Panzer Corps 2: Frontlines – Cyrenaica and Beta Sign-Ups

[Bee1976]

I still wait for the missiong parts of the "2024 and 2025 roadmap" in which 2025 was missing

I still cant believe that there wont be any long campaigns in the future. Im pretty sure we will see at least one in near future.

And ofc Cyrenica is a surebuy, but i hope for Berlin or Stalingrad as next Frontlines DLC

[DefiantXYX]

I don't really see how interesting a follow-up DLC for Battle of Bulge would work.

It doesnt. The war is almost over, makes no sense to start a "campaign" at this stage of the war. You dont play Fifa and start in minute 80... when it is already 3:0.
This was the first DLC I skipped.

[Jammero]

Help me, please. I don't understand how to burn San-Giorgio down for Italians. Thank you.

[Tassadar]

Help me, please. I don't understand how to burn San-Giorgio down for Italians. Thank you.

It seems you might have run into the same bug I had. Just to clarify, is the below happening?

1. The mission starts as normal, but there is no additional pop-up upon the mission start telling about the ship, just the info you had in scenario briefing.
2. You move the truck to the zone with explosives to pick them up. They disappear (technically they get undeployed) and a message shows up "Explosive secured. To the San Giorgio, now!!".
3. Once the truck reaches the ship it also disappears (again, if you check the units list it just gets undeployed) , and you get the "The San Giorgio will never be caught by the British. Set it ablaze!" message. However, there is no pop-up about the objective being a success and in the next mission your core slots get reduced by two, as it you never did the objective.

Is this correct?

[adiekmann]

Help me, please. I don't understand how to burn San-Giorgio down for Italians. Thank you.

It seems you might have run into the same bug I had. Just to clarify, is the below happening?

1. The mission starts as normal, but there is no additional pop-up upon the mission start telling about the ship, just the info you had in scenario briefing.
2. You move the truck to the zone with explosives to pick them up. They disappear (technically they get undeployed) and a message shows up "Explosive secured. To the San Giorgio, now!!".
3. Once the truck reaches the ship it also disappears (again, if you check the units list it just gets undeployed) , and you get the "The San Giorgio will never be caught by the British. Set it ablaze!" message. However, there is no pop-up about the objective being a success and in the next mission your core slots get reduced by two, as it you never did the objective.

Is this correct?

Basically yes. This originally confused me too. It should have been better clarified somehow in the game, and probably was but easy to miss.

Once the defensive maps for the Italians begin, you begin a steady decline in core slots. I think it is -2 per scenario. Each time you achieve the secondary bonus objectives, it rewards you +2 core slots, thus canceling it out. The confusion occurs because you begin the next scenario with the same amount and yet it appears as if there's a bug and you didn't get the reward when in fact you actually did.

[armedevil]

Help me, please. I don't understand how to burn San-Giorgio down for Italians. Thank you.

It seems you might have run into the same bug I had. Just to clarify, is the below happening?

1. The mission starts as normal, but there is no additional pop-up upon the mission start telling about the ship, just the info you had in scenario briefing.
2. You move the truck to the zone with explosives to pick them up. They disappear (technically they get undeployed) and a message shows up "Explosive secured. To the San Giorgio, now!!".
3. Once the truck reaches the ship it also disappears (again, if you check the units list it just gets undeployed) , and you get the "The San Giorgio will never be caught by the British. Set it ablaze!" message. However, there is no pop-up about the objective being a success and in the next mission your core slots get reduced by two, as it you never did the objective.

Is this correct?

To chime in, I had exactly this problem in the beta (did not try the 'real' DLC). I saw no way to avoid the 2 core slot penalty for supposedly not destroying the ship.

[Grondel]

To chime in, I had exactly this problem in the beta (did not try the 'real' DLC). I saw no way to avoid the 2 core slot penalty for supposedly not destroying the ship.

There´s an easy to spot LUA error(more like a missspelling) causing this.
If anybody cares it will be fixed in a patch.

sers,
Thomas

[Tassadar]

Basically yes. This originally confused me too. It should have been better clarified somehow in the game, and probably was but easy to miss.

Once the defensive maps for the Italians begin, you begin a steady decline in core slots. I think it is -2 per scenario. Each time you achieve the secondary bonus objectives, it rewards you +2 core slots, thus canceling it out. The confusion occurs because you begin the next scenario with the same amount and yet it appears as if there's a bug and you didn't get the reward when in fact you actually did.

Depending on the mission it is -2 or -4 if you do not do the bonuses. Still, the script in this mission is bugged, or does not run at all for some reason. Each bonus objective is translated to hidden "commendation points" and they give extra core slots according to this formula:

6, --1 cp reward
10, --2 cp reward
12, --3 cp reward
14, --4 cp reward
16, --5 cp reward
20, --6 cp reward
24 --7 cp reward

Italian scenario 7 should give you 2 extra core slots (equal to the 3 commendation points award), and even has this noted in the lua file on my screen added below. This means that as long as you do every bonus objective, then after The Defense of Sidi Barrani scenario you should constantly have 60 core slots even when the base number decreases over time (and 64 in the very last mission). This however does not happen with the Tobruk mission, so the player essentially gets -2 core slots onward and is stuck at 58 even if they do other bonuses perfectly.

To chime in, I had exactly this problem in the beta (did not try the 'real' DLC). I saw no way to avoid the 2 core slot penalty for supposedly not destroying the ship.

There´s an easy to spot LUA error(more like a missspelling) causing this.
If anybody cares it will be fixed in a patch.

sers,
Thomas

Which one is it? I'm dying out of curiosity, as I tired to find it to fix on my end (as I play on GOG it does not block achievements as they don't exist anyway there), but could not figure that one out and now you got me interested in finding out, just to see what I missed.

[adiekmann]

Basically yes. This originally confused me too. It should have been better clarified somehow in the game, and probably was but easy to miss.

Once the defensive maps for the Italians begin, you begin a steady decline in core slots. I think it is -2 per scenario. Each time you achieve the secondary bonus objectives, it rewards you +2 core slots, thus canceling it out. The confusion occurs because you begin the next scenario with the same amount and yet it appears as if there's a bug and you didn't get the reward when in fact you actually did.

Depending on the mission it is -2 or -4 if you do not do the bonuses. Still, the script in this mission is bugged, or does not run at all for some reason. Each bonus objective is translated to hidden "commendation points" and they give extra core slots according to this formula:

6, --1 cp reward
10, --2 cp reward
12, --3 cp reward
14, --4 cp reward
16, --5 cp reward
20, --6 cp reward
24 --7 cp reward

Italian scenario 7 should give you 2 extra core slots (equal to the 3 commendation points award), and even has this noted in the lua file on my screen added below. This means that as long as you do every bonus objective, then after The Defense of Sidi Barrani scenario you should constantly have 60 core slots even when the base number decreases over time (and 64 in the very last mission). This however does not happen with the Tobruk mission, so the player essentially gets -2 core slots onward and is stuck at 58 even if they do other bonuses perfectly.

Hmmm....I do not know lua code so I never checked it. I just checked my save file for the beginning of the following scenario and it indeed shows that I have 58 core slots, down from the 60 I had in the Tobruk mission before it. I never noticed it before. So yes indeed, it is in the Italian Tobruk scenario where you miss out. I checked as far as Retreat from Bengahzi and I only have 58 slots from there on out.

[iuliug]

I don't really see how interesting a follow-up DLC for Battle of Bulge would work. Obviously there was still months of fighting following it, but how interesting were those battles? Liberation of concentration camps? IDK.

They already announced the DLC in a PC2 dedicated stream last summer.