SgtHatred

Combat Mission does a really bad job of telling you anything about the terrain, so often you don't know what you are driving on, but I've definitely seen things like Churchills and T-90s get bogged and immobilized in places they shouldn't. Try light snow for the Churchill and watch them all get stuck.

That's a lot of buzzwords without any understanding behind them at all. You must be a manager somewhere.

When playing turn-based multiplayer, some heavy weapons teams will lose their heavy weapon and gain an extra rifle once the game starts, unless the weapons team starts deployed. This only happens to the client, not the host. eg. this machine gun team (m1917a1) was not deployed at the beginning of the game. As a result, the machine gun disappeared at game start, the man in the rear of the formation received an extra carbine. For the rest of the game, the machine gun in not present and the deploy option is missing. The team in the image below was deployed at the start of the game and given a move order. They retain their machine gun and seem to function fine. I imagine this is related to a similar bug which disappears or duplicates weapons for the client in all CMx2 games.

3 months to fix a corrupted file in an installer. I wouldn't brag about it. Meanwhile, it looks like Battlefront's plan is to hope that AMD goes back on part of their driver rewrite? It doesn't seem very likely. 16 months and counting there.

Don't work yourself up over releases around here. It took 2 years to add "PBEM+" somehow. The tool used to make most of the scenario content is ancient and labour intensive. Be pleasantly surprised if they manage to scrounge up a release in 2024.

If you know the name of the isp you should be able to find out online easily enough.

Does your ISP do Carrier level NAT? If it does, you are in for a bad time. Some allow you to get a real ip for a fee, or just for free if you ask, but simple port forwarding won't work on a CGNAT.

Sure, but it's also the case that inept design creates massive difficulty for simple things. There is a reason the Obamacare website cost nearly a billion dollars after all, and it isn't because "software is complex". Too often that is used as an excuse. I've been in software for 20 years, and if we tolerated the kind of faff in other fields that we do in software, well... I would avoid bridges for one thing. Combat Mission really has hardcoded things like smoke launcher arcs and wheel traversal? Sounds like a very labour intensive design.

You misunderstand my meaning. I was referring to all CMx2 games. The Red Thunder mention is only a time-frame.

So, the meagre improvements since Red Thunder was released 9 years ago are the result of 60+ hour weeks? Yikes.

If you are looking for recording software that won't cause any trouble for you, OBS is the gold standard. You don't need to stream to use it.

Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean? Geforce Experience only requires a Nvidia graphics card (one made in the last 8 or 10 years ish?). You need an account, which is annoying, but you should be able to use the same account on multiple PCs without issue. If it isn't working on your desktop, but you have a Nvidia graphics card installed, then you have an interesting technical issue going on.

I've been playing the game for a while, I can see applications like the Nvidia overlay not detecting the game running or print screen dumping a copy of the menu rather than the game in progress and I know why that happens in other titles. It's a fair assumption that it is the same here. 70% of all software is badly coded, and that number probably jumps higher with games. When I ran into the problem running Combat Mission games with the realtek audio controller on my old Asus board running? It's evidence enough. Can you please state plainly that you believe that the T-90 bug is just a "small issue" and is not game breaking? It's possibly the most common tank of the most common faction in CMBS, and it can get knocked out by small arms fire frontally. It doesn't matter what I think is a game breaking problem, it matters what YOU think is a game breaking problem, since you are the one that can actually do something about it. I think your threshold on what bugs are worth fixing is something people here should know. I'll believe it when I see results.

So all the complaints about CM2 with the latest AMD drivers are nonsense? I don't have an AMD card, so I just assume that the problems aren't made up. Also, that's some weak logic. A drunk driver can make it home 100 times, that doesn't make what he is doing safe. My argument, which you seem to have missed, is that a game breaking for people because new drivers have been released is almost always the fault of the game, and Combat Mission is absolutely no exception here. it has nothing to do with adding new features, and everything to do with the game working as well this year as it did in previous years. If it was done properly in the first place, that wouldn't be a problem. Wanting a game that looks like Combat Mission to run at a higher framerate than Star Citizen isn't expecting AAA production values. Expecting the game to keep working as long as the OS and GPU developers support OpenGL is the bare minimum. Many of these problems have existed for years though, and we never hear anything about them, other than once a year in January. The fact that the T-90 in CMBS has been broken for so long is absurd. It is not reasonable. Forget asking about more complex issues like the weird texture LOD problems or infantry spawning with duplicate or missing weapons in multiplayer. Game breaking issues should take priority over new content. Do you not think so? These issues have persisted for years. I'd even take a "no, we won't fix these issues, they aren't worth doing" over the status quo. I remember getting responses from ChrisND on issues, but since he left its just radio silence on these things. Sure, during the once or twice a year we can get a response at all, you are willing to do this. You also looked at what you posted last year and said "We did pretty well with our 2022 calendar". It sure doesn't seem like you care most of the time.

I've used both over the years. Doesn't seem to make a difference for me.