Company of Heroes 3, we tested the map in North Africa, it will be available to everyone soon!

we have I tried Company of Heroes 3But before we go into detail about it, we have to give you some important news: From tonight until July 19th, if you sign up for the COH-Development program on Company of Heroes 3’s official website, you’ll be able to access the same thing on Steam. We tested the task recently.

made available by relic fun and Sega is one of North African Operations, desert-set missions that will be part of one of the two single player modes available when the game officially launches on PC on November 17, 2022. The other mode is dynamic and always different. campaign set in the Mediterranean instead; Scenario chosen with North Africa for major stylistic, chromatic and tactical differences.

Under pressure

Let’s go back to the African desert, here at the head of the savages Afrikakorps We’ll have to pull the Germans out of their trenches, eventually making a pincer move to suffocate any attempts to retreat.

It has been a long time since we played Company of Heroes, a series that we consider to be one of the most important and successful series in the real-time strategy space, but whose exceptional tactical nuances and instinctive action over time we forget. , the density of the picture. strategic. And compared to the previous two games, the developers have stepped up the pressure even more, thanks to the addition of a button dedicated to the game. tactical break which will allow us to summarize the situation and order with more confidence.

Pausing, which isn’t inherently present in multiplayer, is an option we don’t use often, but on those two or three occasions, it was crucial, if not prudent. There is a lot to consider, starting with the morphology of the terrain that affects the movement of mechanized troops, which will now be endowed with weak points and fortified just as in reality, which will require constant re/positioning. best during wars.

In addition, in the first game we played and unfortunately lost, we were deceived many times as a ”.IA One that knows how to make the most of every wrong choice we make, even following us as we retreat, holding our breath and hoping to counterattack.

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It is possible to enlist the help of the army in the North African war. Italian sappers, as you know, allies with the Germans, with strong courage and first choice explosives. Here we also had the opportunity to test out a new and important unit: the wreckage machine, from which it was possible to practically recover every lost and destroyed truck, jeep and tank on the battlefield. The tow truck is a very important add-on, but its ability to recover vehicles of all kinds, even completely destroyed, threatens problems. Will there be a debuff in the full game? Possible.

Convenient and possibility to replace galvanized recruit soldiers to tanks, to move them faster on the map. During the mission, enlist the help of two different air support and a new light vehicle: all these abilities have a cooldown of several minutes.

Look how it crashes!

Not all are deserted! In addition to the British trenches, the map for this first mission of Company of Heroes 3 also offers various structures and a small town where we can test the strength of our artillery. One of the strengths of this sequel is actually remastered physical simulation It will arrange the explosions and collapses of buildings, now more dynamically, progressively and realistically destroyed than before, enriching both the gameplay and the show on offer. To help keep the adrenaline and cinematic effect high, a structured, polyphonic sound system is truly in the highest category. But the same cannot be said for the graphics, which (yet) don’t look very different from the second game in the series, even the 1080p imposed on us during testing certainly didn’t help.

Good strategy doesn’t lie

But damn we had a good time and what a stretch! Company of Heroes 3 seems to take the best mechanics of the first beloved game to combine with the best-loved ideas of the second to create the perfect Company of Heroes. It’s really hard to find any other real-time strategy (pause now!) capable of reversing such dramatic and realistic battles. In Relic, you’ll be fond of individual units as you would in smaller scale games, but in battle scenarios that are much broader than you might expect.

This is pure strategy, guaranteed fun, and absolute competitiveness if everything goes as planned. Ambulance trucks picking up infantry off the ground, blasts of oncoming enemy artillery, wagons jumping between dunes with soldiers perched on them, race under bullets to reach the building on the other side of the railroad. . pure show. And let’s not forget that this will be Company of Heroes with more content at launch, including four different main groups: American, British and German, with the latter split into the Wehrmacht and Afrikakorps.