Flanker15
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I assume the excavated posistions when you can park your tank hulldown and turretdown.
Those would be nice, you have to immobilise your tanks in them to get them to use them properly now.
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Does slat armor add any protection bonus in CM:SF other than the chance to disarm certain older HEAT warhead.
I imagine it has a spaced armor effect if the warhead goes off on the slats.
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Valley of Trouble MK 2 would be nice, I'm sure someone will make one regardless.
I liked to stick my AT pillbox on the hill until my buddy figured out he could just set the trees on fire with his mortars.
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The airfield mission of the Brit campaign features a GMG WMIK. As does the "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" scenario - the support platoon that turns up after about 15 mins has two GMG and 4 HMG WMIKs.
The WMIK with the GMG is available, the MWMIK with the GMG I can't find.
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That would certainly explain why I haven't been able to find the MWMIK sporting the auto grenade launcher. The light infantry recce platoon sure would benefit from the firepower.
Is this going to be corrected - perhaps in v1.21 or as some flavor of "quick fix" download?
The MWMIK with the GMG is definatly in I've used them several times.
edit: Or maybe not..... I can't find them now!
They're in the manual though.
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Second.
If I understand correctly, that will be the second family.
After Market-Garden. I.e., that is the planned third family.
Michael
What's the first modual for Normandy? We've got US and then something and then Commonwealth, what's coming in between? (Unless you're refering to the US as the first modual).
So if Market Garden and Battle of the Buldge are their own families (with their own moduals I assume), how long until we get to the Russian front?
Combined with the NATO modual and then CM:SF2 this is allot of games in a short time period isn't BFC worried about over saturation?
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Combined rate of fire for the Gepard is 1100 rpm. Projectile weight is 550g. 10,833 g/sec.
M168 rate of fire is 3,000 rpm. Projectile weight is 101g. 5,050 g/sec.
Combined rate of fire for the Tunguska is 4000-5000 RPM. Projectile weight 389g. Up to 32,000 g/sec.
Does Russian doctrine call for a SPAA to be attached to the HQ unit of every tank battalian?
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What sort of BTR-80 is that? An artillery observation vehicle? It definately isn't the stock version.
It looks like the artillery observation model with the optics suite removed and the normal turret attached.
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Yeah they've got some new screenshots (it runs on UE3 so it has that same look as the other UE3 games).
Some alpha build vids are out aswell, it looks great except for the aforementioned hud aids and GUI.
Right now they're going to have 2 types of server realism: relaxed and full, there is a general opinion on the forums that all the hud aids (such as hit indicators and minimap) should be removed from the full servers (instead of just some like squad mate markers).
Another thing people are jumping on a little is they want FOV zoom when aiming, one of the devs who stated he was against it is now fore it though as it's was actaully more realistic (things are 2x bigger in real life than with normal FOV on a small screen.)
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In its current form there are 8 directional indicators that flash when a bullet goes within a very close range (maybe ~1m).
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I'm in a discussion at the RO:HOS forum about the decision to add a fire direction indicator for shots that pass by close to you.
The devs argue that you can tell the general direction a bullet came from as it passes by you, people on the forum disagree with the decsion.
Can anyone with first hand experience say which is more correct?
(We're just talking about information from the bullets themselves not the noise or flash from the gun).
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On one of my floating trips through a tank I noticed that the CR 2 model in CM:SF doesn't have a gunner's seat. That must be uncomfortable for my pixeltroops.
Anyway, I've not lost an unbuttoned crew member from a CR 2 since they don't have much exposure.
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Scripts and triggers are on the list, they'll maybe make it into CM:Normandy.
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An interesting thing I noted about the BMPs in CM:SF is the crew is made up of a driver and gunner (just 2 blue dots). The BMP1/2 has a commander aswell and he seems to be drawn from the passengers in CM:SF, why is mystery (perhapse it's like that in reality).
Anyway the BMP1 just has the gunner in the turret, when you unbutton he pops out, but the BMP 2 has a the commander in the turret too and he's the one that pops out when unbuttoned. No passengers means no commander so no guy to pop out! The gunner will pop out to reload and aim the ATGM though.
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But a machine gun has to fire rifle bullets! You can't just change the definition, military analysers would have a melt down.
How about MSG for MaschinenSturmGewehr.
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No, you did NOT shoot that green sh*t at me!
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I'd take a Tunguska over a Gepard any day.
5 times greater RPM, 3x ammo cappacity and hypersonic missiles, yes please!
Looking forward to seeing it in CM:SF2.
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I got past that mission and finished the whole thing when I played it!
I'm pretty sure the error doesn't happed if you complete the preceding missions with total victories.
It's a proffessional quality campaign, BFC should get you to make more for them.
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That's a SABOT "explosion" in your shots Chelco, I noticed that they get quite big explosions when hitting things (looks better and is needed for the smoke/dust to be generated as it seems to be tied to explosions).
I remember that old thread C3k made, it was maninly focused on de-forestation with explosive weapons. My main problem is 1 tree can block a SABOT shell that is able to go through several buildings and vehicles normally.
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I noticed that "tree armor" is still a problem in 1.20.
Tanks that sit just inside the tree line are partially protected from SABOT shells which are stopped dead by the tree. The .5 bullets are going straight through but to actually hit the tank with a SABOT you need to chew the tree up first.
I've doulbe checked that the tank definatly isn't using HEAT or HESH.
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It's one of those press down/pop up buttons, when opened up the button is sunken in slightly.
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I'm pretty sure they're like that for your convenience.
Otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell if your guys were shooting without zooming in on them.
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Yeah that frontline did do some weird stuff sometimes.
Good to here persistent terrain is being looked at, that was one of the best things about operations. Hopfully you can get it up to the same level as CMx1 with immobile vehicles and wrecks carrying over to the next scenario (had a good operation once where my immobile priest was able to provide heavy fire for 3 senarios after it was hit).
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Been think'n
Maybe an advancement would be a combination of the operation system which everyone liked and the new campagne system?
Each mission is written like an operation, you don't advance to the next map until the operation is complete.
You can complete an operation in one "day" if you're able to (through skill or just the design of the scenario). But it can end with the enemy still controlling part of the map and then the front line shifts and a new scenario takes place just like CMx1 operations instead of: mission failed game over. This would work for both attacking and defending operations, with persistant terrain damage, disabled/wrecked vehicles, re-enforcments and anything else.
After x days if neither side has lost the battle will be decided the normal Cmx1 operation way, desirably the units and re-enforcements would be set up in a way that one side will almost definatly get a total victory in the end.
Allot of fighting in WW2 did feature days of combat over the same area.
Formations we might see in the initial Normandy release
in Combat Mission Shock Force 1
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Well there were only a handfull of SS in the US sector so they're better in the Commonwealth modual where the SS units were concentrated. The FJ will be missed but it's better to have a more complete Whermacht to launch the family.