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Is the game polished? - 10/10/2013 3:54:46 PM   
Napoleon15

 

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Status: offline 		Hey guys, if you will permit me the cheek of asking such a question on the developer's forum, I'm just wondering how bug free you're finding it. Both the game and its time period are interesting to me, but I don't have much money to spend on games, so if I buy something, it's got to be fairly stable out of the box for playing. I'm not really one keen on buying a game, and then having to wait a month or two for it to be patched up. I think the last game I got from Matrix was Harpoon, and I felt pretty burned on that one, as the devs didn't seem that interested in fixing the bugs at all.


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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/10/2013 4:07:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		The game is perfectly playable and (for me at least) perfectly stable, Everything pretty much works as intended, with the usual areas where improvements or enhancements will probably be possible down the road. There is a lot of interest from the developers in fixing problems that do arise for individuals, and in documenting areas where the game could be improved. If you like the subject area and the game's treatment of it, there should be no technical reason holding you back from getting it. It's not a bundle of code in dire need of six more months of testing, at all. No game is ever 100% polished, but this one is pretty solid.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/10/2013 4:14:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks, that's good to hear. I've been hoping for another good Cold War era wargame for a while now. TacOps4 has always been the gold standard for me, but it's getting on a bit in its years now, and it'd be nice to play as something other than US forces all the time.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/10/2013 4:16:09 PM   
TheWombat_matrixforum

 

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Status: offline 		Hell, I can't even get TacOps to run any more. I have an old Mac version, and it's not compatible with modern OS X at all. I wonder what happened to Major Holdridge anyhow--wasn't he the guy who did that?

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/10/2013 4:23:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		I played a couple scenarios yesterday and haven't seen any bugs or glitches.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/10/2013 4:32:52 PM   
Napoleon15

 

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Status: offline 		Yeah, the Major did the game. Not sure what happened to him as I don't really follow the wargaming scene that much save from a distance. Appreciate the extra feedback, BROJD. Will take a look at getting this at some point.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 12:39:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Major Holdridge passed away. So won't be seeing any more development of TacOps.

The game FPC:RS, is pretty smooth and clean. I would say it's a great launch. Very minor typos in manual, a couple of truly obscure bugs you wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for them and TRYING to break things. I'm having a great time with this is heartily recommend grabbing a copy.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 1:34:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		He passed away?? Must have been recent..shame nothing has been posted about it on the Tacops forums at BF or Gamesquad..

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 1:54:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		The game is quite polished now,I`m sure there will be the usual enhancements & minor tweaks.

A very nice touch is a good tutorial scenario enhanced by the in-game PDF from the drop down menus ( therefore the text/pictures can be minimized as you run through the tutorial scenario)

I`m happy I spent the $$$ and I`m a tough audience.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 2:22:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		So far I have played a few scenarios and didn't find any bug, just a few new improvements that I have to learn to use. Compared with FPG, FPC is far more interesting to play. The new, larger maps, allow much more room for maneuver.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 2:57:44 AM   
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Major Holdridge passed away. So won't be seeing any more development of TacOps



curious where you got this info ? I can't find any reference to his passing ; I've been a tacops follower since day one

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 11:47:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Major H is alive and kicking. Therefore there is still a remote hope of getting one day the extremely elusive version 5 of TacOps!


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ORIGINAL: freightweezul

Major Holdridge passed away. So won't be seeing any more development of TacOps.

The game FPC:RS, is pretty smooth and clean. I would say it's a great launch. Very minor typos in manual, a couple of truly obscure bugs you wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for them and TRYING to break things. I'm having a great time with this is heartily recommend grabbing a copy.



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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 4:20:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		I apologize abjectly if I am guilty of passing along false info, particularly about a man's life. I just seemed to have read that somewhere and thought nothing of chiming in. So if Major H is still alive and kicking that is great news, and I will be more careful about sharing 'what I know' when it isn't sourceable. Sorry guys.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 5:37:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Major Holridge, despite his warlike background, is a nice gentleman who, now retired from the Corps, spends most of his free time in a shack by some lake in Texas, fishing in company of the local rattlesnakes and keeping a vintage but trusty .45 at hand, just in case, according to his own version. Thus you are not in immediate risk of reprisals, I suppose.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 6:58:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		He's begining to sound a lot like Snake Plissken.

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RE: Is the game polished? - 10/11/2013 7:47:50 PM   
Panta_slith


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Status: offline 		He's so popular among his followers, who hound him to force a new version of TacOps (mea sulpa, mea culpa as well,) that he finally barricaded himself in that undisclosed place. So beware you developers, FPC risks to be one of "those" games too! (FP ME, FP Korea, etc!)


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He's begining to sound a lot like Snake Plissken.



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