Company of Heroes 2 Review (MrJelly)
Its a fun strategy game and you can have same fun while playing with friends or win a hard-fought game ,But
there are a lot of not so much fun things .
First the game needs your money .3 of 5 functions are locked and allmost all of the good commanders is behind a pay wall or if you collect the coins . To collect your coins you for the cheapest commander you may play over 150 hours .
There is a great inbalance on function power when Axis has 60 % win rate for all the life spam of the game . The game may be more balanced if you play 1vs1 or 2vs2.
There are many tactics who are no skill ,no fun . Some are blobs of elite units,mass artillery, spam mortars who they hit you every time,mg spam(not that strong but no fun early game) to name a few. Thore are more known on 4vs4 matches .
Some of the functions lacks utility and you must buy commanders that can solve the issues that should never be existed to begine with .
But all that i can forgive . What i cant forgive is that there is no punishment for the droppers ,but may it is impossible to punish someone when the server just drops you so many times and its much more horrible that you cant reconnect (maybe they dont know how to do this or becase of the AI bots). There is a AI backup if a dropper exists ,but the AI is useless and gets many bonusis so it may not be 100% garbage.(may the bonusis are the causes of the no reconnect issue dunno). A bot is no match for a average to bad player . SO if a player drops or he lost connection or the server kicked him or something like that the game is over . I have rank 14 on many functions (20 are the highest) and 1187 hours total . I may have seen 10 wins with bots vs players (you may see more on super low elo) , i mean its only possible if the players dont have a clue of what they are doing .
Anyway . In conlusion the game it can be fun in the right senarions ,if you play with friends ,if you play 1vs1 and the enemy may not take a overpowered commander (you can still win but the 60% - 40% says a lot) or maybe a 4vs4 that everyone is on your lvl and they dont drop for some reason.
If you thinking to buy it . Dont . coh3 will come and then we will see if its a buring garbage can or a fair game.
If you want to just try it . Well this game has vast skill gaps that takes time to learn and the missions are all bad cause the AI is bad and you may not learn a thing for player vs player.