COH this Friday?

[Scott]

does anyone have off this Friday that wants to play? Let me know what time you would like to.

[XJnine]

I'm up for it. I'm not sure if my wife has any plans for me yet so I'll let others set the time and I'll be there if I am able.

[Das Capitolin]

I will need a break at some point, so just give us a time!

[Kougar]

I'll probably only be worthwhile as fodder... but if I happen to be home at the time I'll join in. Way to many things happening tomorrow...

[pym]

Same here, set the time and I'll try to be there :)

[Scott]

4:00Pm Central Time.

That late Bjorn should be able to join also.

[Das Capitolin]

2PM PST, I will be there.

[pym]

I hope I'll be able to make it...

[Das Capitolin]

Ok Pym, it's time to get DSL, because your cable broadband connection is no good. It might also be because of the very long distance between you and the rest of us, but I don't know.

I still can't believe we got our butts handed to us. :( How I was in the lead I will never know, because I felt like I was in dead last.

[XJnine]

That was one hell of a game. It just went on and on and on. At the very end the other team was saying how they almost lost it. Obviously they didn't though and we got whooped. :-( We sure were pounding the hell out of them with the howitzers. :-D

[Das Capitolin]

I love building up howitzers, although I normally don't live long enough to get them.

[pym]

Hope you used the Howi I managed to build at the center of the map...
I'll try DSL pretty soon, although I get no lag in some games while in others, I lag badly. Maybe it's the location...

Anyway, I had fun!

[XJnine]

I was a little frustrating at times but I could deal with it. The more annoying thing was the fact that the other team kept trying to vote you out. How many damn times did they have to try before they realized we wouldn't kick you?

[Das Capitolin]

Hope you used the Howi I managed to build at the center of the map...
I'll try DSL pretty soon, although I get no lag in some games while in others, I lag badly. Maybe it's the location...

Anyway, I had fun!

I began to use it, but then the enemy swarmed it with infantry, and it was gone in no time.

I was a little frustrating at times but I could deal with it. The more annoying thing was the fact that the other team kept trying to vote you out. How many damn times did they have to try before they realized we wouldn't kick you?

The game auto-starts a vote if your system reports a player with slow connection. Nobody actually "started" a vote, since it is not possible.

[XJnine]

I wasn't sure, I just noticed it said "so-and-so initiated a vote to kick so-and-so". So if my system is having a problem communicating with pym it may initiate a vote that you guys will see as coming from me? Interesting. I think I do remember seeing a box pop up saying someone was lagging me and do I want to start a vote now that I think about it. Maybe I should actually pay attention to the things that pop up on my screen or read through the manual which probably explains some of this stuff.

[zampe]

Hi pals :icon_tiphat:, I am new and it's my first post here (owing by Scotts online marketing strategy :))
Maybe someone knows me from yesterday’s/last night CoH game ( i suck, 2nd shift just making me too darn tired :sleep2: ), but always exist a rematch :smile: .

Btw.
Are u suspecting that global axis force with 1.3 patch is little disadvantaged (especially armour) :confused:

[liqnit]

Hi pals, I am new and it's my first post here (owing Scotts online marketing strategy :))
Maybe someone knows me from yesterday’s/last night CoH game ( i suck, 2nd shift just making me too darn tired :sleep2: ), but always exist a rematch .

Btw.
Are u suspecting that global axis force with 1.3 patch is little disadvantaged (especially armour) :confused:
Welcome !
i wasn't able to play yesterday .
have a great time here .:dancingparty:

[XJnine]

Welcome Zampe! Keep an eye on the forums for a rematch. We usually try to post on the forum when we're all getting together for a game.

Axis may be slightly less advantaged now but I don't know if i'd call them disadvantaged. I still got my butt kicked. Then again it seems like I'm always getting my butt kicked. :-(

[zampe]

Axis may be slightly less advantaged now but I don't know if i'd call them disadvantaged. I still got my butt kicked. Then again it seems like I'm always getting my butt kicked. :-(
hahahahah...
so...nothing has changed after last patch update :grin:
Especially after appearance, where many advantage veterans login with new noob lvl.1 accaunt occupying on one side all slots and waiting for a fresh noob meat!!!
poor eyewash attempt :hide:

[Kougar]

I can't say I've noticed any issues with Axis tanks, but then again I've only played them once... the Axis doesn't get the same Allied War Machine or In-Field repair abilities, but that's techncially true to history. A surprising amount of the game is built specifically around historical info! At least for the Terror Doctrine (I've not played the others yet) the ability to decimate any part of the map at will is a much an offsetting advantage. The Tiger Ace tank doesn't even take damage against some tank hits and by far has the thickest front/side armor in the game.
And did I mention those Goliath bomb-on-treads tanks are extremely usefull? :twisted: :explode:

[XJnine]

One of the things they tamed was the Axis Ostwind. That thing was a terror against infantry and buildings. The reduced the damage it did to buildings and slowed the firing rate a bit. Still a good vehicle except for the poor armor.


And did I mention those Goliath bomb-on-treads tanks are extremely usefull?


Whenever I play Axis I try to keep a few of those around in case of emergency.

[Kougar]

I had JUST noticed the Ostwind /flakpanzer don't seem to damage anything that falls under the label of "tank"... which kind of makes since as it's a anti-aircraft flak gun. Which makes me wonder, do the Axis get anything for shooting down Allied plans with them?? ;) But still, that thing fires as fast as a machine gun when using the Blitzkrieg ability, I'd have seriously hated to see it before the patch using the Blitz!

Has anyone tried a 4v4 skirmish, with all 7 AI's set to Expert? Talk about fun... ;) I can win it as an Ally, but so far not as an Axis... it's much less straightforward with them.

[Pat123]

When ever i see you guys playing and try join it says 'Connection error' or something similar..hmm probably because im in the UK.. Shame would love to play with u guys.

[Das Capitolin]

Yes, connection errors are popular. When I try to start a server, my friends here in the city sometimes get this same error message. CoH is fun, but the network side is very buggy.

[Kougar]

Very, very buggy. If someone joins your room and your machine determines you can't connect to them after the fact, then you get booted from the room and won't be let back in. I had to try about 5 or 6 games before I got to play my first multiplayer game... maybe the 1.4 patch I heared about will actually fix something, I hope.

[s_gibson]

I bought this game and Civ4 for my son for Christmas. Is this game good like Counterstrike or Ghost Recon, or more like a Call of Duty, Battlefront or Battlefield type game?

He likes all of them, but I like the slower once dead wait your turn type game over the respawn types.

[Scott]

This is an RTS. It is not a first person shooter. But I think he will love it. Everything and I mean everything is destroyable.

[Pat123]

This game is amazing.. Along with Command and Conquer!!!

[s_gibson]

Well duh, now I feel kinda dumb. A guy told me it was good, but I thought it was a shooter.

Cool, me and him play Empire Earth all the time, so maybe this will replace that for us.

[Kougar]

The one thing that isn't destroyable is a cluster of about 6 AT expert-rated, AI-controlled gun crews. :-P Short of a V1 rocket not even a bombing run or artillery strike can kill them as they intentionally just move out of the smoke, and an armada of tanks only gives them fresh kills...Gah.

Why can't my own AT crews be half that good? Or even at least fire back on their own when taking armored fire... :frown:

[Das Capitolin]

Yes, the AI is rather pathetic in CoH. If I have an AT gun scoping down the road, and a tank manages to drive past them, they should turn to continue combat with the tank and then return to their original position.

Instead, they sit there like their feet are nailed down, and get shot in the ass by a tank they watch approach them.

And why don't my men respond to artillary the same way and the AI computer? When they throw explosives the know to get back out of range, so what the hell?

[XJnine]

I wish lot's of my guys were as good as the computer or even the other guys I play against. :-(

[Kougar]

Well the AI itself is smart enough (IE, was programmed to micro-manage everything pretty well) that it personally controls it's AT gun crews and tanks as if a human was spending his full time on JUST that squad. If fighting one of the higher AIs, it will always move it's AT crews, tanks, and vehicles out of bombing runs and artillery strikes, and sometimes explosives too. The only thing the AI has not preemptively responded to is the Axis V1 rocket attack... but again this is true to history, people could hear them but didn't know where they were going to hit. Common sense is that if you see smoke markers bursting around you you'd start running away, so I'd expect the AI to do it... :-D Just wish my own guys would show that same level of sense.

Not to sound like a broken record, but the "objects/units" in ST Armada also came with the ability to set 3 stages of alert status, green, yellow, and red. Red tells them to engage the nearest enemy upon sight, yellow if fired upon first, and green to hold fire. CoH is pretty great, but the lack of all of these various small commands to give your controlled units was a bad oversight. Even some basic formation commands for multiple selected units would have been nice since the AI is to dumb to avoid friendly fire.

[whowalks]

personally I reckon COH is great but i am looking forward to some mods
I would love to see
1 a ww1 mod
2 Vietnam mod
3 mod with other armies eg British Russian Italian Australian Indian Canadian Japanese etc
4 a pacific war mod
5 a desert war mod

if or when these mods come out will the engine allow for them to be played online through the online interface like BF2 does???:frown:

[s_gibson]

How should I expect this to run on an AMD 2700+ with 512 ram and a 6600GT graphics card? I'm buying a cheap stick of 512 ram to add, but I don't know if it will work with the other one yet on the nForce 2 mobo.

[werty316]

How should I expect this to run on an AMD 2700+ with 512 ram and a 6600GT graphics card? I'm buying a cheap stick of 512 ram to add, but I don't know if it will work with the other one yet on the nForce 2 mobo.
Probably 800x600 with medium to low settings.

[s_gibson]

Guess I'd better not have very high expectations then. Least it will run I suppose.

I might wait another 6 months or so until this new windows comes out then build a new computer that will take advantage of it.

[[HoV]Destroya]

Sadly, and utterly stupidly, I uninstalled CoH for a day to play a couple other games, and my 6th CD for it went missing. It has just turned up as of 20 minutes ago, in three pieces. Truly wondering whether to get another copy. I love the game, but not sure. :frown:

[Das Capitolin]

They sell it for about $20 now at Best Buy, so I hear.