Magnum50 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Yes... I know I probably shouldn't be asking this, and probably won't get an official response... but heres to trying... lol... I know we got Commonwealth up and coming, and looking forward to that... but will we see a Eastern Front module for CMBN, or not... or maybe that will be a completely separate game... ? I ask with reason... Were looking into a contest and the prizes are all based on the Eastern Front of WW2... we have no appropriate prizes for the Western Front unfortunately. Thx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Completely separate game, and probably not even the next one. At the current rate of releases I'm guessing 2 years out at the absolute minimum. Probably more like 3-4. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Yes... I know I probably shouldn't be asking this, and probably won't get an official response... but heres to trying... lol... I know we got Commonwealth up and coming, and looking forward to that... but will we see a Eastern Front module for CMBN, or not... or maybe that will be a completely separate game... ? I ask with reason... Were looking into a contest and the prizes are all based on the Eastern Front of WW2... we have no appropriate prizes for the Western Front unfortunately. Thx Eastern Front will not be a module to CMBN. Modules are smaller releases that add additional units, plus maybe a few additional terrain features to an existing game, but do not move the game to an entirely new time period or theater. So modules to CMBN will stay within the general second half of 1944, Northwest Europe theater. Good news for us East Front fans is that, according to last information from BFC, a whole CMx2 East Front *game family* is planned. Last I read, plan was to start with a game centered around Summer 1944 - Bagration. I don't have any inside info on when to expect this game to come out, but I probably wouldn't expect it for a good 18 months - 2 years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum50 Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Thx... I fiquered... Oh well, we got to come up with some Eastern Front related prizes then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG TOW Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 It will be the chosen theatre of operation for the new engine....just guessen 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I understand the logistics re starting E. Front in '44, but man... what a shame. It would be so much more satisfying to battle one's way in from June '41. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pazuzusmiles Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I agree Erwin!Barbarossa to Berlin, the 1st Eastern Front software was epic in scale...u could fight whole thing from the first warm days of June to the final winter and horrors of '44-'45...but what do u men when u say: "I understand the logistics re starting E. Front in '44.." iS it gonna pick up chronologically from the calender western fronts being played on? man that would suck...I loved all the old school panzer 2's and 38T's all of which were just about obsolete or not used for field action by 1944.... but either way ill close by saying Battlefront rocks regardless....thanks for the intelligent games 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Maybe by the time BFC get around to developing the new game they would have had plenty of time to think about it. I would much prefer a game starting in 1941 personally. It makes much more sense to the consumer. But I also understand BFC's take on it. Maybe by then they will have implemented a new engine, and their reason behind releasing a 1944 game first will become invalid 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil stanbridge Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 but what do u men when u say: "I understand the logistics re starting E. Front in '44.." Basically BFC have stated that it is easier for them to produce a game starting in 1944 due to the fact a lot of the German units etc already in exist. It should speed up development somewhat. But I also believe by the time it gets round to it, maybe in 3 years I'd say, they would require a completely new engine by then anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Schultz Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The next engine will involve biometric feeedback that will deliver a small electric shock each time a soldier under your command dies. Properly aimed artillery barrages will have your opponent doing a jig in his chair, and may encourage smaller battles. - 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 ...maybe in 3 years I'd say, they would require a completely new engine by then anyway. Maybe, but I'm not so sure. My thought is that they will want to complete the next couple of game families with the current engine. Then, depending on how satisfied they are with the performance of the CMx2 engine, will decide on whether to stick with improvements of it or go for a totally new engine. A lot will depend on developments in computer technology between now and then and how far those developments have been adopted by their target audience. For the next 2-5 years I think rather than seeing CMx3 we are more likely to see CMx2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 The eastern front games will be run on a holographic gaming console that doubles as a coffee table. It will include an olfactory output as well. You will have the option of issuing verbal commands or just thinking what you want the units to do. Your units will curse you out personally if your leadership is getting them killed. We will all still complain that we can't tell what our units have LOS/LOF to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymru Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 The eastern front games will be run on a holographic gaming console that doubles as a coffee table. It will include an olfactory output as well. You will have the option of issuing verbal commands or just thinking what you want the units to do. Your units will curse you out personally if your leadership is getting them killed. We will all still complain that we can't tell what our units have LOS/LOF to. In five years the game will be a time machine that transports you back to 1941 as a tank commander. Losing a battle will hurt....real bad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG TOW Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I think BFC will keep the same engine for all upcoming modules and theatres. And when they are all done with that, they will re-release Normandy and call it Last Stand Normandy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 No, I think it will be called Screw It, We're Chucking It In. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herr_oberst Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I just want to hit the lottery so I can go to Steve and say "Hire me for $1 a year, and let me work on this game." UI, data, number crunching, whatever... can't be much harder than determining photometric yields on incident planes at varying distances from the light source (Illumination Engineering anyone?). Just don't ask me to do anything artistic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Jack Ripper Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I just want to hit the lottery so I can go to Steve and say "Hire me for $1 a year, and let me work on this game." I just want to hit the lottery so I can give many millions of dollars to Battlefront, and say 'make a combat mission game that goes from 1914 to 2014'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boche Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 The eastern front games will be run on a holographic gaming console that doubles as a coffee table. It will include an olfactory output as well. You will have the option of issuing verbal commands or just thinking what you want the units to do. Your units will curse you out personally if your leadership is getting them killed. We will all still complain that we can't tell what our units have LOS/LOF to. Imagine playing Real-time multiplayer with that baby! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 It already exists... it's called "enlisting". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCASWILLEN05 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 I would love to see a Russian Front CM but for this a three month time window as with Shockforce and Normmandy is too short for my tastes. If you have to split it up whsat about 3rd Kharkov to Berlin January 1943 to May 1945 and Barbarossa to Stalingrad June 1941 to December 1942 instead. You can probably use the same basic program as for Normandy and you will probably be using suitably ammended versions of the German graphics for the later period and obviouslty new Russian Front terrain graphics. Luke 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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