Brother against brother

[panzerde]

Nicely done, Spelk! My 1st Manassas game is heating up. The AI actually seems to be trying to scout!

[ERutins]

We have a new public beta update available today, which we expect to go official early next week:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3848446

Aside from bug fixes, the most noteworthy items are improvements for the AI (especially for the Blackburn's Ford scenario where we found some bugs, but will help all scenarios) and some performance improvements.

Regards,

- Erik

[panzerde]

Looks like some good changes. Grabbing and will try tonight.

[mikeck]

I don't see any graphics quality options. Does the game run at native screen resolution automatically?

[bbmike]

I couldn't find any .ini files where you could change the screen resolution so I'm thinking so.

[magnus]

" I don't see any graphics quality options. Does the game run at native screen resolution automatically?"

Yes

[mikeck]

Great, thanks.

[magnus]

I think there was some confusion, because in a read.me file or the manual from years ago it was listed as how to change the resolution.

I think Gil said it was changed four years ago or so.

I played tested this one for so long it is almost like one of my children.

So everyone go out and buy BAB1 and all the following BABs until I can get my Franco-Prussian or Austro-Prussian battles.

Everyone has pleaded for a new " Age of rifles ", well here it is.

[Gil R.]

Catching up on a week's worth of posts...

Panzerde,
Thank you for your comments on the game.  I'm glad you enjoyed Blackburn's Ford -- especially since one player pointed out an AI problem that led to discoveries both of a bug that was making the AI hold back in certain situations and to a scripting error I'd made.  It should be more challenging now (for the CSA player).  (I see that Erik Rutins has mentioned this.  I'll add that the beta-patch also has a change that should make the CSA AI at Manassas better.)  Also, you mentioned the choppiness of the scrolling, so I'm wondering if by now you've tried the beta-patch, which fixes that.

Miceck,
Regarding resolution, the game plays at any resolution, with the caveat that we seem to be having some problems in some scenarios with 4K displays -- though with those you can still play the game in lower resolutions.  I believe the 1366 resolution is all fixed.

[panzerde]

Catching up on a week's worth of posts...

Panzerde,
Thank you for your comments on the game.  I'm glad you enjoyed Blackburn's Ford -- especially since one player pointed out an AI problem that led to discoveries both of a bug that was making the AI hold back in certain situations and to a scripting error I'd made.  It should be more challenging now (for the CSA player).  (I see that Erik Rutins has mentioned this.  I'll add that the beta-patch also has a change that should make the CSA AI at Manassas better.)  Also, you mentioned the choppiness of the scrolling, so I'm wondering if by now you've tried the beta-patch, which fixes that.

Yep, tried the beta patch and scrolling in much, much smoother. I may restart my 1st Manassas game to see how the AI changes play out. The CSA moves in the game I started pre-patch seem kind of tentative and not well directed - though CSA units certainly seem to inflict more casualties in fire combat than my Union regiments are inflicting.

I am still really impressed with the system. I'd love to see this applied to other ACW and 19th Century battles. Someone was mentioning Six Week War and Franco-Prussian War scenarios - I'd buy those in a heartbeat!

[Gil R.]

The CSA's higher casualties are probably a function of difficulty level.

It may be worth restarting.  In addition to that bug Eric found that inhibited the AI in some situations, there was a miscommunication/misunderstanding whereby my AI scripting of some key brigades, including Stonewall Jackson's, did not lead to their being as aggressive as I had intended.  So now they should be suitably aggressive.

[Gil R.]

I forgot to respond to this comment:  "I am still really impressed with the system. I'd love to see this applied to other ACW and 19th Century battles. Someone was mentioning Six Week War and Franco-Prussian War scenarios - I'd buy those in a heartbeat!"

That's good to hear.  We would certainly like to be able to use this game engine for other wars and periods, but we are limited to having a single programmer, a singel map/scenario-designer, and a single artist/map-creator.  So no promises just yet.

[bbmike]

I forgot to respond to this comment:  "I am still really impressed with the system. I'd love to see this applied to other ACW and 19th Century battles. Someone was mentioning Six Week War and Franco-Prussian War scenarios - I'd buy those in a heartbeat!"

That's good to hear.  We would certainly like to be able to use this game engine for other wars and periods, but we are limited to having a single programmer, a singel map/scenario-designer, and a single artist/map-creator.  So no promises just yet.

The time has come. You must clone Eric. ^-^

[bob48]

Yep, Franco-Prussian and 7 week war would do it for me.

[mikeck]

Yep, Franco-Prussian and 7 week war would do it for me.

Yes. "War of German Unification" Franco-Austrian, Franco Prussian and those Danish wars I don't know anything about