Close Combat - Modern Tactics - patch

In article <2eb2975b-37e1-4c93-8d18-2dda2fe45f26
@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, eddysterckx DeleteThis @hotmail.com says...

> "This hefty new update includes plenty of new units both on the ground
> and in the air in addition a number of other tweaks and AI
> improvements.
>
> Most significantly, infantry and vehicles for both the US Marine Corps
> and the UK Army have been added to the force pool! Also,plenty of new
> air assets both for the US and Opfor have been added,including: Mi-24,
> Ka-50 Hokum, British Tornado, Eurofighter Typhoon and Eurocopter
> Tiger. There are lots of shiny new pieces of equipment to command and
> destroy!"
>
> ftp://ftp.matrixgames.com/pub/CloseCombatModernTactics/Close-Combat-Mo...nTactic

Any help for a TacAI struggling with the fiendishly difficult task of
successfully driving a truck straight down a road on a sunny day?

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> Any help for a TacAI struggling with the fiendishly difficult task of
> successfully driving a truck straight down a road on a sunny day?

Alas some human intelligences sometimes fail on this one.
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In article <97acf0eb-26e1-4a10-ba83-d3df7c065f82
@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, ryandylanr RemoveThis @yahoo.com says...
>
> > Any help for a TacAI struggling with the fiendishly difficult task of
> > successfully driving a truck straight down a road on a sunny day?
>
> Alas some human intelligences sometimes fail on this one.

Here's hoping, though, that the AI programmers weren't channeling my
sister when they wrote the road-and-path-following subroutine.

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"The Democrats are having the hardest time with the new [Iraq] reality.
Every candidate is committed to 'ending the war' and bringing our troops
back home. The trouble is, the war has largely ended, and precisely
because our troops are in the middle of it."
- Fareed Zakaria
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:26:04 -0800 (PST), kev9000
<ryandylanr DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>> Any help for a TacAI struggling with the fiendishly difficult task of
>> successfully driving a truck straight down a road on a sunny day?
>
>Alas some human intelligences sometimes fail on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXLzyiI7CE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RMLt28n0-M&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK6mughvEfY&feature=related
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> Any help for a TacAI struggling with the fiendishly difficult task of
> successfully driving a truck straight down a road on a sunny day?

Never had a problem with that in CCMT - if you'd said a winding road
with rough terrain on both sides, I'd agree with your point as I've
seen it have a tough time with that too, but even then micromanaging
the way points gets it done (as it has in previous versions of CC).
We are looking at that though, but I'm told that the reason this has
only seen some improvement and not an outright overhaul is that it's a
lot trickier to solve with this engine than you'd think.
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In article <d52d694e-29c4-4802-a433-
f949dd5a21ea DeleteThis @u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, erikr DeleteThis @matrixgames.com
says...

> > Any help for a TacAI struggling with the fiendishly difficult task of
> > successfully driving a truck straight down a road on a sunny day?
>
> Never had a problem with that in CCMT - if you'd said a winding road
> with rough terrain on both sides, I'd agree with your point as I've
> seen it have a tough time with that too, but even then micromanaging
> the way points gets it done (as it has in previous versions of CC).
> We are looking at that though, but I'm told that the reason this has
> only seen some improvement and not an outright overhaul is that it's a
> lot trickier to solve with this engine than you'd think.

I see tons of problems with this. Units just jerk back and forth in
place instead of smoothly just turning and driving. And while setting
waypoints *helps*, it's not the certain workaround it should be. Time
and time again, I find myself saying, "Where did my HumVee go?", only to
find it doing the CC hokey-pokey about 10 meters from where it started.

With respect to "winding," I can only observe that if units in CCMT have
a problem with winding roads and fiddly little turns ... why in hell do
the scenarios and maps have so *many* winding roads and fiddly little
turns? I mean, the close intricate terrain looks nice, but it's just
pure frustration watching an AFV back and fill, back and fill, trying to
negotiate a corner.

CC:COI showed some improvements in pathfinding, but CC:MT takes a step
backwards.

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Giftzwerg
***
"The Democrats are having the hardest time with the new [Iraq] reality.
Every candidate is committed to 'ending the war' and bringing our troops
back home. The trouble is, the war has largely ended, and precisely
because our troops are in the middle of it."
- Fareed Zakaria
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>>Alas some human intelligences sometimes fail on this one.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXLzyiI7CE
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RMLt28n0-M&NR=1
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK6mughvEfY&feature=related


LOL

BTW, for Croatians (or Serb on this group - when someone is boasting with
his driving skills you just say to him/her - "cuo sam da si slepao Sumahera
sa Sljemena " )))
translation is really hard on English



Mario
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> CC:COI showed some improvements in pathfinding, but CC:MT takes a step
> backwards.

Well, FWIW these did have entirely separate development paths. I'm
certain that what comes next will at least have the improvements of
COI in it.

Regards,

- Erik
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