Will it be better than Combat Mission

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Since CM:BN has been announced we might as well discuss it. We don't know what will be over there until it's out. I can tell you what we have over here.

2 Steves

This is an advantage????!!! [:D] [:D] [:D]

I thought there was a limit to ONE STEVE per project! [:-]


Good Hunting.

MR

[junk2drive]

Our Steves are nice and knowledgeable about concrete and stuff. And they actually play the game.

[HintJ]

The current version of CMSF is quite good! With the quick battles changed so that I can pick my units, the new CM should be excellent.

[Yoozername]

ORIGINAL: junk2drive

Our Steves are nice and knowledgeable about concrete and stuff. And they actually play the game.

That remark is completely cementitious.

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: HintJ

The current version of CMSF is quite good! With the quick battles changed so that I can pick my units, the new CM should be excellent.

I hope so. I wish BFC the best.

PCO and CMB4N are different in far more ways than they are alike.


Good Hunting.

MR

[Ron]

What's CMB4N? Is that some childish reaction to the accepted acronym for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - CMBN?

What PC hasn't shown yet is a compelling reason to play, both Kharkov and Winterstorm fizzled with barely a sputter. All the semi-recent hype of Ostfront is starting to show the same symptom.

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: Ron

What's CMB4N? Is that some childish reaction to the accepted acronym for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - CMBN?

I hadn't realized there was an accepted acronym for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy. Obviously my childishly huge mistake.

I guess it was was childish to use the accepted acronym that the game went by for almost the past 2 years as well. That was CMN.

What PC hasn't shown yet is a compelling reason to play, both Kharkov and Winterstorm fizzled with barely a sputter. All the semi-recent hype of Ostfront is starting to show the same symptom.

No game is going to show you a compelling reason to play with Screen Shots. You have to play the game itself. I can tell you that PCO won't be for everybody. It may well not be for you.

How do you propose that a game company tells gamers about what they have to offer if they don't put out semi-recent hype? Do nothing but add it to the list of games for sale?

You bring up a very good point though. This game company is in competition with other game companies to sell games. In this case this thread was started by someone wanting to know if PCO will be better than CM. My assumption was that they were talking about CMx1. Since Combat Mission Battle for Normandy isn't released yet.

That's not a comparison I brought up. They don't compare too well. PCO is a different kind of a game than CMx1 and certainly much different than what CM:BN looks like. But Matrix is here to sell games, just as is BFC. So we answer the questions posed to us about the differences and go on.

As to what I call BFC's products, they don't care. What they care about is if I buy them. If we were as thin skinned about what the Panzer Command series is called, by the acronyms used for it, we could be here awhile.

I will make this prediction for you personally Ron. While I agree with what you say about both PC:OWS and PC:K I predict that PCO won't fizzle without a sputter. It may fizzle but it will get plenty of play time before it does. This is a very different game of this series. When the demo comes out try it.

But beware, you just might like it! [:-]

Good Hunting.

MR

[junk2drive]

ORIGINAL: Ron

What's CMB4N? Is that some childish reaction to the accepted acronym for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - CMBN?

What PC hasn't shown yet is a compelling reason to play, both Kharkov and Winterstorm fizzled with barely a sputter. All the semi-recent hype of Ostfront is starting to show the same symptom.

There is a thread at BFC with a discussion of how to type it out. MR's is no worse than the choices over there.

[Ron]

Oh c'mon, who's kidding who? I wonder how often you thought of your previous love as CMB2B?

Ostfront will still be a free patch correct? I was under the impression it was promised to be out before the end of the year? I guess all Steves have certain traits in common.

[Mobius]

ORIGINAL: Ron

What's CMB4N? Is that some childish reaction to the accepted acronym for Combat Mission Battle for Normandy - CMBN?

What PC hasn't shown yet is a compelling reason to play, both Kharkov and Winterstorm fizzled with barely a sputter. All the semi-recent hype of Ostfront is starting to show the same symptom.

One cannot say how PCO compares to CMBN. One game is designed to be WEGO the other is designed to be RST. In one game the basic infantry units are squads and the other might be fire teams or individuals. So the only game that would compare now would be CMx1.

I might ask, Weren't there any Brits or Canadians at Normandy?

[Prince of Eckmühl]

ORIGINAL: Ron

I wonder how often you thought of your previous love as CMB2B?

That's true of a lot of folks who enjoyed CMBB, don't you think? But, that game is dead and gone. It's completely close-ended from the standpoint of modifying weapons and vehicles. At one point, the developer was charging five-dollars for a Windows Vista Patch. Apart from nostalgia, it's hardly worth mentioning after all these years. Stick a fork in her, she's done (for)![;)]

Ostfront will still be a free patch correct? I was under the impression it was promised to be out before the end of the year? I guess all Steves have certain traits in common.

The longer that it's in gestation, the better the final product will be. A legitimate criticism of the first two games was that they were short of content, particularly when compared to the myriad vehicles in CMBB and CMAK. It appears that Ostfront will resolve this in it's developer's favor. And I'd note that other developers are headed in the opposite direction, are severely restricting content, even within the context of a single operation like Normandy or Kharkov.

[junk2drive]

ORIGINAL: Ron

Oh c'mon, who's kidding who? I wonder how often you thought of your previous love as CMB2B?

Ostfront will still be a free patch correct? I was under the impression it was promised to be out before the end of the year? I guess all Steves have certain traits in common.

Thanks for posting your thoughts. I'm sure there are lurkers with similar thoughts and questions that don't post.

We are glad to have someone to discuss things with.

[HintJ]

ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl


That's true of a lot of folks who enjoyed CMBB, don't you think? But, that game is dead and gone. It's completely close-ended from the standpoint of modifying weapons and vehicles. At one point, the developer was charging five-dollars for a Windows Vista Patch. Apart from nostalgia, it's hardly worth mentioning after all these years. Stick a fork in her, she's done (for)![;)]

That's pretty much how I see it. I actually like both CMBB and CMSF, but CMBB is pretty much abandoned. Rather than abandon CMBB, it would be great if BFC let someone continue to develop the code, not just creating patches for 64 bit OS, but further enhancing the game, like by adding message boxes as we have in PC!

PCO interests me because it seems like a CMx1 generation of game that is still being developed!

And comparing PCO to CMBN seems strange because 1) I haven't played either, and 2) PCO is probably better compared to CMBB.

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: Ron

Oh c'mon, who's kidding who? I wonder how often you thought of your previous love as CMB2B?

Not often but I wouldn't have gone off on somebody for using that name. I would have still understood what game we were talking about.

Ostfront will still be a free patch correct? I was under the impression it was promised to be out before the end of the year? I guess all Steve's have certain traits in common.

ROFL!!!!!!!!!! Not what I expected to see from someone so touchy about what acronym BFC and the community use to describe Combat Mission Battle for Normandy.

No, all Steve's don't have certain traits in common. This one wouldn't put his name on a software package he says is the greatest thing since sliced bread and tell everybody to pre-order when it was so bug ridden it wouldn't run as advertised. This one will, to the best of his ability, put a product out that doesn't require 12 patches and two years before it actually becomes a working software package that the gaming public expected at release.

You want the software before we get the final set of issues worked out of it? I didn't think so. If I gave it to you now then I guess all Steve's would have the same traits.

Yes, the update is free to any previous owners of PC:OWS and PC:K. Part of the hold up are demo's. We want to put demo's out for this game for those of you that may not have decided whether this game is for you or not.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Yoozername]

I really thought that CMBB was a dead end and the mis-modeling and reactive modeling ruined the game (especially the infantry).  I hope that PCO can develop itself better than CMBB and its past iterations.  Panzer Command has been a 'plain-burger' in my opinion. 

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: Yoozername

I really thought that CMBB was a dead end and the mis-modeling and reactive modeling ruined the game (especially the infantry).  I hope that PCO can develop itself better than CMBB and its past iterations.  Panzer Command has been a 'plain-burger' in my opinion. 

PCO is an interesting combination of old plus new compared to CMBB. There are things in PCO that aren't in CMBB and vice versa. As the PC game series grows it will continue that trend of covering some of the same ground and the CMx1 series and yet be it's own system. PC is definitely not a CM clone.

Once the update is out we can start on the rest of the improvements to the series. Not sure if you'll consider PCO as a plain burger or not but if you do then I can tell you the condiments for your burger are coming in PC4.

Good Hunting.

MR

[Erik Rutins]

Ok everyone,

It seems a few reminders are necessary based on this and the StuG thread.

1. Please keep all posts civil, even when disagreeing. No personal attacks.

2. While the question of how Panzer Command compares to CM comes up very often for obvious reasons, virtually the entire development team has played and enjoyed CM. We do not have a grudge against CM, but we do prefer Panzer Command to CMx1 and feel that on the whole CMx2 is fairly different from the original series. My own thoughts are that I see CM as a fantastic series and a major source of inspiration. Other tactical wargames, more than can probably be counted, have also inspired us and our underlying design is based on a miniatures wargame created by one of our Steves (Mobius).

There's room for both CM and Panzer Command and we have no issue with Battlefront or the CM series.

3. There is no bashing of other developers or publishers allowed on our forums. We apply the same policy across the board, so criticism of any game, developer or publisher is fine, but you need to be constructive and explain why you have an issue and support your claim. Vague or unsupported criticisms are considered bashing and not ok with us.

Regards,

- Erik

[Enigma6584]

Nice to see calmer minds settling things down.  We all should be so lucky to have two companies putting together products like CMX2 and PC:Ostfront.  It has always frustrated me to see both games and developers targets of unfair criticisms.  We get to indulge in our hobby, we get to live vicariously through these games because of certain peoples' (i.e. developers) love for tactical wargames and the important history that they are based on.  I don't really care who is best for this or who is best for that.  Both, in my experience are going to have certain strengths and certain weaknesses.  One is going to represent battle better in one way, the other will be stronger in another.  We are never going to get everything with either of them.  All that matters to me is that both games give me the illusion that I'm a commander on the battlefield leading my troops into battle.  I personally will purchase both series.  Panzers marsch!

[Richie61]

I have room for both on my hard drive, so bring'em on

[junk2drive]

Added tank riders and TCP/IP and a few more to post 40