FREE BETA Company of heroes opposing fronts

[dark1991]

You now can download this beta in fileplanet with a free account here.
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/coh_of/ [nofollow]

[William]

Thank you very much for that info!

[Dominic 'Dragon' Cassidy]

Can't wait, but thanks to sucky Fileplanet, i have to wait 30 more mins before i can start downloading.

[dark1991]

Good Game, the british are better than panzer, and finally we can chose the weather

P.D. In torrent ( i think that work )

http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=1464 [nofollow]

[Dominic 'Dragon' Cassidy]

I love you, i tried to download it 4 times from Fileplanet, each time after waiting 20-30 mins in line, it wouldn't work. Im finally downloading it now. Thanks.

[Tim270]

Its an ok beta however the Brits are WAYYYY overpowered at the moment.

[Dominic 'Dragon' Cassidy]

Not really, i mean, if played right, you can beat them. But the emplacments to put the strength up a notch or 2, and most of their tanks.

[Tim270]

The Stuart tank canister shot can take out atleast 10 men in one shot, that is the worst but it is horribley balanced.

[ConquestSavior]

I fail to see a purpose for the panzer elite in OF.  I've been playing this since the closed beta started, and I can and have won many times as PE, but if the brits are played correctly it is very hard to make any progress. 

Tommies with vet LTs are godlike, PIATs destroy armor plus 17 pounder guns that are no longer bugged, canister shot, the insane amount of artillery, glider spam, rifle grenades are about 3x as effective as a pineapple of doom when taking on garrisoned units, button is a horrible ability. 

The panzer elite on the other hand are just terrible.  They tech like Allies, except there's about twice as many things to upgrade or unlock.  Most of the time you have to build a building, and then reserach an unlock before you can even begin building the unit you're looking for.  "Panzer" Elite should be renamed Halftrack Elite; there are no tanks.  You get called in panthers as an end of the game ability.  Other than that there is no true tank available.  Panzer IV F1 is an anti-infantry short barrelled 75mm howitzer.  Marder, Jagdtiger, and Hetzer are tank destroyers without turrets.  The whirbelwind is a somewhat better version of the Ostwind.  Again, the only true tanks available are the called in panthers, the Panzer Elite has no access to Tigers or buildable Panzer IVs and Panthers.

The halftracks and armored cars are insane, there are 1) 250, 2) mortar, 3) vampire, 4) AT, 5) munitions, 6) armored car, 7) scout car... yes, 7 light armored vehicles.  2 of which have no way of defending themselves whatsoever (munitions and vampire), another 2 that are situational (250 with infantry onboard and mortar halftrack), and in general they are all very very easy to kill.

Their infantry is their only saving grace, but even then they require large numbers of squads with maybe a dozen total upgrades.

Panzergrenadiers start with 3 squad members, upgrade to 4.  Anti-tank grenade upgrade, incendiary grenade upgrade, point capping upgrade, veteran seargent upgrade, repair upgrade, zeal, sprinting.  MP44, schrek, and Gewher 43 weapon upgrades.  It's possible to tech up and build straight anti-tank squads or MP44 assault squads that come equipped with their weapons, but they cost more manpower to do so, which from my experience is the most important resource in CoH games.

The doctrines don't even make that big of a difference; Luftwaffe is like a crappy version of Defense, Tank hunters are kind of pointless unless you just really want AT mines, upgraded tank ammo, or a jagdpanther.  Scorched Earth is in my opinion the only good doctrine.  It allows on map artillery in the form of the Hummel, it allows you to create unpassable AT obstacles, booby trap points and buildings, and knock out resource points.

I think the biggest improvements from OF were in the form of Terror Doctrine for the Wermacht.  Tiger Ace replaced by King Tiger, V1 changed, firestorm given fire damage.  (also, walking stukas given fire damage, they're amazing)

[Lone Commissar]

Is it any good just the download is taking forever.

[Soviet_Marine]

Well, i have download and played OF free beta for 3 hours.

Here some... ideas
 ConquestSavior
"Halftrack elite"? Better call it "Halftracks and a-cars and not elite. Oh, there is some pazergrenadiers too"
 Only "PZ-Elile" infatry unit i have used - panzergrenadiers. But they "want to die" and die when i tried to attack
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Tommies are realy owerpovered. And their mobile base is thing called "i cant see any balance there!". This damned HQ truck always run away from me. And this creeping barage is like tactical nukes - "BAMM! BAMM! BOOM!" and no survivors.