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You seem to know this region so well that you will even better chose good “Pivnica” Yes. There is more than enough large battles in the Eastern front that CM even with current engine can last until the BFC crew retirement. While on topic, I brainstormed niche of the niche, CMWW (Woman's Wars)? Yup! My mother music choice and as always there are problem with those youngsters. But we all must grow up and for Christmas with family Brian Setzer Orchestra will do a perfect job. And to topic. I saw in Chris Bulge teaser that snow is falling just fine, but environment seems to be rudimentary especially as there is no CM trademarked rich summer foliage. Having Your own game engine is probably sometimes a headache but it’s also a big part of the CM magic. So regarding the time/ resources available and that we can’t have Unreal engine graphic and probably doesn’t need one, for middle terms I have few technical suggestions, if it's possible: - To leave at least one more picture shader call open so we can add antialiasing over War movie shaders. Maybe If it’s possible to loading them only if they exist in “z” folder or leave them with no calculations. This way BFC will not upset older customers with older machines. I see what they are listening - can’t imagine trying to sell them new CM where the largest news would be “physically based MG shading” and “dynamicaly tessellated snow King Tiger” . - Leave options for terrain normal maps (devoted community can do the job). - Maybe add specular maps or some other improvement as a option for vehicles (again community can play with mods and basic CM will not have problems). - Leave option for larger mini ground textures (newer machines will not have problems with this). - Gave us one more picture effect shader (or few more uniforms/ functions) so community can try even more fancy stuff. What can we do? World is changing and is changing fast. Again, those are only suggestion and this doesn’t matter much for people who will play CM anyway, but keep in mind that prices of pivo here are not as they were 25 years ago, so BFC must attract as much new customers as it can until summer comes .

Even more south, closer to the last battlefronts, but I think You will agree that anything near Adriatic sea is perfectly fine (Bled included). Until chatting I was thinking about preparing CM Balkan/Greece initial design documents but stopped after finding 3 basic flaws: - Milan’s voice. - Not much armour battles in the theatre. - Will have it’s followers but not commercially feasible (small core market with not good records regarding piracy) Indus bag??? Things are even worse at the BFC headquarter than I thought. Must go off topic again cause I have just been listening radio show about Helsinki Conference that begins with the story about The Plastic People of the Universe, forming of the Charter 77 and how they used Helsinki Accord to defend band members human rights. The most upside down part is that the Helsinki Accord agreement was in the beginning Molotov idea. It is sometimes hard to explain and forgotten what “rock music” meant in Eastern/ Southeastern Europe in that times. And on one another thread I was complaining about politicisation of the forum . Btw There is a music topic http://community.battlefront.com/topic/120791-music/?page=1 And it would be better if someone here knows Justin Bieber. Who knows? Maybe he is secret CM fan. Only one CM Bulge T-shirt and... On topic. Actually off topic for most of the players but I'm interested will there be a snow shader updates in the Bulge?

And if only You can than arrange CM Bulge PBEM with DAR vs Milan, than we can got this thread to some constructive posting

Steve can send You LP

Now that's strange Yeah. Where have all the good music gone? Actually a little bit south of Ljubljana, but growing up behind the Curtain walls (even the light version) and living under the never-ending transition, unlike modern generations, I learned to be a bit paranoid about privacy Anyway, to not hijack this thread, if You ever again come to sneak peek this region and want to drink a good pivo, or to discuss unknown music PM me Živjeli!

@rocketman Regarding first post, yes, 1 comment per 100 downloads is actually 10 times above industry average and only real way for more feedback is if CM has more and more players. On Your side - where is the link for scenario in the first post? And You know how hard is to find search button on PG And btw scenario is really good. No problems or bugs, only I just don't know how to assault that bridge!

As someone who has luck to have cmmods cover page for 10 days because no one uploaded anything in the meantime and one other mode, that I worked for weeks, only few hours on the front page - what to say? Is it fair? No. Are the rules same for everyone? Yes. Should there be a some kind of stuff picked content? Yes. Would that be fair? No Is the FTP download server with search function and organized folders perfectly fine for long time CM users? Probably Yes. Are there are missing things like upload updates, better positioned search field, categories, ratings etc. Yes I recommend stuff picked content for mods that go unnoticed, search field on top and only list when user select sub category or top downloads showing only top for that category. For Proving Grounds and Scenario Depot it would be good to have a few more screenshots or even better YouTube scenario presentation... But to be fair new site is TEN times better than the old one. It also serves as a great presentation for new CM players of the richness of community created content. And finally, if all of this is one Bootie volunteered show than only real thing that is missing is "Donate" button.

Take a rest and wish you good recovery.

unless you're playing with soviets :(

@Combatintman Thanks! Any good YouTube link to see this in practice

Not only that this game is weird but developers are under NSK influence And I was just asking myself why I found this strange little game so special.

@Bil Hardenberger Your blog is already small battlepedia. Can You recomend any battle drill for bridge assaults - having problems here, or my pixelmans with my orders

@kohlenklau maybe You just unintentionally discovered 1st Waffen SS-Fallschirmjägerbataillon Heidi K., top secret selling point of incoming CM Bulge.

@BLSTK Recording it - Yeah! @poesel Thanks, glad You like it - especially as music is my own. Memorable war movie moments in Apocalypse now with Jimi was inspiration

@RockinHarry Good discovery! Besides Aris great work there are limits with textures and modding. Especialy for snow and fog at -25ºC. I think You will like this: http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/ First Bulge teasers graphicaly doesn't look proomising but who knows maybe BF will miss one Tiger version and mod it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBeXRvdlmyY

Yeah! But what’s the answer for both parties in real world situation like this? When high tech goes down my bet is on sticky bombs

I first played this battle as a German and was thrilled when one of my StuGs destroyed column of T34 attacking on the right flank. Knowing what to except, playing the Soviet side, I spread T34s and managed to destroy two StuGs. When battle was considered over, the last of the StuGs appeared and in few minutes shoot five T34s! Even continuing from the saved games, as it was positioned down the road in the middle of the forest, I was unable to outflank and destroy him. Only by luck did T34 managed to disable him. I know this has been discussed many times but this machine keeps impressing me. Mods: War Movie ADVANCED mode for CMBN: http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2747 + Aris vehicles mods: http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?cat=15

@bruce90 & @delliejonut Thanks and post results (daily sunshine scenarios please ) @massimoFGM Unfortunately, every game is special, but for example War movie ADVANCED mode for CMBN works great out of the box in CMRT: stock CMBN textures in CMRT + Aris vehicles + War movie ADVANCED for CMBN ( http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2747 ) For CMFI my best bet is still FXShine 2.03 ( http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2586 )

I encountered this strange situation. And this can go on forever. T90 had already immobilised main 125mm gun. Why Bradley can’t fire AT TOW and can Infantry inside vehicles resolve this stalemate?

@Reiter I guess it’s time for monthly mods - z folder cleanup I'm finding that I have, even myself made, tons of mods duplicated and conflicting each other. There are many things that can conflict each other, and totaly change the look of the game (terrain, sky, clouds etc). You need 2 mods 1. War movie ADVANCED for CMBS: http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2691& + 2. War movie ADVANCED Enhancement MegaPack for CMBS: http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2714 But first remove all other mods, then install those 2. You will hopefully get something like this. Then add other mods one by one and see what You will get. You can then tweak shaders to suit Your own preference. But anyway great video!

@rss334 Welcome! As a relative newcomer I can say that it was the first thing that turns me off, but sadly I don’t notice it anymore You have demos for all Combat mission games (with weeks of gameplay btw) Few latest ones - CM Black Sea: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=340&Itemid=584 CM Red Thunder: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=332&Itemid=572 And there are tons of mods at http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=314 and http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net .They work in demos too, so nothing is stoping You to try it.

@Euri I think on PC at least You can force antialiasing in ATI and NVidia control panel community.battlefront.com/topic/121227-amd-graphics-settings#comment-1639230

1 guy, hobby gameDev, enjoying time it takes to add a little spice to this unknown jewellery Actually BF needs to keep on, cause regarding the current situation in the game industry, it seems impossible, at least in the West, for game like CM to appear again. - For small team, with all the knowledge, advancements in developer tools, passion, hard working, sweat and tears, it will still take years to bring something of near quality. Remember that CM is in development for more than 15 years - For large teams if, for some unknown reason, big money investor loose his minds and decide that there is a money to be made in serious wargaming, it would probably bring some disgusting features like: buy Sherman for $1 and Panther for $5; summer special - 20 Eastern front Tiger decals, only $10! (Steve would like this ) - Don't believe in crowdfunding for this type of game neither. Another route for BF is Unreal-time Strategy genre that requires only 300 clicks per seconds. Good games - nothing personally, but I was shocked when I tried few “what younger market wants” war games. Regarding modding, as much as I liked this, it's not always good to have open system. How many different modded grass and grain textures (few in the game, but occupying 50% of the screen) You must have in mind when doing shaders modding? Another Steve conquered the world with closed standardised “look and feel” system. But it's probably route to go for a small niche with devoted community. It probably doesn’t have to be niche that You must search on the edges of the Internet, and than go trough scary buying process on some obscure web site (only 10 downloads per year? - fury is coming on this ). After all war and humans are inseparable but that’s the story for another threads and totally OffTopic. Thanks! @Rinaldi You really push vanilla CM to the max. Imagine Your screenshots with the War movie ADVANCED mode