Slapaho

Thanks for translating Drumin - an excellent review, by far the most accurate (imo) I have read. MP and community mods are the future !!

On hardest setting - I aint no fibber I have repeated this and won using the tactics shown in the video every time but once. I will be making more videos when I get time. I have completed all missions on hard pre patch and I shall complete the all again post patch.

did he not mean the double game speed / half game speed? If so M.R.Maiornikov, you have to assign keys to them in your options menu.

I have finished the Polish Campaign - hope to do the next video before the weekend.

i emailed you

Have you asked for help? Post your pc details etc in the forum, maybe there is something you have overlooked. A few people have not been able to get the game to work, but as many seem to have got it working after some help, after initial problems.

Hi - sorry for the delay (the thread went off the front page!) I am going to redo them with the patch I think, time permitting.

downloading now - that means I must replay all the missions again Grimtooth - it was worth the try - The main thing is the patch worked (but to no avail )

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=UTilrUL6ATM CoD2 fun ToW MP tomorrow!

Gnasher It is not *broken* but it could and should be so much better. A game lounge / channel for players to meet/chat and view games that are waiting for people to join. No in game chat function, you should have TEAM chat at least? No ability to surrender (simply quit!) There are no victory point missions or ctf, nothing but ahnilate the enemy. The biggest thing for me though atm is the load bar. When you click Start Game it begis to load. After maybe 30 or 40 seconds the load bar shows it has completed and yet nothing happens. Now in most games when it has shown fully loaded and after a few seconds your still on the same screen your natural assumption is the game has crashed and therefore you quit out. You would not expect to sit for at least another FIVE minutes (re-iterate 'at least') with the bar showing fully loaded and nothing to indicate that something is even happening. I dont know why it is like this, the waiting part I can handle (as it is worth the wait ) but please BFC/1C = fix it so you either see the 'true' loading time (the bar better reflects the loading status) or an indication that the game is still loading, no players have dropped and/or a time out that works if the load has failed so I am not sat for 20 minutes wondering whether it has failed. Once you are in MP it is very very good. I have a feeling 2v2 on an 8 player map will be the best, with all players being the same nation to ensure balance. I will be playing some more MP on the weekend if anyone is interested. I will email you dragon6

sonar a few people have been (very) dissapointed with the demo, I have never played it, only the full version. Update the demo BFC?

I got called away by the boss (wife). Pity we couldnt get one last game going, but it was fun.

there is a minimum and maximum height setting in the configuration / set up - if ur min is set higher than the person/tank then i think it stays above them?

I am on the BFC chat http://chat.conduit.com/chat.aspx?ctid=CT823525 I will send the IP to emails also - my email peterbeach@hotmail.com anyone interested is free to join - if we havent started

Better late and decent than premature and bad - but if you cant play the game because of problems that *may* be fixed in the patch I can easily understand the frustration at the time it is taking.

gunship Yes Teamspeak is very good, but multinational is sometimes tricky with the speech, but it makes things much easier than typing all the time! I can (I have TS2 server s/ware) run a TS2 server also - but if I host game and TS it could cause problems so an independent TS server is good. DeLaVega You are very right - I was surprised at the imbalance. As Polish I felt it my 'duty' to defend but maybe it should be the other way - the germans maybe set up a defence and the Poles attack. I dont mind so much the imbalances (real battles were always imbalanced) but the lack pf victory cases makes it totally unfair - to kill all enemy when you have by far the better equipment - hopefully victory condition MP will be brought to us in the future We are going to try the other maps I hope - I think it will be better fun on a map with equipment from a later era of the war.

We will be playing again today - from approximately 16:00 GMT. Anyone interested can email me. I will also have the BFC chat bar open (find a post by Moon, the downloads in his signature) which would be good if you can be on there. For settings I *suggest* the following in the Configure Theatre of War; SYSTEM TAB Video mode = your choice Shadows = Object shadows Models Quality = Normal Water Detail = Low Grass Detail = Normal Trees Detail = Medium Trees Distance = Normal Hide soldier dead bodies = checked High landscape detail = un-checked High sky detail = un-checked The rest are your choice. MULTIPLAYER TAB Just set your client speed to match your internet connection speed. If your unsure what this is, try http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/default.asp and click on Measure Download Speed under the Bandwidth Tests banner and then hit test. My speed is 6457 kilobits per second so I choose the 2000000 (LAN) setting (which is 2000 kilobits). I will send the IP address at the time of setup and talk anyone through the connection (although it is very straight forward) if needed.

Also to issue orders, once you have positioned all your troops in the setup phase, start the game and pause it immediately. Then issue all your orders like move, hold fire, hold position crawl etc. and un pause the game and your off

AAR: Clash of Titans - result = DRAW After some playing with settings etc we got connected. dragon6 German slapaho Polish **It takes about 5 minutes for the game to start after the bar showed fully loaded - patience! Both sides had 2 squads of infantry and a mix of about 7 light AFV's. dragon6 started the attack but I had a unit (held fire) on a hill and saw he had split his forces. I therefore sent my main AFV's to deal with his right flank first, then swung back round to finish the threat coming from the left. At this point I had the upper hand as I had lost 1 AFV to dragon6's four (plus one crippled). However I tried to assault the trenches he held with an infantry squad supported by my lighter AFVs while my heavier ones engaged the last of dragon6's armor. We basically ground each other into the dust, me losing all my infantry and most my AFV's and dragon6 had no AFV's left (one crippled one had killed TWO of mine by taking out the drivers ) Anyway - it was not so much about the game tactics or the outcome - the intention was to see DOES MP WORK! - the answer is YES. I am in Europe - dragon6 is in the USA. I suffered some very minor lag at the end, no drop outs or crashes, 60 FPS throughout (I also had FRAPS running), the graphic settings etc were set medium to ensure smoother game play and it seemed to work. So many thanks to dragon6 for his help and hopefully we can all get some MP action going regularly

it takes several hours to dig even a basic foxhole, in favourable conditions. In hard or frozen ground, under fire - no chance. A scrape is the best you would get and thats debatable. Now I am not bothered either way about building entry, unless you want to do a Stalingrad or Berlin type battle, but I would just like to mention that combat doctrine was for combat infantry NOT to enter buildings (villages etc) for many reasons. Obviously in a town / city though...

sonar, if the fixes being discussed are implemented, will this change your opinion do you think? or do you generally just dislike the game anyway? A fair few people who like the game say the demo is crap, so its of no surprise when someone who might not like the game would think the demo ... well - crap From most of the comments about the demo (it being not a good reflection of the game) would it not be in BFC/1C best interests to modify it?

replace 'lynched' with 'lashed' wheres the los tool?

I emailed you # I am in England today and tomorrow - I have a cable connection.

ToW Strategic Command 2 CoD2

nope, not yet anyway