Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm is updated to Version 2.09

[David1992]

Thanks![&o]

[Deathtreader]

ORIGINAL: David1992

Thanks![&o]

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Lookin' good!

[Panzer_Leader]

Thanks guys, downloaded and installed. Now to play it...

[kipanderson]

Hi,

Great to see Flashpoint race on. Hits near magical sweat spot between the operational and the tactical in way
I think none other than the design team even realised existed.. .

However... still holding out hoping you will take a crack at WWII, Eastern Front of course.. .

I always think the best wargames are wasted on one narrow era. Happily Combat Mission does WWII and contemporary, would love to see it take a crack at Fulda Gap. Scourge of War cut its teeth on ACW, now happily Napoleonic. It would be shame if Flashpoint just sticks to Cold War. Am great fan of Cold War, more so than contemporary. But the real meat in wargames is surely WWII?

It happened for real, the scale, the history, the campaigns simulate and refight.

No matter.. the developers clearly enjoy Cold War or next major release would have been WWII.

Either way.. Flashpoint is right up there.. as with all great wargames.. fantastic quality of production, extraordinary, on top of superb game system.

You get my money even though no sign of WWII... but I know, you know, you really want to do WWII .
All the best,
Kip.

[CapnDarwin]

Kip, All things in good time. We have plans to hit many areas with the system.

[Stimpak]

What can we expect for 2.0.10?

[CapnDarwin]

Stimpak, the top item will be revised/rebalanced scenarios. We also have a number of bug fixes, tweaks, and a couple small feature adds as well. I'll be working on the documentation for the update soon.

[CapnDarwin]

Let me add to the 2.0.10 list the work Rob has been doing the past few days in code optimization to get the game to play a bit faster especially for large scenarios. This work on Red Storm will directly impact the coding for Southern Storm as well. A win-win situation. [8D]

[nadia911]

They have solved the problem of invincible Hinds? I want to play this great game but it becomes very difficult when you can not shoot down Russian helicopters...

[CapnDarwin]

Nadia911, if you have a system well placed or a concentration of units with AD weapons, you can shoot down helicopter and aircraft in the game. I had my vulcans take 2 Hinds down testing Reforged over the weekend. It is a two way street. I did have four of my Cobras removed from the air by a 2S6 and SA-11 combo.

[nadia911]

I placed 4 Vulcans to 1,000 mts. from 6 Hinds ... 4 Vulcans destroyed vs 0 Hinds destroyed ...
I shot 16 Rapier missiles at 5,000 mts. to 4 Hinds ... 0 Hinds destroyed
Second try, 12 Rapier missiles at 4.000 mts.... 0 Hinds destroyed
Many more examples I could offer, but if that is not considered a problem then I guess that will not be solved ... a shame
Excuse the off topic

Thanks anyway

And excuse my english

[delete1]

Oh...I understand your frustration! I also hate when a Lynx or Cobras hold my advance! [:D] Thats the beauty of this game!

[Rob322]

I've managed to bring down Hinds with Rapiers. I've failed to do so with Vulcans but Vulcans aren't very good so I wouldn't expect them to be too useful. I've also shot them down with Stingers and an Abrams platoon once.

[ivanov]

My experience is totally different. Vulcans are pretty decent against the helicopters but Rapiers and Chaparral quite useless ( and rightfully so - they were not designed to engage the targets below 150 feet ).

[battlerbritain]

Actually, Rapiers were designed to hit targets below 150 feet. That's why they weren't given a proximity fuse (they were dubbed a 'hittile not a missile').

But in action, eg in The Falklands, they still didn't hit much.

[ivanov]

ORIGINAL: battlerbritain

Actually, Rapiers were designed to hit targets below 150 feet. That's why they weren't given a proximity fuse (they were dubbed a 'hittile not a missile').

But in action, eg in The Falklands, they still didn't hit much.

Yes, I've heard that they had around few percent success rate.I don't think they could achieve much against helicopters flying few meters above the ground.

[Mad Russian]

Try the units with Blowpipe AA missiles.

Worthless.

Unfortunately, again, the Falklands showed the exact same thing. Worthless.

Good Hunting.

MR

[ETF]

Strange the link doesn't work neither does the auto updater.....any ideas gents?

[ETF]

http://www.matrixgames.com/members/priv ... sp?gid=471

[CapnDarwin]

ETF, what update are you looking for? 2.0.10b is the latest official, 2.0.11.6 beta is out there and we just sent the full 2.0.11 update to Matrix for installer build this week and it should be out in a week or so. That update will bring the game up to date.