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I got various people asking me the following:


Make a Vietnam Beta 3: a final installer of the Vietnam minimod. No patch, a full installer. This will then (hopefully) get people to play Vietnam some more until PR v1.0 arrives.


I'm fine with that if there's enough demand. But don't expect miracles: there will just be some (small) bugfixes.


So... please vote.

Soldiers, vote "Yes" or you are all going to be kicked out of the field! Copy that? I can't hear you!!! Do you copy?!!!!

Sir, YES SIR!

Great! And now, take your rifle and show those ******** your bullets.

I vote no. Better concentrating on making it ready for 1.0 Better foe the team, and better foe the community in the effect. Just my opinion...

Fixes made for Beta 3 would otherwise be made for v1.0, so that's not an argument .

Sucks to not see Vietnam being played at all, so yes, anything that promotes it more I'm up for.

MAKE IT MAKE IT MAKE IT!! It was a pretty good mini mod, just make a few more maps if you can. ops:

i vote yes cuz i have no idea how far away1.0 is, so if this will get us playing nam again w/o crashing the servers then im all for it.

it depends, in my opinion, based on this thread, beta 3 appears to be meant more as an incentive to keep people playing vietnam or attract new players rather than be an actual update (bugfixes are always welcome, but is prv so broken that it warrants an update for bugfixes?)

still, I'd vote yes as prv would probably be overlooked when 1.0's released, which brings me to my other point: I wouldn't do it if 1.0 is not far away, less than a month or so (highly doubt it but still, it's something to take into account).

K4on wrote:I vote no. Better concentrating on making it ready for 1.0 Better foe the team, and better foe the community in the effect. Just my opinion...

My thoughts exactly, community will forgive a long wait once they see the overall payoff

Dont forgett to make more commercials, on moddb and PR-Main Page. So that everyone see it who is not so involved in PR. Or it will have the same killing effekt like Beta2.

I think the problem with Beta 2 was, that only a few people can download it via Updater, thats why Beta 2 was not played.

A Beta 3 may shows up more bugs and problems like in Beta 1. Beta 2 isn't played enough to see if there are problem. And if there are bugs they could be fixed for PR 1.0.

@ChallengerCC:
the advertisement for new versions is verry important, thats right.

@devTeam:
Maybe you could delete the old informations ingame that are shown as news, newest Beta for Vietnam, Normandy, Falklands and the mappack for PR is enough. Too many informations confuses the people.
Maybe color the news for each minimod. Sometimes i did not register, that there are different announces.

white = PR, blue = Normandy, green = Vietnam, red = Falklands for example

Regards Knallkopp_02

Wakain wrote:prv so broken that it warrants an update for bugfixes?)

You make it sound like PRV is completely unplayable. Sure, some bugs need to be fixed, but playability is fine .

No I don't want another Beta of a mini-mod, I want PR v1.0.

ChallengerCC wrote:Dont forgett to make more commercials, on moddb and PR-Main Page. So that everyone see it who is not so involved in PR.

Don't worry on that point.

i vote yes because i personally want more PRV, however there are good points being made about why not to do it. If you have inside info on 1.0's release date, you may want to consider timing of the release. If its near i would release it as a bundle with 1.0 and advertising it as fully integrated into the main mod. this will give it more attention from the community as a serious part of PR and may garner more frequent involvement in regular servers.

due to the separated nature of previous PRV releases, only servers that wanted to specialize in PRV maps really had them in the rotation with the exception of ones like CIA Kokan & Napalm.

Vietnam will be integrated into v1.0 regardless (it already is btw).

The point of a Beta 3 would only be to draw attention to Vietnam now, so everyone that wants to can play it without being confused by updaters and patches - until v1.0. The rest is as Knallkopp describes it.

It's a waste of time really. Even if it takes an hour to do, it's pointless. The main servers that are populated right now will not waste time trying to get it into the rotation as many people don't want to play it or because they didn't update. If you do want to see more vietnam until 1.0(when everyone has it and it's hopefully in normal server rotation) then you need events. Not a new version.