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• COMBAT MISSION COLD WAR REVIEW UPDATE

Wait, crap, there it is in a box on the bookshelf behind me. (I also just noticed from that link that I wrote that I pre-ordered it… I wonder what happened to my activation code… I could have played that.

I wrote about Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord back in 2011, one of the titles on their new generation of engines.

COMBAT MISSION COLD WAR REVIEW UPDATE

They have long since developed update game engines and shipped new games on them. Lord of the Rings Online, with is also pretty much unplayable at that resolution needs to fix its issues.Īnyway, Battlefront has moved on, extending and improving the series of titles under the Combat Mission banner. But at least Combat Mission has the excuse of being old and no longer for sale, having been removed from the online store since last I was there a few years back. I like this big monitor for many things, but it is annoying how many titles are rendered unplayable by it. I couple play it, but it was going to take patience and some extra effort. It didn’t try to use all of those pixels, but it is hard coded to run full screen, so it seemed to be keeping track of them, which made it very slow to respond. A resolution of 3440 x 1440 would have been crazy talk back in 2002, and even in 2009, which was when the game last saw an update. I am pretty sure it was my monitor that was the issue. It didn’t fail to run, but it was struggling to run. But I played it, and posted about it, as late as 2017, so I thought I would give it a try. So I though I would go back to an old favorite, Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin.Īt this point the game is about 20 years old, having come out in 2002. I wasn’t quite ready for another attempt at War in the Pacific either. Stellaris wasn’t scratching that itch, nor was RimWorld, both of which I had been playing recently. I had the urge for a tactical military sim this month.