Bartokomus

First of all, loving the game completely, well done again BFC! Is anyone else experiencing rain that constantly stops, then restarts for 3-4 seconds, then stops, ad infinitum? I am playing mission 1 of the KG Peiper campaign and it's both irritating and humorous. thanks

Awesome, thanks Baneman.

I know the STG44 will still be a fairly rare beast in CMFB, but is there any chance to finally include resupply for this weapon in half-tracks or trucks? thanks

thanks Mark; while most of my play time is either ladder play or Campaigns, i do like me a good QB or two.

Mark do you know if any work has been done to QBs so the AI makes better use of terrain when deploying on defence? I refer to the penchant of the AI to deploy forces in open fields while leaving heavy buildings unoccupied, etc. thanks

I did the update to Win 10 with no issue with licensing, however i did run into some pretty critical issues related to mouse and keyboard drivers, which i assume will be updated by MS and Logitech. My issue was that the game kept scrolling up endlessly to max height, in all 5 titles (CMSF, BN, FI, RT, and BS). After finding no reference for the issue anywhere, i just worked my way through anything i could think of which would send that type of command and finally found it. thanks.

i thought there was discussion about an official CM Scenario/Campaign pack by Steve but for one of the other titles.i can't find it right now, but i remember feeling very interested in going that way.

Loving the scenario Rokko; very enjoyable so far. thanks for doing it.

Weird. the result is the same for me; i just loaded up a brand new instance of the scenario and its still incredibly sluggish until i turn off trees and zoom out to lvl 6.

I would support this 100%; Campaigns are by far my favorite way to enjoy single player CM and they've been in sore decline for a few years IMO since CMSF. I'd happily bay for PT quality campaigns for modules i already own.

well i've been gaming for 30+ years; i remember losing game manuals where the activation code was a certain word or letter on a certain page. Losing the manual meant i lost the game even though i owned it. DRM has taken many forms over the decades and there has never been a satisfactory system. IMO Steam is as close as it comes, but others find even that too restrictive. I understand your concerns, but a little trust is in order.

It's not a great system, but BFC has been very helpful to me over the years as i was constantly upgrading new components on my PC. they've never said "no", though i've slowed down my rate of upgrades considerably. So many companies are out to screw you, but i've, never ever gotten that feeling about BFC. except for 2 players campaigns in CMx2, then they're real bastards...

Hot Mustard is the scenario i think that is being referred to, many vineyards. My machine, which is quite powerful, stalls once the turn is loaded. if i turn trees off, and use the keyboard to zoom out i can usually regain control of the display after about 10-15s.

John i think you're talking about lethality while the OP is talking about the AI behaviour. I think everyone agrees that if you see a squadmate blow up from a mine you don't keep walking. this is the only part of the game which i view as truly "broken", as you can literally lose/break entire platoons as they blithely march to a very obvious doom. Also, i think "hunt" is a useful command once you hit an area where mines are suspected, but if you think of a map like the first one from the Russian Campaign "Hammer' Flank" you have a lot of territory to cover where you have no idea where the mines are.

I am a strong supporter of Steam; i've used it since public release and i own ~150 games on it. Steve, et al. know best what they don't like about Steam from a business perspective and as long as they have the most current information they know better than I. But as a customer i would infinitely prefer Steam as their distributor and patch management system. It has 75 million users for a reason.

i don't use CMMODs anymore but i definitely use H2HH every day, so money sent! thanks for all your hard work over the years GAJ.

I just finished this last night after leaving it for a month; my fight against the AI crested early in excitement and was a boring final hour. I feinted on the left with my Company of T-34's (76) and lost EVERY one to unknown armor, though i suspect it was Panther as i had several through-and-throughs. My heavy TD group were useless in both their accuracy and their starting location. My IS-2's saved the day, knocking out the KT's in a brutal bloody melee. After that i pretty much held position with the 3 remaining IS-2's and and remnant T-34 (85)s but the ai sent forth only a few platoons of PZGrenadiers who were killed to a man. Lovely map, great selection of forces but definitely one of those times where the AI just needed to CF/quit a lot sooner.

I've been impatient lately with the load times of all three of the new games (FI, BN, and RT) when I play at high details, so I ran a test last night to identify where the issue was for my own curiosity. test rig: Radeon 7950, 16gb RAM, i5-2500K, GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3, Intel 330 Series 180GB SSD. Running at desktop resolution (1680x1050) with vSync enabled I loaded up a freshly saved turn of two Huge scenarios CMBN "My honor is my loyalty" and CMRT "Gog and Magog". I ran four tests for each group of settings, alternating between Fastest/Fastest/AA Off and Best/Best/AA On: fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 18.92s My Honor is my loyalty(CMBN) fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 17.66s My Honor is my loyalty fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 17.99s My Honor is my loyalty fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 18.32s My Honor is my loyalty best best On 1680x1050 2:49.24s My Honor is my loyalty best best On 1680x1050 2:48.52s My Honor is my loyalty best best On 1680x1050 2:48.61s My Honor is my loyalty best best On 1680x1050 2:49.43s My Honor is my loyalty fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 22.70s Gog and Magog fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 22.47s Gog and Magog fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 22.95s Gog and Magog fastest fastest Off 1680x1050 23.02s Gog and Magog best best On 1680x1050 3:08.15s Gog and Magog best best On 1680x1050 3:11.03s Gog and Magog best best On 1680x1050 3:00.46s Gog and Magog best best On 1680x1050 3:04.73s Gog and Magog Does anyone have a machine/video card which loads turn like Gog and Magog in the 1 minute range with quality settings? What HW are you using? I run many other demanding games with the same rig at max details, and I've never understood why the lengthy load times for CMx2 games. I assume its the loading of the hi-res textures which causes the delay. Right/Wrong? thanks

I lol'd into my coffee.

Am I the only one who suspects he's simply trolling? stop being so nice to him, let the trolls starve...

I absolutely agree; I simply use the expedient of running wounded riflemen through suspected areas so I can clear of mines.

I only play Iron.

yeah I am not sure either, but I had a platoon doing cleanup on the assault platoons and they were 500m behind fighting. it was taking 4-5 minutes to gather gear as opposed to 1-3 with germans or us/uk. I figured they wouldn't make a change for that for one nation, but then again they do crazy awesome stuff...

I may be wrong, but it feels very much like Russian buddy aid takes much longer to complete than other countries forces. Is it just me?

You know AKD I was on that track already, and I can happily report that substituting in my CMBN MG hotkeys.txt worked just fine. I only use the standard camera so I don't know or care to find out if RTS or FPS works, but I had my custom keybinds working.