herr_oberst
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I came, I saw, I pre-ordered.
Let's see, that would make for a CMBO pre-order, CMBB pre-order, CMAK pre-order, CMBN pre-order, CMCW pre-order, CMFI pre-order... hell, anything in the 'historic' timeframe gets a pre-order (sorry, just not into the new tech warfare), and I can honestly say that I've never been let down by the Battlefront crew. Even bought twice on two titles (PC and Mac), because I have seen the light and gone Mac OS X, and had to switch the titles I was playing at the time.
Zeit für Rock'n'Roll. (if the translation sucks, I blame Babelfish).
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That water looks like it might be a pointy bit to deal with.
One aircraft, two platoons of tanks for tank riders, SMG-equipped (maybe?) riders for those tanks, a good swath of infantry to advance in the woods and built up areas, and all the arty you can muster. The map should look like a pock-marked moonscape once your arty is used up.
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Check Spitfire's recommendations. In terms of OS or hardware, I (with my great sample size of 1) haven't seen any issues with following the CM upgrade stream as the updates occurred.
In terms of OS, started out on Lion, through ML, then on to Mavericks.
As for PC or Mac, it a personal preference.
Built my own PCs since the 80286 days until about a year and a half ago. AMD and/or Intel.
Then switched to a Mac Mini for 6 months, then built a "Hackintosh" when the Mini couldn't run "School of Hard Knocks" well enough to suit me. Personally, I've had far far fewer issues with the Mac platform than Windows.
But YMMV, so I'm not saying which is better for you, just which works better for me.
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Yeah, I know, water, "she's a flat... like a pan-cake". But the map I'm working on has several streams (4) running downhill (from 130m to 95m or so) in a valley.
So since I can't have water, I'll need some combination of terrain tiles and/or vegetation to suggest the presence of water.
And rather than invent the wheel again, I thought I'd ask first to see what others might have some up with for a similar situation.
Thanks in advance.
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Hmm, long spears... a bunch of native beaters to drive the Tiger from cover... and some 'fodder' for the Tiger to maul while the spears do their work.
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Yes, yes, yes!!! We want the 'Space Lobsters of Doom' expansion. We've been waiting for about 13 years, 11 months, 28 days. When will it be ready???
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ok thanks for information Normal Dude,
Second question , why the patches for old game owners could not have been prepared at the same time with new module release?
regards
Well, you can't make a patch until you have a fixed reference point to patch to.
So, once MG was 'done', and the reference point fixed, the patch generation could begin in earnest.
And, since MG was done, it was time to release, to give the value to the people who had already paid (us pre-orderers), or those who were waiting to buy. Why should Battlefront delay the revenue recognition if the MG product was ready?
Waiting for a short period of time for something free should not cause undue consternation. Battlefront could just as easily say "no back-patching", and then where would you be?
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No worries about the winning or losing. Sometimes it just takes that one moment special moment to make a game worth playing.
An attack that actually works like you planned it, or on defense, the desperate fast move to get a panzerschrek guy in place moments before an allied tank passes by (he made it by 4 seconds, and took out the tank).
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Oh the fun days of Curly, Larry and Moe.
Earliest memories: my precious Tiger, locked in at view level 1, attacking the town, and then the Hellcats appeared up on the hill. Ouchies.
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Not doubting you, but how do you know that?
I won't declare that that is impossible, but my friend's almost new model doesn't have a fan either. Also the Mac Mini is I believe without a fan. It is a selling point since it is quiet.
Michael
Nah, the Mini's have one, it's just small -- learn all kinds of things when you swap the Apple HDD for an SSD.
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MG Outstanding Gallantry ( one of MG's largest scenarios) loaded in 2 minutes by dropping display = 1920X1080, V Sync = Off. Model & Texture = Fastest. AA= Off. High Priority = Off. ATI Left Click = Off. Shadows =Off
Did not play the game but was able to move about the map w/o sluggishness. Not as pretty as the smaller scenarios but looks very playable.
A saved game file was @ 20.8MB.
At those settings I had that scenario load in 51 seconds +/- 2 seconds (Mark 1 Eyeball used for measurement).
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One of them, a 20mm versions, eventually poked through the road and sat there with the gun exposed blasting away at my tanks and terrified crews.
I always wondered how they modeled those Panther turrets in CMGL, now we know.
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Bil's HT gunners are like Star Trek redshirts.
Truth. What is the count so far? I admit, I've lost count myself, but imagine that Bil is a tad bit miffed at the rate at which those gunners are getting dropped.
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Yup, to echo what AKD said... all will be fixed with v2.21. It is absolutely amazing, even after 20 years doing this gaming stuff, how many small things get missed until the game is already finalized for release. Sure, if you're making a game of checkers it's less likely to miss things, but with wargames... there's just so much in there.
Our standard rule for release time is to view small visual glitches as "patchable" type bugs and not what we call "show stopper". Show stopper bugs cause us to halt any thought of immediate release, fix the bug, test, repackage for release, and hope we don't have another one. Examples are common things not loading, an easily reproducible crash, UI problems which hinder functionality, etc. Short of that sort of thing we launch and then immediately begin work on a patch. No rest for the weary!
After all the years we've delivered things to you, we've got a pretty good idea what *you* think of as "show stoppers" and what you will accept as "patchable". I'm pretty sure you guys would roast us alive if we held up the game for a week because a helmet LOD was missing
Steve
I'm staring at a release on Monday, and we've spent the last week or two going through the same exercise. QA finds an issue, determine the severity, haggle over the severity (sometimes), and either fix, or it goes on the 'known defects' list for the next update. The closer to the release date, the bigger an issue has to be to actually call a halt.
On the positive side, my DL of MG took 8 minutes, the license entry worked fine, although I couldn't launch immediately. Had to quit, then restart. All is well now.
I sense that my review of the final release documentation at work due Monday will not get done until the wee hours Sunday night.
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TURN 30:00 to 29:00
In Pictures, featuring Ballsy Piat Pete and what the Fates decided to mete
More...
Run Forrest, er Pete, Run!!!
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Believe me. I have spent most of my life looking at the sky.
Michael
Give it up Michael...
The aliens came, they snatched you up on that night long ago, and started their experiments.
Two minutes later, they decided that there was not intelligent life on this earth worth studying, re-deposited you in your corn field, and they ain't coming back!
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What was the range on those PIAT shots? Looks like a helluva shot to score 2 hits.
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So even though, quite a few people around him had guns or quick access to guns he still managed to kill 12 people (soldiers?)
The Navy Yard is more "military offices" than a "military base".
When I took a Boy Scout crew there for a tour a few years ago (of the Navy Yard computer systems), if I recall correctly, the only armed people I saw were the guards at the gate.
Once inside the buildings, it was essentially the same as any other office building where folks in their 40's and 50's work.
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ENSURE that no result will affect another unit. E.g., lane 2 team being killed does not have a morale penalty felt by lane 28. (Units in the same formation share morale, instaneously, without regard to LOS, etc.)
Oh wonderful, so we have been playing with quantum entangled morale all along?
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Cripes, that WW is a real meat chopper. Now if it would only slew the turret a tad while it fires off a volley, that could get really ugly for the recipients.
Great videos by the way. Thanks for posting those, much more fun than just still shots.
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First thing I do with a download is run it through Time Machine on the Mac (HDD backup) -- you do backup your machine don't you? Then I burn a disc to backup again.
When the real disc arrives, it goes straight into a steel case.
Never had an issue that I couldn't resurrect an install from one of those sources.
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also, the w is pronounced as a v.
Aw shucks, you mean it ain't moobeelwaggin' ?
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Nooooo, don't reverse straight away from the JgPz, you gotta get outside the 10 degree barrel swing and make it move or I fear that last Cromwell is toast.
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Once you are ready, unhide your MGs,suppress the church, and send out some scouts...
The MGs will most likely get clobbered after a few minutes of firing, but hopefully by then they will have accomplished something. The AI has the same artillery delay as the human player, so if you keep the infantry moving, don't stay in the same place for more than a couple of minutes.
Agreed. I consistently have to remind myself to displace my MGs occasionally. If I've targeted them specifically, I try to leave them in that spot not more than 3 minutes. If I have three MG teams, I try to have two firing at a time as the other *should* be busy relocating (if I remember to move them out). Once the moved team is again engaged, another team moves, round robin style.
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upen, I've bought on the order of 9 titles from Battlefront, and pre-ordered every one. Never been disappointed either -- sure, defects (or bugs) are a fact of life in software (23 years in the industry has taught me that), but Battlefront always delivers on the vast majority of what they say.
One of the nice things is that they WON'T ship just to meet an f'ing date posted on some website, and that's a big part of why they get my pre-orders. Other 'big' companies are too used to putting out crap to keep analysts or corporate bureaucracy happy while screwing the customers. I want a good game, plain and simple, and BFC has delivered on that for years.