2014-02-23 19:18   Posted by kodabar

Hmm. RhinoCrunch, eh? Well he did say he made ArmA mods. This is the first I've seen though.

Okay, so this is a bit broken. I see they're claiming alpha status. Alphas normally means a program that is incomplete but basically working. In this case alpha means, we've cut and pasted together a couple of files and it sort-of works, but there are numerous errors because we haven't really edited this at all. This should not have been released yet - the authors should have worked on this a fair bit more before releasing it.

But it is a good idea and it would be great if it worked properly. Every time I start it, I get an error: "Bad vehicle type I44_Man_G_WH_MG34-Maschinengewehr". You can just click past it, so it's no big deal. The Germans have a surprising amount of night vision goggles and helicopters for 1944. But that's just a case of editing the units, so it's not a big problem to solve.

What is a problem is that half the time there's no guard in the enclosure at the start. If there's a tree of a bush in the enclosure, then the guard will not spawn. Reviving doesn't work as indicated in the notes. Oh and if you start as anyone but the medic, you begin with a backpack full of Garand ammo and grenades. Oh dear. If you do play on, the radio can't be hacked, so you can't complete the mission.

Aside from that, it's okay. Getting strafed by planes is quite fun. The 1944 setting works well (although it's daft to say it's France when everything's in Cyrillic. And Enigma really ought to be credited properly rather than just a generic 'credit to the original authors' thing. And is it called Escape Hitler or Escape 1944? Is Hitler even in it?

Overall, it's broken enough that it's not playable. It really should have been tested and fixed a good deal more than this before release. Hopefully there will be future updates that will actually make it work. It's good idea and I really would like to see a working implementation of this.

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