Armchair_Ranger

Has anyone been encountering this bug where sometimes a vehicle that's been commanded to go under a bridge suddenly appears on top of it?? I noticed this on the first US Campaign ('82 version) where several times my tank was supposed to drive under the bridge and then when I come back and look, it's now on top of the bridge. Sometimes the vehicle itself would become bugged where it tries to move across the bridge, but then gets stuck in an endless rubber banding loop.

I seem to remember ChrisND mentioned in one of this videos that we would have the option to change the vests of US Soldiers from Multicam to Coyote Brown. And also an option to change the Ukraine uniforms from digital to non-digital camo. Can't find any such option in the game at the moment.

Okay, so i didnt actually put my router into dmz, but my computer into the router's DMZ. Now I put the router itself under the I.P. phone box's DMZ. And then I set norton's firewalls to ALLOW everything for CMSF.exe. My friend was able to connect to me, BUT only After 3 whole minutes! The entire match went off without a single network pause or crash. Except for when my friend exited from the map and CTD'd. Still it does seem to work now.

I seem to keep either disconnecting or crashing when connected to my Host friend's computer during MP. When I say "disconnect", I mean that the game pauses and all I see is "Paused waiting for network data" indefinately. Meanwhile the game continues on for the Host but he'll eventually see that I quit on his side. Also, for some reason, my friend can never seem to connect to me when i try to host a game. But when i connect to him, the connection is instantanious. Today I put my router into "DMZ" to see if that would make any difference. My friend still cannot connect to me but i can connect to him when he hosts. So we seem to be able to play for sometime without the network pausing the game. But a few minutes into the game I freeze and then get the message "CMSF.exe has stopped working". On my friend's side the match still went on but a minute or so later it says that i quit. Now I am also behind another router which is for my Internet Phone line. Is that something i should look into changing the settings as well?

Yeah, i had to run as admin just during the first launch. Everything works now. Never happened in my old XP machine and I was under the impression that I was the admin on the new Win7 machine. It even says so on my user profile.

Okay, what the heck is going on here? I just bought a brand new Windows 7 gaming machine, all my games are running smoothly, but CMSF won't even START! It's installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Battlefront\Combat Mission Shock Force.

I'm getting the same thing with Canadian Forces. A CF squad is designated as an RPG team and a Canadian LAV is apparantly now a LEOPARD 2A6!

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Ah, but then how do I make sure they're not rigged with IEDs? Do I have to clear any buildings around it to take out any tiggerman within line of sight?

On the third mission of the Canadian Forces campaign, one of my objectives is to destroy several barricades made up of wrecked vehicles. I dont appear to have any demolition explosives and I can't seem to get my LAVs or Tanks to shoot at them because as soon as I give them the order to directly target a barricade they would say "Hold Fire" and do nothing. I can get them to target the empty ground behind the barricade and that sometimes gets them to hit some of the wrecked vehicles. But even then, these wrecked vehicles seem totally indestructable and shooting at them indirectly does nothing. I call down mortars on them and even that does nothing.

What's the best way for a vehicle to spot any IEDs on the road? How should you destroy one?

Can anyone create completely new models including rifles for CMSF mods? Or are we limited to just modding textures and weapons stats?

Yeah I've heard of that mod, but I think there's a reason why we chose to play CMSF instead of another C&C "build a 100 tanks" spam fest.

Kinda makes sense considering how close Syria is to Israel and the history between the two countries. Besides I know of no other RTS that features the IDF.

In other words... will it ever be possible to create a WW2 germans (from CMBN) vs. modern day US Army mod? Or at least import Afghan maps and Afghans from CM A-Stan to CMSF? And speaking of WW2 vs Modern Warfare, check out this trilogy of books called The Axis of Time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_time It basically depicts what happens if a modern day military force fighting the war on terror suddenlly finds itself sent back to World War 2. Just think that might make for an interesting mod, if CMBN + CMSF were ever possible.

I hope this doesnt mean CMSF 2 is going to come out in a few weeks now! Although I think that would be cool and all, I just bought CMSF + all 3 modules about a week ago.

I'm not a fan of WW2 games. WW2 just ain't my thing. We've been over saturated with WW2 games for over 10 years now. I hope Battlefront goes back to doing modern stuff after CMBN is released.

Do I have to practically blast each and every floor of every building within the objective areas? I tried hitting the buildings with artillery but they just wont fall! I was about to try bombing the aread with a harrier but the time ran out and the game was a draw.

Or is it too "serious" of a wargame for that sort of thing? I'd love to see something done based on the upcoming movie Battle: Los Angeles. I think CMSF would be perfect for that because I can think of no other RTS that has all the USMC "ground" elements.

If a unit has been assigned to call in CAS or a fire mission, is it safe for that unit to move or does moving affect the accuracy of the CAS or fire mission?

Well I finally gave in and bought CMSF Base game + Marine, Brit, NATO Bundle. Better be worth the $83! Downloading as I type. One more thing I need to know, is the CMSF Base game that I download already patched to the latest version?

Just curious, I get the impression that the CMSF "community" tends to play only single player, or at least unlike most RTS games, the MP isnt played as much as SP.

Thanks i might give that a try. Has there been any previous issues with past versions of CMSF regarding AA/Multisampling?

No, but at least we know now that it has something to do with the demo's AA/Multisampling setting which i can live without. I mean I don't see what else I can do at this point. The majority of my games are obviously Direct X so I'm not going to waste my time looking for another fix other than turning off AA/Multisampling in-game. I just hope that the full game doesnt do this, but even if it does than it wont bother me to turn off that setting again. Either way I'm liking the game so far from the just the demo alone, so I still plan on buying the full game. If you know how to get OpenGL AA/Multisampling to work without causing glitches after I leave an OpenGL game I'm willing to take your suggestions. Otherwise, don't bother, I'm fine with playing CMSF without AA.

Did ya read my last post? I said it was being caused by the in-game AA/Multisampling setting. What about my first post? I said I had the latest Nvidia drivers. Yes, my video card fan is spinning, yes it's clean. I don't even have to be PLAYING the game for this to happen, I just have to load to the menu, exit and I can see the glitch SO LONG as the IN-GAME AA/Multisampling was turned on. I've got plenty of other games that I play for hours and hours that could so easily overheat my video card if indeed my fans werent working. None of them is causing a graphical glitch.