Battlefront.com Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 As of a week or so ago CMx2 now has a different system for Campaign saves. It is now possible to "upgrade" a Campaign while in progress to take advantage of fixes to scenarios not yet played. This allows for tweaking/fixing Campaigns after release without forcing people to have to restart from the beginning. If a player saves before each battle played then he can "upgrade" and restart from any of those points. As a bonus feature, the new format allows the saves to be much smaller than they currently are. This makes storage of multiple Campaigns easier on harddrive space and greatly eases bug reporting because save game file size should be small enough for everybody's ISPs. There are more improvements like this on the way, but this one will for sure be available when we release v1.20 along with the Brit Module. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Wow, even the Beta testers weren't aware of this! BCF does have a way of surprising everybody. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Will this affect PBEM file size as well? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 That's great news! I hate having to restart a campaign after a patch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Very nice. Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scipio Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I was able to use my Campaign saves after the patches anyway. Well, at least after the last patch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Yeah, there always is a chance that a save will work with a new patch. That's because very frequently the stuff that changes is very situationally dependent. Small patches tend to be safer than larger ones. Now it doesn't matter No effect on PBEM size. The old Campaign save included all of the data for all battles in the campaign. Now it's just keeping track of current and some past stuff. PBEM files only ever keep track of their immediate needs so there won't be any savings to gain there. However... Charles did mention something about an additional space savings due to consolidating some data storage, however I assumed he meant relating to Campaigns. But maybe he meant overall. If so, great Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 That's great news! Will it load faster too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 Probably not in any noticeable way. The bulk of the load time is to get the graphics, sounds, and the current map loaded. The type of stuff that got left out or consolidated is reference data which was either called up or not depending on the point of the save. Therefore I'm not expecting much difference at all. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFightingSeabee Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Well, that's still great news for multiplayer! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berto Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 It will be possible to play the campaigns H2H, mode PBEM (also Tpc/ip perhaps saving the games!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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