Great report! 8) I have feeling, that I've already played the mission
I'd like to share some notes:
1.
For this mission reports, it's back to terra firma - speficically, to the snowy wastes of the Russian Front in World War Two
It sounds a bit strange for me, coz events had place in Hungary(u will tell abt it later) and I think u should replace Russian Front on East Front. It'll be more correct, imho.
For this mission reports, it's back to terra firma - specifically, to the snowy wastes of the Eastern Front in World War Two
2.
elected to play for this mission report - 'Counterstrike' by Lockie.
Thank you for credits, but I'm not author of the mission and polygon
Author is my Belorussian friend - Deviator. He made the mission and polygon and kindly gave me permission to adjust his missions and put them into Mission Pack. So, as my point the phrase should be:
elected to play for this mission report - 'Counterstrike' by Deviator, adjusted by Lockie
My work was simple - add a bit more life to the mission:
- translated text into English, adjust the map for the mission(new marks), weather, polygon(foundation for the building, trees etc), add background picture and named mission as "Counterstrike", added quotations, order descriptions during mission, video. I Added tasks, which user may see on the screen and follow to them, etc And of course, script adjusting and finally including the mission into MP3.x to provide easy start the mission for the user.
BTW
As a matter of fact in the mission adjusting also took part the next teammates:
- Woofiedog (quotations)
- Tanker (proofreading)
3.
The weather mod transforms the standard SF environment into a winter wonderland which nicely captures the essence of the Russian Front at its chilliest.
I'd replace this phrase on the next:
The weather mod by Maleshkin transforms the standard SF environment into a winter wonderland which nicely captures the essence of the Eastern Front at its chilliest.
BTW
Though, I also paid a lot of efforts to this winter mod
(winter camo for units, winter texture for the trees, providing compatibility with latest NTA) But the main part of the "Winter mod" was made by Maleshkin.
4.
I have the orders panel turned off for clarity
You could also add the next comment:
- also user have ability to switch off the cheat(Ctr+\) with "orange square/arrows", which indicates where the enemy unit is.
5.
it was this ISU-122 that had clobbered me
Depends of the balance(1-10) and enemy/allies experience (0-4) user may provide for himself a reasonable difficulty of the mission. Same with AT guns. As I remember, they appears on the high balance.
For myself I see the next problems:
- winter effects still needs to be adjusted, especially dust. It should be more whiter
- problem with wide monitors, where background picture during mission d/l has enormous distortion. It should be fixed somehow.
To finalize, thank you very much for the excellent and detailed report and I greatly appreciate your past and continuing work! I'll place report on the first page of the NTA mod as
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