Moon
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www.battlefront.com/helpdesk. Check the Knowledge Base first. You may be able to look up your key in your customer account if you purchased your game after Oct 1, 2007.
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As others said, this thread here has been completely derailed from the original topic, I am therefore locking it.
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I thought it worked only for "on-map" mortars, like the British 51mm?
It works for all arty, and yes, it's mentioned in the 1.20 manual.
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The v1.20 patch will be released shortly after the British Module is out.
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The patch will be out after the British module is released, certainly not before that.
Martin
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2 Forum ID's is subject to banning, yes?
Our forum rules allow only one account per person. Usually only one account gets banned immediately if we find out that someone is using two accounts, but in this case Steve had additional reasons.
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There is nothing unusual about our store with regard to using credit card or Paypal. Anything you do with Paypal happens on the Paypal site outside of our control, so whatever issues you have you should contact them. We are using Paypal Express Checkout, where you authorize payment with Paypal but you need to return to our store to complete your order (and pay for it). That's how they designed that system to work.
For credit card, perhaps a typo on your end? There is nothing special or nothing that would change your credit card from one thing to another there.
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Later TODAY? Awesome, I can live with that!
Actually more like tomorrow. It will take most of today to test and recompile.
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Another question: does this introduce a CD check for those versions that didn't have one before?
After you install this, is your game now elicense bound?
If you purchase the upgrade, the executable is eLicense protected. There is no cd check.
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So will there be an announcement when the CMAK compatibility issue has been resolved? I definitely want the CMAK version but it doesn't do me much good until I can play my version 1.03 opponents. But man the demo sure rocked on my Vista machine!
Yes, we'll make an announcement. You will simply be able to re-download from your customer account as we're going to update the file there. Already working on it in fact, but due to the number of files that need update (full versions, too, as well as bundle) it will take most of today I think.
Martin
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Well to be honest, the quickest way really is to ask (especially as I am at work), but the download option comes a very close second!
You're right. I should have said "the most reliable way to find out is to download the demo"
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v1.21 features
Soldiers
- Soldiers on rooftops receive better cover.
- Speed difference between Fast and Quick moves is slightly increased.
- Soldiers tire more quickly moving across difficult terrain or in very hot weather.
- Split teams that are in close proximity but on different vehicles will not attempt to join.
- Teams that rejoin will retain the target orders of one of the teams instead of erasing them all.
- Buddy-aid will not pick up heavy weapons from a different Team.
Vehicles
- Passengers manning a vehicle weapon may use it even if the crew has bailed out.
- Top gunner in a Humvee can use a personal weapon if his vehicle-mounted weapon is out of action.
- Vehicles do a better job using alternate crew to replace MG gunners who become casualties.
- Tanks won't waste APFSDS ammo on lightly-armored targets when alternative ammo is available.
- Refinements to vehicle damage from mines.
- Added radio to UAZ vehicle.
- Bradley IFVs and CFVs carry some 40mm grenades for their passengers.
- Vehicles move more smoothly in PBEM and hotseat replay.
Weapons
- Times to set up SPG-9 and most ATGMs are reduced.
- Powerful projectiles like sabot can penetrate trees and be slightly deflected rather than stopped.
- Heavy weapons set up near the edges of buildings won't drop to the ground after an explosion.
- Corrected a small problem where automatic weapons had a pause between the first and second rounds that was slightly longer than it should have been.
- MGs on bipods are a bit more stable than before.
- Corrected a rare instance where ATGMs could fly too low and hit the ground when they should not.
Terrain
- Roads are smoother when traversing rough ground or steep slopes.
- Large rocks (flavor objects) are more of a deterrent to navigate over.
- Flavor objects tilt to fit slopes when necessary.
- Trees are less resistant to damage from heavy artillery.
Artillery
- Updated behavior for artillery/air support time-to-target. Conventional Red formation leaders are now allowed to call in artillery from batteries at battalion level or below (e.g. light mortars).
- Corrected some issues affecting artillery arrival time after target adjustment.
- Corrected the display of artillery mission type in PBEM games.
- Artillery battery and aircraft pilot voices use the correct nationality when they differ from that of the spotter.
User Interface
- Troops may be given simultaneous Hide and Face commands, but changing facing often requires a soldier to change position slightly, during which time he will not be "hiding".
- When acquiring missiles from a vehicle, it is now possible to take the last missile without its reloadable launcher (e.g. Javelin).
- "Scenario Author Test" may be selected as a Skill Mode (1-player only). It will cause all enemy units to be fully displayed to the player, but not additionally "known" to player's troops.
Editor
- AI Plan #0 can be deactivated in the editor provided at least one other plan is active.
- In the map editor, some buttons were shifted from "Flavor Objects #1" to "Flavor Objects #2".
- Corrected some small issues with elevation controls in the editor.
Miscellaneous
- Large saved games that take longer to load do not advance the game clock in the process of loading.
- Corrected a slow framerate problem on the first PBEM turn.
- Small bullets kick up a tiny bit of dirt and dust when they hit ground.
- Computer-player air strikes aim at smaller areas, reducing friendly fire.
- Corrected a problem where some ATGM teams would appear to leave their ATGM launcher temporarily behind when embarking on a vehicle.
- Corrected a problem that caused the turn-based computer player sometimes not to dismount troops fully when instructed by the scenario AI plan.
- Corrected a PBEM synchronization problem caused by saving and reloading the game.
Marines Module Only
- US Marines sometimes have M203 grenade launchers instead of M32, especially at lower Equipment Quality settings.
- Added US Marine Mk11 sniper rifle (equivalent to Army M110).
- The US Marine sergeant in the scout team wears infantry gear, not vehicle crew gear.
British Module Only
- Jackal GMG (aka grenade launcher) can now be found in the Fire Support Section of the British Infantry Rifle Company, when the equipment rating is good (otherwise they get a WMIK).
- Loader on Challenger 2 Enhanced will not reload the top-deck MG unless ordered to unbutton.
- Warrior has slower (hand-cranked) gun elevation.
- Gunner in LMTV will use his personal night-vision gear when appropriate.
- LMTV carries more passenger weapons and ammunition.
- British Engineer Troop has 3 TUM ST vehicles, not 6.
- Corrected a problem with a US IBCT soldier carrying a British rifle.
v1.20 features
Soldiers
- Infantry on rooftops are easier to spot.
- Soldiers will not move into or out of a building, nor up or down a level in a building to perform "buddy aid".
- Demo charges will be used by the TacAI (automatically) against bunkers at very short range if no grenades are available.
- Mine marking works properly.
- Soldiers are pre-boarded onto their vehicles when first "deployed" in the editor, or in a Quick Battle.
- Aiming time is slightly increased for targets roughly 50-200m distant.
- Weapons teams won't recombine into a squad when their heavy weapons are lost.
- Some new animations.
- Forward observers are less likely to use their sidearms.
- Fixed a problem that could cause troops to move across "missing" upper levels of destroyed buildings.
- US M240 gunner does not ignore facing orders when using the bipod.
- Doors to roofs of immediately adjacent buildings can be moved through correctly.
- US Army specialist rank icon shown when appropriate (instead of corporal).
Vehicles
- Fire-on-the-move accuracy is improved for modern vehicles.
- Vehicle crew morale suffers more when the vehicle receives internal damage.
- Increased armor thickness of turret sides of Abrams tanks.
- Night vision corrected for M1046 Humvee.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a quick burst of unrealistically high rate of fire from a weapon mounted on a moving vehicle.
- Vehicle crew "up top" as gunners or in open hatches have a more natural pose.
- Vehicle crews may "bail out" in the setup phase.
- Vehicle doors don't open too far.
- Static tanks can change facing in the setup phase.
- Vehicle radios are more easily damaged by external hits (i.e. on the antennae).
- Fixed a "jittery gunner" problem related to vehicles using covered arcs.
- Unbuttoned vehicle passengers, and passengers of unarmored vehicles are not overly vulnerable to explosions, especially mines.
- Driver casualty is replaced by an able crewman (if available) in the BRDM-2 and MTVR.
- Antipersonnel mines are not overly damaging to vehicles.
- "Target Light" is active for BTR-60, BRDM 2.
- Corrected a bug that caused vehicle-mounted autocannon to cause too much recoil.
- Vehicle crews bailing out in turn-based replay animate correctly.
- Fixed a problem with popping smoke from an LAV-C2.
- T-55MV is less resistant to Javelin hits.
- Explosion damage to vehicle tracks is calculated with improved precision.
- These vehicles no longer automatically button up even when under heavy fire: MTVR trucks, Humvees, and pickup trucks.
- M707 top hatch animates correctly.
- Strykers carry more ammo for passengers.
- Taxi holds 5 men, not 4.
- Armed pickup trucks hold 4 men, not 3.
Weapons
- Slightly increased practical rates of fire (ROF) for "LMG"-type weapons: RPD, RPK, RPK-74, M249 SAW.
- Mk19 and AGS grenade launchers have increased cyclic ROF, but practical ROF is largely unchanged.
- Hand grenades can bounce a little on the ground before exploding and will occasionally airburst.
- Lethality of large HEAT warheads vs. armored vehicles reduced slightly.
- Coaxial MGs have increased max range of 1500m.
- IED Mines are more likely to explode.
- Artillery impact pattern is more oval-shaped, especially for low-trajectory weapons.
- Rockets have slightly reduced shrapnel effects.
- TOW launcher deploys correctly.
- Heavy weapon "parts" (like a tripod) are not lost between battles in a campaign.
- ATGMs aim better at hull-down vehicles. But they will still sometimes "hit the dirt" in front of a hull-down vehicle or miss just overhead. It is intentional for this to happen some of the time.
- Helicopters launch weapons from higher elevations when required to engage a target in a valley.
- Javelins orient properly during final descent.
- When Javelins fail, it's not always at the same (very early) point in the launch sequence.
- Small model fix for M16 with mounted M203.
- Fixed a problem with small-arms accuracy at extremely close range.
Computer Player
- Computer player moves its troops faster in turn-based mode, to better match its behavior in real-time mode.
- Computer player does not change unit facing in the setup phase (although it may change its position).
- Computer player is smarter about how it faces troops when arriving at a "plan" destination.
- When instructed to set up on the roof, the computer player will adhere fully to that instruction rather than also randomly placing a few units on the top floor.
- Mines and IEDs pay attention to AI setup plans, except when it's "Group 1" (the default) and that group contains both mines and regular troops. This protects old scenarios from redeploying mines and mixing them in with positions of friendly troops.
Fog of War
- Muzzle flame, smoke and dust from enemy weapons, dust and exhaust from enemy vehicles, and shell casings are displayed only if the enemy unit is currently spotted by at least one of your soldiers.
- "Camera shake" obeys Fog of War.
User Interface
- Special equipment icons display their names when under the mouse cursor.
- Pop Smoke will not execute until any existing Face command is completed. This gives you more flexibility to "aim" defensive smoke, especially in turn-based mode, by preceding it with a Face command.
- Floating icons briefly blink for friendly units that take casualties.
- The icons of all group-selected units light up to make it more clear that they're ready to receive orders as a group.
- New floating icons for sniper and grenade launcher teams.
- Ammo bars include ammo already loaded into soldiers' weapons.
- Ammo counts for heavy weapons update correctly in replay.
- Abbreviated formation names in the chain-of-command display are more readable.
- Soldier "types" displayed on the left side of the screen (in green, showing current actions) are more accurate for soldiers inside vehicles.
- Artillery and Air Strike lines and circles look more distinct when selected.
- Smoke launchers that have run out of ammo will be shown in gray in the vehicle systems damage list (in the same way that unloaded weapons are).
- "CO" and "XO" text labels are replaced by "star" icons.
- Coaxial MGs are listed as "Coax" in the vehicle systems list.
- The "acquire" popup menu is better-organized.
Campaign Game
- When a campaign scenario is updated, you can "import" your current progress from a saved game into the new scenario. Steps:
1. Update CMSF to v1.20.2. Using v1.20 or later, save your current campaign between battles - from the point just after you dismiss the end-of-battle screen. Importing will not work for saves made at any other point.3. From the main intro screen, start a New Campaign, and select the updated version of the campaign you want to use. HOLD DOWN THE SHIFT KEY as you click the OK button.4. Immediately an "import" screen will appear. You'll see your saved game here. Select it, click OK, and then things proceed as normal. The game does the best it can to match battle history and core units from your saved game to the new version of the campaign, but if the author has made major changes then this will be difficult, so the whole process of importing works best when updates to the campaign are relatively small ones.- (For campaign authors) Campaign scripts can specify a minimum and maximum overall campaign victory level in the entry for any battle that ends the campaign. Normally, to signal the end of a campaign, the [NEXT BATTLE IF WIN] and/or the [NEXT BATTLE IF LOSE] fields are left empty. However, any of the following list of keywords can optionally be entered there instead, signalling both the end of the campaign and either a minimum required overall campaign victory (if following [NEXT BATTLE IF WIN]) or a maximum allowed victory (if following [NEXT BATTLE IF LOSE]). This is most useful for "early ends" to campaigns where you want the final score to reflect the fact that the campaign ended early more than the success or failure of each battle along the way. Note that each keyword must start with an underscore.
◦ _total defeat
◦ _major defeat
◦ _tactical defeat
◦ _minor defeat
◦ _draw
◦ _minor victory
◦ _tactical victory
◦ _major victory
◦ _total victory
Miscellaneous
- Corrected various Quick Battle problems including an issue where the player would switch sides at game start.
- "Dust" from explosions, gunfire, etc. tends to last longer before dissipating.
- Syrian Unconventional forces add a Forward Observer Spy.
- When you reload a campaign game that was saved between battles, you are given the chance to choose real-time or turn-based modes.
- LOS from building to building is blocked at steep vertical angles.
- Corrected a problem with setting elevations in the editor where "white" elevations could receive unpredictable values.
- Enemy minefields and IEDs are displayed in end-game map review.
- Scenario max time limit is 4 hours.
- New brick building facade texture set.
- ATGMs no longer have "rotation creep" after successive deployments in the editor.
- Program startup is faster.
British-Module Only
- On-map mortars can area-fire at unseen locations a little beyond LOS-blocking obstacles provided the obstacles are not too tall.
- Bulldogs and Warriors have IED-jamming ECM.
- British FBCB2 is called VUDT.
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Changelog for versions up to 1.11:
- Soldiers on rooftops receive better cover.
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This patch isn´t necessary. At least, I´m playing both, CMBB and CMAK, in my computer with Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bits (with last updates) and nVidia GeForce GTX 260 (with last drivers installed), and everything is working fine!
Well, maybe it´s just only my case...
Anyway, I don´t like that a customer who paid already for the software, now has to pay for downloading a simple patch. It´s just ridiculous! And why 5 dollars?!... Come on!
"Combat Mission Campaigns"... Now this patch... ayayayaayyyy... Battlefront, Battlefront... What´s happening?... I don´t know, but if we bear in mind mundial economic situation... I can imagine... It´s very very sad to use this kind of Sales & Marketing strategies...
I´m very sorry. Regards,
JC
Obviously you have not read a single post from this thread, nor perhaps any other thread in this forum?
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Also, the expected format is a little different. v1.20 adds a new command (target smoke) so there has to be an entry line in hotkeys for that.
It goes between "face" and "deploy". People's old custom v1.11 hotkeys files won't have that, so they need to add it.
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Ok that's kewl can we please have a picture of Steve eating those pages though please?
)I'm afraid it is you who has no concept of reality. Do you have any idea how you are making yourself look here? You've come out and said "this stupid game company stuff". You called your own company STUPID! You called yourself STUPID! You're the company or do you not realize the reality of that? lol
Oh and if you don't want me to BUY your products anymore. That's fine by me. Doesn't mean I won't get to play them now does it. ;p If you think that $5 out of me is so important moreso that your company image and the image of yourself you just put out there I surely am not going to care. You obviously have proven you don't.
This is going to be heard around the globe about how you don't care about your company or yourself or your customers when they dont' agree with you. Why don't you just say "F**K You" to them eh?
Careful there, Killroy. Advertising in public that you are download pirated products can get you into a lot of troubles, including getting banned from here.
While you have been ranting on, dozens and dozens of customers have voted with their wallets by purchasing the upgrades in the same time. I'm thinking that the "message heard around the globe" is a completely different one than the one you're hearing, but then it's difficult to hear anything while shouting and having fingers in your ears at the same time.
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Does this fix the problems with the nVidia 8800?
The quickest way to find out is to try the demo!
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PS. The upgrade we released has been tested on Windows 7 and works just fine. If this will be the case in the future I don't know. Microsoft (or one of the graphic cards manufacturers) might just decide to break something again...
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Now tell me whether there is any other fix in there. Is the 1600x1200 limit gone? Does the video mode selection mechanism at startup behave any better now? What about more exotic widescreen resolutions supported without trickery?
Demo?
Battlefront a small question. You still sell the game? Do you have a plan how to sell it when all has Windows 7?Pike,
not sure what your point is but we're still selling the game. The full version is available from our store and includes the 1.04 upgrade for no extra charge.
I don't see a problem of selling a game that is not compatible with a particular OS or hardware. It happens all the time. As long as it's clearly spelled out to the customer what he is buying (which we do; we also provide free demos to try) there is no issue nor any obligation on our end.
Martin
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Download the updated demos and check for yourself!
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Killroy, alright, you win.
I did have to remove your commercial link however since there are links to purchase said game on that page
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Let me rephrase what I wrote above then, to make it more clear:
To make the wait easier over the weekend we have just released the v1.20 demo, though -
What patch CM:SF version comes with that Paradox CD?
From what I recall Paradox did produce a second batch of CDs on top of the original 1.0 release at least once (perhaps twice). But it's still probably quite old, like 1.0-something.
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I don't think we're officially supporting iMacs but I'll pass this on to Charles.
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Heh, I saw that. Not afraid of it. Nothing monkeys could do that my dogs haven't done already long time ago
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How Long does it take
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BnickB, we respond to ALL support requests within 24 hours. If you didn't get a reply, then it was spam-blocked by your email provider. You can check all replies at www.battlefront.com/helpdesk.
Normally all product (if in stock) ships within 1-2 days. I am not aware of any backorders of what you ordered, to I assume that yours did, too. At the helpdesk you can submit a support ticket to doublecheck if yours has been shipped, although I assume that if you log in there you'll already see a response waiting for you.