JRMC1879

Wow like those first pics. Appears you are as good at map making as you are at nodding. Some of those first pics are friggin genius

Jesus. Not again. They have given us the greatest game ever, things I dreamed of as a young gamer and all it seems some want to do is bitch and moan about it. This model keeps them in business , harking back to cmx1 days is just futile and dumb. Play the games and if you don't like it keep it to yourself.

Ps ... 're Steve's post. Is it Dorosh or is there another self opinionated twat i don't know about? And I also have no idea how hit decals reveal the location of hidden at guns. I don't want to know either. Maybe that's part of your problem.

God. What a load of bollocks. If there are things that aren't perfect or make missing in the game it's because of limited time and resource and nothing to do with this garbage. Jesus, do I ever get sick of these kinds of post where someone comes here positing their own poorly thought out theories around building the best war game there is and all they achieve is to illustrate they actually know nothing about it at all. You would achieve more poking around with the fluff in your navel in the time it has taken you to write this crap. Go out. Build and design the best war game ever made and out of which I get more value for money than anything I have ever bought anywhere for anything and then post your thesis. Until then I Will treat it with the contempt it deserves.

What he said.

That's a shame - because I think they look freaking awesome. Certainly gives a more modern feel - sometimes I still feel the CMBS scenery is a bit too red thunder. Hope you are doing something with the trees as they look awesome too. You seem a bit muted about what you have done but my wish would be for you to carry on as they look excellent to me.

Yes I would like to know that - it was stated there would be - getting stuff from there is a tortuous time consuming process and its the single most frustrating thing in the whole battlefront experience.

Wow - didn't know. Huge Kudos to the guys who helped you out.

Thanks for the link vein - you left the conversation so couldn't reply via PM. Really do appreciate the work guys like you do modding these games and didn't want you to think it went unappreciated.

Well I have only used the raven so far - US campaign - and they are awesome in what they give you from what I have seen A real game changer. Wont post why as it may be spoilers - but so far I would take one of them over a platoon of M2's.

Just to repeat - those building look fantastic.

Awesome - the buildings especially - when do we get them ???

I second third and fourth that. I load this thing up and have much the same reaction as to everything else I have bought from battlefront - which is a sense of amazement that I get all this for 30 odd pounds. The games I used to dream about having when I was younger bought to reality.

Absolutely... This is friggin ridiculous - a 5gb file with no resume support ? They make superb games but lousy downloads mechanisms. Am now 8 hours after buying the game on about the 20th try.

No - look on the bright side - at least you managed to download the game. 8 hours of trying and still the server is Fubar

Thanks - but I suddenly realised that I do want some kind of early access - I want to be able to pre-order the freaking digital copy - so I don't spend a tortuous few hours listening to those who don't have stupid postal costs playing the game before I do. Arggghhhh :angry:

Well as someone who manages software development - what battlefront fail to do is work by the developers paradigm with regard to estimates of delivery. That is - estimate how long it will take you, then double it, then add another for safe measure. What this means is you never deliver anything late and you always garner praise for delivering early. Were BF to work under this model they would have estimated delivery around April, and delivered in what looks like Jan Feb and you would all be lauding them for the speed they deliver things. Steam is not agile development - its a way of funding development before you have a finished product. And scrum development is not a method for delivering a finished product (which is what we all want) faster. Its a method - as far as game development is concerned, of delivering and unfinished one early. I purposely never buy into early access because what I want is a finished game - and all early access means to me is I am thoroughly tired of the thing before the finished product arrives. They are a few weeks late - for a very small team delivering something as complex as this believe me that is nothing out of the ordinary. I could care less that battlefront don't offer early access as - even if I bought it I would likely shelve it till the finished game arrives. I don't frankly see how what they are delivering suits early access in any case. Do I want to play black sea with one type of tank and a couple of trucks - that not only doesn't work its not what I want to buy.

Yes we are absolutely nearly there. When exactly would depend on your definition of Nearly though. I would say though that the complete absence yet of the aforementioned joke "its here" post - would suggest not even the dicks who post those think we are close enough to let their dickedness get the better of them.

I completely agree with what you say - but I am a wargamer and therefore understand the hobby. Everything you just said of course would be completely lost on someone outside the hobby which is my point. I don't see the difference between BF brining out a game on the Ukraine crisis and bringing one out on the recent Israeli assault on Gaza - and I don't think they would even contemplate that. And my original point still stands - we were in the middle of a conflict with Iraq when CMSF was released - but BF picked on a hypothetical conflict for a reason - I am not sure I see the difference between not wanting to do a game on an active conflict in which people were dying because it was reality at the time and bringing one out in the same way because you were a little too accurate in your choice of scenario. All I am saying is a release of CMBS may go completely unnoticed but then again it may get spotted and someone with no knowledge of the hobby picks it and BF and the hobby draws a lot of flak. I don't think I am saying anything BF haven't discussed internally - just saying it would be nice to know their position. Not saying I have an objection and I would buy the game - am really looking forward to it . Not sure on my own moral stance on playing a "game" depicting a live conflict where people are dying - but I guess I have played scenarios in CMSF that are pretty close to live action such as Libya helmand etc.

Well - my view - Of course it does. I fail to see how BF can release a game about this whilst it is an active conflict - and one that seems to be getting worse. I believe they have to change the venue - releasing with this subject may bring more publicity to them and our hobby than we want - and all of the wrong kind. There was a reason CMSF was about a then hypothetical conflict in Syria rather than a real one on Iraq or Afghanistan. I should add - I don't want this game to be delayed but I believe BF are not insensitive to bringing out a game about a live conflict in which people are dying today and I wish they would just state their position on it so we all know.

Theres a train car object ?

Thanks for the update Steve ... Am awaiting this one with absolutely bated breath - but nice not to be in anticipation of anything immediate if its not coming that soon. I still have about three years of stuff from CMSF I haven't touched yet - besides all the stuff from CMFI, Gustav, CMBN, Commonwealth, MG and now RT.

Odd comment - when steve said this at the start of this thread. "In fact, the game is largely done and testing is slated to begin in a few weeks for a late Spring release."

And there are cabbages. Two I believe new fence types. New church and buildings You know a hedge is a hedge - whether its in france or Russia as is a tree or grass - just what were you wanting ? In my view from what I have seen so far it feels very like Russia and different and some of the maps are excellent.

Second this - after playing oddballs mod in CMBN and CMFI for months - returning to stock is a hell of a shock.