Combat Mission : Shock Force - patch 1.07

On 23 feb, 13:10, "eddyster...@hotmail.com" <eddyster... DeleteThis @hotmail.com>
wrote:
> On 22 feb, 12:57, "eddyster...@hotmail.com" <eddyster... DeleteThis @hotmail.com>
>
> Sooner - than I thought - I'm downloading it right now

..... from one of those ratty free 30 kbs connections which will finish
a 300 MB download in "only" 3 hours. <sigh> but I'm sure the number of
people giving up on such a long download, fraught with connections
going bad after you've downloaded 299 MB, is heavily compensated by
having a DRM server. It's dropped to 22 kbs and 4 hours remaining now
<re-sigh> why, oh, why can't Battlefront rent some additional
bandwidth for their own servers ?

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

eddysterckx DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:
>
> .... from one of those ratty free 30 kbs connections which will finish
> a 300 MB download in "only" 3 hours. <sigh> but I'm sure the number of
> people giving up on such a long download, fraught with connections
> going bad after you've downloaded 299 MB, is heavily compensated by
> having a DRM server. It's dropped to 22 kbs and 4 hours remaining now
> <re-sigh> why, oh, why can't Battlefront rent some additional
> bandwidth for their own servers ?
>

What, and ruin their reputation? <evil grin!>



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does
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On 24 feb, 05:55, Chris Merchant
<bringitonyoubasta....TakeThisOut@merchant.on.net> wrote:
> Well for one I'm glad they are using a theatre subject I have no interest
> in to develop their new engine. Here's hoping they will finally arrive at
> V1.00 Stable before they start to ship WWII games...

Hi,

So I took a look at the new demo today. I first used a Jedi mind trick
to clear my memory completely of the botched initial demo which
painfully showed a half-finished game and had a fresh look.

This is no longer a broken game, it's now pretty much working as you'd
expect. However, WWII this is not : firepower kills at long distances
and if you can see it you can kill it - and vice versa which leads to
completely different (but realistic) tactics.

The graphics engine has become much smoother, which, given the barren
terrain and blocky houses should never have been a problem in the
first place.

My remaining gripes with the game are now just pretty much just
personal gripes : I couldn't care less about Syriah or fighting urban
militia hiding among the populace - this engine set in a Reforger
environment somewhere in the Fulda gap : that would be awesome,
probably awesome enough for me to forget about the DRM. The next
module will add the US Marines and their equipment - again not
something for me, but the release after that will be WWII again - so
looking forward to that one.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

<eddysterckx.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:347b96f4-c0ff-4905-86b5-604c5f241214@n77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> On 22 feb, 12:57, "eddyster...@hotmail.com" <eddyster....RemoveThis@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The new demo, which is based on the 1.07 code, is promised to appear
>> soon.
>
> Sooner - than I thought - I'm downloading it right now
>
> http://www.battlefront.com/products/cmsf/downloads.html
>
> Greetz,
>
> Eddy Sterckx


I didn't get to play for five minutes before it froze up. It's more stable,
but it's not stable. No big surprise really.

Regards,
Mike Kreuzer
www.mikekreuzer.com

Well for one I'm glad they are using a theatre subject I have no interest
in to develop their new engine. Here's hoping they will finally arrive at
V1.00 Stable before they start to ship WWII games...

cheers


"Mike Kreuzer" <mike RemoveThis @FIRSTNAMEkreuzer.com> wrote in
news:47c0f1cb$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au:

> I didn't get to play for five minutes before it froze up. It's more
> stable, but it's not stable. No big surprise really.
>
> Regards,
> Mike Kreuzer
> www.mikekreuzer.com
>
>