FOOs allows your lead tank to bring in creeping smoke barrage with near-instant infantry suppression. It's useful but not OP at all...TDM just needs to stop sucking at videogames.
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THQ's bankruptcy sale details: Auction on January 22nd, Will Allow Piecemeal Purchase
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FOOs allows your lead tank to bring in creeping smoke barrage with near-instant infantry suppression. It's useful but not OP at all...TDM just needs to stop sucking at videogames.
SteveWinwood
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Oh those sources.
Infinite Justice
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So Patrice will return? LOL
Yea that makes sense, should be interesting to see if they pull it off.
Well, the auction is taking much longer than I think we expected.
It could go through the night if the bidders are really going at it.
The court hearing is tomorrow. Until then I think we'll just have to rely on rumors and second hand reports.
That can also be pushed back if needed.
It is a private auction closed to the public, everything eil be settled tomorrow morning during the sellers hearing, which is happening the same time as that Nintendo Direct.
Neato_Jinkins
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wow, in 1200+ hours of coh i've genuinely never seen that before. might have to fuck around with it.
usually brits don't bother to bring in tanks because they can mob up piats and rifle grenades to obliterate literally any opposition you can dream up.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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Sega could be become a real giant in PC gaming, with Relic, CA, and Sports Interactive under their belt. I don't think anyone could have forseen that 10 years ago.
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Deleted member 47027
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So upsetting. Nothing makes my life harder than fighting Brits.
EDIT: and I say this as a PE player. God I love the PE.
How does an auction like this work? Like an every day auction for houses, as in are the bids open?
Glass Rebel
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We just bought THQ. And EA, Ubisoft, Warner and Sega while we're at it. Iwata out.
*drops mic*
I suspect it's like a normal-ish auction, but much slower since it's corporations and people might be after package deals.
I'm not actually an expert here so I could be wrong.
I see... was this a recent thing? Maybe something is in the pipeline.
Been there for awhile. I keep meaning to pick it up yet never do.
Lasthope106
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The revenge of Dreamcast 2... it's been pc gaming all this time!
GarthVaderUK
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Yurop <3 Sega
Now it all makes sense why Napoleon and ETW are so popular...
(I've always liked the RTW setting and time period more, although Shogun was a nice change as well)
Then we wake up tomorrow morning and find out that Ubi got Relic and EA got everything else. *sigh*
Gary answered btw -- Steam's down for the count.
SteveWinwood
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Yeah nintendo is going to buy relic to make that ice climbers rts.
Neato_Jinkins
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if you're 2v2ing as PE against a brit/am combo, scout cars --> hotchkiss is the hottest new scrub stomping strat. it's a rough start against brits, but it works long-term.
no, i'm not joking.
scout cars en masse can ream anything that comes out of a WSC, counter bren carriers, do a lot of damage to brit squads and adjust to lock points when necessary. hotchkisses (hotchki?) are dirt cheap and a few of them upgunned can take on any tank from any army--up to and including the pershing--with a little micro. stukas are just a bonus.
of course they suck shit at dealing with infantry so you'll need some pgrens but you should have those anyway.
cohchat
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Clearly Nintendo will be using their Nintendo Direct to announce they've bought the entirety of THQ!
edit: Damn you Glass Rebel!
piratepwnsninja
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Insert Kermit gif as needed.
Lasthope106
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I need to explore more with the scout cars. always loved hotchkissin' though, feels great. love those little guys. My micro isn't good enough to use them effectively enough though, I'll never be good at micro and I'm always at my limit as a PE. I should go american if I can't micro for nothin'. blob up and let the world burn.
JehutyRunner
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The THQ asset known as Patrice Désilets?!
And I'm immediately remind of Dan Teasdale's tweet the other day XD
It's more hilarious for Ubisoft though given the whole Patrice situation.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Bishop, my good friend, you should also remember that it grants LTs and Cpts the officer 25 pounder barrage ability, the best single artillery ability in the whole game, which lands an extremely accurate shell almost instantly, being impossible to dodge in an online game with 150+ latency. It's irritating if it drops on your infantry, because it kills some guys and forces a retreat, it's infuriating when it drops on an mg, or a mortar, or a sniper and instagibs the whole team.
I think I've seen the tank smoke ability used like four times online, ever. The point is not that FOO is unbeatable, game breaking or such, but that it's far too effective compared to comparable artillery abilities, and unlocks far too early for how good it is (1 CP, first ability on that side of the tree).
They save up for them, dude. PBG appear in almost every game unless the allies have ruthlessly outplayed them early game to the point where they can't even tech up to that. The first PBG being 1000 manpower is fine because of the tech costs associated with them and how much of a pop-cap drain they are. The issue is, as related to axis steamroller design, that subsequent PBGs are the same cost, and it's effectively the PE's method of getting late game overwhelming superiority (the Wehr gets vet, obviously).
Yes, when I complain about it being "irritating" I mean the whole game being designed around "strong Allies early/mid, unstoppable axis late game" results in frustration. Frustration for Axis because being outplayed slightly early on in the early or mid game spells doom half the time, and frustration for the allies because if you're outplaying them immensely in the late game they will still beat you most of the time. The feeling of losing when you're playing so much better than your opponent is one of those annoying things that I would love to vanquish in the sequel.
I can and do regularly deal with them. Once again, the point is not that it can't be defeated, but that it's too effective for how simple a strategy it is to pull off. I would say that the majority of online games feature rifleblobs, parablobs, or general british infantry spam. I'm only mid level axis though, since Allies were always my main. Being on the receiving end of allies sure changed my perception of the game balance, though.
Beautifully Shaped Monsters
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SteveWinwood
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How 2 CoH.
I would love to see Patrice's face the moment it was confirmed (if it happened).
Also if they turn 1666 into an Assassin's Creed game.
Portugeezer
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EA will get Saints Row. I can feel it.
Just got this response in my twitter feed:
hrmmm
YES!
That works for me.
Blast from the past!
I think that's the English text I have put the most effort in my life, probably still terrible.
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I've played COH since it was released, i stop playing CoH when they released Tales of Valor. Worst expansion ever.
Best CoH map 1vs1 angoville
Best CoH map 1vs1 angoville
Neato_Jinkins
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this is so foreign to me. i legitimately get mad at my coh partner if i see him shit out a panther battle group, because i know that's effectively 3 MP44 squads / a hetzer + at halftrack / a hummel / etc. that won't be appearing any time soon. and unvetted PE panthers are so much worse than wehr panthers it's hard to justify the expense, especially with american paradropped AT guns that can fire at targets roughly ten thousand miles away.
that's my big balance complaint at the moment: competently micro'd american AT guns + snipers combo. the ultimate counter to basically everything PE has.
Technosteve
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AT guns are counter to everything PE has, PE strength is speed.
you guys should watch some high level coh play some time.
http://www.youtube.com/user/COH2ORG/videos?view=0
http://www.youtube.com/user/COH2ORG/videos?view=0
WTH.
Hey I would love to play this game but my direct2drive copy well I lost the key.
Is this from Sammy or did shedding their console development 2-3 years really work out that well?
SEGA is actually one of the best homes I can think of for Relic, they seem to have treated Creative Assembly very well. They don't have any garbage like Origin or Uplay to tack on ether.
I am kinda surprised they have the cash tho, I thought they were in trouble financially but were being propped up by SAMMY's profits.
I am kinda surprised they have the cash tho, I thought they were in trouble financially but were being propped up by SAMMY's profits.
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that's not tales of heroes
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