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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 28.7 hrs on record (20.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 2 Jun, 2024 @ 10:34pm
Updated: 5 Jul, 2024 @ 1:44am

Runs like absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Game has MASSIVE input lag even on a 1v1. Unit AI is absolutely horrible, so the Developer introduced direct control as a cope to fix the fact that the path finding, unit responsiveness is inferior to games like Homeworld (Released in 1999), Company of Heroes, and Supreme Commander. Developer, after all this time continues to use the same terrible engine.

Units detection is extremely laggy and take more than 1 second to detect units even when the are units only 1 meter apart. Units often take more than 1000ms to respond to an input. Units must be babysat at all times because their AI and pathfinding is very poor. This makes the attack move command often entirely suicidal, even in highly favorable conditions. As units will often and fail to detect units that are shooting at them even with an overwhelming numerical advantage.

Tanks often cannot recognize obstacles that they can crush and instead try and path around them, requiring direct control to force them forward, destroying your ability to multitask.

Units cannot be ordered to actually clear buildings, and instead teleport around the interior. When attempting to command units, the upper floors of a structure become hidden, prohibiting you from issuing orders that target the building's upper floor.

Would not recommend at all. Terrible optimization, terrible UI, terrible controls, lack of refinement and polish. "Direct Control" mode is a crutch to fix terrible unit AI. Playing this game amounts to abuse of the direct control mechanic, and much busywork masquerading as depth.

EDIT: Someone claimed that I'm playing with random people, when even in a 1v1 with a friend who has an exceptional PC (4090 and 13th Generation intel processor i7), and our ping to each other is 80 - there is still incredible, noticeable input lag that last more than 1 or 2 seconds. It is simply unacceptable to have the game perform this bad and it is completely unplayable. I am personally playing on a 12th generation i7 with an Nvidia 3090, this game runs bad like nothing else. Worst performing game in my library.
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7 Comments
Free Luigi Mangione 3 Jul, 2024 @ 9:26pm 
Both me, and the person I play this game with live in Major cities and normally get a ping of around 80ms to each other. I personally have a 3090, I know he has a 4000 series card that's at least a 4080 or 4090. I've also played this game with other US East Americans, where the ping is even lower. I'm also using a high performance router and have zero issues playing other high performance games like Star Citizen, DCS, ArmA, and Arma Reforger.

Playing this game with those people has had a negligible effect on the game, and these same issues are present in single player.

The performance of this game is abysmal in comparison to its contemporaries. There's simply no question about it. Do not buy this game if you want something polished and well made. It is cool for its novelties and that's about it.
Kotojo 28 Jun, 2024 @ 11:29am 
This person is trying to play online with random people and does not reflect the actual product.

The game is peer-to-peer, so if you try to play online with someone who has a bad connection and/or bad PC, or if they're too far away, the game is unplayable.

Usually this is not the case.
The game has great optimization, decent UI, great controls, but it can be rough around the edges a few times with polish because of their constant free content updates.
Free Luigi Mangione 9 Jun, 2024 @ 7:40pm 
I can cook myself a 3 course meal before my units respond with this game's input delay.
Deny, Defend, Depose 7 Jun, 2024 @ 11:28am 
CoH is dog shit compared to this
Free Luigi Mangione 7 Jun, 2024 @ 2:04am 
CoH1 was made in 2007, I'm glad that call to Arms and Gem engine was able to catch up in 2024. I still have an input delay over 2 seconds, terrible unit AI, and you can't direct control up stairs.
Pete 4 Jun, 2024 @ 12:47pm 
You know what Dimitri youuuuuuuuuuuuu know whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Deny, Defend, Depose 3 Jun, 2024 @ 3:59pm 
None of those other games are comparable. Its like comparing Microsoft Flight Simulator to FIFA

No other game has this level of real time multiplayer destruction

Company of Heroes looks like complete shit compared to this game

The only real issue is the AI path finding which they fixed in MoW2, but that game is still inferior compared to this