Company of Heroes 3 Review (MadonnadelleForbiciArrotondate)
I want to change my review to be more specific about the game and not just be angry about it, and I'm tring not be too long.
I tried the Dinamic-Campaign at the beginning, and it was boring as hell. Didn't go past the prologue. I know they fixed it, but I'm not interested anyway.
The North African campaign is just bad, Tecnically and stategically. Not fun.
So lets talk about the multiplayer.
And those are MY impressions after 1k hours.
This game feels like a toxic relationship: every three or four matches, you finally have fun—and that occasional high keeps you hooked, even though most of the time it’s infuriating.
You tell yourself, “Maybe next match I won’t get run over by infantry blobs, maybe my teammate won’t go AFK at the start, maybe I'll not encounter 5 MGs again...”
But the reality is that several things are too cost effective.
I'm talking about:
-Ranger squads that can single-handedly dismantle entire armies;
-The US Airborne Battlegroup can spawn MGs, better infantry, and AT guns anywhere, so you can skip tier 2 and 3 and go directly to shermans or bulldozers;
-With the Canadians BG you can almost (10 hp or like that) one-shot a full-healt squad with and incendiary granade, even if they dodge;
-British over-repair vehicles that can roam the map unchallenged, eating AT shots like candies;
-Pershing tanks that sprint like Ferraris with cannons on top;
-Bersaglieri that dash across the map, capturing points before you even realize the game has started;
-2-pounder AT guns that pen every vehicle at an MG’s rate of fire with a lot of damage;
-US MG teams shrug off four or five assault grenades, laughing at you;
And the list go on.
And now lets talk about the community, because I already know that a lot of people are complaining about my points.
Other than the usually toxic people that are present everywere, people here divide itself from who says "Axis OP" and who says "Allied OP". I'm none of them, but I'm pretty convinced that Allies are way more easy and less punishing that the Axis.
NOT OP, hear me out you Allies fem-boys enjoyers, N-O-T O-P, just easier.
Let me explain why:
I'm an Axis player, a DAK player to be more specific, and I play 1v1 most of the time because my friends dropped this game after their 3° hours. Plaing DAK feels like you start the game and you are already loosing it. Your units cost more than your opponent, so you have less men on the field and you get easily run over, and they are very situational. They can be good, yes, and there are toxic stategies with them too, yes, but if you want to play "normal", like I do, you are fucked.
Than I switch to USF and Brits.
Man, they are so brain dead that if you loose it's becouse you fucked up multiple time or your opponent is very competent. I never struggle with Allies. I even leave the game open to go to the bathroom and came back, still able to win.
Is it me? I don't think so.
"But the statistics says DAK has the most victory rate..." I don't give a flying fuck about the "data", I'm talking about my experience.
Spam tactics like infantry blobs, cheap-unit rushes, or oppressive artillery/light-vehicle spamming dominate 90% of victorious strategies. And I don't like cheese on my RTS games. Not that often, at least. And it's been three years!
Yes, the DEVs managed to fix a lot of problems that the game had at the beginning, and not only on the balance side. I have to give credit to them.
But man... we are far from having a good RTS here...
The DLCs only worsen the problem. They feels like pay-to-win. New battlegroups are so overpowered they should have been nerfed BEFORE release, not after 2-3 patches, that comes after 2-3 months. It seems like the DEVs didn't even tested them!
Are they fun? Yes.
Do they blend in the game? Absolutely not.
Despite all this, and that's beouse I'm a masochistic asshole who loves to get hurt, I keep playing ... sometimes.
Because that fucking one fun match every four is addictive.
But would I recommend it?
Absolutely not.
I'll change my opinion when things will be different, and I really hope it'll be sooner than later.