Paulus

Hi !

What kind of engine improvements do you expect from the Bulge game ?
Do you wish that the performance and loading times get fixed ?

On my list are these technical and engine improvements:

- Overall Better Performance
- Reduce the loading times dramatically
- Get rid of all the old graphic glitches
- The ability to save turns as "replays"
- Fix the wind effect

- Use road command
- The ability for infantry to use differend spacings and formations
- Better/reworked (not so ugly) trenches and foxholes (a must-have for bulge)
- TacAI improvements for example better panic behavior
- Finally fix the use of bridges
- Real Deep snow terrain with a effect on tanks and vehicles
- Reworked UI that makes use of modern FullHD 16/9 screens
- Better Night combat effects and features like flares

What do you think, what real new features and fixes to you expect from the Bulge game ?
Oh, and why cant i start a poll anymore ?

this is like ww1 trench warfare, every side is dugg in, shooting arty at the otherside. quite unproductive, tough fun to read.

So what exactly does this mean in CM? I originally thought that it might just be round making it part of the way through the armor....but that would apply to just about any hit that doesn't penetrate.
 
So in a PP does some of the round make it through?

30 ton Sherman rams a 70 ton tiger at a possible max offroad speed of 19 mph and the tiger... bails?   At a range of 50 meters, from the rear, the sherman crew decides to load an HE round rather than an AP round?
 
The HE round is "devestating" to the crew inside?  

molotov_billy,
 
If you look at the photo, it's apparent not just that the King Tiger was rammed by the aforementioned Sherman, but that the actual strike zone was very small, concentrating the entire blow into a a tiny part of the overall side of the King Tiger. I'm not a physicist, but the resultant energy transfer was enormous. Very conservatively, let's say the Sherman wasn't going all that fast, so 12 mph. Weight is 33.4 short tons.  Since KE = 1/2 M x V*2, we wind up with 16.7 tons x 144, all hitting in, I estimate, something of the order of a square foot. Without warning. Nor is the blow something the suspension can do anything about, for this isn't a vertical impulse, but a lateral one. Because the King Tiger is so heavy, it doesn't slide under the impact, which means most of the energy of collision slams into the side of their has very little give steel box. I'll let someone else run the numbers. I have every confidence the impact force will far exceed the recoil force from firing the cannon. Examples of tank ramming. If impacting 88s at Gazala in the Western Desert rang the struck Grants like bells, can you imagine what a strike of the magnitude we're discussing must've been like from the inside? 
 
Regards,
 
John Kettler

Well I am not so sure. According to Chris's preliminary info no imortant changes/improvements to the gameplay will be introduced. The screenshots provided look no better than something you could achieve by a decent modding work basing on existing vehicles/terrain (e.g. kohlenklaus excellent mod). And here people are already wetting their pants because a couple of vehicles will be added in the new/separate/full priced release. Yeah and of course the 2 campaigns, some scenarios and new OOB. Well, CM is my favorite game title and I hardly play anything else, but if things remain as they are now in alpha and nothing will be added in later stages of development CM Bulge will be the first WWII title from BF I will not buy.
 
Just my two cents. Sorry that my opinion is not in line with those generally presented in this thread.