Multiplayer campagns

[olivier83]

Hi!
I'm french and when i want to play some campaigns must be installed (for example "BETA2_MPNORMANDY", "BETA2_SLITH_MP1" or "BETA2_ATTACK_MP").
Where can i search them ?
Thanks.

Sorry for my english...

[cptkremmen]

Hi Olivier,

See if this helps you....

Hi guys

a new beta map pack is available for download and testing. It includes all the previous maps but has a number of modifications.

* Road to Caen was too hard for Axis so now requires Allied player to control 4 VP's to give the German player a choice of where to defend.
* D-Day + 3 was too hard for Axis so now requires Allied player to control 8 VP's. Again gives the German player more options on where to defend.
* Street fighting was too hard for Axis so has the Marder replaced with a StugG, US airborn replaced with US infantry and a Chafee replaced with a Greyhound.
* Clash of Armour had too many allied tank destroyers so has 2 Hellcats & 2 M36's replaced with 4 standard Shermans.
* Meeting engagement has some rubble around tile 44,38 concerted to rough ground so it hides infantry correctly.
* Christmas Surprise. The reinforcements are now almost the same every time except that the order they appear is totally random. Added a StuG to German starting forces. Added bonuses to both sides.
* Buying Time. It now much more equally splits the reinforcements between the arrival locations. The routes around the back of the town have been closed down a little to force some of the combat through the town. Fixed the repeat message when the battle is complete but still have a crash on exiting a completed game which has not been tracked down yet.

We need feedback on whether maps are too hard or too easy. Are time limits ok or too short/long?

You can download the 5MB beta map pack from http://www.slitherine.com/files/bbc_ba/MULTIPLAYER.zip

You must extract this zip to My Docs\My Games\BBCBA. You know if it is in the right palce as you will be overwriting the current Multiplayer folder. The Beta maps will appear at the bottom of your list of missions when issuing new challenges all clearly marked with the BETA 2 tag. You shold complete all existing games on the original Beta map pack and then delete the Beta map pack folders.

DO NOT EXTRACT THIS ZIP FILE TO PROGRAM FILES\SLITHERINE\BATTLEFIELD ACADEMY!

NEVER EXTRACT ANY FILES TO PROGRAM FILES!

[olivier83]

Thanks!

[olivier83]

One other question :
I finished one multiplayer game (i lost the game) and in the ranking i have "57 battles, 27 games played and 8 wins"...
Is there an explication for this ?
I finished one game not more...





For the BETA2 it's ok, thanks a lot!

[Acererak]

The explanation is that for now, ranking is not counting MP results, just single player ones. Battles is actually the number of times you have opened the game, I believe.

Hope they fix this to make MP a bit more challenging soon

[olivier83]

The explanation is that for now, ranking is not counting MP results, just single player ones. Battles is actually the number of times you have opened the game, I believe.

Hope they fix this to make MP a bit more challenging soon

Ok, it's just for single player (strange idea)...
I hope they made ranking for MP too!
Thanks for your answer.

[pipfromslitherine]

They aren't really rankings - they are more stats just for interest. Unfortunately we haven't worked out how to give interesting ones (e.g. Tigers killed) without it being vulnerable to getting bad data because it would need to be script data.

Once we add the tournament system to BBC (check out the FoG forums for details, it's very cool) then we will probably allow for real rankings based on tournament games - but we know that some people aren't interested in a competitive ranking system for everything .

Cheers

Pip