Hello.
I have been playing the game for ~a week, ~25 hours. It was a big moment when I realized I could be grabbing the two first nodes within the first minute with engineers, before creeps had spawned. Today I figured I could grab even three. It is rather slim margin but definitely repeatable. Wondered if it is common knowledge (could't find anything relevant with search) or something that is not supposed to happen?
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If you can do that then great, there is no such things as a "not supposed to happen", its up to the player to decide how they spend that first minute or so.
No one seems to play with defenders off any more but I did have a few games with them off many patches back and it makes for a very different game. Much faster, and you can harass earlier etc. It's a fun way to change things up. Slightly off topic, but you reminded me with the fast expansion.
This is not defenders off. I am showing in the screenshot that it is possible to capture 3 nodes with engineers before 1:00.
I did not edit in paint put if I had I would point to:
1. Game timer 1:00
2. Mini-map - 3 regions captured.
Yeah I realise that. The 2nd part was just a tangent as you expanded fast and it reminded me of my few games with defenders off
It gives a good boost to economy, however I note the serious lack of a factory (under the pause menu perhaps?). In single player you can use the time adjust feature (-/+ keys next to backspace) to slow and pause the game for less hindered screenshots.
This leaves you open to an early attack if your opponent realises what you have sacrificed to achieve your early expansion.
Ranked matches by default have fog disabled allowing you to see how many nodes have been captured.
In MP, I've won a lot of games due to the player trying to fast expand.
Brian (our AI developer) is working on some rather nasty counter-strategies as well.
Many new players in Company of Heroes would do the same thing and learned the hard way that this is easily countered.
I haven't played MP at all (not my thing). Does this mean most folks in MP play terrain exposed? I'd love to see the AI doing thing people do.
Ranked matches have terrain exposed.
Unranked (custom) MP games can be set to whatever you want. The majority of custom games that I have played in MP have been exposed.
I prefer to have the map hidden, which adds to the surprise when your scouts meet in the battlefield.
that map is like one of 2 maps where you can get early 3 pionts
There are actually plenty of maps where the rick is possible but it's just SO hard. You must take every extra second. This game has very slow unit acceleration so the small things like keeping your engineer at the edge of the node he's getting before moving to the next one and giving your move order a bit before finishing the capture point as there's this huge delay before your engie gets the move order and starts slowly accelerating makes a difference.
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