Barticus Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I am currently relying on Mechwarrior Living Legends to take the edge off the waiting. Can be considered practice too, in a way. If you squint at it just right, a Clan Madcat is KINDA like a Panther, with particle cannons instead of a KwK I had no idea this even existed, this old Mechwarrior thanks you. Now I won't get ANY sleep tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyJJ Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 2301 Central European Time on May 8 is my guess re: Steve's cryptic remark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igbee Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Just to let you know things are rolling along nicely (if all the activity from us wasn't a hint ) and we are nearly there. We don't want to jinx ourselves with an exact date, but roughly speaking here's where we are at: 1. Manuals are at the printers and should be back at the end of next week. 2. We have everything we need for the Demo, but we're still in the process of making/testing the special Demo EXE/App for the PC/Mac Demos. 3. With the next build for the testers will be officially be in the Final Candidate stage of testing. This is after Beta but before Gold Master. Final Candidate is to catch any glaring rough edges, like a missing graphic or what not. We're "done" making significant code changes so we won't risk introducing new issues into the gameplay. We're actually NEVER really "done", but if we don't think that way then you'll never get to play the darned thing So... that's where we stand. For those of you trying to project a ship date... here's a hint. It won't be this coming Friday, that's for sure. How soon could it be? Depends on how Final Candidate and Gold Master testing go, as well as the manuals being ready and other standard variables. Steve P.S. Bone -> there are three scenarios for the Demo. One attack as Germans, one attack as Americans, one Tutorial as Americans. The latter is designed to give newbies a "cake walk" scenario to learn how to play the game before diving into the other two battles. It's an adaptation from the longer Tutorial included in the game itself. Wow.. What a disappointment. So much for the end of April. Now at best it looks like the middle to end of May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarkWGriswold Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I'm leaving for Japan for a two week business trip on Friday the 13th. So, you can pretty much bet that it's going to come out right about the time I'm boarding the plane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnersman Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Wow.. What a disappointment. So much for the end of April. Now at best it looks like the middle to end of May. AROUND the end of May. Wiggle room. It's all about wiggle room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Turgidson Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Been a while since I've frequented these boards. Very excited about this title. Thanks for the update on the release date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrath of Dagon Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 So can we have an estimated date for the demo release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyJJ Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 So can we have an estimated date for the demo release? This week? That's what the gamerswithjobs.com article said (what he'd been told by BF). What day? We'll find out when it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithers Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 So can we have an estimated date for the demo release? As currently estimated it won't be soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldat-Hans Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 This game should throw out some Advertisement! Just heard from this game 3 Days ago! Never heard from it before, after I didnt looked at this site anymore since Combat mission went with call of duty and all the other games (into modern sucking Age). Heard from the released Manual for Combat mission Battle for Normandy and I thought What?? combat mission is going back to WW2! Hell yeah! Preordered it yesterday. But you dont hear anything about it anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadekster88 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Odd you bring that up. I remember not very long ago that about the only advertisments that you would see on TV were for EA sports titles. I think in the last year alone off the top of my head I saw them for Dragons Age, Mass Effect2, Cyrsis2, CoD:BO and Assassins Creed2. I would guess you'd need a retarded large budget to throw out TV spots and I realize TV is not the only form of advertisment but imo word of mouth has always been a steady seller it seems. I do hope to see more banners etc for this game at gaming sites etc as the more people introduced to a game like this means more success and more people to play/mod etc. Also means more idiots but hey, you can't have everything right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narsus Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 I never heard of Combat Mission and wouldn't be here today if I hadn't ran across CM:BO on GOG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadekster88 Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Iirc mine was on a PC gamers disk...but hell I can't rightly say 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bump Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I don't remember how I heard about the original CMBO... Just that I was big into Talonsoft and SSI's titles so I must have seen it referenced somewhere, maybe wargamer.com? I do remember being proud to see an advertisement for it in a WW2 magazine back in the day. Maybe I can venture to ask formally what is being planned in terms of advertisement for CMBN? Surely not a television spot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barkhorn1x Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Surely not a television spot! Cable access perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bump Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Cable access perhaps? You know the guy who does The Atheist Experience cable access looks suspiciously like how I recall madmatt looked. And his name is even matt! Maybe someone could call in and shout out a plug for battlefront Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noxnoctum Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I haven't read through this whole thing, but am I correct in gathering that the demo is about a week away and the full release maybe 2-3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Viajero Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I haven't read through this whole thing, but am I correct in gathering that the demo is about a week away and the full release maybe 2-3? Yeah... no. Sort of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyJJ Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 So can we have an estimated date for the demo release? After last night's election here ... "Not soon enough" is the answer to your question. Where'd my Canada go? :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactical Wargamer Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 After last night's election here ... "Not soon enough" is the answer to your question. Where'd my Canada go? :eek: Right on track.....Full steam ahead Hey the socialist left will probably win next time.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soldat-Hans Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Normaly you should hear about the game from Gamesites, or may be the PC gamer, in Germany may be Gamestar and so on. dont know why! On http://www.games-news.de/ you hear from every ****ing game, every news! But even there totally quiet! I heard there from the game because of the manual! thats all! just one Link! Other games have 10 Links or more! That is unusual! I mean I believe, that there would be much more people, who would buy the game, but they dont know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystro Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Normaly you should hear about the game from Gamesites, or may be the PC gamer, in Germany may be Gamestar and so on. dont know why! On http://www.games-news.de/ you hear from every ****ing game, every news! But even there totally quiet! I heard there from the game because of the manual! thats all! just one Link! Other games have 10 Links or more! That is unusual! I mean I believe, that there would be much more people, who would buy the game, but they dont know it. BF will need to use Twitter, FB,YT and other social means to promote CM:BFN, to find those *thinking Chess type players out there. Hey, maybe a small teaser BFN app? Times have changed but thankfully CM WWII didn't.. except get deeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyHarper Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Thank you for the update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Wallin Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 Is the Gold Master testing started yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 I have a suggestion for BF... Is it possible to set a time of day when announcements will be made/stuff will get released? If you said "We'll make any announcements at 10h00 EST" (or whenever), the refresh monkeys would at least get most of the day off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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