jspec
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Thanks, yes I have it installed (just checked and can start playing one of the NATO single battles).
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Hey thanks for making this!
I'm getting back into CM after haven't not played for a while, and am having trouble getting this campaign to show up in-game.
High likelihood of user error here, but I've placed it where the other campaigns are located (...Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Shock Force 2\Game Files\Campaigns) but when I go into the game menu this one doesn't show up.
Built a new machine earlier in the year and reinstalled a few CM games, all installed the 'game files' folder in the documents folder, except CMBN which installed it in the actual Combat Mission Battle for Normandy folder I installed the game to.
Not sure if that means anything really, just grasping at straws. I copied my 'game files' folder from the documents to the main CMSF2 folder to see if that did anything but no luck.
Thanks
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Downloading now!
I've asked for a product for this like ages. I hope it is a big success for all involved and this is the first of many battlepacks Battlefront will produce.
+1!
Congratulations on the release.
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I think Veins effects have modded tracers?
http://community.battlefront.com/topic/117756-veins-cmbs-effects/
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Another thanks for the update post! Looking forward to checking things out
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I've been curious for a while about this idea in general, what would it feel like inside a modern tank that took a hit that didn't penetrate? From another tank let's say.
Like a knock on the door? A little push? A car crash? I just don't have any concept as to what it would be like. I wonder if any of our real-life tankers have heard stories they could share?
Edit - obviously hope they haven't been in a tank that got hit! Just meant stories they might have heard, or what they understand it would be like based on their knowledge.
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It is often good to allow such people to post because they tend to do more damage to their own position than they do others. Provided it's only one or two people who don't get things too far off track, I have found it smart to let them continue posting. When things go off the track too much I do reign things in.
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Okay, fair enough.
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Nah brah. I just think you're whiny and immature, and the 'murican thing, combined with basically flapping around the American bias flag any time something that reasonably was inferior to US equipment performed inferior basically validated that position.
And needless to say you're well on your way to showing I did not jump to conclusions, so carry on!
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I gotta say I'm begining to wish the moderation here was a little more 'active'. This guys posts have been consistently arrogant, condescending, and most of all insulting - what value is he adding to any of the discussions?
There are plenty of posters here who can disagree, even argue without basically calling the other person an idiot. Is it an attempt at humor or something? It doesn't come off that way.
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Old-banned-Steiner, meet the new-not-yet-banned-Steiner.
(Sigh) It seems some things never change.
This I genuinely don't get - Steve already posted that this is a guy who was already banned, so what's the benefit of letting him post under a different name?
http://community.battlefront.com/topic/118902-we-need-another-the-road-ahead-from-bf/
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Yep, I am currently struggling to get three separate Javelin teams to fire at tanks 2000m away across the Valley of Death because they all have daffodils in their face. If I ask them to Hunt they get up, spot a tank and immediately hit the dirt again, losing the spot before they can get around to "aiming".
Didn't troops occasionally get up on one knee to spot in CMBN? They don't seem to do that very much in BS and I am now on the fifth Valley of Death reload trying various combinations of orders, arcs and movements to get a Javelin team (who I have positioned in a wide open field with a dangerous lack of concealment, out of desperation) to fire a damned missile!
Think I ran into a similar issue playing that small nighttime single mission (where you're tasked with taking out some anti-air with javilen teams).
A team would be on hunt, see the armour, then duck down and that was that. Tried hunting again, slow moving, armour arcs, couldn't seem to get them to shoot. Was a little frustrating.
Maybe they need to be left alone for a while? Thinking about it now that's the only thing I didn't really try, was to just have them sit for a bunch of turns and see what happens.
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Longbow 2 really was one of the all time tops, I think.
Most likely you can run it on Win7, although there can be hoops to go through depending on your hardware. A good place to look would be here, lots of info
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/2/1/Helicopters
This might be a good place to start
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Intersting, thanks!
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Cool, thanks, that totally makes sense. You mentioned SA-11/15's earlier, I've always thought those things must be particularly terrifying (and they've been blowing me up in most of my simming life since the late 90s).
Would it still have to be aviation that went after those nowadays? I'm guessing you could use cruise missles, If they were available, but if not.... stealth?
Guess I'm wondering if they're as scary as they seem, basically!
Thanks
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I am sorry to say this, but from last Steve's posts my opinion about BFC has changed. They do create good games, but, man, the way they treat customers/community members... simply not good. Maybe i am wrong, since i am new here. Only time will show.
I have to say I feel the opposite - I'm glad they stand up for themselves, and they are certainly never rude to people unless people are rude to them first.
He's explained the reasons why lots of the things people want won't be forthcoming in a totally clear, logical way, many times; and there are a small number people who just refuse to accept the answer and basically think they know better, and a (very) few number of those people can end up getting pretty nasty - so why not defend themselves?
I'm sure it'd be easier in a big company to let the forum manager, or whoever, deal with these kinds of things but Battlefront has, what; 4 and a half people working for them? There's really no one else who works there to do it, I don't think.
So, with that being said.... will the briefing text ever get any bigger?
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Cool, thanks for writing!
Guess I was thinking that gps would be a little more of a 'magic bullet' than it is... thought maybe if you were high enough, the bomb could travel far enough. Makes sense though that a harm or maverick would be the way to go, range wise, as it does have a rocket attached to it after all.
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Cool thanks Steve, I figured it was a good guess
I got why you left it up and put those sites as a rebutal, just figured might be better to get rid of it in the long run.
Majority of the thread is super interesting, enjoy reading.
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Is it cool for people to be posting links to anti-semitic sites?
edit - I'm guessing the answer is no, so maybe people could not do it?
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Duchess, if you're still around (and feel like answering) I was wondering about sead/dead with jdams... is that something that's a viable option?
If positions of launchers or trucks or whathaveyou were gps mapped through satalite, recon flights, or even soldiers on the ground, wouldn't it be just as "easy" as programming a whole bunch of bombs dropping them? Or are the distances the SAMS can reach greater than the distances with which bombs can be tossed? Is there a height limit to how high you can go to drop a jdam? Just trying to think of why you always wouldn't go that route... I know there's the harm missle, but it seems like jdams would be more of a 'sure thing'.
I know I could probably search online for most of the answers, but as a long time aviation (and flight sim) fan it's pretty cool to be able to ask a question of an actual f/a18 pilot.
Not that you have to start doing a Q/A session or anything!
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You learn to filter the rugrat noise after a while, or go mad. Nice wireless headphone help. My wife would argue the two choices are not mutually exclusive.
Thanks, good to know!
I think for sure though the days of "just one more turn", and then the next thing you know you're hearing birds outside your window, are over.
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Just felt like posting to say these threads are super interesting, particularly enjoy panzwersourkrautwerfer's writing style (and sense of humor).
Have limited time for gaming lately (and presumably for the next 18 years or so) but instead of starting up the game I come on the forums for a 'quick peak' and up learning about all kinds of interesting things.
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I get mixed results, sometimes flawless and sometimes blocky or threaded. Seems to depend on the angle of the sun. It can shift from minute to minute and camera angle. Worst is from foilage. Vehicles and pixeltruppen usually ok.
Same here, I play with them on but sometimes they really look bad. 780, most recent drivers.
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I'm sorry this thread is making me crazy and I have to post -
Would you agree with the basic premise here that surprse and the unexpected is still quite possible in modern warfare? Perhaps because of an intelligence failure or the enemy ding something commanders failed to anticipate. Even with the best techmolgy in the world human error can still happen in the fog of war. It happened in the Kuwait War and it happened in Iraq 2003, even to an army with the training, experience and technology of the US military. Indeed, over reliance on technology could even be a factor here.
The basic premise here is NOT that "suprsise and the unexpected is still quite possilbe in modern warfare"! You are willfullly ignoring what many other people have called to your attention, which is that the WAY IT WAS DONE is what was being complained about. You basically started a debate on something that was not the point of the thread, and you keep going and going and going, I guess trying to prove you're "right"? About something that no one really was debating you about in the first place?
edit - oh of course, now it's 'end of discussion'.... in other words -things aren't going my way, so rather than actually saying something like "yes I see your point, the way it's handled in those scenarios by units teleporting on top of you 20 meters away is silly, but there should still be a way to have unexpected things happen in a realistic manner' I'm going drop out of the discussion.
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That's odd, I don't think they're supposed to shoot back until the last mission of the training campaign.
Are you sure they were shooting back at you? I just played the first mission now, and all hell certainly broke loose at the firing lane, but the bullets were all going in one direction!
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Steve you should probably tell the RPS guys a Bulge game is on the way from you, they seem a bit distraught thinking about the lack of them recently!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/26/the-flare-path-battle-of-the-bulge-wargames/
Also, speaking of RPS, Tim Stone named Red Thunder his 'bestest of best' for 2014
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/12/27/best-pc-games-2014-contributors-picks/#more-260017
New campaign - USMC Gung Ho! available
in CM Shock Force 2 Maps and Mods
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That was it! Could swear I was patched, but turns out somehow I had managed to patch the patch to it's own game folder inside the actual game folder (as in ..\Combat Mission Shock Force 2\Combat Mission Shock Force 2).
Thanks a lot, thought it was user error just needed a little help figuring out what it was.