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The .wavs for weapons firing and other sounds need to be mono. The background ambience can be stereo.

Good find. And the official Battlefront news post remains unchanged, it still references to "SteelBox". This was posted on some forum on March 10th, so the TM wasn't added in later. http://forums.gamesquad.com/showthread.php?99020-CMBN-pre-order-tentative-release-date&daysprune=-1 But in this way, GreenAsJade is partially correct, Battlefront did mention "SteelBox", although probably an honest mistake. However, Steelbook was mentioned way more times and SteelBox was never mentioned ever again. Pretty much everyone has been referring to it as a steel box since the pre-order announcement though.

No, it's more like having one microgram of gold in a coin and calling it Goldtoken, which isn't really Battlefront's fault if you find the product name misleading. They advertised the correct name of the product and even made a video and interactive box. Perhaps Battlefront should have explained the Steelbook a little bit further, but really, it wasn't that hard to find out what a Steelbook actually is. Maybe you should take it up with the Steelbook creators for coming up with a name like Steelbook.

The infamous video of the box was released the same day as the pre-order announcement, in which it plainly says Steelbook in the video. It also says the slogan, so you know it's some kind of specific product. People mention it as a "metal case" and "metal box" in the comments despite the Steelbook name, so I think most of you who saw Steelbook were just assuming that it would be more sturdier and made of more metal, as I initially did as well.

Hoolaman is correct. It was advertised as a Steelbook, not a steel box. A quick Google search of "Steelbook" reveals what they are. There's even Youtube videos of DVD collectors who handle the cases, giving a good impression of what they are like. I'm not a DVD collector so I had never heard of Steelbooks before, but it wasn't too hard to find out what they are.

I've noticed these squares during the day as well. It seems to occur when there's any type of fog or haze, as if the fog doesn't cover those specific tiles.

There are certain things that are graphically better in Theatre of War, such as trenches, smoke, explosions, and grass, but other than that I prefer CMBN. There's something about the visuals in Theatre of War that puts me off. A lot of the topography seems unnatural and artificial, there aren't many distinct features or landmarks in the maps, the units and buildings seem very small in comparison to the terrain, and performance is somewhat poor on a decent machine.

I've honestly stopped playing it for this. I mean, I'm dying to play the next scenario of Road to Montebourg, but I only want to do it with the game looking like those screenshots

Real-time has just as much strategy involved. The only significant strategic difference is that with WeGo you have to issue commands knowing that if all hell breaks lose you won't be able to do anything about it until the next turn. So WeGo players are probably a little more conservative when making their moves, but that doesn't mean real-time is absent of strategy.

Wow, awesome!

I agree. I don't know why this wasn't included in the first place, especially considering the emphasis that was placed on the progress of Combat Mission since CMBO. It's just essential for each of the weapons to have their own sounds.

I just finished it about 15 minutes ago and I fully agree, it was a great experience. Although the campaign was somewhat short, every scenario was very entertaining and filled with quality. I hope to see the story continued.

Has anyone discovered if it's possible to separate some of the weapon sounds? So that the K98 and Garand don't share the same sound?

Well, yeah, I mostly mean the function of a TRP in which LOS isn't required. It would be difficult to determine how deep a forest is, but can't the mortars adjust? If a forest is on a map and it's kind of obvious that there's something going on there, I would think that it wouldn't be too difficult to eventually hit it.

Is this sarcasm? It was plainly advertised as a Steelbook. Granted I had never heard of a Steelbook before, and upon first hearing "Steelbook" I thought it would be similar to the tin box of Band of Brothers. But I looked it up before pre-ordering and apparently it's a nicer case for movies, and a number of people are collecting them. However, I never expected Battlefront to treat me like some incompetent fool who is incapable of looking up on my own what a Steelbook is, so I don't see how this is their fault. It's kind of obvious here that the whole box is not a metallic material.