Speedy
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Ummm what lives under bridges?
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How do you zoom in and out with the mouse?
Never need it, never use it.
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Troll thread?
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Once more the scum rises to the top.
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Purpose is the most important decision point for what vehicles/weapons we add. Ambulance? Add that and people will expect that we do explicit casualty recovery to give the vehicle a purpose. Since we don't intend on adding that functionality, putting in an Ambulance is out of the question. Same with vehicles that are used explicitly for such purposes as rear or higher levels of C2, engineering vehicles like bulldozers and bridgelayers, etc.
The second important decision is functionality. Do we really need to have a dozen different softskin trucks in the game when, as MikeyD pointed out, they just tend to smoke up the battlefield? Making an argument for a 3/4 WC makes a little sense in that it has a different passenger capacity than a Jeep or a Deuce and a Half, but does it really matter? And more importantly, what frontline formations used WCs? I didn't find any. These vehicles were used by rear support as far as I can see.
The third question to ask is if it is easy. Having 4 different flavors of a PzIV model is OK since it means only minor modifications to something we already have built. Sometimes the differences are so small, or internal, that we don't have to make a new model at all. Or at least we can reuse the LODs without modification. Adding an entirely new vehicle, however, must be carefully considered.
Lastly, is it a priority to add? Obviously it would be a bad idea to put low priority vehicles ahead of high priority vehicles, right? Now, if we really don't have any priority vehicles AND a particular vehicle makes it through all of the above, then that's a different story. Probablem is we usually have an extremely long list of priority vehicles.
We will have a Battle Pack, containing stuff that might normally fail the above tests, but I've got to tell you... if something basically flunks the above tests it's really got no chance of getting into the game. Especially the first test.
Steve
Above quote from this thread.
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My PC printscreen works.
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Camera control is easy scroll to top of the screen to go forward, bottom of the screen to go backwards, top sides to rotate, bottom sides to strafe, scroll wheel for height, right click drag for camera angle and ctrl left click for large map jumps.
Everything done with mouse except for the ctrl on the large map jumps.
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Try to stick a way point immediately outside the door you want to use then put the final waypoint in the building, that usually works for me.
One thing I would like to see related to this would be the ability to enter through windows. Been times I've wanted to get in a building where the only door is wide open to enemy fire but the sheltered side has a bunch of windows.
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It's the good old 2 for 1 deal, now don't say I never do anything for you.
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Yes, you're right. Since posting the above I've had a chance to test this and most certainly tanks are able to select targets and fire through high bocage. I too question the reality of it. Would be interested to hear any official comment on the reasoning behind allowing this.
Michael
Yes Michael it is the High Bocage I am referring to.
The problem is exacerbated by bocages propensity to stop high velocity AP rounds dead.
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I'm with akd only works with vehicle radios, park a HT or jeep with a radio next to them.
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Not until after he sends me a turn, he is employing his Shermans in the Joe Shaw scouting technique and I want to see if i blow up the next one.
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Yep I've seen the Rambo bailed tank crews as well.
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I have noticed in the game that you can easily roll a combat vehicle into an excellent fighting position just behind bocage. To me this just doesn't seem realistic as although the vehicles gun might penetrate the bocage and have a clear LOF I would think that unless time was spent cutting a hole in the bocage the vehicles optics would not be able to see anything.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Ok so I bought ROF and started a career in a DR1 on the first mission I get slightly wounded early but manage to shoot down an SE5 (yay me) on the way home my engine decides to stop and wont restart. A message pops up on the screen saying my aircraft is destroyed. What?? No it isn't it's gliding along quite nicely it's just the engine having a rest.
Well I make a perfect forced landing in a field, no damage to the aircraft and am quietly congratulating myself while going to the results screen where I am informed that my aircraft has crashed ? What? No it didn't, please fix or do somefink.
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Use "fraps" (google it
). For some reason you can't take screenshots like that in Windows 7/Vista. Curious to see what the issue is.Windows 7 here and I can take screenshots using printscreen?
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Given the current state of the engine (pretty solid) a 2011 release of the next module should be guaranteed.
Best regards,
Thomm
Honestly a guaranteed 2011 release is extremely optimistic. Past history has a release every 12 months or so, given they have an additional programmer I would suggest a realistic release of maybe 9 months from CMBN release so Feb-Mar 2012 for the Commonwealth module.
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Wow. When I come across a post like this it makes me think of this comic routine. It's hilarious and very timely for this particular rant:
Ha nice video and oh so true.
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Yep, just like old times.
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My confirmation email had subject: "Order Status Change: Your Order ######"
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You have downloaded and are playing the game aren't you?
I honestly don't see what the urgency is?
I agree contact BFC but as I said I believe you would get quicker action by emailing sales directly.
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The vagaries of postal services are notorious. For me my pre-order arrived here in rural Australia a little over a week after shipping however I have had other not so good experiences.
For one earlier this year I ordered some books from amazon, a month after the expected delivery date and they still hadn't arrived so I contacted amazon and had another package sent out to me (this ended up saving me money as they refunded my initial credit card charge and then recharged for the new shipment and in the intervening 6 weeks the exchange rate had improved quite a bit
).Anyway a couple of weeks later the new package arrived, then about a week after that I recieved a letter from a complete stranger who lived 600 km away who had recieved the original package intended for me. Somehow Australia post had put an address label for them on my package and it was delivered months late to him even though it still had the original amazon address to me on it.
Moral of the story it's only been a couple of weeks give it one or two more weeks and if it still hasn't turned up contact battlefront sales and see what they can do.
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Remember, the BRAIN in a Jar can never be wrong. Funny thing is I've been out of B-52 land for so long...you return and I get orders to be a squadron commander at Barksdale...with B-52s.
Coincidence? I think not! You gamey bastich
Oh God no!!
Looks like it's time to build that fallout shelter.
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It's an awesome movie German Tigers and the Hindenburg invade Britain in 1940.
). For some reason you can't take screenshots like that in Windows 7/Vista. Curious to see what the issue is.
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Frustrated with the camera control
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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Mouse wheel does height for me.