MeatEtr
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This reminds me of an old George Carlin joke, something about he never banged a perfect 10… but one night… he banged five twos. That counts right?
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10 hours ago, jackal263 said:
Hi ! I'm here as Jackal263 (was my nickname on the FGM... we also played a battle there, long time ago, Overlord Campaign ). Have a good fight ! We can exchange message here, in case of any need.
Ahh ok there ya are! Wow the overlord cam is from like a decade ago. I remember that one, good times. Good luck!
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Come to think of it, I think I did miss one or two emails. So this issue does appear to be pretty rare.
But yeah Round 3 started today, good luck everybody! Im facing off vs @gfs26 which apparently is not on the site. At least not under that name.
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On 2/19/2023 at 10:39 AM, rocketman said:
Did you get help from your Hinds? I have had them buzzing around for most of the battle and not yet once have they fired, nor been fired upon (though I don't know if the oppo Anti-Air gun is alive or not).
No nothing, one got shot down! The other one was suppose to come in the last several mins, shortly after KOing the Vulcan. So was excited but for an unknown reason the order was cancelled or called off. Same thing happen to most my US air support. Since I don’t use air support much, anybody know why this happens? Thought it was weather related but it’s only a mist in this scenario.
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8 hours ago, jheinrichk said:
red team in round two sucks. i can count the number of round two red players who won any of the game 1 & 2 battles on one hand. round two should be called camper's delight or pipin' hot poppin' off Popov
Ive nearly wiped out the US forces with the Soviets. Only one M1 and one Bradley survived, everything else destroyed. Though it helped that my opponent didn’t move much allowing me to position and attack spots with high numbers. But I did take heavy losses too. So it’s possible just not easy.
Will toss up some pics soon…
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Yeah I often refer to my tank gunners as lumberjacks!
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9 minutes ago, Aussiegrit said:
It's not an issue for me at the main menu screen.
Sometimes mods can screw this up. Try booting up with out the z folder there. But might have to do full reinstall to fix this.
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4 hours ago, MikeyD said:
The classic example of wanting more was in CMx1, players demanded 'sewer movement'. BFC added it, players played it perhaps 2 times then forgot about it. But while it wasn't in the game it was considered something of vital importance. Sturmtiger in the game? Important when it wasn't in the game, forgotten about when it was.
Oh man I remember that one. What a blast from the past, thanks mikeyD!
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This apparently just happen as I was just over there about a week ago and it was fine.
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9 hours ago, Sequoia said:
Borgspotting. A term mainly referring to the issue that, in the CMX1 games especially, if one unit on a side spotted something, all units on that side instantly became aware of it. It's a reference to the hive-mind Borg culture of Star Trek- The Next Generation.
Now that’s a blast from the past. Good one!
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Please fix or do somefink!
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3 hours ago, jackal263 said:
No mod installed, so i can exclude it ... the only difference with the version that was ok before my pc went down, is that on the (now broken) pc there was Windows 8, while both new systems have Windows 10. I don't receive any error message, after i press the end turn button... it returns to the main menu page... and if i go to select again the option for the tournament games in progress, i see again the login page (without password this time... in previous pc (the one where it worked fine), the password was stored and i got immediately the list of the files waiting for my turn) ... and then i see agan the turn that should have been sent.
Might be a long shot but I’d try contacting Matrix support. Maybe you have two accounts interfering with sending / receiving. I had this problem awhile back in test tourney and they fixed it for me. I didn’t even know had a second account.
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1 hour ago, Probus said:
the system doesn’t seem to want to let me upload a turn from a different system than the one I initially started on (for instance, my desktop works but my laptop doesn’t). Is that by design?
1 hour ago, BFCElvis said:No. It is not designed that way and I am able to process turns on different machines. Make sure that you're using the correct login information.
Ditto here, I’m playing / logging in from two different systems as well with no problems.
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17 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
We are advising everyone to NOT complete each battle. Play until there there is 1 turn (or as far as you can go) left in each battle. If everyone were to play their battles to completion all scores would match the end game AAR CM score. But, until then the higher scores will remain. Anyone looking to "game" the system would only need to stop playing to have a higher score than players who complete each battle. That's why we (and Matrix/Slitherine) have decided to post this advise. Matrix/Slitherine will be making a similar announcement on their forum and the Discord channel. For good or ill, only half of each pairing needs to be reached as long as 1 player stops playing toward the end.
There is a tiny chance that a hot fix will be created before Round 1 is finished but I wouldn't count on it.
We understand (and share) anyone's unhappiness about this. No one is happy about this. No one.
Guess my memory has failed me as I thought the scores get auto calculated back to the scenario designed scoring/objectives. Hope this does get fixed!
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2 hours ago, Artkin said:
It's been a disaster from the start. Nobody asked for this. And the things that were asked for were delivered to CM:Pro.
But the customers always come first.
Not at all, there was decent turnout for the test tourneys and there's 20 battles going on now, which makes 40 players. Not bad for something you claim is a disaster that nobody asked for. The core functionality is working fine. It's just not as polished and smooth as we all hoped it be.
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13 hours ago, Grey_Fox said:
@BFCElvis you guys went and implemented a synchronous service to upload the save file to the Slitherine servers that locks up CM for several minutes, and during which service call any user interaction causes a fatal error in the application?
I mean jeepers at least give players something that tells them that they need to wait or a progress bar or something that tells us to sit and wait and not do anything, and maybe disable user interactable functionality during the service call.
I believe this is the same with all the CM2 games, there's no difference. In PBEM double clicking the Ok button or Enter key when saving produces the same result. I do agree there should be a saving progress bar or something. But I, like many others, got over this like a dozen years ago.
Also during testing the battles were much smaller. So long wait times were not a factor. With these bigger battles things naturally take longer. As there is a good amount of units and the map is fairly large.
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On 1/4/2023 at 4:55 PM, Free Whisky said:
The game is crashing when I try to send my turn. Did a complete wipe of every trace of the game from my PC, did a clean re-install, I'm running no mods, but the game just hangs when I end the turn, rather than returning to the main menu. Shame, looked like a fun scenario.
So it looks like I'll have to notify my opponent that I won't be playing. Can't find who that would be on the Matrix tournament page as only round 1 scores are showing. Any tips on how to find out who my opponent is in this round 2?
Are you sure your giving it enough time to process the turn AND upload? It can take awhile, like 3-5 mins for this to happen. If you click the Ok button a 2nd time then it crashes.
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6 hours ago, Suzuya said:
GG's to my opponent Luthiens, fun first match my US side might have gone very differently had there been another 5 minutes on the clock and it might have pushed it to a draw. Interestingly after ending the game both of our scores have gone down to just a few hundred points each, I wonder how that works re scoring.
Yeah the scoring mid game reflects losses/kills and not Objective based scoring. This gets adjusted at the end of a battle. So all scores of all games get recalculated regardless if the battle gets finished or not.
Congrats on your score!
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8 hours ago, rocketman said:
My oppo is MIA as well. Does Matrix moderate the tournament at all? Remind players to keep the turn pace? I think players who sign up for tournaments and not keep their commitment (unless valid reason) should get some kind of warning. Three warnings and you can't sign up for tournaments for six months or so. I hate being left hanging. Waste of time of getting involved in the battles.
Good point and idea. Pretty sure there is no manual moderation by Matrix. It be great if there could be some kind of automated moderation. Anything to help cut back on dropouts.
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Scores are getting updated, it’s automated I think. Though did notice my emails saying it’s my turn came at the exact same time. Something near impossible as it takes a min or two to upload and then load the 2nd battle. So even if my opponent just clicked go, it still should be at least a few mins apart. Guessing maybe there was a server issue yesterday.
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2 hours ago, Suzuya said:
On my first turn i lost a BTR and the burning wreck was hit 5 seconds later by a TOW, a nearby passing BTR was so scared by the loud flash and bang that it sneezed and blew its own ammo rack up killing everyone on board.
That must of been one helluva sneeze.... how do you spell Gesungheit!
My battles vs @cargol are rolling along smoothly! As in alot of sh!t has been blowing up!
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6 hours ago, ALBY said:
My files are not saving ! I’ve redone the turns several times, hit the OK and they just won’t upload or close.
If memory serves I had this same problem during the beta test. It was because I had 2 accounts. Contact Matrix support and they will merge the accounts for you and it should fix this.
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4 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
I spoke too soon!!!!!!! I was able to add you back! In the back end system I can see a list of players. Everyone had a green box with an X in it except you. I clicked on the box and BOOM. You're in again!
Awesome thanks buddy!
Looks like I’m playing @cargol in the first rd.
Cold War Holiday Tournament!!!
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Hey @jackal263 havent gotta turn from you in awhile, everything alright? Just double checking here in case theres a problem.