Force21 Patch

UI Changes

• If a clicked on vehicle moves from under your cursor, but you don't move your mouse, when you mouse up it still selects or targets that vehicle.
• Tool tips added.
• Right clicking on the commander face in the game will no longer cause the mouse to disappear Simulation Changes.
• Dead vehicles no longer generate "enemy seen" radio messages.
• Platoon damaged and platoon attacked scripting triggers added.
• FEd helpfile revised to match the new scripting triggers.
• Weapon accuracy fixed to change with distance. This also addresses problems with tank main guns shooting down helicopters too easily.
• Missiles tweaked to aim better and not shoot into hills as much.
• Artillery will no longer fire on the move.
• Multiplayer networking processing overhead reduced.
• Version number changed. Versions 1.00 and 1.01 are not multiplayer compatible.
• Vehicles will not be able to fortify or camoflauge while taking fire.

Mission Changes

• US2 AI made more aggresive.
• US9 victory conditions revamped to address a machine-related inability to win that mission.
• Other missions tweaked to account for changes to scripting trigger.

Graphical Changes

• Alternate color set added as an option in DevicePicker (avoiding the red/green unit colors).
• New textures for treadmarks and fortification.

Crashes/Lockups

• Mission loading lockup with certain TNT drivers fixed.
• Voodoo 1 lockup problems fixed.
• Option to turn off the treadmarks added to DevicePicker. Turning this option off is a troubleshooting technique in case of card/driver related crashes or lockups -- in particular the above Voodoo 1 problem.
• Saving a game with a CAS strike in progress will not cause a crash on mission load.