WINSPWW2?

Mobhack · #1 October 16th, 2005, 02:50 PM

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MarkSheppard said:
It'll be released when it's finished

Original release schedule they gave us at the beginning of
the year was for WinWW2 to be released around Novemberish,
but that was before the Mega v 2.0 patch for WinMBT; so
I would guess that we won't see WinWW2 anytime before the
winter of 2006.

Work on WW2 will start AFTER the fix patch for MBT, as I intend to use the MBT code as a common starting base.

Most likely, it'l take 3-4 months to get done once it actually starts.

Me wants WinSPWW2 as well - the tank and other stuff development there is much more interesting than post-war (hanging on for the grants, while making do with valentines and cruisers, if the UK in the desert for example, then waiting for 6pdr ATG tanks, I do rather like the 6pdr churchills

! )

Cheers
Andy

Double_Deuce · #2 October 24th, 2005, 11:52 AM

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Mobhack said:
Work on WW2 will start AFTER the fix patch for MBT, as I intend to use the MBT code as a common starting base.

With WinSPMBT as the common base does that mean that maps will be interchangable between the 2 games? I hope so.

I have a large project in mind and would rather not wait until WinSPWW2 actually comes out to get started on it. I have at least 47 maps that will need to be made with each of them needing a corresponding mirror image (maybe 3 mirror images for each for the 4 cardinal directions) so they can be rotated around and butted together like individual boardgame mapboards (like ASL mapboards).

DRG · #3 October 24th, 2005, 12:43 PM

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Double_Deuce said:
With WinSPMBT as the common base does that mean that maps will be interchangable between the 2 games? I hope so.

The maps will be fully interchangeable between the two games. That was always a priority

Don

Warhero · #4 November 1st, 2005, 07:19 PM

Btw, be sure that British vs Italy 1943 (June and forward) battle locations (maps) will be in right terrain (not always in desert as in SPWAW seems to be)... It's bit strange that Matrix never fixed that.

DRG · #5 November 2nd, 2005, 10:36 AM

Don't worry. They don't give you desert.

Don

gibsonm · #6 November 2nd, 2005, 05:21 PM

Sorry, I'm a newbie here so I hope you don't mind what may appear to be a daft question.

I've been a long term fan of the SP series and have finally convinced the boss at home to buy a PC to run WinSPMBT on (We use Macs for everything else). I also have a copy of "Steel Panthers World at War" (hopefully its allowed to be mentioned) from another firm.

Is this WinSPWW2 the result of some sort of take over or is it a totally independent product (but still based on the common SP ancestry)?

Regards,

Mark

narwan · #7 November 2nd, 2005, 11:48 PM

WinSPMBT is the windows version of the DOS SPMBT game which in turn is based on the DOS SPWW2 game. If I'm not mistaken both derive their ancestry from the SP2 game while the WaW series are derived from the SP3 game.
The groups who have been developing the different sets of games (SP2 based or SP3 based) have different views on some elements of the game. The end result is that it allows for a wide selection of SP games to choose from.

Narwan