[Azza]

Sequel to the best game of 2006 and the best RTS ever made (my opinion) has been revealed in the latest edition of PC gamer.

Set on the Eastern front with the player playing as the Russians.
Weather will play a factor, with snow providing cover as well as hindering mobility.
Relic Games are once again at the helm.

Due for release in 2013.

I'm hype.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...oes-2-revealed

[gizmo]

[Varik]

Really wished the had added the Russians and Japanese/Italians instead of that last expansion which was ok but i would have preferred playing with a new side rather than limiting the choice to Germans or some other Germans.

[pixelburp]

These people won't be happy!
http://www.easternfront.org/

It's absolutely brilliant news though - easily the best RTS game in modern times, it brought so many fresh ideas to the RTS table (ironically in one of the more overused game settings) and was just a blast to play.

[Azza]

Had a quick gander at the PC Gamer preview.

Single player campaign will be told through the eyes of a War Corrospodent reporting on battles and the failings of the communist ideology.

Looks like the single player campaign will start at the Battle of Stalingrad and end with the Battle of Berlin.

Core gameplay will remain very similar to COH 1. They ruled out significant changes like DOW 2 had from DOW 1, although they where considered.

Line of sight has been tweaked, you can only see what your troops can see, you can no longer see behind round buildings and walls just becase you had troops close to them.

Economy will work similar to COH 1. I.E territory control for resources.

[pixelburp]

Fantastic news: why change a winning formula.

[Azza]

Originally Posted by Varik

Really wished the had added the Russians and Japanese/Italians instead of that last expansion which was ok but i would have preferred playing with a new side rather than limiting the choice to Germans or some other Germans.

The orginal game was set in France in 1944, the Italians had surrendered by that stage. Further more the Italians had less effective weapons, equipment and tanks and less variety in them. Would of been difficult to make them a fully fleged faction with out making there actually weapons and tanks alot better than they where or giving them fictious weapons.

The Japanese where also drastically different. Firstly they would of looked out of place in COH's European setting. To recreate the type of war that was fought in the Pacific, they would have had to develop a tropical setting and implement jungle warfare. Naval warfare played a large roll in the war in the Pacific something that's not featured in the COH. Like the Italains the developers would have to take liberties with Japanese tanks and equipment if they wanted to a faction that could take on the allies.

I think for these reasons they stuck with the factions they did in COH:OF

Incidently the British where a terrible faction. PE where okay. Still peferred the 2 orginal factions.

[Varik]

The servers are down for the first game now, spent a bit of time there trying.

[Sephiroth_dude]

This is fantastic news,today is a good day,elder scrolls mmo and now coh2

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Originally Posted by Azza

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I think for these reasons they stuck with the factions they did in COH:OF

Incidently the British where a terrible faction. PE where okay. Still peferred the 2 orginal factions.

Naw, the PE were much worse imo than the British; being the ultimate turtle-faction with unbelievably slow units, the Brits were fairly limited & once you breached their lines I found them easy to dispose of. They were a fairly interesting take on the turtle mechanic

On the other hand, I lost count the number of times I got smacked by PE players rushing masses of upgraded infantry / tier 1 units. Very spammy faction in my view & felt against the tone of the series. Agree overall though yes, the first two factions were perfectly balanced.

Thinking about it though just makes me want to fire the game up again & enjoy some multilplayer round

[degrassinoel]

did anyone else think CoH was brilliant but all the expansions were utter crap?

[Azza]

I remember when Opposing Force first came out the PE trashed the Americans but the British beats both PE and Wehr.

Not sure what the state of balance is like now but the Brits had so much bullcrap, like a glider that crushed whole armies as it was landed on top of you, Commando's that did insane damage with a whole load of stupid abilites that made them impossible to supress. Alot of that should be fixed but they where still a horrible faction to play against.

Dreadfull sim city design to them, pretty much universally loathed when the game came out. Could just turtle up on high resource points and you couldn't push them off it because it had become there damn base.

Overall I didn't like the factions in COH:OF near as much as the orginal.

Tales of Valor was more a single player expansion and not a very good one.

[Sierra Oscar]

Excellent stuff . . . I am still playing CoH online from time to time - fantastic series.

[cherryghost]

The original is one awesome game with many awesome mods. We still have it on the top of our LAN games whenever we meet up

[ED E]

*does a little dance*


YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Even though I've always been terribad at CoH