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    Lost my account

    in CM2 General Tech Support

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    Hello all - I have access to my forum account (obviously) and have raised a ticket in the helpdesk so I'm sure they will eventually get around to helping me. However if there is a chance you good folks can help me get access so I can close that ticket to avoid wasting their time even better.

    It's been a long time since I last tried to login (or even play) and download combat mission (I own pretty much every single game), but I got the itch this week after watching some UsuallyHapless on youtube. I tried logging in but couldn't for the life of me remember either my username or password. The password reset requires you to have your email and username. I then found an email from 2013 with my 'account details' that contained a username which was the first 25 characters of my email and a random generated defunct password. Armed with this I then attempted to put my username and email into the reset only to find it limited to 24 characters - a little devtools edit later and I submitted the form with my username and email according to that 2013 message. Still got a no username/email address found.
    Is it possible there was a database/website change and somehow my account has been murdered or put to sleep?

    Thanks and apologies.

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    SPLIT FROM: Black Sea Update Thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by PeterH

    Continuing the naughty yet entertaining off-topic discussion..

     

    I love Arma 3, but I really dislike the Vanilla setting and therefore campaign etc. The very best experiences in Arma 3 come from playing it online with a group of folk who play it tactically. The game is so powerful (similar to CM in terms of their seriousness) that small-unit tactics work in their engine. Fireteam bounding keeps you alive whereas blind charges will fill you with holes.

     

    I have quite a few videos of playing the Arma series with a group called United Operations, they are an open community that tries to promote realism. This video is where I am leading a severely under strength platoon in an ill fated assault on an enemy fortified position https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoHQ5yleOaU Everyone on my side is a player, against computer controlled enemies. There were about 15-20 of us if I remember correctly. The server currently peaks at about 70 players on a friday.

     

    I apologize in advance for my lack of knowledge and skill.

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    Plans for Special Forces in Future Releases

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

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    I have this vision of an epic campaign wherein a platoon minus of SAS recon units are stuck behind enemy lines trying to survive and make their way back to friendlies while an armored friendly push into the area to rescue them is conducted. Switching between a micro "escape" style mission using sneaky tactics and generally trying to stay alive and onto a grand mass assault into enemy front lines and back would be very cool.

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    sell on Steam?

    in Combat Mission Black Sea

    Posted · Edited by PeterH

    Am I missing something?  That article looked like a shallow summary of this thread and offered no additional info on how great it would be on steam.  Absolutely no offense intended @astano BTW.

     

    I am still scanning through the comments in case there is value there - so far not really.  I have to admit I don't understand peoples' position who insist they will only buy games via steam. 

     

    Then again people often look at me strangely when I explain my position that I will not buy subscription software.  I respect your decision - it is yours.  I don't expect Adobe will change their position to only offer subscription licensing for some of their software though.  The key is respect. Adobe and I disagree and I have told them so - once.  I respect their decision and that is that.  They respected me by taking me off their mailing list :D

    Just because you do not understand their position does not mean their position is in any way wrong. If Battlefront did go on steam I for one would hope that they kept their own store online for people such has yourself who would prefer not to be on steam.

    In terms of my own humble opinion (and here I mean that as I will only be giving my own certain knowledge) I won't try to make a judgement on whether or not steam will increase Battlefront's revenue. I as a customer would very much appreciate the ability to have all of my combat mission games on steam, auto-updating with easy access to mods and a nice hub for community. Maybe even support for a more fully realized multiplayer. The ability to review the games on a platform of millions is also helpful, and I would be giving extremely positive ones at that. Simply put for my own very selfish reasons I would urge Battlefront to keep considering this as an option, even if it is just to keep folk like me happy.

    For those mumbling and grumbling about "back in my day we used to write code to open applications" and "wow you are so lazy with your auto-updates what is the world coming to" you need to get a grip. Less time having to edit my games means more time to actually play them, see my friends, work and or better yet create something myself. It is not lazy to prefer not having to do these tasks, it is very much in human nature and I guarantee you will struggle to find many outside of your own age group who agree with you. I worry that when I get old, experienced and wise I will become stuck in my ways but never before have I seen a community so rigidly sticking to its ways. Though to be fair that is also precisely the reason I enjoy interacting here so much, the general level of respect and humor is usually ace. Aside from the rather pitiful showing in this thread so far.

     

    @Steve The fact that this thread is shown in the"ye olde wargaming" section of a games news website reputed to be more old fashioned in their approach to media shows that this subject is of special interest to a large group of people. There is definitely a call for this, is it time to go and do a little more research?

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