Early Access Dagger Directive’s first update doesn’t seem to have cured its corpse reanimation problem. Loading still seems to revive fallen foes now and again. The new build doesn’t like old savegames either, so it looks like I’m going to be replaying campaign missions 1 to 3 a little earlier than planned. Having run some experiments, I think I’ll play on ‘hard’ this time. Upping the difficulty improves enemy marksmanship significantly and boosts their visual acuity.
Wars Across The World fans that don’t keep an eye on Strategiae’s Facebook page had a pleasant surprise yesterday. Angola 1988 is a cheap, eighteen-turn treatment of a crucial year-and-a-half in the Angolan Civil War. Steel Armor, Graviteam Tactics, and Angola ’86 players will recognise some of the map labels, and much of the heftier hardware depicted on South African and Cuban chits.
Guide four AFVs through a small randomly-generated city infested by enemy armoured vehicles… the “veryprealpha” build of Iron Mirage currently available on itch.io is little more than a stylish tech demo. However, it displays enough damage model sophistication and AI subtlety to bring to mind Close Combat and Firefight.
Developer aeroiii says “infantry is planned and the infantry system/building movement is somewhat playable, but needs a lot of polish”. Hopefully, the next build will also include camera zooming.
For geographical and financial reasons, I reckon I’m more likely to purchase a RailDriver than a SimHogger. The latter is a new 980 USD rail sim peripheral that looks capable of making Run 8 owners in particular, extremely happy.
Although free history-em-up Discover Old D’Hanis stubbornly refuses to work on the THC rig (All I can see of the 3D graphics is the desiccated ground surface) it has still managed to inspire Roman. This week my Chief Foxer Setter has been stripping vowels from 33 Texan ‘things’. Be warned – some of the answers are DM NBSCR.
Looking at “Discover Old D’Hanis”, could it be that it is caused by a joystick input? Try devreorder, which you can find at github. It is a lifesaver on games that you can’t disable joysticks. Albeit in some games you will have to guess which directory you have to put the devreorder.ini. It is not always next to the dinput8.dll (Like Il-2 Great Battles. Dll next to the exe and the ini elsewhere). See if this helps or works.
Thanks. My (poor) description does make it sound like a potential joystick issue, but it’s actually something different. I can look around freely, but if I’m not looking almost straight down then the screen goes black. Hopefully someone from Saltbox will respond to my Steam forum post eventually.