- It’s set on the Russian front. You control the Soviets in their fight to repel the invading Nazi force. Snow plays a major part on the battlefield, falling and melting dynamically, and slowing your soldiers and tanks based on its depth.
- The game runs on the Essence 3 engine, the latest version of the graphics engine Relic have been updating and expanding upon for years.
- The cover system has been revamped, to function more realistically and allow soldiers to vault over obstacles.
- Line of sight plays a large tactical role, with the game’s fog of war based on what your soldier’s can actually see. Relic call this system “True Sight”, and it causes areas of the map to be grayed out and enemies within turned invisible by buildings, items of cover, or dropped smoke grenades.
- The Normandy landing that opened Company of Heroes (and Saving Private Ryan, one of its key inspirations), was the 23rd biggest battle of World War 2. “13 of the 15 bloddiest battles” happened on the Eastern front, points out Company of Heroes lead designer, Quinn Duffy. The game should represent those battles and their vicious scale, as much as it does minute infantry tactics.
- Just like the original, the scenery is highly destructible, and you’ll be given control of plenty of tanks and other explosive equipment. That includes barn-burning flamethrowers.
- There will be multiplayer, but Relic aren’t ready yet to talk about it.
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Well it might be good, depending on who gets to work on it. I thought THQ shutdown their RTS side of the company for now. I could be misinformed though. I loved the CoH game/expansions and still play them time to time.
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FlyingToilet United States. May 04 2012 02:34. Posts 731
I'm so excited right now! I loved the original CoH games, and always wanted to play as the Russians too! If this is actually developed well, and ends up as awesome as the original games, I'll be super happy! Wow, I can't believe how excited I am for this, haha.
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Szubie United Kingdom. May 04 2012 03:07. Posts 290
On May 04 2012 02:28 Kralic wrote: Well it might be good, depending on who gets to work on it. I thought THQ shutdown their RTS side of the company for now. I could be misinformed though. I loved the CoH game/expansions and still play them time to time.
Relic is still there. They shut down some other studios/franchises. Pretty sure Relic is one of their profitable studios.
Pangolin United States. May 04 2012 04:09. Posts 998
"- Lots of snow. Snow slows down troops and tanks, but can also form cover." They must have pretty hard snow in Russia if it is bulletproof enough to serve as cover.
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eviltomahawk United States. May 04 2012 04:10. Posts 8897
The original Company of Heroes was one of the best RTS experiences that I've played ever. I'm not surprised that they're finally doing the Eastern front. Fans have been clamoring for Relic to do that part of the war for a while, and there is even a very extensive mod to satisfy that urge.
I'm very excited to see what improvements are made on CoH2. Heck, an improvement to vehicle pathfinding would be amazing, since I remember that to be rather frustratingly sub-par in the original CoH.
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Beorning United States. May 04 2012 04:15. Posts 212
On May 04 2012 04:09 Pangolin wrote: "- Lots of snow. Snow slows down troops and tanks, but can also form cover." They must have pretty hard snow in Russia if it is bulletproof enough to serve as cover.
Cover is not only about stopping bullets. It hinders vision as well.
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Oh boy relic will release another RTS that they completely abandon in terms of player support and game balance while putting out a crapton of overpriced DLC that add nothing to the game.
Man, I just can't wait.
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blade55555 United States. May 04 2012 05:17. Posts 14094
On May 04 2012 04:09 Pangolin wrote: "- Lots of snow. Snow slows down troops and tanks, but can also form cover." They must have pretty hard snow in Russia if it is bulletproof enough to serve as cover.
Cover is not only about stopping bullets. It hinders vision as well.
Yeah. Snow mounds and snow storms will probably provide cover in the same way that smoke grenades did in CoH1.
Super excited, one of my top 3 RTS of all time.
Atokad United States. May 04 2012 06:03. Posts 119
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