Wuehlmaus

Last night I had an AP round from a Sherman riccochet from my panter and it a tree besides. At the same time I got infantry casualties about 15m away. They were hidden and no other rounds were flying around. Are the shrapnels really that deadly?

At least you had hits. I had a sherman rushed to axis side and did encounter the last surviving panther there. The panther did not fire and the sherman closed to about 20m. But instead of targeting the panther, the sherman used its main gun to pick-off nearby routed infantry. Only manual targeting the panther solved the stale mate. The panther had received a number of turret hits and therefore the gun might have been be disabled. But how did the sherman know?

I just lost an M10 that had rushed to Axis side of the map to steamroll them from the back. At first I thought that AT infantry scored the kill. But later the kill stats of an M10 listed that lost M10 :-(

I'm impressed. The UI feels much smoother than in CMSF. And I like the non-map background. It fits much better in the scenarios than before. But most important: Kills Stats and Hits are back in.

No, but they used to similar effects the socks of a GI, standard model, filled with TNT and coated in grease. As has been demonstrated in "Saving Private Ryan" by Tom Hanks. ;-) Bye, Wuehlmaus

Is this feature in? Great, I love your sense of detail.

Maybe I'm wrong, but the german mountaineers still use mules for resupply issues. Yet I'm not able to find them in the TOE. But even without them, they play quite differently to the other forces. http://www.derwesten.de/leben/tierisches/Lasttiere-bei-den-Gebirgsjaegern-id379855.html

As I'll start a new job on monday and need to get up early. Sooner would be better ;-)

It would be great if the UI could display unusable ammunition greyed out. This helps to avoid picking up the wrong ammunition (e.g. javelins if there is no javelin launcher in the unit)

Can't the mast be handled as a second object with its x/y position and orientation linked to the vehicle? Something like mounted soldiers on a WWII tank. And the z position (mast up and down) could be set by the deploy button already in the UI.

Copied folder CM:SF + Marine + BF from XP/32bit to Windows 7/64bit and it ran immediately after licensing it again. Thank you, Battlefront, for allowing two installations!

Yeah, you'd think so. But 30 seconds later his brave team member manned the gun ;-) And one minute later the harrier dropped his bomb on that location.

Headshot: Challenger 2 HESH round vs helmet The helmet was not thick enough, the round passed through and exploded on the ground behind. Surely BFC needs to work on the 3D models to display damage ;-)

Wow, what a mission. Made every single cent of CS:SF and Marines worth it. Great balanced teams, no overdominating javeline teams. * * * * * * * The first BTRs easily defended with two squads in ambush mode. Then sent them on a counter-counter-attack on the left flank for whooping up the remaining attacker. Bad idea, ended up right in the spawn area of the second wave. Next try: BTRs defended with one squad, one LAW remaining. Send a second squad split into two anti tank teams into the houses to reinforce the first squad. Then the nightmare approached. 3 T-62, not just rushing forward but probing in a stacked formation. The first one finally passed the first house and two rockets one in the side. Boom. The following T-62 immediately suppressed that squad with the main gun, luckily the outer wall held up the round. Then reinforcement spawned. I send forward another four anti-tank teams. On the far right I was able to put the only javelin team on the observation post that took care of the most far behind tank. The tank in the middle was already out-of-sight. That left one. Despite the looses it continued forward. Came into crossfire of 5 teams that had amo left and were in line-of-fire. Two AAV were able to provide Mk-19 fire to distorb the vision. It took one minute until the tank was done. All that hamering with LAWs, Mk-19 grenads exploding on the ERP. That was intense. Great work, Battlefront ;-)

The bug is still present in 1.08. This happens in Armour Attack always under this circumstance ==== SPOILER ALERT ===== The savegame just before red is raining down artillery on me is never loaded. Maybe on purpose to not load & retry

Thanks Madmatt, deleting the hotkey file helped. Now the long wait is over Best regards, Wuehlmaus

Hi, when loading any scenario, the game crashes at 72%-77% Everything was working fine with v1.05. Even an ATI XT1950 Update to Catalyst 8.1 didn't help. The dump of WinDBG is Executable search path is: ModLoad: 00400000 008d1000 image00400000 ModLoad: 7c900000 7c9b0000 ntdll.dll ModLoad: 7c800000 7c8f4000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll ModLoad: 02480000 024a8000 L:\Combat Mission Shock Force\elicen40.dll ModLoad: 7e410000 7e4a0000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll ModLoad: 77f10000 77f57000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\GDI32.dll ModLoad: 77dd0000 77e6b000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll ModLoad: 77e70000 77f01000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll ModLoad: 77c00000 77c08000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\version.dll ModLoad: 71ad0000 71ad9000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\wsock32.dll ModLoad: 71ab0000 71ac7000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll ModLoad: 77c10000 77c68000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll ModLoad: 71aa0000 71aa8000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2HELP.dll (a90.a78): Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance) eax=00261eb4 ebx=7ffd8000 ecx=00000002 edx=00000004 esi=00261f48 edi=00261eb4 eip=7c901230 esp=0013fb20 ebp=0013fc94 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000202 *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for ntdll.dll - ntdll!DbgBreakPoint: 7c901230 cc int 3 0:000> g ModLoad: 5cb70000 5cb96000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\ShimEng.dll ModLoad: 6f880000 6fa4a000 V:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AcGenral.DLL ModLoad: 76b40000 76b6d000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\WINMM.dll ModLoad: 774e0000 7761d000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\ole32.dll ModLoad: 77120000 771ac000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\OLEAUT32.dll ModLoad: 77be0000 77bf5000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\MSACM32.dll ModLoad: 7c9c0000 7d1d5000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll ModLoad: 77f60000 77fd6000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\SHLWAPI.dll ModLoad: 769c0000 76a73000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\USERENV.dll ModLoad: 5ad70000 5ada8000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\UxTheme.dll ModLoad: 76390000 763ad000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\IMM32.DLL ModLoad: 773d0000 774d3000 V:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.2982_x-ww_ac3f9c03\comctl32.dll ModLoad: 5d090000 5d12a000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\comctl32.dll ModLoad: 10000000 1001e000 V:\WINDOWS\mmfs.dll ModLoad: 00e50000 00e98000 V:\WINDOWS\lcmmfu.cpl ModLoad: 5b860000 5b8b4000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\netapi32.dll ModLoad: 763b0000 763f9000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\comdlg32.dll ModLoad: 7c340000 7c396000 L:\Combat Mission Shock Force\msvcr71.dll ModLoad: 73f10000 73f6c000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\DSOUND.dll ModLoad: 68b20000 68b40000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\GLU32.dll ModLoad: 5ed00000 5edcc000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\OPENGL32.dll ModLoad: 73760000 737a9000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\DDRAW.dll ModLoad: 73bc0000 73bc6000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\DCIMAN32.dll ModLoad: 02500000 0265a000 V:\DOCUME~1\SKYHUN~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\s2kg.2xcp ModLoad: 73000000 73026000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\winspool.drv ModLoad: 74720000 7476b000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll ModLoad: 02000000 02006000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\ctagent.dll ModLoad: 77b40000 77b62000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\apphelp.dll ModLoad: 755c0000 755ee000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\msctfime.ime ModLoad: 69000000 6953d000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\atioglxx.dll ModLoad: 024b0000 02f19000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\atioglx2.dll ModLoad: 61dd0000 61dd6000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\MCD32.DLL ModLoad: 72d20000 72d29000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\wdmaud.drv ModLoad: 77920000 77a13000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll ModLoad: 76c30000 76c5e000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\WINTRUST.dll ModLoad: 77a80000 77b14000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\CRYPT32.dll ModLoad: 77b20000 77b32000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\MSASN1.dll ModLoad: 76c90000 76cb8000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll ModLoad: 72d10000 72d18000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\msacm32.drv ModLoad: 77bd0000 77bd7000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\midimap.dll ModLoad: 77920000 77a13000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll ModLoad: 77920000 77a13000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll ModLoad: 77920000 77a13000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll ModLoad: 77920000 77a13000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll ModLoad: 73ee0000 73ee4000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\KsUser.dll ModLoad: 76fd0000 7704f000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\CLBCATQ.DLL ModLoad: 77050000 77115000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\COMRes.dll ModLoad: 74810000 7497c000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\quartz.dll ModLoad: 73940000 73a10000 V:\WINDOWS\system32\D3DIM700.DLL (a90.a78): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=160e4700 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=06306478 edi=00000044 eip=0044e102 esp=0013fc88 ebp=00000001 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00210246 *** WARNING: Unable to verify checksum for image00400000 *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for image00400000 image00400000+0x4e102: 0044e102 80780400 cmp byte ptr [eax+4],0 ds:0023:00000004=?? The stacktrace is image00400000+0x4e102 image00400000+0x4e2a5 image00400000+0x20b2ad image00400000+0x2993f0

The long wait is over... Each time I open the battlefront homepage these words are presented centered on the screen. Sadly it's not the patch :-(

This campaign does set benchmarks! You now worry about each pixel soldier.

How good are the actual optics of the javelin? In "emitremmah" (reverse to not to spoiler the scenario) one rifle time entered a building just to find a BMP-2 hidden on the outside. So they throw all grenades they had on that thing from ~5m away. It was impressive but useless. And they were equipped with Javelin and AT-4 as well :-( An antitank team 400m away also noted that BMP the same turn. It had javelins. Not good. It made "zisch", the BMP made boom - and my whole rifle team "aaarggh". They were blasted. So, is the optic good enough to detect hand grenades explosion 400m away?

I have a dream: The target command detects that on this square there is a wall and it is only shot to it. And when it is breached, stops shooting. This is currently not the case for the M2 :-(

Great patch! Just jumped into a quick "Allahs Fist" which was a FPS killer before. Much smoother now. And I greatly appreciate that an M1 doesn't immediately seem to spot anything on the LOS (in elite) when on the move. My M1 went into a fast move and so Syrian received there own fair share of first and second shots

In the scenario editor are buttons? I mostly have a black screen there. When the mouse is moved, then they flickering appear. This also happens to main menu sometimes. The ATI ETQW hotfix for x1950 has improved it, but still it is not stable.

In training mission 3, I had one squad approaching the village by moving aside the right wall. Another javelin squad was assigned to breach the wall (target command). Instead of using the missle, the tried it with rifle fire. That didn't work, but the ricochets took harvest among my first squad. That was impressing. In the same mission, the heavy MG loader placed himself right in front the barrel but didn't die.