Combat Mission Battle for Normandy Patch notes

Released just a day ago here are the enormous patch notes for a game which I still need to reinstall since rebuilding my machine:

Vehicles

• Moving vehicles fire their weapons with further reduced accuracy.


• Spotting ability of buttoned-up vehicles is further reduced.


• Fixed a graphical bug that could cause a Puma crew to rotate outside the vehicle.


• Vehicles that lose an unbuttoned crewman to small-arms fire are more likely to pop smoke and/or retreat like they typically do when the vehicle itself takes a hit.


• Armor penetrations through a vehicle's main gun mantlet are not reported as hits on other locations.


• Hit text for projectiles that enter an open vehicle hatch says "Hit: Opening" rather than turret or hull.


• Corrected a rare problem that could cause tank drivers to remember "threat locations" for too long and rotate the vehicle inappropriately.


• In a campaign game, if a tank is in working order but its crew is decimated, the tank will not appear in the next battle only to immediately become "knocked out" due to having a decimated crew.


• Rhino vehicles are additionally available in August.


• Fixed a bug that prevented ricochets off a Panther lower mantlet into the hull top (though this intentionally remains rare).


• The glacis/hull-roof armor plate on the Tiger front is thicker.


• SPW 250/9, SPW 251/9, and SPW 251/10 halftracks will button up under fire like most other vehicles do.


• PSW 222 crew is now commander/loader, gunner, and driver.


• PSW 222 and PSW 223 are capable of firing weapons after losing a crewman, and have slightly improved commander's visiblity when buttoned up.

Terrain

• Troops hiding in trenches or foxholes get better protection from shrapnel.


• Concealment in foxholes is increased.


• Corrected a problem that protected soldiers when a wall was behind them, but not enough when a wall was in front of them.


• The distance between a soldier and bocage where the soldier may see through the bocage is slightly shortened.


• Direct hits do more damage to trees.


• Trees are less likely to block large projectiles consistently.


• Tree placement remains precisely consistent each time you load/play a particular scenario.

Quick Battles

• Corrected a problem that sometimes switched attacking and defending sides.


• The unit auto-purchaser is improved.


• Air support may only be purchased during daytime with clear or hazy weather.


• The "Random Service" option works properly.

Artillery

• Artillery is a little less precise.


• When a forward observer cannot see where spotting rounds impact, he will usually require another round to be fired rather than skip ahead to fire-for-effect with poor accuracy.


• Corrected a problem that sometimes caused artillery missions targeted near a TRP to "prepare" indefinitely.


• Pre-planned missions for on-map artillery won't ever use spotting rounds.


• Corrected an accuracy problem that could affect the first rounds of pre-planned artillery strikes using the Line pattern.


• White phosphorous (smoke) does not cause unrealistically high casualties.

Soldier Behavior

• Soldiers are less likely to use SMGs at longer ranges.


• Soldiers are less likely to fire on exposed tank crew.


• Soldiers can spot anti-tank mines (in addition to anti-personnel mines).


• Corrected some problems with mortars in direct-fire mode.


• Soldiers are less likely to use explosive weapons for area-fire at very short range.


• Soldiers won't set up heavy weapons on the precise edge of the map.


• The TacAI pays a bit less attention to unarmed vehicle targets.


• Soldiers aim better when area-firing into an immediately adjacent building.


• Corrected some problems with soldier placement around heavy weapons in foxholes.


• Soldiers are quicker to stop attempting to surrender if friendly soldiers are nearby and enemies are not.


• HMG assistants can cower under fire like the rest of their team.

Grenades

• Troops may throw grenades from buildings at open-topped vehicles.


• Grenade throwing obeys covered arc orders.


• Grenades won't roll through building walls.

Bridge Pathfinding

• Corrected some minor pathing problems across bridges.


• Troops are more willing to move across nearby fords rather than use distant bridges.

Anti-tank Guns

• Antitank guns won't attach to vehicles that are too small to tow them.


• Corrected a problem that potentially allowed an antitank gun team to move the gun into a building.

User Interface

• Keyboard camera controls are smoother (Windows version).


• When placing troops in a building during setup, if you click on a soldier or its icon (instead of the building) to set the destination, it won't cause the moving troops to float in midair.


• Trenches and barbed-wires "remember" their rotations if moved to a location that is not adjacent to other trenches or barbed-wire.


• When attaching targeting orders to a waypoint, the range display is calculated from the waypoint, not the unit's current location.


• Corrected a problem with area-targeting a non-occupiable roof of a building.


• Clicking Exit or New in the Editor brings up a confirmation dialog.

Miscellaneous

• Less framerate is devoted to showing wind blowing through trees.


• MP40 ammo pouches display correctly on German soldiers.


• Fixed a disappearing "gable" on a couple of barns.


• Updated US rank icons.


• Fixed some out-of-memory problems.


• Adjusted the point values for bunkers.