Company of Heroes Patch 1.6 Out Tomorrow
Yep, the patch will be out tomorrow, assuming everything goes smoothly with Quazal and the servers.
Some things to remember:
- Please remember that patch notes are never as good as playing the actual patch. Please reserve your judgement until you play the patch.
- All CoH ranks will be reset down to Level 10 tomorrow. All players will be given the point ratings of Level 10s (690). If you are below Level 10, you will not be affected. Wins and losses stats will not be touched.
- Any modifications made to Company of Heroes may result in the inability to patch successfully. Before applying any modifications (mods), we suggest backing up the affected files and replacing them before applying any patch. Not doing so may result in the need to re-install the game.
Patch notes for 1.6 are listed below:
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Company of Heroes Release Notes
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v1.60 05/01/2007
General Fixes & Features
- Fixed AI bug that caused retreated units to gather closely around the HQ.
- Worldbuilder now shows territory properly.
- Fixed a crash that occurred while loading old files.
- Fixed a bug in crew switching during AT gun movement.
- Fixed a graphical bug in the replay menu.
- Fixed a bug with unit weapon slots after dropping two weapons.
- Fixed a crash bug when launching saved games from Windows Explorer in Vista.
- Fixed multiplayer maps not drawing boundary lines after a performance test.
- Anti-hacking systems have been integrated.
- Tiger Ace with wreck mesh has been fixed.
- Fog of War can be toggled on and off during Replays in the Replay Menu.
- Scenario packs will show UI images and loading screen.
- Recorded game files no longer saved to disk until after the game.
- Fixed timed ability not triggering on all selected squads.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Panzerschreck to misfire.
- Hyperlinking support added to news items.
- Addfriend and Removefriend commands are now disallowed in game.
Online Fixes & Features
- Players can now see the number of “dropped” games in the player profile screen. (See note below)
- Performance improvements for lobby game pings.
- Performance bar improvements.
- Fixed a rare crash occurrence in the lobby.
- “Play Now” button is disabled if in dev mode or any mods are active.
- Implemented dropping fixes.
- Player ability levels are matched more evenly during automatch.
* “Drops” is actually the count of the games you have been in that the server had to *
* arbitrate the results for. The following things cause arbitration; kicking somebody *
* for lag, having a sync error, “drop-hacking”, and certain kinds of internet *
* connection problems. Players should be aware that all of these things will affect *
* the players trust score. *
Global
- Units using Barbed Wire Cutters are now significantly more susceptible to damage while cutting barbed wire.
- Squads building barbed wire are now capped at two builders per squad.
- Wire cutters are now provided to all players at the start of the game.
- All Anti-Tank Guns have a reduced chance to hit moving infantry targets.
Gameplay Bug Fixes
- Route N13 ambient building repositioned so troops no longer become stuck when exiting.
- Axis Inspired Assault UI indicator will now last as long as the ability is still active.
- Axis Sniper now obtains suppression resistance and a health bonus at second level veterancy.
- Axis Stormtroopers will now come out of camouflage while retreating.
- Removed manpower upkeep cost from mines.
- Axis Advanced Warning Commander Tree Ability no longer applies sight bonuses to Axis Vehicles.
- Axis Grenadier and Stormtrooper squads can continue purchasing weapons packages regardless of the number of times they’ve dropped them.
- All small ambient buildings will now display on the minimap while garrisoned or controlled.
- Allied M3 Halftrack and Jeep armor is no longer highly resistant to projectile ammunition.
- Changed the requirements to use Offmap Reinforcements and paradropped engineers when HQ is destroyed; Mortars, AT Guns and other non-builder units will not prohibit this action from taking place.
- Removed flamethrower death critical on ballistic weapons.
- M8 Greyhound no longer does incremental engine damage to vehicles.
- Allied M10 Tank Destroyer no longer has an unintended accuracy penalty against moving Axis Sdkfz Armoured Cars.
- Axis Volksgrenadier and Axis Knights Cross Holder squads now receive bonuses at their second levels of veterancy.
- Axis Panzerfaust ability no longer has a 50% chance to miss moving heavy vehicles.
- Axis 88mm Flak 36 now receives intended bonuses from support weapon veterancy.
- Tank wrecks found on maps are no longer salvageable.
- Allied Demolitions upgrade moved one slot to the left on the Allied HQ UI.
Commander Trees
- Allied Paradrop AT-Gun cost increased to 350 manpower from 320.
- Allied Pershing now requires more experience to obtain veterancy levels.
- Allied Supply Drop will now cost 200 Manpower.
- Axis Infantry Assault Team cost decreased to 350 manpower from 400.
- Axis Stormtrooper squad removed from the Urban Assault Team and the Armored Assault Force Commander Tree Abilities.
- Axis “Urban Assault Team” has been renamed to “Urban Assault Support”.
- Axis Urban Assault Support cost decreased to 600 manpower from 700.
- Axis Armored Assault Force cost decreased to 900 manpower from 1000.
Gameplay Changes
- Allied M4 Crocodile Sherman range and damage decreased.
- Allied M1 57mm Anti-Tank Gun and Allied Paradrop Anti-Tank Gun accuracy bonus at first level of veterancy decreased.
- Allied M10 Tank Destroyer acceleration speed slightly decreased.
- Allied M10 Tank Destroyer damage reduced versus Axis Light Vehicles.
- Allied M10 Tank Destroyer damage reduced against buildings.
- Allied M10 Tank Destroyer turn radius increased.
- Allied M3 Halftrack cost increased to 25 fuel from 20.
- Allied M3 Halftrack Quad .50 cal upgrade cost increased to 125 munitions from 100.
- Axis Ostwind Flakpanzer area of effect radius increased.
- Axis Sdkfz Armored Car 50mm Puma Gun upgrade no longer requires Escalate to Battle Phase.
- Axis Motorcycle more resilient to small arms fire.
- Axis Panzerfaust ability damage increased versus Allied Jeep.
- Axis Grenade ability range increased significantly.
- Axis Grenade area of effect increased.
Maps
- St. Mere Dumont, Langres, and Wrecked Train Community Maps added to the Custom Games map selection.
- Hill 331 resources rebalanced.
- Point du Hoc resources rebalanced.
- Sturzdorf resources rebalanced.
- Angoville Farms base defenses updated.
- Angoville Farms ambient building positions rebalanced.
- Beaux Lowlands base defenses updated.
- Beaux Lowlands resource positions rebalanced.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Thanks for posting this buggo!
April 30th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
We love you buggo!!
April 30th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Thanks for all the hard work relic. I hope you guys played around with Terror, and Infantry as well to make them more viable. Thanks for releasing the patch notes.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
OMG WHERES AUTO ARRANGE!!!
April 30th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
nooooo!!!! =(
April 30th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Thanks for the head up
April 30th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Hopefully allies won’t be able to supply drop spam their way to victory, and dropped AT guns will be another big manpower hit.
I see armor becoming the dominant doctrine, with fast pershings and AWM to save the day, hopefully it will play out better than I can theorycraft though…
April 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Can’t wait! But I am concerned about how this works…
- Recorded game files no longer saved to disk until after the game
Other than that, looks good.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
A bit dissapointed, but a step in the right direction, I mean, where’s the Pershing CP increase, or AWM reduced spamability, or nebelwerfer and KCH buff
April 30th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
GG
April 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Thanks for keeping us updated
April 30th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
well what can i say is that not what everone has been asking for. looks great good job.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
man where’s the decrease in price of mp 44’s to 50 munitions.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:54 am
Everything seems perfect now, this is what 1.5 should have been. Thx relic and Buggo.
May 1st, 2007 at 1:20 am
good to see this game still getting fixes wether or not ppl agree with them it shows how much devotion to COH is invested!
Good stuff and i toatally agree with this qoute:-
“- Please remember that patch notes are never as good as playing the actual patch. Please reserve your judgement until you play the patch.”
regs,
irogue
May 1st, 2007 at 3:16 am
AWM time action again 45 seconds? pfff rofl .Storms removed from the Urban Assault Team,and Urban Assault Support 600?if Storms removed
make it 300 mp and upgraids 60 ammo.I think 1.6 be nice but it terrible.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:57 am
but i dont play in this patch maybe it be very good.sry me if i is not right.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:04 am
It all sounds very good and should make games a lot less frustrating. Only comment I would make is that the Battletest made some nice changes with the Terror Tree and it is a shame these don’t appear to have been implemented.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:31 am
at first glance looks like great job overall, relic thx 4 posting this buggo
most important to me seems that quad and croc total ownage is finally dealt with, and Airborne has at last got that well deserved nerf…
only one thing i’m really sad about: no buff to rangers (will bazookas ever kill anything?? i know they’re free, but to increase usefullness, maybe make an upgrade available that fires higher powered rockets?,
infantry company in general still needs changes, while obviously it was already the least viable company….
oh, and screw arranged teams, i hate 2v2s
still i cant’ wait to get crack ‘a ‘ lackin’ on the patch
May 1st, 2007 at 4:52 am
“where’s the decrease in price of mp 44’s to 50 munitions.”
Thats a very good point
I also wonder:
Why does an normal Tiger cost 900MP now???
1000MP-400MPAssaulttroops = 600MP or at least 650MP for an Tiger
—>Tiger increased by 300MP from 600to 900MP
—>Stug increased by 300MP from 300to 600MP
May 1st, 2007 at 5:41 am
nice another patch, but i was hoping for more changes to make some units/trees more useful.
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imo with this patch relic has proven again that its worth to buy relic games, overall great support.
its almost like one patch for every month
May 1st, 2007 at 6:34 am
Lobby ping fix!!!! Thank you!!!!
Excited to play these out and discover the undocumented changes!
3 New Maps, and 3 changed maps! Wow its a new game indeed. The wire changes are going to revolutionize 2v2s in the early game…which on maps like lorraine and rails and metal is a very very welcome change!
May 1st, 2007 at 6:48 am
I have some reservations with what has been announced, some areas (from these release notes) haven’t been touched at all. The viability of infantry in 1 v 1 is still something that needs to be looked closely at. The early wire cutters has made wires defunct (a better idea being that u could only build in sectors u control). I will however go into this patch with a clear mind and hope for a brighter COH future.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:48 am
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May 1st, 2007 at 6:59 am
a ha very good patch
I hope it can been released as quickly as possible
May 1st, 2007 at 7:18 am
Thanks for all the work from Relic, I love the game and all the patches!!!
I just can’t wait to the new Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts will come.
So thanks to all the Relic guys!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 7:21 am
I hope the new maps are very funny and good!
May 1st, 2007 at 7:42 am
No buff to Terror at all, by far the worst tree of all. I would have liked to see some major changes to that.
Nice to see some of the more powerful Allied units got looked at. AT guns, Halftracks, M-10.
Can’t wait to play it.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:28 am
i was really looking for to arranged 2v2s being implemented, guess it isn’t going to happen from these notes, real shame - i prefer 2v2s and the system to get with your mates is quite tedious.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:29 am
Sorry to double post but 3v3 maps - PLEASE GET RID OF THEM
May 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am
The weak gets weaker and the strong gets stronger!! why do the axis need all these enhancments!!????
May 1st, 2007 at 9:45 am
I agree with Barton: nice to see the Croc, AT, and M10 dealt with. The Croc was just silly. Good to see some map rebalancing.
To those who were hoping for a Terror buff: you got one, indirectly. If the Blitz Tigers don’t come with the free stormtroopers anymore the Tiger Ace looks even better now.
The bottom line is Axis got fixed. Many, many units will now be far more reliable. Thanks for the commitment. I love the 3v3 maps.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:25 am
when they say X thing damaged nerfed. It really does not mean much. Thanks alot buggo, we really cannot know if axis were fixed just by looking at the changelog. Tomoz we will though.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:00 am
[…] Update: 1.6 Release Notes here. WOO TIGER ACE MODEL BUG FIXED.
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May 1st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
OK…I noticed that all the ones playing acis are celebrating …and they are the only ones. As if Tigers were not cheap enough, now the price has been decreased, and all I noticed that this patch is nothing more then buffs for the axis. Is it that the people at relic truly wanted the axis to win the war, or did the already stacked games of a 4v4 possibly turning into an 8 Tiger match not really suit it for you guys? Nope, just make the Axis even stronger they said. Why? I mean…why make all Axis stronger, it’s not like tey were weak before. I understand Allies get Fire Up and Axis gets Cloak, but seriously, cloak is more useful. But thanks for fixing the full speed cloak thing. That glitch was totally uncool.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
“As if Tigers were not cheap enough, now the price has been decreased”
*facepalm*
Ok, math time:
Pre 1.6 Tiger call in ability = 1000 MP
Pre 1.6 Stormtroopers = 400 MP
1000-400 = 600 MP
Tiger = 600 MP
1.6 Tiger call in = 900 MP, no storms
900 > 600.
Unless you didn’t use stormies, then you’re just dumb.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for the changes and the updates relic and buggo.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:43 am
“To those who were hoping for a Terror buff: you got one, indirectly. If the Blitz Tigers don’t come with the free stormtroopers anymore the Tiger Ace looks even better now.”
Are you trying to be funny?
Cuz it really work, like one of those Jerry seinfield joke….
Bottom line is we should appreciate relic’s effort, thanks dev guys! But I feel that to balance the game, there is still long way to go. For example there is no balancing on:
AWM,
airborne-strafing run, free supply drop
but there is nerf on axis:
urban and armor assault team.
Think I just have to play the game to see.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:06 am
When is the DirectX 10 patch coming out?
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 am
I wouldn’t know if its any good, as have just downloaded it and (surprise, surprise) I cannot apply more than one patch EVER.
Version 1.0 to whatever works fine, but have not been able to patch on top of an existing update yet. As there is no English 1.0 - 1.6 patch, I guess I will never play this online. Is it worth me buying Opposing Fronts? Beginning to think not and this bothers me as it is such an excellent game.
Can you help Buggo? Any suggestions?
(I have all the DoW games & they update fine - does anyone know whats going on? I’m gutted and most forums I’ve seen don’t offer any relevant solutions)
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
CaptainSolvite:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=133139
Start there.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Thanks UberJumper. Have seen your post before, but just stumbled upon something much more simple than that…
1. Right-clicked on RelicCOH.exe in the installation directory to see file version (1.4.0.10426); after applying 1.0 - 1.4 update
2. Used regedit to view “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Company of Heroes” where I found the version to be still as 1.0.0.99
3. This got me thinking… Is it always seeing game as initial install? I couldn’t amend the value, so right clicked the edit tab (in regedit drop down menu) and changed permissions to full control (for that key only). Guess you have to be an administrator account to do this; why this value was blocked - I do not know; most others aren’t.
4. Amended version value to 1.4.0.10426, and lo and behold, the 1.4 - 1.6 update installed fine, (and updated registry version to suit). Am online setting up profile now.
Hope this helps other users too. I’ve seen a few similar patching complaints.
Yippee. “Opposing Fronts” back on the shopping list
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Freakin’ sweet. Relic kickin’ it, as always.
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:43 am
So I got 1.6 and it says it cannot find the game! So it ays the game needs to be installed again! Thanks a lot!
May 6th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Great. Installed 1.6 and it destroyed the game. Loads up multiplayer then crashes before getting to the game screen. Reinstalled video drivers. No dice. Reinstalled CoH and guess what? When I install 1.0 to 1.4 patch the game no longer even STARTS - just crashes. Great work guys. Bravo. Encore. Now you want me to pay $2.48 a minute to get this mess fixed. Way to waste my Sunday night.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:37 am
CaptainSolvite: There isn’t even a THQ folder in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\. What a joke.
May 9th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Adrian: On my PC (running XP SP2) the above information is correct, and I have double checked to confirm so. I realise this isn’t a forum for technical support, but I was responding to UberJumper’s post.
I know from several forums that people have been having difficulty in applying patches (and therefore playing online) and basically was trying to help.
I was frustrated and disappointed, but now have an online profile and am enjoying the update as intended (albeit I am a newbie). Make of that what you will.
June 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I had always hoped that very good anti infantry units, (flame tanks, snipers, flak tanks, and any other heavy machine gun team would be able to kill the crew of some of the lesser armored vehicles like jeeps and motorcycles even the gunners for the axis flak tank and armor car turrets which have no roofs, or any other vehicle which has no roof. I know that would take a lot of work to change, but I think it would be rather cool to loot an enemy motorcycle or axis flak tank, Ive always wanted to loot an enemy flak tank.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Hey, Solvite, if you’re still checking this, (or anyone else), could you tell me what the value containing the install path is in “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\THQ\Company of Heroes”
I’m having the problem that it can’t find the game, I’m afraid it may have been because I moved the folder, and now I need to modify the install path.
Also any other important registry values like version I’d need in there? Thanks.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Does anybody know how to install the patch onto the game?
September 24th, 2007 at 10:53 am
NERF TIGER ACE!
October 26th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Will Comapany of Heroes ever get VoIP? It is still a bit time-cosuming to talk to allies with the current chat system; VoIP might be nice.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Khalifson, to install the patch (if you already have it), just double click it.
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