Company of Heroes Open Beta

[Rapishorrid]

http://www.fileplanet.com/betas/coh_signup.aspx

Just fill out your name and email on that page and it will give you a beta key and download link for the installer. I am 89% downloaded right now with about 3 minutes remaining. It's strictly a multiplayer beta (theres an offline tutorial that's about it) so don't get it if you can't play online.

Other than that the folks over at the RO forums seem to be having a blast with it, maybe us 1944er's can get a few games together or something. :D

[OliverMarshall]

Yea saw that a while ago, unfortunatly you need to be subscribed.:(

[Paul Myatt]

no you dont, its an open beta now :)

[OliverMarshall]

Yea I just saw. Wooo!:D

[Tough Ombre 359th]

Hey thanks for the info! I'm downloading it right now.

Edit: WOW 1.61GB's @ 900kb/sec

[PF-Kenny]

1.7 GB at 27 KB/s = LONG wait

[Rapishorrid]

I downloaded it within 15 minutes (I forget the speed). I've played a couple matches and I must say it's the most fun I've had in an RTS. Don't expect realistic squad maneuvers and detailed tactical combat because it's not. It's just a fun mix of traditional RTS building (you maybe build 3 buildings per game:D ) and combat. The combat is what makes this game awesome. Things just start blowing apart and the the pleasant countryside becomes filled with fully 3d craters, blast pits and rubble. You have to use a general amount of tactics to win which is what makes it unique. For example shooting tanks in vulnerable spost and outflanking MG's and infantry. You have to play it to understand its sort of "dumbed down realism", it's definitely better than it sounds.:D

[PF-Kenny]

I downloaded it within 15 minutes
Im well into the second day!

[Gien]

Thnx man was waiting for this.

[PF-Kenny]

ok, I downloaded it for 2 days, and then hit pause to play a game. When I finished I accidentely hit restart instead of resume

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

so since Im going on vacation starting tomorrow, I wont have it for another week or so

[Rapishorrid]

Hehe well you guys are missing out!:D

This is absolutely fantastic I must say. Every game is a different experience and it is just brilliant. At one point in this map which features a sort of trainyard area (industrial buildings think of) I built sandbags and barbed wire blocking all entrances except one, making a perfect funnel into my MG positions. So exploiting my lack of planning and my newness to the game, my enemy drops paratroopers behind me and massacres my entire defense force... classic.:)

[Crazythumbs]

The game runs like complete crap with all settings as low as they can go for me.

Which makes me think, older games that I can run fine with pretty high settings such as Dawn of War look very good. While a game that doesnt look as nice on my comp due to limititaions hauls ass. Logically you would think that CoH would run at the same speed with the same level of detail that I have on Dawn of War.
I know it has to do with other things such as the engine and the like, just kinda rambling.

[Rapishorrid]

Eh well thats no good... Graphics are a big part of what makes this game experience.. The explosions are amazing and the fully destructible environments are great. An extremely peaceful trainyard by the end of the match is just total rubble, craters and flames everywhere. I should get some before and after shots because it truly is awesome!:D

Another neat feature is the sound. The standard unit responses (you click on them and they let out a comment like "Ready to go!") can be heard as yells when you are near your troops, but when they are across the map you hear it on the radio. Also artillery, explosions, MG fire can all be heard as dull rumbles and pounding accross the map (its actually happening though unlike most games ambient noise).

[Edub]

This game is very fun. I will surely be buying it. Only thing is the AI can be a little stupid at times. especially the tanks.

[Sgt So and So]

This game is very fun. I will surely be buying it. Only thing is the AI can be a little stupid at times. especially the tanks.
It ain't called a beta for nothing!:D

[Gien]

I also cant wait for the full game to hit stores i mean this is a seriously good WW2 RTS IMHO.

[Lord Justin]

I'm in the waiting line at Fileplanet atm, seven minutes to go :D . From the sound of it, this is my kind of RTS, although I've been having doubts just like many others. And I don't think my game will run it well at all (even if it does run it) at 1gb, 1.3 ghz, and a 128 mb antique Nvidia card. But my system wasn't supposed to be able to run Age of Empires III which it runs great, nor Empire at War which it runs fine. So maybe I will get lucky again :D .

Crazythumbs, I have thought the same thing. For example, Day of Defeat Source, which runs on my PC with beautiful graphics almost at highest level and still amazing physics, runs at full speed almost always, only lagging when there are 20 people in the screen with smoke grenades and machine guns going off. Now we get to Battlefield 2 which has next-to-no physics, and I run the game with every possible graphics setting set at the lowest. This of course makes the game looks nauseating, with blurry textures and blocky models. And still I can hardly play because of the intolerable system lag. I can only effectively play in Wake Island because it's the only map that has very little land and usually little activity in any small area.

Makes you think that certain developers have become lazy with their optimization because they assume that the general population has high-end systems :(

*Edit* 30 minutes D/L on CoH :)

[DavidUpton]

It's EA, what do you expect? :rolleyes:

[Cobra427]

I was in the beta before it hit fileplanet ... but i get a ble screen of death when i run it :/ I couldent run it wiht my old 9800 Pro then this X800GTO would have a heart attack as i cant even run ofp on this card :/ 9 FPS on min detail in OFP lol ... CoD2 runs great but thats the only game lol

[Lord Justin]

It's EA, what do you expect? :rolleyes:


Yeah, exactly :p

Heh, Cobra, if your PC can run CoD2 and not Company of heroes, then mine will never run Company. Not by a longshot. Or maybe it's just the graphics card. :p

[DarkCanuck]

im in line to dl now. I dont think i will make it to the front on time as i am going out in a few minutes. not a big fan of the rts so im not too upset

[DavidUpton]

Spent the ENTIRE day play Company of Heroes. Me and my friend (Jack) carried a battle purely for the purpose of taking some nice photographs. So I spent half the battle fortifying the town with sandbags/bunkers/88's for Jack's assault.

The result:

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/8335/cohb14fp2.jpg
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http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5020/cohb21co1.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3591/cohb22rn8.jpg
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http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3769/cohb24al4.jpg
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http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8662/cohb26tl1.jpg
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/6011/cohb27sg8.jpg

Credit to Jack for the pictures.

[Snafu7]

^^^

Absolutly incredible, great screens.

I wish I wasn't having problems with MP, it looks like a blast.

[Cobra427]

wow .... man RTS have come a ways since my beginning with C&C lol .... I used to drive my parents mad with those games ... a constant Unit Ready Unit Ready Unit Ready ... lol

[Gien]

Great screens! How do the battles play out? Like are the units balanced? Are tanks overpowering? The physics good? Just a quick overview, you dont have to go in depth if you dont want too.

[Saden]

I was wondering if this will run on my computer? The settings I chose were:
Card: 256mb ATI
Processor: 2.1ghz-3.(something) I have 2.4ghz
RAM: 512MB
Direct X 9.0 A or B or C or w/e I know I have the latest version, with those settings it told me that I would experience issues, so I went back and changed the RAM and Processor to 3.1+ ghz and 2gb RAM.

Will it still run? I was really hoping to play this game because it looks like the most awsome RTS. Well I'm upgrading my comp soon anway. I was wondering one thing, will the beta testers get a sort of discount or something off the game? If they beta tested the game and filled out a form or made a review or something. I think it would be a nice thankyou gesture if they gave the testers like 10-20% off the game. Or gave us a shirt :D .

[Timblesink]

Goddamn it I want this, but the goddamn thing stops at 984 MB EVERY TIME! I tried downloading it twice (took 3 hours each time and I've nearly used all of my internet limit) BUT BOTH TIMES IT STOPPED AT 984 MB! And it didn't just stop and say "didn't work, go do something else", IT THOUGHT IT HAD FINSIHED AT 984 MB, EVEN THOUGH IT SAID THE FILE SIZE WAS 1.6 GIG! GODDAMN IT, I HATE THAT! If anyone has any suggestions why it's doing this, please please PLEASE tell me how to fix it! I want this so much... *crycrycry*

*nervous breakdown*

[Arturo]

what a great game only this game have I liked in this genre!

[DarkOmen]

I wish I could play the BETA. I'd like to play it with some friends (No, not stupid pubbies who are probably already messing up the experience)

Everytime I try to login it just sends me back to the main menu. :(

[Saden]

This POS game keeps giving me an error saying cohrelic.exe encountered a problem, and it askes me to fill out a form and send it. Can somone help me?

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d137/1337airsoftmike/39778.gif

[Cobra427]

Got it work'n finally ... runs like a dream now ... its a pretty good game but online sucks cause mostly its a bunch of people who know the game really good that just make a new lvl 1 profile and then tear you to shreads

[Saden]

Okay, thats nice but can somebody please help me? I REALLY want to play this, but it keeps giving me that error.

[DarkOmen]

I got it working! I like it, but frankly I do not like the players. All these damn noobs using these stupid tactics are ruining the experience.

Anyone wanna play a game for fun?

Xfire: DarkOmen1

[Cobra427]

Im up for a game ... ive only played 2 matches and won one cause I had a sniper in a church tower and the guy was like you suck ... snipers are for noobs and quit lol

Xfire is .... Cobra427 ... who woulda guessed lol

I have fun just building defences and stuff lol ... fun to build a realistic defence and watch the enemy try to get in

[DaveP]

I just tried the tutorials for this.. and it rocks :D


can't wait to..


..get owned online.. :(

[Timblesink]

WHAT THE HELL? Am I the only person in the world who can't download this? As I said before, it gets to 984 MB every time, and thinks it's finished, but it hasn't. I've tried twice, and pretty much used up my internet download limit, but the same thing happens both times. I was using the East Coast server - would this make a difference? What servers were you guys using?

[Lord Justin]

I'm having the same problem as everyone else getting into Multiplayer, where it gives me an error message and sends me to the menu. I think the whole of Relic Online is down or something. I've been waiting all day to play and now I get this mysterious glitch :( .

My friend and I played last night, starting at roughly midnight. So after a few games we were both having amazing fun and my friend says "wow, it's 3:00." And it was :p . This is the measure of the game's addictive qualities.

If it didn't lag so badly on my PC, I would be digging around for $50 to put aside for this game. It's one of the best RTS's I've ever played (and I have many of them). Even the Beta is almost perfectly balanced, nearly free of bugs, and extremely fun even for people like me who haven't won a match yet :D . Even losing in this game is fun. As Cobra said, building up a realistic defense and seeing how your enemy handles it is a blast. My friend and I spent an hour last night simply building elaborate defensive lines (although his victory was due to his decision to put more resources into his Panzer division than his defenses).

It was an epic battle after that, with his slow advance pushing my defenses backwards into my own territory. His mortars took out my tank traps so that his tanks could smash my barbed wire and sand bags to take out my MG nests and my M10 tank destroyers. The game has a wholly realistic feel to it and every unit has his purpose. The game surpasses a flaw that many WWII RTS games suffer, where certain units are unstoppable, rendering any other unit pointless. In this game, infantry knows how to deal with tanks (to a realistic extent), tanks know how to deal with anti-tank, rifleman can outsmart MG's, and a building with a garrison is a fortress against anything but heavy armor.

Anyone who likes a WWII RTS that's realistic enough to believe and is extremely fun, at least download the beta :p


*Edit* http://www.forumplanet.com/planetcompanyofheroes/topic.asp?fid=20468&tid=1929027

Apparently they're doing work on the servers? Perhaps this is why some of us are unable to go into MP.

[Saden]

Can somebody PLEASE help me with my problem? PLEASE.

[DarkOmen]

Saden try asking at this forum:

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetcompanyofheroes/

[aag567]

Fileplanet? Last time I tried to download a beta from them I kept got asking to type this password in an image that didn't show up (I downloaded cookies and stuff).

[Timblesink]

I found a torrent file of the beta, so I'm downloading it again through that... but it'll mean that I'll have almost used up my entire internet allowance, and we've still got until the 15th until it resets... oh dear. My brother isn't going to be too happy...

Thanks for not caring about my problem :mad: (:p)

[xtc-alec]

1 GIG.....jeez.....my brother wont let me download :( :( :(

[Timblesink]

1 GIG.....jeez.....my brother wont let me download

I know the feeling... brothers suck, don't they?

(stupid torrent takes millions of years, I'm only getting 25kb/s max on ADSL and other people are getting stuff like 400 kb/s... stupid other people)

[2ltben]

Is MP possible to play with bots? I have a metric fucking ton of math work that needs to be turned in "no later than 5PM Monday", but I background downloaded it and snuck in the 20 minute tutorial.

[Dutchlike]

7 minutes till i can start downing...it's now 12:28 ...And the computer can last till 21:30 then it 'll blow up/Start to slowly melt (cooling problem)...So i hope i'll make it :p.

[DavidUpton]

Is MP possible to play with bots? I have a metric fucking ton of math work that needs to be turned in "no later than 5PM Monday", but I background downloaded it and snuck in the 20 minute tutorial.

It is possible, but:

a: You need one other person to play with you.
b: The AI sucks.

[DarkOmen]

I don't think you need someone else to play with you? It worked just fine for me when I played all bots.

And yes the AI does suck. In skill and technique.

[Saden]

Arggh, the minimum requirements for this game are X800 or Nvidia 6600... I read a thread called 9250 not supported? :( Well, I guess I better upgrade.

[Dutchlike]

Downloaded,played,Loved the game itself,Hated the matching system (Why the f*ck match a lvl.1 with a lvl.3!!! AARGGHHHH)...And i couldn't get into any servers without being kicked for my "so called high ping" (40 -_-')...and somethimes i couldn't even get in a server!...Well that was almost all the time
@Darkomen: You did something special...Cause i can't make a BOT only server (for myself)...wich kinda sucks....cause i need practice.
__________________________
EDIT: well anyway's if anyone is up for a match (go easy on me wil ya? :P ) my Xfire is : Dutchlike

[Lord Justin]

I had some of those problems with the online system, Dutchlike. Half the games matches simply wouldn't let me connect and the other half was slow servers and/or hardened players versus my first match. Of course I can't say much about lag without being hypocritical; my 1.2 GhZ processor runs the game at somewhere around four frames per second :p most of the time. So usually I'm the one making everyone else's game slow down.

And the damn server is still down. Still can't even get to the Log-In server. If Relic doesn't bring the servers back up in a few hours, I'll be out of patience. If it takes days, well...anyone know where Relic is located? >_>

[Dutchlike]

If you wait 2 weeks i'll get the guns from the shooting range (we got some small pistol's...around 10 Air gun's an 'round the 20 Carbine's :D )

[Lord Justin]

Alright, load up those airguns with rubber bullets. We don't want to kill the brilliance that designed Company of Heroes, just...bruise them. For their server performance.

I mean...no! We can't...do that...it's...wrong...*rabmles off*

*Edit* Well I just found this http://www.forumplanet.com/planetcompanyofheroes/topic.asp?fid=20469&tid=1929558. I don't know how reliable the source is but he claims he got into Relic News and they're fixing the server with a patch tomorrow (Monday). I hope so. I've been itching to play again.

[Dutchlike]

I'll try today...to actually get into the multyplayer...cause yesterday evening i couldn't -_-'...In the afternoon it worked fine for me though (GMT+1).
EDIT: i read on gamespot (not the most reliable source :p ) that the beta will be updated monday for the stability of the servers or something...Well i think that means that we can finnaly play it properley :P.
EDIT2: Excact QUOTE:



RELIC has been tweaking its servers this weekend, and many of us cant logon, or join multiplayer games.

Monday Afternoon (PST), they are releasing a PATCH that will fix this connection issues, so we can all play this sweet game again.

[OliverMarshall]

I just had a game which went on for 1 hour 51 mins! It was on the 1v1 map and at one point he was at my base, then an hour and a half later I had destroyed his!:D

great game!

[Lord Justin]

That map is a work of art, Shrapnel :p . That's where I had all my decisive lossed against my friend. I'm always allies, and Germany has a pretty massive advantage in that map (three times as many territories on the one coherent side of the river). Our longest game lasted only twenty minutes though, and the other he beat me in only fifteen :p . I suck so far, but it's still so damn fun :) .

[OliverMarshall]

Hehe, I was german and had 2 Tigers most of the way through.:D At the end almost the whole of the town was destroyed, that mayor is not gonna be happy!:rolleyes:

[Dutchlike]

Well...the servers are pretty much working for me now :D.
It also looks like they brushed up te matching system/I got lucky and did'nt got put in with LVL 2's.
I had 1 hell of a match...After 20 minutes my teammate left!
Then i could handle it on my own for some time...but then i got owned by some tigers :o...It was pretty cool though :)

[sid]

It's saying I need an id, does this mean I have to subscribe?
Edit Nevermind I got it

[Rapishorrid]

Well...the servers are pretty much working for me now .

lucky... I couldn't even get around to clicking the Play tab due to the relentless bombardment of connection error messages. :p

[Dutchlike]

ARRRGGGHh...Now the servers work but the game itself doesn't! :mad:
It's bad for me if a game doesn't work...now i have to spent years in therapy! :p

[jm.]

lucky... I couldn't even get around to clicking the Play tab due to the relentless bombardment of connection error messages. :p

I keep getting those all the time too :(

[DaveP]

I just did a coop 2vAi game.. it ROCKED :D


the axis are ALOT better than the allies.

[MyFingerHurts]

Tigers will be the bloody end of me. I've found that the only real way to deal with those infernal machines is to capture Fuel points and hold them with everything that I've got. And make sure that you send 3 of the 150mm teams to those sites with thier armor piercing rounds. Should make short work of the Tigers, and because you control the Fuel sites, there shouldnt be too many more in production anytime soon :D

Finger

[Rapishorrid]

Yeah Tigers can be a real pain. Which is why I play Axis. :D Axis seems like it's a tad overpowered.. what with all Tigers and the Propaganda power that makes troops retreat..:D

There's supposed to be a patch out in a couple hours that will fix all these nasty problems (the server issues and stuff) so that should be good. I saw Shrapnel in the chat and tried to have a game with him, but apparently CoH wasn't to fond of that idea and it decided that having my game exit and popping up a bug report was a much more suitable course of action. :rolleyes:

[OliverMarshall]

hehe yea same, after you left i had a crash.:rolleyes:

But you can take the axis easily early on in the game. You just have to expand really fast and concentrate on infantry. Once you have them all bottled up then you just get you calliopes or arty in and destroy their defenses. Build up you armour,then go in the back.:D

[sid]

My download just finished so I'll be attempting to play now.

[Rapishorrid]

My download just finished so I'll be attempting to play now.

Whatever happens don't be turned away from it because of the many problems with Relic Online atm. A patch is on the way!! And plus if you can manage to get past the lobby the game always runs fine. :D

[sid]

Just played the tutorial, It looks cool. Is this the same people that made Dawn of War?

[jm.]

i hope the patch is out soon, i wanna play this online, ive done the tutorials 3 times now :D it gets a bit annoying having to click 'continue' all the time though :eek:

[sid]

I just downloaded the patch. Or has there already been one?

[Rapishorrid]

The game is SOOO much better online..:D

The patch you downloaded is 1.13 which came out a couple days ago, we are waiting on a patch which should be released sometime today.. CurrentlY I can't even get IN to the lobby nevermind past it...:(

[sid]

Mine keeps saying it's losing the connection and giving me error messages. I hope they fix it before the release.

[metsapeikko]

*Sigh* "After horrifying fights, he gave up.... Relic Online have defeated him.... He never reached online game, or even chat room..." *Sigh*

Yeah, well I will try tomorrow again, if theres anykind of possibility then and I really hope that I would reach online game then, or atleast chat lobby...

[MyFingerHurts]

Despite the connection issues with Relic, they have overhauled most of the Online System and I have seen a DRAMATIC increase in speed and alot less locking up. It seems the only issues I have with Online play are the "Lost Connection" issues with Relic, but as they have said, they are still working on it and hopefully will have it resolved.

I'll be watching Tigers crash through the hedgerows soon enough. . . .and then promptly be running at breakneck speed in the opposite direction :)

Finger

[Rapishorrid]

Good News - Relic says that they are sending a new build to QA which fixes automatch problems and upon the finishing of that they will release a patch which also fixes the server problems, all of this sometime tommorow. :D

So all the newcomers to the game, hold your breath and don't be dissapointed at what you have played so far because an online match in this game is like no other!:D

[xtc-alec]

Are there any new places to download from? if so please post link.

Im gonna try to sneak download it....probally get into a fight with my bro though, hope its worth it :confused:

[Lord Justin]

Good News - Relic says that they are sending a new build to QA which fixes automatch problems and upon the finishing of that they will release a patch which also fixes the server problems, all of this sometime tommorow. :D

Gah, they'd better do that. I'm rapidly losing my patience with Relic Online, and as of now, Relic is almost at EA-level in my book. EA is bad in my book. Although evidently Relic's games are a whole lot less glitchy/buggy than EA's ;) .

If the patch isn't tomorrow, I'll be all out of patience. They claimed they would release it this afternoon, now they pushed it to tomorrow, so who's to say they won't push it another day? Or another? A week?

But once the servers get back up, I'll be satisfied for a long time. Now that I figured out how to boost my performance two-fold, online matches and games with my friend will keep me up all night for a week :D . It's such a good game.

And if I wake up tomorrow morning (likely I'll wake up in the afternoon as it's 1 am now and I'm not going to bed :p ) and I don't see more about the patch being released tomorrow, get the carbines, Dutchlike. Get the carbines.

[NortherlyNanook]

Ugh. Even after the patch, I still couldn't join a server, due to plenty of losing the connection to Relic. Looks quite fun, though.

[xtc-alec]

Goddamn it I want this, but the goddamn thing stops at 984 MB EVERY TIME! I tried downloading it twice (took 3 hours each time and I've nearly used all of my internet limit) BUT BOTH TIMES IT STOPPED AT 984 MB! And it didn't just stop and say "didn't work, go do something else", IT THOUGHT IT HAD FINSIHED AT 984 MB, EVEN THOUGH IT SAID THE FILE SIZE WAS 1.6 GIG! GODDAMN IT, I HATE THAT! If anyone has any suggestions why it's doing this, please please PLEASE tell me how to fix it! I want this so much... *crycrycry*

*nervous breakdown*

oh..........my........god........i started to download it got into a fight with my brother and it has stopped with 2:55 remaining...it still shows its downloading but its not going up....should i just leave it for a while and hope for the best?

[OliverMarshall]

I have another secret to beating Germany in long games for those Allied players. First you must be the Armour option, then get a calliope and some pershings quickly so that you can defend yourself, also the 76mm upgrade is really worth it. You main weapon is not you tanks but your infantry. DOn't bother with bazookas since their not really that great and also they take too long. Upgrade your squads with grenades,BAR's and most importantly the sticky bomb. The sticky bomb is your the thing to take on tanks with, even TIger Ace's.If you get 3+ infantry squads at the same time attacking a Tiger ace and then kee attacking it with stickys until your squads are low then you nshould take it out. To stop them from counterattacking whilst you regroup use pershings at ambush points to hold them back. Another secret brought to you by Shrapnel.:rolleyes:

[NortherlyNanook]

Yep. Decided to make my own server, and I found that the sticky bombs just did the trick. The M3 halftrack is your friend, too.

[xtc-alec]

god i so wanna play, but i guess i gotta wait untill i buy it.

Unless one of you helps with the problem?

[metsapeikko]

This is really frustrating, I never cant make it to server, it just keeps crashing randomly...

[SpicEwEazle]

first thing that came to mind is balance. Allies seem for the most part completely incapable of dealing with armour(in the tutorial mission you could upgrade troops with the bazooka, be buggered if I could figure out to how online). Then there is the tiger, which is Ridiculously strong. I had 3 shermans behind one and they still lost. Then there is the sticky bombs, I could only seem to get them to work half the time, and of course the whole squad has to get close to the tank instead of just the soldier with the bomb. Final gripe. For the entire round I either controlled more or an equal amount of cap points as my opponent, yet he seemed to be able to pump out so much more armour then me. IF german armour units are cheaper it is complete bullshit, numbers was one of the few advantages allied armoured units had.

o and if some tells me I had to choose inf general, or parachute general to access the 57mm recoiless rifle or bazooka I'm gonna scream.


on the plus side. Looks fantastic, and sound even better. Runs fine on my rig with all settings on max. (spec A64 venice @ 2700Mhz, 1gb ram @ 245 Mhz 2-2-2-6, 7900GT @ 500/1400)

[OliverMarshall]

Only rangers get bazookas and those come automatically, in the demo you upgraded an airborne fire team with a recoiless rifle.

[SpicEwEazle]

Only rangers get bazookas and those come automatically, in the demo you upgraded an airborne fire team with a recoiless rifle.
um how do you build rangers?, do you have to choose inf general? If so this game should quite with the "realism" tag and just admit it's trying to be C&C generals in WW2 clothing. t

[Lord Justin]

um how do you build rangers?, do you have to choose inf general? If so this game should quite with the "realism" tag and just admit it's trying to be C&C generals in WW2 clothing. t

I don't see how Infantry Commander-produced Rangers make Company of Heroes instantly a C&C clone :p . But I think Rangers can be called from the Inf Commander tree. I know for sure they can be with the Airborne tree because I've done that.

Well, good news people. The good folks over at Planet Company of Heroes have confirmed that the hotfix for the connection issues will be released today. Yesterday they were kinda "eh" about it, but today they seem certain. The site director says it's being run through QA ;) .

[OliverMarshall]

You can call in a squad of rangers for 400 men from the defence command tree.

[SpicEwEazle]

see thats ridicoulous, you shouldn't need to elect a skill tree to get desent AT for your inf.They should get rid of the skill tree completely, it has no place in a realistic RTS

[Lord Justin]

You can get great At from your inf without Rangers. Airborne infantry can be upgraded with recoilless AT rifles and almost all US inf can use satchel charges and, more importantly, sticky bombs. Stickies are the bane of concentrated heavy armor.

And I think the command trees are a nice addition. They add a certain strategic aspect that the game otherwise lacks, and bring some effective abilities that are a blast to play around with and use. It's not all that unrealisitc either; commanders in different branches of service had access to different support actions such as long-range artillery shelling and low-altitude aircraft support, as well as airborne units. Also, this isn't 1944: D-Day The RTS; Relic wasn't trying to make a game with the highest realism they possibly could. It's not a simulation like 1944 is, many sacrifices were made to realism for balance purposes.

Try out different anti-tnak tactics, there are many of them out there. ;)

[OliverMarshall]

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What he said.;)

[Rapishorrid]

...waiting...for...patch...

I managed to get one 3v3 on the Hill map in earlier. Sadly it lagged to no end and I couldn't even experience over 5 seconds without pauses and general choppiness (it's not my computer, online the game only runs as fast as the slowest computer :( ). Despite that plus having one of my allies drop we decimated the axis. Within about 10 minutes we had all control points and were knocking on their front door... Even better I didn't see a single tank the entire game except for my shermans and one stug! :D :D

[SpicEwEazle]

You can get great At from your inf without Rangers. Airborne infantry can be upgraded with recoilless AT rifles and almost all US inf can use satchel charges and, more importantly, sticky bombs. Stickies are the bane of concentrated heavy armor.

And I think the command trees are a nice addition. They add a certain strategic aspect that the game otherwise lacks, and bring some effective abilities that are a blast to play around with and use. It's not all that unrealisitc either; commanders in different branches of service had access to different support actions such as long-range artillery shelling and low-altitude aircraft support, as well as airborne units. Also, this isn't 1944: D-Day The RTS; Relic wasn't trying to make a game with the highest realism they possibly could. It's not a simulation like 1944 is, many sacrifices were made to realism for balance purposes.

Try out different anti-tnak tactics, there are many of them out there. ;)

lol sticky bombs. i couldn't get them damn things to work half the time. I gave them to like 3 people in my squad, all got to the tank alive, and they just sit there. I click the sticky bomb icon again an it just ask me who i want to give one to . I think in like the 6 times i tried it during the match, it worked twice.

But anyway that is beside the point. Bazooka should be avaliable without selecting a command tree. And what are you on about?Any army or marine commander could call in close air support, or arty. So no, all the command tree does is force you to play a certain way, and makes sacrifise access to things you, for the most part, should get anyway.

[sid]

The patch is now out(Don't know if anyone has already said this.).

[jm.]

The patch is now out(Don't know if anyone has already said this.).

and its working well now :)

[sid]

Just had a game on Hill 313 that lasted 1hr 40 minutes. Most of my games seem to end when my or my teamates get bored and rush the enemy.

[Rapishorrid]

The patch is out!!!!???!!!:eek:

My internet just came back after being down the entire day. Damn Comcast. I guess they thought it was funny to torment me as I waited for this patch...;)

Now I have to scramble to finish designing a website now that I finally have the internet before I can play... /cries :p

[lazlazlaz1]

well i have managed to get 1 multiplayer game in, it was a 2 v ai match and we kicked the computer to bits :D twas great fun

[Saden]

Can somone give me the link to the patch? And would it fix my game at all? The company said that the at radeon 9250 isn't supported, can this patch at least make it playable? I keep getting the error cohrelic.exe has crashed.

[lazlazlaz1]

it auto downloads the patch if you connect to the multiplayer

[Rapishorrid]

The patch didn't fix anything for me. After installing it I go to log in and before I even get to pick my account I am getting connection errors. Same thing where the Chat tab almost crashes the game, can't even navigate the lobby due to a constant rain of connection errors. Good work on the patch Relic!;)

I can't be mad at them or anything after it's a beta and that's what their for. But seriously I need my fix!:D

[jm.]

The patch didn't fix anything for me. After installing it I go to log in and before I even get to pick my account I am getting connection errors. Same thing where the Chat tab almost crashes the game, can't even navigate the lobby due to a constant rain of connection errors. Good work on the patch Relic!;)

I can't be mad at them or anything after it's a beta and that's what their for. But seriously I need my fix!:D

ive found that its working on and off now, mostly off :( at least i got a few games. enough to say this game is really fun to play, the effects are great

[sid]

^^ Same. I think I should try to be less tactical and play properly. I spent an hour placing Mg nest Barbed wire and Tank traps.

[Rapishorrid]

^^ Same. I think I should try to be less tactical and play properly. I spent an hour placing Mg nest Barbed wire and Tank traps.

Only to get it all artilleried right? Same thing happened to me when I played first.:D

Don't just play it like a traditional RTS, play it tactically, but you have to take in to consideration things like artillery can wipe out your meticously placed defenses.:)

[DavidUpton]

lol sticky bombs. i couldn't get them damn things to work half the time. I gave them to like 3 people in my squad, all got to the tank alive, and they just sit there. I click the sticky bomb icon again an it just ask me who i want to give one to . I think in like the 6 times i tried it during the match, it worked twice.


You are aware that after clicking on the sticky bomb button you meant to click on the tank and not your soldiers... right?

[Edub]

I dunno about you guys but the patch totally messed up my game, now Im lucky if I can get to the select a profile menu before getting in. Yesterday it was bad, but if I was fast enough I could join a server before having it freeze. Today I cant even get far enough to join a server. Hope they fix it..

[Lord Justin]

Well it sounds like most of you are now experiencing the same problems that I've been getting all along, i.e., not even being able to log in due to connection errors. Well now you know how i feel :p . And I'm beginning to lsoe my patience with Relic :(. I know it's a Beta, but I can't helpo but be frustrated. Although they are fixing this faster than any other company I know of would fix it (just not fast enough to feed my addiction).

Well, I've been having an interesting performance problem. I have all the graphics settings turned down because my PC shouldn't even be able to run the game :p. When I go to play the tutorial or watch replays (my only way to test performance), sometimes it runs at 3 frames per second. At these times, the graphics are tolerable. Even with all the settings down, untis moedls are brilliant and effects are dazzling (when I even see them).

Now, when I close the game and come back to it, sometimes something happens to ther settings. I've seen other people have this problem from the CoH forums, and every single effects texture in the game turns into black squares. Now, when my game runs and all the textures are missing like this, the game runs perfectly. I turn all kinds of settings up to medium and get better graphics and still 10-15 fps (estimation). But I can see very little clearly due to the fact that smoke, muzzle flashes, tracers, explosions and terrain alterations all appear as huge black squares. It's horribly distracting and sometimes I can't even see what's going on at all.

So when I restart CoH to see if the textures will fill in, they do. Every textures looks as brilliant as always. But as you maybe have guessed, it's back to 3-4 frames per second :( . This all tells me that the effects kill the game's performance. It also tells me that I can either live with the black squares or live with slow-motion gameplay. I'm working on saving for a new PC for several upcoming games, but I still think that graphical settings should be allowed to be turned down more and should be better-optimized to compensate for people too poor to buy a high-end PC or too busy playing their game to get a job.

If you haven't read the above, don't worry about it. It's just a caomplaint. :p

[SpicEwEazle]

You are aware that after clicking on the sticky bomb button you meant to click on the tank and not your soldiers... right?
Right..... So I guess thats why it asks me to pick a soldier then, and if i click on the tank it does nothing at all(where as when i click on a soldier the sticky icon goes dark)?

[Tough Ombre 359th]

LOL! I was playing 2v.2AI and the other guy left and I had a sick 4 hour battle with the AI. I spent a vast amount of my resources making a complete line across the map. I had everything, barbwire,mine,sandbags,tank traps, and mg placements everything. I can't think of the map's name but it was the urban rectangluar one. The expert AI was never smart enough to use arty.

[2ltben]

I encourage all of you to agree to no armor or heavy halftracks(that shoot shells instead of bullets). ****ing amazing. I just got done with a three hour game on St. Halaire.

The Axis guy's teammate dropped within the first ten minutes, but he held out like a homeless man high on coke with a pitchfork. I set up at the Allied fuel depot and fortified the hell out of it, then used full platoons(6 or more squads) of infantry and Rangers to attack and help my partner, who would bomb the hell out of the area he was going into with a mortar horde then move in a platoon and a half of infantry.

It got to be a stalemate after a while, and we would more or less just hold the lines and bomb the hell out of eachother with long range artillery. I had 2 105s capable of bombing any Axis CP and, late in the game, build 2 more capable of hitting their base.

After an hour and a half or so my teammate dropped and all of his troops were adopted by me. Unfortunately this meant I had a bunch of troops whose positions I didn't know, had no one to cover the advance we punched in the right flank, and I couldn't reinforce any of my men because it put me over the troop limit.

After a half hour the Axis guy and I agreed to break the stalemate. He rushed his troops around my Firebase and hit my old teammate's base. Eventually I pulled out of my Firebase and, due to some great pathfinding, my troops split into two and surrounded them. They were cut to shreds by about half a platoon of infantry, a couple of Ranger squads, three HMGs, and a quad-50 halftrack. He agreed to surrender after that and I won the field. It took the wind out of me and there's no way in hell I'm playing another game tonight.

Let me tell you something, NOTHING beats a platoon of Rangers and infantry. I took out three heavy halftracks and only lost 2 men, who the Medics got to because they were right around the corner.


http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8462/relic00000id2.jpg
My Paris Gun, one of the two 105s capable of shelling the enemy base. Unfortunately I only built it up once we agreed to a draw and to have the tiebreaker rush. My firebase also had the **** knocked out of it by arty about 20 minutes before then and about a half hour before that I adopted my teammate's troops, so my troops were unorganized.


http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/509/relic00001hs8.jpg
My Firebase at endgame. Its empty because I just selected everything and had them rain hell down on the enemy, who flanked to the far left and bypassed it into my base. You can see both of my Paris guns and an old AT gun taken out by Nebelwerfers.

[sid]

Only to get it all artilleried right? Same thing happened to me when I played first.:D

Don't just play it like a traditional RTS, play it tactically, but you have to take in to consideration things like artillery can wipe out your meticously placed defenses.:)
Or if you call in a tank to help :mad:

[SpicEwEazle]

anyone still finding they get connection probs?

[sid]

Today the connection has been really bad . I got 1 game going and everyone got kicked after about 10 minutes.

[Rapishorrid]

Yeah the connection stuff is horrible today. Plus there's more players than ever online (over 1000). Know idea why that many would be online when noone can even play..:rolleyes:

Of course we are all waiting for that patch to come today and fix everything. Just like the last three patches fixed everything. :P

[Sgt So and So]

Alright, I played my first game, a 3v3 match on the Hill map- it was AMAZING!:D We had the hill at first after rushing the enemy engineers with jeeps, but then they brought up armor before we did, so my team agreed for a full withdrawal off the top of the hill. By the end of the withdrawal, the control point was the only thing left standing on the hill!

Then, I fortified a small town and held there until my Allies died. I stood for a full fifteen minutes with three riflemen teams, two paratroops, two MGs, a mortar, and air support(i like paratrooper commanders), and took down three Tigers and who knows how much infantry. Finally, the Nazis said "Screw it" and shelled the hell out of the town. My mortar lived, though! He fought on- until getting turned into human hamburger.:D I am SO buying this game! And by the way, im DesertFox0, if I happen to see any of you guys.

[lazlazlaz1]

i do wish it allowed you play singleplayer against just the computer. if they do multiplayer with computer why not singleplayer and avoid the stupid lost connections???

[sid]

I can't connect at all now. When is the next patch released?

[Rapishorrid]

Today at some point the patch should be out. They've already fixed the chat! (added about 10 channels and its much more stable now). I also havent gotten a connection error in a while.. After play an hour match on St. Hilaire I felt pretty good. I will post some before and after screens of the totaly destruction that occured. :D

[sid]

Anyone want a game tongiht?
Edit: Also the patch is out.

[Lord Justin]

Ah, this is just great. I went to install the new patch 1.15 and as fate would have it, my dad is at work so I am on ym limited WinXP account, so it won't let me install (nothing is allowed to be installed on a limited account and my dad won't let me use the admin account unless he signs in to it). Such is the price for being underage and not owning my own PC :( . So I have to wait a good five hours before I can even find out if the patch works, which I doubt it will anyway.

But, against all odds and against the horrible luck that I was born with, if the patch does work, I would lvoe to play a game against one or two of you people. 2ltben seems like a good opponent ;) and I'll take your challenge, sid. In-game I should be QBCLordJustinHeron (if I ever get on). So now I guess I'll just spend my day watching replays and hating my pathetic life :p .

[sid]

Mine seems to make my computer crash 5-10 minutes after connecting to game.

[Edub]

Well new patch is a lot better than the last. Still some problems here and there, but it looks to be getting better.

[Rapishorrid]

1.15 now won't even let me log into to relic online. :D

Some people say it works perfect and the rest (majority) just say it's worse. Oh well I am sure there will be a patch out tommorow! Not that it will fix anything...:p

[sid]

If you can't log in now try in a bit. I can either play fine or not log in at all.

[Rapishorrid]

Yeah I've noticed that with mine too. The only problem is I get into a perfectly fine game and then someone drops. It's all good and jolly but then 2 minutes later another guy decides to drop and then everyone leaves at that point. Then I try to rejoin and get booted to the main menu.:cool:

[V.C. Sniper]

Arggh, the minimum requirements for this game are X800 or Nvidia 6600... I read a thread called 9250 not supported? Well, I guess I better upgrade. Yeah, I have a 9200. Have to uninstall the BETA. I thought that the Essence engine is suppose to be freakin EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE. >_<

http://planetcoh.gamespy.com/faq/index.php?category=1#1_5_1

[Lord Justin]

Good news: even with patch 1.15, I still can't connect to the login server. I Installed the patch by downloading is separately (maybe the problem? perhaps it needs to update from within game...?). A lot of people are saying that they can only connect sometimes, which makes me think that the server just has a limit and you have to get lucky and get in there while it's not full. Although I've tried dozens, probably hundreds of times in the past several days and never even gotten to the login menu. So either it's my typical luck or I did something wrong, or Relic did something wrong. And I did everything right. So it's apparently my luck. Woohooo.

Anyone else find a way to connect after having my problem (being attacked with error messages before you ever even see the login screen)? If so, share your strats. I want like Hell to play.

[DarkCanuck]

i did all the training. then i played multi. it has potential pretty cool stuff. the only problem is that there is major slow down. i had to disconnect because it got so bad.

[Saden]

Well this is only the BETA, so it's not polished and perfected yet. Just keep waiting for the patches, its not that they will fix it or anything, but they'll give you a good feeling as your downloading them thinking that you'll be able to play :D.

[Josh_HLB]

I think, and i also heard, that they are doing this on purpose. Its to test load on the servers and see how stable it is. Also its only a beta so its gonna have alot of problems.

[Lord Justin]

This is partially deliberate, the developers are testing sever loads as you said. But I don't think they expected this chaos :p . The only have a few certain servers open that they are using for the beta multiplayer to give it a stress test. Fortunately, the final game (and hopefully the demo ;) ) will utilize all thier servers, so will have much better performance, and these current tests might contribute to even further optimization and better performance upon release. Unfortunately, hundreds of us are addicted and unable to get into the beta. I suppose it's also good marketing; I and many others will buy the gamr to feed our addictions :p . So the beta is having the effect a demo is supposed to have (but I suppose that's one aim of open betas anyway).

[2ltben]

This is happening because this is the beta. They don't test the server stress capabilities beforehand because this is the time they test these sorts of things.

[SpicEwEazle]

Ah, this is just great. I went to install the new patch 1.15 and as fate would have it, my dad is at work so I am on ym limited WinXP account, so it won't let me install (nothing is allowed to be installed on a limited account and my dad won't let me use the admin account unless he signs in to it). Such is the price for being underage and not owning my own PC :( . So I have to wait a good five hours before I can even find out if the patch works, which I doubt it will anyway.

But, against all odds and against the horrible luck that I was born with, if the patch does work, I would lvoe to play a game against one or two of you people. 2ltben seems like a good opponent ;) and I'll take your challenge, sid. In-game I should be QBCLordJustinHeron (if I ever get on). So now I guess I'll just spend my day watching replays and hating my pathetic life :p .

here is an idea. Next time you dad logs you on create your own admin account. Jeez how old are you anyway, in my house it was always me telling my parents how they could use the shared comp, only stopped when I had enough cash to buy a 2nd HDD, case etc to build my own.

[Josh_HLB]

Having your own computer is nice..... :cool:

[sid]

New patch is out...

[SpicEwEazle]

well no connectin probs. However balance is still a huge problem, plus people who just abuse the inbalance to tank rush you with stugs. Snipers are too powerfull too.

[lazlazlaz1]

yeah snipers bug me, they cost a bit but they trash lone infantry squads, and you try running after them and you lose your whole squad to other enemy units. it does teach you to use jeeps with squads at the same time though.

[OliverMarshall]

ugh I hate snipers, they ruin the game. They should make it that they themselves die after one shot.

[Rapishorrid]

Snipers are insane.. I took over 3/4 of the map on St. Hilaire with 1 sniper. Plus you can just watch every move the enemy makes if you just sit them at their base and all. A one shot one kill on the sniper himself would be a good idea Shrapnel.

[Saden]

I think that the sniper should be revealed after killing somone, lets say you send out a squad, one of them gets sniped, but they hear and maybe see the shot, so on your map for maybe 20 seconds it shows the snipers location, so you could just bring in a tank and flatten the building.

[sid]

I think that if you attack a building with infantry they should fight inside the building as well so blowing holes in building has a point. If they already do I guess I don'y pay much attention.

[jm.]

I think that the sniper should be revealed after killing somone, lets say you send out a squad, one of them gets sniped, but they hear and maybe see the shot, so on your map for maybe 20 seconds it shows the snipers location, so you could just bring in a tank and flatten the building.

I think thats a great idea Saden, i agree the snipers are a bit too good. so annoying

[Lord Justin]

here is an idea. Next time you dad logs you on create your own admin account. Jeez how old are you anyway, in my house it was always me telling my parents how they could use the shared comp, only stopped when I had enough cash to buy a 2nd HDD, case etc to build my own.

Well I'm sixteen, and until I have a decent job and/or a car, my dad controls my life. He owns the family PC. Sure, I could make an admin account, but when my dad discovered it very soon, I would be grounded until I got rid of the new account. And then I wouldn't be allowed to use the PC for two months. And being grounded means a lot when you have no way to get around except by car (which I don't have yet). So no going out and no computer. See the problem?

Well I agree with Saden's idea that snipers should be more easily killed. While I've never actually been up against one during gameplay (only had three game under my belt before it stopped working), I've seen their power in many replays. Although I must appreciate the fact that there is a type of infantry that's so effective (most infantry feels rather weak to me). I think maybe their accuracy could afford to be a little bit lower. Maybe have like a 50% chance of missing units on the move, and accuracy is worse at longer range. Right now, from what I've seen, about nine of ten sniper shots find their targets : \

[V.C. Sniper]

I think that the sniper should be revealed after killing somone, lets say you send out a squad, one of them gets sniped, but they hear and maybe see the shot, so on your map for maybe 20 seconds it shows the snipers location, so you could just bring in a tank and flatten the building.You are able to play the game now? I thought the game doesn't support ur 9250.

[2ltben]

Look on the minimap. Snipers and artillery are revealed when they fire.

[DarkCanuck]

kinda rather single player before multi to get the hang. should never look a gift horse in the mouth though

[V.C. Sniper]

Isn't this game SUPPOSE TO BE EXTREMELY SCALABLE??? They say don't worry about having a low end system. PFF ... Now I can't run for shit.

[Saden]

V.C. the engine can't be THAT flexible. Oh and about the sniper thing, I thought of that from watching the videos, and my friend playing before the game got screwed. I think the ATI 9200 series and maybe a few more don't support 2.0 shaders or something. I don't remember exactly what, and you have to remember that this is also a very big game, because its an RTS. CoD2 has nice graphics, but since its an fps you don't see the whole map, you see different parts. Faces of War also doesn't run too well on my comp. I can have model detail or w/e to full, but I need shadows off and Antistropich (sp LOL?) filtering set to Trillinear or Billinear.

[Sgt So and So]

Had another great battle on McCahean's War- 1v1- and whupped em!:D I was axis, and I used the hedgerows and city streets for MG and Bunker emplacements, so everytime the poor bastard tried to move, his infantry got mowed down! Then I sent in some tanks, and by then he was out of the center of town, and crushed the rest of the resistance. I LOVE THIS GAME! I'll post some screenies of the battle later.:D

[Saden]

The fact that they are revealed on the mini map doesnt do much either. You might not be paying attention when somebody gets a shot. I think there should be a sort of an alert like "Sniper spotted!" "We've got him zero'ed" And then you would give your tanks, artillery, anti-whatever could send a few shells his way. In WW2 if there was a sniper, somone would yell "Sniper!" And any tanks in the area would most likely try to blow him to smitherines. But its only a suggestion on a forum for a totally different game, so it really doesn't matter because I think that theyre fine with their game.

[Sgt So and So]

Alright, screenie time!:D
The majority of our skirmish took place at the graveyard, so I thought I'd show just how thoroughly we *cough* cleansed it...
This is the graveyard before...
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h172/SgtSoandSo/relic00103.jpg

And this is the graveyard after....
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h172/SgtSoandSo/relic00088.jpg

[Hyperion2010]

This game is AWESOME!!!111

I've had TONS of fun and I'm def going to buy retail (first RTS in ages). I'm having fun developing wierd and strange stratagies which catch players unexpectedly :D

[Dutchlike]

This game is AWESOME!!!111

I've had TONS of fun and I'm def going to buy retail (first RTS in ages). I'm having fun developing wierd and strange stratagies which catch players unexpectedly :D
Lol me 2 :D

[Sgt So and So]

Lol me 2 :D
Like that time I drove a Goliath right into three allied squads hiding behind a building?:D

[Snafu7]

Like that time I drove a Goliath right into three allied squads hiding behind a building?:D

I love doing that, they never know what hits 'um :D

[Lord Justin]

Ugh. Reinstalled the beta and set my firewall to allow the ports the it needs, and to allow the application. And it still doesn't work, and now even better, when I try to install the patches manually (sicne I can't get into the login server which is supposed to install them automatically), the wizard says I am updating the wrong version. And I tried this with every patch. Something in my gut is telling me that whatever the godforsaken problem is, it's Relic and not my PC. But that still doesn't explain why some people can get on and some can't. : \

Well anyway, I was at my friend's house for a while today, and he has a PC that exceeds mine tenfold (and he can connect to Relic -.-) so I played a few games. In the second one, both Axis players were German (IRL) and so I was talking to them about German before the game, and picking up some new vocabulary :p as I usually do when playing online with Germans. The game itself wasn't so successful; we were Allies in St. Hilaire and I set up some elaborate defenses while slowly trickling troops in to help my ally on the front lines.

Of course the Krauts built a couple 88's on the middle section of the map and that was game over :p . I eventually got some Shermans and light vehicles up and went to attack the German epicenter but everything I threw at them was torn to bits by their 88's and artillery shellings. I dropped paratroopers behind the 88's time and again and I must have blown up a dozen + crews but they kept rebuilding. So then they brought their legions of Panthers and Tigers and wiped us out.

I learned something today: artillery is the one thing you need to win. You have arty, you have the map. I also learned that an arty bombardment for 150 munitions is WAY too good and a P-47 strafing run is highly vaulable for that price.

The best lesson I learned may have been that the 250-munition-bombing run is a piece of moldy shit. My starfing run killed 1.5 German tanks, including a Panther. My bombing run missed miserably. I think maybe it gave a German tanker a headache. That's the extent of the damage. So next time I will use my 'nitions on something that might actually even hurt someone. Like a tank.

[DarkOmen]

I've been having a lot of fun with this aswell. There seems to be less BS compared to other games and you can actually enjoy yourself even when you are losing.

EDIT: Damn, I had some great screenshots but they didn't show up on my computer :(

[SpicEwEazle]

Alright, screenie time!:D


okay I'm gonna have to take a screeny to show all you what this game should look like:)

[Borus]

Ugh.. I tried playing right now.. Everytime I got on a freaking server, it ended dropping everyone causing the game to end, and then it wouldn't let me on the servers. I think Relic just hates me :( (PS. I know what is really going on but it is still so $()#*$)(#*%ing aggravating)

[[FFTF]Eurofighter]

meh the open beta is closed :(

[DarkOmen]

Eurofighter']meh the open beta is closed :(

What are you talking about?

[DarkCanuck]

is there anyway to play a game vs the computer only? I wanna mess around but not have other people in the game. It says it needs a remote user to join. I guess i could do co-op with another person....What if i did that then kicked them, wonder if that would work??

[Hyperion2010]

Eurofighter']meh the open beta is closed :(


Seriously?

[[FFTF]Eurofighter]

yes i tried it and i couldnt get in
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/coh/coh_closed.aspx

[DarkOmen]

Well I guess they finished testing the servers. Heh.

[SpicEwEazle]

just had the best round ever. Playing on hill 331, with 6 people, as german. I chose bltizkrieg general. anway match was in a stale mate, roughly half of the map was german, half U.S. An Inf general had me pinned with a fire base while his team mates pushed up the left side of the map, well tried to. Anyway, used special abilties to gain additional resource (i love that one) so built 4 assualt grenadier teams, all with panzershrecks, two stugs and two panzer 4s. rushed his frie base using blitzkreig, and completely destroyed it, capped the point. he uses arty to pound the crap out of the area. gets most of my inf, but 1 stug and 2 panzers sruvived. he had nothing between me and his man base at that point. rushed him, used resource ability, call in tiger and strom troopers. destroyed most of his man base and pretty much one the round for my team(our force on the left side of the map were getting hammered pretty damn hard, but my attack forced them to come back and defend while my team mate counter atacked. It's a shame it was the one round i forgot to save :().

Conclusion, blitzkrieg general rules.

[sid]

I think it just meant no more people can download it because I can still play.
Edit http://relicqa.com/system_status.htm

[PF-Kenny]

ok, Im back from vacation, and Im downloading it now, should be ready by tomorrow

also, I was able to redownload

[ApeX]

I absolutley CANNOT get online. It keeps giving me "you are losing connection" or whatever, just on the main multiplyer menu, trying to join someone elses game...

[Sgt So and So]

just had the best round ever. Playing on hill 331, with 6 people, as german. I chose bltizkrieg general. anway match was in a stale mate, roughly half of the map was german, half U.S. An Inf general had me pinned with a fire base while his team mates pushed up the left side of the map, well tried to. Anyway, used special abilties to gain additional resource (i love that one) so built 4 assualt grenadier teams, all with panzershrecks, two stugs and two panzer 4s. rushed his frie base using blitzkreig, and completely destroyed it, capped the point. he uses arty to pound the crap out of the area. gets most of my inf, but 1 stug and 2 panzers sruvived. he had nothing between me and his man base at that point. rushed him, used resource ability, call in tiger and strom troopers. destroyed most of his man base and pretty much one the round for my team(our force on the left side of the map were getting hammered pretty damn hard, but my attack forced them to come back and defend while my team mate counter atacked. It's a shame it was the one round i forgot to save :().

Conclusion, blitzkrieg general rules.
Actually, I think defense rules harder, because you can stop blitzers in their tracks with the MG upgrade to command buildings and the "Blow the crap out of my almost-dead building!" power. Plus, I like machineguns!:D

[SpicEwEazle]

Actually, I think defense rules harder, because you can stop blitzers in their tracks with the MG upgrade to command buildings and the "Blow the crap out of my almost-dead building!" power. Plus, I like machineguns!:D

really? I didn't really see the point in german defensive general.

I play as U.S defensive though. love the rangers and arty, it really evens out the weaker, more expensive armour.

[Timblesink]

I hate the Allied Infantry doctrine - there's nothing of value in infantry when the tanks start rolling in, except for the crappy sticky bombs that I constantly find myself short on ammo for (and you can get them without using the infantry doctrine). The only real reason to go infantry is for the AT gun, but that takes as long to get as the M26 Pershing tank if you were armoured, which is much more effective.

But, when you're the Axis, you can't go wrong with the Terror doctrine - that Tiger Ace is seriously built to last. I once fought a commander who had deployed a Tiger Ace and a Panther together, backed up by an army of pioneers, and I couldn't put a hole in either tank.

[Schrem [506th PIR]]

Who wanna play a round or 2 with me? :)

Skype:Name- Pumuckel
Country- Germany/Deutschland

[Josh_HLB]

If you guys want good screens enter this in console

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taskbar_hide

It removes the UI

Also i love the Airborne Company for allies, everyone else hates it but i use it very well.

Heres my screens

WARNING lots of pics.

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[PF-Kenny]

I finally got the game, it is awesome.

Ingame name is Kenny, so request a friends invite, I will accept whenever I get on, and we can play sometime

[Lord Justin]

I reinstalled the whole beta and it still won't let me patch or get into the login server. I will wait for the new patch (if it's for the current client, which I think it is), but something tells me it will do nothing for me. All the other patches and my most diligent attempts have failed. I guess I will wait it out for a month for the game and then wait even longer for a computer :( .

But I will definitely get it, and I think I had a dream about getting it on a new comp last night :p .

I was thinking about something when I played that match at my friend's house last week. Anyone here have any trouble with bombing runs? I was Allied and, earlier in the game, I had used a P-47 strafing run for 150 (I think) munitions and that was greatly successful, destroying an enemy Panther and blasting a nice hole in a few of his other tanks. So I was satisfied with that. After a while when I began to see I had no hope of winning, I wanted to go out with a bang so I saved up my last 250 munitions for a bombing run. I counted down to 250 as his tanks were drawing near and unleashed my terror from the clouds. Except it didn't even scratch his armor. I see two or three small explosions and I come out of it with 8 remaining munitions -.-

I read somehwere at the PlanetCoH forums that Bombing Runs were about as good as artillery strikes. For an extra 100 munitions I was expecting something dazzling. Did it bug-out or is this all there is to the massively expensive bombing run?

[Psycho Sam]

If only my beta would of worked :mad: I downloaded the game and played a few rounds. I then had to reformat and redownloaded. Then when I tried to reinstall the installer crashes my PC. Now I have to wait for the full game :(

[DarkCanuck]

there is a patch on the way that is 800megs! or 1.3 for the full. i love thee.

[SuperSoldier]

I absolutley CANNOT get online. It keeps giving me "you are losing connection" or whatever, just on the main multiplyer menu, trying to join someone elses game...


If you don't click on go to main menu it will work.

[Rapishorrid]

Patch 1.17 is here!!

800megs of pure glory. Or well mostly pure glory.

The coolest things imo that it adds is ingame music, new menu music, new UI, new sounds and new loading screens. The only problem is St. Hilaire has missing textures (replaced with pink boxes) for buildings. :p

There are some cool graphical effects added too, such as dust and wind. The balancing is also good.

[sid]

My download has been waiting fir 15 minutes for the lest hour and a half :mad: .