Sivodsi Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Ok, we got T72, Drop team, now les Grognards. Which one is the closest to what CMX2 will be? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 None. Well, Les Grognards in the sense that it has historical tactical battles. But other than that, it is a very different design. Why do you even ask? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted August 10, 2005 Author Share Posted August 10, 2005 "Why do you even ask?" for that matter, why do you even answer? With all these new games coming out from the battlefront stable it seems reasonable to ask to what extent they have an influence on the (to me anyway) biggie of them all. Does that seem unreasonable to you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Originally posted by Sivodsi: Does that seem unreasonable to you? Well, yes as a matter of fact. Different design teams, using different game engines. Not obvious there should be any reason for there to be much influence of one on any other. The only things those games have in common is the publisher and some development help from the publisher's employees. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 There's just too great differences in the game designs for any meaningful influence to occur. Of course, when Charles and Steve et al have a look at these games, maybe they will pick up some innovations. But they might just as well do so whilee playing Rome: Total War or Half Life 2. Besides, until we have seen the next CM game, it is quite impossible to know what it will be like. Even with my ÜberIntuition. My only prediction is that the next generation will be more like the previous generation than it will be like T-72, DropTeam or les Grognards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buq-Buq Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 Gee, for a moment I thought that perhaps "les Grognards" WAS CMX2 . . . Mark 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonxa Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 Well, I would say that perhaps the combination of DropTeam and LesGrogs rule out that CMX2 will have any of those settings (that would be over doing it wouldn't it?). But then there are several small hints that it'll be a combined arms setting, which is what I would expect anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Originally posted by Bonxa: Well, I would say that perhaps the combination of DropTeam and LesGrogs rule out that CMX2 will have any of those settings (that would be over doing it wouldn't it?).You couldn't have been more wrong. We all know now that the first module will be about French vs. Space Lobsters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarkus Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Originally posted by Sergei: We all know now that the first module will be about French vs. Space Lobsters. Talk about asymetrical warfare. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moronic Max Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 French vs. Space Lobsters on a terraformed moon that suffered major civil wars and technological regression--that's why the French are using Napoleonic weapons and tactics again. I think CMx2 will be closest to Starcraft, with the A-rabs standing in for the Zerg, the US Army for the Protoss, and the USMC (in the module) for the Terrans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Yeh yeh, we know, whole differet game engine. But for months I've been looking over Drop Team's terrain maps or local textured surfaces and thinking "Could this approximate CMSF's look?" Or would ToW look more like the finished product? I know, we're committing heresy trying to compare 'apples & oranges'. But we're starved for info here. Like the starving guy on the desert island who looks at his companion and imagines a big fried chicken - we're so starved that we'relooking at the other games and imagining juicy CMSF bones. [ October 25, 2006, 03:01 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassh Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 French vs. Space Lobsters A bit one-sided. French TO&E: 1x pan/fish kettle 1x bottle cooking vine blanc 1x stove 1x batch Beurre monte seasoning Finish with the coup de grace 1x bottle Sancerre. Yum yum. Bon appetite! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 From the recent screenshots it looks like we were all WRONG. CMSF isn't going to resemble Drop Teams or ToW at all. CMSF is going to resemble... CM! At least the Alpha build does. And I mean that in a good way. Some games try so hard the display starts to look muddy and confusing. CMSF - at least the CMSF build they're giving us a peek at - has a 'crisp' look to it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moronic Max Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 You're wrong. Go look at the screeies again. It's exactly like Starcraft. Exactly, I say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNathan Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Originally posted by Moronic Max: You're wrong. Go look at the screeies again. It's exactly like Starcraft. Exactly, I say. So it's gonna be crap? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Originally posted by TheNathan: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Moronic Max: You're wrong. Go look at the screeies again. It's exactly like Starcraft. Exactly, I say. So it's gonna be crap? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moronic Max Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Hey, I was being silly for the sake of being silly; wasn't 'raining' on anybody. Or at least wasn't intending to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 Hey guys, its not a big deal. When I wrote it I wasn't sure of the relationship between the different developers and it seemed reasonable to me that some sharing of ways and means would go on. Its only slightly embarrassing that a thread that I started a year or so ago resurfaced like some monster from the deep. So, MM, no offense taken (or indeed from anybody else), and Colin, thanks for your support, though it wasn't really necessary. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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