E3 2012: First Look at Company of Heroes 2

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Jacob Saylor slipped behind the red curtain at this year's E3 to scope out Relic's next RTS installment, [app=8852]Company of Heroes 2[/app]. Is it pushing the envelope, or just more spit-and-polish?

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[Artful-dodgeR]

This will probably be my 'need to upgrade my PC' game. Been a MASSIVE fan of Relic games thus far, I'm sure this won't disappoint.

[Arhain]

Soviets shooting deserters isn't really super historically accurate. It did happen for a small period of time but wasn't a widespread thing for the vast majority of the war, I hope it isn't a mandatory part of it.

For example:

A report to Commissar General of State Security Lavrentiy Beria on October 10, 1941 noted that since the beginning of the war, NKVD anti-retreat troops had detained a total of 657,364 retreating or deserting personnel, of which 25,878 were arrested, and 10,201 shot. Most of those arrested were later returned to active duty

Just a minor historical quibble though, not a huge issue.

Looks great though! I really enjoyed the first game and am looking forward to how this plays out.

edit: Do you remember anything at all about the stealth gameplay? Did you play the first and is it different?

[DarkMellie]

I was put off CoH by my own RTS-ineptitude. Tried to keep up with the TEA boys when they played the AI on hard but I just got slaughtered. Same with the Men of War series.

Hell, Dawn of War II challenged the **** out of me and I really persevered because the quasi-RPG elements were so much fun.

Will watch this one on youtube and wait for Steam's 2014 Christmas Sale.

[diamondd]

Soviets shooting deserters isn't really super historically accurate. It did happen for a small period of time but wasn't a widespread thing for the vast majority of the war, I hope it isn't a mandatory part of it.

For example:

A report to Commissar General of State Security Lavrentiy Beria on October 10, 1941 noted that since the beginning of the war, NKVD anti-retreat troops had detained a total of 657,364 retreating or deserting personnel, of which 25,878 were arrested, and 10,201 shot. Most of those arrested were later returned to active duty

Just a minor historical quibble though, not a huge issue.

Looks great though! I really enjoyed the first game and am looking forward to how this plays out.

edit: Do you remember anything at all about the stealth gameplay? Did you play the first and is it different?

next thing you'll try and tell me is that the US didn't win world war 2 single handedly..

[exe3]

I haven't played CoH in ages but is it just me or do those screenshots not look *that* much more advanced than the original?

With the no retreat thing does that mean you can't retreat your units like you could for the original game?

[diamondd]

I haven't played CoH in ages but is it just me or do those screenshots not look *that* much more advanced than the original?

With the no retreat thing does that mean you can't retreat your units like you could for the original game?

they're not too ridiculous, but I'm fine with that. Definitely crisper and more detailed but its not a massive leap forward, but the original was pretty damn gorgeous as it was anyway. Still a bigger improvement than cod4 to mw3...

not sure how the retreat mechanic will work, seems a little pointless tbh. I did love the special axis ability in the first one where you could force infantry to retreat

[exe3]

Agreed. My point was more that why would a computer struggle if the game doesn't look *that* much better than the original?

[Jez]

I was put off CoH by my own RTS-ineptitude. Tried to keep up with the TEA boys when they played the AI on hard but I just got slaughtered. Same with the Men of War series.

Hell, Dawn of War II challenged the **** out of me and I really persevered because the quasi-RPG elements were so much fun.

Will watch this one on youtube and wait for Steam's 2014 Christmas Sale.

I'm sure you can master CoH2... if it comes with GFWL achievements

Why don't you get your TEA friends to set one of the AI to normal? That's what I do when introducing a friend to CoH.

[c0mc0]

Don't forget that code / graphical optimisation is among the final phases of development. I wouldn't be super concerned about performance of their preview code just yet.

Having said that, the original game was pretty hard on my rig at the time.

[TheOriginalDaniel]

In the mean time lets all enjoy the awesome Eastern Front mod for the original CoH http://www.easternfront.org/

[Deserteagle1266]

In the mean time lets all enjoy the awesome Eastern Front mod for the original CoH http://www.easternfront.org/

GON needs to chuck that up on the mirror.. online like 1.3v is up 1gb download..