Battlefront.com now offers a new patch for
Combat Mission Shock Force to update the military strategy sequel and its various modules to version 1.31. They have a list of mirrors where the patch is hosted, and
these patch notes outline all the new version entails. The list of what's changed follows.
- Gill and Javelin missiles track moving targets better at very close range.
- Nyala armor fully protects against small arms, and non-RWS version has smoke launchers removed and carries .50cal MG not 7.62mm.
- Nyala and G-Wagon gunners correctly rotate turrets in response to covered arc commands.
- Fuchs forward MG has wider rotational arc.
- Corrected a problem that intermittently caused adjusted artillery missions to take too long to arrive.
- Soldiers receive reduced blast protection when an armored vehicle is between them and a very large explosion.
- Launch sound changed for Gill missile.
- Firing sound changed for C14, C15, L115A3, AWSMF, G22 sniper rifles.
- Building collapse sounds are quieter at a distance.
- When loading a scenario from v1.21 or earlier, custom "unit names" for individual squads, teams and vehicles are not applied to their leaders' names. Unit names for formations are unaffected.
- Vehicles don't automatically stop firing when some passengers are disembarking.
- Fixed a bug that prevented clicking on soldiers through a (transparent) building's roof.
- Corrected Syrian and Canadian rank icons.
- TOE updates:
- Canadian independent engineers added.
- Demolition charges for Canadian Pioneers added
- GPS added to all leaders of Blue rifle squads.
- Germans and Dutch receive additional radios.
- Dutch receive additional night vision equipment.
- Miscellaneous corrections.
- T-90 tank does not overreact popping smoke in response to laser targeting [Marine Module only].
- In the New Game screen, the time displayed for each scenario (e.g. "01:20") refers to the length of the scenario, not the time of day.
- nVidia light-flashing bug is fixed
- Computer player is smarter about disembarking passengers from immobilized vehicles.