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Puff the Magic Dragon

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  1. :mad: You realy dare to call yourself a German??? You a..f...k. You better never cross my way, Freundchen. Racism and antisemitism has no place in Germany, and it never seriously had before this dick from Austria turned Germany in a dictatorship. Hitler was no German, and Third Reich is not Germany. Ever tried to build something up for Deutschland, for your country? Do something senseful except shaving your head!
  2. Why blame ATI? The CM graphics engine is 4 years old. Compared to fast develoment in graphic-card-tech, it's like running Windows95 on a modern computer system. </font>
  3. The graphic engine is BS, it is clumsy and doesn't seem to make any use of modern hardware and software techniques to increase the quality and permformance of the graphics, not even of techniques that were modern two years ago. I can play the newest games with all bells and wistles in high resultion on my PC without any problems, while it is a pain to play a larger battle like 'to the volga'. BTW, you should not mix up the graphic engine and the texture quality. WWB_99, many of the units are only minor variations of the same model. It's fine that they are all in, but you shouldn't wave the 900+ flag to high. BTW, the graphic I love most is the display of aircrafts. From the 70 pages of changes substract all the CMBO bugs and errors. As for example the disperse of artillery that is fired without LOS.
  4. You should consider a career as author . However, I'm often surprised about the constructios that people use to explain away that BTS has made an error. CM is a good game, otherwise I wouldn't play it since years, but CMBO is a game full of errors and flaws, CMBB is a bit better, but if I consider that they had two years of time!?! Let's look at the artillery system, the part with the most changes (BTS' words). What was changed? Delays are longer, a small random factor was added, and fireplans, what only mean that a order is locked and executed with fixed delay. Can I select different ammo now? Where are explosive or shrapnell shells? How about star shells? Why is a smoke screen not influenced by the wind? Why need my spotter an extra delay if he just orders +100m into a wood without LOS? Why can my off-map rockets and mortars exceed there maximum range? etcetcetcetc The graphic engine is still the same as in CMBO, even if they now use Hi-res textures, and it was already outdated in CMBO. And two years in graphic development is a VERY long time. How long will BTS work on the engine rewrite? three years, or maybe four? They had better spared the two yours of development for CMBB and invested it into the big rewrite. [ October 06, 2002, 04:25 PM: Message edited by: Puff the Magic Dragon ]
  5. Okay, but why make them less flexible? The argument with borg spotting is not unjustified, but it can be simply avoided to make the spotter 'gamey'. He can order delays or pauses - maybe he can even order each turn to hold fire til the next turn. But this works only as long as he don't move, so the Spotter must stay all the time on the same place with LOS to his target zone. Well, that would be at least a compromise between realism and playability.</font>
  6. I think that's a good idea. I'm no artillery expert, but it sounds realistic to me. Just in one of my battles I had this situation - there was a place on the map, I had bet my ass that the enemy will show up there. Well, and indeed he did. But if now want to fire my artillery, I have a delay of 4-5 minutes. If I would be able to set my artillery in the first minutes on a target, I can call the strike when I need it. Isn't that the common practice?
  7. Thanks Madmatt. Great that I'm allowed to pay additional 10 bucks for something that I should have already.
  8. [forget it] [ September 21, 2002, 05:15 AM: Message edited by: Puff the Magic Dragon ]
  9. It doesn't seem to be so easy like in CMBO - I can't just add a '1' to the filename for Winter textures. What must I do?
  10. I guess we need some of those 'field improvements'! You know, trucks with PAK etc.
  11. No there non such list, neither for BMPs nor for WAVs. At least I wasn't able to find it.
  12. BTW, we have also captured equipment! German T-34 and Soviet Panthers!
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