New Company of Heroes Expansion Revealed?

August 18, 2008 8:02 AM

Listings for a new Company of Heroes entry titled "Tales of Valor" recently appeared at retailer Amazon.com, prompting speculation that publisher THQ is preparing a second expansion pack in the Relic-developed World War II PC real-time strategy series.

The listing puts Tales of Valor's price point at $29.99, identical to the initial cost of the previous standalone expansion Opposing Fronts, and suggests a tentative release date of March 1, 2009.

The recipient of numerous awards, the original Company of Heroes hit PC in 2006, with developer Relic currently working on the sci-fi RTS Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 (PC), due out in early 2009.

No other details on Tales of Valor were offered in the listing, with publisher THQ having yet to offer an official comment.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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dedgecko

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August 18, 2008 8:10 AM

Ugh... I suppose this is to keep funding the patches that are way overdue.

I'll probably pick it up, though they really need to get their updates out quicker.
- Jonathan
  
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  August 18, 2008 8:11 AM
  
  Yeah I'll pick it up but I'm wondering if it won't be Relic working on it.
- tehboosh
  
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  August 18, 2008 8:14 AM
  
  I just picked CoH and OF on the magical Steam for 15 quid the other day, thoroughly enjoying it!
- fffortune
  
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  August 18, 2008 8:27 AM
  
  Yeah. Relic really needs to realize that releasing smaller patches every other month is a lot better than releasing monstrous patches twice a year.
  
  Some of the imbalances in the game right now are bordering silly, and it's frustrating that Relic just won't release a patch that'll fix the major ones. They could very well do that, and then release subsequent patches for fine-tuning, instead of trying to jam it all in one patch.
  - genocidalrobot
    
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    August 18, 2008 10:59 PM
    
    I finally picked up CoH on the cheap a few weekends ago, just the stand-alone game. I installed it and decided I would patch up to the latest version.
    
    That patch that came out with Opposing Fronts is fucking ridiculous. Seriously, 1.8 gigs. If I had known it would've been that big, I would've went out and dropped the cash for the expansion right away. Instead I thought I'd give it a whirl and patch...what a mistake. I had some weird errors throughout and only got it work if I downloaded each and every patch and ran each one 1.2 to 1.3 to 1.4 etc. Ended up picking up the expansion anyway, but god what a headache to just patch. I should've let it alone and finished the single player then.