Glubokii Boy
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6 hours ago, Artkin said:
If CMx3 comes along, it MUST be able to import CMx2 scenario and map files. To have everyone's near endless work eventually go to waste would be beyond tragic.
What CM3 really needs is a completally new AI programing design...Not a slightely updated CM2 version.
If people still like to play CM2 scenarios when CM3 is released...play them in your CM2 games.
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How much smoke do you have ? Whats the wind like ? Would it not be possible to smoke KT2 out of the picture entirely during the initial assult on the village. Attacking from AA2 or AA3. Ones you have a foothold in the village you ought to be able to gain fire suppeority against KT2 from there and suppress any enemy units on that hill. There cant be that many of them if the entire enemy force is belived to be at platoon strenth.
Ones the reinforcements arrive thoose guys could either try to clear KT2 if needed while that possition is being suppressed from the village or simply follow in the steps of the intial assult to help clearing the rest of the village..
I currently do not have CMFI installed so its a bit tricky to see the battlefield from a few pictures...But what i'm woundering...Do you really need to clear KT2 before assulting the village...Could it be smoked out of play ?
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On 8/13/2022 at 10:38 PM, massi said:
is the relase day far away ?
16 hours ago, Vkhani12345 said:Well seeing it was supposed to be already released, I'd place my bets on somewhere this month or next
10 hours ago, massi said:let hope so
My advice would be...Just don't care about it...AT ALL !
If BFC manages to release anything at all someday in the future let that come as a nice supprice
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This might be helpful if you are working on a Stalingrad project...
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If you are lacking in HE firepower...
If you don't neccesarely HAVE to destroy it...simply suppress it with a pair of HMGs firing at it from different directions tend to work quite well imo...Or even better use 3 HMGs if you have them.
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5 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
Personally I hope for CM Kursk and beyond. The fighting from the Summer of 1943 until the spring of 1944 is extremely interesting.
I guess such a game will be ready for release just in time for the 100 year aniversity...That is 2043...
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CM is a GAME ! RL is RL...
Not exactelly the same thing...
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2 hours ago, IICptMillerII said:
Trying to use a military manual to win a CM scenario is the same thing as trying to use a physics textbook to assemble and launch a rocket.
Things might seem fairly simple when you read about it in the manual. The basic idea is not all that difficult to understand. Stuff like...
- Supress the enemy possition and attack it from the flank...
- Cover your advancing elements with base of fire possitions...
- Achive fire supperiority.
Reading the manuals and looking at the examples one might be fooled into beliving...'OK...this does not look all that difficult' ...but being able to do these things against
an active enemy certainly is DIFFICULT
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Many thanks for your detailed answer
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18 hours ago, George MC said:The irony is small scenarios are harder to do AI plans for than large scenarios!
I tend to agree
...Many times the same goes for the map creation imo. Larger (huge) maps usually takes longer to make but with smaller maps every little detail is more important. With large, huge maps if you paint a fairly realistic looking map the game play will often work quite well 'by it self'...With smaller maps the designer needs to pay more attention to very little detail. One of the true masters of designing small maps is Seinfeld Rules imo...He usually manges to make these small maps very intresting. When it comes to your maps...what makes them truely OUTSTANDING is that you usually manges to add this level of detail to pretty much every aprt of even your huge maps....I'm very ,very much impressed by them....
The mapeditor truely taken to its limits
...Having very high quality maps help a great deal with the imersion i get when playing a scenario...It truely makes a diffrence imo...
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2 hours ago, George MC said:
AI Plan after this playthrough required tweaking. Mainly because of what you can see in the above screenshot. I've also added some triggers for the Soviet AI to counter most likely German COA. Now to see if they work!
Looks sweet !
Getting an attacking AI to maintain its cohesion when it comes under player fire is a tricky thing imo...
If the player plays the way you 'want' him to it is quite uncomplicated but if he throws in the odd suprise things become somewhat more difficult for the AI to cope with the situation.
Particulary the timings have a tendance to get screewed up by player fire i have found...
What options do you prefer to try and mitigate this 'complication' ?
Do you use all tools avaliable (game-clock, triggerzones, AI-order triggers) or have you found that you can solve the problems with perhaps one or two of the avaliable options ?
I tend to use all three but doing so requires A LOT ! of bookkeeping in order to keep track of all the AI-order - Exit before Aftter combinations and Triggerzones - Exit before after combinations...
Its ,tricky imo...but kind of satisfying when you get it to work fairly well
Imo that is what you usually are able to do...Looking forward to this one.
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6 hours ago, Artkin said:
Add a serious multiplayer, stop ****ing around, and the game will be fine.
This might be very true.
The problem though is that the majority of CM players are SINGLEPLAYERS only... according to BFC themselfs (IIRC).
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1 hour ago, user1000 said:
Hopefully not too long or all the niche game fans will leave or forget about it
Unfortunatelly...the release of a battle-pack or two will do...very little... in the way of bringing some life back into the CM community. Not even the release of full modules (CMFI, CMRT) has done much to raise the activity around here...Possibly with the exception of CMCW...
Nothing short of the release-...or atleast... the announcement of CM3 will get things rolling again it seems...
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30 minutes ago, nathan1776 said:
Unfortunately I can't seem to find any setting like that. I have an Intel HD Graphics 520.
OK...
Others will help you shortelly, i'm sure
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I had the same problem...fixed it a long time ago...
I'm using N'vidia and to fix the problem back then if you had an n'vidia graphics card was to DISABLE MSAA in the N'vidia controll panel if i recall correctly...
If you have any simular setting options with your graphics card you might try the same...
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15 hours ago, Ithikial_AU said:
With most of the details pretty much locked in I have flagged the possibility of a teaser, however the more time I spend on teasers the less time I spend in the editor.
Considdering that these 'packs' takes quite a long time to design...I'm pretty sure that most of us would accept loosing a few hours of developing time in orders to get a nice bone or two every now and then...
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Biggest thing CM needs is a major update to...the AI !
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Beautiful pics ! What can i say....
15 hours ago, George MC said:Wee update. Testing AI Plan (timings with attacking units and arty support - taking some fettling!) and the context.
Oohh, goitch !
Something like a 100 vehicles and i'm guessing a sizable infantry force...The ai programing will be quite challenging i'm sure
...This being a russian attack...AI human wave tactics might work quite well though...
Will be intresting to see the final result...Looking forward to playing this, thanks !
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4 minutes ago, George MC said:
In this case best bet is copious TRPs, high quality FOs and equivalent quality arty etc batteries. I’ve found can get some pretty effective AI controlled hip pocket fire support then.
Yepp...That will work for HE but being able to get the AI to drop a smokescreen at the right location a few minutes into the scenario seems to be...not doable unfortunatelly.
Thanks for the reply and the upcomming scenario...Will be a BLAST i'm sure
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Sorry for being unclear here....what i ment to say was that they need... AI-ORDERS. As programmed by the guy who designed the map.
So normally...Yes...All you need to do to play a QB battle is to pick the forces and the AI should move and fight as programmed by the designer...No need for you to give orders to the AI.
If you however designs a QB map you need to make sure that the AI side indeed have orders (programed into the map by the designer)...If those are not included the AI units will not move.
It seems something got mixed up when you changed the setting for the map. An assult and a meeting engagment are two very different things. maybe the QB maps cant be changed in this way without screwing the AI programing up.
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9 minutes ago, Jkirsen said:
i assumed with a qb you just purchase the units and so long as there were objectives on the map the AI would automatically move to occupy those zones.
They need orders to move...
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5 hours ago, George MC said:
As part of creating AI Plans I tend to do a quick and dirty play in hot seat mode.
I do the same....using some simple 'AI-kind of' orders for the intended AI side. Saving the game frequently will allow for testing different approaches at the various stages in the battle quite easily. When doing initial testing I usually also keep some 'extra' units on the map (hidden out of the way) that i can quite quickly bring into the fight if i see that one side or the other needs them. If i do use these extras in my hotseat test run i will add them to the OOB before starting work on my AI plans.
6 hours ago, George MC said:Then I can start to plan the arty support (in RL they used smokescreens but creating this in the AI plan and AI limitations in smoke use mean I have to ID the long range firing positions arcs of fire in game and then play the AI fire support smoke accordingly.
Will this be a turn one AI smokescreen ? or do you have some clever way of getting the AI to deliver a sufficient (on time, on target) smokescreen after turn 1.
Will perhaps a delayed reinforcement artillery work for a later smokescreen set for turn 1 ?
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7 hours ago, Massinissa said:
I hope it not combat mission cold war all again which was planned to be released back in April 2021 and was released on November of the same year
A 6-8 months delay is nothing strange around here...better get used to it
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On 4/2/2022 at 9:27 PM, Artkin said:
Hi do you plan on expanding this further? Please do, and continue until you cannot any more. If you want a hand I would definitely help. I am having a lot of fun in CMCW. I tried to make it work with CMBS but no luck. It doesn't like the 3 story houses
Hello, Artkin
I'm glad you like the map and have found some use for it
...Have you been able to port it over to CMCW ? If so thats cool...
I have been working on a scenario using a major part of the map. Hopefully i will have that finished in a not to distant future. This time it will not be set in Odessa but rahter a fictional battle covering the russian attack on Königsberg.
I'm trying something a little bit different (atleast for me) with regrards to the AI troops
...Initial testing seems quite promising. I belive this will be my last 'major' designing effort until next winter...
Many other RL things takes priority over computer gaming for me during the spring, summer so i will not really have time for any major design work during this period. I may possibly do some more work on this map or a new simular one during the summer...but nothing major and i do not want to commit to a joint effort right now because of my limited computer time.
Many thanks for your offer to help out though
Best regards/ Glubokii Boy
2022, the Year In Preview!
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It would offcourse be nice to be able to use old maps and stuff...But i would actually prefer if BFC aims to improve things as much as possible and not be 'locked' to some compability demand with CM2.
With an improved map editor in CM3 map design will hopefully be more streamlined
I don't want a CM2.5 or something...i want a CM3...