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Author Topic: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies  (Read 1185 times)

Stuebi

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Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« on: July 22, 2014, 08:51:08 am »
Quicksearch brought up only a Thread from 2013, so I thought i'd make a new one.

Addon brought in two new factions, the OKW - Oberkommando West (Basically the Germans from the Western front) and the USA. Aditionally new Theatre of War Scenarios and 8 new Maps.

I was curious what people's feelings on the additions are and, more importantly, if people are still playing it. I like the two new factions a lot, altough there's the usually arguments about the balance being a bit f*** up on the official forums. Mutliplayer is a lot of fun in my opinion, but for the price tag of 20 Euros I would've expected a campaign for the new factions. Especially the USA takes a lot of getting used to compared to the other three factions.

If anyone's up for it, pm me if you want to play a few rounds.
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2014, 09:30:44 am »
Can you play as Soviets vs USA?
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 09:38:20 am »
I don't believe so. "Company of Heroes 1" was Allies vs Axis and as far as I know they carried that over to the sequel.
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2014, 10:50:07 am »
Quote from: Mech#4 on July 22, 2014, 09:38:20 am
I don't believe so. "Company of Heroes 1" was Allies vs Axis and as far as I know they carried that over to the sequel.
Way to kill the fun :(
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2014, 10:52:12 am »
Aye, you can only play as the respective Combos of Axis vs Allies. So there is no way to go Soviets vs USA, or OKW vs Wehrmacht.

At least, as far as I know. There might be a way in Custom Maps, or with Mods later on.
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2014, 10:53:34 am »
Actually company of heroes 2 annoyed me a lot with it's portrayal of the soviets.  I wanted giant waves of guys crashing upon the germans!

Although it makes sense they would choose to have the soviets be the later-war soviet army, not the early OH-FUCK-THROW-EVERYTHING-WE-HAVE-AT-THEM soviets that were panicking about it.

But I would have enjoyed it, which is the important part.

I was hoping there would be like an early-soviet faction or at least commander, but nooo.  So sad.  Maybe there is a mod for that.
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2014, 01:31:51 pm »
Quote from: Stuebi on July 22, 2014, 10:52:12 am
Aye, you can only play as the respective Combos of Axis vs Allies. So there is no way to go Soviets vs USA, or OKW vs Wehrmacht.

At least, as far as I know. There might be a way in Custom Maps, or with Mods later on.

You totally can do Allies vs Allies or Axis vs Axis or Mixed vs Mixed in custom matches at the least.
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2014, 01:37:09 pm »
Then it's only Automatches that are restrained to the Combos, thanks for clearing that up. I rarely play custom, because you get less exp, and afaik, no drops.
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Re: Company of Heroes 2 - Western Front Armies
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2014, 04:10:25 pm »
The drop system pisses me off...I have been playing regularly lately, at least 4-5 games a night (usually more) with a friend and I get a drop roughly every 10 games...which is absurd. And all my drops so far have been garbage drops. And this is in auto match vs players. I don't have 15 hours of each day to dedicate to this game (or any really) so it's really annoying that I never get drops...kills the notion of playing more for drops...I just play to play
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