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Well we arent talking foxholes here. Just seems way too easy for tanks to wipe out infantry right now. CBR

It seems to me tanks can just run over and kill infantry even though they are in trenches? That doesnt seem right to me or did I miss something. CBR

Ok I fixed it. I found out my hardware acceleration was not turned up full (dont know why) Now it works as it should CBR

Although its nice to give orders to individual soldiers when needed, I would prefer that box selection and single clicking a soldier would by default select the whole squad. Yes you can just double click on a soldier but in the heat of battle one click only would be better IMO. Maybe adding a say shift+box select/single click option for picking individual soldiers would be some something to consider? CBR

I have tried with and without dualcore. I have tried with new mouse drivers, new nvidia drivers, lowering options and even resolution and nothing helped. Either I can play with flicker and get a headache within a few minutes or play without and get a headache from sheer frustration of how how the mouse works. I just dont understand it. I dont have a problem in other games so why in this? CBR

I have but I still dont have a cursor speed that is fast/smooth enough if I also want to control rotating camera. The hardware mouse cursor was perfect except for that flicker. Edit: its not just in game but also in menus. CBR

Yes I noticed it wanted to run in 1680x1050 and I have a 1600x1200 monitor so I think thats why it didnt want to start up for me right away. CBR

You have to configure it first. There is a shortcut to that in your Battlefront/Theatre of war demo folder. CBR

Ok I found out what was wrong. In Options/Video I turned off "Hardware mouse cursor" But now I got a mouse that isn't as smooth and fast as before even when turning "Mouse movement and rotation" up to max. And when rotating, the camera is way too fast now. gah CBR

As long as I move camera with arrow keys it is fine and also when using scroll wheel to turn camera. But if I use the mouse to move camera I get a horrible black flicker. It seems to happen just when the cursor enters and exit the screen edge. It also happens if one soldier is selected and I mouseover another soldier. I tried with both AA on and off but no difference (got a 7800GT card) CBR

Gah why not make a torrent just to start something.

Great news! Now we just need a game to try it out CBR

Well you get a 80 page manual with the DVD

Yes my thoughts too actually. The Youtube vids I found of Mg34's certainly doesnt sound like in this vid. There were some smg sounds too for the German and US? troops too that could be different. But apart from that it looked very good. CBR

Well yeah ok I gues it depends on how one looks at it. Pre-ordering means you save $10 for the whole package (DL option plus DVD) If one only wants the DL option then there is nothing saved from pre-ordering and only "advantage" is to get it earlier. Its not Battlefront's fault that some people imagined they would recieve it several days before the official release. But we already have one thread about it havent we? CBR

How did you pay an extra $8 for the pre-order?

And saving $10... CBR

That why its important to build up a groups of players that you know. And from the thread with player profiles there are not that many juveniles...although idiots come in all agegroups CBR

There should be time for a few short messages during a game. If players can manage it in Total War games then it should be possible in ToW. I do hope it gets added at one point. CBR

34 years old and I think my first computer strategy game was uhm Panzerjadg I think it was called, for C64. I have mainly been playing MTW last 4 years and especially the Samurai Warlords mod. And a bit of Red Orchestra FPS too. Have played hex games a bit but prefer real time games for MP. The standard RTS style game doesnt interest me so Im looking forward to the new games from Battlefront(LG, ToW and CMSF) as there are not many real RTT's to pick from. MSN is cbr@webhikerNOSPAM.dk

It just that you guys seems to have cornered the market for serious real time tactical games with what appears to be 3 great titles in CMSF, ToW and LG. If Im not mistaken you have talked about eventually enabling 2v2 for CMSF. It would be an utter shame if you dont make MP easier to setup for such games. A lobby that has a list of players and open games, public chat and private chat with a selected group of players, and you pretty much have everything what a MP community needs. I just hope that lobby support will be seen as something important and implemented for these potentially great games. CBR

Yes that is an option which I have thought about. From my Total War days I know how difficult it is to arrange clan fights with people from different time zones. Im not saying it cant be done. But I know there are people who doesnt care about MSN and similar programs or forums for that matter, and just wants to have a nice and simple way to go online and have a few games. If you have to spend time just figuring out who can play and for how long, you are going to limit the number of players as well as how much actual gaming you are gonna be doing. CBR

Under game features it says: 8 Multiplayer Missions (Internet/LAN) with a maximum of 8 players. So LAN play should be in. But I guess Moon answered my question in the other thread. There will be no lobby and only direct IP. That pretty much kills it for me since MP would be my main interest with this game. Trying to arrange games through this forum might be fine for PBEM but is outright silly for realtime games. CBR

Arent you confusing CMSF with Theatre of War that will be released by April 19th? CBR

The paranoid side of me thinks they just dont want to reveal the total lack of MP features apart from direct IP...that is until we all have pre-ordered the game. So Moon, I have already been suckered into pre-ordering ToW. You can speak freely now. But yes even just having Gamespy Arcade to chat and arrange games would be better than direct IP. Although chat is not the greatest in Arcade IIRC. Having a proper private chat for arranging bigger 4v4 games would be nice. CBR