USMCGrunt
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I know this topic has been beaten to death with everyone coming up with some huge lists asking for everything but the kitchen sink. Here's a few things I would like to see improved in SPWAW. Nothing new here, just some refinements on what already exists.
1. If it can be included with the download, a file with complete stats for weapons and units. I like to keep a printed copy of this king of info around when selecting forces so that I can tell what the diferences are between the 88mm KWK and 88MM PAK or know what the weapons mounted on an IS3 are. It's just a handy thing to have around.
2. Good vehicle pathfinding that dosen't send my tanks and APC's crashing into buildings when a perfectly good road is right next to it. I think I've harped on this one before.
3. A refined to the scenario manager included in the download (or even just refined). I like to reorganize scenarios according to size so that I can pick one that fits the amount of time I have to play. The SPWAW manager is pretty decent, but leaves a lot to be desired. (Like the ability to sort scenarios alphabetically or the ability to move more than 1 at a time.) To quote the movie line, "You're good kid, but not THAT good."
4. AI pilots that are a little less brain dead and go where I point them. I spent time as a FAC in the Marines, and you usually add such details a "Enemy on the hilltop, friendlies are all to the west of the road, do not fire there." I don't know how many times in SPWAW I beat my head against my desk after my aircraft ignored my fire request to kill an utterly huge infantry formation and instead said, "OH LOOK! A BIG TANK! MUST KILL!" I know that friendly fire incidents occur, and I've even been on the receiving end of it (I was with Task Force Papa Bear in Desert Storm and another battalion lit us up), but it should not be with the frequency we see now.
Guess that about wraps it up. Not a long list, but in my mind, an important one.
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Good thoughts.
mosh
[This message has been edited by Charles22 (edited February 18, 2001).]
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Bugs left to fix:
-In 4-player games the reinforcement screen doesn't have a Done-button. You can get around this by pressing Escape when you're done buying.
-Reinforcement hexes are randomly left out in random battles with a custom map. Workaround is to load the map once in a hotseat game before starting the real game.
-If you set a lot of spec ops target hexes and then set artillery priority hexes, spec ops targets are reset to your artillery targets. Probably vice versa too. (Hard to reproduce.)
-Exiting online/timed games closes SPWAW altogether.
-Reduce the VCR buffer to 15MB to get rid of the error message. Or maybe it could allocate the memory only when it needs to instead of demanding the 20MB unfragmented chunk right away.
-With C&C on, clicking on each recon unit for the first time does not display the movement range correctly.
-Fix vehicle crews being added automatically to kill score (if you kill them, they are counted twice).
-Prevent the receiving party of an airstrike seeing the opposing player's troops.
-Vehicles immobilized in the editor sometimes get fixed at the start of a scenario.
-All slot 4 weapons except BMG's have a 360 degree firing arc.
-Immobilized turretless tanks have 2-4 times too wide a firing arc.
Modifications:
-Make CBF more powerful.
-Add 1-3 turns randomly at the end.
-Make tanks avoid buildings when retreating.
-Make retreating smarter, away from the enemy first, only then towards the retreat hex.
-Optimize pathfinding for tanks (15-28 moves) instead of halftracks (30-40 moves).
-Having all victory hexes ends the game always. Shouldn't force morale also be low?
-Add a toggle for fast artillery sound.
-Let player fire smoke grenades in op-fire.
-Firing on a routed unit should not make it revert to pinned 98% of the time like it does now.
(Probably not necessary anymore):
-No assaulting for crews. Insert a check in the assault code to see if the unit is a crew.
-If scout vehicles run automatically from tanks, crews should run away from any combat troops. This would also solve the previous issue.
(Probably too hard to do):
-Limited intel shouldn't abstract player's own troop icons.
-Only paratroops should be able to paradrop.
-Use the second digit in the "chance for radio" number to determine rarity, i.e. how often and many times you can buy a certain unit.
Trivial stuff:
-Fix encyclopedia changing to display fort data when the cursor is over a button.
-Planes which don't have or have run out of bombs shouldn't display the bombing message.
-In timed and online play, range (by "y") needs to be entered twice.
-Add scands, a buffer and a word wrap to the log. Also sending messages would be more convenient by using the player's number instead of name.
-Add "D - Fire smoke grenades" in gamehelp.txt.
-Add "more breakdowns" in forests in terrain.txt.
-Set live delay to 0 by default in the preferences.
-Add an option to ignore EXE/OOB check when loading a secure PBEM turn.
[This message has been edited by Kharan (edited February 27, 2001).]
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