Combat Mission Shock Force 2

- Game uses outdated engine and lags a lot. Maps are small that limits benefit of long range weapons(like AT missiles). - There are problems in how troops behave. In some cases they tend to run into enemy fire or occupy wrong side of the room. And this shouldn't be the case in a game where troops have some level of freedom in their paths and behavour. - Enemy is dangerous because you always have to advance and enemy is more numerous. BMP-1 and T-55 vs modern army. Infantry, usually just one shot enemy armor with Javeline missiles. - It is hard to affort losses and play fair, because you can't replace casualties and will have less troops next missions. Resulting in save/load gameplay. - You get points for missions, but not clear why do you need them. - Last mission is buggy, enemy spawns in buildings already occupied by player. - Clearing building blocks from enemy infantry with RPGs becomes boring - Buildings are extremely abstract set of rooms. - Syrian forces use hospitals as covers and US forces do care about civilian casualties. Syrian side even get points for US dealing damage to syrian civilians? What next? Red alert style story? - There is army of fans who treat every problem as realism - Is costs a lot, should have more quality for this price. And you will have to pay a lot for additional campaings. - Game has realy cool features and tries to simulate a lot. Like soldiers tiring, panic, injury, share ammo with nearby squads. But game need to evolve and improve itself in all ways. Needs better quality and not laggy picture. Needs better equipped enemy who will find ways to slow down, starve and knock out occupants. Needs ways to replace casualties, so we can affort casualties and play fair.

This is not a military simulation. As a person with basic principles of warfare, I say that this simulator is not as good as it is described. Here it is impossible to fully simulate even an elementary ambush on armored vehicles in the city. Strykers and Abrams see fighters lying on the floor through the walls, and religious fanatics tremble in fear of a couple of bullets fired - absurd. Why should I bring my soldiers to the forefront of the defense perimeter if it is tactically unprofitable, because I have to evade long-range fire combat where the US Army has an advantage? Game mechanics forbids simulation. This is an entertainment toy for the mass consumer. Advertisers misled me. This simulator cannot be used for military training, it does not meet elementary requirements, such as: 1. Urban combat and the fight against armored vehicles with hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers (the game mechanics impose remote combat - this is crazy) 2. There is no simulation of morality, to suppress the fire of religious fanatics and US rangers are completely different degrees of morality. 3. The game has very weak AI - everything is scripted. Shooting smoke grenades and then running across open ground under crossfire is crazy. And so on, this is one of the worst war simulators I've wasted money on. I was looking for a game that the military learns from and I was seduced by advertising - I was wrong. Arma 3 is much better at simulating ambush combat against armored vehicles. If you know the military simulators that the military learn from, write the names here. Thanks. You all understand that if in this "military action simulator" it is impossible to simulate an elementary shot from a hand grenade launcher from the window of a high-rise building (without exchanging fire with a striker or raving at a distance convenient for an armored combat vehicle but not convenient for an infantryman with a grenade launcher, as happens in an asymmetric war ( in this simulator there is no elementary ambush) then this is not a simulator but garbage for mass consumption? Tanki sees an infantryman through the wall of a high-rise building (he should not see him even through a thermal imager). This is crazy! I do not have a professional version unfortunately. But what is stated by the developer - False. (Sorry for google translate. I am rus from Rossia.#stopwar)

Это отличная игра, такой вариативности и возможностей в тактике я мало где видел. Очень хотелось бы ремейка с более современными видами вооружения внешний вид войск, ну и графику подтянуть.