BABF betatest feedback

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:22 pm

Following testing with the patch:

- The campagin's text is now ok.

- the heads of achievement's message in game are ok too.

- In first battle, the 'stuka achievment' not done on debrefieng screen while it's marked done throughout the mission. Also kill's counter of the achievementDestroy 5 enemy units in 2 turns remains at 0. And since I did not succeed, so I do not know if it works in the end.

- Mission Strike First : well balanced, success is all achievements is rather hard (for my part I failed in two trials.)

- French Giants : I got lucky with B1 bis tank which were destroyed in the same round

I haven't found the french elite scouts during my only try. It's a hard battle, must be very careful in urban combat.

- The British Attack : my new nightmare the Matilda tank

even at close range the pak 36 37mm gun has no effect against them

The arrival of 88mm is a real pleasure. Difficult mission but successful with not all achievment ; the hardest is probably to kill 5 british tank within 10 turns.

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:51 pm

Since I came close to winning Giants I skipped it and went to The British Attack. Almost depressing. By the time I used my arty and the delayed arrival, all the enemy were dispersed and nothing was damaged. Fortunately I held on and the reinforcements saved the day. Soon all the enemy armour was gone and I went on the attack. I had all the flags but one with 6 turns left and took that one with 3 left.

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:53 pm

Tested the multiplayer map Killing Fields with junk2drive :
- I had some error's messages (missing string) at startup and turn 3.
- I didn't understand : I had captured a french's VP at turn 3 : victory ??? I didn't see the French troops

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:57 pm

They are ninja French. You will never see them...

Fun while it lasted.

My screen showed capture flags 4/5 at the start.

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:23 pm

I tested again Killing Fields on hotseat : there are eight VPs on map. Each side must capture and hold 5 VPs, and start with 4 under control...

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 10:15 pm

To the Sea

I never found the SAU40. I lost when the AI took back a flag with a Matilda II on the next to last turn.

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:54 am

I think the last one is impossible to win the first time though. ACH were close to impossible.

The Matilda was a real pain.

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:41 pm

- To the Sea : good mission. it's difficult especially when trying to fill achievements. I found the SAU40 at the end of battle. It really hurt my infantry...

- Mopping Up : it's a hard mission ! The captured Char B1 Bis tank is useful ! is better to buy the infantry for this mission and have the B1 rather than buying panzers I think. At the end of battle, I had a bug, somes units in the same square (and impossible to targetting) :

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tim1966 · Post by **tim1966** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:22 pm

Mission 2 - Armoured Charge
I love the Command post in this mission – reminds me of the old Airfix model!
No announcement that the first armoured reinforcements had turned up.

Accepted multiplayer challange and had a load of missing text string errors but the game did start.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:08 am

Amaris - any more info you can give on this stacking bug? Do you have a saved game from before it happened or even after it happened?

Tim which challenge did you accept - is it a mision specific thing?

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:24 pm

Sorry but I didn't think to save

At the end of the mission that I had that ; anyway I will retest the card, to attempt the 'Complete the mission in less then 15 turns' achievement. If I have this bug again, I will save.

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:34 pm

BTW since Amaris mentioned the captured Char, I like what you have done with captured units.

adherbal · Post by **adherbal** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:29 pm

Amaris - any more info you can give on this stacking bug? Do you have a saved game from before it happened or even after it happened?

Ah! I noticed this bug as well, but never got round to reporting it

French units that reach the upper end of the map are removed by script, but for some reason the RemoveUnit command partially fails sometimes, allowing other units to move to the tile without actualy removing the previous unit?

The captured Char B1 Bis tank is useful ! is better to buy the infantry for this mission and have the B1 rather than buying panzers I think.

The Char is a sort of easter egg really. I figured it would be a cool unit to control in at least one singleplayer mission. Since there is no way of knowing how to get it, you have to find out yourself. Apparently that wasn't too difficult than

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:32 pm

I didn't find it. But I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box either.

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:54 pm

I tested once the mission with full panzer: I was hit hard... I wanted to try that with the infantry, and surprise

tim1966 · Post by **tim1966** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:06 pm

iainmcneil wrote: Tim which challenge did you accept - is it a mision specific thing?

Head on - don't know if its mission specific as I haven't played another multiplayer. I'll issue a challenge and if someone can accept we will see.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:27 am

The remove unit command was setup wrong so I've fixed it and units all get removed now!

tim1966 · Post by **tim1966** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:03 pm

tim1966 wrote:
iainmcneil wrote: Tim which challenge did you accept - is it a mision specific thing?
Head on - don't know if its mission specific as I haven't played another multiplayer. I'll issue a challenge and if someone can accept we will see.

I only get it on the Head On mission so far.

junk2drive · Post by **junk2drive** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 10:23 pm

Tim and I finished Head On. We think the bomber is too much. I did ok and with 4 turns left took back a flag to make him 3/5. I had a Matilda II on the hill with the Vickers in the sandbags. Tim unleashed the bomber. It killed the Vickers and caused the Matilda to retreat toward his 88 resulting in fire and smoke. He moved in truckloads of troops on the unprotected hill and took that flag. To finish me off, he suicide ran his HT to a flag next to a house, taking the flag before exploding. Game then ends without a chance for me to retake that flag. Brits need more of a counter to the German arty.

Amaris · Post by **Amaris** » Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:42 am

@ Tim : I lost my internet connection at home ; I post on the forum from work ... I hope it is fixed quickly to keep our MP challenge.