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Firefight Version History Version 4.0, June 2006 - Maps are 65% bigger - Up to 20 units per side - The landscape is made from tessellating texture graphics - The game uses DirectSound so several sounds can play at once - Details are shown of the man the mouse last hovered over - Shows the distance of the target when you order troops to fire - "Winter" graphics if in Europe during winter - Jungle terrain - Canals added to "lowlands" maps - Better desert terrain now includes houses and palm trees - Japanese, Chinese, New Zealand, Australian and Dutch nationalities added - Each man now has a rank and a name - Graphics are now stored as separate .bmp files so they can be easily modified - Surnames for all people are stored in .txt files so can be altered and added to - Names for villages, farms, hills and rivers are stored in .txt files - New weapons include flamethrower tanks, anti-tank rifles, and knee mortars for Japanese troops - Data for each tank, armoured car, anti-tank gun and infantry unit is now stored in individual .txt files so they can be easily modified and added to Version 3.0, October 2004 - Better map creation routines - Improved graphics - More realistic morale for infantry gives fewer casualties and better gameplay Version 2.0, July 2000 - Historically accurate infantry units - 35% larger map size - Up to 16 units per side, with up to 12 men per unit (maximum of 192 men per side instead of 80) - Artillery fire has to adjust before firing a full salvo - Right click on a unit to view its status - New infantry weapons include pistols, carbines, shotguns, and light, medium or heavy mortars - Saved games are compressed to take up less hard disk space Version 1.1, October 1998 - Campaigns - High score table - Newspaper headlines when world events occur - Low land terrain for Belgium/Holland - Troops can surrender Version 1.0, September 1998 - Scenarios from 1939-45 in villages, forests, desert or hilly terrain - Play as a British, Canadian, American, German, Italian or Russian commander - 10,000,000 different randomly generated landscapes - Real time line of sight so hidden enemy troops cannot be seen - Fields of grass, wheat or ploughed earth surrounded by hedges or stone walls - Smooth hills, using gaussian shading - Roads and rivers made from bezier curves - Villages, farms, woods and orchards - 55 different tank types - Up to 10 units per side, with up to 8 men per unit - Infantry weapons include rifles, grenades, sub machine guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, bazookas, mortars and flamethrowers - All shots travel in realistic parabolic trajectories - Large amounts of AI so troops will behave intelligently without user intervention, including support fire, taking cover, tactically sneaking up on enemy positions, ambushing, retreating and routing