THE LONGEST BATTLE! Steel Division 2 Multiplayer Campaign Gameplay #4 (Slutsk, 4v4) 

@@tedarcher9120 So right now, in the MP campaign, we're provided with specific decks to use as shown in the start of the video; We don't get much choice in what they are made up of apart from balancing suggestions. As you can see, Happy and I didn't get 88s but were provided with 20mms and their transports which were also AA halftracks.

Lykas, you may have had a rough time but a lot of that loss has got to be on ineffective/novice tank command, he just didnt use orders properly or pay attebtion to where he was getting hit. AT was all over the right hill on the left flank firing across into the far left hill, but no one smoked, or oriented armor to that threat.

@@karrackhalcyon8826 I don't think that's a fair statment; they were fighting the entire weight of the OpFor on the left for a lot of the game, this was discussed in our post-game debrief/banter with the OpFor players that's not shown here. Fedakyn was facing a lot more ground units than I was; I was just getting bombarded and air-striked all the way.

Lykas, i wasnt discounting that, and i wasnt trying to be mean or unfair, he did have a massive numbers issue on the left, what im saying is that he plain simply didnt use the tanks correctly, and vulcan didnt catch it either until the end of the game where he microd some of his movments. Also neither of them seemed to see that more central hill wailing on them. Just an outsiders view point, and definitely filled with hindsight vision

@@Lykas_mitts Late to the party here, but I think that's a fair statement. In this game Panthers and tigers were chewed up like mad by T-34s. Something doesn't add up when that happens. Either tactics, either micro, either a mix of them can be blamed on it,but the results speaks for themselves. Well managed german armor in proper numbers does NOT lose against soviet armor even if soviet armor is vastly superior in numbers. It's pretty much an undeniable fact - yet in this game german armor was pretty much massacred by soviet armor. So the obvious thing here is that said german armor was very poorly managed. Tank spacing on the player who managed the tanks' side was nonexistant, and distancing was constantly ignored, putting his tanks on ranges that favor soviet armor instead of holding them off at range and killing them that way. He kept on giving group orders and random move to attack orders instead of microing the situation giving individual orders to each of his tanks. He wasn't conscious of when his vital armor units were being fired by dangerous stuff until warned by other players (Usually Vulcan, and by then of course it was late). And finally, he was constantly relying on Vulcan's orders to act, and doing so poorly and late, instead of taking correct decisions by himself, which costed more tanks than I can remember. Have to add that Vulcan's insistance on the left hill at the early/mid game probably costed you the battle. Vulcan knew what was up there and what happens when german armor knife fights soviet massed tanks, and still insisted on going up in what was a losing proposition no matter what. I also found kinda infuriating that for the most part of the game the soviets had a flag in the middle of the front (the middle one between towns, in the woods), Vulcan had literally all the artillery in the world, and instead of pounding those woods into oblivion and then moving infantry in afterwards, he constantly sent infantry in gung-ho style while artying tanks in the back lines (though I understand that's a product of Eugen's horrible design job in this game allowing for artillery to be so stupidly effective against tanks - they end up being a much more attractive target to shoot and kill, but it was still an awful tactical choice). Of course that didn't fly. That flag should've been yours for the whole of the game, you only took it much later (on a motorcycle rush of all things). as for what I saw from you this game, you might have been a bit too conservative but you also did a top notch job in taking that much ground and holding it at any cost. You might have done more to win this game, but for sure you weren't the reason why it was lost. The times the camera was looking at your side all I saw was correct tactical placement, good use of units and overall success in doing what you were supposed to do at each moment (be it holding against the enemy attacks, arty and planes, be it taking an objective when told, be it whatever it was, you were doing it). It was only when you ran out of stuff when things went FUBAR, but by that time the battle should've been over had the other players in your team performed at your level. Which, they didn't (Vulcan might have gotten the biggest KDR but that's hardly a thing when he had so much arty. His tactical leadership on the left and mid left a lot to be desired in this one, IMHO, and conquest is not won by whoever kills the most stuff anyway). That's what I saw here, at least. Again, I know I'm kinda late to the party but well, gotta answer when I see things, lol ;).

Forrest nothing

Ive seen a match in an indie rts called "Defcon" last 15 hours. I think my personal longest was around 6 hour mark.

"christ that's a lot of T-34s" "lol that one arty shot killed two T-34s" sounds about right for the eastern fromt

Because Vulkan is great player.

blablaraggmunk there will be a breakthrough game if either side reaches their opponent’s base

Yeah, that's often how I record videos.

Me:Watch the Video, get bored at some point,scroll through the comments,then I see this comment AND GET SPOILERD!!FUCK YOUUUUUU!!!!!

I think you mean you carried the right hand side! All I did was collapse after an hour and 15.

All I did was advance on that one point :V

Lykas/mitts just out out lasted Soviet style 😂 gg to all that shit was crazy

Slutsk

Why would you watch it so long if you didn't enjoy it? 🤔

The declining player base is mostly due to players like myself, who don't want to spend months playing a single game to get on the same level as the players who have been around since the beginning. I picked up the game early, but due to my work schedule, assuming this is the only game I play, I could maybe put in 20 hours a week. Now there isn't a point playing because you just get steamrolled by players with thousands of hours in the game that know every unit and map. I only play when I've got friends on and we do some 2v2's or 3v3's.