Thobson, I've played into it and I do like what you did with the intro. Much better than previous. Only one gripe, the part where Andropov kills some soldiers after they surrender, the ppl look like they are setdammaged and not shot. I think it'd look better if they were shot.
Got up the hill, from a different angle and found the appropriate house. Its much lighter in this version, more sun I mean, or maybe its my moniter...
Popped all the dudes in the house and saw Tatyana killed. The scene was good. I then wiped out the two soldiers and stocked the jeep with weapons and got a bunch of messages when going body to body, what a sick thing to do and so on..., I dunno if it really matters having those in there. I can tell that something bad happened and the civvies are all left about. Plus the explanation later at the lodge seems to take away the right those text/voice messages had to be there. Also I inferred something was off as the dead soldiers were covered and the civvies left in the open. So what I'm getting at, is some of those voice overs about dead civvies are not really needed because the player either 1.) finds out on his/her own what happened or 2.) they find out the whole story at the lodge at some point.
Then back to the story. Drove to La pessagne and found no uber large group of infantry I was expecting to hunt me in Vigny and found a roadblock and one soldier. I did not want to venture into town and play hide and seek in the fog so I shot the guy and drove north. Hit and run I guess, I'm guilty of that.
Found another roadblock and I thought the bus warranted a voice over as there was a lot of death there, but nothing, continue on...
I see another roadblock and 2 jeeps. They get all caught up making a turn and don't see me, stupid on them. I knick the 2nd jeep's gunner and he doesn't die quickly, he turns red and is all happy for about 10 secs then slumps over and out of the vehicle once they take off. I jump into my jeep and give chase. I run down the second jeep and start bumping it and then M2 rounds started headed my way, hell this is going to fun! ;D
I guess there was a bit of friendly fire as the driver slumped over as I fell back (M2s are nasty jeep killers) and when the jeep stopped I ran over the passenger, but hit his jeep in the process disabling it and fortunatly leaving mine in good condition. So I steal the men's weapons (now have a PK, whoope!) and head to the lodge.
Find the cutscene is good and I load everyone up with good weapons and send them into the lodge. This is my theory, I want to do what XCess did, go on my own (its easier to manage myself and not a bunch of tottering stupid AI unless they are wearing tanks or armor) and leave my mates in the lodge with vehicles blocking any windows or doors. I like going commando.
I then retrieved the civvies and went back to the lodge. Had an odd cutscene as you pulled my team members out of hiding and they were still stuck in their go prone positions as I left them, I suggest a sort of playmove or setunitpos "UP" then make it AUTO once again. Good cutscene.
So I send everyone back into the lodge and 5 real minutes later, after lots of orders, I'm happy with their postion and blockade the lodge and head out on the motorcycle to La Trinte to start some angry feelings meanwhile I wonder how those civvies are doing in their search for wood and I also ponder the usefullness of inspecting Houdan in my current state. I decide to wait and cause the war, hopefully so Stamenov wins or gains the upper hand as I prefer the Southeron base to the Northerons.
I reach La Trinite and run 5m past some soldiers, yikes! I am not spotted and find out about the mines. Cool, but damn, it figures I brought no hand grenades with me and no explosives can be found for AV mines. GRR :'(
I find that no convoy is around and the soldiers I saw must of left so I grab a bizon and sit tight, waiting for a convoy to bring some soldiers so I can pop a few and run my arse off to a house and hide while the idiots blunder about looking meanwhile the other convoy should pull up and the two sides will make each other's aquaintance. I then get a ringside seat as the shit hits the fan and they try to obliterate each other. Like I said before, I'll try to kill more Northerons to help the South, but I want to stay alive first.
As you can see THobson, my evil plan will be realized tomorrow and I will report back to you the results. I myself will be very eager to see this as well I will be proud that I started such destruction in such a short span of time with such little use of my trusty Bizon. I actually may just wait till I see some soldiers and fire an AK or M16 off into the air to get ppl's attention....
What ever works. Muhaaahaaa! :gunman: :afro:
PS I am enjoying this mission more than before and I love your shiny yellow text a lot.
Edit: Also I like your team reorganization menu dialoge. I like it a lot plus the fact you added in those personal touches with each person.
And I'm noticing a bit of slow down in certain areas, not to bad, just a little jumpy. Its still very playable.
The reason I was commenting on your voice overs at the start was the fact that you keep saying your mission is heavy and I feel if you see fit to remove those, it might help lag a bit. Maybe...
Oh and comp specs so you know how I'm playing...
1024mb RAM
3.0 ghz processor
128mb graphics card
no ECP
1.96
benchmark.... uh never found out what mine was cause I never needed too
cheers
GRK
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