Thank you Patrick, this is amazing! Keep up the good work.

i think you guys forgot about volumeteric landscape destruction
sure them craters looks "there" but in reality these crater are nothing like other CoH game because they looks straight up flat with just a new colour of crater painted on them
please dont forget about this thing

(Test 1 Video) It looks Really Awesome but need still Improvement Take only MG and shoot with It Only at the Same Point.

1.How will It Look like by shooting with Sturmpanzer IV (Brummbär) or Other One ? ? One Shoot = One Destroyed Building ? Record It Next Time with Big Caliber ??

2. Shooting with Flak 88 ? Would be There a Big Hole ? or has It the Same Effects

(Test 2 Video) ? WTF ? Almost Nothing Hit ? but Building was Destroyed

(Test 3 Video) Wow! This Roof Tiles are Amazing ? Few falls, Few slows down ?GJ. The Sad Thing is... Buildings are Destroyable and Human Parts not ? This Guy (00:17) He could get up and continue His Fight ?

PS. Emojis doesn't work here...

COH has always been about pushing graphical fidelity and it's good to see the ethos continue. Of note, COH3 Destruction Test 4 video seems to have the same building collapse sequence as COH2. Here though the building crumbles realistically with physical debris, though only a for a brief second, and then defaults to a set collapse animation 'texture' mesh? Be nice if it could all be physics based (maybe as higher graphical preset if too taxing).

PlugDoctor wrote:

Test 2 and 4 feels really satisfying to watch, while 1 and 3 still feels kinda off.

Problem is, for example, since its a brick building, for some reason projectiles hitting the roftop randomly knock out parts of the brick wall, which looks really strange. Because since its not a direct hit, but rather a shockwave which knocks out parts of the wall which again looks very unrealistic.

Not to mention that brick buildings tend to be quite resilient to damage. Its rather a holding matterial (cement) getting damage from either shockwaves or any other type of damage, resulting a collapse of larger sections of the building or a direct damage to the bricksthemselfs resulting a destruction of the bricks. 

Right know, mentioned destruction on the brick building looks like, bricks were just placed like a domino which can be just knocked off in pretty much any place by any kind of impact.

There is a good game called "Teardown" focused on pretty much simulating destruction of buildings\objects made of different materials and here is how brick destruction looks in it

Battlefield + Brick Rigs = This Game heh 

Looks really awesome, hope you guys polish it with dust on the remains of the buildings, it looks great.

Looks like it needs work but I like the sub material such as the wood and stuff below the roof tiles.  The buildings collapse look horrible, I get the building falls through the map or disappears or is swapped with a new model when destroyed but it needs smoke/dust to cover that transition when the building collapses.   The micro destruction also looks off, some of the material feels like it has no weight and either slowly slides off the roof or just feels off, doors and windows are unshattered or destroyed, it just looks off. When mortars/arty hit the roof they don't just stop at the roof, make them hit the second floor or have different types of damage depending on the size, it looks weird to just stop on the roof and to see an attic. 

I think the best one is the first 1st in total. The worst is the 2nd followed by the 3rd.

TLDR: It needs more VFX, smoke, directional dust, more polish.

very nice, please continue push the technicalities of the enigne. please use as many cpu cores as logically to scale upwards for the next 5 years.

today we have mesh shaders, vrs and dlss, to also display destructions with resources saving.

please also look to model this physics to other ingame world objects. like walls, vegetation, bridges. 

i hope small arms and pintle mgs can damage cover and inflict some deflection damages too. with new physics engine, cover can have more realistic and gameplay affecting logic

Any chance some of the larger buildings could leave an enterable husk? or a husk troops could climb/walk over? Thinking of monsters like the church.

And again no word on the missing terrain deformation!

Ich thougt that of you remove that from coh you should tell us. It was a major graphical feature from coh 1 and 2. 

Please tell us if it has not been added yet or if it is removed for other reasons. 

ItsATrap wrote:

And again no word on the missing terrain deformation!

Ich thougt that of you remove that from coh you should tell us. It was a major graphical feature from coh 1 and 2. 

Please tell us if it has not been added yet or if it is removed for other reasons. 

good observation.

please dont remove this. 

just push back deploying more factions at launch. 

relic must get the basics right first

coh1/2 all start with 2. I am nervous when relic promises coh3 will start with 4-5 factions?

here you say you are a small team. so dont. 

test 4 of the full collapse kinda looked a bit mehh... but the otheres sounded and looked amazing  =) roll on beta !!!!

Hopefully you guys will slow down the collapse of the buildings, right now it looks kinda weird with how fast the collapsing part disappears.

Thank you Patrick for the showcase!

It looks decent, but with room for improvement. Before I post the negative points, I would like to point out the good stuff. I'd be happy if you or someone else of the team could also answer some questions.

Good stuffs:

- Attention to detail. I really love how much thought you put into materials and consistency of debris. Looks like a small point, but what makes Coh2 great for me is how authentic the battlefields look. In CoH2, there are single stones sticking out of half-destroyed brick walls. This makes it MUCH more immersive. Whenever you guys feel like you work on irrelevant details, be assured: I notice, and I am sure others do as well. And we also appreciate, because it sets CoH apart from other games.

- Damage effects on the buildings look great.

- Layering of textures looks very authentic, making holes and damaged walls believable

- I love how debris falls out of walls.

Now, the negative part:

- How much computational power will this take? Will there be options to reduce effects for older machines?

- Generally, some effects feel overdone

- Some debris chunks that fly off spin like crazy (clearly visible in the first seconds in vid #1). This looks odd.

- Some debris pieces fly VERY far off the impact. This looks odd especially if they are large pieces.

- collapsing of buildings looks sub-par. Half of the building falls visibly into the map and/or through lower floors. In previous games, this was covered up with a lot of smoke, and it should be done here probably as well. It looks especially out of place if so much work is done to keep debris consistent before the building collapsed.

- In vid #3 at 0:06 , the impact seems to spawn additional debris parts. Other debris chunks near the impact just slide down without any acceleration, while the additionally spawned parts get tossed across the map. This discrepancy looks odd.

- I'd like to see more dust emerging when debris falls out.

- the shell impact of artillery felt, well, unimpactful. There was no real punch to it. Maybe you guys scaled down the effects for the showcase to not obscure the buildings. If not, this should be looked at. Games like Post Scriptum in my eyes did explosions exceptionally well.