Top Things For A New Person to Know

[Namakan]

This game came with my 8800GT and looks fun.

What are some thing i should know before playing, or noobish mistakes i can avoid?

EDIT: what is the latest patch?

[Voop_Bacon]

http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/showthread.php?t=5860&page=3

[Namakan]

http://www.totalgamingnetwork.com/main/showthread.php?t=5860&page=3

thanks :)

[Namakan]

nothing eh?

[Lt Davis]

Well I pretty much suck at it, lol. Although it is still fun.

[TheDragon]

best thing to do is keep busy
and watch some game playbacks from other team (even AI) point of view
and be sure to build counter units
(eg - if enemy has snipers - you need jeeps/cycles)

[is_don_is_good]

just go through the tutorial. that's what i did first when i tried the demo of the game. it will teach you all the basics and more advanced techniques

[Idaeus]

Also what you need to know about this game is that its not built for making a massive Command & Conquer style army and then rush it towards the enemy base hoping his army is gonna be smaller. The game is designed so that it will be a continuous battle using scarce resources, most likely you'll be fighting with one tank and 2 infantry squads against a equal force in one place, while you'll have perhaps 2 other infantry squads and a light vehicle stuck in another battle. You're always at the brink of running out of resources and you never have the time to build up a big attacking force. Thats why the only way to win is by using strategy.

Unless of course if you play one of the bottle neck maps with bridges across the middle. These maps lets you lock the bridges down and build up your force before doing a C&C and rushing across to the enemy base. But thats really not how the game should be played. ;)

[is_don_is_good]

i don't like the other RTS because of constant spamming of units, annoying. this game is so much complex and everyone has a different play style

i.e one may lay barb wire to spell out FU at their base

:)

[Idaeus]

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q241/Idaeus_1st/CoHfu.jpg

Epic... :D

[is_don_is_good]

http://www.unreal.ie/images/yay.jpg



indeed :)

barbed wire now barely works properly now :(

[Idaeus]

It doesn't work? Why what happens?

[is_don_is_good]

when you try to barb off a whole section using markers, the wire always skips one marker (usually at the end)

example:

you want to block the road like this

| ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |
| x x x x x x x x x x |
|,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, |

but i ends up like this


|,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,|
|,,,,,,x x x x x x x x |
|,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,|


so you have to go over the lost section again which puts more effort in barbed wiring

its changed man, it used to be cool

but the new patch mentioned a fix in barb wire. i am yet to try this out

[Idaeus]

Oh yes I noticed this when I was playing CoH at my friends house! It was extremely frustrating! Hope its sorted now then, let me know if it works properly? ;)

[is_don_is_good]

still doesn't work properly :(

still have to do this

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/369/relic00004go0.jpg

[Vikaman]

Spam engineers at the start of the game, along with one jeep. And keep putting pressure on your enemy.

[Idaeus]

still doesn't work properly :(

still have to do this

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/369/relic00004go0.jpg

Oh yes thats exactly what I had to do.. :( And the walls broke automatically from the barbed wire. :( Fs I used to love barbing wire all over the place!

[is_don_is_good]

Top Things For A New Person to Know: One must wear pants when they are playing

Also get the original COH :)

[Idaeus]

Top Things For A New Person to Know: One must wear pants when they are playing

Also get the original COH :)

Oh I broke that rule many times... I'm not too good at planning so I played some of our games nights wearing a towel! :D

Yes get original COH! Thats just not arguable.

[Sir. Tasty]

Use cover, it really does do a lot.

[Vikaman]

Panzer 4's are useless against armour. Don't even think about it.

[Idaeus]

Never make a big infantry force and move them forward as one big group (C&C style), they will get pinned by something and soon your entire unit will have to retreat/be dead.

[is_don_is_good]

that is what i love about this game. better combat methods instead of spamming troops and can ultimately decide in: the bigger army wins

[Idaeus]

Yes theres actually strategy involved in this game! A lot of it! :D I'm not saying you need to be a genius to play the game but if you do play against someone who is using his strategies to the fullest you'll fail big time if you just try to rush him with huge amounts of troops.

[Fusion]

Best RTS ever made, would e a shame if COH2 shifts away from WWII theme.

[Idaeus]

Yes it better not, this is a WW2 game and nothing else! :)

[is_don_is_good]

better than the mindless horde of WWII FPS games we get

[Idaeus]

Mindless horde? I think many of them are good! :P Nothing beats CoH tho... And I really wish they would make a WWII ArmA... :(

[is_don_is_good]

its the good ones that stand out and overshadows the WWII try hards like
- Combat: Iwo Jima
- The Outfit
- Hour of Victory

...and these are just 360 ones. i bet there are more. WWII has been done to death. i will only allow COH and COD to deliver WWII experience

[Idaeus]

lols while I want more WWII! :D Cant ever get enough of it! :)

[Fusion]

its the good ones that stand out and overshadows the WWII try hards like
- Combat: Iwo Jima
- The Outfit
- Hour of Victory

...and these are just 360 ones. i bet there are more. WWII has been done to death. i will only allow COH and COD to deliver WWII experience

Brothers in Arms - looks like they have done a good job

[is_don_is_good]

forgot to mention that ;)

i can't wait for the new one!

[Idaeus]

Lets get back on topic guys... ;)

Also what you'll need to know is that playing the bottleneck maps actually can be good to get to know your units and get used to online gaming, but dont get addicted to them. ;)

[Sir. Tasty]

vika09;1903726']Panzer 4's are useless against armour. Don't even think about it.

Whaaa! they are not that cost effective but still, with vet they are pretty good if you micro them well.

[AeroTow]

Top thing for a new person to know.....don't mess with me.

[Idaeus]

Certainly dont mess with him if hes teamed up with me on Lyon! :D theres a german expression for that I think: über alles.

[BoDyBaG2224]

Correction, don't mess with me, because I consist of uber awesomeness and everyone else<fail ........................I'm back ;)

[Idaeus]

/ot Awesome to have you back mate! :D

Another rather basic tip is to place gun nests by water ares or other things that will slow the enemy down, making more of them die before they manage to escape the pin.

Also I just love having a sniper to pick off pinned enemies! :D

[Eagle101]

Best RTS ever made, would e a shame if COH2 shifts away from WWII theme.

There is a CoH2!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just soiled my panites! i hope they put a russian faction and japs and italians!!! wowzerz!

[is_don_is_good]

this year i am finding snipers really useful. i guess i was turned off at their cost

[Vikaman]

Whaaa! they are not that cost effective but still, with vet they are pretty good if you micro them well.

Panzer 4 Infantry Tank? Against armour is nada regardless of how you manage them.

[Sir. Tasty]

Nein, wehrmacht p4s are win.

[Vikaman]

Yeah, against infantry and other light vehicles. But I have seen half-tracks take down a P4 before. They are the plain suck against anything that shoots back at them.

But have very good anti-infantry capabilities.

[is_don_is_good]

the PE's panzers have a horrible range