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    Debal'tseve Pocket -- Good topic for Map/Mission/Campaign?

    in CM Black Sea Maps and Mods

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    Trying to make sure I adhere by the no-politics rule here -- There is a lot of fighting around Debal'tseve lately due to that city, and ones adjacent to it, being major rail hubs and central to a lot of stuff going on in the area.  Apparently the Rebel side has been trying to close a pocket there.

     

    I myself have thought about doing a map but know others here will get to it faster and do it better.  I would humbly suggest that it would make a good campaign for either side (or H2H), and there are multiple scenarios that could be set on this map or maps.

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    Could this be the best yet?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    For me, it is the best yet.  I always loved CMSF, and this is CMSF done perfect.  I really missed the kind of efficiency and ability you had with the modern C&C and tech, and this is so exciting to have T-90s, T-72s, and basically modified T-80s slugging it out with eachother and M1's.

     

    Battlefront, thank you so much for this, it is smooth as silk and rich like butter, pure tactical heaven.  Now looking forward to mods and other UGC.

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    Who's up for some CM:BS?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Capt. Toleran

    I know I'm not the pick of the litter today, but I would love to take you up on it.  I'm hopefully almost done loading here and I promise to behave :)  PBEM preferred here, I can do many turns this weekend and Mon-Thu, at least one a night (kid here, long commute).

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    An update on the update!

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Capt. Toleran

    LOL well by tomorrow you'll have the game and then we'll all be wondering, where the heck did Capt Toleran go?  It is worth the wait, CMBS is really something totally different.

     

    Oh, I agree that it is always worth the wait for Battlefront -- they just frustrate me a lot sometimes, and I get too Type A with it.

     

    I'll still be lurking here, but since most of my contributions would be political analysis related, they are probably out of place here given the current rules.  I also cannot claim the kind of impressive and extreme military/grognard expertise I see here in the forums -- Even all these years later, I'm still the tadpole, never the frog.  It has at least helped me in terms of being better informed than the average civvie, and I love that they went modern again, especially because my AVG and Avast hate CMSF, so I can't seem to play that anymore.

     

    But I am very open to  long-term PBEM games, I promise anyone who cares that I am 100%+ less whiny and a good loser, and I will probably lose a lot, given my track record against the AI in everything else :P

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    An update on the update!

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    Well I actually don't think that the point is asinine at all. It would be nice to show support for the company and get a convenient email when it was ready. I have advocated for download load only p reorders too. But it probably will not happen, so I gave up. Frankly now that full ordering is hours behind the perorderers and not a couple of days it is not as much of a big deal. Keep asking, maybe they will change their minds.

     

    Thanks -- I did end up rubbing some folks the wrong way today and coming at them wrong (and apologized to them in private), and per my hyperactive posts on other threads, I still have yet to successfully download the game, which is annoying but not worth me yelling about here.  I will be very happy when I finally get to play this game, and I do appreciate your support, though I also know I complain waaaay too much and a lot of people here are sick of it.  If i was them, I would probably say the same thing about me.  This a big reason why I don't chime in on most threads, today/this week being a major exception.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    so here is the deal - and I am not quoting to not single anyone out, this is just a general perspective

     

    1. BF has told pre orders that they are getting early access and they should not announce it as it simply causes a flood on the servers (this goes back a long way before their current service)

     

    2. The forum goes nuts with F5 monkeys refreshing as if having the game today versus tomorrow is somehow going to fundamentally change our lives

     

    3. BF has a cloud service that takes time for the installer to be distributed to the cloud servic e to make the cloud actually function as intended.

     

    4. The pre orders that get the email immediately announce they are downloading

     

    5 the non pre orders start complaining about how their lives are being ruined and they should have the game now!!!

     

    6. Chris announces fine, they are opening it up

     

    7.  Everyone starts downloading and as was probably predictable it causes issues.

     

    8 It is BFs fault for announcing late

     

    9. It is BF's fault for announcing early

     

     

    C'mon guys, lighten up and chill a little bit.  The game is released, you'll be playing it soon enough and yeah you are damn funny to listen to.

     

     

    I'm actually glad I didn't take my chill pill when I had planned to, or I would have wasted it on this hassle ;)

     

    A lot of us think this is something beyond the usual mess.  In fact, we were assured the usual mess was gone, according to their own support page.  The thing is, bandwidth is valuable, and something running for 5 hours at 400k-1MB/s (because we have had to do this over and over and over today) is not a great customer experience.  I know I have been an especially whiny idiot today, and for me, that is really saying something.  We would just like to know why things are so different today vs. other releases that have gone much smoother, of products like CMBN that had presumably a higher level of demand vs. this.  And why is the cloud failing them/us?  That's what seems to be the issue.  if they would post "We're ripping Citrix a new spinchter now!", even that would be more satisfying than what seems to be dead silence after we paid money for a product we could download right now (as you recall from my other asinine posts, I was not a pre-order).

     

    Anyways, I might go ahead and take that chill pill now, I'm losing the evening and today has been a waste.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    It's the opposite for me, I'm slowing down vs. earlier attempts, that at least started at 1 MB/s and fluctuated upwards from that before going back down.  I'm depressingly sure that this 2-3 hour download is going to fail as well.  Anyone know anyone at Battlefront personally?  They seem to think that a bunch of us are liars or something, because they are not responding.  Will it take me doing a chargeback with my credit card company to get their attention?  Because if i don't get what I paid for, I'm not going to let them keep my money.  I'm getting more and more sour by the minute, and you haven't seen anything yet.  Sorry to do this here, but I don't like this one bit, and this is the most I paid for a game in quite a while, as well as a big friggin waste of my home bandwidth.  I surely could have done a lot of other things today if they had told us downloading today was futile.  No communication means angry customers, especially when we follow their tech support advice on their own pages.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    Sorry but does anyone else appreciate the humor of "give it to us now! give it to us now!" followed by "Oh damn this download speed sucks"

    Are we there yet?

     

    I think I would be a lot more understanding if it wasn't for their own support page saying bandwidth and numbers of people shouldn't be an issue due to the Amazon Cloud services they use, and that recent history had not been as bad as this in terms of any downloads from them.  And we waited a bit longer than we thought we would this month, but that's water under the bridge now.

     

    Their words here: http://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/help/article/127844

     

     

    Our full version downloads are hosted on a major internet backbone (Amazon server cloud) with literally unlimited bandwidth and 100% connectivity and are managed by Citrix. Usually, download issues that we have encountered in the past, have to do with client side issues such as internet security programs, or with other problems downstream outside of our control.

     

    So a lot of us have been troubleshooting our connections, anti-virus, etc., but it doesn't seem related at all.  I haven't had an internet outage in probably years, at least not one caused by my ISP.  This is clearly an Amazon issue or something, but we're not getting any Battlefront responses on these threads.  We did our due diligence on our side, but without support for downloaders, this is seeming increasingly futile.  Once again, this is not a problem I run into with anyone else.

     

    I really hate being the squeaky wheel here, and I'm sure everyone else hates it too.  It would be nice to have some communication back about our issues, even if it is "Stuff is broken, tomorrow it will be fixed."  At this point I have 0 confidence that anything will be improved even if I try tomorrow, in absence of feedback.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Capt. Toleran

    Mine died again, about 30% in again.  This time it was in Chrome.  I hate to be such a complainer, I would rather just be playing the actual game I bought right now, but is Battlefront reading their own support advice, and are they taking these complaints seriously at all?  I'm disabling anti-virus with the hope that it helps, though it has never been an issue with any other download in recent history.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Capt. Toleran

    I am downloading at 550 kb/s, ~3hrs left. Man, that is long. You guys who have slow download speeds, try a download manager. I am using Orbit and it is faster than regular Firefox.

    Battlefront says not to use downloaders, per their own support page -- that's what is so frustrating:

     

    http://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/help/article/127844

     

     

    We do NOT recommend using Download Managers! Download managers are often not able to cope with the dynamic nature of the cloud network environment. Use a browser to download instead. We recommend using the following browsers: Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer on the PC, and Safari on the Mac.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted

    Guys take a deep breath, the servers are just getting hammered it has nothing to do with your browser or your anti virus, fix yourself a nice stiff drink, you'll have the game soon enough if not today then tomorrow.

     

    According to this, servers shouldn't be an issue, or at least that's how I interpreted it:

    http://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/help/article/127844

     

    We cant even use download clients to save our place -- I'm on my 4th attempt to download after having it fail at well past the 30% mark every time.

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    AHEM

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted

    Anyone actually playing the game yet?  There are a lot of us on other threads (no reply yet from Battlefront) who have been trying to download for the past 3 hours and it keeps crashing out.

     

    According to this, from Battlefront's own support page, this shouldn't be happening:

    http://battlefront.mojohelpdesk.com/help/article/127844

     

    I haven't had this issue since last decade with their files. Now would be the time for Battlefront to call Amazon Cloud support.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by Capt. Toleran

    Same here, Uverse on this side, and I have better than 99% uptime.  Something is screwy here....

     

    EDIT: ...and it crashed again, and now it won't restart, regardless of browser.

     

    Anyone from Battlefront on this issue?  I see multiple threads, it seems to be a common issue.  You might want to call your Amazon tech support before the rest of your customers lose their minds.  Right now it is feeling distinctly like the worst of the bad old days, 2007ish.

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted

    Shambles.

     

    7% and stopped. Won't even let me restart now. Preparing download 39% then freezes.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    "No plan survives contact with the next turn button"

     

    Just curious, are you using Firefox?  I was, and now I'm wondering if it was part of the problem.  I work on 2-3 machines, some PC, some Mac, daily, and Firefox is guaranteed to slowly die at least 3 times a day for me across platforms, sometimes 2-3 times per platform :(   Sad, Firefox used to be the "good" browser...

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    down load speeds 100kb/s

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted

    Well done BF. After 5 hours and 96% complete download stops and cannot reconnect.

     

    So much for pre ordering when the servers get swamped when you release the game to everybody almost immediately.

     

     

     

     

     

    "No plan survives contact with the next turn button"

     

    You made me feel better, at least.  I was one of the people bitching about there not being a pre-order download for pure digital, but it looks like we are all in the same boat.

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