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Command: Modern Operations - Desert Falcon Release Date/Ten Year Anniversary
Thu, 28 September 2023
Announcing the release date of our new showcase and celebrating ten years of Command
Hello Command fans, we have two pieces of news for you about our upcoming new Showcase DLC and our 10th anniversary.
First off, the DLC. Command: Showcase - Operation Desert Falcon is now confirmed to go live October 10th, 2023. This near future mission will see you conducting long range airstrikes from the French Metropole into Chad with Rafale's, Phenix's, and C-17's equipped with RAPID DRAGON. This scenario is a great choice for learning how to get the most out of Cargo 2.0, the Mission Planner, and Aerial Refueling.
A flight of Rafale's on the long trip from the Metropole to Chad
A race against the clock as rebels attack French assets
The riskier but more direct route over war-torn Libya
Aerial refueling is key in this long distance strike mission
The future of Françafrique depends on your success. The symbolic value of even a single fighter lost could spell doom for France's future in the Sahel. This challenging mission demands nothing less than perfection. We are looking forward to seeing how our community tackles this Showcase.
And onto the other news we have...
Time flies when you're having fun
Command just passed it's Tenth Anniversary! Over the past ten years we have seen several massive updates and changes to Command.
*New features and improvements like Cargo 2.0, the Multi-Domain Strike Planner, and the Mission Planner.
*Modeling of cutting edge new technology like RAPID DRAGON in our massive database, which just passed over 500 updates and iterations.
*Introducing our 64-bit update and DirectX 11 map render.
I am sure I am forgetting other milestones we passed but the last year alone has been a whirlwind of new features and updates.
We would like to take a moment to thank our fans for joining us on this long journey to make the premier modern military simulator. Your feedback and suggestions have been essential in making Command what it is today.
Command: Modern Operations is currently on sale on the Matrix Store: https://www.matrixgames.com/game/command-modern-operations
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Command: Showcase - Operation Desert Falcon is out now
Tue, 10 October 2023
The year is 2027 and France's position in the Sahel has become untenable.
A coup d'état in Chad has brought an anti-colonial regime to power. Militant groups are seizing foreign assets and government security forces have gone over to the United Sahel Liberation Front. With militants advancing on Massenya Airfield, the main base being used to evacuate French and foreign nationals, only the French air force can provide the necessary support to prevent a massacre.
The closest fighter squadron equipped to support the evacuation is staged over 2,000 nautical miles away in southern France. Equipped with the Rafale multirole fighter and the A330 tanker, you have the range to reach out from the Metropole to touch the Sahara.
You will need to manage multiple air-to-air refueling's, synchronized multidomain strikes, and the logistics of evacuating Massenya. The 500 civilians the will only be safe once they have landed at Libreville, in Gabon. Operation Desert Falcon uses the Multidomain Strike Planner, Ops Planner, Cargo 2.0, and Palletized Munitions to give you all the tools you need to execute a difficult mission, the evacuation of an airbase under siege.
Features:
Playable as the French and focused on the Rafale C and the A330 Phenix, along with other supporting platforms like the C-130 and C-17.Multiple political factors in play. Libya is the most direct route but will you risk flying your strike mission over an active conflict zone?Plan for zero losses. With Frances position in Africa already teetering, any loss of aircraft or national humiliation will be considered a mission failure.Plan for the unknown. Chad has an arsenal of MiG-29’s, Su-25’s, and JF-17N’s that could disrupt your plans.Race against the clock. Militants are closing on the Massenya Airfield and the evacuation must be conducted quickly and with proper security.Utilizes new Command features like the Ops Planner, Multidomain Strike Planner, Cargo 2.0, and Palletized Munitions.It is highly recommended that the player completes the MDSP tutorials before playing.
This operation demands nothing less than perfection.
Bonne chance, Commandant.
Desert Falcon is available on Steam and the Matrix Store
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Command: Modern Operations Satellite Imagery Removal
Thu Oct 12, 2023
Dear Command users,
We’re usually here to tell you good news about new features but unfortunately today we have some bad news. For the last 5 years we’ve been using, with permission, a satellite imaging company's map tiles for the inner zoom levels of the satellite imagery in Command. This company has decided to put these map tiles behind a pay wall as of October 31st. We only just became aware of this when the map tiles started disappearing in the game so the short-term solution is to remove these map tiles. This is the course we have elected to take and the team are testing the build before we release it. This will replace the previous higher resolution imagery with lower resolution layers.
An example of the missing map data
We know how much the Command community likes this kind of high res imagery and so we will be looking for an alternative solution for the future. Increasingly, these types of services are behind paywalls so we may be unable to find a free option. For now we just wanted you to know it is something we will be looking in to but we don’t have a plan in place just yet. We were not warned this was going to happen. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this causes and we hope it does not have too great an impact on your enjoyment of the game.
Thanks again for your understanding and support.
The Command Team
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Command: Modern Operations - Map Layer News Update
Wed Nov 01, 2023
So, this was not the best communication attempt ever...
When we initially set out to explain the situation with the Stamen map layers going away, we referred to them as satellite imagery. This was a mistake, and created a lot of unnecessary confusion and anguish among some users.
So let's try this again.
As we wrote on that piece, we were forced in a hurry to drop support for three map layers externally provided by the kind people at Stamen Maps: "Stamen Terrain" (a topography layer, see sample) "Stamen Roads and Cities" (a variant of Terrain optimized for displaying road & urban networks) and "Stamen Labels" (a layer dedicated to displaying placenames). These layers are moving to a paid-access system from Oct 31.
As part of our pre-release coverage of CMO, we presented the various map layers included in Command in this article. With the exception of the Stamen layers, all of these layers still remain available as always.
In addition:
1) Beginning with the upcoming v1.06 / Build 1328.11 update, we are restoring the placenames layer. Stamen have kindly provided a very liberal usage license on their map tiles, so we can re-host the placename tiles on our own servers and provide them on-demand to CMO users. So this useful to many map layer is coming back, free of hosting concerns.
To pre-empt the reasonable question of "Why aren't you doing the same with the other two layers": We use only up to the level-10 zoom on placenames, which keeps the number and size of the fileset at fairly small levels. The other two layers go all the way to level-17 zoom, and at that scale the file numbers and sizes are GIGANTIC. Let alone the challenges of hosting such a set; we cannot obtain it from Stamen in the first place.
2) Serendipitously, we recently added support for the third-party OpenTopoMap layer in Command. This is an excellent map set offering both topography and road+urban network data, thus easily rivalling the functionality offered by the retired Stamen layers.
Thus, at the end of the day users of Command still have an excellent, high detail topography layer at their disposal. And as previously noted, all the other existing layers are offered directly by MatrixGames and are not going anywhere.
At the same time, this turn of events has motivated us to start exploring additional map layers & services out there which may be of good value to users of CMO and CPE. We are evaluating some possible candidates but we are also open to suggestions from the user community.
We hope this clarification eases the legitimate concerns of many players caused by our initial announcement.
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Command: Modern Operations - v1.06.1328.12
Mon, 11 December 2023
Hello everyone, we have a Command: MO update for you today with several tweaks and bugfixes along with new UI options. You can get it either from Steam or directly from the forums here.
v1.06.1328.12 – 6th December 2023
ADDED: New map display option (Game Options window): Draw black outlines on icons & text to make them easier to stand out against background map (ON by default; disable if it is slowing down rendering)
ADDED: [Lua] Added target property to unit wrapper
TWEAK: Map appears at slightly higher resolution on average by loading higher zoom levels at higher altitudes.
TWEAK: Updated built-in callsigns list
FIXED: Crash issue on startup
FIXED: #15340: [Lua] Sensor mounts were not being attached to parent platforms when added by Lua - SE_UpdateUnit; this led to incorrect illumination-arc calculation
FIXED: #15335: [B1328.10] Palletized munitions with Nan altitude and other issues
FIXED: [B1238.11] Rapid Dragon weapons pallets transcending altitude, accelerating infinitely, and migrating to North Pole
FIXED: [Lua] Exception error in weapon wrapper
FIXED: [B1328.11] Strikers and Escorts Not Working Together
FIXED: Lofted ASW weapon (SS-N-15) was considering the target altitude (underwater) instead of the desired impact altitude (water surface) for the lofted trajectory calculation
FIXED: [B1328.11] Aircraft egressing off flight plan to the east and west for some distance
FIXED: #15386: [B1328.11] Aircraft selected not transfer to Target list on air strike mission
FIXED: Missiles where not splashing on water
PARTIALLY FIXED: #15375: [B1328.11] DF-26 No altitude and weird behavior
FIXED: #15304: [1328.9] Air Intercept, low altitude in transit
FIXED: Escorts flying in circle ignoring the escorted unit
FIXED: Setting sub/ship throttle causes sonar signature to increase even if vessel doesn't move
FIXED: #15377: Speed override causes Sub to keep moving after course is cleared
Numerous general fixes
Numerous sim-performance tweaks
Includes the new v503 release of the DB3000 and CWDB databases.
DB3000 v503 additions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CfqVLnl4pR1oSHbD4hUOYPzPLzgyx7Ou/view[/list]
CWDB v503 additions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CgAWCjDxyugeB609KRSldtq9scUnTFkA/view[/list]
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