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fschuit
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RC2 impression

Post by fschuit »

Would like to start with mentioning that I may say things that are said before, please forgive me if that is the case.

- Still using 2 button mouse mode, had troubles at first, but now learning to use it.
- When in the Info screen and compare units: the text is not always displayed correct. Take 8th SS Grenadier on the left and it is completely within the left column, when you compare it with the same 8th SS Grenadier that text is alligned to the left in the right colum and the text is not completely within the column.
- Difficulty screen: please switch buttons Play and Cancel (Play to the right, Cancel to the left).
- Please adjust the upgrade screen so you have all your units in the left column so that you can upgrade them from that screen and not per unit go to the upgrade screen.
- At the start of a turn you see that you get a Decisive victory with at least xx turns remaining. Could you make it say how many turns there are left to get a Decisive Victory? That number will count down.
- When you drive the enemy out of a town and you enter it with a recon and immediately drive to another area, the city won't be liberated. Is this a bug or intended? When I stop (left click somewhere else), it will be liberated and then select the unit and can drive out again.
- When a unit is suppressed and you attack it, it will retreat, but now it is not suppressed anymore. Strange.

- You have ALT-E and Shift-R, Ctrl-L / Ctrl-S, Alt-Click, Shift-Z, Ctrl-Click. Maybe use only Ctrl? (this will give a conflict with the click :-)
- Can you use D for Disembark/Embark and use E for Elite Replacements?
- Can you use Enter for End Turn?
- Can you use I for the info screen (toggle stats panel)?
- Can you use F1 to show the hotkeys?
- Can you use Shift to show all your units in the mini map and the Main map? (not really needed for Strategic Map, clearly visible)
- Can you use Right-Shift to show all my Core units in the Strategic map, the mini map and the Main map?

- I still (like others find it difficult to see my Core units). I had also missed how to recognize them. I do know now, but still difficult to see.
- I also find it difficult to see what are my units and what is the enemy. I once thought that the ones facing left were mine, but that was silly :-) (it is in the Strategic Map, here you can clearly see which units are yours).
- I also find it diffcult to see when upgrading if my new unit is better, or my old unit (saw other people who had that too).

- Can you make an extra sound when a unit is completely destroyed?
- Can you show the range of AA and Artillery in the Info screen to the right? I need it quite a lot.

Not complete sure about the next one (because maybe I tried to attack with the left-click attack: - When flying to a city which was unseen before with bomber, it shows that you can attack when you are above it. But that does not work, click again and it will attack.

I once was an experienced player in PG (I think I still am), but boy am I getting a beating. :oops: Norway: lost a lot of my ships and got stuck on the way up (Yeah, had that too in PG1, hmm, what was my winning strategy?) Only got a marginal. Low Countries, hmmm, where are my units? I'm missing a lot to win this one :shock:
Okay, must start over from the beginning.
Razz1
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Post by Razz1 »

- At the start of a turn you see that you get a Decisive victory with at least xx turns remaining. Could you make it say how many turns there are left to get a Decisive Victory? That number will count down.

Victory is not based upon turns alone. It is objectives.

- When you drive the enemy out of a town and you enter it with a recon and immediately drive to another area, the city won't be liberated. Is this a bug or intended? When I stop (left click somewhere else), it will be liberated and then select the unit and can drive out again.

YES WAD
- When a unit is suppressed and you attack it, it will retreat, but now it is not suppressed anymore. Strange.

Normal. WAD unit is only suppressed for the first combat.


- Can you use D for Disembark/Embark and use E for Elite Replacements?

D= disband, check the hot key list



- Can you make an extra sound when a unit is completely destroyed?

Already have it. Explosion is bigger and graphics is larger.

- Can you show the range of AA and Artillery in the Info screen to the right? I need it quite a lot.

Range is already there
bobk
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Post by bobk »

Fschuit you have some good points:
At the start of a turn you see that you get a Decisive victory with at least xx turns remaining. Could you make it say how many turns there are left to get a Decisive Victory? That number will count down.
The left spot shows current turn, right shows # of turns in the battle, this makes you subtract to see how many turns are left. Who wants to do math when you are playing a game :cry:

- Can you show the range of AA and Artillery in the Info screen to the right? I need it quite a lot.
I asked this question quite early in the testing, in fact I am forced to play with the stat screen open to see the range. Wish it could be added to the screen that shows the fuel and ammo ect...
Can you use Enter for End Turn?
- Can you use I for the info screen (toggle stats panel)?
- Can you use F1 to show the hotkeys?
These are all great suggestions, the more aids the better.
fschuit
Private First Class - Wehrmacht Inf
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Post by fschuit »

Razz1 wrote:- At the start of a turn you see that you get a Decisive victory with at least xx turns remaining. Could you make it say how many turns there are left to get a Decisive Victory? That number will count down.

Victory is not based upon turns alone. It is objectives.
Ofcourse, get that, but make it easier to know how many turns are left for me to get that last objectives.
- When you drive the enemy out of a town and you enter it with a recon and immediately drive to another area, the city won't be liberated. Is this a bug or intended? When I stop (left click somewhere else), it will be liberated and then select the unit and can drive out again.

YES WAD
Okay, had to look upt what WAD meant (lots of abbrevations for that!). So it WORKS AS DESIGNED! So no bug. Well now I know that, THX!
- When a unit is suppressed and you attack it, it will retreat, but now it is not suppressed anymore. Strange.

Normal. WAD unit is only suppressed for the first combat.
Ok. Still strange to me. :lol:
- Can you use D for Disembark/Embark and use E for Elite Replacements?

D= disband, check the hot key list
Maybe use another for that, never using that key :D
- Can you make an extra sound when a unit is completely destroyed?

Already have it. Explosion is bigger and graphics is larger.
Did not get that, will listen carefully next time.
- Can you show the range of AA and Artillery in the Info screen to the right? I need it quite a lot.

Range is already there
It is not on the default info screen to the right, I have to look it up quite a lot by opening the more-info window or am I just missing something?

From your answers it clearly shows that you're a veteran and I'm not. :D
fschuit
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Post by fschuit »

bobk wrote:Fschuit you have some good points:
Well because of the lot of them, there had to be a few good :D
At the start of a turn you see that you get a Decisive victory with at least xx turns remaining. Could you make it say how many turns there are left to get a Decisive Victory? That number will count down.
The left spot shows current turn, right shows # of turns in the battle, this makes you subtract to see how many turns are left. Who wants to do math when you are playing a game :cry:
Exactly!
- Can you show the range of AA and Artillery in the Info screen to the right? I need it quite a lot.
I asked this question quite early in the testing, in fact I am forced to play with the stat screen open to see the range. Wish it could be added to the screen that shows the fuel and ammo ect...
Feel the same here.
Can you use Enter for End Turn?
- Can you use I for the info screen (toggle stats panel)?
- Can you use F1 to show the hotkeys?
These are all great suggestions, the more aids the better.
Great to hear you liked them :D

Now something else, I have the "Notify me when a reply is posted" checked, but I don't seem to get any notifications. Or is this something everyone has said before and I'm just missing (again) :wink:
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