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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 ?

Stop talking bull****, they rarely if ever post to relevant questions about the game or the engine and rarely answer critique or bug reports !

...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.

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 !

No, they never answered me.

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. Then please give me a link i have no time to search for hours for these posts.

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.

What do you mean by "suspended my account" ? Did they try to get you banned ?

Excellent post Rambler, i totally agree with you. You could get excited about CMBS a bit because it finally got back into modern warfare and had a current event as background) but now we are back to WW2 with the Bulge game which will feel/play just like CMBN,CMFI,CMRT. No game changing new feature, the same recycled assets, 8 year old engine quirks and graphic issues... BFC, its getting old...

Its also hard when every critic is met with terms like "overblown", "irrational" or "ridiculous exaggeration"...

Oh wow, did not know you are that old school...iam sorry... And no, Germany will not invade Russia again, i will stay here and tell you about stuff you refuse to hear. CM has big flaws, face it and and stop acting like a hardcore fanboy so we can have a constructive discussion. Sorry, if you dont see how infantry formation (correctly implemented) could enhance the CM gameplay then you clearly have a problem with your imagination. No, it would just show that Steve refused to sell a great game or feared that it would outshine their own CM series someday. @ Kieme(ITA) Sorry, i like you and your Mods but what you wrote about the FPS thing is trash. Lacroix is 100% correct ! If your PC is 3 or 4 times as powerful as the "Suggested" requirements and you still only get stuttering 25 FPS (with drops below 15 FPS) on big Maps then something is wrong. If you can start ArmA3, load the biggest possible island and drink a coffee in the time it takes CM to load a medium-big scenario then something is wrong ! This game, lets face it, is just very poorly optimized, thats all ! Why are you defending BFC about that ? I cant understand it...

He has nothing to do with BFC except that he buys their games. Why should he have sleepless nights about their business's success ? BFC has to have them, if they choose the wrong strategy they are done for, and i fear they are currently doing something wrong... Their old fans will not always be here to buy their products and new ones are rarely interested in a badly performing 10 year old engine with fundamental flaws.

No, not necessarily. What ? Look, they as a commercial company try to make as much money as possible for the lowest amount of work/cost as possible. I as a customer can demand that they invest more work/money into their games even if this means they make less profit. They can choose to ignore me, i can choose to not buy their products. But then again i hope they as a small team have dedication and love for their product, at least as much as all the ArmA modders for example that create all those models and textures for free in their freetime. I mean as far as i know they already "use" community members for scenario and content creation.

No, its 100% a engine problem because of bad optimization. No Yes No It has infantry formations and a "Use Road" command. I just think its cheap from BFC to always use the same year for their games (CMBN, CMRT, Bulge)...sure that helps them to recycle content and save work but i as a customer want something fresh, something truly "new" ! We cant have engine improvements because BFC has no time/money, fine. but at least give us some fresh scenarios and gear to play with (france'40 or the winter-war).

I play CM since CMAK (CMx1) and played CMSF (Brits & Marines), CMBN, CMBS. I consider myself "old breed" because of that but my age is what separates me from the 40+ guys here. Thats maybe the reason i have a different view of CM and how it should have evolved. That was a joke... 26 years old and active infantryman. Ha, and if you wonder why i have so much time currently to post here...i got injured (knee) during a exercise last week.

Actually i think GTOS graphics look more gritty and realistic while CMx2 has more of a Comic/tabletop look to it. Bu thats maybe a matter of taste.

I have both games installed and CMSF overall runs better then CMBS on my pc.

@ George MC Sorry if i did sound rude but if some people act like little children, refusing to accept the fact that there is another wargame which has some features CMx2 has not and just say..."nah, CM is still better by far" it gets me angry. Ok, back to topic, we are taliking about CMx3 here not GTOS !

Then your youtube is broken. Or you watching at 240p resolution...

Sorry but that tells me that you are a unconvincible CMx2 fanboy. You are unable to accept the fact that "Mius Front" has some great features... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGv5QYmQT0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbvjgWqPBis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPQA5-VWVXU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eCET3VCztU If you would have said that you wish CM had some of those features but still think CMx2 looks overall better or something i would accept that, but to say "i'm not one bit impressed...when compared to CM..." is just a joke. Guys watch the videos and then think again, he said "i'm not one bit impressed...when compared to CM..." ! ...and what just made me fall of my chair is that you said "The shadowing seems far inferior to CM..."...wow, shows me how abnormal your connection to CMx2 is. Really, please stay realistic at least.

If i had to name the one game that run the worst on my PC it would be CMx2 ! I play GTAV, ARMA3, GTOS all in high-max details Full HD ! And those loading times are killing me, big scenarios take about 4 minutes to load...thats incomprehensible. Thats another thing, normally you would expect that after 8 years with the same engine it would be good optimized but CMBS runs much worse then SF !

What is also to consider, GTOS runs FAR better then CMx2. The engine is way better optimized for modern hardware + the loading times are MUCH shorter !

@ niall78 AAA titles are stuff like Call of Duty or GTA with over 100 Million dollar budget. I think you dont need AAA budget to realize a CMx3 engine, look at what some Indie Devs are pulling off after a successful kickstarter campaign, why should that not work for BFC ? @ Baneman http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=468922131 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444334040 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=376986050 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=347288666 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=444896030 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=470237574 @ Stagler I too think crowdfunding is the way to go for BFC if they want to realize a CMx3 engine

Its up to BFC if they will take it seriously, most likely not but i dont care, its just what i think could work, sorry for not being the manager of a multi-millon dollar game company.I apologize for that... @ sandman2575 I dont agree with most of what you said, but again its not about GTOS. But saying that "CM is superior on so many levels" is a bit daring...

It has building and "real" trenches (even fighting positions for armored vehicles !). As i said above, you cant play the Inf like in CM because micro-managment is sanctioned...issue to many commands in a short time and they get confused and stop following your orders. Command & Control is modeled in great detail, you really have to be careful and plan ahead. But please, this thread is not about GTOS !