That article was dated 2007!
The only good thing going forward is we are getting a new retail COH patch. I hope they continue to do something with COH.
COH Online was an imbalanced mess. There were so many item upgrades and heroes that were ridiculous. It really broke the original game dynamics. For example the MG42 was originally just a suppression/crowd control mechanism, but the upgrades in COH Online buffed MG42 damage into lethal showstoppers which gave an unprecedented early game advantage to Wehrmacht. This was in addition to the superior Volksgrenadier buff upgrades, which further made early-game tier 1 very strong.
Ooops about the article. I was refering to a german article but that would have been of little use for u folks. So I googled an english equivalent. Sorry about that.
Sure CoHO was imbalanced. Still I had my fun. And a 4vs4 within 1 minute. I admit I was very sceptical at the beginning, just like you. Still I kept trying. Now I'll miss it. And without a major fix for vanilla CoH it will feel like somebody would have shutdown FH1 for you to return to vanilla BF1942. Pretty impossible. But I experienced that many who abstained from CoHO for a matter of principle do not understand this. Be it so.
