This powerful rifle sounds like suppressed, as pointed out by Yustax.

I guess it should have more echoing sounds like SMLE No.4 to make it more powerful. I played MAFIA 2 and have the impression that the Kar98K should more or less have this kind of characteristics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0-oZ6VzCU&feature=related

Although I believe that FH2 version sound more realistic. Speaking of the real sounds, I really can't find a video which depict its characteristics, perhaps due to low fidelity camera microphone in most of the recordings. A video like below this, where a guy shoots his Kar98K, sounds very generic with typical firecracker cracking sound, I've been to local shooting range yesterday, and even the modern pistols sounds just like that from distance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGZyVXJdTk

This is quite an improvement compared to FH2.3. Hats off to Remick04 and team for the AI despite having to keep up with the main MP team to release the 2.4 in time. Other than the greatly improved gameplay, the singleplayer experience is golden on its own.

Bots can cross the bridge, though with some difficulties. At default difficulty settings, they have lousy aim, but okay. Tanker bots are now deadlier. And more...

So far, I found:

1. Player entering Hanomag (Sdkfz. i don't know which) in Eppeldorf cause the game to crash.
2. Meuse River will eventually CTD by itself for unknown reason (still investigating).

This is what happened in my rig, a 32-bit Windows XP SP3-running machine. There are no lag issues or whatsoever.

Have you guys found any in default FH2.4 SP?

235 years ago, 13 colonies declared their independence from the Britain empire.
Acknowledged by The Netherlands, Spain, and France. They become an independent nation.

Although it is still 3rd of July in Philadelphia, it is 4th here in Jakarta. The US embassy is preparing for a flag raising ceremony this morning.

This word is what we yelled to each other during our struggle for independence: "Freedom!" (Merdeka).

Well, today our office building caught fire which spread smokes evenly throughout every floors. (Might be AC)

This is how the lobby looks like an hour later:



I took some pictures after evacuated from the building. Some assholes managed to jam the evacuation inside the emergency stairs, some even taking photos with their gadgets.



That same lobby, earlier.



Lesson: NEVER INHALE SMOKES FROM BUILDING FIRE!!!

I picked my nose and it was all black dust and tar-like, although I survived. Some unlucky chicks nearly collapsed at the entrance.

At least, use wet tissue, fabrics, towels, anything, just don't inhale them directly, if you have mask, that's your best friend.

Bots are known to hesitate when crossing narrow streets or overgrowth or ditches.

I've done two simple things:

Changing values in ai.ai

aiPathfinding.setActiveMap Vehicle
aiPathfinding.map.maxSlope (28)
aiPathfinding.map.addVehicleForClusterCost Tank
aiPathfinding.map.addVehicleForClusterCost ArmedCar

Changing values in aipathfinding.ai

aiPathfinding.createMap Vehicle
aiPathfinding.map.maxSlope (20)
aiPathfinding.map.headClearance (3.5)
aiPathfinding.map.radius 2.5
aiPathfinding.map.allowedHeightDiff (5)

And at least, in my PC they successfully do this in Goodwood:



I dunno if this is the result i should have expected when increasing the encased () values.

The hanomag in first pic, finally crosses the underpass smoothly with little hesitation. The Goodwood Panther drive through the railway now, they don't reverse and forward too many times. Lastly, the Panzer 4 was shown to be able to cross the underpass too, not only the hanomag!

Yesterday, Mt. Merapi erupted again, this time it is bigger.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11656700

Today in Jakarta, several hundred miles away, the weather is rather cloudy and the sky is grey-ish, but when my mom yelled that the dust "shines", we noticed that this is volcanic ash particles, not the common smog dust (which should have reduced in Saturday).

So here is some pictures:



The sky and the trees aren't as blue and green as usual.



The granite tiles looked clear, however when you brush your fingers, you'll see this fine particles stuck in your skin.

I involuntarily inhaled the fine particles in the air several times outdoor, now it is easier for me to breath deeply. It seems they clear out any clogs deep down there. But I heard the ashes could cause internal bleeding if inhaled too much. Need to find maskers now.

Ah my first free day with FH 2.3! Now I feel that I must pay some contribution by posting this.

Well, known crashes to me:

1. Lebisey crashed when map fully loaded (100% then CTD).
The map has no navmesh.
Fixed by Remick04 1st Fix
The map is now playable.

2. Operation Totalize-64 will eventually crash.
As long as the Canadians don't take the Windmill flag, all will be fine. But then, I play as Canadian and rushed all the way to the windmill (numerous times), and 3 times playing, all end up with this error message:


3. Operation Goodwood-64 displays dummy flags capture message.

4. Anctoville 1944-64 displays "ERROR when dealing with (certain object)"
The message will appear periodically, but doesn't affect anything to my observation. The game still plays well and the bots will do their job.


5. Port-en-Bessin MG34 gun position in a house adjacent to the Shipyard makes player stuck
I almost given up pressing 'e' key and chose suicide instead, until a clever British bot riflenaded me  


6. Ramelle-Neuville Parker's .30 cal confirmed may cause crash
I was playing as Germans, seeing the bots failed numerous times, i decided to rambo the church tower alone and do whatever i can to clear the path from defending Amis. I man the MG, snipe, and shoot many bots. But one bot with Bazooka slipped my MG sight, I yanked the MG to the right bottom corner trying to aim for him, but suddenly it CTDed without any error message (despite playing in windowed mode).

7. Operation Goodwood now crashes
I applied Remick's first SP patch and ESAI FH2 edition. As Germans, we hold LeMesnil Frementel and LePreiure for long, before it finally crashed. The British are bleeding, because both Cagny flags are in German's hand. Will find out the possible cause.

Bots that do not play properly:

1. Port-en-Bessin bots do not follow the flag cap order
Probably in the StrategicAreas.ai file, the bot British bot will go straight to the uncaptureable Port-en-Bessin from Outskirts. Must follow the push mode order.
Fixed by Remick's SP patch and Void's ESAI FH2 edition

2. Bots flying Hurricanes in Mt. Olympus easily crashed when turning hard
They fly much better in other maps, dunno why.

3. Villers-Bocage hedgerows makes bot stuck on them
The bot driving vehicles seemed not able to find better path to reach their fighting positions. Instead of real tank battle, i only see allied tanks getting into town and get pwn3d by infantries, while the mighty German tanks stuck in hedgerows.
Pictures Irrelevant
Bots will still struggle, but managed to get through all of the times, we can now see real tank fightings.

4. Bots in Ramelle-Neuville disregard towed 20 mm FLaK at all.
In small numbers, the Germans pwn3d the Amis by their superior equipment. When given more players, Americans can actually hold the Germans at the bay by using swarms of Zook rockets while the tank drivers are busy finding the right track. Also, the zook rockets seems to kill in pretty large radius too.

5. Bots driving vehicle in Operation Goodwood cannot cross railroad underpass and overpass.
The Germans are pretty much stuck in Goodwood, their counterattack only come with infantries and small armour units. Investigation leads me to their base: they forward and reverse the tanks and halftracks too much, afraid hitting the underpass wall. Probably their collision mesh avoidance played a part in this. Otherwise, we can "waypoint path" this underpasses and overpasses so bots can drive over them easily into the fight.
Fixed by Void's ESAI FH2 edition

6. Bots driving tanks in Anctoville-1944 cannot travel properly.
Bots in Anctoville, where streets and paths are narrow seems to be very clumsy when driving tanks. They just don't get to action too often. They forward and reverse too much, perhaps too afraid of scratching the fences, walls, and others.

Well that's all, will update as soon as I find other problems and its probable cause.

There are so many different views regarding WW2. But here is what happened generally in my society, especially regarding nitpicky details of WW2:

1. The Roman salute
From the FH community and many other WW2 themed mods, i recognize that everybody mostly yelled "Sieg Heil!" when doing that gesture. Some of them do yell "Heil Hitler!" in front of his picture of him personally. But most of the people here don't know that, and always connecting that notorious Roman salute with "Heil Hitler!" Nobody seems to aware that "Sieg Heil!" is more common.

2. The success of Blitzkrieg
This was the most hilarious part of our education system's mistake. In explaining this chapter, they show FJ units paradropping in French, surprise attacks by high speed planes, and tanks rolling into villages. This creates wrong understanding amongst the society that Blitzkrieg was really a lightning war, that were executed harmoniously between infantry and the mechanics.
What i've learned from the l33ts at FH, is that Blitzkrieg is of course, a quick drive into the enemy territory, blowing from its weakest point, spearheaded by mechanized division (Panzer/tanks) for its awesomeness in speed and firepower, intended to incite larger collapse in enemy's front or full encirclement of the enemy. Our understanding suggest that it was entirely different thing, that it makes the formidable French forces at that time, looked far more stupid than it was. The history teacher couldn't even answer the student's question like this: "Why the French forces with their superior numbers were defeated? Why wouldn't counter attack?" the answer is pretty easy for the brats: "Because they were surprised, they have no time to react, and it was all too late." Simply downplaying the failed De Gaulle's counter attack.
We were told that the German simply win, the Britain was surprised, knocked out, and suddenly were on their ass in Dunkirk, while the French was like slowly stripped by the Blitzkrieg.

3. North African Battles
Our textbooks suddenly jumps into the defeat of Commonwealth & British forces, forgetting all the earlier brilliant victories against the Italians. It makes Wavell and Auchinleck looks worse. Some of the textbooks have fatal errors, such as wrongly referencing Rommel's nickname (he was called Dessert Lion). And not to forget that the textbook seems to overly glorify the El Alamein and Montgomery.

4. Overly signifying the "turning point"
As we know it, the text books brazenly dared to jump into blatant conclusion about this. It mentioned "El Alamein", "Midway", and "Stalingrad". So, a lot of people here thinks that "those were the first time the axis felt defeat." as in the turning point of some plot in some novel story. Nobody knows that the Germans were set back during their 1941 winter offensive to take Moscow and how close they were. Nobody knows that the Germans were still able to fight before Kursk, or how the allied were stuck in Gustav Line for a long period of time.

5. The fighting machines
O perspectives! I just can't be more tired when hearing my friend suggesting that the US/British equipment were superior, the German are second, the Soviets are the worst. A very convenient plot device by the education system to explain into us another reason why the German lost.

6. Bombing of Reich
Simply not mentioned in the book. Many people here don't know this. Even some brighter ones don't even realize that it began earlier than 1944.

7. U-boot terror and how the allied win the battle
Grossly downplayed. All of us here simply regarded the British navy is the strongest in the world, thus they won (even some still believe that it is, today). Misinformation at its best.

8. The Finns
Not mentioned!!! Never know why.

9. Western front = Eastern front
At least many people do get this perception, the battle is equally big, while in reality it is mind-blowingly out of proportion. During the cold war, we were simply told that the USSR equipment are inferior, and their strategy are very gross, involving waves of foot soldiers trying to overwhelm the defenders in number. US and USSR are equal in strength. However, we did feel that NATO seems to fear the USSR more than just because all of these BS.

10. Holocaust
We were told that it really happened, including the picture of Auschwitz's gate. All accompanied with only one explanation: "because Hitler hate Jews."
Obnoxiously.

11. Japanese stance
Our own history told us that 350 years under Dutch occupation is better than just 3.5 years under the Japanese. Because Romusha (forced labour by Imperial Japanese) is many times more sadistic than "kerja rodi" (Dutch forced labour). Yet it forget to mention how we have a lot of collaborators, because the Japs persuade many of the local political leaders a lot. The collaborators themselves were all tricked and later become fierce opponent of the occupation.

12. Chinese war
Despite absorbing much of Imperial Japan Army's resource, this portion of the war has never been adequately portrayed, including in our version (which most of it were sourced from US version). Some books don't mention it at all, some only mentioned that the Japanese took advantage of the ongoing civil war.

13. The destruction of German fighting force in Normandy
Most of the people here learned that the German force were completely overwhelmed by the allied superiority in numbers of both men and equipment. But what they don't know, is that the allied forces' advance were quite halted during several first weeks of the campaign (as compared to Soviet's advance in Eastern front). But as we skip the details, all we know is that von Kluge's army were trapped in Falaise and nearly encircled.
So this has created some really wrong perception about how the war goes in my society. Blame it on the history classes. Many of my friends think that the Americans and the British were just clearing villages out of German garrison, rallying them into big battles while having the German army slaughtered, and regrouping the French resistance during the Normandy campaign. Too easy huh?

14. Market Garden
Somehow this is very significant.
The plan is ambitious and bold, i agree. Its failure show how well is German fighting forces despite suffering numerous losses during the earlier campaigns. But why do we have to study this chapter in more detail? This has created a perception in many people that "even the victory in western front doesn't always went smoothly." Battle of the Bulge is also overly portrayed here as well. Giving the impression that the Germans give the allied forces more priority compared to the Soviets

15. Bloody American losses in Pacific
Many were surprised when i told that the Americans suffered more casualties in the Pacific than in the Europe. Thanks to SPR movie, since they showed brutality at Omaha, and weak education regarding history. It makes a lot of people concluded that the US decided to bomb Japan with nukes because they already have it. The Germans were too late for that. Nobody really knows how bloody it was to take Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa.



A little note: we study WW2 history subject in year 14 and year 16 based on 1999 renewed standard curriculum.