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MindSpy -> (2/1/2001 4:14:00 AM)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Les the Sarge 9-1:
[B]ERRRRRRRRR
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I mean reeeeally not impressed.
How can this game be so good and so bad simultaneously.Its fun to play right up till you realise the game hasnt any idea of what happened during WWII.Am I missing something? This campaign hasnt been a fluke.
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MindSpy:
Hey, hello there.
WAW is the superior version of all the SP
games without a doubt. The game continues to improve and that can`t convey the whole thing at all but ...
I read your post and felt that you should get
some good responses on the nature of the beast.
I will try to go point by point from your posting.
Actually no game should be able to duplicate the Second World War. Particularly a game that was altered/skewed towards playability contrary to the designer`s wishes as SP1 was.
SP is not a statistical board game where you can easily control game mechanics to reflect similar and significantly varying battles fought on the same patch! In fact finding historians to agree on WW2 history is an art in itself forget a FUN game. Even today, we still have many military specialists who have not understood the main lessons of WW2 operationally. Not that that was the only way to fight, just that there were many methods that required proper application or else ... Essentially, though I understand your point about realsim.
If ya wants realsim then enlist otherwise you are playing a game. At no point is your life in jeopardy while playing WAW nor are your war strained emotions determining your wanting to see another sunset heck meal even!!! let alone whether or not you will allow your commander to do so as well. However, the game is replete both on the web and in the game files pointing out the limitations of the AI. Enough said everywhere, it is a starting place.
Baisically, the best of the game is found in
specific campaigns/scenarios/pbem and the
Campaign generator with restrictions if you are sufficiently experienced. As well, if you select the campaign mode make certain that you can select the start and end date of the campaign. Baisically, the other generator is the dinosaur component given back to the players by request! Campaign! is severely limited! because you do not adjust the preferences to make the game tougher for yourself (experienced players-novice=different requirements:::and then there is mood-I want to knock out tanks like in the early Barbarossa years!) does not automatically mean that you have grasped the nuances of the game! and it`s reach. i.e. give yourself fewer points, and choose fewer armour units, play against a Flag that has superior armour! even. Don`t refit your unit every turn, only when you have won xx times or retreated from battle!
Lastly.
Warning,
if you load up on armour guess what the comp.`s AI will do as well!!!
I don`t recall games nor movies being required to be realistic. I believe you have confused realism with entertainment. If you do not know that the game beyond the limited exposure you have given yourself to it then you can be excused for feeling that it is a bad rub and that the Gin(genie) well she is a no good.
But really. Out of all the game CD`s I have only SP series games allows me to create varied battles that I will enjoy. Resulting in my playing the game well after it ceased to be produced. Yet these updated versions of the game, unlike the vast majority of simulations puts more control of unit variables and capabilities and terrain at my finger tips than I can list in several hours of documenting.
This clearly is not a weakness.
Take your time. If the game shows you something you do not like find a way to edit it to what you do enjoy then post it and wait for your following to show up. If it is a good change many a player will post you back. However, regardless of what you do expect some comments on the contrary, such is life. In fact you are not even required to respond to them!!!
Fortunately we do not have to relive this very tough period in history for many Nations just to quibble over how fast I can kill you by being with such and so and this much perfect a shot and whoops see what i mean everyone can see that your point is correct.
But so were the atrocities, by all sides and I haven`t asked for them to be simulated!
Play with it and adjust it to give you what you want. That`s what all those settings are there for, to boot play it vs someone who would feel that not shooting
50 tanks in one sitting would be unrealistic ... that is versatility. And not!!!
Hope you stick with it, you might feel rewarded over time.
MindSpy
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