Bubba883XL

Not even finished loving my creation and you Wana blow it to hell already! 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍💪 Fighting talk engage!! Lmao

revised terrain based on your input, i see what you mean. a meter here or there certainly changes it enough to not look drastic as back in CM1 days lol... main area that i've added some to is the beach and church area..might be hard to see..

giving it a go, not exactly historical, but i think it will kinda give you the impression... lots more to do! 

I often get this. No idea what is going on. I assume it's because the call time isn't actually a guarantee, just a best guess.

The only surviving crew member of a PSW 223 walks to the rear as other platoons head for the front to fight on information provided by his recon.  

MP44 in action.

I'm shocked to hear you say most people play the game from high up in the air and rarely look at the game close-up and see its visual detail. To me Combat Mission's most appealing aspect is the ability to watch events unfold on a macro scale in WEGO, then repeat the go 1, 2, or 3 times and watch interesting events unfold from the perspective of single vehicles and even individual soldiers. For me that's the core of its uniqueness and charm.

Well said, agreed.

Friday afternoon and finally off video conference calls.  Gawd I both love Zoom and hate it.
There are lots of reasons for delay and for those of us who have been around a while it is a constant joke on Steve's ability to wildly overestimate when a product will be out.  We love ya steve but I always double or triple your estimates.    Covid has impacted all of us and I really appreciate Combatintman's concerns.  My wife and I both have aging mother's that are very vulnerable.  In my case I can't visit her because of the risk, my wife is unable to even assume risk, she is simply prohibited.  Despite all the fluff from the orange man, a vaccine is a ways off and even then we are looking at manufacturing and distribution - and a possible mutation.  From a work perspective my job has gotten extremely time consuming and difficult and I barely even have time to play CM much less beta test it. For Steve etal sure they had requirements for their other contracts as well as trying to patch all the titles for various issues continue work on modules and deal with their personal lives.  Right now if anything we should all be giving each other leeway to deal with a difficult time.  Freakin sky is at least not yellow here today with smoke forcing everyone indoors.  I have a bottle of wine, some sashimi grade seafood was just delivered, my wife is healthy and it is the weekend.  I'll take it.

I had a quick look at the reviews on steam, there sure are a lot of angry nerds with a giant chip on their shoulder. Several reviews with less than an hour played, which means they had bought the game before and went through the hassle of registering their steam key just to leave a negative review. The thing is, in spite of it, the overall score was positive when I checked so that's quite good really.

Since Combat Mission has launched on Steam, many people have been thrilled with its arrival as well as the possibilities it offers, including improved MP support. However, it seems there is a group/segment bent on reducing their overall rank/score. One major negative review managed to garner 28 awards (not too subtle) . So, to give Battlefront a helping hand, everyone here needs to leave a positive review to help counteract those efforts.

A standing joke of mine is one day BFC will abandon us and go for a big 'cash grab' making My Little Pony iphone games for the Japanese schoolgirl market.

Partisans, interesting.  It'd be like shock force, very interesting.  There will be partisans in F&R?  I would like to attack an armored train.
But I am most looking forward to the battles in Hungary.  Serious heavy weapons, snow, mud,  soviets bristling w AT guns facing tiger 2s.  Epic. 

In the General Discussion section: Interview with the Founder of Battlefront.com & Combat Mission

For God's sake...

The pipeline after RT, per Steve:
CM Final Blitzkrieg Module.  This will take the Western Front from the Rein to the Elbe. CM Black Sea Module.  Picture US Marines, Ukrainian VDD, and  Russia VDV forces added to the mix. CM Red Thunder Battle Pack.  A bunch of battles for the late Summer 1944 time period was started a while back and is now moving forward again. At least one more Battle Pack, yet to be determined.

One problem with a 'public' bug reporting system (using publically submitted bugs) is how much duplication there is in reporting and the quality of that reporting. Even among the beta-testers this happens on occasion. This causes a bit of 'noise' in the reporting, where the developer has to sort through the multiple reports trying to find the best or most workable reports. There is also the issue of attempting to confirm the bugs. Some issues may not be bugs or the details aren't sufficient to reproduce the problem and that clutters up the reporting system. With publically submitted bugs this can be a significant issue.
The closest thing that would be workable with a developer of this size is a public list of acknowledged bugs. This has its pitfalls too though, with the time it takes to resolve some bugs or even what is considered a bug and what isn't. This can give the perception that the game is buggy and will remain so in some customer's views.
 

Some shots from Bridgehead at Brandenburg.





 

Poor BFC has been afflicted with an excess of good fortune lately. Worse, its been good fortune on a deadline! Their original plans & schedules didn't factor in the British Ministry of Defense popping up out of nowhere. They certainly didn't anticipate CMSF2 being sold on Steam! Yes, there's solid progress being made on finishing-up Fire and Rubble, but its progress punctuated by unexpected absences as one person or another disappears for a bit to answer another emergency fire alarm. The latest fire alarm is the unexpected format change to the discussion forum (note the new emojis). 😱

Isn't the Scottish Corridor campaign Goodwood?

it's been a long time since I posted images!
unusual sight of a Sherman pilot

Yes correct. It would be a huge improvement if this could be implemented. I think well have to change mode to pbem for this reason which is sad when this otherwise excellent play mode exists.

Have fun you deserved it and is good and healhy to disconnect sometime...

giving it a go, not exactly historical, but i think it will kinda give you the impression... lots more to do!