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ORIGINAL: Andrew Williams

no problem glad to be of help.

Your vehicle is parked alongside a window... no LOS impediment there see coding pic.

The walls or any object in Close Combat can be coded with certain characteristics.

Warning: Getting a bit Technical.

Columns Ab and Ac of the workbook refer to Line of Sight through objects including walls.

Walls are coded in Ab to block LOS

AC is a switch to turn off/on LOS through wall if you are adjacent (in CCMT this was turned off )

In WaR this is turned on so you can fire through a wall if adjacent ie right up next to the wall... two walls will Block LOS

this allows soldiers, in particular, to fire from buildings without having to find a window (which sometimes cause only 1,2 or 3 of a team to get LOS while the others mill about)

In the scenario you present the game engine must consider that your vehicle is close enough to be adjacent to the wall and gain LOS.

A slight change in the angle of fire brings into play the window or not and the distance the game engine considers is close enough to be adjacent.

You can see this by gaining LOS to certain points but not to others.

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ORIGINAL: Neil N

Actually, Zon and AA_Gen_Jack did the vehicle graphics and I think that if you compare them side by side, VetBoB's tanks are a little larger

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ORIGINAL: Reboot

JimRM2 did a few gems too

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ORIGINAL: Lützow

The AI seems to have improved as well. Since I don't own the original game anymore I can only judge by comparing to CC4 demo which I played some days ago. While the demo mission was a walkover, I got my ass handed at first campaign scenario already.

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ORIGINAL: squadleader_id

Nicely done S3T and Matrix!

- The new vehicle graphics rules (by Neil N. AKA Linebacker right?)...the new camo schemes and details look great. CC4: VetBoB (smaller tanks vetmod) looks great...but WAR's vehicle graphics looks just as good...if not better.

- The Opponent AI for single player games is surprisingly not bad...way better than the original CC4 (and CC5). Not as overkill as VetBoB (lethal weapons!)...which is good news to me. The AI still can't carry out a decent attack...it's aggressive but still dumb as the attacker (sending squads at VLs piece meal, no AFV-Infantry combined arms tactics). The AI controlled AFVs do seem to be more active moving...but sometimes just randomly...and sometimes driving straight into VLs (and easily destroyed using infantry AT weapons at point blank range).
The AI on defense is pretty tough...attacking will give experienced players a good challenge. I like how the AI aggressively counter-attacks after losing VLs. AI Infantry hiding inside buildings are also especially tough to supress and destroy. The AI still doesn't setup properly, and sometimes break cover to manouver without good reason.

- Yup, the Soldier AI is more prone to ducking under fire and aborting movement...but in WAR it's not as annoying as the "girlie soldiers" in CoI and CCMT...phew! A few more clicks are needed to reissue lost orders...but I find it managable :D

- The new maps are awesome...SouthernLand outdid himself again...as always! :)

- The weapon sounds are crisp, realistic and well done, the command and death sounds are a bit generic...a lot of CC5 mods feature more 'brutal' command and death sounds ;). Still some minor bugs in the sounds (English spoken line when US request truce while playing as Germans - speaking Germans).

- Weapons artwork on the interface looks great...too bad the interface is still locked (with black borders) and not fully stretchable so you can't really see the weapons graphics up close. The guns/cannon graphics is done in 'traditional CC style'...personally I prefer gun graphics from mods like VetBoB, Utah, GJS-TRSM...close up and showing the Nozzle Break graphics.

- Great work on fixing the rank graphics bug in the Tactical Map interface...now they show Heer, SS and FJ ranks correctly (this feature was broken in CC4-CC5, only displaying one type of ranks).

- The Waffen-SS tank crews coded and displayed using Heer ranks need to be fixed in the next patch.
Also Panzerwaffe fans might nitpick about the Panzer crew uniforms...Assault Guns crews should be wearing Gray, not Black.
Waffen-SS Panzer crews also wore camo, besides panzer crew black. Maybe panzer fans can add to this?

- Vehicle pathing is much better...but sometimes tanks still turn in circles or do random about turns instead of reversing smoothly. The AI controlled tanks are a lot more active, compared to the campers in CC4-CC5.

- The interface screen expanded from locked 800x600 is welcome...why not make it strechable to full screen :)

- The new text files for modding is a great idea...but modders need tutorials to edit these. The WAR workbook looks great too...good work, Guys!

- Nice features, well polished and very playable out of the box...looks like I'll be busy with this one for quite a while :D

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had me start on the US side of the map and the Americans were give my town?

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ORIGINAL: Stwa


Probably because WaR is really just CC5 (including some of the graphics)? But the developers have finally starting moving game modifyable values to the outside of the program.

Also regarding stretching the menus, I am not sure about that. Perhaps they can produce a situation that eveyone would like.

See attachment for what the game (CC4 on CC5) might look like stretched to 1360 x 768. Do you like that? I kinda do, but I have learned to live with it.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc5-battle-of-surabaya-1945

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ORIGINAL: Noakesy

2. If our pcs are networked is this a problem? I've been told it can be difficult (something to do with IP addresses and wifi set up), any advice would be warmly welcomed (and might actually prompt me to buy this).

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but still seeing numerous instances of defending AI units deciding it's a better life choice to break cover and head for the enemy.

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ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl
Should be no problem, whatsoever. You'll be using the internal IP addys for your network, which ought to read 192.168.x.x when you run IPCONFIG from a command prompt. Open the game, put in the host IP on your network, and you're good to go.
PoE (aka ivanmoe)

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ORIGINAL: Noakesy
Well, I'm nearly getting convinced to buy it, just need to seek permission to get the funding I think. Is there any point buying the boxed version instead of download (e.g. is there a good manual in the boxed one)?

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



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Also regarding stretching the menus, I am not sure about that. Perhaps they can produce a situation that eveyone would like.

See attachment for what the game (CC4 on CC5) might look like stretched to 1360 x 768. Do you like that? I kinda do, but I have learned to live with it.

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ORIGINAL: Tejszd

The stretched image I don't really like.

My monitor I run at 1920x1200 so I wish I could show the the 800x600 images at 1600x1200 which is perfectly double. But everyone has different preferences so it would be nice to let the user have some options and decide what to do.

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
The boxed version does include a printed manual and with either version, you don't need anything in the drive to play, just install and go. I would suggest getting the Digital + Physical option, same price as the Physical only but you get to download and play right away while waiting for the physical box to arrive.

Regards,

- Erik