chemchok

Agree with you on all of your points (#4 will definitely be included in Senitnels). More importantly though, SS needs to create the strategic sense of desperation that made JA2 so interesting. Having to worry about healing your mercs and enemy counterattacks (as well as maintaining your income from the mines) added a whole level of strategy beyond the combat of the game. SS simply has no sense of time constraints.

A few random suggestions.... Set your desktop view to what you will be using in the game (resolution and color depth). In your case, I'd definitely use 16 bit color depth @ 1024x768 if possible (800x600 otherwise). Make sure anti-aliasing is off, and textures are set to low - I know you've probably seen this enough already. Another thing you could try is manually disabling your sound card (in device manager) so you can completely rule that out as the cause. The only other thing I have to add is that it's strange it always crashes. It sounds more like a driver problem (although you are just squeaking above the minimum specs). Oh, and degragment your drive, sometimes this can make all the difference, especially if you're uninstalling and reinstalling games frequently.

Nice, I'll give it a try.

I know very little about modding.... but in the game, you need to have smg ammo on you for the pouches to appear (ditto for rifle, etc.). Do your characters have ammo in their inventories?

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out, but I'm really looking for something that has a spread pattern. Ever have someone use an smg on full burst at close range and miss with every single shot? It would be nice to have a shotgun for troops with a low burst skill in those situations. Yeah, they were'nt essential, or even legal, as I understand it, because of the similarity between buckshot and hollow-point ammo, which was outlawed by the ?Geneva? convention. At the same time, it's hard to argue that shurikens (nevermind panzerkleins) were essential either.

This game needs some shotguns in it. I know they weren't standard issue in any army during WWII, but that doesn't mean they weren't used at all. Besides, a buckshot spread in this game would look so cool.