More shots from "Fire Birgade" My Panther was disabled and the gun damaged but still i managed to fight on. Called up my Platoon who were blocked from coming over by damaged buildings and tanks. They somehow managed to get threw. One tank commander in a Panzer IV I personally decorated with a medal myself. He held off and knocked out numorous T-34's till the rest of the Panthers cound get through the road block.!

This is the guy. See those tanks in the background? They are Kv-1's he fought single handidly and damaged and destroyed both who were firing on him at the same time..

One feature about PE you may not be aware of is the add on function. If you click on the ADC figure in the headquarters menu a book will appear with many tabs.

One of these tabs is for the tank and crew. The top paragraph is the crew and the mid section where you set up your platoon of vehicles.
The bottom section is the available options for each tank. You can select the side skirts or extra track protection for your panzer. These features actually add extra protection in the armor penetration calculations, as well as add new pieces to the ingame tank model itself. For Allied tanks you can pick A plates or hedgecutter etc.

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Originally posted by TheGozr:
Is there any Tank SIm with some good graphics?

Steel beasts is avalible, but modern armour only.

Steel Fury is avalible in a Russian language release.

Tiger Vs T34 is due to be released in July 08.

PE's engine can now do better graphics, but there are no modders left that are interested in working with PE's anitquated tools.

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Originally posted by BobR1:
No new models for PE have been created in many years, I myself never could learn how to do it. The stuff in Ostpak is material gathered from the original game or tanks built by other 'rival' mod groups for PE lomg ago. If you happen to know a model maker I have a list of to dos, highest on them is an M24 Chaffee.

There should be an M24 somewhere, I know JonB and I were working on one when the first mod war errupted.

Panzer Elite uses the standard 3ds file format from 3D Studio Max version 3.0 and 4.0. This is the same as gmax, but with the ability to export in 3ds format.

The problem with using other programs such as milkshape or ACAD is that the parent/child link is lost when converting. Lars and Eric Lenort (L&L) did create a java based program to recreate these links. I do not know of anyone asking about this program for years. PEDG did have it on our tools page until our server screwed us out of the pedg.org domain name.

PE is like EAW. It's a place to create and have fun. leave the problems of mass popularity to IL2 and 1C.

I always love to read the info you guys tell about the game. It's great stuff and well worth reading..

Tiger in the Russian winter. One Tiger properly crewed and used can do a whole lot of damage..

That thing is just sad when compared to TvT

...shame.

PE is what you make it to be IMO. If you expect world beating cutting edge modern new graphics it's aint about to happen.

Once you get beyond this fact and really start to enjoy the many really nice missions built for it it become a real nice change of pace from just all aircraft sims. For an older sim it plays quite a lot like actual real life panzer battles IMO from what I have read. I have a paperback of actual panzer battles discriptions called "Panzer aces" and much of the action ones gets into with PE come suprisingly close to the discriptions in that book..

You have to get beyond the older graphics first though. Personally I believe certain maps such as in the winter campaigns have much better graphics then others.

Very nice improvment in graphics to PE from the new Nvidia drivers!



Very very nice..

more..

Anyonr have any experience with the PE-X patch/mod? It seems not to want to let me install it! I find that things are a bit unstable out of the box - probably time to reinstall windows and maybe have a separate gaming install to stop the build up of junk in the registry...

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That thing is just sad when compared to TvT

What's the gameplay like on it? PE cost me £6 - TvT is four times that.

I have to hand it to you, stalkermeister, you are a one-man Madison Avenue advertising company. The "Panzer Elite Development Group" ought to be sending you four-inch thick filet mignons every week!

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Originally posted by Aaron_GT:
Anyonr have any experience with the PE-X patch/mod? It seems not to want to let me install it! I find that things are a bit unstable out of the box - probably time to reinstall windows and maybe have a separate gaming install to stop the build up of junk in the registry...

I like Pe-X over Ostpak at times and it works for me most times but it is a bit unstable.

Try this instead load PE then the 1.2 patch.

Then load Ostapak and then the PE-3 patch. I have had nice luck with that combination.


Here's a note from the PE site..

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I recommend users try the PE3 mod over Ostpak, there are many improvements included in there.
While Vase continues to work on expanding the Unit data files in order to make Britpak and monty vs Rommel portion work, I have been assembling the eastern front scenario zip.
Basically it is all the east front scenarios in Ostpak, but with the 1939 - 42 Allied and Russian player scenarios. Up until now, due to optic file limitations, only early war panzer grey scenarios were playable from the German side.



http://panzerelite.yuku.com/forums/5/t/OSTPAK-Mods-und-Add-Ons.html


This is the main PE forum and the guys there will answer what combination of mods is best to use.

I try combinations of them all which i know I shouldn't..

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Originally posted by Aaron_GT:

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That thing is just sad when compared to TvT

What's the gameplay like on it? PE cost me £6 - TvT is four times that.

I find tha ai very convincing and at times downright scary how real it reacts!

You may want to get into the multiplayer PE sessions. They are listed when on the forum.

The PE ai right now is enough for me..