Win SPWW2 and SPWaW

Demtrek · #1 July 10th, 2008, 06:21 PM

Ahhh cool. You all saved me a lot of reading. I am on battle 12 of a 200 round long campaign and I must say it is very very cool.

Sound mod you say? I will have to look for that. I am getting sick of hearing the same ole sounds.

Thanks a bunch.

RecruitMonty · #2 July 28th, 2008, 06:41 AM

"Opportunity Fire Filter (CD version only)" Is this feature in SPWW2 only or in SPMBT also? SPWAW, as far as I can tell has this too, if it is indeed what I am thinking (Mouse assisted Y/N to Op fire).

Something called a "mountainiser" was created once upon a time for SPWAW and some group or other has modified the game heavily since the 8.3/4 release.

That said WW2 and MBT are, in terms of OOB Space and graphics, much better from the get go. SPWAW's saving grace is its sound package, which, if you ask me, is absolutely fantastic (especially regarding bombardments etc).

Pyros · #3 July 28th, 2008, 08:12 AM

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RecruitMonty said:
"Opportunity Fire Filter (CD version only)" Is this feature in SPWW2 only or in SPMBT also? SPWAW, as far as I can tell has this too, if it is indeed what I am thinking (Mouse assisted Y/N to Op fire).

Hi,

Not exactly.
Spwaw will randomly ask you to fire at any target at almost any range and will fire more OP when the hostile unit enters a 3 hexes radius from your unit.
With WinSPWW2/MBT the Opportunity Fire Filter gives you complete control over the type of target,armor,range etc... concerning the activation of OP fire.

cheers,

MemoryLeak · #4 July 29th, 2008, 06:22 PM

SO in order to enjoy Oportunity Fire you must purchse the CD? I have been playing the Long Campaign for the first time( I was a SPWAW player exclusively). I do not like the sense of watching a movie whenever I end my turn. No control over anything. I wasn't aware until I just read this post that I can correct this with some cash.

Mobhack · #5 July 30th, 2008, 02:20 AM

See the Game Guide "CD Extended Features" link for details of the extended functionality, including extra screen resolutions, utility programmes and expanded opfire filtering.

The D/L edition of course has the normal SP "Y" key range filtering.

Cheers
Andy

narwan · #6 July 30th, 2008, 05:49 PM

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MemoryLeak said:
SO in order to enjoy Oportunity Fire you must purchse the CD? I have been playing the Long Campaign for the first time( I was a SPWAW player exclusively). I do not like the sense of watching a movie whenever I end my turn. No control over anything. I wasn't aware until I just read this post that I can correct this with some cash.

No. The regular opp fire routine (without CD) works pretty good. I do have the CD game and use the opp fire filter only rarely.
The game is geared to be as playable as possible between two human players, PBEM style in particular. So the regular routine needs to be as good as it can WITHOUT the player whose units are opp firing having to make y/n decisions.
Adding such a routine for play against the AI would mean a lot of work for very little return.

Narwan

MemoryLeak · #7 July 30th, 2008, 06:22 PM

Okay thanks. I get the feeling I'm missing something. I am use to playing SPWAW. For every Opportunity Fire instance you have five seconds to press the space bar and fire or press ESC key and move on to the next instance.
In SPWW2 after I end my turn it is like watching a movie with no control over the unfolding events. Is there an Opportunity Fire option that I am overlooking?

RecruitMonty · #8 July 31st, 2008, 05:33 AM

As far as I can tell the "mouse click" system SPWAW has is not in operation here. On the CD version, as explained, there are however filters which allow you to set OP fire reactions. This does not however mean, from my experience, that you can physically "OK" OP-fire or not.

At the moment I do not have access to the game guide, so I can only give a fuller answer later this evening.