The executive producer commented on how it was chosen: 'And we all agreed that we wanted a new theatre, we didn't want to revisit the Western Front or the Eastern Front. The council worked with Relic during preproduction to determine what the new entry should focus on mechanically and where the game should take place.
Īt the beginning of development, the studio recruited modders and competitive players to form a player council. The game was officially announced in July 2021. The story is dynamic, and the player's interactions with the game's various commanders can affect the narrative's ending. Italian Partisans are allied NPCs that can either be used on the map or be called in during battles. Company of Heroes 3 also has an improved destruction system that gives the title more granular destruction, such as individual tiles and bricks crumbling off buildings. The game has features new to the series such as the Tactical Pause system, which allows the player to pause a battle and queue up commands to be done after the game is resumed.
In Company of Heroes 3, the players take the role of Allied Forces during their invasion of North Africa and Italy.
