When those plans break, it's often not clear to them what they did wrong. Players are greedy algorithms, in that they naturally overoptimize for what feels good now, and end up creating very fragile plans.

'Defending against mobile units that might come and slaughter me' is very low on the list of casuals' priorities. I think this is really important when thinking about team games. So you might have a mobile tank, but nowhere safe you can take it. Then once you do get some mobility, you run into the problem of all the weapons being strong-good range, high damage. Getting anything with an engine costs Fuel, a rare resource. Units in CoH2 are very slow relative to Starcraft. And at the extreme, the actually most popular team games, like soccer, have complete forgiveness of attrition-that is, the enemy team scoring a goal doesn't remove one of your players from the field! Low mobility, high area control Even in 'hardcore,' one-and-done genres like Battle Royale, players can just start a new game.

CoH2 has 'worker units,' but they're more like construction SCV's-they don't harvest resources.įinally, on the theme of 'forgiving attrition,' I think it's worth pointing out that the most popular team games-shooters and MOBA's-are all quite forgiving of attrition, with built-in respawn. In SC2 you can be completely knocked out of the game if you lose enough workers. Thus army size differences tend to balance out over time.įinally, there is nothing as essential and vulnerable as SC2 worker units. to minerals in SC2, is rubberbanded-you get more of it the fewer units you have. In addition, the Manpower resource, the 'main' resource, equiv. So 'losing' a skirmish is not actually that costly in terms of resources, but rather in position. In CoH 2, infantry squads have a 'retreat' button which sends the squad running back to base at high speed, where they can be reinforced for a low cost. But they all have a common theme-anti-snowballing. I think there are a few reasons for this worth looking at. Meanwhile, in Company of Heroes 2, 4v4 is one of the most popular modes. I thought I'd share some thoughts and observations.įirst, let's highlight something kinda weird: in SC2, anything more crowded than 1v1 is seen as basically a joke mode. I think it was on the Pylon Show Kevin said they were interested in teamplay, and how to make it work.

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