Eddo36 Posted June 23, 2014 Posted June 23, 2014 http://www.matrixgames.com/products/483/details/Command:.Modern.Air.Naval.Operations For sim fans. I installed it but haven't played it yet. Anyone heard of this?
Agiel Posted June 23, 2014 Posted June 23, 2014 Me being a huge Harpoon, Dangerous Waters, and Falcon 4.0 fanatic as well as having classics like Red Storm Rising and the War that Never Was on my shelf, Command is my current wargaming poison. Though if you're starting out with it and do not have a beefy processor and an SSD, you may want to get those, turn off autosaving, and set range rings to "Selected Unit Only" nonetheless. That screen can get quite busy and make it very difficult to process the battespace, not to mention bring even fairly modern machines to their knees! For some tips, I'd also recommend watching Baloogan's streams of the game: https://www.youtube.com/user/baloogan And if you're having difficulty telling your Flankers from your Eagles, your Ticonderogas from your Kirovs, and SM-2MRs from your SA-10s, there is this handy database: http://www.harpoondatabases.com/Encyclopedia/Encyc_Index.aspx Other than that, it in ways plays like a cRPG. I mean, it has real-time pausing and die-rolls, except your Warriors with a +1 mace are F-16s and the die-rolls decide if your AN/ALE-50 decoy seduces that SAM instead of whether or not your char makes his mental saves. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Eddo36 Posted June 23, 2014 Author Posted June 23, 2014 Thanks for the heads up on it. I just downloaded the current patch 1.03 and will probably get around to playing it after beating Outlast.
Agiel Posted June 24, 2014 Posted June 24, 2014 Any time. Just keep me updated if you have any questions you want answered about playing the game, platforms, and the like. It was pretty rough going for me trying to get the hang of it at first (though the fact that it was a bit buggy and crashy didn't help), but me being the persistent type I kept at it and it's a worthy addition to my games library. The last thing I want you to think is that you wasted the not so insignificant sum that you spent* on buying a Matrix joint that was either too buggy, had too steep a learning curve, or the presentation is too wooden for your tastes (as the company is clearly not on the same planet as most other game publishers when it comes to pricing). Don't be afraid to shoot a question on the forum which is packed to the brim with enthusiastic, knowledgeable people. *It is in fact possible to get a refund, as one user on the forum managed to do. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now