Frontline Tactics: 2025 - a modern UE5 competitor to Combat Mission

Started by al_infierno, July 14, 2022, 03:50:27 PM

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al_infierno

This looks early and rough, but definitely shows some promise.  It looks like the developer intends to address common complaints about CM games which always fall on deaf ears at Battlefront, such as a need to improve their state-of-the-art-in-2005 game engine.

If nothing else, it's great to see Battlefront finally gain some desperately needed competition.  Maybe now they'll be inclined to do a little more than reskin and add new maps to their next title?

A War of a Madman's Making - a text-based war planning and political survival RPG

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.  War endures.  As well ask men what they think of stone.  War was always here.  Before man was, war waited for him.  The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.  That is the way it was and will be.  That way and not some other way.
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian


If they made nothing but WWII games, I'd be perfectly content.  Hypothetical matchups from alternate history 1980s, asymmetrical US-bashes-some-3rd world guerillas, or minor wars between Upper Bumblescum and outer Kaboomistan hold no appeal for me.
- Silent Disapproval Robot


I guess it's sort of nice that the word "tactical" seems to refer to some kind of seriousness during your moments of mental clarity.
- MengJiao

Ubercat

Seriously.

I was just cleaning out my old Hotmail account and was surprised at how many old tech support emails I still had courtesy of BF's rubbish DRM! I knew that I'd had to go around the block a few times with them but it was even worse than I recalled.
"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today."

- Thomas Sowell

Zulu1966

Quote from: al_infierno on July 14, 2022, 03:50:27 PM
This looks early and rough, but definitely shows some promise.  It looks like the developer intends to address common complaints about CM games which always fall on deaf ears at Battlefront, such as a need to improve their state-of-the-art-in-2005 game engine.

If nothing else, it's great to see Battlefront finally gain some desperately needed competition.  Maybe now they'll be inclined to do a little more than reskin and add new maps to their next title?



Well - says its an RTS so not really the same as CM. More Men of War ...
"you are the rule maker, the dictator, the mini- Stalin, Mao, Hitler, the emperor, generalissimo, the MAN. You may talk the talk and appear to be quite easy going to foster popularity, but to the MAN I say F*CK YOU." And Steve G is F******g rude ? Just another day on the BF forum ... one demented idiots reaction to BF disagreeing about the thickness of the armour on a Tiger II turret mantlet.

al_infierno

^ I think in the Reddit thread the dev specified there will be a WEGO mode a la CM as well.
A War of a Madman's Making - a text-based war planning and political survival RPG

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.  War endures.  As well ask men what they think of stone.  War was always here.  Before man was, war waited for him.  The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.  That is the way it was and will be.  That way and not some other way.
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian


If they made nothing but WWII games, I'd be perfectly content.  Hypothetical matchups from alternate history 1980s, asymmetrical US-bashes-some-3rd world guerillas, or minor wars between Upper Bumblescum and outer Kaboomistan hold no appeal for me.
- Silent Disapproval Robot


I guess it's sort of nice that the word "tactical" seems to refer to some kind of seriousness during your moments of mental clarity.
- MengJiao

al_infierno

New name for the game is Frontline Tactics: 2025.  Still not super memorable IMO but better than the original name (which I've already forgotten despite just editing it out of the title)
A War of a Madman's Making - a text-based war planning and political survival RPG

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge.  War endures.  As well ask men what they think of stone.  War was always here.  Before man was, war waited for him.  The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.  That is the way it was and will be.  That way and not some other way.
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian


If they made nothing but WWII games, I'd be perfectly content.  Hypothetical matchups from alternate history 1980s, asymmetrical US-bashes-some-3rd world guerillas, or minor wars between Upper Bumblescum and outer Kaboomistan hold no appeal for me.
- Silent Disapproval Robot


I guess it's sort of nice that the word "tactical" seems to refer to some kind of seriousness during your moments of mental clarity.
- MengJiao