![]() The Artificial Intelligence and path-finding are not stellar but are reasonably good. It also implements the tank commander role well, with the ability to designate and hand off targets to your gunner. ![]() It has decent briefings, combining voice recordings (not all the user-made missions have these) and animated maps full control of your tank platoon, including the ability to take over another of your platoon's tanks, if yours is knocked out and a good representation of intercom and radio communications, including decent target indications. And its unrivalled scope isn't PE's only asset. While even the latest PE's graphics and animations are still not up to modern standards and the tanks sometimes teeter on the rather angular landscape as though made of cardboard rather than steel, the visuals are by no means unserviceable, with Geezer's tank textures a particular highlight. You can find out about PE-X here and PE3 here. In particular, modder 'Brit44' Aldo developed a new PE executable - 'PE-X' - which added proper ballistic trajectories and other goodies, while BobR of the 'Ostpak' team built around this a full package known as PE3, which features much of the best modder material combined into a single package. Those days are gone but it didn't end there. The Wings PE forum was a hive of tank enthusiast activity, with lead developer Teut Weideman and the dedicated modding community ever present. But PESE did have a marvelous combination of tanks and places to fight with them - full campaigns set in Tunisia, Italy and Normandy in the stock game, to which PESE added North Africa, the Eastern Front (and British tanks for Normandy) along with the appropriate range of extra tanks and other kit, and improved graphics and effects. And one of the things it did have was rather crude, cartoon-like graphics, even by the standards of the time. ![]() Well, almost everything it didn't have any time of flight for its projectiles, which arrived immediately after firing. PESE) arrived in 2001, it was the sim that had everything. Normandy '44 with the latest version of the classic tank sim!įifteen years old it may be, but Wings Simulations' classic WW2 tanksim is still one of the best of its breed. ![]()
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