D-Day Operation OverlordOverviewFine.
IntroNot special, but it's okay.
BriefingDetailed, good stuff. Weapon selection is pretty extensive. MP44, hand grenades and panzerfaust.
MissionReaching my squad was pretty easy, only one patrol to deal with. Died only once.
Moved with my squad towards the occupied village, some "where are you" problems. Probably moved too fast in 2x speed
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Anyway, the prelim. bombardement takes out a good deal of soldiers. Several MG42 posts still 'working', they are a pain in the a** when fighting with them over a long distance. Pretty good emplacement of units, although I prefer a couple more enemies to deal with
. May I suggest that you remove a few guys in the building, it feels like a last loon hunt. Or maybe you can help the player find them or something (sound effects?). You can try to find shadows, it works but isn't a nice way (OFP bug).
Experienced the last loon problem in this one. Found out that an enemy officer / soldier was hiding behind a tent. Pretty frustrating must have spend 10 minutes finding him.
Anyway, the next phase: defend the town until reinforcements arrive is pretty good. There's more fighting in this phase, but it's too slow. It was pretty easy to keep all the entrances occupied.
A few problems though. My teammates looked stupid, any scripts running to 'enhance' their AI? Sometimes two of them were eliminated (every entrance of the town got two guards) by a single enemy soldier who stood in front of them. They refused to aim and shoot. May be caused by the urban setting though (they were about 10m inside the town).
Enemy soldiers were pretty good shooters, they shot me through thick hedges. If you've got an AI enhancing script running, please let them come en masse and decrease their skill level.
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SummaryA pretty good mission. It 'works', but there's a few flaws in them. First, there's not enough action for my liking. Too few enemies to shoot at. Some AI problems and a few timing issues. These timing issues are there in the 2nd phase of the mission. It takes way too long until the next wave.