killmore Posted January 22, 2000 Share Posted January 22, 2000 Looking over the Steve's comments I noticed that he mention that they will try to do multiplayer spawning last. He also mentioned they have not started working on it. I estimate multiplayer spawning to take at least a week to implement and couple of days to test. So my comment is: There will be no release for at least two more weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS_PanzerLeader Posted January 22, 2000 Share Posted January 22, 2000 TCP/IP was voted to be patched, so hopefully your prediction on the time frame will have no effect on CM'S release ------------------ SS_PanzerLeader....out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Capt_Manieri Posted January 22, 2000 Share Posted January 22, 2000 Basically, I think that they'll probably be done with the game in about three weeks. That's my prediction. Then it's off to the replicators..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killmore Posted January 22, 2000 Author Share Posted January 22, 2000 I guess I could exchange email files between two machines. But if I cannot run without the CD then multiplayer will be useless to me. (I am too impatient to email). I would love to play with firends at my house! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardb Posted January 22, 2000 Share Posted January 22, 2000 If I know my luck I'll probably have my copy two weeks or something after US residents. That's the hardest thing for me, knowing CM is being played just not in Scando-land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted January 22, 2000 Share Posted January 22, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by killmore: I guess I could exchange email files between two machines. But if I cannot run without the CD then multiplayer will be useless to me. (I am too impatient to email). I would love to play with firends at my house!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You can play on a single machine... hotseat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamo Posted January 23, 2000 Share Posted January 23, 2000 I hate to say it guys, but I honestly wouldn't expect to see CM until at least May. From comments made here it seems they still have an awful lot of work to do and work takes time. I think anything earlier than that would be wishful thinking on both their and our part. I think May at the earliest...Late May. "They're Ok, the last days of May..." Zamo Going to put on a certain album by a certain band few of you children probably have ever heard of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiloIndiaAlpha Posted January 23, 2000 Share Posted January 23, 2000 Who/ Glen Miller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 Just remember a couple of month ago we were all hoping for a pre-holiday release. As much as I hate to say it I figure it will be late February before the game is sent to the replicators. ------------------ Visit my Combat Mission for Mac page! With all off CCJ's tweaked textures for Mac! cm4mac.tripod.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeathome Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 Y'know I'd be quite happy for a later release - say April I have exactly zero disposable income right now, and I'd hate to be reading all your posts about the wonderful features of the full game and not to have it myself!! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Capt_Manieri Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 late February........ definitley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick CAN Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 Oh I hope so Capt! May seems so far away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Capt_Manieri Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 I used my generative deduction...3 weeks is definetly when they'll have things squared away. Now, if you're talking about how long it takes to get CDs produced and packages ready to ship, that's another story......... (I know, it makes my heart sink too, just like when I heard Steve's comments about production thus far) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civdiv Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 You will hate me for this but I hope CM gets released around April 8th. Don't shoot me, just my preference. I'm in a pretty intense year-long military school, and I graduate on the 13th, and actually leave for my new posting on the 20th. April 8th will give them time to ship it to me, and then off I go for 25 days vacation. If it gets released before that I may flunk out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamo Posted January 24, 2000 Share Posted January 24, 2000 I think it will officially be released April 20th to coincide with the birthday of certain famous people. Not to insinuate that the guys at BTS are fans of his. I am. I love the guy. With all my heart. Come on now, who's birthday could I be talking about? April 20th? That's right! You guessed it: Tito Puente ! Also George Takei and Clint Howard... How could anybody not be fans of these guys? And therefor it would be the perfect day for those nutty guys at BTS to release it. I can only think of one birthday on that day which would be inappropriate...Hmmm, no matter. No one of any historical importance. Zamo, tongue firmly in cheek PS and no, this should NOT be interpreted to mean I am a fan of the unmentioned one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galland0 Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 Well I know it will be out this year, but I'm also waiting on B17II and IL2 Sturmovik. I love military history from all angles. Looking forward to sinking some allied shipping with Silent Hunter II as well. I must say the developers of CM have been the most intrested in us, the customers.That fact and the board which I scan everyday make the waiting much better. The truth is I've found most the answers to questions I've had about the game by simply reading the posts. Scanning thru a days posts with a cup of coffee takes me about 45min to an hour. Thats time I'd normally be playing a 3d shooter or someone else's wargame or sim. Personally I hope Charles and Steve really shake the hell out of the gaming companies, cause we really do want to see those other theaters in CM don't we Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 Yeah, Galland, you hit on something I agree with. My morning routine now includes a breeze through the site. Between a cup of coffee, laughing at the latest good joke, and writing a post or two, it helps get me awake enough to shave safely. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MantaRay Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 Well Zamo, you can say Hitler here. I have to thank him for being such a great Military Genius. Without his brilliant leadership, we wouldnt have such a fine game to wait for. We may be waiting for Kombat Amerika, instead of Combat Mission. Ray And yes, this post was made in jest!!! ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Charlie 228 Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 Do you guys really dislike Hitler?? I mean, sure he lost the war, but he's not such a bad guy...no, I mean it! I mean, like no worse than most of the other dictators.... Anyway, I thought wargamers liked him! What ever happened to those storied gaming conventions from the '70s where somebody would inevitably show up looking like Hitler or some SS fellow? Hitler was a genius. He just had like five different countries stacked against him. Well, stress gets to even the best of us after a while. Like I'm going nuts waiting for CM!!! What did I just say???? I believe it, but I can't believe I've actually admitted it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 Wow, are you serious DC 228 or just suffering from severe CM withdrawl? Don't worry pal, we've all been there. After a while, even Stalin starts looking like a kool dude and Ronald Regan like a good actor and a wize President. Actually, Hitler was a political genious, and he should have left it at that. He managed to defeat all of those nations (Poland, France, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Greece) mostly because they were all politically divided, and were invaded separately over the span of 2 years. Sure, Czechoslovakia and Austria were political masterpieces. If you can overlook Hitler's evilness, such as the Persecution of the Jews, Gypses, and any other undesireable along with waging a massive war of aggression he is pretty loveable, with that fuzzy little mustashe and the geeky greased hair. However, when I tend to see the Nazi overlords on documentaries (Hitler, Georing, Gobels, and the Skipper too) they appear to me as gangsters, or petty theives. They just give that appearance to me, just plain trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Capt_Manieri Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 If Hitler wasin't so hellbent for the campaign to end the Jews, he might have won the war.....seriously!! When he made the Nuremberg laws into effect, he forced certain Jews to leave Germany....smart Jews. Albert Einstein ring a bell? He ould have created the Atomic omb for Germany......then who knows what the final result of the war could have been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta Charlie 228 Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 Herr Major, all seriousness aside, I have to wonder what it was that Hitler did that was so bad. I mean, even the Jews practiced genocide, if we are to believe the Holy Scriptures (I mean, even the Germans had "Gott mit uns!"), which form the basis of their/our religion/identity. Anyway, no one in Germany today is arguing whether Charlemangne slaughtered seven hundred or seven thousand Saxons farmers for the Holy Roman Empire. I mean, if it weren't for genocide, where would the U.S. be today? No, really, sometimes I suppose one must take the long view. Too bad for the natives, but...hey, we've got the internet and stuff nowadays! Stuff we'd not likely to have had under a less advanced ciilization, etc. "War is the father of all things." Capt'n Manny, I agree; in fact, the Japs (sorry, Wesy) thought it was wierd for their Master Race partner to persecute fellow white Jews, who it seemed would have made better allies than enemies, given their mythic clutch on the world economy, whatever! The strategic outlook is perhaps best exemplified by a comparison of Western chess with Chinese Wei Chi-derived Japanese Go: the object is to surround one's enemies, rather than annihilate them...etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 DC, just because about every nation did something similar doesn't make it right. Frankly, even as a Canadian I am distressed by our treatment of the Amerindians. The way the Americans and Canadians treated Japanese Americans or Japanese Canadians was also untolerable. I mean, imprisoning someone who is just as loyal as everyone else only because their family history had some lose connection to your present enemy is totally and absolutely pathetic. Where do we stop? If it is ok to genocide Jews because they did it in the past (In Theory) whose to say that someone else (African American or Amerindian) doesn't have the justification to take all your property, sell you into slavery and kill you for looking at someone the wrong way. You are borderlinging on a very dangerous topic here DC, if I were you I would be offering appoligies for your uneducated remarks and end it here. [This message has been edited by Major Tom (edited 01-24-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Capt_Manieri Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 *raises hand* Agree. The jews in Germany in the 1930s had no control what their ancestors did hundreds or thousands of years before their time. That doesn't justify genocide. If anybody should be killed in mass, it should be the einsatzengruppen or Waffen SS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted January 25, 2000 Share Posted January 25, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>If anybody should be killed in mass, it should be the einsatzengruppen or Waffen SS.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Your HS education is showing through. There is a world of difference between the two groups you mention above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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