Company of Heroes

I know its still in its beta phase (cos it still plays like a beta) but to those who are able to play it(without dieing of boredom), I would like to know your opinion on this.

How does Company of Heroes compare to that of StarCraft and WarCraft 3?




Lets be honest those bumped threads were better then any of the ones on the front page, half of which arent even related to coh, i was just trying to bring life back to these dead forums so, how is coh compared to SC and WC3?

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Unbalanced.

Less focus on economy and less of a who-clicks-the-fastest-competition, baserushing isn't a quite as viable option(unless playing annihilate of course), worse balance than Starcraft and more fun than any of them.
Yeah, I do find CoH better balanced than WC3 and WoW. Go cry in a corner if you disagree.

There are no orcs!

In starcraft I would rush your base with 2 zerglings to kill your SUVs before you even have your barracks made. >:)
As terrans I will just spam marines and bunkers, upgrade marines to the fullest and camp forever until I get enough marines to fill my popcap along with drop ships, then I base rush you again.
As protoss I rush dark templars and rape you when you don't have any detecters.
I can't do any of this in Company of Heroes.... Fair enough?

Use of Cover/retreat > starcraft/WC3

Can't go back to playing an old fashioned RTS after playing CoH, even with its annoyances.

Yes, it probably will be hard to go back to CNC and such after I'm done with CoH.

But overall, WC3<CoH<SC. Just my opinion. I liked the custom games in WC3, but not much else really. Ofc I really enjoy CoH. I put SC on top because it helped pave the way for future RTS games, and it was just fun and my first experience with RTS.

CoH is a much slower game, and as people haven't yet found all the nuances in the game engine and other such things it isnt as deep as Starcraft. On the other hand, Starcraft has got the the stage where 80% of being a decent player is pure mechanics, which i have little interest/ability in, leading to me finding it hard to play SC as i did CoH.

Or zerglings

Furthermore on CoH there is a good component of randomness. For some one is bad but for me is a point for CoH because in this way is more similar to the sport. On SC you know every time which unit will kill another unit.

CoH tops any other RTS I've played, even though TibDawn was my favourite RTS for... however many years since buying it! Even though I really used to enjoy the clickfest part, I've realised how little it's needed to make a real stategy game.

The music in TibDawn/RA1/UaW/RA3 still tops CoH, though. Even though I find myself humming along to the CoH music it's not quite as much of a draw. It's sort of just... there.

This post has been edited by Rubies: Feb 7 2010, 21:29 PM

Do you still play CoH?

On topic, I haven't really tried starcraft, but I did play warcraft 3 for a bit. Got bored of it like pretty much every other RTS I've played. Before CoH, I was pretty much only FPS. Now, the only game I play regularly is CoH

Re-installed the other day after a few months without playing. It's fun to play a couple of 2v2's every now and then, and i'm playing a few 1v1's ahead of the tourny.

There is no comparison COH pwns SC and WC3. IMO COH is so great that it is delaying star craft 2 peeps at blizzard are like omg our game isn't shit compared to COH what do we do?.

coh+balance = win

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovkwa9VpvH0

I know right?

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