Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

grizzly

THQ Announces Company of Heroes(R): Tales of Valor(TM) for Windows PC

Next Chapter in Award-Winning Franchise Features All-New Single-Player Campaigns, Multiplayer Modes and Innovative "Direct-Fire" Feature
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2008--THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced Company of Heroes(R): Tales of Valor(TM), the next standalone chapter in the widely acclaimed real-time strategy (RTS) franchise, is currently in development for Windows PC. Featuring three intense campaigns, brand-new multiplayer modes and an innovative "direct-fire" feature that allows even more tactical control during the heat of battle, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor will immerse players in some of the most historic, tide-turning clashes of World War II. Internally developed by Relic Entertainment, the game is currently scheduled for release in spring 2009.


"Company of Heroes is one of the most critically acclaimed RTS series of all time," said Peter Matiss, vice president of global brand management, THQ. "With Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Relic Entertainment is delivering an all-new, standalone chapter in the franchise and continues to push the boundaries of innovation and quality in the genre."
"In Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, we're offering players a ton of rich, new content including more strategic options in single-player and multiplayer," said Tarrnie Williams, general manager, Relic Entertainment. "With fresh new campaigns and multiplayer modes, brand-new units, additional maps and the introduction of the 'direct-fire' feature, we're once again committed to delivering the best in strategic gaming."


About Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is the next standalone chapter in the award-winning Company of Heroes franchise, featuring all-new content, including three single-player campaigns, new multiplayer modes, additional maps and units. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor also introduces a new "direct-fire" feature that allows players more tactical control of their units and more strategic options in-game. Developed by internal studio Relic Entertainment and powered by Relic's proprietary Essence Engine(TM), Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is fully compatible with Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, allowing players who own the entire series complete access to the epic battles of World War II. For more information on Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor, please visit www.companyofheroesgame.com.

Maximilian

The direct fire thing sounds interesting. I presume it is something like hold down ctrl and they shoot where your cursor is.

Seifer

Maximilian wrote:

The direct fire thing sounds interesting. I presume it is something like hold down ctrl and they shoot where your cursor is.

You can already do that by using the attack ground command.
Apparently it's most likely the feature of taking control of a tank's turret to direct its fire i.e. going into a first person view but nothing has been confirmed yet.
Hopefully it won't be in multiplayer and hopefully the expansion doesn't break too many things.

Maximilian

Seifer wrote: »

You can already do that by using the attack ground command.

I meant something more like Soldiers. It worked really well in that game I thought.

Sephiroth_dude

omg,Cant wait for this :O

Sephiroth_dude

no new factions .

grizzly

Yeah, I was hoping for Russian and Japanese armies.

grizzly

Still buying it

Seifer

I'm glad there are no new factions. Relic can't balance the four factions we have and destroyed Dawn of War with too many so I think multiplayer is better off for it.
I'm looking forward to the new multiplayer modes. I hope there's attack and defend scenarios.

Sephiroth_dude

ah well maybe next time they'll put some in,im still gonna get it too :-).

grizzly

Maximilian wrote: »

The direct fire thing sounds interesting. I presume it is something like hold down ctrl and they shoot where your cursor is.

They confirmed that this is exactly what it is, but that it can be turned off for multiplayer.

Kintarō Hattori

I bought Company of Heroes about a month ago not knowing anything about and I have to say I'm loving it. So once I have it finished I have the first expansion to look forward too and now this...... woot woot!

Seifer

grizzly wrote:

They confirmed that this is exactly what it is, but that it can be turned off for multiplayer.

Link?
The only additional info I saw was from a post on GR linking to relic news which said:

Hey folks, I just wanted to clear up some of the initial questions about Tales of Valor.

1) No new factions are going to be introduced in Tales of Valor.
2) The new units are new models and textures. New.
3) Direct fire is something that we're featuring in the campaign, and perhaps one of the new multiplayer modes. It's not something you'll be using in a standard multiplayer game.

There ya go. I think that the expansion will have something for everyone, single-player fans and fans of multiplayer.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showpost.php?p=3243753&postcount=471

Seifer

Interview with Relic's community manager, Thunder, here.
It's pretty much broken into three parts: what a community manager does, the beta and tales of valor.
He confirms that direct fire is the ability to aim your tank's turret with the mouse cursor and tell it when to fire and that it will be used in only some of the new mulitplayer modes.

grizzly

^ Yeah, I find that the trouble with playing them is that you are locked into a very ridged build options for too long into every game with them.

Sephiroth_dude

grizzly wrote: »

^ Yeah, I find that the trouble with playing them is that you are locked into a very ridged build options for too long into every game with them.

that and if they get dig in your screwed.

Seifer

As Wehr, stukas will let you take down any emplacements quite easily, assuming you're not dominated in other ways too.
As PE, Marders outrange their AT emplacements when they're locked down so you can crack them that way.

Sephiroth_dude

must try that sometime.

Sephiroth_dude

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/14274745/company-of-heroes-tales-of-valor/videos/coh_tov_trailernewlegals_112008.html


trailer of coh tales of valor here,not that exciting a trailer to be honest.no sign of any new tanks or units.

Seifer

They've pretty much said there won't be any new units. Just new skins for existing ones. So depending on what you're looking for from an expansion it's either a very good thing or a very bad one.

Sephiroth_dude

Theres an article here about the gameplay,sounds cool. http://pc.ign.com/articles/932/932463p1.html

grizzly

Seifer wrote: »

They've pretty much said there won't be any new units. Just new skins for existing ones. So depending on what you're looking for from an expansion it's either a very good thing or a very bad one.

Thumbs down from me – this seems to have too much emphasis on action and not enough on strategy (I've got CoD for that).

Seifer

Well it's thumbs up from me purely because they're not planning on screwing up multiplayer.
But as far as action goes it's still the same standard rts view and you only have one Tiger Ace for the Tiger Ace Campaign so I'd say it'll be fairly tactical.

Keggers

This is starting to sound alot like soldiers

Sephiroth_dude

yup tis indeed,but I suppose at least there trying to do something different with the series,I wont knock it till I play it.

grizzly

Out today, anyone get it? It's stand alone, but does it interact with the other games in some way?

Sephiroth_dude

grizzly wrote: »

Out today, anyone get it? It's stand alone, but does it interact with the other games in some way?

Not sure what you mean by interact with the other games........you can access all the campaigns if thats what you mean,3 new campaigns,each faction gets 2 new unit,3 new multiplayer modes,gonna start the tiger ace campaign now.

Seifer

Yeah I have it.
Did the Tiger Ace campaign in maybe an hour and a half and I hear the other two are equally short.
The new units are supposed to be ridiculously OP.
Had a game of panzerkrieg (you control only one tank) and it was good fun.

Sephiroth_dude

Seifer wrote: »

Yeah I have it.
Did the Tiger Ace campaign in maybe an hour and a half and I hear the other two are equally short.
The new units are supposed to be ridiculously OP.
Had a game of panzerkrieg (you control only one tank) and it was good fun.

panzerkrieg is that online only?what did you make of the tiger ace campaign?anygood?

Pyr0

Gonna grab this tomorrow, any good prices around ?

Seifer

I assume you can do it in skirmish too, haven't tried.
Tiger Ace was just ridiculously short. Finished the US one too. They're all only three missions long.
I was buying the game for the multiplayer add-ons but still very poor imo.

Sephiroth_dude

Pyr0 wrote: »

Gonna grab this tomorrow, any good prices around ?

Its 30 in gamestop and 40 in game

Seifer wrote: »

I assume you can do it in skirmish too, haven't tried.
Tiger Ace was just ridiculously short. Finished the US one too. They're all only three missions long.
I was buying the game for the multiplayer add-ons but still very poor imo.

Ya I just finished the tiger ace campaign in like 40 minutes.I think one of them has 6 missions in it.

Seifer

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Its 30 in gamestop and 40 in game

Was priced 40 in Game but when I went to the til it was 35.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Ya I just finished the tiger ace campaign in like 40 minutes.I think one of them has 6 missions in it.

Nope, all 3 missions long, all 3 missions of each taking place on the same map.
Finished them all on hard and took no time.
Anyway, time to mess around with multiplayer.

Seifer

Since you can't play the operations ranked at the moment I was just playing basic matches:
Played one stonewall (hold off waves of ai troops with three others) and completed it on the first try :P Was luck I got a good group of randomers and was only normal AI. It was fun but frames dropped quite a bit when things got hectic but that's my pcs fault I suppose.
Played one assault (apparently similar to warcraft's DotA) and didn't think much of it at all. That could be cause one of my team lagged out straight away but I think it was more to do with just controlling one guy. No real strategy involved. Again frames went crap too.
Panzerkrieg is definately my favourite, really good fun.
What's ridiculous is that there is only one map for each game type at the moment.

None of the new modes seem to have the same depth as "classic" CoH as relic are now refering to it but I can't go back to playing that until they sort out the buggy mess they have created.

pixelburp

40 euro for an expansion pack with just a few new additions? Fcuk off! Has anyone played much of this since that massive 2.4 balance patch? I tried a few automatch games but only as the Brits so wasn't sure how things had changed...

Seifer

I've been playing 2v2 random only since 2.4 as they managed to introduce a gamebreaking bug for each faction so not gonna waste my time 1v1ing with that.
Relic really are quite inept. They don't seem to follow any coding standards or testing policies. Just change some random stuff and hope it doesn't affect other random stuff.

Pyr0

Picked it up in gamestop for 29.99 today.

Gonna fire it up and now and see how it goes.

Pyr0

Can anyone help me with a problem I'm having ? I've a previous account I set up AGES ago with Coh and OF tied to but now It won't let me change my password (which I've forgotten) even after trying both my Coh and OF cd keys (legit) and answering my security question (I checked the email).

Any ideas ? I want to have all three on the one account.

nesf

Stardock have it for download for 27 dollars: http://www.impulsedriven.com/cohtov

wayne040576

It's only 27 dollars in north america. It's 32 euro for us on impulse.
You can get the complete pack COH Gold (COH + Opposing front) + Tales of Valor all for 39 euro on GamersGate.
Not bad if you don't have any of them.

Sephiroth_dude

Just finished all 3 campaigns there and I must say I enjoyed them,pity they were soo short.

brendor

Play have this for UK£14.99 - is it worth getting for the singleplayer alone?

Seifer

No.

ríomhaire

I still haven't gotten Opposing Fronts yet(there's only one reason for that: DRM). I'll get and finish that before I have a look at this. Should devaluate a bit by then.

Sabre Man

ToV is now €18.49 at sendit.com.

I bought it from them a few weeks ago after noticing it for sale at Game for €34.99, which I considered way too much for so little.

Delivery took about 7-9 days.

Sephiroth_dude

Theres an eastern front mod being released on the 21st


http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front

grizzly

Theres an eastern front mod being released on the 21st


http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front

Looks promising. I like the Russian infantry ideas (fast recruit, can't retreat & 1 rifle per 2 men before upgrades). Should make for some unique new tactics.

Does this need both expansions to work?

Sephiroth_dude

No I dont think so,theres also a battle of the bulge mod re-released to work with tov if your interested in trying that.roll on thursday.

pixelburp

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Theres an eastern front mod being released on the 21st


http://www.moddb.com/mods/coheastern-front

Yup; I have been tracking this mod for some time now (if for no other reason than it's one of the few for CoH in the first place). The quality of their work is scarily good - I like their tank models (shame though the buildings are copies of the US tho') & I hope that they got the balancing right. Opposing Fronts has enough accusations of blobbing, the Soviet's cheap, non-retreating units scream "blob".

Anyone still playing this game anyway?

Sephiroth_dude

pixelburp wrote: »

Yup; I have been tracking this mod for some time now (if for no other reason than it's one of the few for CoH in the first place). The quality of their work is scarily good - I like their tank models (shame though the buildings are copies of the US tho') & I hope that they got the balancing right. Opposing Fronts has enough accusations of blobbing, the Soviet's cheap, non-retreating units scream "blob".

Anyone still playing this game anyway?

I recently got back into playing it after a few months break from it

pixelburp

So boards.ie fell over just as Eastern Front got released; has anyone else tried it? I must say that I am very impressed with the thought that has gone behind the Soviet faction. I haven't played any multi in it yet, but it feels balanced enough:

- Soviets can't retreat
- Nor do you start with any units.
- They don't use munitions on the field at all (all abilities have super cooldown). Munitions are used for global upgrades to your troops & vehicles.
- As far as I can see, the population cap's quite tight, so if you spam infantry (which without upgrades are a bit weak) you'll not afford to put any vehicles on the field.