virgil_182

I got it to work.... I'm not quite sure how though. HA. Extracted all the SFS files and I'm happily modding.

I can not seem to get the TOW SFS Extractor to work on either one of my two systems. It's driving me crazy. Would someone be so kind as to email an extracted copy of the navigation.ini file, I would like to mod it. For the record I keep getting a crash and a dot net 2.0 error referencing an rts.dll when I try and use the SFS extractor. It opens fine actually, it just refuses to see the SFS files and crashes when I attempt to close it. Any ideas ?

I figured it out. I had to uncheck the use both cores option. A shame, since the game runs a little more smoothly on two cores, it seems anyway. I'd still be happy to hear if there is another fix that I am missing the would still allow me to use both cores.

I'm replaying Theatre of War, I forget how amazingly fun it is, but I'm having a small problem with the camera. The camera is always panning to the left and down on it's own in short jerky movements if I'm not actively holding the middle mouse button and forcing it's aim. It gets pretty annoying, pretty quickly, to have the camera constantly drifting around on it's own. I thought I saw a fix for this issue somewhere out on the net but I can't seem to find it anymore. Any ideas, or better yet, a way to stop the camera glitch. Thanks for your time.

My guess is that these games are never going to be hits for the masses. They are too involved, too detailed, and frankly, too good. The masses are typically not very reliable judges of quality. Perhaps I should have titled my thread "an open letter to the community AND the developers concerning an amazing game" Agreed. The support issues I read about are a concern. The posts give the impression that the community feels like they, and TOW have recently been abandoned. It would be a shame if the rumor mills and normal forum tendencies towards doomsday posts were, in fact, indicative of waning support for a game that seems to have so much potential for future expansion. I know Battlefront is moving forward and their labor of love continues, focusing on the new engine. Although I eagerly wait to see what the CMx2 engine will do for the experience in the promised WWII theatre, I've played the CM:SF demo and much of the magic got lost in translation. (Not entirely, mind you, due to the difference in time period.) Interestingly enough I read much the same sentiment concerning moving forward from CMBB and CMAK. In a nutshell that is why I posted. To express my thanks for a game that seems to be an excellent middle ground, a balance between aging engines, and new ones. An experience that feels more complete than the sum of either either extreme.

I wrestled for about a week with the decision to purchase Theatre of War. A large part of my indecision due to the recent forum posts claiming that, as a title it is dead, and was not much good to begin with. I took a chance, purchased the game, and I must say I disagree with much of the negative posts. I think it is amazing, all things considered. Yes, it has flaws, I've never played a computer game that didn't. No, it isn't a perfect simulation of the infinite complexities of reality, I've never played a computer game that was. I think Theatre of War manages the knife edge balancing act of doing an excellent job at creating a very immersive, very "real" feeling tactical environment, that looks beautiful, and is incredibly fun and immersive to play. I have yet to play another WWII themed tactical RTS that even comes close to maintaining that balance for me. Theatre of War feels and plays much more like a polished simulation than an RTS, and I am enjoying it immensely. Every computer game no matter the genre must deal with the same, necessary, abstractions of reality and balance of game play. Each dev team does this in their own own way, and I think Battlefront has done it amazingly well with TOW. I sincerely hope that it is not, in fact, true that TOW is destined to be forgotten.