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ORIGINAL: zakblood

progress is coming along nicely thanks, alpha testing is done, pre beta testing is next, then open sign up for main beta to follow, not sure why you think it's dead tbh,

but as always, most of the work is ongoing out of public view, updates and posts will be made, when it's ready.

Your kidding right? like dont get me wrong i love the series but if your gonna say retard shit like that your about you deserve a retard response - Your PR is the worse ive witnessed with any gaming company, worse than battlestate games (loved their latest info update on the escape from tarkov launcher " problem has solved" , what fkn problem) but yet still more info than what you guys are giving.

Nobody hears about this game for MONTHS and you wonder why its dead, try gettin someone to give us at least fortnightly press releases. Til then your games in open beta (cause i doubt yall will invite me to closed) im gonna be playing men of war AS2 dynamic campaign generator..its the best i can get til then.

ORIGINAL: thekromewolf
Nobody hears about this game for MONTHS and you wonder why its dead

Please do not speak by everybody here. I have seen the game this year and it is at progress. They are taking their time improving it because they want make some really good. They do not need publish information each week.

ORIGINAL: Nomada_Firefox

ORIGINAL: thekromewolf
Nobody hears about this game for MONTHS and you wonder why its dead

Please do not speak by everybody here. I have seen the game this year and it is at progress. They are taking their time improving it because they want make some really good. They do not need publish information each week.

To be fair, announced in 2013....reminds me of Blizzard when announcing a new Diablo edition. But 5 years to develope a game...just saying.

ORIGINAL: rogo727

ORIGINAL: Nomada_Firefox

ORIGINAL: thekromewolf
Nobody hears about this game for MONTHS and you wonder why its dead

Please do not speak by everybody here. I have seen the game this year and it is at progress. They are taking their time improving it because they want make some really good. They do not need publish information each week.

To be fair, announced in 2013....reminds me of Blizzard when announcing a new Diablo edition. But 5 years to develope a game...just saying.

Comparation is funny at least because Blizzard had money, a lot of money, more money than if you take all the profits from Slitherine in all their lives probably and a very big team. Now compare. The work in BF is a complete success in comparation. [:'(]

I can understand how you could be waiting a lot of time and you are not in the very confortable with the wait, I was equal one year ago. But trusth me, I am very confortable thinking how the game will be finished as it must be. You should be happy.[:)]

ORIGINAL: thekromewolf

ORIGINAL: zakblood

progress is coming along nicely thanks, alpha testing is done, pre beta testing is next, then open sign up for main beta to follow, not sure why you think it's dead tbh,

but as always, most of the work is ongoing out of public view, updates and posts will be made, when it's ready.

Your kidding right? like dont get me wrong i love the series but if your gonna say retard shit like that your about you deserve a retard response - Your PR is the worse ive witnessed with any gaming company, worse than battlestate games (loved their latest info update on the escape from tarkov launcher " problem has solved" , what fkn problem) but yet still more info than what you guys are giving.

Nobody hears about this game for MONTHS and you wonder why its dead, try gettin someone to give us at least fortnightly press releases. Til then your games in open beta (cause i doubt yall will invite me to closed) im gonna be playing men of war AS2 dynamic campaign generator..its the best i can get til then.

That’s quite an entitled attitude, as if you have a natural right to know the status of a game in development.

It is done when it is done.
If Matrix is too lazy, so be it.

If it arrives I’ll buy it.
In the meantime life goes on, plenty of games to play and enjoy - besides RL(tm).

one reasons it's best not to say anything when alpha or beta testing any game, as some take it the wrong way, no matter what it said or mentioned, so for me,

Merry Christmas everyone and my last post in here[:D]

I was so looking forward to the release of this game this year. Very sad...

Don't suppose a multiplayer system like Combat Mission is in the cards? Live multiplayer is pretty tough to schedule for a lot of people, some kind of rounds with replay would be nice.

If you guys need more time then yes please feel free. Even if you decide you need another 4 years then sure thing take all the time in the world because it really seems like you need it.

I bought armored brigade for the meantime.... y'all might like it, it's pretty good!

Anxiously awaiting 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 so that I can try The Bloody First. Now I believe it's arrival is scheduled for the first
quarter sometime this year, so that could mean another 3 10 months. But I help its on the earlier side of the quarter year.

All in jest to the developers. Take your time to make this the best of the Close Combat series.

Devs just dont screw this up, we been waiting way to long for it.

Wooow man! Im just found this website and im shocked!!!
I played all of the Close Combat series. In 1998 year I was buy the Close Combat I in sale. I loved this game very much. And now a see that Matrix game works to make Close Combat in 3D! At first I was delighted, but then I see a screenshots it was sad to me. Its a free project or something? Why the graphics so ugly? Now is year of 2019, Not 2001!!!
I was waiting a lot of years Close Combat in 3D. This is the best of all times wargame for me. I was disappointed You need to change graphic engine or models of objects and trees. Tanks seems bad too. Explosion effects like games of 15 years old.

Sorry for hard words and my bad english.

Best regards, Andrey.

ORIGINAL: AFANAS

Wooow man! Im just found this website and im shocked!!!
I played all of the Close Combat series. In 1998 year I was buy the Close Combat I in sale. I loved this game very much. And now a see that Matrix game works to make Close Combat in 3D! At first I was delighted, but then I see a screenshots it was sad to me. Its a free project or something? Why the graphics so ugly? Now is year of 2019, Not 2001!!!
I was waiting a lot of years Close Combat in 3D. This is the best of all times wargame for me. I was disappointed You need to change graphic engine or models of objects and trees. Tanks seems bad too. Explosion effects like games of 15 years old.

Sorry for hard words and my bad english.

Best regards, Andrey.

The main point from TBF is get a game which it adds a modern engine without the problems from the older engine looking as the old games. Clearly this new game looks similar and better.

In addition, the Archon engine can be edited and modded easily, without the several limitations from other engines used in other games.

About other type of graphics, do you know another wargame in real time with better graphics and more realist? the answer is clearly no because close combat is a unique game.

I do not like comparations but I go to compare for all you.

Bliztkrieg 3 - Great graphics but zero point zero of realism and bad gameplay.

Sudden Strike 4 - Great graphics but zero point zero of realism, at least gameplay is better than before in other Sudden Strike where it was bad.

Combat Mission games - Very polygonal graphics in a height zero level, a lot of realism if you ignore how the war is not by turns.

Men in war - Great graphics but zero point zero of realism.

Company of heroes games - Great graphics but zero point zero of realism.

Definitely Close Combat the Bloody First can look poorer for some people but it adds more realism and better gameplay than all the other games. And for the record I like a lot more the style of terrain, trees, walls, any other objects than in all other these games named by me where things are too fantastic and subrealistic.

"For end, just I go to say what other people can easily read........... one new guy, one single post = hater or troll. [:'(]"

Back when the second CC (A Bridge Too Far) was released, players complained the graphics were too "cartoonish" with the bright colors and sprites. The argument from Atomic games then was that the graphics at that time were just what they were.
But the principle of the programming was based on the soldier's state, rather than the graphics. So the moral of the story is that you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time. As long as the basic
mechanics are intact, then the game will serve the series well.

one new guy, one single post = hater or troll

Man, you are wrong now!
By the way about comparations. Do you know «Soldiers: Heroes of World War II»? This game is most looks like Close Combat for me. Cool graphics, visual effects and realism. When I saw "Soldiers" first time I thought that someone made the game like Close Combat but with modern graphics. Ist been in 2004 year.
IMHO other parts of Close Combat now looks more better and realistic then "The Bloody First". If you wont to made 3d game in 2019 you need to match the time, even it is a wargame. Its need to be visual and realism atmospheric.
In the end, do you want to sell that or what? For whom they made is? For fans for free?
Man, I just want true Close Combat but in modern 3d, thats all.

No trolling, no hating.

Whith love to Close Combat!

Back when the second CC (A Bridge Too Far) was released, players complained the graphics were too "cartoonish" with the bright colors and sprites.

Oh my godness! Who did say that?
After Close Combat 1 the BTF was look amazing! I was run to CD shop for it quickly as I can after I saw the BTF demo! [:D]

The argument from Atomic games then was that the graphics at that time were just what they were.

You just say it!
So make a game that is relevant to today's time!

Soldiers: Heroes of World War II

Yes, I know it, a very old 3D WWII game. Another game with lack of realism.......but the graphics in TBF are better than in Soldiers: Heroes of World War II. Just them and everything more was thought for to be as in a old Close Combat game. The most similar would Gateway to Caen, where graphic colors are very similar.

Perhaps you have not played never a Close Combat. No one, absolutelly no one of these RTS can be considered a wargame with realism.

In addition, this engine named by you as poor has a capability which it has not any of these other games with better graphics. The modding capabilities.

Most of the people which we have been following these games for years (I was here almost 20 years ago), we want some similar to the old CC in eveything ways, the style suggested by you was tried before and it was a piece of shit. [:D]

I dont say thats "Soldiers" graphics is better then TBF. I said the "Soldiers" graphics looks great fo its time.
You second time said what I do not play Close Combat. Who knowns that game? How many people play now in Close Combat? Do you really think that I came here to trolling or hating nobodys known old game? I think its funny. I am 35 years old man.
I did not become lazy and registered on this forum just because I have my own opinion about this project. When TFB be released I with pleasure play and have nastolgie.
By the way. Why you protect it? You are from development team?

Most of the people which we have been following these games for years (I was here almost 20 years ago)

Following for what? All Close Combat series are played 1000 times. Give me something new!

we want some similar to the old CC in eveything ways

I want that too. But now the graphics looks like its made indie developments for free.
You may say again and again thats the graphics and visuals are ok, but they are not ok and dont be better by words.
Its not that far times now when we must choose graphics or realism.
And I will tell you why the graphics so ugly, because developers knows that TBF will buy too small auditory of hardcore players in the world. Its not mass project. So why they must waste many resourses for it?