for a couple of hours around noon PST.

I like the changes they made with this latest update. Not as much mortar spam. Of course it seems to have changed to light vehicle spam.

TigerBill wrote:

I like the changes they made with this latest update. Not as much mortar spam. Of course it seems to have changed to light vehicle spam.

Do what? Closed beta ended weeks ago. Did the open start and they just didn't say anything?

Thin_J wrote:
TigerBill wrote:

I like the changes they made with this latest update. Not as much mortar spam. Of course it seems to have changed to light vehicle spam.

Do what? Closed beta ended weeks ago. Did the open start and they just didn't say anything?

All I know is: I got home from vacation, fired up Steam, CoH2 Beta updated and then, I played a 90 comp stomp with 2 friends.

Thin_J wrote:
TigerBill wrote:

I like the changes they made with this latest update. Not as much mortar spam. Of course it seems to have changed to light vehicle spam.

Do what? Closed beta ended weeks ago. Did the open start and they just didn't say anything?

There was another closed beta that started last week that was very limited. I just checked now and my COH2 files are being updated so maybe it is going open.

Well I saw an update go through, but never thought to try it!

See, when the closed beta ended I actually uninstalled it so I didn't see the update. I still can't find any news that says "Hey it's up again" but I reinstalled the beta last night and sure enough it works.

Can't wait to get home, then

Just pre-ordered.

21 more days

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SuperDave wrote:

Open Beta Launches today. Runs until June 18th.

Source: Polygon

Sweet. I have a few friends who missed the closed beta because they pre-ordered too late. This should cheer them up.

Time to get into this again!! Curious what they added/changed since closed beta.

whispa wrote:

Time to get into this again!! Curious what they added/changed since closed beta.

I'm not sure on the balance side of things but after playing a skirmish last night I felt the game was a lot more polished and many of the bugs had been ironed out. Alt-tabbing, which was an issue for me before, was working flawlessly last night.

A notable bit:

In addition, anyone who tries the open beta will be able to transfer their progression and unlocks to the full game, as long as they buy the game within 60 days of its launch and play it on the same Steam account as the beta.

So... play away folks! No worries about whatever doohickeys you unlock

Thin_J wrote:

A notable bit:

In addition, anyone who tries the open beta will be able to transfer their progression and unlocks to the full game, as long as they buy the game within 60 days of its launch and play it on the same Steam account as the beta.

So... play away folks! No worries about whatever doohickeys you unlock :D

Cool, no worries about having to lose unlocks again! I want my G43 rifles

Ok... so is anyone else noticing it being a bit slow? I've been playing around with the settings a bit and can't seem to find a decent happy medium. I click recommended and it puts it all to high, but then it just kinda jerks along... not sure. I may have to play around with it a bit more.

I'm getting my new graphics card soon, but I'm just wondering if anyone else is noticing the slowness?

I just read grid keys were finally added, I am downloading the open beta now, if confirmed, pre-order is almost a for sure.

How are you guys launching the beta? I try to launch the Beta Stress Test and I get an error that I am missing executables. I tried to delete the appcache folder like it recommends but still no go. I have the option to install the game so doing that now and will try later.

BlackSabre wrote:

Ok... so is anyone else noticing it being a bit slow? I've been playing around with the settings a bit and can't seem to find a decent happy medium. I click recommended and it puts it all to high, but then it just kinda jerks along... not sure. I may have to play around with it a bit more.

I'm getting my new graphics card soon, but I'm just wondering if anyone else is noticing the slowness?

It works much better than previous beta for me. Had some performance issues (mostly when scrolling) back then, everything seems smoother now.

whispa wrote:

How are you guys launching the beta? I try to launch the Beta Stress Test and I get an error that I am missing executables. I tried to delete the appcache folder like it recommends but still no go. I have the option to install the game so doing that now and will try later.

Yeah, that is it. It should just say "Company of Heroes 2" and when you click on it it will tell you how many days are left in the open beta. The one that says beta stress test should not be used. Its kind of annoying that they keep on making me download 8+ GB then deleting it only to have me download much of the same data to play again. I figure I have already downloaded around 30GB of data just to play the beta.