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Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes configuration:

Company of Heroes: Resistance Frontline

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Company of Heroes: Legend of Courage adapts three major historical hero battles

New multiplayer online cooperation mode

Added new technology full of speed

< p>The Chinese version will be launched on April 24th

Company of Heroes

Company of Heroes configuration:

Company of Heroes: Resistance Frontline

Heroes Company: Legend of Courage adapts three major historical hero battles

New multiplayer online cooperation mode

Added new technology full of speed

Chinese version April Listed on the market on the 24th

[Edit this paragraph] Company of Heroes

Chinese name: Company of Heroes

English name: Company of Heroes

Release date: 2006

Production and distribution: Relic Entertainment

[Edit this paragraph] Company of Heroes configuration: Minimum configuration operating system: Windows XP or Vista CPU: 3.0Ghz Intel Pentium IV or the same level of AMD Athlon Faster CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive Peripherals: keyboard and mouse

Recommended configuration CPU: 2.5 Ghz Intel Pentium-core E5200 or equivalent AMD dual-core processor System memory: 3GB Graphics card: 1G configuration NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+ series graphics card or higher-end graphics card product

As a cutting-edge RTS producer who became famous for its "Homeworld" and "Warhammer" series, Relic once again turned its attention to World War II. Following the announcement of the new real-time strategy game "Company of Heroes" in mid-2005, they revealed to the media this week that the game will be released in the European market in September 2006.

After "Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War" and the expansion pack "Winter Offensive", Relic believes that further simplifying the old "resource collection" part of RTS will be the future of real-time strategy One of the development trends of games. In Company of Heroes, Relic will put this idea into practice. In addition, "Company of Heroes" will also use the self-developed physics engine "Essence" based on the Havok 3.0 engine. With better A.I. settings, interactive battlefield environment and exciting game plot, "Company of Heroes" interprets the "next era real-time strategy" game for you.

The stand-alone version of "Company of Heroes" was widely praised after its launch in 2006 and is considered one of the best real-time strategy games in gaming history. The game is based on World War II and allows players to experience the journey of Able Company soldiers across the European continent. So far, "Company of Heroes" has won 37 game awards, including 6 "Best PC Game of the Year" awards and 12 "Best Strategy Game of the Year" awards, and has been included in at least 10 professional media reviews. "Top 10 Games of 2006" list.

The English version of the recently released real-time strategy game "Company of Heroes" (Company of Heroes), the traditional Chinese version is represented and localized by Taiwan Songgang Technology, and was officially launched in Taiwan on November 10, 2006. "Company of Heroes" is the world's first game to support Windows Vista, and its excellent performance and visuals achieve even better multiplication effects on the Vista platform.

[Edit this paragraph] Company of Heroes: Resistance Frontline

The sequel to the popular masterpiece "Company of Heroes" developed by Relic and published by THQ - "Company of Heroes: Resistance Frontline" (Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts) recently announced that it will be shipped to the factory and will be released soon. This game will be produced using the DX10 engine, showing powerful graphics.

Resistance Frontline According to reports, the plot of this game mainly takes place during the "Market Garden" battle of World War II. Players can control the Allied British troops, the French resistance forces, and the German armored forces.

According to Relic and THQ, this game will adopt an independent distribution model. Due to the unprecedented success of the previous "Warhammer 40K", the two companies are considering adopting a new promotion model to bring greater benefits.

The expansion will use an upgraded version of the Essence engine, support DirectX 10, enhance physical effects, support dynamic weather systems, and enhance the AI ​​of vehicles and soldiers. The previous game was based on the U.S. Army's Normandy landing as the main story. The expansion pack adds the story of the British army's liberation of Caen, France, and the German army's counterattack in the "Market Garden Plan" operation. In the game, you can choose between the British army and the German armored elite army. Each has its own complete mission mode.

[Edit this paragraph] Company of Heroes: Legend of Courage

The second expansion pack of "Company of Heroes" (Company of Heroes) "Company of Heroes: Legend of Courage" : Tales of Valor) officially debuted on April 24, 2009, and released a traditional Chinese version.

Adaptation of three major historical heroic battles

The game content of "Company of Heroes: Legend of Courage" includes three major battles: "Tiger Elite", "Lafayette Road" and "Fale" Siege of Sri Lanka". History returns to "La Fayre Highway". As a company of American paratroopers, players must try to land safely in Normandy, and then capture the "La Fayre Highway" and the necessary land bridge to let the brothers behind to seize the beach. Successfully entered the European continent. In "Tiger Elite" and "Falaise Siege", players will participate in the battle from the perspective of the German army. When the Allied forces are overwhelming on the European continent, players must use limited resources to protect the remaining German brothers. , so that everyone can retreat smoothly.

New multiplayer online cooperation mode

In addition to the new plot content, "Company of Heroes: Legend of Courage" also adds three new multiplayer online battle modes, and they are different In previous series, players have had the opportunity to work together with friends to fight against the same enemies. The new online modes include "Iron Wall War", "Assault War" and "Tank War", and there are a variety of maps to support these modes. In "Iron Wall War", players and teammates must protect the command center in the center of the map and fight against waves of enemy attacks, and the difficulty will gradually increase; at the beginning of "Assault War", players can choose to play the hero Troops are responsible for raiding and occupying enemy command centers, such as commandos, heavy weapons specialists, medics, engineers, etc. Each heroic unit has two special skills that can be activated at the appropriate time. As long as the enemy is killed or By destroying vehicles, you have the opportunity to upgrade and obtain various resources; in "Tank Battle", players will command a tank to confront the enemy head-on. Each tank has its own unique technology tree, and uses the experience gained on the battlefield to Develop combat skills, kill enemy tanks played by other players, and reduce their victory points. Each camp has three feared tanks to choose from, such as Panther tanks, M18 Hellcat tanks or Sherman tanks... etc., so players can choose a suitable tank according to their own style, kill minions, dominate the battlefield, and watch enemy players flee in panic.

Added new technology with a sense of speed

The design that can best feel the power of "tank battle" is thanks to the new game technology-"Direct Fire" ). The production team stated that this is a brand new concept. In previous games, players could only watch their soldiers fight on the battlefield on their own. Now, players can use this technology to directly control the direction the weapon is facing and the timing of firing. . Therefore, "pointed attack" allows players to be more integrated into the battle. Through this perspective, they can help their soldiers break through the siege by planning raids and predicting the enemy's actions around the corner.

The Chinese version will be launched on April 24th

The Chinese version of "Company of Heroes: Legend of Courage" will be launched on April 24th, continuing the spirit of the series and inviting players to take on the role of famous characters in history. The heroic officer led his brothers to the front line and recreated the intense and exciting battle conditions at that time.

Detailed storyline

"Company of Heroes" is a fictional U.S. military rifle company called "Able Company" deployed on the Western Front during World War II. (For example, A Company landed in Omaha with the 1st Infantry Division, and inexplicably followed the 90th Infantry Division to Utah Beach). It also included the "F Company" (Fox Company) of the 101st Airborne Division and the Rangers (Fox Company) of the 101st Airborne Division who assisted it in the operation. Rangers) and armored units. This unit experienced most of the important and bloody battles on the European battlefield of World War II, including the Normandy landing on D-Day, the capture of Carentan, the Battle of Cherbourg, the stalemate-breaking "Operation Cobra", Moting (Mortain) defensive battle and the siege of Falaise to encircle and destroy the German 7th Army.

The developer said that it has raised the game's missions to a level of "creative freedom", making the missions highly playable.

American Battle

"Invasion of Normandy"

Captain Sam MacKay, commander of A Company, although he was an ordinary army unit commander, but was portrayed as a charger. He was killed in the battle of St. L? by the German Captain Schutz's "Tiger Ace".

Sergeant Joe Conti, first sergeant of Company A (later promoted to lieutenant). He joins the military at the same time as Captain McKay and is the narrator of the game. He was present when Captain McKay was killed, but had a narrow brush with death. He later became the commander of Company A and commanded the troops to avenge McKay.

Captain Hauptmann Shultz of the German 130th Armored Instructor Division is the commander of a German Tiger tank (codenamed "Ace"). In "Company of Heroes", he alone led an elite armored regiment against Company A, and commanded a tank group to attack the "Red Ball Express". Then he observed Captain McKay with a telescope during this battle. He commanded his troops at Saint-Lo to assist the German retreat, and commanded the "Tiger Ace" to fire and kill Captain MacKay. Company A eventually exacted revenge on Captain Schutz by destroying his tank as his troops attempted to break out and retreat.

"Highway"

On the day before D-Day, the US military planned to send troops to control the Lafayre Highway to recapture Kakini occupied by the Germans, June 6, 1944 , the 82nd Airborne Division airdropped some paratroopers near the Lafayre Highway and rushed to Kakini to complete the mission.

The Battle of the British Army

"The Liberation of Caen"

Major Blackmore

Captain Cutting

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The Royal Engineers of Scotland described in the Battle of the British Army experienced a series of battles in order to seize the first strategic point of the French campaign, Caen, the beachhead base in Normandy, including seizing the opportunity to attack Caen. Providing fire support to Hill 112 and clearing German resistance at Caen Airport. During the battle, Colonel Black and his company will be supported by the elite Royal Commandos, the powerful Churchill tanks, and the British howitzers that roar like death.

Panzer Elite Battle

"Operation Market Garden"

Major General Voss

Wolfgang Bolcher (Wolfgang Bercher)

Aldrich Bercher

In "Resistance Front", he designed the plot campaign for the German armored elite team, which is a World War II game. Extremely rare. The plot of the German campaign revolves around Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation in World War II. As a German armored training battle group stationed in the small town of Wommez on the Belgian-French border, the Polcher brothers worked together to resist the British and American airborne divisions that came like a blizzard. And on Route 69, this road called hell, completely destroyed the hope of the Allied Airborne Division; in Osterbeek, completed the final cutting, encirclement, and annihilation of the Allied forces. During this process, the elite German Wehrmacht also participated in the operation, as well as the "Green Devil"-the elite German paratrooper division also participated in the assistance; the elite German armored team units included the Panther Armored Battle Group, the Stalker Chariot, and the Cheetah Destroyer. Vehicles and the King Tiger tank, the most powerful armed vehicle on land at the time, will also appear.

The Axis Powers Campaign

"Tiger Elite"

Captain Maximilian Voss

Joseph? Sergeant Schultz

The "Desert Rats" of the British 7th Armored Division were attacking a Pokaki village, and the tank commander of the German Tiger tank, Captain Voss, ordered the troops to retreat, only to He and his crew were left with a strong Tiger tank to face the British 7th Armored Division. Although at a numerical disadvantage, he single-handedly destroyed a large number of British armored vehicles. After the Tiger tank was disabled, they managed to sneak back to the rear, boarded another Tiger tank, and blasted the British troops out of the town.

"The Siege of Falaise"

The ten thousand German brothers in Falaise were almost surrounded by the Allies. Their only hope was to escape from Durham and Cedar. To escape through the gap between the two towns, the main task this time is to ensure that Durham cannot be captured by the Allied forces, otherwise there will be no chance for the comrades to retreat.

Game Mode

The game allows 2 to 8 players to play in teams via LAN or the Internet. Multiplayer games focus on teamwork and the ability to share resources and control areas. For Company of Heroes Relic uses a new online gaming system called Relic Online. Previously, Relic's games used GameSpy Arcade or WON's online services. This system has features that previous services did not have, including automatic team battles and a ranking system.

Multiplayer Mode

Victory Point Control

Deathmatch Mode (Annihilate)

Resources

"Company of Heroes" attempts to change the way real-time strategy games operate by changing the way resources are collected in the game, and eliminates the concepts of macro control and development in the previous generation of games, creating a more strategic and realistic small-group action A real-time strategy gaming experience. The resource collection mode of "Company of Heroes" is similar to another famous game before Relic, the "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War" series. Players must control strategic points on the map, and each strategic point controls a certain range of areas with different resources.

The more of these points a player controls, the more resources they receive. This setting requires players to continuously expand their territory. Once the area connecting two areas is occupied by the enemy, the supply of resources from distant areas will be cut off. Players need to collect three resources: manpower, ammunition and fuel. All units require manpower, especially infantry; ammunition allows players to obtain weapon upgrades or special skills for the army; fuel allows players to obtain vehicle and building upgrades. Players can place outposts on resource points to strengthen defense capabilities based on different resources, and various fortifications can only be built after occupying the area.

The production of a small team in the game requires considerable resources. This sets Company of Heroes apart from traditional real-time strategy games, as common crowd tactics will be hard to see in the game. The game also completely resists the previous situation of staying at home and restricts players from developing outside the map (especially victory point control).

Game Settings

"Company of Heroes" continues the operating style of "Dawn of War". Each unit is based on a "squad" (squad) as a combat unit. Some units For example, anti-tank guns require at least two people in the restricted squad to continue operating. Troops can carry out reinforcements at their own base or near personnel carriers to supplement insufficient manpower (airborne troops can carry out reinforcements anytime and anywhere). Most of the German infantry can heal themselves using health kits. Some units have concealment functions (such as snipers, German stormtroopers, and Type 38 anti-tank guns), but their positions will be exposed once fired.

Various armored vehicles will have different attack and damage effects depending on the terrain and angle. However, when the engine or tracks are damaged (such as being attacked by landmines or sticky bombs), they will lose their ability to move. The machine gunner on the roof of the vehicle can be shot, and if the main gun is destroyed, it will lose its combat effectiveness. Armored vehicles generally have the strongest defense at the front, followed by the sides, and the weakest at the rear. Especially when the front is hit by a bullet, there may even be a "ricochet" phenomenon without any damage. Ordinary light weapons can pose a certain threat to light armored vehicles if they use armor-piercing projectiles, but they are basically ineffective against heavy armored vehicles such as tanks. Some vehicles have special capabilities, such as the US M4 Sherman's smoke grenade and demining chain, the Alligator Sherman's bulldozer blade, the M3 "Greyhound" armored vehicle's mine laying, the German Panzer IV infantry support tank's fixed-point rapid fire, etc.

The bunker system in "Dawn of War" has been further developed in "Company of Heroes". During the battle, individual soldiers will automatically look for bunkers (such as sandbags, low walls, trenches, bomb craters, bushes, destroyed vehicles and other obstacles), and will even lie down when there are no bunkers around. Squads under cover gain additional defense points, making them more effective in combat. Clever use of bunkers is the key to victory in "Company of Heroes", and the protection a bunker can provide is represented by green (hard bunker), yellow (soft bunker), and red (no bunker). Intelligent AI enables troops to react to reality. Since Hero Company uses a special physics engine, different bunkers will have different defensive effects on different weapons. Grenades and flamethrowers can ignore bunkers and attack the opponent, while explosive packs, mortars, heavy artillery, etc. can Simply destroy the bunker. In addition, there is also the so-called suppression ability. If the troops are attacked by strong enemy firepower (such as heavy machine guns), the troops will automatically lie on the ground to sacrifice mobility for more defense, and the icon will flash yellow. lamp. When the red light flashes, it means that it has been completely suppressed. The troops will be nailed to the ground and unable to move, and can only crawl forward at a slower speed than the flashing yellow light. Under the protection of a hard bunker, the chances of troops being suppressed by fire will be greatly reduced, and the time to recover from being suppressed will also be greatly shortened. Most fire attacks spread across the floor and can severely damage troops, regardless of whether they are friend or foe.

Unit list

(There are no levels of troops)

Allied Powers

U.S. Army British Army

Engineers and Engineers

Rifle Infantry Detachment

Ranger Lieutenant

Paratrooper Captain

Sniper Commando

Heavy Machine Gun Squad PIAT Commando (Anti-Armor)

Mortar Heavy Machine Gun Commando

57mm Anti-Tank Gun Mortar Commando

105 Howitzer Branton Carrier

M8 Greyhound Armored Car Stuart Light Tank

T-17 Armored Car Deerhound Armored Car

M4 Sherman Tank Cromwell Tank

M4 Sherman Crocodile Tank Cromwell Command Tank

M4 Sherman Multiple Rocket Rocket Sherman Firefly Tank

M10 Wolverine Destroyer Tank M7 Priest self-propelled howitzer

M18 Hellcat Kangaroo personnel carrier

M26 Pershing heavy tank Churchill IV infantry tank

Churchill AVRE engineer tank

Churchill Crocodile

Little Monarch Tank (common translation should be Manor Lord)

Axis Powers

Panzer Elite of the German Wehrmacht

Engineer (Pionier means Engineer in German, synonymous with Engineer in English) Armored Grenadier

Volkswagen Grenadier Assault Heavy Infantry

Grenadier Soldier anti-tank heavy infantry

Storm raider air force ground force

Iron Cross elite force paratrooper (common translation should be airborne jagger)

Officer Kai Denri German half-track vehicle

Sniper reconnaissance vehicle

Mortar squad armored vehicle

MG42 machine gun squad half-track vehicle

38 Type 50 mm anti-tank gun mortar half-track vehicle

Multiple rocket launcher group (Nebelwerfer 41) Frankwegen Vampire half-track vehicle

88 mm combat anti-artillery ammunition half-track vehicle

Motorcycle light anti-tank half-track vehicle

Type 166 amphibious vehicle 128-type amphibious vehicle

SDKFZ 251 half-track vehicle IV infantry support tank

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SDKFZ 234/1 Armored Vehicle Wild Bee Self-Propelled Artillery

Dongfeng Self-Propelled Anti-aircraft Gun Tiger Recovery Vehicle

Goliath Remote Control Bomb Mader III Tank Hunter< /p>

StuG IV Leopard Tank

Self-propelled Howitzer IV (StuH 42) Tornado Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun

Panzer IV Hunting Panther tank

Panther tank (Sd.Kfz. 171) Jaguar tank destroyer

Tiger tank (Tiger I) Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft gun

King Tiger tank (Tiger II) Hotchkiss light tank

Geschutzwagen self-propelled 88mm combat anti-cannon

Patch

Currently the latest main program of "Company of Heroes" The official patch is version v1.71, the latest official patch for the first expansion pack of Company of Heroes, "Resistance Front", is version v2.400, and the latest official patch for the second expansion pack of Company of Heroes, "Medal of the Valor", is version v2.600.

Drawing

"Company of Heroes" is the first game to use the "Essence Engine", a next-generation game graphics engine developed by Relic. Designed and coded from the ground up and used by Relic to implement all next-generation graphics effects, including HDR lighting effects, real-time light and shadow effects, improved vertex processing, texture effects and support for DirectX 10.0. Producer John Johnson said: "We can achieve all the advanced graphics effects in (first-person shooter) Half-Life 2 in the game." Using Essence Engine, "Company of Heroes" can draw High-detailed infantry, vehicles and buildings can even clearly show the facial features of individual soldiers when the viewing angle is zoomed in, without requiring top-level game configurations. Even an infantry squad can perform 2,000 actions.

"Company of Heroes" uses the "Destruction 3.0" (Havok 3) physics engine component of the Irish company Havok, which allows "Company of Heroes" to display highly realistic physical effects of each object. Tanks can knock down walls or other obstacles, and grenades and artillery shells can also cause damage to parts of buildings. Various buildings in the game can be destroyed, and their wreckage can be used as cover. Thanks to the Havok physics engine, explosion smoke, dust and the flight of building debris can all be realistically represented. The wind direction can affect the direction in which the smoke blows, the dirt thrown up by the explosion can also cover the unit, and the rubble can bounce and roll.

When an infantryman is shot or exploded, the body parts can move, be blown away, or even be torn apart. These can all be realized by the Havok physics engine.

Others

"Company of Heroes" has a very good reputation in the gaming industry, and has even been praised as "the best real-time strategy in history". Many game review websites and magazines, such as PC Gamer, IGN, GameSpot, GameSpy, Computer Games Magazine, etc., have awarded "Company of Heroes" "Best Game of 2006" and "Best Strategy Game" of awards.

The name "Company of Heroes" comes from Major Richard Winters reading about his comrade Myron during the interview at the end of the American war feature film "Band of Brothers" Ranney, a famous quote from a letter written by Sergeant Ranney. In the letter, Lanny mentioned that his grandson asked him if he was a hero, and the answer was: "No, but I served with a company of heroes." (Original text: No, but I served with a company of heroes.) "In addition, Winters' famous quote in the film, "We are paratroopers; we are supposed to be surrounded (We are paratroopers; we are supposed to be surrounded)" has also become a line in the game "Heroes". The sniper's line in "Company" "Point me at Berlin with a bullet" is derived from the line of sniper Jackson in the movie "Private Ryan": "If you put me and this gun within a mile, you can see Hitler." place... pack up and go home, guys, the war is over. ”

The online version of "Company of Heroes", Company of Heroes OL, is specially made for mainland China and is not available abroad - they use the stand-alone version of Company of Heroes for online play. China has rampant piracy, so Only then did I consider whether to use other methods to distribute Company of Heroes - it turns out that the original agent of Company of Heroes was awarded to Beijing Entertainment Channel. Unfortunately, Beijing Entertainment Channel refused to lay eggs even though they had the agent, so piracy became more popular in mainland China (because they could not buy the original version) ).

In this case, THQ and Relic are considering using other means to explore the Chinese market.

"Company of Heroes OL" is currently operated by Shanda. Under testing.

Company of Heroes OL

Game configuration release date: 2008-12-01 | Author:

Basic configuration:

Operating system: Windows XP? SP2 or above or Vista (requires IE6.0 or above)

CPU: 2.0Ghz Intel Pentium? IV or AMD Athlon? XP processor of the same level

System Memory: 512MB (Window Graphics card products (excluding GeForce® 4MX)

Sound card: 16-bit sound card product compatible with DirectX® 9.0c

Peripherals: keyboard and mouse

Recommended Configuration

CPU: 3.0 Ghz Intel Pentium® IV or higher processor

System memory: 1GB

Video card: NVIDIA® with 256MB of video memory GeForce? 6800/ATI RadeonX800 series graphics card or higher-end graphics card product