Wiggum15
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Besides new content we are starting work on Upgrade 4.0 very soon. We aren't sure when it will be ready for release, or specifically what will be in it yet, though we do have a long list based on your suggestions, so no worries there. What I can say is we're focusing this Upgrade on long standing requests. I can think of one that was first suggested sometime around 1998.
Steve
But with Upgrade 4.0 still using the outdated CMx2 engine i doubt we will see much improvement in key areas.
Instead on focusing on keeping the old car driving through the addition of a new oil filter, a spoiler and new tires it would be time to move on and invest into a new car.
If money or know-how is the problem...well there is kickstarter, i think we all would support you.
Another thing i dont like is that we now have it Official, the bulge game will only include "minor" changes.
No new trench/foxhole system. No significant gameplay enhancements, no fix for long standing technical issues.
Sorry, iam disappointed !
(But thanks for the heads-up Steve)
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I think the problem is that BFC has to take what the community offers.
It has been said that all scenarios and campaigns are "donated" by some community members.
Looks like BFC has no time/money to create them. So whats there option if the campaigns or scenarios are below average ?
They still have to use them...
I too think there are some really good scenarios in CMBS but then again there are some which feel just sluggish.
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You always say "be nice and we can have a discussion"...
But how "nice" can you be if you want to criticize something ?
After every suggestion for change the first thing you hear is either:
- no its fine you are irrational
or
- will never happen they are a small team
Them you say "hey but the BFC marketing suggests this is a ->new<- game so whats ->new<- about it except textures and scenarios"
Then it goes one downwards from there people are calling you aggresive aor wish you would die in russia (actually happened)...
Im done with it, you cant criticize anything about the state of the engine or BFC's business model without getting your thread locked.
And by the way i dont see all those threads criticizing CMx2 or BFC, they are non existent. Only "polite" bug reports and happiness.
I dont know how much longer you can ride the CMx2 train without significant change, i just hope you dont wait till its to late.
I was always a BFC and CM fan...
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Spending money on hardware to "improve" your FPS in CM is like throwing money out of the window, at least if you pc is not 10 years old.
Generally the only advice:
Dont buy a ATI card and buy a CPU with high single thread power.
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I have no problem with locking threads but i too dont like the "i have the last word" thing...
I dont know, maybe the BFC forums are a place where everyone is happy.
Take for example the DayZ forums (a game i play). There are hard discussions about which way the game should evolve and if the devs are fast enough fixing bugs and getting the game to Bata status.
Here this is not possible.
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Thansk for staying On-Topic womble !
But whats left after all womble ?
A few new snow textures/tiles ?
A few new units ?
A modified CMBN TO&E ?
A dozen Scenarios "donated" by the community ?
55 $ ?
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No, no flame war.
I just wanted to point out that some things can actually be included into a game.
Like better tracer graphics or effects.
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Do you actually play the game?
Yes.
The is a popular tracer mod (IIRC made by Vein) that has alternate lengths and colors.
I use this mod but why has everything get modded into a 55$ game ?
If it would be 10$ i would not care.
As someone pointed out even the scenarios get donated to BFC.
I know small team, no money, niche games. But i expect some quality from a 55$ game, especially when its no "proof of concept" or other rare stuff. CMx2 had 8 years to evolve into a quality product.
Just look what Kieme(ITA) did with the distance ground textures, with his mod it looks 100 times better. BFC needs to step it up a bit.
Or take the sounds, someone pointed out they use sounds from the CMx1 era.
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one thing that comes to my mind is New tracers, different lenght/color or smth or perhaps that every 5th bullet or whatever, actually can be seen
Good point,they should get some love i bet they are the same since CMSF.
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I agree with your points 100%
Would like to see longer suppression and more surrendering soldiers than dead soldiers.
Oh, thats a good point.
The effects of supression are not severe enough.
Fire and movement rarely works.
The code for surrendering needs to be changed too.
Surrendering should occur if:
- A whole formation with already low moral gets surrounded by enemy forces
- Single soldiers (last survivors) are x time closer to enemy troops then to friendly ones.
Another thing that needs to be added back is routing.
It should be possible to route a defender and if he reaches the map edges hes counted as MIA !
No more fights to the death (95% of all CM games feel like that)
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The question would be how would such "deep snow" look on the generally very flat CM terrain ?
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Hi !
What kind of engine improvements do you expect from the Bulge game ?
Do you wish that the performance and loading times get fixed ?
On my list are these technical and engine improvements:
- Overall Better Performance
- Reduce the loading times dramatically
- Get rid of all the old graphic glitches
- The ability to save turns as "replays"
- Fix the wind effect
- Use road command
- The ability for infantry to use differend spacings and formations
- Better/reworked (not so ugly) trenches and foxholes (a must-have for bulge)
- TacAI improvements for example better panic behavior
- Finally fix the use of bridges
- Real Deep snow terrain with a effect on tanks and vehicles
- Reworked UI that makes use of modern FullHD 16/9 screens
- Better Night combat effects and features like flares
What do you think, what real new features and fixes to you expect from the Bulge game ?
Oh, and why cant i start a poll anymore ?
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Then why dont they hire new people with better skills ?
They could start a kickstarter campaign for CMx3 and tell people they need the money for better skilled coders to do a proper well optimized engine.
Or if they take a engine already avaiable they could use the money to hire people who are skilled in it.
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No, because that has been you topic for all your post lately, might as well stay here on your own thread. High jacking your own thread.
Oh, wait , I do that also, so cannot comment
So you did not want to have updated scenarios for the paid "engine upgrades" ?
Another thing:
The question why it takes BFC so much time even for very small things to add.
For example the praised "random number of bullets in a mg burst".
I can only explain this with the engine being a mess of code and it takes massive amount of time to implant every code change and more time to test it.
Or the engine is already a rag rug, its like the old car you somehow keep running because you cant afford a new one.
I would support a new car for BFC, go to kickstarter and i will send you money for a innovative CMx3 engine !
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This topic turned more into a general critique of CM and BFC.
Should i start a new topic ?
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Ok, enough of this, back to topic.
Since we are already talking BFC's business model...
They choose to sell their so called "engine upgrades" and not to release them as a free patch/upgrade.
Now, why did they not update the old scenarios/campaigns with the (big) new feature...AI triggers ?
I think its kind of lazy from them and i was really disappointed to see they dont updated the scenarios.
Yes it takes time, but again, they SELL this stuff and dont give it away for free !
And dont explain it with multiplayer compability, the old versions of the scenarios would still be abvaiable.
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How would you know one way or another about what suggestions they pay attention to?
Ah, so you say they are silently monitoring the forum ?
As a small developer team with a small community they need to be much more active.
I say it again. Where are they active in discussions about the engine, where do they responde to critique ?
Where do they answer to technical problems ?
Fact, they rarely do. How can you sugarcoat that ?
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Oh, they do pay attention to suggestions to improve CMx2. They just don't pay attention to you. What you really seem to be saying is that they need to pay more attention to you - personally - because you think you have all the answers.
Stop talking bull****, they rarely if ever post to relevant questions about the game or the engine and rarely answer critique or bug reports !
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Because he is irrelevant?
...i actually think the fanboys and yes-sayers are irrelevant, to much of them here, CM will never improve that way.
BFC could release utter trash or just a reskinned version of CMSF as CMSF 2.0 and you would go ape**** about it.
They can not answer questions or bug reports for months and nobody sees a problem with that.
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The thing is they rarely if ever post here in topics that make suggestions on how to improve CMx2 or dont respond to any critique of CMx2.
As a small company they should be much more connected with their community and answer questions/suggestions, bug reports and technical problems !
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thats your own problem if you dont have time or you dont remember, same topic where you asked this and they answered.
No, they never answered me.
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No I am not.
But actually Wiggum rating himself is not really the issue i have with him, that' s just a side show, i find it weird but i can live with it.
I too find it weird and its a bug of the forum software.
I usually up-voted myself if i got down-voted just because i criticized the game or BFC.
Back to topic now please.
they are answered moust of what you asked on other topics all ready. several month agou then when you asked this same things first time
Then please give me a link i have no time to search for hours for these posts.
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So ChrisND and Steve both posted in the forums today, yet we still did not get any response of them concerning the old engine flaws and how they try to improve or what really will be "new" in the Bulge game or what their thoughts about a possible CMx3 engine are.
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i dont know who suspended my account and why , but ok. odd it happend right now in the midst of discussion
What do you mean by "suspended my account" ?
Did they try to get you banned ?
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...yeah, i mean its not that the engine upgrade is free for us so i would expect updated campaigns/scenarios.
Looks like they dont care about that.