Ranger33 Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Hey guys, I ventured over here from the CM forums after listening to the recent, excellent WWI podcasts from Dan Carlin, which really upped my interest in the conflict, and decided to take the plunge into the world of SC. I bought the WWI+Breakthrough bundle, but when I downloaded it, Chrome immediately flagged it as malware and gave some pretty strong warnings when I considered running it anyway. I've never seen this pop up before from any website, including Battlefront, which I've downloaded other stuff from recently. I'm assuming this is a false alarm, but just to play it safe I thought I would ask here first if there is some kind of issue going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Well, I grew impatient and went ahead with the installation. No problems, as I expected. I'll ask a couple other questions so this thread isn't a complete waste: There are several campaigns in the base game which I don't see when running Breakthrough, are they compatible? Could I just move the files over to the Breakthrough folder? Seems odd to not have them all together. My base game appears to be version 1.07 and Breakthrough is 1.02, so do I just need the 1.05 patch for Breakthrough? Any tips on how to get started with the game? I'm reading a couple AAR's, is there a good starting campaign to get a grip on the basics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Cater Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Hi Ranger33, Welcome aboard Sounds like your WWI game is up to date and yes you would just need to patch to v1.05 for Breakthrough to be fully up to date there. Unfortunately there were too many game engine changes added to the Breakthrough Add-On that the older WWI campaigns are not compatible and simply dropping them into the Breakthrough campaign folder won't do the trick. We did update some of the more popular ones from WWI to include in Breakthrough but after that Breakthrough simply contains many new and great campaign additions. To get started I would highly recommend reading the AARs as you've done as well as to take a look at these threads: Information for New Players: http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=107356 New Features (Breakthrough): http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=95162 For campaigns, some of my personal favourites for the smaller campaigns would be the following: WWI 1915 Gallipoli 1918 Megiddo Breakthrough 1915 Siege of Kut 1916 Verdun And then for a very nice medium sized campaign I would highly recommend the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. Once you are feeling comfortable with any of these then a crack at the much larger and detailed main campaigns such as 1914 Call To Arms should provide you with a great feeling and overview of the entire war. Happy gaming Hubert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Thanks for the info! I look forward to really getting into this game. It really has a nice balance of depth and playability, plus a ton of scenarios. As an experiment I put the Gallipoli campaign in Breakthrough this morning and it loaded fine, but I suppose problems could crop up later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger33 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Share Posted September 11, 2014 Took your advice and tried out the 1918 Megiddo campaign, came away with a major victory as the British! I actually managed to completely wipe out the Ottomans and Germans. Probably just beginners luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill101 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Sounds historically accurate Ranger33! Welcome aboard and have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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