Anyone else play this amazing game? They say its the best World War II game ever. And it's definitely one of the best RTS games ever.
nope but it is by far the best RTS out right now very kool 3d commando like game too bad my comp cant run it :-\
No current RTS comes even close to Company of Heroes. I say it's one of the best because there are old RTS games that are really good such as StarCraft. Lets see, C&C 3 has tons of problems and imbalances and is all and all a boring game to play. Then there's Supreme Commander but all you do in that game is tech up to the super units and then fight it out. Whoever gets their super units first wins basically. Medieval 2 Total War is good but the battles are repetitive as you are either in a field, assaulting a castle/town, defending a castle/town, in the woods, in a hilly area, or on either side of a bridge. And this happens over and over. Also the campaign battle map is cool except the new world was incredibly disappointing (I kicked the Aztecs ass right after I got off the boat). I haven't personally played Battle for Middle Earth 2 but a friend of mine played it and liked it. However, he also said it was a pretty basic RTS without much in the way of advancements or interesting features. Theres lots of units and spells but not much really special about it. There aren't any other strategy games that I can think of worth mentioning. On GameStats, Company of Heroes is #6 for PC games. Above it is Half Life 2, UT2k4, Half Life, Vice City, and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Three shooters, an action adventure, and an RPG. That makes CoH one of the best strategy games ever and the best current one. And you can't validly say its far from the best if you've never played it.
its a really good RTS im currently playing it and in the 3rd mission where you have to defend some bridges and all its a really hard game.
The AI in CoH is... amazing. The only flaw is that they dont know how to rebuild bridges and thier HQ. so if you either blow all on a map like seine river, or destroy their HQ, then they stop working. Other than that, the AI is very very smart and strategic . 10 outa 10 IMO.
Only thing I would change about it is the problem where if your ally leaves you are basically not going to win unless the enemy players really really really really suck. Since the resources are accumulated through the strategic/ammo/fuel points that you have, the only bonus you get is the manpower from having two HQs. However, you only receive fuel and ammo for one person. So one of two things should happen, you should get the resources that that person would get or it keeps those resources separate from yours but allows you to build units and buildings for them (like in WC3). And I can't wait for Opposing Fronts, I think I'm gonna love the Panzer Elite.
man i know a lot of supcom-haters, but none of which who's played the game and is soooo strongly opposed to it as you. whats with you and antisuperunits lol. anyways not here to argue supcom with a guy who's too strongly buried in his own beliefs >.> CoH's awesome have to agree with that. love the layouts and designs, pathfinding (auto-cover at any spot =O), graphics, realism hell yeah. too bad it only has 1 race, small scale, but mainly because it's just a novelty =(. got bored playing it after a few times at a friend's place and he got bored as well and so did another =/ (and on the last version i played the allies were kinda rigged and one time i ran over a whole squad of paratroopers with a stuf just randomly even though was just crawling along slowly and didnt even looked like it ran over them lol) medieval 2 is like RTW right? cause RTW was great. if you say it's repetitive then so is every other game....one of the only few games which got 10/10 in PCGamer and got a negative comment of "it will ruin your life" lol. so like ive got no idea whats made you say that and i still love dawn of war and its expansions! "RAPTORS! TO THE HUNT!" Can you call spore rts? that game looks so.....weird! cool and crap at the same time lol O_O apparently there are thousands of stars and millions of planets to visit, but....they're all so small and looks so cartoony gaynessism
One race? I mean they're all human but the Allies and Axis are completely different. There used to be a bug on Shermans that made them ridiculously rigged but they fixed that within the last few patches. And yeah, Medieval 2 is like Rome Total War. And don't get me wrong about it, I played it like 4 times on hard (I don't play single player on anything less than the hardest setting for any game) trying to win with the Venetians. On the 4th time I finally won and discovered the new world and everything but after that it just wasn't fun even with the other factions. As for ratings, I generally look at a variety of sources for the rating, not just one.
I LOVED Rome:Total War, it is one of my all-time favorite games. I love Medieval too, but it doesn't have the same flare that Rome did for some reason (Macedon all the way!) :-\
oops typo i meant 2 are you talking about the smokescreen or the upgunned shermans? the smokescreen was BULL and what was the point of the persian? it was sooooo weak =/ it must've taken you a billion years to play the medieval campaign 4 times.... yeah they're so good....did they have armored elephants!? my favourite at first were seleucids/macedon, till i realised that surrounding some onagers and archers with phalanx didnt work too well....the comp just camps with his own onagers im like wtf. greek city SPAAARRTTAANNNSS were cool but their spears were too short and half the time they just used their shields and swords.....so my favourite would probably be britania cause i just love throwing heads and running people over while slicing them to bits with chariots
omg, with this latest patch, u cant delete sand bags and tank traps. that pissed me off big time lol. the other day i was playin CoH at my friends house, and i didnt know that u could no longer delete traps and sandbags, so when my friend wasnt looking, i trapped his army on one of the bridges in Seine River with bags and tank traps. just bein a dick as usual. then he goes "wtf dude, delete those." and i started pushing Delete, and to my surprise... it didnt work lol. The enemy ended up bombing the shit outa his army lol. it was pretty funny.
The smokescreen was fixed and the Sherman's ability to snipe infantry better than snipers could was fixed. I assume you mean the Pershing. They made Stugs weaker vs the Pershing and do less damage to the Pershing and I think they made the Pershing somewhat stronger. Plus they restructured the Armor command powers tree. And it doesn't cost munitions to use the Calliope rockets anymore but it has a cooldown now although the main gun on the Calliope doesn't work anymore. First two times I played the campaign I died within a few hours (since it was on hardest and I didn't know the units, capabilities of the nearest enemies, etc...) The Seleucid Cataphracts are gods in Rome Total War. I sent a group army of those and except for one general unit and they rode from the Seleucid territories (had control as far west as Turkey) all the way to Rome and then captured Rome. I didn't hold any of the cities I came across but I did defeat every army and every city defense (I just left the city after capturing, pillaging, and destroying everything in it). It was an amazing march. In Medieval 2 the War Elephants of the Timurids and Golden Horde are rigged like a bitch. Venetians don't really have anything that will take down war elephants except for lucky culverin shots. Venetian heavy infantry are possibly one of the best infantry units, venetian archers are amazing, and venetian musketeers are amazing, the venetian crossbowmen are amazing and I used those till I got musketeers. This is all my armies consisted of along with mortars because they have shit for cavalry. Any infantry unit near an enemy elephant will be trampled. You'd think muskets would scare the shit out of elephants but of course they don't (even though it said in the description that the guns scare troops and especially elephants). And the AI is unbelievably dumb. I'll have groups of musketeers on my walls and only 3 of them our of 50 or 60 will fire. The only way musketeers will fire is if they are in an open field. So, while my armies of venetian heavy infantry, archers, musketeers, culverins, and mortars wiped across all of Europe and Africa conquering every last one of them (except Poland who was somehow wedged between the Mongols and the Timurids, they could not even touch the Mongols in the Middle East and Turkey or the Timurids in Russia. I would wipe out any enemy army that did not have elephants but once they added even one group of elephants, most of my units would just be trampled. Judas, I never realized you could delete sandbags or tank traps until people were complaining about it when it was taken away. Looking back I'm glad they did because thats a dumb thing to be able to do.
ahahahahaha calliope has no main cannon, but omfg rockets no ammo cost WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF rigged like mutha flaks, and i thought they always had a cooldowntimer, well when i playd neways why stugs weaker against pershing when da enemy's gettin panzers by then =/ lol wtf with the strongas cataphracts? they're were awesomeas but i thought praetorians are what you call rigged. prae > cata, cost = prae < cata. oh and heavy-armored phalanx were also rigged. direct cavalry rear-charge didnt pwn them, and they just turn around whip out their swords and gg.....like z0mg only thing good against them are ranged cavalry have you guys played barbarian invasion!? that is the worse expansion ive ever played of any game.... and lol@lombards. how gay is it when all you do is press one button (bloodlust) and just sit and with a glass of drink watch your men massare 99% of any army combination which are composed with the same amount of funds.....me and my friend tested and the only counter to mass lombards were either mass chariot-ballistas or missile cavalry. seriously melee = gg, even against the circular phalanx formation cause they just do their whirlwinds and smash through everything sandbags block infantry!? then what's the point of barb wire =/ and damn gotta play medieval 2
Barbwire takes a lot less time to build. Although now engineers and pioneers get wire cutters by default. However if you stick a MG behind the wire, the engineers or pioneers still have to sit there cutting the wire and will die. It's a pretty long cooldown for the Calliope and it takes more points to get to it because it is the third thing in one of the two paths (other two are things that take 1 and 2 points I think and Calliope takes 3 points)
In Rome, I myself was a Seleucid man for a while, then I decided to play Macedon for a multi once and damn i loved it!! Companion Cavalry was my favorite cavalry in the whole game. I HATED using chariots, it was hard as hell using em, otherwise, I coulda dominated with Egypt. Well, I think in Medieval, I was more of Turkish fan, NO missle troops come close to the Jannisary. If you ever really experimented with the other factions, then you'd find that Cossaks are insane (just wished Russia had more units) I think one of my other favorite factions would have to have been Milan, gotta love Genoese crossbowmen ;D
