Company of Heroes 3

Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes	2006
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts	2007
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor	2009
Company of Heroes 2	2013
Company of Heroes 2: The Western Front Armies	2014
Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault	2014
Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces	2015
Armor of Heroes	2020
Company of Heroes 3	2023

Company of Heroes 3 is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and free-roaming camera RTS game and the third main entry in the Company of Heroes series. The game was developed by Relic Entertainment, published by SEGA and released on February 23, 2023. It uses Essence Engine 5.

Even though the game will release on consoles at a later date^[1], the PC version does not include controller support.^[2] Post-launch patches brought fixes for visual issues, stability, performance, crashes and many other bugs as well as audio overhauls, many balancing changes, challenges, cosmetics, currencies and more.^[3]

General information

Official forum

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Humble Store		Digital Premium Edition also available.
Steam		Digital Premium Edition also available.

All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Version differences

The Digital Premium Edition includes the base game, the Devil's Brigade DLC Pack, the as-yet untitled first expansion pack (coming 2023), and 3 Legendary cosmetics (US HQ, Victory Point, US M4 Sherman).

Pre-orders were granted the Devil’s Brigade Pack DLC for free.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	DLC includes cosmetics.
Expansion pack	Expansions will release in the future, with the first one coming in 2023.
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Premium Pack	Includes Expansion #1, Premium US HQ [Legendary], Premium Victory Point [Legendary] and Premium US M4 Sherman [Legendary]. Included in the Digital Premium Edition.
Expansion #1	To be released later in 2023. Included in the Premium Pack.
Premium US HQ [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Premium Pack.
Premium Victory Point [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Premium Pack.
Premium US M4 Sherman [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Premium Pack.
Devil’s Brigade Pack	Includes US Sniper [Legendary], US Rifleman [Legendary], US Scout [Legendary], M18 Hellcat [Legendary], M8 Greyhound [Legendary] and Pioneer Profile & Title [Legendary] DLC. Included in the Digital Premium Edition and as a pre-order incentive.
US Sniper [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Devil’s Brigade Pack.
US Rifleman [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Devil’s Brigade Pack.
US Scout [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Devil’s Brigade Pack.
M18 Hellcat [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Devil’s Brigade Pack.
M8 Greyhound [Legendary]	Cosmetic. Included in the Devil’s Brigade Pack.
Pioneer Profile & Title [Legendary]	Included in the Devil’s Brigade Pack.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Both solutions do not skip the legal screen.

Apply `-nomovies` command line argument^[4]

Delete, rename or move intro video files^[5]
Go to `<path-to-game>\anvil\movies`. Delete, rename or move `amd_intro.webm`, `cohdev_intro.webm`, `relic_intro.webm`, `sega_intro_dark.webm` and `sega_intro_light.webm`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes 3\configuration_system.lua %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes 3\Savegames\users\<user-id>\configuration_user.lua
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1677280/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes 2\Savegames\users\<user-id>\savegames
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1677280/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		^[6]
4K Ultra HD		Downscaling supported through the Game Scale option slider. Resolution for pre-rendered cutscenes can be set independently.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Exclusive Fullscreen also supported.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		x8 forced on regardless of graphics settings.^[7]
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Off, Low and High options available.
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On/Off toggle.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate cap options available for 30, 60, 120, 144 or Unlocked.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

The game features a graphics benchmark option with a detailed end result screen to diagnose potential performance bottlenecks. However, the benchamrk shows a piece of real-time gameplay of CPU vs. CPU, resulting in every run being slightly different. This causes the result for every ran benchmark to be slightly different, causing the benchmarking feature to be potentially unreliable.^[8]

Unlock desired Texture Quality settings

To use Ultra Texture Quality setting, a GPU with 16 GB or more VRAM is needed. High Texture Quality setting need 8 GB or more VRAM. Other Texture Quality settings are locked under different yet unknown VRAM amounts. If any of these requirements are not met, those respective options will be greyed-out as a menu option.^[9]^[10]

Set desired Texture Quality manually in settings file^[11]
Edit `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\my games\Company of Heroes 3\configuration_system.lua` in a text editor. Find and change `variantUInt` value to 0 for Ultra, 1 for High, 2 for Medium, 3 for Low.

Input

Camera settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Default Profile and Default WASD presets also available. Option available to save keymapping to a new profile and adjust Grid Controls of the Command Card area of the HUD.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Sliders available to adjust Keyboard Pan Speed, and Mouse Button Pan Speed with the middle mouse button.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Option available to Invert Drag Scrolling with the middle mouse button.
Controller
Controller support

Controls settings
Gameplay settings
Controls settings - Remap Common Controls - Game
Controls settings - Remap Common Controls - Selection & Orders
Controls settings - Remap Common Controls - Camera
Controls settings - Remap Common Controls - Army Management
Controls settings - Remap Common Controls - Control Groups
Controls settings - Remap Common Controls - Communication
Controls Settings - Remap Grid Controls

Audio

Audio settings

Accessibility settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Seperate volume sliders for Master, Music, Speech and Sound Effects are available.
Surround sound		Additional Dynamic Range and Output Quality settings are available.
Subtitles		Only available in cutscenes. Can be turned off through the Subtitle Visibility setting. Subtitle Scale options allows scaling to 100%, 125% and 150%.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Online settings

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		Versus, Co-op Versus modes: 1 vs. 1, 2 vs. 2, 3 vs. 3 and 4 vs. 4. Co-op vs. AI modes: 2 vs. 2, 3 vs. 3 and 4 vs. 4.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise
Multiplayer	Relic BattleServer

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel i5 6th-gen AMD Ryzen 4 cores 3 GHz	Intel i7 8th-gen AMD Ryzen 8 cores 3 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	40 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon R9 370	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 5600

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1677280/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1677280) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Company of Heroes 3 Console Edition - Company of Heroes - last accessed on 2023-02-20
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-20
Plugging in an Xbox controller does nothing at boot. Some configuration files contain references to gamepad and gamepad UI scaling, but seems to be just prepratory work for the Console Edition. No word if this controller UI will be included on PC at a later date.
↑ Operation Sapphire Jackal - Patch Notes - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-28
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-18
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-18
Checked by removing the files myself
↑ Verified by User:Shadowstealer7 on 2021-07-16
2560x1080 (21:9) tested in the Pre-Alpha.
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-28
Testing by forcing AF to x16 and off when running at either low or maximum settings and comparing captured images, it becomes very clear that at both lowest and max settings the game applies AF very well and actually very close to x16, so very likely x8. Very hard to test though due to changing some graphics settings requiring restarts and during benchmark-runs the lighting can change a bit. This all makes this conclusion less reliable.
↑ Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-20
In everyone the position of units, which units die, particle effects location, destruction etc. is everytime quite different between every run of the benchmarking feature.
↑ CoH3 Hot Fix 1.0.1 - February 24, 2023 - last accessed on 2023-02-24
↑ Verified by User:Munt on 2023-02-23
Checked in game, compared to friends GPU and VRAM, and his options being more liberal with his larger VRAM
↑ Steam Discussions - last accessed on 2023-02-24

[Proton_path_note-6] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1677280/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1677280) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Company of Heroes 3 Console Edition - Company of Heroes - last accessed on 2023-02-20

[2] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-20
Plugging in an Xbox controller does nothing at boot. Some configuration files contain references to gamepad and gamepad UI scaling, but seems to be just prepratory work for the Console Edition. No word if this controller UI will be included on PC at a later date.

[3] Operation Sapphire Jackal - Patch Notes - Steam - last accessed on 2023-03-28

[4] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-18

[5] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-18
Checked by removing the files myself

[7] Verified by User:Shadowstealer7 on 2021-07-16
2560x1080 (21:9) tested in the Pre-Alpha.

[8] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-28
Testing by forcing AF to x16 and off when running at either low or maximum settings and comparing captured images, it becomes very clear that at both lowest and max settings the game applies AF very well and actually very close to x16, so very likely x8. Very hard to test though due to changing some graphics settings requiring restarts and during benchmark-runs the lighting can change a bit. This all makes this conclusion less reliable.

[9] Verified by User:Mrtnptrs on 2023-02-20
In everyone the position of units, which units die, particle effects location, destruction etc. is everytime quite different between every run of the benchmarking feature.

[10] CoH3 Hot Fix 1.0.1 - February 24, 2023 - last accessed on 2023-02-24

[11] Verified by User:Munt on 2023-02-23
Checked in game, compared to friends GPU and VRAM, and his options being more liberal with his larger VRAM

[12] Steam Discussions - last accessed on 2023-02-24

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Developers

	Relic Entertainment
Publishers
	Sega
Engines
	Essence Engine 5
Release dates
Windows	February 23, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	81
OpenCritic	80
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Expansion pack, DLC
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Free-roaming camera
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Europe, Historical, Africa, World War II
Series	Company of Heroes