Maugan

Well, no offence was meant to BTS, they rule. I may have jumped a bit there, but I guess that just shows how quick CM withdrawl can set in. Still pretty annoying to be stuck in driver limbo though.

Ahh, it worked. Cool, thanks for the help! Maugan

Yeah, that sounds like the thing to do. Does anyone know where I might find the 6.31 drivers? Everywhere I look all I see is 6.5.

What it comes down to is if tank crews get pistols to defend themselves, then all crews with special/heavy weapons should have a side arm when out of ammo. I don't think the programing angle would be a problem. Rifle units in this game manage their assortment of guns, rifle grenades, and hand grenades in a very realistic way, so I find it hard to belive that making a moarter team draw a pistol to defend it's self is an insurmountable obstical. As far as this being 'undesirable' I just don't understand. Do you think that a machine gun crew that was out of ammo just sat there and watched the rest of the fight while their friends get mowed down around them? I'm not saying they should charge Berlin on their own. If a moarter crew with pistols walking at 1 kph will unbalance the game, then a tank crew walking at 2kph with pistols is doubly unbalancing. Obviously no-one is winning games with masses of tank/gun crews (which STILL make great scouts btw) so I don't see why this is an issue. As for the sniper situation, sure he won't automaticly kill everything he shoots at, as well he shouldn't. (For the sake of arguement we will assume the spotter unit is armed like you describe, even though there is no such thing represented in the game) But in your version of this scene, he simply sits there untill they are on top of him, there are 2 of them, he is 1, he won't fire to save his soul, he is dead and no use to his army. Would you not atleast TRY to save your own hide? Is it not better to kill an enemy then die than simply to die? There is a fork in the road ahead, and a sign that points 2 directions reading 'Chance to Live' and 'Certian Death.' Which path do you pick? I understand the argument, but there should atleast be a chance that a sniper would choose to risk giving away his spot when seeing a valueable target or when said spot is about to be over-run anyway. The beuaty of this game is the realism. Anything that sets such a hard and binding rule in the gameplay contrasts sharply with the amazing AI that all the other units seem to display. -Maugan

BS. I have noticed that before and always assumed it was a bug. Are you seriously telling me that if you were sniping in a church tower, and saw someone speaking german walking up the stairs with a radio and no gun and giving out map coordinates of your army, that you would not take him out? A sniper rifle kills dead at 1-600 meters. Rediculious that a Sniper couldnt fire on said target untill he ran 60m away and got a much worse shot. Also, I find it quite annoying that snipers, moarter teams, and spotters have less basic armorment than a paniced tank crew. A 6 man morter team ALWAYS had weapons other than the main tube. These units should atleast get the small firepower and low ammo that crew's get when out of their normal ammo.

Oops, I forgot to put some system specs in there. PIII 550, TnT2 Pro with latest Nvidia drivers, 256 mgs ram.

Yes, I have both of these problems. CM played fine on 98 but since I upgraded to win2k, I get the text flashing and multi-player reboot problem. This is quite annoying. Each and every time I try to load a pbem, I could just as well have hit the reset button. I only play multiplayer CM so this has pretty much killed my CM experience dead in it's tracks. I fixed most of the flicker problems by simply installing the 'gunmetal' HUD, but this reboot problem is unacceptable. Did everyone that looked at the page and read that win2k support was good just get ripped off or what. Don't tell me I'm going to have to reinstall back to 98 just to play my favorite game. That would definatly hurt my chances of buying any future Bigtime games. Maugan