When will we see a new CC?

[LitFuel]

ORIGINAL: Bevington

Does anyone know if there is definite plans to remake Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far?

See this thread: tm.asp?m=2413368

Just waiting for an update...sounds like they are working on it. Hopefully we'll hear something more soon.

[Southernland]

ORIGINAL: inquisiteur

This serie is getting milked really hard by matrixgrames. I have bought about 4 CC games, and everytime its about revisiting the code of the game.

It's only getting milked if you and others buy it. If aint no one buying, the milk stays in the dah cow

ORIGINAL: inquisiteur
When I asked when graphics will be finally updated the answer is always the same: "That's the job of modders". Well, I don't know if anyone is noticing this, but the more we have re-heated versions of CC, the less people tend to bother themselves building mods.

this game has been released 6 months ago and I am stuck with the vanilla version where 6 soldiers per unit and horrible graphics, and its gonna be the same story for every next release.

Yeah but surely thats an issue for the community. If mods are wanted mod away.

ORIGINAL: inquisiteur
I say matrixgames should hire a part time polyvalent 3d modeler/animator to make some decent 3 d graphics for buildings and soldiers, and the map should stay 2d but with a nice map instead of the VGA esque scenery we have on and on since 10 years. Or maybe not even 3d for units, but something like the first blitzkrieg game (I am speakinhg about the sprites only), just better sprites. Some tanks look more like a patchwork of pixels than anything else.

Buildings with a slight 3d aspect to them can be hard to set on a map. If they're designed to run say north south and your road runs at 30 degrees you have to rotate them and that screws with the walls so you would require a minimum of 12 (probably more) renderings of each building during map creation.

Remember also you're stuck with a set and very limited number of pixels for a vehicle graphic and for a smaller vehicle like an armoured car that might be as few as 500 pixels (50x10) and with the Cc engine there is no 3dmodeling so those are all you have short of rebuilding the scale as several mods have done.

ORIGINAL: inquisiteur
The only minor noticable change in the map was in cross Iron, but at my dismay this progress stopped right away with the next releases.

I did a bunch of new maps for COI, quite a few for WaR and about 12 for tLD. There were a few alterations for COI based on the fact that I didn't have access to many of the original textures and I draw differently to the original artists. Theortetically COI, WaR and tLD were largely supposed to be rereleases so we kept the same styles where ever possible to the original cc4 and cc5 to acheive a blend of old and new maps.

[Echo5Joker]

While we're on the subject of things we'd like to see, I have a couple of things I'd like to see in the next CC.

1.  I'd like to have the option to pick units out of a battle group's table of organization.  Right now, if you take a unit out of your line-up, it is gone, along with its stats, medals, etc.  It's also more realistic - a commander only has on hand a certain number of particular units, and has to pick and choose which ones to send into certain situation. 

2.  With the ever-increasing size of maps, perhaps in the next version HQ units could be integrated, perhaps as a 4th platoon, that would give the player expanded abilities or capabilities, eg intelligence units that could display MCOOs, supply units that will enable your units to carry more ammo or resupply, comm units that will ensure your troops do what you want them to do, etc.

3.  An expanded library of sounds and weapons data would be good too.  For example, having the speech files in most common languages and important dialects.  I would love to see CC expand into other theaters, such as Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and other conflicts as well.  I know the modding community has already created a multitude of top-notch mods, and usually the only short-falls are the voice files and the weapons graphics.  Most modders just don't have the production value for those things that the developers are capable of, and I think that's the last real piece of the modding puzzle before the mods become indistinguishable from the "real" games.

4.  Last, for now, I think it would be awesome if they merged the campaign systems from CC3 and CC5.  Have the strat map move battlegroups, and then have the battlegroups fight back and forth across contiguous maps, say 3-5 per area on the strat map.  Or, use the "long" maps like in CCM, which were several smaller maps "stitched" together into one long map.

Just thoughts from a long-time (from CC1) CC fan.

[Erik Rutins]

Hi guys,

We have a couple of updates coming soon for Wacht am Rhein and The Longest Day. We are also getting very close on the next major release, which should be to CC2 what The Longest Day was to CC5. More details will be coming within a month.

Regards,

- Erik

[Dundradal]

Erik,

Thanks for the update! It's good to know things are still moving.

Do you have any news on Cross of Iron or MMCC3? Or does someone else handle those products?

Again thanks!

And a New Englander to boot! I'm from NH myself.

[FeurerKrieg]

next major release, which should be to CC2 what The Longest Day was to CC5

Yay!!! [&o]

[CSO_Talorgan]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

We are also getting very close on the next major release, which should be to CC2 what The Longest Day was to CC5. More details will be coming within a month.

Excellent!