If I ever rejoin the HC
It wont because of that fiasco.

A small squad SIMULCAPS Pannigan. They fight for a good long time, and get yo 85% on the bunker.

HC BEF commander REMOVES the AO. They go aginast the wishes of the OiCs on the ground.

An AO becomes avilable 4 minutes later after Paal falls. Utter crap.

HC argues that Pannigan is undefeinsbe because it has 3 FBs to it. HC then wants to TAKE Hasselt that has 5!!!! Complelte Hypocriacy. The playerbase is NOT the HC's playthings to do with what they want, no matter whan they may think.

Even if you take Hasselt with No armour to do it, it will take an hour and a half, and you'll be stuck ALL NIGHT defending it. You can hold hasselt or take St T. Choose one, because you cannot do the other. Wre could have taken Huy AND Bouleiit by now.


I supose I should be happy that we're winning so much I can complain about this. But it's not an isolated incerdemt, and it wont be the last time either.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 30, 2005 0 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Kill bug not fixed
I did not know tracks count as a kill!

WWII Online :: View topic - Kill bug not fixed: "DOC
CORNERED RAT


Joined: 01 May 2001
Posts: 6683
Location: Fort Worth, TX

PostPosted: 30 Jun 2005 09:29 Post subject: Reply with quote
These are what comprise a critical kill component:-

You must destroy a critical component. First plink not the case, first to kill the first critical component.

They are:-

Planes (any of the following)
_____
Wings
Rear Fuesalage Failure (being added as I write)
Engines
Guns
Pilot

Tanks (any of the following)
____
Engines
Main Gun
Gunner
Driver
Tracks

Boats (any of the following)
____
Engines
Guns (all must be destroyed in groups, ie: main 5' or AA)
Flotation ability (it will sink if successfully destroyed)

ATGs and AAGs
___________
Gunner AND Commander (both)
Gun itself"
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 30, 2005 0 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Saved by the system!
WWII Online :: View topic - Saved by the system!

xoomxoom wrote:
Allies, you guys have to understand that the Axis playerbase is suffering and has been a helluva lot more than you guys. Because of a historical hierarchy being so valued and taken care of, that we have no control of. Grant it, things are not looking good for the Axis.

Oh my gawd, the axis lost every map for the lasp 6 months! Oh the suffering! Oh the humanity! The axis have lost the factories and are are now surly doomed! Cry! Cry for the poor people!

Not. LAST map we buffered Eindhoven and you took it all back 3 days later and we were back in Antwerp.

Quote:

Amazing also, how your attempt on Paal failed miserably. HA, pwned.

If you're talking about the Paradrop we had 20 Paras but no tanks or ATG's, We took 2 depots NEXT to a fully supplied and resourced AB and held it for 11 minutes, Not too shabby. But you did beat us. The wars not over yet, and we are not yet at Kursk. Metz may have been the axis Stalingrad, but there will be more axis success. You may still win.

But I hope not. The cycle is over and restarting, and this time the allies plan on winning.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 30, 2005 0 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Holy Cr*p Up North?
WWII Online :: View topic - Holy Cr*p Up North?

Axis whining reaching new hights.

I shouldn't get cocky, the IIIH may yet stop us at Eindhoven.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 30, 2005 0 comments

 
Allied Headquarters :: View topic - Last night
Allied Headquarters :: View topic - Last night

I think we took 9 towns today. My gawd. Eindhoven HELD because the axis hordes fiannly overun Metz. And then lost 3 towns while defenind Eindhoven.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 30, 2005 0 comments

 
Cheap Suits
We're on the gates on Eindhoven. It will fall tonight.

We took Ersel and NOTHING spawned in till 3 minuets AFTER we took all depots! 10 Sappers and a 2 pounder waited for each panzer to spawn. TAXI!

Rembember this time. Rermber it well, as I the BEF has not run riot like this for over a year.

Revenge is sweet.
- posted by Comstar @ Wednesday, June 29, 2005 0 comments

 
Google Earth - Home
Google Earth - Home

I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE.

In fact, I could say mt latatuite and longtitude. At this very moment.
- posted by Comstar @ Wednesday, June 29, 2005 0 comments

 
Numbers in the north, the sh.. hit the fan
WWII Online :: View topic - Numbers in the north, the sh.. hit the fan

Yep they did. All 4 linking towns to Breda, then an epic 4 hour battle for Breda. A walk over in Osterhout.

Meanwhile the french are collapsing as usual.

We just got spawnable in Glitz. Someone sent the axis the bomb.

UPDATE: Glitz Allied. Also got this. I suspect it was a Panzer II I destroyed in the W AB Breda minutes before it fell.

WORLD@WAR
Combat Engineers, A Tough Breed

AARS from the field hilight the role combat engineers are playing to help defeat the Axis forces.

British Sapper Comstar describes his latest mission, "I used cover as best I could, attacking tanks from behind and lobbing grenades at trucks and troops. My commanding officer confirmed I killed 1 Light Tank in 5 minutes."

With fighting men like this, Allied forces are assured victory!
- posted by Comstar @ Tuesday, June 28, 2005 0 comments

 
A short day 3
Very quiet day at work. So quiet they let me go home early. Ever.


Muffed up an attack on steen. They knew we were coming and the armour was comiited way to early. Whoops. Catalogue of errors.

Succsuffl defence of rossendale.
- posted by Comstar @ Tuesday, June 28, 2005 0 comments

 
Day 2. A failed a fallback, and a oppotuinity cap
Defending Kalm I KNEW this would be a good time to activate my plan. It worked, by luck, but it worked.

Panzers all around Kalm. 2nd attempt got a beddy out and took the long way to Wurst. After some argument, BEF command took a risk and gave me the grob AB. Set up MSP to Wusrst and infantry started to stream off.

The attack on Kalm lesserend, then stopped.

And I CTDed taking the MSP with me. Got back, to see axis were in fallback. Damm.

Came back, orgaianzed MSP to the Roos FB. AS we blew it, some unsung hero capped the spawnable in Wurst WHILE THE AXIS WERE IN FALLBACK!

WOOT. Got armour into town, 2 kills and 4 dead panzers. Had a heart stopping moment sneaking up on a 232, come over a berm, to find out my gun couldnt depress fdar enough down. Then once I got over the Berm my gun couldn't came up high enough. Fiannly got the 232. Whew. Blew up a IIIF after 16 shots to the rear. Turned a cornor to see another 232 firing at me. Chase after him as he backs upp...and see 2 MORE IIIF's around the cornor! Blow up the the 232, then the first III (which is blocking shots from the 2nd one) and then die to the last IIIf.

1st wave of armour died, and 4 or panzers were in town. 20 minutes of combat trying to get past the panzers and get the MSPS up faster than they get knocked down

Then the axis took the AB. 2nd Wave of armour arriived and for the vital 10 minutes where NO enemy could spawn, capped the Osstmalle depot. Someone capped the N depot and I killed the last EI in the bunker. Wurst was ours!

Thank you, GHC. And bruner67 who gave me the AO. My plan worked.


Next target. End up with 30 paras on baord. OTW, Bigass points out with this amount of paras, we could take Krabensjike.

So we did. It was heavilly attried from eailier today, and was down to rifles. Fell in 22 minutes, they capped one depot back as the 2nd wave of paras arrived.

WOOT.

Update: Grob was next. Camped with ease, I suspect all the axis were down taking Metz as usual.

Did a bombing run, whicvh took a lot longer than I expecrted and didn't amount to much. Ugh.

Tried Osstmale, but I don't think it'll go before the BC wakes up.
- posted by Comstar @ Sunday, June 26, 2005 0 comments

 
Day 1 of Campgain 21
Took longer than expected. I suspect the axis planning took a bit longer than normal, so the rats gave them time to prepare.

There is NO allied plan annunced as yet on the allied fourms. Typicall.

Appenryl BRIGADE CHAT is too non-secret to tell the brigade members the plan. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Axis attemrpted camp at Tienin and Asshort. We defteated Tineian, but the camp worked in Ahssort. Dammit.

- posted by Comstar @ Sunday, June 26, 2005 1 comments

 
Daily Kos: Prepping for Afghanistan
Daily Kos: Prepping for Afghanistan

US National Guardsman's review of training for Afghanistan. Interesting reading, they seem to spend a lot of time negoitating with the locals.
- posted by Comstar @ Saturday, June 25, 2005 0 comments

 
Where is the BC?
The allies had 3 AOs up and 1 defence AO.

WTF?

The axis is on holiday I guess.
- posted by Comstar @ Saturday, June 25, 2005 1 comments

 
1.19 inital thoughts day 2
Ai AAA fires at 4 KILOMETERS. Ye gawds. Ju52s are now sucide bombers.

Missons are working better.

Towns require BDEs to be located at them. AHC needs to draw everyone a map showing where the brigades are.
- posted by Comstar @ Saturday, June 25, 2005 0 comments

 
One target = 1 Brigage per Branch
Allied Headquarters :: View topic - One target = 1 Brigage per Branch

Right now there is an BEF atttack on 1 town from 2 FB's, and a Para unit.

On 4 different Brigades!

Talk about mis-commincations.

I suggest it be made offical doctrine that whatever the target AO is, only ONE brigade be the offical briagde to attack said town. When the .allied is put up and when the AO is placed, only one brigade should be used. This makes it easy to MSP's up, numbers involved, whos leading what, and makes commincation eaiser.
_________________
- posted by Comstar @ Friday, June 24, 2005 1 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Ok folks, read about the new UI and the games future.
WWII Online :: View topic - Ok folks, read about the new UI and the games future.

KILLER wrote:
Who says we won't. One of ideas we've been kicking around is an instant action button that just dumps you out of either a depot in a contested town or a mobil spawn truck.


YES. Also: Give a list of What Brigades HAVE a MSP up and which town it is. Boom, instant: Brigade Action Finder.

Quote:
Were also seriously considering letting mobil spawn drivers despawn from their trucks, to get more guys driving them out there to set up MSP's.


YES. The more MSP's the better. Might also help them get setup by defenders too.

Quote:
We may also lower rank requirements to post missions, but one patch night is not enough to know how much that's needed.


YES. Low level players need to be able to post low level spawning equimpment missons, OR, If there is X amount of players in a Brigade, and Y amount of players who can post missons, dynamicaly lower the requirments.
- posted by Comstar @ Friday, June 24, 2005 0 comments

 
1.19 inital thoughta
Mabye it's because I'm using new logitech headphones, but I can't hear sounds directly in front of me. Makes flying easy though.

Graphics are better. SUN is cool. FPS varies from 15-30, but I'm on max level no shadows. Turning off the compass increases FPS 3-5. For some reason I think this is realistic.

CHAT is WAY too small.

CHAT BOX is WAY too small.

There wasn't an air misson to the town the BEF was attacking, and I can't make a air misson myself in the RAF myself!!. FARKING HELL.

Sounds are good (bar strange bug mentioned above). WTFG Mike. Bullets flying around are cool.

AI is deadly. Yeikes.

Ground COMBAT is the same as 1.18. Only if you're the misson POSTER you're stuck spawning in the same location each time.

So far, it gets a 7/10, but needs work. More like an Open-Open Beta still
- posted by Comstar @ Friday, June 24, 2005 1 comments

 
I will not recite alligence to the Federation of Planets
Beauty Dish

Mothers Son is suspended from school for reciting the Plege of Alligence....to the United Federation of Planets

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation of Planets, and to the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty and justice for all species.

Something Bart Simpson would have to write 50 times on the chalkboard huh.
- posted by Comstar @ Friday, June 24, 2005 0 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - V119 Release Read Me
That's a big readme. 1.19 has some flaws, but overall it's a very good patch.

WWII Online :: View topic - V119 Release Read Me

We are preparing the patch to 119 for release. This is going to be a very large patch, around 100mb. There are a lot of changes in the game, the biggest by far though is brigade and persona based UI and spawning. This will fundamentally change the game as players will no longer search the map for "where" to play but will look for "who" to group with by joining a brigade and going on the missions that the brigade has posted. The game in all respects will be a more local, more personal experience and one which we are glad to finally unveil.

We hope you enjoy the patch.

=====================
World War Two Online
=====================
Version 1.19.0 (06-22-05)

Infantry:
-Added new infantry FPS arms and retextured hands
-Added Officer (Mission Leader) avatars for Britain, France and Germany
-Command avatars will now show regardless of infantry load out chosen
-Officer (Mission Leader) avatars will now show regardless of infantry load out chosen
-Added decals for "Day 1" support
-Added collar tabs on German infantry tunic
-Replaced old idle animation with 3 random animations
-Added new weapon mesh for MAS38
-Added new weapon mesh for g30
-Added new weapon mesh for k98k
-Added new weapon mesh for Enfield
-Added new weapon mesh for vb
-Added new third person German grenade model
-Added new infantry death sounds
-Added third person map reading animation
-Added new map object in third person
-Added new infantry death sounds
-Added new detailed footfall sounds
-Added new strafing animations
-Added new crouching animations
-Added crouch sprint
-Added animations to swimming backwards
-Added new loop timing to reduce skating
-Added new smoothing code to infantry animations based on velocity
-Added fire-button-holdown for ATR so you can delay recycles
-Added mouse wheel up/down as alternates for next/previos weapon to the default infantry.cfml file
-Audited all grenades for explosive energy, shrapnel dispersion, and shrapnel range with stat HE as the base
-Added new Axis knife
-Changed ATR ATP behavior match that of the LMG, Sprint allowed, at double cost
-Troopers will now stop moving when the map is up
-Third person infantry now face the direction of their velocity
-Fixed a bug where infantry could walk on water
-Fixed long-standing bugs with ATR walk/move states
-Fixed crouch/model rotate issue that was making the feet float off the ground
-Fixed a bug that could cause infantry units to delay being drawn
-Fixed a long standing bug where infantry eye points would stutter when no moving north or south

Vehicles:
-Added decal support to all vehicles except AT/AA guns
-Added historical sights to Stug commander and gunner
-Added armored glass to Daimler
-Added GP500 bombs to Hurricane II
-Added synched rate of fire to H81 and Bell14A machine guns
-Added HE to 2Pdr ATG
-Added HE to all 6pdr guns
-Added concussive resistance to all airplanes
-Added statistical shrapnel model to bombs
-Added oil pressure gauge to Spit I, Spit V and Spit IX
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components to Crusader II
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components PzIV
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components Stug
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components SdKfz 232
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components A13
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components H39
-Added some missing oil, radiator or transmission components R35
-Added fuselage blanking for guns to Bf110c
-Added fuselage blanking for guns to BF110c4
-Added fuselage blanking for guns to Ju87b2
-Added fuselage blanking for guns to He111
-Added fuselage blanking for guns to Blen Mk I
-Added new props (for sun glare)
-Adjusted ammo boxes on Fw190 to be consistent with other planes
-Adjusted ammo boxes on Hurricane II to be consistent with other planes
-Audited component mass and inertia for Crusader II
-Audited component mass and inertia for PzIV
-Audited component mass and inertia for Stug
-Audited component mass and inertia for R35
-Audited component mass and inertia for H39
-Audited component mass and inertia for S35
-Audited all turret traverse rates for historical records and consistency
-Audited Qf2pdr rate of fire to match historical record
-Audited roll rate for Db7 to match historical record
-Audited roll rate for Havoc to match historical record
-Audited D520 flight model
-Audited cowl gun load out and ballast weight on Fw190 (now 9oo RPG)
-Audited all propellers to have consistent damage levels by type
-Audited all .50cal MGs
-Audited down angle of rear gun in the BF110 series as gun was mounted on vertical adjustable coming
-Audited firewall in PzIV
-Audited firewall in Stug
-Audited firewall in SdKfz 232
-Audited firewall in Char
-Audited firewall in PzIV
-Audited firewall in Sherman
-Audited firewall in Vickers
-Audited firewall in Crusader
-Audited firewall in A13
-Audited firewall in Char
-Audited firewall in S35
-Audited firewall in R35
-Audited firewall in Stuart
-Audited firewall in H39
-Audited armor values in P38
-Audited PzIV floor armor values
-Audited armor values for Sherman driver hatches
-Audited armor value for Matilda front drivers slit
-Audited Flak 30 fuse timing to match other AA guns
-Audited crew damage objects in 6pdr
-Audited crew damage objects in Bofors
-Audited crew damage objects in Qf2pdr
-Audited crew damage objects in M157
-Audited crew damage objects in Mle25
-Audited crew damage objects in Mle38
-Audited crew damage objects in Mle47
-Audited crew damage objects in Flak 30
-Audited crew damage objects in Flak 36
-Audited crew damage objects in Pak 36
-Audited crew damage objects in Pak 38
-Fixed oil and temperature gauges in Crusader II
-Fixed oil, fuel and temperature gauges in PzIV
-Fixed oil, fuel and temperature gauges in Stug
-Fixed oil, fuel and temperature gauges in SdKfz 232
-Fixed oil, fuel and temperature gauges in Vickers
-Fixed engine sound location bug for Crusader II
-Fixed engine sound location bug for PzIV
-Fixed engine sound location bug for Stug III
-Fixed engine sound location bug for SdKfz 232
-Fixed a leak display bug in Crusader I and II
-Fixed a leak display bug in Stug III B & G
-Fixed a leak display bug in PzIV F & H
-Fixed a leak display bug in Pz IIc
-Fixed a leak display bug in Pz38t
-Fixed gauges on PzIIIF
-Fixed gauges on PzIIIH
-Fixed tank tread and sprocket on A13
-Fixed tank tread and sprocket on Crusader II
-Fixed tank tread and sprocket on Crusader III
-Fixed tank tread and sprocket on Char B1 Bis
-Fixed tank tread and sprocket on s35
-Fixed tank tread and sprocket on SdKfz 251 c
-Fixed a threshold on crew in the M4a2 that was not consistent
-Fixed gun sight deploy in SdKfz 232
-Fixed bow gun range adjusting from main gun sight in Pz38(t)
-Fixed ride point issue on PzIVG
-Fixed PzIVG target reticule display bug
-Fixed PzIVG turret "bustle" not showing hit effects
-Fixed PzIVG interior art (hand cranks) anomaly
-Fixed StuG IIIG commander’s periscope view anomaly/bug
-Fixed Vickers turret crew not rotating with turret bug
-Fixed SdKfz 232 crew clipping outside bug
-Fixed R35 control pedals (driver) reversed
-Fixed Crusader II art "flicker" interior texture
-Fixed armor leak on hull top for Stug III
-Fixed handling errors in Bedford OY
-Fixed track errors on Stuart
-Fixed LOD range problem on all Ju-52 models
-Fixed P-38 damage error in left radiator
-Fixed long standing multicrew bug where joiner would warp to the center of the earth
-Fixed DDE EWS bug
-Fixed Stuka tail gunner tracer
-Fixed damage object issues on Flak 36
-Fixed jitters on all tracked vehicles
-Fixed several reported orphan canopy sounds on aircraft
-Stug gun sight is now controlled completely with the deploy command ('d' key)
-Removed "backspace", hatch and canopy controls from position 2 of He111
-Removed French Flags from Sherman
-Removed texture reduction for virtual cockpits
-Removed unnecessary hatch sounds in Checked in Daimler
-Removed unnecessary hatch sounds in Checked in Panhard
-Removed unnecessary hatch sounds in Checked in SdKfz232
-Removed unnecessary hatch sounds in Checked in StuG IIIg
-Increased bomber EWS range
-Increased tank EWS range
-Increase truck EWS range
-Decreased AT/AA gun EWS range
-Plane distance indicators now draw to 6km

Rank:
-Added new rank structure
-Added new rank names for each country and branch
-Increased the total number of available ranks to allow for enlisted, officer and command tiers
-All players will retain the current rank level though the name of the rank may change
-Binocular and vehicle access rank *levels* have not changed so you will not lose your binos

Brigades:
-All personas will now be able to select a brigade from which to post or take missions
-Players can transfer between brigades easily

Missions:
-Missions now require the poster to lead the mission (Officer)
-Officers can exit the mission but it will not be available to join to other players
-Officers returning to the mission will reactivate the mission
-Officers can only post and lead one mission at a time
-Missions will no longer be deleted when their origin is captured
-Removed Priority from missions
-Missions can be Active, Inactive or Closed.
-Mission is active whenever the poster is on it.
-Mission becomes inactive if the poster leaves it without requesting to close it.
-Players cannot join someone else's mission unless it is active (officer present).
-If the mission leader exits his mission he is given the option to close it.
-If the mission leader exits his mission and does not return in 5 minutes, it will be closed automatically.
-Once a mission has been closed it remains in the system until the last player exits.
-Players (including the leader) cannot join or respawn on a closed mission.
-Mission leaders who have an inactive mission when entering the game will be returned to the mission and it will become active

Mobile Spawning:
-Increased minimum distance from enemy facility to 400m

Supply:
-Isolated CPs (no friendly links) will have no resupply
-Pockets of CPs (friendly linked but cut off) with no link back to a friendly factory receive a much slower resupply rate

User Interface (UI):
-Added new offline UI
-Added ability to spawn at various locations while offline
-Added new loading screen and progress bar
-Added random spawn screens with game tips
-Added persona based UI
-Added brigade selection and transfer tool
-Added brigade HQ
-Added new mission briefing room
-Added capacity and available information to vehicle selectors
-Added new streamlined multi crew functionality (further work pending)
-Added new game time format (Campaign #, Day #, Time ##:##)
-Added new chat window
-Added new list of all players on a mission
-Added new rank icons to mission player list
-Added new launch screen with random tips
-Added new keymapper
-Added new AAR (after-action report) functionality to review recent sorties
-Added promotion feedback to AAR
-Added ability to double click many items for faster navigation
-Removed the "mission success" feedback as it has no bearing on score

Keymapper:
-Added new keymapper

Heads Up Display (HUD):
-Added new health and ATP indicators
-Added state indicator for infantry
-Added new weapon indicators for infantry and crew
-Added new mini map
-Replaced cursor activation with a hold down ('alt')

Map:
-Added new unified map to all game maps
-Added new building icons
-Added click zoom/center to map icons
-Added city finder to all maps
-Added home and end functionality to chat/city finder
-Added close in zoom with buildings
-Fixed terrain offset issue
-Using the map now enters modal cursor mode where cursor is focused on the HUD and not on the persona
-Main map facility names now only show at low levels to help with information clutter at higher levels

Chat:
-Added ability to increase chat window size with a button
-Added chat tracking for more chat history
-Added 2 new slots for a total of 6 channels
-Radio slots will stay tuned to a particular channel type until a player manually detunes them
-When no channel is available for a particular radio, instead of detuning it will turn off receive
-Changed the default order of radio channels to be:

F1=mission
The mission channel is for coordination and communication between the mission leader and those players on the mission.

F2=Target
The target channel is for coordination across branches and missions who share the same mission target. This channel should be reserved for important communications and is the primary channel for mission leaders to coordinate with their peers.

F3=Brigade
The brigade channel is the general non-tactical chat channel for the brigade members.

F4=Squad
The squad channel is for communications between members of player-organized squads.

-Added new ignore features:
--type .ignore (player name) to ignore a player.
--type .ignore to see who is on your ignore list.
--type .ignore (player name) again to un-ignore someone.
--Player's ignore list is now saved
-Added ".5" and ".6" channel shortcuts
-Added "Side" channels
-Added "Help!" channel in place of "99"
-Removed theatre and world lobby channels
-Can tune to channel types by entering type "brigade", "mission", "origin", etc.
-Added scroll bar to chat
-Chat now only auto scrolls if the chat was already scrolled to the end.
-Chat now scrolls for 256 lines of history

Manuals:
-Added new reference manuals format for vehicles (more to come)

Terrain:
-Added new CP: Remagen (Germany
-Added new CP: Unkel (Germany)
-Added new CP: Velbert (Germany)
-Added new CP: Vohwinkel (Germany)
-Added new CP: Kurten (Germany)
-Added new CP: Overath (Germany)
-Added new CP: Lohmar (Germany)
-Added new CP: Cayeux (France)
-Added new CP: Essertaux (France)
-Added new CP: Picquigny (France)
-Added new CP: Poix-de-Picardie (France)
-Added new CP: Airaines (France)
-Added new CP: Oisemont (France)
-Added new CP: Fressenneville (France)
-Added new CP: Moreuil (France)
-Added new CP: Bouchoir (France)
-Added new CP: Chaulnes (France)
-Added new CP: Roye (France)
-Added new CP: Avricourt (France)
-Added new CP: Ham (France)
-Added new CP: Noyon (France)
-Added new CP: Chauny (France)
-Added new CP: Wickenby (UK)(airfield only)
-Added new CP: Hastings (UK)
-Added new CP: Winchelsea (UK)
-Added new CP: Rye (UK)
-Added new CP: Dungeness (UK)
-Added new CP: Woodchurch (UK)
-Added cross channel links
-Added FlaK corridors on approaches to industrial regions (all countries) so that bombers “pick up FlaK” well before they can see their targets
-Added new supply crates art
-Added new skins for urban buildings
-Added new facility signage
-Added new shaders based water
-Added setting to support shaders for new water
-Audited AI damage values to reflect changes to grenades
-Audited AI FlaK (20mm, 40mm and especially 75 and 88mm) to be effective at higher altitudes and longer ranges
-Audited 20mm AI to attack targets of opportunity
-Audited all AI rebuilds to double their previous time
-Fixed missing multi texture on forest road tiles
-Fixed coasts showing blue banks
-Fixed error for trees when using system ram setting
-Fixed a clipping issue with crates in the supply tent
-Adjusted ambient lighting values
-Adjusted colors on trees
-Adjusted colors on grass
-Adjusted colors on roadside brush
-Adjusted colors on airfield
-Reduced brightness of daytime sky color and deepened blue/gray tones
-Reduced brightness of horizon colors and deepened blue/gray tomes
-Increased Daytime Ambient light values
-Improved terrain rendering routines
-Replaced remaining old trees with SpeedTrees
-Updated the depot shack
-Disabled shaders based water when multi-texture is disabled in settings
-Updated 2 city buildings (hotels)
-Updated memorial
-Updated names to Dinant Builders' Bridge
-Updated new builders statues with captions
-Remodeled barracks to prevent access from outside
-Removed railings from rivers

Sounds:
-Added hand cranked gear for elevate (all geared gun elevate/depress)
-Added hand cranked gear for traverse (all hand cranked AFV turrets and all ATG/AAA, deck gun on Fairmile and torpedo tubes on DD’s)
-Added hydraulic powered traverse (all hydraulic power traverse AFV turrets and 5” guns on DD’s)
-Added electric powered traverse (all electric power traverse AFV turret’s)
-Added turret ring gear rumble (all turreted tanks and armored cars only)
-Added new infantry death sounds
-Added new detailed footfall sounds
-Added new detailed sounds for numerous weapons
-Added new sounds for various explosions
-Added new hit and ricochet sounds
-Added weapon switch sound to HUD
-Added sound to cycling of weapons using the mouse wheel
-Fixed Doppler bug with trooper sounds for 2d/3d
-Fixed PZII reload sound to match reload speed
-Fixed Char reload sound to match reload speed
-Fixed MG reload sound to match reload speed

Cannon Sounds:
-New German 75mm L48 / L43 sounds
-New US M3 75mm sound
-New UK Qf6pdr sound
-New 20mm sounds for all units
-New Bedford sound
-New Stuka siren
-New mp40 sound
-Adjusted 40mm Bofors
-New Distant Firing sounds for: Char 75mm, PzIVD, Pz4G, Stug3B, Stug3G, M4A2, and Flak36
-Removed engine volume factor in calculating external effect sounds, external explosions/hits should be more pronounced

MG sounds:
-Adjusted H81 .50
-Adjusted Hispano
-Adjusted Mg17
-Adjusted .50 caliber
-Added torpedo sounds
-Adjusted .303 Besa (synced 1st and 3rd person - adjusted quality)
-New .30 M1919A4
-Adjusted Mg34 for all units.

Small Arms Sounds:
-New Mas36
-New Mas38
-Adjusted Bren
-New K98
-New Mle24
-Adjusted Mp40
-New Lee Enfield
-Adjusted Thompson
-New Thompson/Mp40 reloads
-Adjusted Rifle reloads

Misc Sounds:
-Added music to the UI
-Added Dynamic Trooper Footsteps
-New Turret Sounds - Hydraulic, Hand Crank, Electric
-New Footsteps - Concrete, Wood, Metal, Dirt, Dirt Road, Sand
-Added sound for smoke grenades
-Added Air Raid siren for multiple bomber EWS
-Added Radio ambiance
-Added trail sounds for ALL automatic weapons
-New first person hits
-New Opel engine
-New 232 engine
-Added third person death screams
-New ricochet sounds for concrete
-New fabric hit sounds
-New wood hit sounds
-New AT push sounds (first person only)
-New knife sounds
-Added burning sounds for tanks
-Added starter sound for all trucks

Effects:
-Added new torpedo wake
-Added light distortion on glass, which now works in planes
-Added sun glare
-Removed smoke trail on thrown smoke grenades
-Made smoke more sporadic on detonation
-Added pop/fizz sounds to smoke grenades
-Added trailing sounds to several weapons (20mm, lmg, smg, etc.)
-Corrected which sound is playing for the sight adjust

Host:
-Added new vehicle info flags (for player icons)
--Added "in my brigade"
--Added "in my mission"
--Added "is my mission leader"
-Increased the client and host update rates
-Improved the terrain loading and distribution on the host
-Restructured the way the strat server tells the rest of the servers about the game world to minimize load spiking
-".attack", ".defend", ".clear" will now accept a facility and assume you mean the parent cp
-Replaced 80% of the map/mission system with entirely new code (watch this space -KFS1)
-Fixed some problems with manual resupply
-Fixed some problems with chat tuning
-Fixed a problem with the map host recovering players from the game world after a map crash
-Fixed a couple of strat update bugs
-Fixed a cause of lost sortie results on CTD
-Fixed some issues with mission scoring
-Fixed a cause for yellow flags
-Fixed an update issue with multi crew
-Fixed a major cause of multi-crew yellow flags
-Fixed a cause of missing kill recording
-Fixed a cause of incorrect multicrew recording (to CSR)
-Fixed a cause of lost kill recording (to CSR)
-Fixed a cause of incorrect kill recording (to CSR)
-Fixed several host performance issues which should improve overall game response to data
-Fixed a bug that could cause manual objective removal to apply its rules to the wrong objective
-Fixed a bug that could cause the chat server to cuss when sending an invalid time interval
-Fixed a bug that allowed any number of attack objectives to be placed
-Fixed a bug with mission info showing incorrectly post debrief
-Fixed a host stability bug causing crashes every 4-6 weeks
-Fixed a bug that could cause auto-despawns

Global:
-Added an extra level of EWS that indicates a heavy enemy presence
-Added new kill scoring system to give credit for kills caused by fires
-Added ability to disable rank limits on vehicles for scenarios
-Added performance improvements to texture handling
-Added new texture compression routines for decreased stutters
-Improved loading of non-rotated terrain objects to reduce stutter
-Improved performance of lighting engine
-Changed method of rendering trees for performance improvement
-Fixed an effects related cause for stutters
-Fixed a collision bug with trees

Settings:
-Added water enable/disable under the visual tab
-Fixed bug where selecting High Quality would set sounds to 2d instead of 3d
-Added selection for 2d sounds to aid performance a low-end systems (Mac is 3d always)
-Removed option to disable shaders for trees (Windows only)
-Added music volume slider

Mac:
-Fixed visual anomalies where vehicle components might appear blue
-Fixed possible icon and window rearrangement that can happen when playing the game
-Modernized cursor management to detach cursor movement tracking of mouse when it is hidden and centers mouse when shown so it is quick to find
-Added the ability to command-tab out of the game

Mac PlayGATE:
-Added new Mac PlayGATE
-Fixed download looping issues
-Added preference option to pause and un-pause iTunes when playing the game
-Added preference option to quit or not the application that is used to launch PlayGATE (i.e. web-browser)
-Added Menu option to trigger game update as needed without launching the game
-Added Automatic chaining of patch downloads and launching the game once patched as needed

Mac Config App:
-Added support for FSAA (full screen anti-aliasing), see display panel for options
-Added support for locking frame rate to screen refresh
-Added ability to disable the capturing of all displays for those with multiple monitors.
-Added sound quality settings for 3D sound render, see sound panel for options.
-Added the ability to force stereo output from the 3D sound render for those with multi-channel capable hardware but without the needed speakers, etc.
-Added the ability to convert sounds when loaded to a native format, which can reduce CPU utilization when doing 3D sound rendering at the cost of higher memory usage.

We would like to give special thanks to the following for their work on Battleground Europe - WWII Online:
-Mike Patti for sounds
-Iñigo Zapata for music
-Snoop for videos
-Andrew Wulf for Mac support
-Shawn Ericson for Mac support
-Sebastian Till for OpenGl support
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 23, 2005 0 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Guess I've been Retired
WWII Online :: View topic - Guess I've been Retired

The difference is:

Currently if you're between Lt and Col, you can SPAWN yourself any piece of equimpment you like, anywhere, and anywhen, because one you reach Lt, you can post the misson yourself.

In the future, you'll only be able to do that if someone ELSE posted the misson first and has a rank of Officer or higher (2nd Lt and up, currently anyone with Col rank or higher). You can spawn the equiment, but you can't post the misson to do so yourself first.


Example:
In 1.18: Someone caps the spawnable depot. It dosn't take too long to get to Lt, allowing you to post and spawn a misson yourself.

In 1.19: Unless you're in the HC (for that persona) or have spent a LOT of time and ranked up to level 9 (2nd Lt etc) you will have to WAIT till someone who HAS posts the misson for you. And you better hope if that person leaves, or goes to post a misson elsewhere, someone else can replace that person.


Gawd help you if you want a navy misson at anything that's not a DD port. Or have an account thats less than 2 months old. Or want to do a resupply misson. Or want to do a supply CUT misson from a non front line town. Or fly from a rear airfield when all the front line airfields are out of Hurr II's but have plenty of Spitfires.


Now most of US are probably uneffected by it. Yes yes, there's too many Major Major Minor Generals around. Fine.

But even though I'd a day 1 player, I've never gotten my navy rank up. Or my French airforce rank up.

And do you know often there's NO Hawk 75's at front line French airfields after a couple of RDPs? There ain't much. But if I want to fly one, all the guys who CAN post missons for French air DONT need to post missons from airfields that have an overabandance of Hawk 75s! And getting to a rank where I CAN post missons is going to take a very long time indeed unless I join the HC of that persona. At which point, I can post missons and now spawn everything, no matter how long I've been playing the game. Mabye it's a cunning way to get more people to join the air and naval HC's...

Low ranked players need to be able tp post missons for low ranked equimpment. YES I can spawn itr because my rank won't change. But that ability is usless if there's no one posting the misson for me!

what about grunts and being an officer instead of a NCO?

Yes....but not yet. Not for severel months, because it's not like that in 1.19 and it hasn;t been annoucned it will be like that in 1.20 (though granted, apart from the 3 new tanks, nothing much else has been annouced for that).

So at the very LEAST, the first full map of 1.19 WILL be like this. I hope it gets changed by 1.20, but the rats comments don't seem to say this anywhere.

Grunts are WW2OL newies aka green tags. The idea is suposed to be, once you graduate from being a Grunt, you choose if you want to be a NCO (take missons) or an Officer (post missons). The problem is, 1.19 isn't there yet. I can understand it not being there (my idea of allowing low ranked players to post low ranked spawn listed missons is too late to add in 1.19 with all the changes) but it needs to be in soon�.


I don't play Navy much, but my ability to do anything except multicrew a DD is going to be zero unless something is changed.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 23, 2005 1 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Who's with me?
WWII Online :: View topic - Who's with me?

is taking preorders at 2000 dollers US for...



Battletech pods. For Home Use

I now know what I want for my Birthday.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 23, 2005 0 comments

 
WWII Online :: View topic - Guess I've been Retired
1.19: where if you want to gain navy rank, join the navy HC or forget it.

WWII Online :: View topic - Guess I've been Retired

DOC wrote:

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR RENAMED RANK (equipment selection wise where rank determined that range of choice) IS NO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW..

Um...Doc?

Last time I checked, in 1.18 if you have reached the rank of Lt, you can post missons.

In 1.19, you need the rank of what is currently colonal (translated to new rank of 2nd Lt or somesuch)

THAT is something you can do in 1.18, and can't do in 1.19. And that's going to be a BIG problem for anyone not in the navy HC who wants to spawn pretty much anything boat like. Particaly the river missons.
- posted by Comstar @ Thursday, June 23, 2005 1 comments