technically an amazing game but the predatory business practices of gaijin are always weighing on my mind while i grind for an obnoxiously long amount of time. still gonna keep playing though.

one of the more interesting mods for COH, portraying one of the more interesting lesser known sub-conflicts of WW2. If it had continued development i genuinely believe it could have been an amazing experience, but like most COH mods development for it seems to have died off. Instead we're left with a pretty good experience, not withstanding a number of glaring issues.

i really like the attention to detail. It's above and beyond what was necessary for the mod, they could have tried half as hard and i don't think the overall quality of the mod would have decreased too much, but they went the extra mile and it's cool as hell. The balancing is mostly alright, there's some questionable decisions imo like the Japanese can't build trenches and some of the Chinese stuff feels super OP at times (the breda is insanely annoying) but this might be stemming from the biggest shortcoming of this mod

this mod is super cheesy. I play mostly PVE, though, but i can't imagine a lot of this stuff wouldn't be worse in PVP. the artillery guns/mortars are super abusable (and the AI abuses the ♥♥♥♥ out of them) with virtually no way to counter them. They'll wipe out entire units in one shell and you do anything but run away, charge them to try to take them out, or use your own artillery and hope they get a lucky hit.
The AI overall is kinda broken for some reason, even on normal difficulties with normal popcaps the AI will zerg rush you with regulars before you even have the building to make your own regulars, tanks, arty, etc. It IS kind of cathartic if you can survive long enough to get a foothold, though, since it genuinely feels like you accomplished something. This happens no matter what faction you play as, chinese or japanese, the AI always bumrushes you. This can happen in base COH and many other mods, but it def feels cranked up to 11 here, not sure what happened. Could just be that the progression in the mod is set up in such a way that the AI finds a way to abuse it, dunno.

I will also say the AI feels kinda smart in this mod? which i feel like is also an accident. They will find a weakness in your defenses and exploit it, utilizing abilities to push thru in a way that i haven't noticed in other mods or the base game. One example is when the chinese have those German trained units, they'll use their ability that makes them immune to machine gun suppression to charge up and throw a grenade at your MG which almost always kills it.

i just wish the AI wouldn't spam tanks :( early game with infantry and light armored vehicles is my favorite

its literally the best game ever made. Not joking.

PRETTY EPIC GAME I HAVE MANY HOUR PLEASE PLAY GAME AND SUPPORT DEVELOPERS (WHO LEFT OBSIDIAN AND ARE FREELANCE BTW) SO THAT THEY MAY MAKE THEIR NEW GAME ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS IN OUTERSPACE

an interesting and very fun continuation of Postal 2

quite possibly my favorite game to date

this game is ♥♥♥♥

i honestly feel that this is the most boring of the paradox games i've played so far
it starts out fun at first for an hour or two but after that you sit around doing nothing cause what else is there to do?
i generally don't play european nations, though because i think europe is pretty overrated and i wanted to have experiences with non-europeans (so i've played as the North american natives, Japanese, and West africans.) maybe the game is much more fun if you like european nations, idk probably.

I only have 1 dlc, but i've played multiplayer with me friend and he owns every dlc but mandate of heaven and it's still the same story. Boredom after an hour, maybe two if you have a real goal.

i think the biggest shame to me is the Americas, they're so bland and empty and boring it's the most unfun part of the game to play in. Take my apache playthrough, i became strong while everyone else literally didn't change to the point i got so bored i decided to use cheats to give me settlers and expand as fast as humanly possible and wait for europeans in hope that they would give me something to do.
i gave up before europeans arrived, or at least got close enough to harm me.

why am i recommending this then? because fundamentally it's a good game and i can see why so many people like it and i'm sure if you had more interest in european history you would really enjoy this game, but i find it a bit hard

when you increase the price of an old ass game

parajew