FYI. COHO has launched a private beta. Trying to get a hold of a key at them moment ^^

Reading the article on GR it seems as though it may be limited to North America. gl

The beta or COHO in general? I know COHO can be played by people outside America, I already asked a Relic admin this question. Or are you referring to the beta?

if you already have the game then its basically useless

I got on the beta testing team! Only 17 minutes till download is complete

Unfortunately I cant give any of the details away as its a closed beta with non-disclosure agreement etc etc

Between Wednesday and Friday this week there will be an open public beta release (with 20,000 keys available). If anyones interested you can find out more on the COHO website...

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Played any yet? I havent played much MP mostly went through some campaign levels and played against bots. Personally think it adds alot to the game from what Ive seen so far. Especially 2v2.

I had my first game today. I'm surprised that there is not really any... gameplay changes, other than the reward system....
It seems okay... definitely adds a bit of freshness to what is now an old game.

Yer Im glad they havent messed with the game dynamics too much. Although there were a couple of things like MGs have become slightly stronger... I think the Wher MGs got a LOS increase and the AMI MG gets a damage and/or suppression increase. But the whole early AMI/late Wher is still there.

I think COH on CG could be freshened up simply by adding some community maps, Engleton for example.

Or perhaps even introduce the Russians.. the v1.2 patch is quite good and fixes a lot of balance issues as well, including some remaining issues in vCOH

Samo, you may have hit the nail on the head. I've been reading up about the latest EF mod patch and they have also tried to balance the problems with the original.
Will be looking to play a few games to test this out. The whole ladder might switch over to EF if they have patched the OP'ness of a few game breakers. ROO's and strafe anyone!

I don't see the problem with strafe so much as roo's?

what's everyone's problem with strafe?

There is no warning, the strafe happens before you see the plane on your minimap. Its lame...its a 150 muni I win button that takes out shit loads of MP for **** all muni's.
It's just as bad as using the Insta-arty the brits have. It's the fact that every other ability has a warning before it strikes.

prop war does not have a warning, neither does sector arty for that matter and as far as i have been playing i have never had a problem with the strafe. The only way i can see it being a problem is when you employ an extremely heavy inf strat and "blob" up. Not to mention 150 is not **** all muni's, it's actually quite a lot, same as off map 105 and it does no damage to buildings, emplacements, vehicles or vetted units.

To be brutally honest there is really only about a 10-15 min window of opportunity to use the strafe to its advantage in a game as it is 3 CP's in to the tree and so you should be seeing the first bar of veterancy on units or even be in T3 by the time it comes to the field, so unless you can get a really good run and wipe out a few units you've just spent you're first CP's in the wrong direction of AB tree and the wehr will be well on their way to pumas, and if it's PE then AC's will already be on the field.

I'm sure there will be people who disagree but the fact remains i have never been strafed out of a game yet and i am ranked 15+ in every single faction 2v2. Diversity is the key, not pissing and moaning that someone has countered my strat by doing exactly what they needed to do. If you're being strafed out of a game stop blobbing and adapt, get some vehicles and that ability is negated, or get some veterancy.

Don't get me started on roo's, 1 sec arty, pio spam or bren self-heal tho.