daft
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1 hour ago, Placebo said:
I believe it is just talking about voices, I thought the same there is already ethicities so must just be extra voice wav files. I can't believe they want to spend the money to do this but must be ticking an "inclusivity" box for someone.
Many government orgs in my resident country of Sweden actually have inclusivity and diversity goals, with money set aside in the budget I assume. I also assume this is the case in the UK as well. Lucrative stuff, this. Sign of the times.
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Excellent, thanks!
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Off for a small vacation for a couple of days and would like som SHock Force action if weather sucks. Is it possible to install the game on a second computer as long as you don't play the game simultaneously on both?
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Re-install fixed everything!
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Well for the modules, not the base game. I installed the v.1 modules as nothing really happened on activation after buying upgrade packs for British Forces and Marines.
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Yup, that could be it!
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Do the games share mod folders? I have no mods at all for SF2.
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Hey guys, I am seeing a weird issue both in game and the menus. Check the first screenshot. The "Confirm" text is missing on the button (TextIssue1.png).
For the second issue, there's missing text for the status lines for each soldier, and it also looks missaligned? Anyone else seen this before?
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Just to confirm for anyone having the same Q later on. I could send support my license key from the GamersGate version and they helped me from there.
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1 minute ago, IanL said:
I think so / hope so. Best thing to do is contact support and they can guide you in the right direction.
Thank you Ian, will do so and see how it goes.
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Hi all!
Is it possible to buy an upgrade to CMSF 2 if I bought the base CMSF 1 from GamersGate? I bought the Marines and British Forces modules from the BF store, but the base game is from GamersGate.
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I've seen a few of his vids. I can't believe he's not died of botulism yet.
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On 5/29/2016 at 1:56 PM, Michael Emrys said:
Go sit down. Then nod off and fall asleep and roll into the fire. That should at least provide a little entertainment value.
Michael
Didn't work. I only got slightly singed on one arm. Turns out I might be old, but I'm not very flammable.
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Jesus effing Christ... I've been here so long I've actually forgotten what the Peng Challenge even is. I'm getting old. So old.
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"Soon". He really does look like a cat getting ready to pounce in that first pic.
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Really like this one. The map is great and it fell pretty much within my sweet spot in terms of force size. A really solid job!
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I'll check all of the out when I get home. Really looking forward to it.
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Haven't used the myself yet but sacrificed a whole German coy to them and Soviet SMG:s in a quick battle a couple of days ago. It was slauhter.
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This is a common enough phenomenon which is not surprising given the length of time after the event that many of these accounts were written, the pace of events and the political and social landscape which the writers inhabited. Add in Combat Fatigue and disorientation and you are lucky that the Space Lobsters of Doom are not seen more often.
To give you an example of actual research conducted into this, the survivors of the Dambuster Raid were interviewed in the 1970s about the raid and the accounts compared with After Action Intelligence reports and other contemporary documents. Part of the findings were that the survivors remembered events depicted in the 1955 film "The Dambusters" as being real events that actually happened even though they were, in fact, complete fiction.
Given that Soviet and German accounts of the war rarely cover the same action, it is difficult to compare the two and neither side gets the benefit of the other sides account. In one case, where I have found contemporary accounts from both sides, you would hardly believe that they were talking about the same battle and both sides leave out large chunks that are not to their credit. Both sides claim victory and minimise their losses when a impartial observer would call it a draw.
Indeed. I distinctly remember a story my gramps told me that did ring VERY similar to a scene from an old war movie I knew both him and me had watched. Memory is a fickle thing. On the other hand, he told me about the death of his best friend in June 1944. He was lost in a local counterattack and went missing with a lot of other from the same company (not the same coy as my gramps), and sure enough. The company war diary gives details on losses incurred during a counter attack on a Soviet position on June 23 1944. His friend is even mentioned in name, and the place was also spot on. So it is a bit hit and miss that memory thing.
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With the appropriate CM2 module, it would be a blessing to see his stories put into scenarios--if it was not too painful.
I made a small attempt at this with CMBB. Will certainly do it again if a Finnish module comes out.
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Kurowski's books are a great read, even though one should, as always, keep an open mind about what you read.
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I need to get Fraps and record some of this, because it is hillarious.
Half the map plastered in rocket fire, then I have to crawl around to find what few units the AI have purchased for whatever points it has left. Still, RT is the best CM yet. What a game! -
Stories are being lost indeed. I managed to interview my grandfather about his service before he passed a few years ago. He was a sub-machinegunner in the Finnish Army and somehow managed to live through it all. He was a simple soldier and had no real grasp of the tactics or strategy, he simply did his job as told. That's how he viewed it afterwards at least. Still have his stories documented, but they are fragmented.
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When someone starts telling you all your problems are some other groups fault you need to start wondering what they are really doing. We have no shortage of that in American politics be it the Utah Gov decrying gay marriage or folks blaming immigrants etc etc. It is no more right now than it was then.
Oh boy I can see the wheels coming off this thread any second now.
Just look at the recent EU elections to see more of the "it's their fault" mentality as well as fear showing it's ugly head. People actually vote for parties with nazi sympathies.
CM diversity update from UK MOD
in Combat Mission - General Discussion
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Just to add to this "get kids interested in history" argument. I think the "diversity"-spiel is a chimera. No real follow ups are usually done on how it might achieve said goals, on the contrary.
I feel it's more of a PR-opportunity for companies, government authorities and also in our case, the Swedish Defence Forces.
Again, it's a sign of the times. Kids want to hear this stuff to feel good, but I doubt it actually matters when it comes to actually garner real interest past that.