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The Relic development team sits down to chat about all the amazing improvements to visuals, effects, and cosmetics in this preview of the Company of Heroes 3: 3.0 Update, launching November 5th on PC via Steam. As part of the ongoing celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Company of Heroes, the 3.0 Update delivers sweeping improvements across visuals, audio, gameplay, campaign, multiplayer and Final Stand, making it the most significant update to Company of Heroes 3 since launch.

I used the number of games across each RM game mode from the season 12 dump of match history from https://aoe4world.com/ to estimate the distribution of the population across the RM game modes.

Estimated Player Distribution

I sometimes see people complaining about Mangudai nerf for team games being a bad change overall, but I would argue that it had a net positive impact on the ranked ladder.

If we assumed that it had a positive impact in 3v3 and 4v4 and negative impact in 1v1 and 2v2, the net impact would be +9.23% of RM players having a better experience after the Mangudai nerf.

I have included the calculation I did to compute the net impact. I used the Mongol pickrate from patch 15.3.8338-15.4.8719 (February 4, 2026) and made an assumption that the players picked their civs independently for the estimation. Do let me know if you spot any issues with it.

Calculation

I do hope that devs continue to improve the game balance for team games and not just 1v1.

Starting today and at the start of each month, the Ranked Map pool will now automatically rotate.

Each rotation will always feature a set number of open, closed, hybrid, and naval maps to keep a balanced set of maps in play at all times. This means that you'll see more varied maps more frequently in Ranked play!

Hi, I was wondering if any content creator preview for the new DLC has been announced since we are only a few days from release?