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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
Hello,
Company of Heroes definetly deserves a place in Skybuck's Hall of Fame. At first I wasn't convinced if this game deserved a place in it... The single player was ok but not super convincing. I played that first. However the multiplayer is simply brilliant and outstanding and really makes the game shine and boost it to unknown heights =D Therefore Company of Heroes will receive a 3.5 star rating. ( 3 stars for single player, 4 stars for multiplayer (when playing with hamachi network tool) ). For those strangling with multiplayer here are some Allies tips (I played mostly with allies, someday I ll play with germans too ) 1. Use supression fire with infantary to surpress enemy infantary so they cant really shoot well, then you can easily walk up to them and finish them off with granades. However first you will need to upgrade your barracks to those special abilities, you will need to barracks to be able to upgrade and build soldiers at the same time, that's pretty handy. 2. Use the smoke screen of sherman tanks to make them momentarily invincible even against tiger tanks... however it cost 50 ammo so you need some of it... though it works very well against a single tiger tank or maybe even two. 3. Mines work against personal and tanks... mines good against snooping snipers lol.. but I like jeeps too though... - though they dieing a bit much my problem 4. Air mode is pretty handy for scouting with planes and taking down infantary when it s really important... and one can drop supplies for badly needed resources.. or just extra resources once in a while.. I am not sure if partners get the bonuses as well as income... dont underestimate the power of these planes... the information they gather can be very valuable because than you know how to play... otherwise you might be building the wrong stuff at the wrong time at the wrong place 5. Another favorite (defense) tactic is building tank traps... and placing at guns a little bit farther away so enemy tanks cant see them.. works pretty well... lot's of at guns are best against a lot of tanks.. except watch out for german anti-air tank.. those can kill infantary real fast as well as at guns. Wire is also very handy for protecting your base from enemy sniper infiltration... snipers can use hide mode and sneak into your base then enemies can use off map artillery or whatever to strike your base.. dangerous ! 6. Howziters guns are usually alarming for enemy so you can expect an attack once you start using it on it's location. Nice oppertunity to booby trap and defend those positions... but except airstrikes as well... so might not work.. you ll just die. They eat up lot's of resources too... so you can't build any other more howziters... experienced players will just move out of the way... it's a fun weapon... but maybe it's better left unused to give points to other units to build those instead... howziter gun cant move.. - big drawback 7. Infantary mode has a very powerfull off map artillery strike... for example drive with jeep into enemy base and then use a strike on them... that'll teach you em if they dont defend their base properly ! Striking panzer command's is a very target of mine.... yeah.. sometimes need two strikes.. Also try to communicate with your partners/teammates.. ask which mode they are... tell them your plans.. especially when you gonna strike... because you might be able to knock out an hq together.. or at least do massive damage to bases.. good tactic.. slows players down. 8. Repair mode is also pretty powerfull to repair tanks... combine that with smoke if possible and you might have a pretty powerfull combination... 9. The rangers are nice too.. especially when you have lot's of em... they can run fast.. fun to play with. 10. May favorite unit is the at gun though... it has a armor piercing mode cost 50 ammo... but definetly worth it... place them spread out across the map and you can hit tanks from any side... real tank killers.. I love em.. they pretty cheap... they only cost personal, no fuel, no ammo necessary to construct them.. just a motor pool... pretty important to get those up pretty quickly. 11. Allies also have a recycle mode to instantly recycle destroyed tanks... I haven't really used that much.. it's pretty expensive and probably unreliable... you never know for sure when the tank will die. All players get the same ammount of resources from each flag.. as long as they connected I guess or HQ up or something like but everybody has it's own ammount/wallet to pay for stuff.. so you dont have to worry about others spending your stuff Now for some german tips, I have seen others use these tactics when I aged them. 1. German tanks can drive though tank traps via Blitzkrieg special ability... a certain "commander mode" has this ability. Not sure which tanks can do it... but the panthers definetly can ! so watch out for those. 2. Ofcourse the tiger ace can drive through tank traps as well. 3. Again mines excellent against personal.. 4. Germans have strong artillery as well.. moveable... - big bonus and cheap too. Very very dangerous. Especially because they have long range can come out of nearwhere fire their stuff... and then retreat into the fog of war.. you ll have a very hard time tracking down... and you might run into booby traps... very dangerous indeed. 5. I also see massive german troops, massive tank fleets... and the flame tank is also very dangerous at the start.... germans pretty good for rushing.... Allies have to be very wary of german rushing. Germans surely have more tricks up their sleeves... but I am not so good with germans have played them little... this is just my experience from facing them on the battlefield... 6. Also watch out for german hidden anti tank guns... dangerous booby traps.. 7. the anti tank/anti air 88 gun is also very very very dangerous against tanks... they can kill pershing tanks in 2 shots or so... Well I am gonna leave it at that... there are absolutely more tips... but I dont wanna make my german opponents to strong hehe. Most importantly is to get as much flags as possible.. keep fighting for them... but sometimes you need to build up a little army.. mixing is good... but I ll leave that for you to figure out. Ok and now the final tip: A very nice and good hamachi network to play on is: network: HGI-Company of Heroes password: hamachi.eu Close to 100 players there maybe even more... I played at least 30 multiplayer games by now... and I am absolutely not done yet... the game also has a very nice world editor to make your own maps... Future recommendations: 1. I would definetly like to see a Company of Heroe's 2 or expansion pack. 2. Put more emotions in the game... I want to see blood, screaming people, soldiers going mad etc... I wanna see sea's full of blood, pools full of blood, strees full of blood where there has been fighting... I wanna see body parts fly through the sky just like quake for all I care.. and I want to see them lieing on the floor... I also want to see burned body parts so I almost smell the burning of the flesh... that's a real nice war.. this game with all it's destruction is still to clean. 3. The dirty word filter has got to go... I can't even say heb ? (that's just a normal dutch word ?) 4. The graphics could even be better but dont get me wrong they are already pretty good and impressive. 5. I would prefer to see a better loading screen so I can see how fast the other players load. 6. Definetly more maps... Snow, Desert, Valleys of death, More hilly levels... Infantary only levels... Berlin map/city... Large buildings and streets/planes and such.. apple gardens (somebody already made that in his map... too funny)... also more trenches where infantary can go from trench to trench... like call of duty... the grassmap.. something with an H it was... can't remember clearly... heretage or something.. 7. The alerts/signals should show up during the replay... it would also be helpfull if the bar can be clicked to position the replay at a certain time step/minute whatever... so not the enter replay has to be played to reach a certain point. 8. The pathing finding of the ai for own units and the way it moves could definetly be better... sometimes pretty annoying... 9. Also the selecting of the AI for own units could be much better, they should fire at closest and biggest threat first... instead of non dangerous targets like OB posts... 10. Units should be allowed to have a little bit of freedom from their designated position... for example...everything within a certain radius of the position can be targetted and move too... but not any further then the radius... might be handy if the user can set the radius... or field/circle of action or something. Not required but it's worth an experiment to see if it's nice and handy... All in all I am impressed with the quality of this game... there are no real terrible bugs or anything... some graphic glitches... might be a driver issue... but nothing really bad... I had only one crash under weird circumstances... there was even a report form... I do have one thing to complain about.. but maybe that will be in the post... the timeout value for somebody to drop... should be user configurable preferably via the gui... so far hamachi kicked me out when trial expired... but that problem is probably now fixed.. but still I had a game where it happened and I immediatly reactived it... it was less than a minute but COH was unable to recover... DESYNC error or something was the problem... to bad though... as usually that was a cool game. I am definetly happy with this game... I only wish there was more blood, more screaming and more of all that.. that would have made it superb. And also better graphics would give it more points. I also want to see a new campagne which takes me into the heart of the evil empire... the germans hehehe. Another interesting idea might be to fight the war with the germans... maybe a fiction scenerio where the germans attack russia and united states or so... just a crazy idea.. it's ok to ignore it but not the rest ofcourse hehe. This game has definetly earned it's stripes ! It has definetly earned each and every star that I have awarded. This is my new favorite strategy game. Or should I say: Realtime Tactical Game 3.5 thumbs up ! =D Ok that was the end of my little report about this game. Peace out... Bye, Skybuck. |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:33:07 +0100, "Skybuck Flying"
wrote: Hello, Please post your gaming reviews in a gaming group. |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:18:54 -0500, Folk wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:33:07 +0100, "Skybuck Flying" wrote: Hello, Please post your gaming reviews in a gaming group. He was drooling so much he forgot to which group he was posting. Par for the course for old Skycents. Probably the first RTS he has ever played. Dunno why he gave it only 3.5/5. (Many others including myself now consider CoH to be amongst the all-time classic PC game releases) Oh just a pointer for old Skycents...... please post to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic next time. John Lewis |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which isvery good)
* John Lewis:
He was drooling so much he forgot to which group he was posting. Probably not. He has a nice history of ignoring newsgroup topics and excessive x-posting... Benjamin |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
"Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... * John Lewis: He was drooling so much he forgot to which group he was posting. Probably not. He has a nice history of ignoring newsgroup topics and excessive x-posting... The NVidia company logo appears in Company of Heroes. Does this mean NVidia is sponsoring these games and helping develop them ? I like to communicate with NVidia about my experiences about the game they sponsor and help. Why would I communicatie on an unrelated IBM newsgroup ? Bye, Skybuck. |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
[...] I like to communicate with NVidia about my experiences about the game they sponsor and help. They don't monitor this group. Why would I communicatie on an unrelated IBM newsgroup ? Because it's about games like CoH. |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which isvery good)
* Skybuck Flying:
The NVidia company logo appears in Company of Heroes. Does this mean NVidia is sponsoring these games and helping develop them ? No, it just means Nvidia pays some money to be able to present their logo in the game. I like to communicate with NVidia about my experiences about the game they sponsor and help. Nvidia probably doesn't give a f**k about that, simply because they don't "sponsor" games or help in development. The Nvidia logo is there for promotional reasons, that's it. Besides that, Nvidia has nothing to do with this group, they don't read here at all. There are Nvidia forums on nZone which are monitored by Nvidia but even there no-one would care because Nvidia had zero to do with the game itself. Why would I communicatie on an unrelated IBM newsgroup ? Because it at least has something to do with games. This group is for gfx cards with Nvidia GPU only. Benjamin |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
"Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... * Skybuck Flying: The NVidia company logo appears in Company of Heroes. Does this mean NVidia is sponsoring these games and helping develop them ? No, it just means Nvidia pays some money to be able to present their logo in the game. I like to communicate with NVidia about my experiences about the game they sponsor and help. Nvidia probably doesn't give a f**k about that, simply because they don't "sponsor" games or help in development. Ofcourse they care. How else are games going to support their latest technology ? Nvidia provides beta products to game developers ! Bye, Skybuck. |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
"DRS" wrote in message ... "Skybuck Flying" wrote in message [...] I like to communicate with NVidia about my experiences about the game they sponsor and help. They don't monitor this group. Why would I communicatie on an unrelated IBM newsgroup ? Because it's about games like CoH. Get real dude, my ISP doesn't even carry that newsgroup, that's how obselete it is ! I rather stick to this high-tech newsgroup which is all about the latest graphic cards and chipset for computers and games. Bye, Skybuck. |
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!!! Company of Heroes !!! (3.5 star rating out of 5, which is very good)
"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
"DRS" wrote in message ... "Skybuck Flying" wrote in message [...] I like to communicate with NVidia about my experiences about the game they sponsor and help. They don't monitor this group. Why would I communicatie on an unrelated IBM newsgroup ? Because it's about games like CoH. Get real dude, my ISP doesn't even carry that newsgroup, that's how obselete it is ! My ISP has it. Don't try to make your ISP's incompetence our problem. I rather stick to this high-tech newsgroup which is all about the latest graphic cards and chipset for computers and games. This group is not about games. |
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