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I have noticed this also....It gets very frustrating when you have a group of them..tell them to attack and maybe 2 or 3 shoot once at the target then spin around while the rest are still driving 4 miles past the enemy... while any others may be circiling around it and not shoot at all....and then just maybe the time they decide to shoot is just before they get blown to hoot. Well maybe not like that situation, but that's how I've seen it happen.

Yeah I know its a dumb question but honestly I don't know what stock means. Like I see it it some names of the variants in 1.3 and stuff.

Wow. That stuff is the biggest load of bullcrap I have ever seen. Seriously, a visit from aliens? What the hell? Come on people, make a better lie.

GOD, that was full of plugs for BZ2.

I have 2 ceramic tiles with things that resemble Scion Archers on them.

Plugs?

This is a short summary of the impact Battlezone 2 has had on my life.

Man oh man, I don't know where to start.....

Well, I used to actually play regular Battezone 2 straight from the disk, but DANG I played it all the time. I'm serious, I used to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner (if my mom let me) in the computer room, and I would play Battlezone 2 all day.

In 3rd grade I think, we had to go to the computer lab, and we had to write something like a story or a poem in notepad. I was pondering on about what possible things I could write about, then I thought, Hey Battlezone 2 would be a good choice. Holy crap dude, I wrote a long story about the maps, the storyline, and descriptions on each unit. I even wrote about my strategy.

In 3rd grade for show and tell I brought the Battlezone 2 CD and a stack of screenshots my dad printed off for me. I remember my friend spotting a Mauler in one of the photos, and he's like, "Whoa what's that thingy?" and I was like, "Oh dude, that thing is awesome. Its called a Mauler, it is a vehicle from a race called the Scions, and it is built from a structure called a Forge, which is the upgraded version of a builing called the Kiln. The Mauler cost 70 scrap to build and has a shotgun like weapon that shoots red beams and is really cool! It looks like a spider though." Friend: Cool!

I think about that same day I was saying something to my art teacher about me spinning around on top of the Matriarch while I was being attacked by a Msl Scout and I couldn't control it because the joystick was hooked up.

Also, I was in art one day, and we were making pottery, when I was done I told the teacher and she said, "Okay, now we can put it in the kiln." And I was like "KILN? Where?" And she goes,"Oh its in here" And I looked and saw the big metal stove thingy. I just started going on about, "Wow that's really weird becuase in this game I have called Battlezone 2 Combat Commander there is this race called the scions and they have this building called the kiln and-" She cut me off,"Well, that's a coincidence."

In 3rd grade, I always talked about Battlezone 2 NON-STOP, and one day, my grade was below a 70 in the class, and she asked me to come to her desk, and she said, "Austin, your grade in this class is failing right now, and I feel that its because you cannot concentrate while I'm teaching." "Well-" I started to talk, but she cut me off, "Do I need to call your parents and tell them that all you talk about is this..Battlezone all day?" "Um, excuse me ma'am, its, Battlezone 2:Combat Commander." I corrected her in a strange deep voice. She said nothing else afterward.

In about 5th grade, we had to do a poster project on our favorite thing. I as usual procrasinated and had to do it the day before. I couldn't think of what to do it on, and then, I was like,"Hey! I could do it on Battlezone 2!!" So I used some screenshots my dad printed out for me, and glued them on the poster and wrote descriptions about certain units. It was totally awesome...

Probably leftovers in the asset tree, or installer errors. I knew the guy who did the installer for BZ2, others; might have been swamped with work that week. Our release candidate builds were compiled at odd hours, and they needed a CD built ASAP.

-- GSH

Were you one of the people that actually made Battlezone 2? Or was that someone else...

Lemme rephrase, why are they THERE?

No idea. That's part of the reason I posted this.

But what of the numbers AFTER the lag messages? What do they mean?

You know, I actually noticed the numbers are identical to one persons FPS.

Here it is, it Av'ed while I was joining a game with a friend.



---- Battlezone II Log File ----
//=====================================================
App version: Patch 1.3TechAlpha5 Apr 23 2009 13:36:08
Windows version: Windows Version: 6.0.6001 'Service Pack 1' PlatformID=2

Last few battlezone.log lines (may or may not be relevant):




(done)

Exception code: C0000005 (ACCESS VIOLATION) READING from 00000000h
Message :  Exception
Error occurred at 4/26/2009 16:59:24.
C:\Users\Dad\Desktop\Battlezone II Clean File\bzone.exe, run by Dad.
C:\Users\Dad\Desktop\Battlezone II Clean File\bzone.exe, run by Dad.
CPU: 1 processor(s), ?
     ?
Process Memory :   1874 MB free out of   2048 MB total
Physical memory:    300 MB free out of   1023 MB total
Page(swap) file:   1192 MB free out of   2310 MB total
This exe is using 35 MB, peak use 47 MB

Fault address:  00577ADF 01:00196ADF C:\Users\Dad\Desktop\Battlezone II Clean File\bzone.exe

Registers:
EAX:00000000
EBX:0459C6CC
ECX:00000001
EDX:77849A94
ESI:7FC60120
EDI:00000100
CS:EIP:001B:00577ADF
SS:ESP:0023:0226FAC8  EBP:04597068
DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000
Flags:00010212

Call stack:
Address   Return    Function            SourceFile
00577ADF  00000000  005763D1  Font::Read+0x000002AF
005763D1  00000000  00584513  FontSys::Create+0x000000F1
00584513  00000000  0042969A  IFace::Init+0x000000E3
0042969A  00000000  00429606  HandledMain+0x0000044C
00429606  00000000  00429343  HandledMain+0x000003B8
00429343  00000000  00426BDF  HandledMain+0x000000F5
00426BDF  00000000  0055B90F  WinMain+0x00000059
0055B90F  00000000  76A64911  fabs+0x00000191
76A64911  00000000  7782E4B6  BaseThreadInitThunk+0x00000012
7782E4B6  00000000  7782E489  RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x00000063
7782E489  00000000  00000000  RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x00000036

No you people don't get it. Its just as bad as 1.3 pb4a. It kicks you out of the game. Feared even told me he AV'ed!

This bug has happened twice. What it does, is lsimilar to 1.3 pb4a. It will say, for example Marshmallow is lagged (4 seconds) and it will say that a few times (yes that is my in-game name) and then it will start putting in tons of numbers multiple times, it does it SO fast that no one could even tell you tried to type something. I have 2 screenshots up and I have 1 more I might put up.

http://img22.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=bzone2009042520132841.png

I have a problem already.

I did a fresh install and stuff, and when I try to launch from the bzone file in the folder, it says this, "The application has failed to start because the side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail."

Also, does this overwrite 1.3pb4a? Or do I have to do a fresh install?

Are there new maps?

I have noticed this over the few years I have been playing F.E.

Sometimes during an Instant Action game in random places on the map there will be smoke and electric bolts (which I assume represents short circuting or cut wires or something) coming of of nowhere! It will just be floating in air and sparks will shoot from it and stuff. What is the cause of this?