August 2000

Thursday, August 24, 2000

v105 Patch released!!!! News by Madmatt @ 23:12

It's true! Less than week after v104 comes the kick ass v105 patch. And let me tell you, this one ROCKS. I have pulled some of the highlights from the readme file below! Check it out:

* Units will NOT switch away from an ambush marker target just because
they have been spotted by the enemy.

* Units area-targeting a building which collapses and has no visible
surviving enemy troops in the resulting rubble will cancel their area
target.

* Buildings and bridges are labeled with "damage" or "heavy damage"
when they've taken over 50% damage and the "Warning Labels" option is
on. Additionally, they're listed with a '*' attached, like
"light building*", or a '**' for heavy damage.

* JPz IV and JPz IV/70 now have a bow MG, but it's somewhat less
effective at short (under 100m) range than a 'standard' bow MG due to
its simplified and somewhat underprotected mounting.

* T8 Recon vehicle now first available in December 1944 (same time as
arrival of M24 Chaffee).

* Fixed a bug introduced in v1.04 that made some units with normally
large ammo loads, in scenarios created with v1.03 or earlier, have ammo
loads above 65000.

* Roads are never considered "slopes", in order to make mapbuilding
easier and avoid the problem of vehicles not being able to traverse
*roads* on steep grades.

* When a unit's last movement order is "rotate", and it tries to move
through impassable terrain, the TacAI is no longer confused about the
intended endpoint of the movement path if a new movement path must be
calculated (bug fix).

* Victory flags in a meeting engagement quick battle are more centered
(to avoid giving one player too much of an advantage).

* In previous versions, the TacAI was less likely to fire vehicle heavy
weapons at bailed crews, but it wasn't as inhibited about wanting to fire
the coax MG at them, which still caused the turret-swiveling-away-from-real-
threats problem. So the coax MG has been "toned down" vs. crews like the
main weapon (bug fix).

* TacAI code for a tank swiveling its turret back to a forward position
when it has no target is smarter. It will do so as default behavior except
for a 2-3 minute period after the tank has targeted an enemy which had
anti-armor capability and the tank is not moving or rotating (i.e. moving
or rotating the tank will cause the turret to swivel back to forward even
if the last target was an anti-armor threat).

* Large guns like the 88mm AT are allowed to use the rotation order (this
was a bug).

Plus it still has all the yummy fixes and additionas for v104 and before. You need to run DONT walk and grab this bad boy. Your legitimate copy of Combat Mission will love you for it. And of course if you have a pirated copy of CM you are just going to burn in hell any way and no pity will be taking upon your wretched soul. :-)