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  1. Bulletpoint
    You don't need to put it simpler, because we already understand this quite well. Nobody here is arguing that we want to sit in one position for a long time and shrug off hits.
  2. Bulletpoint
    Kind of funny you would say that, just after you said:
  3. Bulletpoint
    Good explanation. Also, the tank sights might not be perfectly calibrated, so even if you did manage to line up the sight at exact centre mass, you might still be a bit off. I think this would also depend on the distance to the target.
  4. Bulletpoint
    Good post, +1
  5. Bulletpoint
    I think you are misunderstanding a bit here. It's the other way around: I don't want that my Panther should be invincible when I place it on a hilltop in full view. I prefer that the game reward me for playing tactically correct and going hull down, instead of punishing me for it.
  6. Bulletpoint
    Actually he doesn't have much of a point, because the original poster asked for a feature like the Graviteam games have. And those games have just as complex LOS calculations as Combat Mission, with each individual crewmember spotting, etc. You can even toggle on a mode that shows you which vision slit each of the crew is looking out of at any given moment. Yet Graviteam also has a feature to draw a map of the total field of view of any given unit.
  7. Bulletpoint
    Nobody here is assuming that, Mikey. Please read the thread instead of assuming basic incompetence.
  8. Bulletpoint
    I agree with you. Just trying to help mentioning a couple of the things that can cause this to happen. Another thing is that the unseen tank seems to be in a ditch - possibly giving it a higher chance to remain unseen.
  9. Bulletpoint
    There's an element of chance to spotting. It's perfectly possible to have LOS to two tanks and only spot one of them. Then later lose sight of that one and spot the other, etc. Also, it can be because there is foliage blocking the LOS to the second tank. It's not really clear from your video, because we only see the receiving end.
  10. Bulletpoint
    Just for the record, I'm fine with the game not being perfect. I'm just trying to help it improve. When I report bugs and discuss various issues, it is not an insult or attack on the developers or anyone on this forum. I'm happy to be proven wrong - when I am in fact wrong - but it needs to be based on actual arguments, not just assuming I don't know how to play the game.
  11. Bulletpoint
    How is having a calm discussion about how the game works "being a jerk"? Do you think anything will improve if nobody dares to discuss the game? If you want to be of any value in this thread, try to read the many constructive posts made by RobZ and others, where they provide data from actual tests of what happens in various situations.
  12. Bulletpoint
    I think you need to have a programmer on board who will work on this project as a hobby - at least until you can present something tangible. Look at how the mod teams for many games are putting in a lot of hours just out of love for the game. Not very helpful, I know
  13. Bulletpoint
    Brens are good, but I find the 51mm mortars have too little ammo to do any real suppression. I think it helps to think of playing CW as putting the game on hard mode. Take it as a challenge.
  14. Bulletpoint
    And flechettes are not banned by international convention.
  15. Bulletpoint
    Another good photo of a tank barrel shot through from the side. Had not seen this one before. Thanks. Still hoping someone will find a pic of a penetration from a shot coming from the front of the tank.
  16. Bulletpoint
    From the same book you link to: "Units without mutual support are doomed. Mutually supported units protect each other from being fixed or assaulted." Remember to compartmentalize the battlespace - find the places that can be isolated from the rest of the battle, due to woods, buildings, hills, smoke, fog, etc. and then focus on those. As you found, it's no good being able to suppress three buildings in front of you, if your assault team can take fire from other positions on the sides as they cross the open ground.
  17. Bulletpoint
    I think maybe it might be the opposite actually - because they know they won't be able to carry the additional ammo? In other cases, it's because the downed buddy is actually not in the same action square. It can be difficult to see exactly where they are. Using the casualty marker base as a reference works better than looking at the location of the pixelbody.
  18. Bulletpoint
    I didn't know that either. But I wonder if it's true.
  19. Bulletpoint
    What is the resolution of your monitor? I'm asking because I had a similar problem with a completely different game that expected the monitor to have a different resolution and refused to run because of that.
  20. Bulletpoint
    Yes, I understand that the engine goes way back and was never programmed by a big software company with an army of employees. But I'd love to see a CM based on modern computer hardware some day.
  21. Bulletpoint
    Does it refuse to even start the game at all, or does it crash during gameplay? What graphics card do you have?
  22. Bulletpoint
    To understand something, it helps to read the arguments first, instead of just dismissing them as stupid.
  23. Bulletpoint
    If you didn't understand my post, there's not much more I can do to help you.
  24. Bulletpoint
    My impression is that at least some of the performance problems in CM are due to the engine constantly loading and reloading textures, sounds etc. from the harddrive, instead of just caching them on game load. I'm no computer expert, but I base this hunch on how the game often seems to drop down to minimal graphics detail (texture quality/draw distance) for a moment, stuttering a lot, then redrawing the graphics. The problem of general lowish FPS might be some bottlenecks with the geometry rendering stressing the CPU. Which could be the reason we are seeing performance depend so much on single-core speed. I'm wondering if it's partly because of a lack of LOD scaling. Vehicles and trees have levels of detail, but I don't think the infantry have? Which would explain why big city maps such as Aachen with loads of buildings and trees are generally playable, but if I play a couple of battalions on open steppe, performance drops like a stone.
  25. Bulletpoint
    You seem to confuse this game with reality. In reality, hull down is a good thing for any AFV. In this game, it's a bad thing for certain tanks. But play it your way.
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