But Relic wants our feedback on basically everything they’ve put on display so far. There are some planned features that haven’t made it in yet, like the partisan units and the full integration of the character-driven story. I had a hard time completing it in a single day the first time through, and there are enough different ways to make your way up the Road to Rome that it’s worth repeating a few times. Airborne – who can now actually drop behind enemy lines on the campaign map if you have air superiority – and the Indian Artillery fighting for the British, bringing some new cultures and nationalities to the fight.
Each nation has two divisions to pick from, including the U.S. You can actually hire a mix of divisions from both nations in the same campaign, though you’ll have to pick a specific company to lead the charge in each RTS mission. The American and British forces will be playable. In between, you’ll be sending elite sniper teams to assassinate a Nazi officer, rescuing Italian resistance fighters under siege by the Wehrmacht, and planning your campaign across a strategic map that rivals Total War in detail.
The devs didn’t give us a specific roadmap, but they did say future slices might focus more on PvP than the one you can play right now.Īnd what does this slice consist of? Well, it’s a fairly sizable portion of the Italian campaign that begins with capturing an airport to stop the Axis from bombing the city of Naples, and builds up to a climactic and iconic battle at the ancient abbey of Monte Cassino. Each preview will be a self-contained slice focusing on a particular aspect or aspects of the final product that will be available for a limited time. Relic has kept an eye on what their sister studio Amplitude has been up to with Humankind, and we can expect something similar to their OpenDev scenarios. This isn’t your typical Early Access situation. But all that lead time is so Relic can put some unfinished slices of the campaign, skirmish, and PvP modes on our plates and collect our feedback on everything from the strategic layer to the match pacing. Even I was raising an eyebrow when I heard Company of Heroes 3 was being announced in summer 2021 for a late 2022 release. Starting today, you can be a part of that process. It was players they selected who voted overwhelmingly for the Mediterranean theater as the setting, and gave them detailed feedback on the playable armies to make sure they were fun on the field and felt the way both history and RTS enthusiasts felt they should.
Thus, this long-awaited sequel has been a sort of collaboration between the devs and fans since basically the very beginning. Before any battle plans were even drawn up for Company of Heroes 3, Relic flew a small group of series veterans into Vancouver to get their feedback on what the next installment should be.
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