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ANZAC_Tack · Rep: **22.3** votes: 1

Matrix Games News Release
For Close Combat - Last Stand Arnhem

Matrix Games Announces a Relaunch and a New Contest for the Close Combat Series!
New “2.0” releases, a mega-update for existing customers and a new contest breathe fresh life into the classic real time tactical series

Matrix Games, Slitherine (www.slitherine.com) and Black Hand Studios are thrilled to announce that they are nearing completion of a new relaunch of the Close Combat series, representing countless hours of hard work from the developers and based on community feedback to greatly improve unit pathfinding, friendly and enemy artificial intelligence and more! These new “2.0” releases address some of the most significant issues that have been on the wishlists of Close Combat fans since the original games were released.

In addition to relaunching the Close Combat line with these improvements, everything that’s new will be available at no cost to customers who already own the Matrix Games Close Combat releases in the form of free mega-updates, which have been tested and hailed by many gamers in the community over the past few months.

These new versions mark a fantastic overall improvement to the gameplay of the Close Combat games and show the astonishing distance the series has come since its original form many years ago. If you played Close Combat but haven’t tried the re-releases yet, this is the best time to get in on the action!

To mark the relaunch of the series, Matrix Games is also thrilled to announce the Hoffman’s Body Easter Egg Contest! For all the veteran Close Combat commanders out there who remember finding Hoffman’s body in the classic Close Combat games, we’ve placed Hoffman’s body somewhere on the battlefields of Close Combat – Last Stand Arnhem. The first person to find Hoffman’s body and send us an in-game screenshot of his location along with their serial key will win a free digital copy of any game in the Matrix Games or Slitherine store!

Relaunch and Mega Update Improvements (CC: Cross of Iron, CC: Wacht am Rhein, CC: The Longest Day)

Major improvements were made to the way vehicles and soldiers travel to way points and reach the end destination of both simple and highly complex, unhindered paths with a very high degree of success.
Soldier pathfinding was improved so that when soldiers fall behind (heavy weapon or momentarily lost) they plot their own path to successfully rejoin their team.
Vehicle driver and soldier decision making was improved to help them deal with unexpected obstacles (vehicle moving into their way , or wreck that was knocked out in the course of battle to block a path that was already determined), and get out of dead-end locations.
AI improvements were designed in concert with the re-designed pathfinder.
The "Bee Dance" of CC2 that was related to conflicts between the AI for the vehicle driver and the AI that tried to keep the team moving along the team's path that would result in a conflict about which portion of the AI to follow or "which way to go” is resolved.
Many other minor improvements were made and reported bugs were fixed.
CC: Last Stand Arnhem-only Relaunch and Mega Update Improvements

The mechanism for borrowing teams from the reserve battlegroup was redesigned.
The Grand Campaign was redesigned for improved play balance
Get more information on Close Combat - Cross of Iron, Close Combat – Last Stand Arnhem, Close Combat – Wacht am Rhein, Close Combat – The Longest Day,from their official product pages.

Close Combat - Last Stand Arnhem

Discussion Forum

matthewhalos · Rep: **42.3**

can someone explain this thoroughly?? some parts of this message is not clear to me........

platoon_michael · Rep: **56.2** votes: 25

It's posted on all 3 of their forums .
Just no link yet for the download.

schrecken · Rep: **195** votes: 15

release 1 was a fail so it has been re-released with some bug fixes - my best guess.

platoon_michael · Rep: **56.2** votes: 25

Priapus · Rep: **18.6** votes: 1

This is the long awaited patch then? They make it sound like they're releasing a new game that is free to all those who have purchased the re-releases.

tigercub · Rep: **23.5** votes: 2

was just looking myself yep no download as yet!

mooxe · Rep: **221.7** votes: 25

I guess this is some marketing ploy.

But the reality of it is, they are releasing a new patch.

So the next phase is for us all to play the relaunch of the rerelease.

The ultimate reality for me is.... Matrix Games is trolling us and Tack (supposedly anti flame bait??) is first to post it here!

platoon_michael · Rep: **56.2** votes: 25

I got a gut feeling this may be the LAST patch.

Lets hope it's all better.

Sapa · Rep: **76.3** votes: 8

Maybe this should have been version 1.0...

Can i play the Grand Campaign in this one without crashes?

platoon_michael · Rep: **56.2** votes: 25

Looks like this is just an Official patch.
Pretty much just all the members Only beta patch's all rolled into one for anyone to download.

Dam!
I had my hopes up for more.

And what's to keep anyone from using 5CC to find Hoffa's Body and claim the prize?

schrecken · Rep: **195** votes: 15

My personal observation is that matrix is in such a mess with all the beta patches now that they are doing a full release download so that they can get the game back to a "Known" state rather than 157 bits cobbled together.

US_Brake · Rep: **24.2** votes: 22

mooxe · Rep: **221.7** votes: 25

Oh I get it now. All the members club patches that have been in beta status for the past years are now going to be official. I guess if you have the members club patches installed, you've already experienced the great hurrah that this is supposed to be.