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Kanda' -> (8/1/2002 11:18:21 AM)
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Greetings...
7.1 crashes on my system so often that I had to uninstall it and use 6.1. After 6 months I came looking for another patch but it looks like the same 7.1 is still the latest. Too bad as I really like this game.
My crashes occur in the same places, during force selection in a campaign, during armor penetration calculations, especially frequent if you pop multiple enemy tanks in a row. I think that actually has something to do with it. As I believe the penetration calculations are getting zeroed out and all rounds will suddenly penetrate, A memory leak currupting the unit tables during combat routines. As I've noticed 20mm armed early armored cars 234/1's suddenly popping t-34/85's at rediculous ranges then crash to desktop.
Also noticed is randomly dissapearing weapons, one turn it's there, far behind friendly lines moving up, then presto chango next turn all the machine guns on a tank have suddenly dissapeared and I'm not even fighting in ITALY!!! (catch 22 reference!)
Not being able to cancel artillary missions, plane missions coming in and exiting from random locations not even close to what I actually set them at. But worst of all, is the fact that air missions simply refusing to attack anything other than vehicles. Thats the absolutely worst failure in the whole game code. I just love it when a plane armed with nothing but machine guns and bombs simply flies right past it's target area, crosses all the way across the map to atttack some stupid useless truck then getting shot down deep in the enemy flak area. Would be nice to be able to rescue the pilot after the scenario then have the survivors of the assault that he screwed up by not dropping his bombs on target execute him during the after mission screen....
Another annoying 7.1 bug, and the one that inspired me to uninstall it, was when the artillary mission times would change randomly between campaign missions. My nice 0.02 time hummels would change seemingly for no reason to 1.2 because some 50mm morter crew in the infantry got upgraded to an 81mm. That really sux. It disgusted me so much that I went back to SP3 for a while.
I won't be playing 7.1. And after the last few times of downloading the game files 4.1, 5.0,5.1,6.1,7.1 each taking literaly weeks at 28.8kb (or I could pay at my local Ecafe yea right!) just to discover that not much has changed, all my maps are again incompatable, all my scenarios are incompatable, The same idiot Suicidal AI, The same screwed up OOB's, An even smaller force size, still no way to predict just when the Force selection screen is going to suddenly cut you off from buying units with no warning, All the same stupid cosmetic programming screwups all still existing. And I wonder just what was actually done to justify yet another version number? It isn't likely that I'll download 8.1 either. I sometimes wonder why I even bothered to download 4.1 SP3 is in my opinion the best version of this game. SPAW isn't, in my opinion an improvement. Just a dog with fleas. And YES, I've played them all. I have Every version of this game since Kamfgruppe (C 1985 one of Grigsby's best works IMHO)
Kanda'
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