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Re: Horn of Africa Mod[message #292433] Thu, 20 October 2011 08:23 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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At Hazmat, I had LBE *not* drop under drop all turned off in V:R, latest Schein patch. Well, at least I didn't get a single LBE drop in 12 combats. When I turned drop all on, and restarted, I got LBE items fine.

I like the large HoA maps, however the detail level does not compare to Smeagol's maps - at all. The HoA maps feel almost sterile. Smeagol has a way to place dirt and grass to make the map feel alive.

Also some of the large maps are very, very slow - I can see each individual frame of a running animation for about half a second. Running a merc across 7 or so tiles took over 1 min of real time. I am playing on an IBM T23 with a Pentium 3 1133 MHz and XP. Any other JA2 mod runs fine.

There is a little bit of a problem with large maps and items. If you don't sporadically place random semi junk items, the maps feel empty and the player doesn't get a reward when fighting in it the first time. However if you place items using the same density of the small maps, you get waaay too many items on the large maps. It is possible that the items slow down the game (see above).

There is also an infrequent problem with large maps and enemies. It happened twice that I discharge a gun and some enemies did not hear me. On the smaller maps almost all enemies will hear a non suppressed gun discharge.

Also it feels the enemies "get lost" trying to find me. We all know the AI is not that great. Well, on the large maps enemies go looking all over the place, the chance of them running into me is small compared to small maps, where they are almost guaranteed to find me unless I actively try to avoid them.

There is no need to prepare for an enemy attack in advance. Once the enemies enter the large map sector, they are virtually guaranteed not to find you, it is just too much distance for them to get to the center, they run our of energy and stop half way and seem happy doing nothing.

Some mods use preplaced friendly units e.g. militia to stage a fight as you enter. Well, on large maps this is an unbelievable pain for the player. Even running everyone in your squad every turn, it may take 6-12 turns where all you do is move each merc and watch the enemies and militia fight at the end of the player turn. By the time you are able to shoot at the enemies, you breath is about 1/3 down and you spent a good 10 mins real time doing nothing.

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