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  1. "Billed as a German Band of Brothers"

    I wouldn't go that far, but it was pretty good.

    I didn't enjoy it. It once again paints a black and white picture of the Germans being honorable, with just some evil nutjobs being behind the war.

    Alone the idea that a few youngsters in the 18-20 yr demographic would have a jewish friend in 1938 is ridiculous. This age group was a prime target of the nazi propaganda.

    And the worst part is probably that the Polish resistance fighters are being depicted as almost as antisemitic as the Germans. Not saying that this didn't happen, but when you consider that Yad Vaschem has honored 6394 Poles (compared to 525 Germans) then it's kinda insulting to have such a plot (and no, I'm not from Poland but Austria).

  2. My issue with the HOI series was always the horrible air/naval system as well as the poor invasion mechanics (landing 10 mechanized US divisions on the coast of Japan with no friendly base anywhere for 1000 miles....yeah sure).

    Also the game does not reflect the individual doctrines and technologies of the nations - HOI3 does not even have assault guns. Another example: tier IV heavy armor is the same technology for every nation, no matter if you play as Germany, US or Russians. There is no way to decide if you want to build fewer and more expensive high quality tanks or if you want to mass produce a standard model.

  3. Having similar issues as Kilo. Im currently making a scenario of a town near a diagonal highway with 2 exits. But so far I either get pieces with the wrong texture or weird angled stuff.

    darn2.JPG

    Another thing I want to create are realistic looking huge blast craters in middle of a road (but that for later).

    [ August 13, 2007, 09:19 AM: Message edited by: Dowarisch ]

  4. Im sorry Madmatt, I got a bit carried away since this is THE game I was waiting for this summer and with all my performance issues I get barely any playing time.

    I did the screenie right after pressing Atl-W on purpose, so people can see which is which.

    Ok more pain: After getting the shadow issue I first tried to use a registry cleaner to get rid of any entries that the demo might have left. Since my license on my old cleaner had run out I went and grabbed a free one from Chip Online which is a well know site.

    Big Mistake: The damn program ruined my Msoe.dll (a common problem with Outlook and a huge pain in the A when it happens). Before trying to fix the problem I ran Shockforce again to check if the registry cleaner had done anything....no luck.

    So I get out my WinXP install cd and went for a repair routine to get rid of the Outlook bug and fix my registry for SF. After installing and updating with SP2 I still have the same problem, no shadows.

    Finally I decided for a night session, made a backup of my data, formatted my boot hd and did a full clean reinstall of WinXP. Updated XP, dl´ed all the latest drivers and I finally got shadows again. But what it didnt fix is the horrible frame rate on my system. On the Allahs Fist map I still get ~10 fps with low settings and all options off when I point the camera from one edge of the map to the other.

    Intel Core2Duo 6600

    2 gigs of DDR2 800 in interleave mode

    BFG Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320

    Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS

    Asus P5B with latest Bios

    Logitech G11

    Razer Diamondback

    ...all of it running on a freshly installed WinXP with latest drivers.

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