Walking in a Winter Wonderland – Eastern Front setting of Company of Heroes 2 was to be an expansion for COH
By Jess Colwill on October 5, 2012 at 1:38 pm
When you fire up Company of Heroes 2, take a moment to appreciate your surroundings. Specifically, the snow. That soft, white, procedurally generated frostiness gathers, deepens, collects tracks of passing soldiers — at least until it is covered with more snow.
I’m banging on about the snow a bit I know, but for Relic snow is kind of a big deal — one that is six years in the making. Speaking to PCGamesN, Company of Heroes’ principle designer Quinn Duffy summarises. “[In the six years since Company of Heroes] there were a number of cases where we looked at the game, at what we were going to do, and we didn’t get to the point where we had the technology we wanted, or the systems to drive the development, to tell the kind of story we wanted to about the Eastern Front.”
“We looked at doing an expansion pack, an Eastern Front expansion pack for the original, but we couldn’t do the snow, we couldn’t do the breaking ice, we couldn’t do the cold weather stuff in the original game engine.”
So behold what technology has wrought, and when you’re enjoying the new tactical scope of Company of Heroes 2, be glad it wasn’t just an expansion.
Source: PCGamesN
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Still looks too arcade for my tastes, I’ll probably stick with Men of War: Assault Squad for now. [which has had ice physics for years btw]
Is everyone so damn quick to forget the Eastern Front mod? http://www.easternfront.org/ Damn fine mod, Exited as hell for CoH2 :D
They would have saved themselves a lot of trouble if it had have been Homeworld 3 instead, what with there being no snow in space. Just saying.
Company of Heroes was praised by critics and fans alike.
Homeworld series were niche games. Just saiyan.
It’d also be nice to have the Russians in the game too considering their tactics were zerg rushes.
rapid101,
No. I was going to explain why, but just no. Something that off-base doesn’t deserve anything more.
Huh. So that’s why it looks like an expansion with a slightly upgraded engine then, I guess. :p
Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to this as COH was always excellent, but it doesn’t look significantly different from the original game at all.