Gamers of Steam, Microsoft Game Pass and Windows store users should now be able to join the fight together, regardless of their PC gaming service of choice. It also touts greater overall game stability for gamers and impressively, enables crossplay between several PC platforms and launchers. The 64 Bit Update, enhances the graphics and performance from the original 32 bit version, now known as Legacy Mode. RELATED: 5 Strategy Games We Wish Were Ported To Consoles (& 5 That Can't Be) The developers took to the company website to chronicle all of the impressive changes and upgrades that are now live for the enduring World War 2 real time strategy game. Relic Entertainment, long time developer of the Company Of Heroes franchise, has gone above and beyond in releasing game improvements many years after the fact.Īrriving a staggering 7 years after release, Company Of Heroes 2 is getting massive game updates and a completely graphical overhaul. The final game is shipping from Sega for the PC on June 25.The hallmark of a great developer is the consistent ability to provide on going support and updates for the game in question. “We’ll keep on expanding this cooperative mode,” Watts said. Relic is also preparing a second Theater of War pack for those who preorder Company of Heroes 2. It was an interesting take on the early stage of the war, where the Germans had a lot of advantages but were vulnerable at the same time. In fact, I did manage to take the last control point, but then I lost my last infantry unit to the Russians. At one point, you can take over a repair depot that fixes your tanks and keeps them alive for a longer time as the Russians launch a counterattack. And I had to make liberal use of German artillery and air power. This exposed my infantry, but kept my tanks alive. I had to creep into some locations to avoid ambushes. In this match, I had to take a bunch of points that earned supplies for the Germans without losing all of my infantry. I played this mission over the course of a half hour or so. You have to avoid booby traps and deal with a limited number of tools to win. In another map, you’ll have two squads of infantry along with armor to take a whole map. During that time, you have the benefit of a daily morning artillery strike. Some of the missions can also involve multiple players in cooperative mode, such as a battle where you have to hold a map for three days and three nights against enemy assaults. We held this as a surprise until the end.” “With Theater of War, we have a mission pack to tell a story within the larger war. Company of Heroes 2, the long-awaited sequel to the most widely acclaimed game in Relic’s history, makes its historic return. “It allows the player to get used to different kinds of multiplayer strategies in solo missions,” Watts said. You can face off against different kinds of artificial intelligence, such as one that turtles up with defenses around its artillery, or another that builds only tanks so it can rush you. For instance, in one mission, you only get two or three squads for the entire battle, and you have to keep them alive as you take a series of strong points. The new missions bring about different kinds of play that you may or may not pursue in multiplayer games. Big battles of 1941 are in Theater of War missions - engagements that the main games doesn’t cover. While the single-player campaign follows a strict narrative - a story about the war - this new mode offers battles that illustrate other important moments between the Russians and the Germans during the first part of the war, said Simon Watts, a spokesman for Relic in an interview with GamesBeat. I played one of the missions and found it to be a lot of fun. That’s a huge amount of additional content, considering that the single-player campaign itself has just 14 missions. The new Theater of War mode is a cooperative single-player mode that serves as a bridge to multiplayer play.Ĭompany of Heroes 2, which Sega picked up along with Relic from the ashes of THQ, will ship with the 1941 pack of Theater of War missions, including nine German and nine Russian missions. Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes 2 development team is dropping a very pleasant surprise today on fans who have been waiting for this real-time strategy game to debut.
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