Warfare 1944 - v1.1 OUT NOW!

This is going to be fun

Wow, tons of those problems are magically fixed! Well done! Please read my previous post in the previous article for more feedback and compliments. My fingers are too tired too write it all again

Also Con, I don’t know if you have fixed this, but with the 25% discount upgrade it stills says that when you buy rifleman its 200 not 125.

This may have been fixes you were talking

Yeah, thanks Ranger. It falls under the whole discount upgrades fixes.
- Con

Thanks for the updates! By the way.. when ever I play Warfare 1944, I always have to start a new campaign and can’t continue. Is it my computer or is it a bug or something?

Hmmm, that’s odd. It should be saving automatically…can you answer these questions:
- How far into the campaigns are you getting?
- Does it ask you to do watch the tutorial every time you start it up?
- Do you get all the help windows every time you play?

- Con

Hey Con. The only problem I had (Disregarding In Good Supply, which you said you were working on) was that in the last mission of the US campaign, the German enemy was somehow able to bunch together 3 Bazookas and one Machine Gunner in the same piece of cover. I managed to finally break them using a half-dozen airstrikes, but I still failed the mission.

Yeah I know about that one, thanks. Might be rewriting the cover handling code at some point to fix this and other confusions.

- Con

I can only answer two of them, since i dont know what you mean by ” help windows ” but for one and two yes and yes

It sounds like your Flash player isn’t letting you save. Check the settings when you Right Click the game, under Settings check the Local Storage settings. You might need to raise the limit?
- Con

On campaign a German walk past 4 of my amercans and went all the way to the other side but I didn’t lose or lose morale andthe were both in the middle lane

Yeah, old bug. Still looking for what’s causing it.
- Con

when u get the german officer and use the air strike it doesnt take away my resources and i use as much time as i want, sure the glich is coll but it takes the fun out of it

Heh, ya. Machine gun/Sniper duo would be a bit horrific. I hope the wild yammering hordes that think the 10 minutes of thought they’ve put into a new idea for the game to “improve” it don’t sway you too much (Not sure of the effects of cyber-peer pressure and if they work the same as it’s real world counter-part). [That wasn't too confrontational right?]

Hah, cyber-peers. But yeah, 90% of the game ideas I get haven’t been given more than a minute’s thought. People don’t get that I spend hours, literally pacing around thinking a lot of these game design decisions out.

I’d just like to say (since it seems no one else has said it)I’m completely content with this game and what you’ve done up to this point. I’m not waiting for Last Stand 3 or Warfare 1952 (everyone loved Korea right?) or anything else. Good on ‘ya for doing what you’ve done so far.

Thanks man, appreciate it. There’ll be a few more games before I even start thinking about a new Warfare, but I can pretty much garauntee it won’t be chronologically correct.

- Con

Honestly i have nothing but high praise for this game all the bugs glitches and yadda yaddas were, to me, just another piece of the challange. Cant wait for the difficulty modifier want to beat american campaign on hard in less than 20 minutes >:)

HEY UHH HOW DO I PLAY THIS NEW UPDATE??

Well, you can start by reading the post and then realise you can play it when it comes out, early tomorrow U.S Time.

- Con

ok so i suck at the 1914 German Campaign do you have a walkthrough? HELP?

I just replayed both of the campaigns. I like new assault teams , though they gave me a hard time during some of the german defense missions. Speaking of those, i think they a really, really fun to play, i wish one could select those in skirmish.

The tactic i won most of the games with, was quickly moving your troops forward keeping them covered from all sides (means: moving the troops in all 3 areas). This usually takes out the enemies defense were quickly, and you´re able to finish most of the campaign maps in less than two minutes.

Sweeping through my campaign statistics i realized i mainly use riflemen and assault troops to zerg the enemy down. I NEVER use officers, they´re expensive and inefficent.

Think I might just play another round of skirmish maps. Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks Con, this is the best flash game I ever played!!!!!

Couple of bugs I have spotted.

The campaign isn’t saving :(.

Sometimes my squads skip over cover and enemy troops.

Sometimes the air support does nothing and just wastes resources.

Sometimes I order Riflemen and nothing happens, and the resources are spent.

Thanks a lot for the rapidity of your work. It’s really rewarding and pleasant as a player to be able to give remarks and be heard like that.

A few more notes : the cover system is, even if logical, a bit strange. The fact that it accepts only on squad I can get, but when it’s a sniper (or an officer), it’s kinda strange. Could maybe implent some kind of mechanisme that allows one “big” squad (assault, rifle men) and one “little” squad (snipe, machine guns, officer, bazooka,…) or two little ones but never 2 bigs.

Well I don’t know, it’s a bit complicated for not much interest, but still, like that, the system is a bit flawed.

But I repeat it : very good game. Wouldn’t give a damn about fixing and making things better if I thought the game was a giant piece of flash crap.

Plenty of love from belgium

Sorry about triple comments. I forgot about it but the Suppressing fire option doesn’t quite work, or I don’t understand it. I click it, I hear the voice roaring “Supressing fiiire” but nothing is different.

Is it a bug or am I a douche ?

hey you could make a game with the civil war ore napoleon that would be cool 2

There is a glitch that when you play a custom game, and allow all the upgrades with…lets say germans. and you play the caimpaign, you dont have to pay for the upgrades of airstrike,artillery,gernades, and smoke gernades. was that intentional?

just adding to list of bugs, for the upgrade (forgot the name) where its 25% less infantry cost. everything has a 25% less cost like the grenades and support and tanks not just infantry. not sure if it is a bug or if you ment more than just infantry to be cheaper

so basically I have a glitch myslef as it had only happened once and it forced me to win. I had 3 riflemen squads in the middle(allys) and I was advnacing upon a tank, the 1st German tank u find, and well 2 squads just died and the 3rd one didnt get hit and it just walked through the tank and a few rifle guys and he just made me win that battle. So i cant repeat it anymore though

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There is a glitch that when you play a custom game, and allow all the upgrades with…lets say germans. and you play the caimpaign, you dont have to pay for the upgrades of airstrike,artillery,gernades, and smoke gernades. was that intentional?

i know this but it isn’t the same i ment in the campaing it’s more interesting to unlok stuf that have it right on the plate

i finished the game (german) on the hardest level it’s wey better faster exp grouth and i think it made the game shorter but more fun good work ?!:-??

Con man take a brake!

You have been working for so long. You should really take a day off and be happy for all the work you did. Then you should fix the bugs.

Nah see, I need to nip it in the bud now. Thanks though!
- Con

hes also already said im pretty sure that last stand 3 is the next project and the civl war will b the next 1(not totaly sure) (but pretty sure)

u canghed the range on the bazzoka crews too right?

“I don’t know what people are talking about. The resources let you spawn WAAAAY more troops than in 1917. Remember in 1917, you hit one unit and then the timers for ALL of them started? Notice how they’re individual now?

- Con”

True but, idk, sometimes it held me from building a good defense and the enemy just ran right by without much resistance. But sooner or later, the ai didnt spawn much and i was allowed to build my defense. Great game so far, im just about to finish off the german campaign.

(PS: do u think that you are gonna make another warfare? I dont mean to seem pushy and you do have a whole lot of games to work on but just want to see if we are going to see the last of warfare)

I found a minor bug, german had a sniper unit in cover and I had an assault team in other cover, when the sniper fired, my whole squad perishes every person falls at the same time ground, Is this a bug, or some magical sniper unit?

A small bug:grenades can be used even you have ZERO resource pts

Hey Con, not to take this too far OT. Have you thought about porting either 1917 or 1942 over to Xbox Live/PSN and/or iPhone/iPod Touch? There’s some pretty good money to be made on both of those areas.

The 1917 was epic, but this one is just not so impressive. I’m not saying that its bad but as players we reasonably expect a bit more, if not more than the previous game. I’m quiet disappointed by its historical setting and naming.

For a game setting in 1944, the armament of Wehrmacht was ridiculously obsolete, with their equipments being in 1941 or earlier (except the Panzerschreck, of course). Let us detail:

1. Riflemen: No serious problem, but would “Grenadier” or “Panzergrenadier” be a more WW2-feeling name? Otherwise “Schuetzen” (German for rifleman) would be more appropriate.

BTW the Wehrmacht have already equipped with limited G-43 semi-automatic rifles since 1943. Would you consider one or two semi-automatic rifleman in the riflemen team?

2. Sturmtruppen: I was shock when saw the term. “Sturmtruppen” was a WW1 term. That was no such term in WW2 as Sturmtruppen-style tactic (the infiltration tactics) was the basis for every Wehrmacht infantry. “Pioneer”(German combat engineer) would be however a more appropriate title, as both objectives were similar: to force into enemy line and engage in close battle.

As a close combat unit the Sturmtruppen was correct to be equipped with MP-40s, but the other two riflemen should be equipped with more suitable weapons. For example one of them could equip with the Flammenwerfer 35 which suit even better in their role of trench-sweeper (BTW, “trench”, what an abusive Great War-era term in a game that was no trench, why don’t rename it cover/ sheaid or etc?), while another guy wield a STG-44 assault rifle if you really want to retain long-range but impressive assault firepower (I guess that’s why you keep this close assault team with rifles) - Remember it was 1944.

BTW would you consider to change the Assault team icon to an SMG instead of a grenade? Grenades are not exclusive for Assault team now.

3. MG-34: WHERE IS MY MG-42!? Its true that the MG-34 was still in service and still in manufacturing, but the MG-42 was manufacturing in even higher priority and was replacing the former. BTW is it possible to make the co-gunner operate the gun when the primary gunner fell?

4. Sniper: No serious problem, but if the riflemen don’t deserve G-43 semi-automatic rifles, these elite deserved. G-43 with the ZF-4 scope were common use by the Wehrmacht.

5. Officer: When I saw his beard I suspected if you just copy and paste the one from 1917……

6. Panzer III: Its the most annoying. What’s the point of fielding some obsolete early-war trashes when the Wehrmacht had much MUCH more Panzer IV, Panzer V and Tigers in 1944? Please! Panzers were German icon in WW2, and now they were impossibly hunted down by American trashes namely M4 which in reality was hunted by the Panzers. (OK I know this’s about difficulty, but think of the reality! Just imagine how could the 50mm gun of 1939’s Panzer III fight against the 75mm gun mounted on a 1942’s M4!)

To speak of armor, disappointingly, I actually expected there would be more vary armors than in 1917! Tanks were reasonable to be the final, super weapon in the Great War, but it just should not be in 1944, when a final weapon just should be much more powerful. Of course carpet bombing or V2 strike are just impossible to add in this small-scale infantry-base game, but would you consider heavy tanks (Tiger I/II vs Pershing M26/ Comet), paratroopers (Fallschirmjager vs 101) or etc?

And this is why 1944 will be the last modern history Warfare game….sigh
- Con

Cool

@mok nin
If you´re so obsessed with WWII militia, i guess you stop playing and start watching history channel a little more. Nobody gives a flying fuck, what guns they are using as long as the game is cool. Just my opinion.

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I noticed a bug in version 1.1

in some missions with the tanks, after the mission the tank sound effect keeps playing, even when i start the next level.

Please fix this.

after finishing the german and american campaign, ive noticed that once you get into the skirmish missions, that all of your upgrades are still with you from the missions and the germans would have all infatry unlocked while you selected a few for your selve.

Cool, I’ll look into that. Stupid upgrades…
- Con

@mok nin
If you´re so obsessed with WWII militia, i guess you stop playing and start watching history channel a little more. Nobody gives a flying fuck, what guns they are using as long as the game is cool. Just my opinion.

Actually there are people who give a flying fuck, polite recommendations for a historically accurate time period is never a bad thing, and I’m sure as Con gets more time we may see changes to reflect that.

Being a fun game is good and all, but having historical accuracy is nice as well. Especially for one that is researched and as known as the WWII period.

But fortunately, it is just your opinion.

yeah i got a bug i think.
when you have 0 recouses and then you let youre men trow a grenade. they wil trow it and it will say -50 but then you get the 200 back again..
is that a bug?

Hardened is much better though still I found it not particularly challenging (but it is probably me)

Anyways I was playing and I see how if you lose once you no longer gain XP for kills, this makes sense, but it is quite annoying for one time I started a battle and wasn’t watching it and then came back to it and decided just to quit to realize I lost much XP, even though the amount of important upgrades isn’t too important…

I didn’t see a balancing solution I was simply thinking of it, it doesn’t necessarily need to be changed in reality.

Oh conscript soldiers for the Third Reich the price of riflemen is a still required 200 and cost only 100 like the US before they were fixed, also I found it much less powerful than the US version, maybe it should also cut the price of snipers.

And lastly Frag grenades can be thrown infinitely while out of money, I like this glitch, I’ll use up all my money and tell every single squad just to throw as many grenades as possible.

Anyways… yeah…

Yep. Thanks. All known issues.
- Con

i love u con i have loved ur games since the beggining…daniel<3 con

Con what the hell is happening with airstrikes 3 airstriked didnt blow up the tank??!

It’s machine gun fire. Might be a little underpowered though, may tweak it back up.
- Con

also think you should get rid of resource points. just sayin

and I think you shouldn’t make arguments for removing key pieces of gameplay mechanics without any viable reason to do so. just sayin

- Con

why dont make a deathmatch battle mode,like 50% faster reinforcement and resuply time,and the A.I ultra aggresive or tanks battle modes,bazooka battle mode,and other idea is put the trench maps in skirmish and use the new troops in the old map.and the planes droping bombs against troops or tanks can be really funny.

all im sayin is that it would allow for smoother gameplay. It worked for 1917, so it should work now

ur game is awesome….i hate it when people say bad stuff about ur game just because u could have done a little better i think u did great especially since we are not even paying you so i dont think we are in a position to criticise ur game so badly..i mean little comments like glitches are good but when it comes to actually dissing is wat pisses me off

Hey Con. Firstly, I must say I am a big fan of your games. Played all of them through at least 3 times.

Now for the feedback on Warfare 1944: I was expecting a great game by free flash game standards. I did not get that though.

Instead I got a game that would be great even by $10 IPhone Game standards. Btw to all you bastards complaining just leave Con alone because you have no idea how hard it is to make these games.. and you are acting like you just payed $60 to play Warfare 1944 while, may I remind you Con does not receive any money from the game(right Con?) and neither did you pay so DONT PLAY if you don’t like it. And yes quit complaining too.

Now to the actual feedback lol.. This is by far the best flash game to have come out in the last 5 years (well tied with Last Stand 2) and probably for the next 5 years.. excluding the games you are going to make. The graphics are mind blowing, and like you said even when you have giant firefights there are no slowdowns. Con have you ever played Company Of Heroes? Or you must have at least seen it. Just talking about the yellow and green cover shield icons, and the tank main gun destroyed, etc states, and how they pop up in red. Anyway though, I am not good with words but I can say that the overall quality of the game is just amazing.

Other people have said this but anyway I know flash games are probably “where your heart belongs” but you can try going slightly upscale, you know making your games the $10 dollar downloadable content, as like I said your current games are already good enough for that, and I can’t imagine how good future ones will be.

One more thing: I have read your comment saying that we can donate by clicking on the ads on your website and ended up clicking an add 50 times. (If you are reading it you should too. Con really deserves it.)

Ok now… one last thing for real: Just want to describe one little glitch.. may be you have noticed it or its just me getting this but i have had squads running into cover, and just continuing the walking animation, not shooting, being completely useless. Only happened about 6 times to me, and its nothing big, but i just wanted to make sure you know.

Thats pretty much all I have to say.. man this was a long comment… took about 30 min to write up.. well not as long as some other comments but still.. And since it was so long here’s a recap

1. Me = Big Fan
2. Warfare 1944 = Amazing
3. Complaining losers = Should go Die
4. CLICK ON CON’S ADS!!! RIGHT NOW!!!

Ok thats it. Con keep up the good work… No take a break after v 1.2 and keep up the good work after the break! Seriously get some rest, you don’t wanna get overworked.

Any feedback on my feedback is more than welcome :).

Peace Out
-Mike

mentioned before, but when playing on hardened, one group of riflemen (played by the computer) without a cover can take down a group of hostile riflemen who are in cover. Anyway you look at it, that is nothing but a flaw

what about the next version of the game when will you release it?

Can you realase it at Newgrounds?

Great game Sir.

hey con i really like all the warfare games you made (and right now i was changing the subject from what i was going to say.)but when i was playing the game a couple minutes ago i noticed there was a small piece of german cover and they had 4 bazooka teams 1 aussalt team and 1 rifle team.is this a bug?

Good games but they are WAY to praised, they aint that good, there are good. and also ive seen better MADE games, not better as for game play and they where slow, but ya