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[MemoryLeak]

SO in order to enjoy Oportunity Fire you must purchse the CD? I have been playing the Long Campaign for the first time( I was a SPWAW player exclusively). I do not like the sense of watching a movie whenever I end my turn. No control over anything. I wasn't aware until I just read this post that I can correct this with some cash.

[Mobhack]

See the Game Guide "CD Extended Features" link for details of the extended functionality, including extra screen resolutions, utility programmes and expanded opfire filtering.

The D/L edition of course has the normal SP "Y" key range filtering.

Cheers
Andy

[narwan]

MemoryLeak said:
SO in order to enjoy Oportunity Fire you must purchse the CD? I have been playing the Long Campaign for the first time( I was a SPWAW player exclusively). I do not like the sense of watching a movie whenever I end my turn. No control over anything. I wasn't aware until I just read this post that I can correct this with some cash.

No. The regular opp fire routine (without CD) works pretty good. I do have the CD game and use the opp fire filter only rarely.
The game is geared to be as playable as possible between two human players, PBEM style in particular. So the regular routine needs to be as good as it can WITHOUT the player whose units are opp firing having to make y/n decisions.
Adding such a routine for play against the AI would mean a lot of work for very little return.

Narwan

[MemoryLeak]

Okay thanks. I get the feeling I'm missing something. I am use to playing SPWAW. For every Opportunity Fire instance you have five seconds to press the space bar and fire or press ESC key and move on to the next instance.
In SPWW2 after I end my turn it is like watching a movie with no control over the unfolding events. Is there an Opportunity Fire option that I am overlooking?

[RecruitMonty]

As far as I can tell the "mouse click" system SPWAW has is not in operation here. On the CD version, as explained, there are however filters which allow you to set OP fire reactions. This does not however mean, from my experience, that you can physically "OK" OP-fire or not.

At the moment I do not have access to the game guide, so I can only give a fuller answer later this evening.

[Marek_Tucan]

Monty is correct, the enhanced OPfire filter means just that you can set at what targets and what ranges the unit will opfire, it does not mean any direct decisions about op-firing on the players part.

[DRG]

When you play WaW and you use that op-fire "feature" did you ever wonder if maybe, just maybe, it gives an unfair advantage to the human player because the AI does not have the capability of deciding if it will or will not fire at your units when it's your turn to move?

Don

[Marek_Tucan]

Also the human control over units is already quite extensive, the unconfirmed opfire is just a little means how to keep them at least a bit independent, even if it's a hindrance to player's plans if something goes wrong