Keebler
Posts: 92
Joined: 8/23/2000 From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Status: offline
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Got some strange online results!!
Problem #1… I am the client and when I try to load infantry onto a vehicle with not enough room, I get a message asking me if I still want to load my unit. Fair enough, but the SERVER, my opponent also gets a pop-up window listing the same options!!
The servers response does not seem to have any effect on my selection. My unit will respond to my requested option regardless of what the SERVER player answers to the pop-up.
Problem #2… While in the deployment screen, both my map and the servers map responds to view commands. That is to say, if I select a unit and right click in a direction to observe this unit’s field of view, the SERVER’s map will echo my field of view. The reverse also occurs. When my opponent observes the field of view of one of his units, I can see the field of view of his unit.
The SERVER nor I can tell what unit’s field of view is being displayed, but you can certainly get a good idea off possible deployment points.
I’ve played about eight or so TCP/IP battles with SPWAW. Well started them anyway as all the games have been ended prematurely due to connection or corruption problems. In one battle all my opponents units became visible to me! In an other battle the western half of the map became filled with boulders and mines on the client computer! In yet an other all units shifted 5 hexes northwest at he end of the clients turn!
Not sure what sort of file or protocol corruption has to occur for these symptoms to be replicated. The strangest thing is I don’t remember any of the games displaying the same problem.
I really like to Play SPWAW online. I have been wishing for this exact option ever since Steel Panthers was first released by SSI in the mid 90s. I hope the soon to be released patch 4.1 will address the majority of the online issues.
SPWAW is a fantastic game and I commend all of the members of Matrix who have worked so hard to get it out to us. Keep up the great work!!
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