Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: bigmilt

Gamespot has a review of this game didn't like it too much.

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The game will not be radically different but it will be better than the version that was reviewed on Gamespot. I can't say what the Gamespot score would have been had the writer reviewed our version instead but I'm confident we would have scored higher. A few of the things that will be different in the Matrix/Tri Synergy version:

1. Various bug fixes and tweaks
   
2. AI improvements
   
3. Units drowning themselves near water will no longer happen. You can't easily order units into water where they are destroyed which was a big pain.
   
4. Better documentation - the manual is heavily edited and slightly expanded. Supply is explained and the overall quality of the documentation is improved.
   
5. The difficulty is addressed. On easy and medium difficulties you will have more support fires (arty, aircraft) to smooth things along. We found that more arty and bombers generally was substantial enough to tip the balance in the player's favor. If you play the game on easy it still won't be an quick rampage across Europe - you'll need to be skillful, but you won't get trounced.

Sean Drummy

Marketing and Press Relations Manager

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Better campaign difficulty balance especially on “Easy” and “Normal”.

Improvements to unit pathfinding for both friendly and enemy AI.

Many map tweaks and changes which fix problems with units drowning themselves when ordered to cross a river or other body of water.

A number of additional bug and stability fixes.

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ORIGINAL: Krec

realtime ......................

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ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker

Gamespot to me is worthless

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ORIGINAL: Lawnchair Warrior

I tried the demo yesterday. I realize the "matrix version' is patched, but oh brother - Make sure you play that demo before dropping down any cash.

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What's all this about resource gathering in the game? How does that work?

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In order to function properly (or, in some cases, at all), every unit must have supplies at their disposal. Every strategic point on the game map (denoted by the images of buildings, bunkers, trenches, airfields, etc. in the strategic map) has a reserve of resources. There are three types of supply that can be stored at each strategic point: fuel, food, and ammo. Vehicles consume fuel, soldiers consume food, and both consume ammo when in combat. When unit is located in a zone that its army has captured, it uses that zone’s supplies and conserves its own. When a friendly zone has expended all of its supply, each unit then uses its own reserve to sustain its operation. Additionally, when a unit is situated in an enemy controlled zone it must use its own reserves.

Remember, though, that there are three types of supply each with separate amounts in every zone. One supply type may be expended in a friendly zone before another. Therefore, it’s possible that a unit in a zone with no ammo left will use its own ammo reserves while still drawing on the zone’s food supply, for instance.

If a vehicle is completely out of supply, it ceases to move and fire. If an infantry squad is out of food, it slowly starves and cannot throw grenades. A starving infantry unit will lose its hit points until it reaches 20% of its full strength. The unit must then be in supply of food and healed by a medical unit to regain its strength.

A zone can be resupplied by truck string. Each transport truck can carry 500 units of fuel, food, or ammo. However, be sure to protect supply lines well because if truck is destroyed its resources are permanently lost.

Sean Drummy

Marketing and Press Relations Manager

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Various bug fixes and tweaks

AI improvements

Units drowning themselves near water will no longer happen. You can't easily order units into water where they are destroyed which was a big pain.

Better documentation - the manual is heavily edited and slightly expanded. Supply is explained and the overall quality of the documentation is improved.

The difficulty is addressed. On easy and medium difficulties you will have more support fires (arty, aircraft) to smooth things along. We found that more arty and bombers generally was substantial enough to tip the balance in the player's favor. If you play the game on easy it still won't be an quick rampage across Europe - you'll need to be skillful, but you won't get trounced.

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

For those just looking in now, I would like to emphasize that most of the previous commentary in this forum and the GameSpot review noted above are talking about a different release of Officers, which came out much earlier than ours and unfortunately appears to have been a rushed release. As far as we are concerned, our release should be judged on its own merits.