Normandy Patch Update

[Strela]

I want to add that it's a 4 day long weekend here (gotta love Chinese New Year in Singapore!) so I have some time to go back and review everyone's posts.

I'm currently working through the Getting Started scenarios and trying to make them more newbie friendly. I'll take full responsibility for the issues seen to date. I did these myself in the last two weeks before release and they obviously needed more polish. Probably, the biggest blunder was not realising Kraut Corner was impervious to direct fire - that sort of caused all sorts of issues and is one of the reasons it wasn't in the actual write-up.

What I wanted people's thoughts on, is should there be a 'dumbing' down of the Getting Started scenario vs its parent? For example, if Kraut Corner was a bunker vs a BUNKER, then direct fire could come in from all sides. I'd be loath to change the original full scenario though. What are people's thoughts?

There are a lot of other problems solved and we're particularly focused on the fatigue accumulation issue. We can see where there could be challenges with the current code and one of the outcomes is as you're all calling out, fewer disruptions and broken units. This is in John's hands and he is considering all the impacts.

As far as a change log, I may post something soon, but it will only include completed work not work being contemplated. I wouldn't want to build up hopes that someone's pet feature was being completed when it may not have been committed to. I would only post the change log to ensure I hadn't missed any requests/bugs called out here on the board.

David