Let's be honest, the launch of this game was disappointing. Having been a part of the Co-Dev team, I was surprised at how the launch product looked compared to what we thought it was going to be. But since then, the devs have worked really hard to listen to the community and create the game we've all been waiting for. There was a lot of negativity around the break from Sega, but at this moment in time, I believe that Relic is truly on the right track with CoH3.

All matches in CoH3 are fun. The optimisation is better than it's ever been and the variety of units, maps & battlegroups which have been added to the game in recent months are starting to bring the game up to the high standards that CoH1 and CoH2 brought to the RTS scene. The game is receiving new features and updates regularly as well as balance changes which keep the game fresh.

For me, of course, I'm sad that the game doesn't have a functioning observer mode yet which would allow the tournament community to thrive more than it currently can. That aside, I've waited a year for the right moment to say that CoH3 is a great game and worthy of it's place in the franchise.

They added the in-game store before they fixed any bugs or added maps and content. That should tell you where Relic Entertainments priorities lie.

After finishing the Italian campaign prologue and then spending 15 minutes selecting a unit on the world map and then clicking "end turn" I decided to uninstall the game and start enjoying life again.

I'm not sure who made the decision to put such little effort into the initial stages of the single-player campaign, but Relic/SEGA just lost a sale because of it.

I'm tired of games being released on Steam that front-load all kinds of time-wasting garbage in hopes of putting you over the 2-hour refund window before you actually get to play the game.

Unpopular opinion, it would be a waste if coh3 died cause of the mixed reviews.

Played Coh&Coh2 for hundreds if not 1000 hours, had it before steam.
After experiencing coh3 this weekend i can safely recommend it. Clocked in 5 hours straight on multiplayer.

Alpha was a load of garbage and should have never been released on steam.

Relic is on the right path.

The guano apes as Dawn of War III. Relic Studio has some kind of problem with the third parts of their games. The game has zero innovations after Company of Heroes 2, a deteriorated interface, zero content after 1 year from release. Yes, even graphically the game looks worse than Company of Heroes 2, and the AI in Skirmish and Multiplayer has degraded.
Even funnier is that the game has a campaign in Italy, in Africa, but there is no Italian army as a faction, which was an important participant in the WWII battles in Africa.

Holy Jesus I miss old Relic
I dislike almost every design choice in this game

Cons:
- Balance and "rhythm" of the game is very arcade-y and eSports-y. I would not recommend this game for fans of WW2 as a historical setting for RTS. Multiplayer PvP is probably where it shines
- Graphics, effects and animations are unrealistic and cartoony
- Boring factions
- Also, If your faction isn't American, it's pretty much comic relief
- Camera too zomed in (Guessing this is too for eSports reasons)
- Bad UI, but at least they improved it a lot from the beta. Still not a fan. Having your unit icons at the bottom of the screen is terrible

Pros:
- The skirmish AI seems pretty decent most of the time. Sometimes it will do dumb stuff like just run into you and then retreat, but it seems to be doing decent tactical decisions otherwise
- Sound effects are pretty good

I would much rather play CoH2. It sure wasn't perfect. In fact, it shared some of the cons from this game. But it definitely is better than this

Checked the game out on Free Weekend. I'm a long time fan of the CoH Series and have been playing since 2007-08. I loved Coh1 and generally enjoyed Coh2 (despite a few misteps).

Coh3 however, feels ..off, in so many ways.

First, the most glaring - absolutely terrible UI, it looks like a cheap mobile game.

Second, the visuals - while they generally looks alright, they have a bright, cartooney feel to them. Coh is supposed to be gritty and intense, fully immersed in the horrors of war.

Next, why is the combat so lacking in any punch or impact. Mortar impacts feel like farts, the projectiles are slow. Everything feels like a joke.

Modding was maimed from the get go. We expected a returns to Coh1's possibility for custom unit models. But no, they made it worse.

Sad to see one of the greatest RTS franchises ever, to ♥♥♥♥ itself down the drain.

Issues reported prior to the game's release by the community have yet to be resolved.
Victory points are very fast
No profiles page to see stats or match history present.
No ability to view leaderboards in-game.
No ranked matchmaking in multiplayer.
Fallschirmjagers missing 3D models.
Missing surrender option.
No inventory system - you cannot change the badge, banner, title, basically anything related to your ingame profile personalization.
Only 3 Battlegroups per faction (same amount as in beta). As a result, there are units currently in the game that are unable to be accessed in multiplayer due to there not being a battlegroup made for them.
Only 2 4v4 MP maps (same amount as in beta).
Only 3 3v3 MP maps (same amount as in beta).
No earning of credits after games, meaning no way for us to earn said free credits to later buy things in the in-game store like in COH2.
Untitled Italian unit with Adrian helmet seen in Relic's official COH3 screenshots is nowhere to be seen in the game.
Unable to queue capture orders on the tactical map.
No way to view the map at the end of the game.
No chat room server support.
After the game ends, there is no way to chat with your opponents or teammates.
No ability to name your multiplayer game.
No background sounds of birds chirping, faded gunfire in the distance, etc that was present in previous entries to give off that 'COH vibe'.
No player names showing over units when hovered over them.
No player list in-game in multiplayer (can't tell if human teammate got replaced by AI)
No leaderboards for pre-made teams.
No crushing infantry with heavy vehicles.
Not being able to ram tanks into buildings to create holes anymore (building destruction physics).
Unit statistics not viewable in game, nor what their advantages are.
Not being able to rebind modifier keys like Shift, Alt, and Tab. For example, this makes this a no-buy for some who are left-handed and don’t use a traditional hand placement on a keyboard.
No scroll speed setting (edge panning speed) for those who don't use WASD or arrows as default.
Cannot multi-select control groups with Shift + Numbers, instead it assigns multiple control groups to individual units.
No ability to click on a dropped lmg or anti tank weapon to see exactly what kind of weapon it is.
'Temporary' main menu UI from beta still remaining in full release.
Tiny soundtrack compared to previous COH games.
No ability to have the camera follow a unit you double clicked on (either the unit or it portrait). This was present in COH1/2.
No Bulletin system.
No Observer mode.
Unable to see crew weapons built in post-match stats screen.
No replays (although a workaround is available).
Unable to invite friends from Steam, directly from the steam UI and steam overlay.
Disappointing state of modding tools. Many possibilities were promised by Relic pre-launch in terms of modding, but it seems that turned out to be false and in reality the options are very limited.
Only English language voice tracks.
Bugs:
Devil's Brigade DLC not unlocking for the launch edition of the game for everyone.
Global Unit Control Position keeps resetting itself after each game.
AI failing to attack you in campaign unless scripted.
Custom game server browser broken. For example, you can only see 9 games, no sorting, no searching, no paging of the list. The top 9 games are usually never launched with an AFK host.
Instances where crew served weapons (for example, a US MG Squad and a mortar squad) both got "stuck" in a green covered position (which they were not really stuck or surrounded since it was open behind them) after pressing retreat.
254 Recon Tractor has the ability to call in free offmap mortars, at vet 1 it gains the ability to lock and have an improved barrage overwriting the default one.
US Airborne troops infinite spawn glitch.
Capture point bug. For example, the enemy did not loose tickets. We had 400, they had 39. We still held one, but we tickled down until we lost.
Pings have several seconds of sound delay.
Base building flashing between textures when anti-aliasing is set to high.
Some portraits or icons may appear lower resolution or not scaling correctly to the user interface.
Infantry units having their 'engines be broken'.
Flickering walls bug.
Sound and graphics begin to stutter after certain amount of playtime. Restarting the game fixes.
Airborne models reload their carbines like they are a bolt action.
Some team weapons have their animation speed ramped up way too fast. Example, the Brit heavy mortar.
The Behind Enemy Lines ability for the US Airborne does not function as intended.
When capturing a team weapon, your units adopt previous owner/faction voice lines.
One of the US At gun voice lines is completely bugged, the voice sounds like a squeaky robot.
Howitzers do not angle their guns correctly when firing. They do not match the angle of the shells leaving the cannon.
Some units get stuck when exiting a building depending on surrounding geometry.
Sometimes abilities will overlap existing abilities instead of moving to an empty square in the HUD. This often occurs when upgrading units or unlocking new Veterancy abilities.
Not being able to click on top of the big notifications.
Unable to save skirmish settings.
Icons don’t show when an ability is in use. The only shown the cooldown after the ability end. For example, when I order an mortar to barrage a target out of its range i can’t tell if walked up to the fitting range and started barraging from its icon.
Sometimes cast ability’s are ignored. For example, like when a tank isn’t in range and I cast a Panzerschrank the grenadiers just ignore the order and keep walking somewhere else.
Unit icons inside buildings being off screen unless you can see the whole building, causing you to get suppressed without knowing from where its coming.
No autosave in campaign.
After match stats are hilariously broken and inaccurate.
Minimap has no indicator of which specific unit is selected if you are tabbing through several.
When using "walking stuka" is a circle, which doesn't fit the barrage itself which is instead an oval like shape.
Ultra texture option is locked out for no reason (although a workaround is available).
Pathfinding for vehicles is terrible.
Friends who are online and in-game don’t show up as online or inviteable many times.
Reticle/marker: when you send/direct multiple units to a spot shows only arrow, not the dots+arrow representing each group in the selection.
Things currently in COH3 needing improvement:
In-game visuals look too washed out/bland, require better lightning/contrast. As such, soldiers also tend to blend with the ground, sometimes not being able to instantly see where the model is standing.
Wonky, at times brain dead in-game AI.
Pings are still barely noticeable. COH2 it was too loud and spammy, now it makes barely any sound and hard / impossible to find.
Tank explosions need work. For example, an exploding tank will only become static and give off a tame explosion VFX, unlike in COH2 where it would physically shake, create larger more dynamic explosion, and you would see parts and bodies flying off.
Poor sound mixing. Extremely muffled and needs revamp.
When up

- The kill counters are hard to find on units now. You’ve got to hover over the experience bar. Makes it hard for viewers to tell at a glance. Just makes no sense.
- Missing audio cues for grenades being lobbed (specifically satchel charges)
- Units getting stuck after exiting certain houses.
- No ingame leaderboards
- No proper social system ingame to chat with the rest of the community
- No option to rejoin after disconnecting (it’s 2023 we should have this option now…)
- No observer mode
- No proper replay system
- No depth to ingame tips and guides/ build orders
- The tactical map is a mess with unit cards covering other unit cards
- Machineguns in buildings missing their face direction button.

THE LIST DOESN'T END, UNFORTUNATELY I CAN'T POST ANY MORE HERE ON STEAM...

"Authentic Mechanics"
Don't buy into that if you want to visit this game while thinking its anything like one or two.
Its a farcry from its own title and gameplay is quite clunky and weird compared to previous games, not to mention its sup par voice acting.