Loki

I am a consumer. Its pretty simple. You have all these nations and business's supporting Ukraine and I used to hate some of the companies I mentioned. Electronic Arts is a company I can't stand and yet they are taking a stand. As a consumer I am now expecting business's that I deal with to step up and do the right things.

P.S. I love the Robotech image

We need a no fly zone even if it risks WW3. People in WW2 did not question the "what if's. They just did the decent and right thing to do. That said I suspect nuclear war within a month. If we all die doing the right thing then god bless.

We now have Steam, EA, Sony, and Microsoft pulling their games. Visa, Master Card and Paypal have pulled payments from Russia. This War of Mine raised $850,000 in 1 week for an 8 year old game. I find it funny that the Big Time Software (Now Battle Front) is staying quiet. Usually the discussions in this forum are pretty intellectual and yet more kids on Steam are saying to support doing something than people on this forum. Also large companies are pulling out of billions compared to the small amount you could do. Do something. P.S I have every Combat Mission game since 2000 except Afganistan so I am a long time customer. I am not some kid feeling entitled. Its the right thing to do when you make money off of a fictional war in Ukraine.

Well "This War of Mine" must be 5 years old. It only began selling again because of the message proceeds would go to Ukraine. That lead to sales. Perhaps that could happen in this scenario? It couldn't hurt. EDIT: It came out on Nov 14th 2014.

There should be no expansion until this war is over. I think it would be disrespectful while the conflict is on going. On a side note I don't think the expansion will ever come. I believe in 7 days we will have a nuclear war going on.

P.S. I play and have played wargames for 25 years. Its time I step up and do the same. I have already made donations. I get my enjoyment from the misery of war and I am questioning if I should do that. I should say I have played every version of Combat Mission since the first back in 2000 or so.

The game "This War of Mine" has pledged to send all profits for the next week to support the people who need food and aid in Ukraine. So far they have raised 160,000 dollars. Given the nature of Black Sea I think Battlefront should do the same. As a developer who makes money off of war I think this would be the right thing to do. So.... How about doing this?

I didn't think it was possible to ever be "finished" with a Battlefront game

I just bought the complete upgrade to Shock Forces 2.0. I can activate it but then the launch splash screen comes up and it doesn't progress. Also if I launch it again it makes me re-activate again. Something is up I guess in the registration process.

Moral was at cautious and after spending a couple turns getting the commander in the area it did drop to nervous. After laying there for 10-15 turns that doesn't seem like it would be morale after that length of time for a veteran unit.

Here is a screen shot of the terrain. The bunker next to them has been knocked out for 10-15 minutes in game along with the German Vehicle. I just left them behind while the rest of the platoon scouted ahead for Germans. You can also see the command link.

Terrain is fine. Nothing but light woods, open terrain and road. Even just ordering them 1 grid spot has them laying prone.

So, I got a bug with a mortar team that will not move. The scenario is Out on a limb and involves either the 82nd or 101st. I don't recall exactly off hand. Any how the unit is veteran/rested and started out cautious. There are no enemy's that they can see and are none for about 300 meters. They have taken no causalities and yet when I issue my movement commands they do NOT move at all. At the start of the next turn the commands have been wiped. They are at the edge of some woods and I am trying to move them around the woods and across a field. There are no enemy's with LOS in this area and I have 4 squads spread out in the woods blocking them from any enemy attack. This has been going on for over 10 turns now and its probably closer to 15 turns. I even moved a command unit that was about 100 meters away to be right next to them at about 18 meters away. I am on engine 4 on all my games but I haven't played much at all since that update came out, but I have never seen this behavior before and I have every title that has come out over the past 18 years or so. I can provide a save game if anyone is interested.

I got a hurricane heading in this week. Any chance the SF2 demo comes out so may last words with power for a while will be "damn it, that didn't work". :) :) :) For those closer to the storm get ready to get out or hunker down real tight.

I have a quad 2.8 with 12 gigs (yes twelve) of ram, ATI 5970 with 2 gigs on it and run everything maxed on a resolution of 1920 x 1280 with no slow down at all. I frequently multi task by burning dvd's, working, running torrents etc so I wanted something I didn't have to worry about the ram on and wouldn't have to upgrade in a few years Before anyone asks the torrents are legally traded unreleased concerts. So don't ask for Combat Mission because you won't get it from me.

I am playing a scenario that has about 130 meters of barbed wire and I was surprised that my units couldn't get over it at all. I have a platoon there with a command squad and figured they would slowly make their way over it. Imagine my surpise when they wouldn't even take a step. If the intent of barbed wire isn't to slow (as stated in the manual), could we get an execute command so my Lt has something to do other than cuss? I am doing enough of that that he doesn't have to join in as the choir.

I have seen this and in the same scenario you mentioned. I had taken out 5 Shermans on that stretch of road.

You did a really fantastic job on this. The visuals, the music, everything is great. I hope to see how it ends.

Its a valid complaint. I have had to change camera angles numermous times because of it. Its not my top complaint, but from a usability standpoint it is valid.

I have a Logitech G500 but I haven't configured it for CM. I found using the G keys on my G19 much easier to use for movement and targeting. I guess I feel unbalanced if my right hand is doing all the work

I played the first 3 CM games and loved wego. I didn't think it could get any better until I got hooked on RT in Shock Forces. I keep planning on trying a wego in BN but in all honesty I played so much of the first gen and have so many fond memories of amazing moments from watching the turn multiple times from every angle that I judt don't feel like I have to revisit it.

I have noticed that most players don't bother to rate scenarios, mods, etc from the repository these days. It looks like it is 1% who do so. Seeing better numbers there would be an indication that the community is ready for that. I do remember the Scenario Depot and The Proving Grounds sounds familiar to me as well. I believe Mad Matt had one way back when but I think that was mostly for his mod packs? I just realized they both still exist!!! WOW... I don't think I have been to either since CMBB.

There is a mod up at the repository for contour lines. That should help you espically when zoomed out.

I think to make a Pacific module would require much more work than you think. This conversation has come up many times in the past and its been stated that there are no plans to do a Pacific version of the game. Official comments in the past have stated they don't have much knowledge and are not interested in the Pacific. As for the work involved, all new weapons, graphics, terrain (lots of thick jungle)caves, all new TO&E (lots of research), caves, etc, for both marines and Japanese. You also have to figure out how to model bonzai charges, etc. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see it but realisticly for the scope of Combat Mission it probably would not do wonders for the game.