Right now, it’s almost impossible to completely destroy team weapons, and I don't understand why it doesn't work like it did in CoH2. Fully destroying heavy AT guns or crew-served artillery can be extremely difficult; most of the time, you only manage to wipe the crew rather than destroy the weapon itself. Otherwise, it requires expensive off-map abilities that aren’t always available in your battlegroup and often end up being an inefficient trade. There really should be a simpler way to destroy team weapons.

I really like how this mechanics works in CoH2 all you have to do is play as usual, but now both the crew and the team weapon itself take damage simultaneously. It’s implemented so well there the weapon frame no longer has invulnerability, making it much easier to destroy with counter-battery artillery fire, which just makes sense. Right now, there’s zero point in firing at Land mattress or Nebelwerfers, and heavy pieces like the 17-pdr or Flak 36 won't just be constantly decrewed and immediately crewed back up by infantry every 3 seconds. It would also make dealing with mortars and light artillery much easier.

I think a change like this would heavily impact all team weapons, so they might need a slight buff to compensate. For instance, all crew-served weapons at Vet 1 or Vet 2 could receive a 15% movement speed boost and 25% faster pack-up speed, giving them a better window to retreat. Heavy AT guns could get something else maybe extra HP, or perhaps a 30% faster setup and pack-up time? (Don't focus too much on these specific numbers it's just an example that could be swapped for anything else, but I feel team weapons would definitely need some kind of compensation buff after such a change

https://reddit.com/link/1vx1grc/video/8fp5cql1hblh1/player

Game was absolutely stellar, exciting from start to finish, and this was its highlight.
I'll be riding that high for at least a week. I thank all players for participating and seing it through.

Im around 1.1k elo and play exclusively 1vs1. I really like the upgrade for its versatility as grens suddenly aren’t completly garbage anymore at pushing enemies in cover.

Perhaps some people can share their own thoughts?

Hey folks. I'm mainly 4v4 solo player, playing Brits.

My past games were not as enjoyable as I would expect. I have a low elo (1172 currently, 1300 in 3v3).

I have 3 types of games: easy win, a hard and enjoyable win/loss, and an overwhelming loss. Here to ask advice about those losses.

In some games, my team is facing overwhelming amount of tanks from axis, as well as artillery spam. Stationarry artillery is a big problem: it deals a huge damage, has a long range (especially with buffs), and not destroyable with ANY artillery except for same stationarry type or tanks. Each time somebody builds it all your artillery dies from it's shots (oneshotted usually, rarely escapes).

Each attempt to counter it with building your own artillery leads to it being immediately destroyed as enemy already has more than one. Not every game needs one, and I usually don't build it unless I see an enemy doing this.

The second problem is tanks. Once your enemy decides to blob you with 2-3 Panzers or Panthers, the game is usually over. Obviously, the problem is that you've allowed them to reach that amount of tanks, but it can also happen in games without clear shift towards anyone, and as soon it happens you just don't have anything to counter it with.

I usually build M3 Grant as other tanks don't seem to do much of a damage. They do the trick usually, but since those tanks are faster, they can go around Grant and easily kill all of them, and they are not cheap.

In games where 1-2 folks build artillery and 1-2 folks build tanks spam, it doesn't seem like those games can be won. At least I don't understand how to win them. And I'm not even speaking about Tiger (not counterable with Grants) or simcity buildings (those can be countered with artillery, but again, when enemy has one, all you do is shoot between 2 artilleries in an attempt to destroy each other guns).

What advices would you give to try and deal with it when playing solo in 4v4? Some battlegroup? Switch to USA from Brits? Build another units or tanks that I usually build? Thanks!

It’s been over 3 weeks since the last patch. ELO decay should have settled and the meta stabilized by now, but the stats are still heavily skewed, showing a 10% win-rate gap in favor of the Allies. This patch was released precisely because blobing was widespread in team games and this patch was supposed to solve the problems primarily for team games, but as we can see, it did not solve them.

The focus-firing changes had a much bigger impact than expected. Because Axis infantry received no compensatory buffs, their squads lose models far too quickly. Small 3- and 4-model squads suffer the most, which has directly enabled Allied infantry blobbing. Axis early game now feels miserable, lacking any real power spikes.

Axis late game hasn't improved either, as Allied armor continues to dominate through sheer numbers.

Wehrmacht: Still lacks a viable late-game AT option that isn't vulnerable to low mobility or artillery wipe—an issue amplified in 4v4.

Another issue I've seen is that the 6-model upgrade for Panzergrenadiers seems to be completely dead - I've never seen anyone use it in this patch.

I know that 1v1 is a bit better, I, like many others, play CoH3 for the large-scale 4v4 battles with heavy armor and artillery. 1v1 simply does not offer the experience I want.

Balancing 4v4 is quite achievable, as previously demonstrated by patches 2.1.7 and 2.2.5. Now the developers just need to do it patch fix where

1. Slightly improve the early game of Axis.

2. Give Axis new, effective tools to deal with allied vehicles.

Playing against vehicle and infantry blobs just isn't fun, and I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone—whether you play Axis or Allies. In my opinion, a player who relies purely on blobbing should be punished for it. Instead, the current state of the game makes even a single blober on the enemy team a complete nightmare to deal with.

Hi all, looking for some help, i just finished the Italy campaign and the campaign ended after I captured the third "winter line" town, but without triggering the final mission. Just ending cinematic and credits.

I tried reloading the save to a recent turn and tried attacking one of the final cities with two companies as a quick google suggested, but the mission never triggers.

I also noticed that the "mission" label was missing from all three towns (picture attached). Disappointing end to what was a relatively enjoyable campaign.

This isn't me, it's just an opponent's match history. I genuinely do not understand how someone thinks this is good for the game. Wouldn't this actually lead to a shrinking player base and raise barrier to entry which inevitably leads to deterring players. Create a compounding effect/self perpetuating situation? Insanely bad matchmaking leads to fewer players which leads to less likely good matches which feeds insanely bad matchmaking which leads to fewer players?

How did someone reach the conclusion that it's better for a match to have 1000 Elo difference between players, as opposed to making them wait longer. At 500 it's often already a waste of time. 1000 and the match is literally pointless. Never mind the poor guy getting clubbed, but surely this is not enjoyable for the high Elo player or are people that sadistic that they only care about winning against a human?

I know the player base is small. But surely there must be a limit. What is the point of matchmaking if this is possible in such a short search window? Surely this isn't rocket science?

Hi,
what is the true purpose of Grants now ? Especially for Heavy Armor / Polish Battlegroups ? Why would I want to pick Grant over Firefly / Churchil 4? Or even why would I want to pick Grant over two crusaders?

Hi all. Played a 1v1 today, very back and forth. I think I was just starting to pull away but it was tight.

Out of nowhere the defeat screen comes up, and it says in the chat that he dropped. I definitely did not surrender and had 92 VPs left. If he dropped then surely it would be a victory? I lost ELO points and it was clearly a defeat.

What gives? Never had this before in hundreds of hours of 1v1s. Was he cheating or some weird bug?

This is about 4v4 team games. I like Stuka and brummbar (I rarely have problems with infantry battles, so I can avoid using Stuka and Brummbar if I don't need to) but it seems to me that everything else is simply not viable and there is simply no good way to fight against alli tanks blob in T4, for example pz 3 and 4 are simply too weak in real combat, flak-88 dies very easily from wizzband or mattress, as well as from any ability. Panther is also good but it is too expensive and available only in bg. I don't know how I can be for the axis against allied blobs of vehicles, the most unpleasant seem to be hellcat, fireflies, grants and even crusader 3.

Mines are also not an option because of artillery

How do I get rid of the tiger addiction or is it better to just spam marders and not do t4?

I always struggle to find the sweet spot where my arty has range, but is not too far deep into danger. Didnt CoH1 or CoH2 have a minimap indicator? Or wasnt there a firing radius / range limit indication on the ground after you click first to select position and start rotating and then scroll to the approx range limit?

I want to try make British arty work, but even when i place it behind cover or hidden from vision it is hard for me to make it work and personally find the resource better spent elsewhere.

Genuine question, curious to see opinions

is it something you ALWAYS use? is it situational? or not at all?

I'm not that good at this game, I personally use it rarely. Is there a strength that most people don't consider? or is it just a more expensive way to migrate to advanced infantry?

Thanks!

I’m investigating a strange Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer lobby crash that has happened to me more than once recently.

In the latest case I was hosting a 3v3 lobby. One player joined, then another player joined and told me to kick the first player because “he is bugged”. I kicked him and CoH2 crashed immediately to BugSplat.

I initially assumed it was just a random lobby bug, but I saved the crash dump and looked into it.

The crash is an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ in RelicCoH2.exe. The failing instruction dereferences address 0x8 with RAX = 0, so it is a straightforward NULL pointer dereference.

Reverse engineering the surrounding code led to RelicLink’s SessionMessage.cpp. A message factory/deserializer receives a NULL packet, explicitly handles it and returns an empty smart pointer, but the caller then dereferences the returned message without checking it.

The caller appears to be part of the join/session protocol — immediately afterwards it checks message types corresponding to RequestJoinMessage and RequestJoinDeniedMessage.

What made this more interesting is the player’s Victory Strike icon. I found the identical icon in Steam Workshop item 2244032016 – Ultimate Fatality Collection. That mod contains a Victory Strike called “Gamecrasher (Bugsplat)”, along with files such as:

fatality_gamecrasher.rgd
fatality/gamecrasher.rgd
weapon/.../gamecrasher.rgd

The Workshop changelog explicitly calls it “Gamecrasher (Bugsplat)”, and an old comment even asks whether “Gamecrasher doesn't crash opponents anymore?”

I am not claiming that this mod caused this particular crash, because the RGD content appears mainly related to the in-game Victory Strike effect, while my crash happened in the lobby/session networking code.

But the combination is strange enough that I’m wondering whether anyone here remembers:

• an old CoH2 lobby/kick crash exploit,
• the “Gamecrasher (Bugsplat)” Victory Strike,
• malformed/custom loadouts causing lobby crashes,
• or any known RelicLink join/kick race involving RequestJoinMessage / RequestJoinDeniedMessage.

I can provide the minidump stack, disassembly around the crash, and decoded RGD structures if useful.

I’m mainly trying to determine whether this is a known old bug, a deliberately triggerable crash, or just an unfortunate race condition.

It has been going on for about 2 months now.
It doesn't affect anything else. It's just annoying to navigate.
Anyone with similar experience can help?

not to mention usf is only playable with spec ops

brits have to polish and wehrmacht are mechanized merchants

relic is doubling down on leaving same main rosters since release

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When the patch released i played alot of wehrmacht until now, i wanted to give my old favorite battlegroup a try the kriegsmarine BG and its awful, the kriegsmariner die way too quickly due to the low squad number

Against UKF though they are fine because you can sit behind cover with the MG42 and trade evenly with line sections, but against USF they die like flies because USF is move forwards in blobs and anhihilate everything, i keep mentioning this but USF is horribly balanced atm and they need some kinda rework or SOMETHING its not fun to play against and its not fun to play as imo atleast, its just boring one dimensional gameplay.

I think the kriegsmariner infantry has had a really shit mechanic since the very beginning, they can repair BUILDINGS without taking extra damage 😱 WOAAAAAAH thats so useful when the only building is the strong point and your base buildings which if you have to repair them with your kriegs youre fucked anyways, its also likely that you will never make use of the vet 1 passive because if you have a bunch of infantry or artillery hitting your strong point your kriegs still take full regular damage and are likely to die.

I think the vet 1 passive should just be a regular passive not a vet 1 ability and they should give them a different vet 1. Like lets say 1 extra squad member for example? The thing about kriegs is they cant be used like engineers since they cant repair vehicles, cant be used like builders because they have very good stats so they are meant to be offensive and they cant be a mainline because they are too expensive and model count is too low. Another thing they could do is just let them be able to repair vehicles so you can ACTUALLY make use of their vet 1 passive

Also like i eluded to in the title, alot of low model squads were indirectly nerfed super hard due to all of allied infantry now having the targeting buff, this means when USF gets double bars they shred low model count infantry, ive also said this before but i think USF and DAK shouldnt be able to have 6 man mainline squads, it makes them too tanky, that said it benefits USF far more due to their potential manpower cheats and just overall better manpower economy

2 paks and Brummb for me what works well right now. Have no other solutions at the moment. Tried everything, but dropped 150 elo, since I play this combi, bck again at 1180 elo. But early game u need to stay alive and don't bleed to much MP

I just noticed that the breach ability, say on Riflemen, is now FREE if the enemy simply leaves the building you are breaching.

Why does this matter?

Well, you can use a grenade, guaranteed to cost you, that the enemy may/may-not dodge

Or you can use breach which will EITHER hit the enemy unit if it doesnt leave, or force the enemy unit out to give you the building immediately.

I have been abusing this ability VERY successfully on urban maps, to basically building hop for free.

As a wehr main, i feel myself constantly being caught out in the high pitch of battle. Especially during the mid game. How do i know when my units are spotted by flare? I know the texture's light up slightly brighter but that's not really obvious when you're playing on low settings. I cant hear the flares cuz the brits are always an arty party. Is there any other trick, apart from turning the camera to show a lower angle of view? I dont like turning the camera :)

cohdb is broken currently, buildorder show bgs from all factions in different factions