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标题：Revisionist History
作者：Thomas L. McDonald
期刊名称：Games for Windows
印刷版ISSN：1933-6160
出版年度：2003
卷号：July 2003
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Revisionist History

Thomas L. McDonald

ommand & Conquer: Generals is up to version 1.5 with mostly minor bugs on the squish list. Online stat recording has been fixed so that disconnecting players are tracked and wins/losses correctly tabulated, and the online lobbies no longer list players in the wrong place. The number of Rangers appearing after destruction of a U.S. barracks is now lower, since it was being used as an exploit. Another exploit hole, this one allowing multiple workers to speed structure build times, is closed. Missile tracking, which was getting wonky after rocket-buggy upgrades, now works properly, and both rocket buggies and comanches reload reliably.

A number of balancing issues have made their way into the past few patches. Upgraded napalm does less damage than it did. GLA bomb-truck health, worker health, tunnel-network gun damage, marauder hit points, and stealth-fighter hit points are all increased; while scorpion tank, tunnel network, and GLA arms dealer build times are tweaked. Overall, no huge problem has reared its ugly head, which is as it should be for a game so thoroughly tested before release.

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Delta Force: Black Hawk Down version 1.1.0 has a tiny slate of fixes for its initial patch. On the multiplayer side, claymores now acknowledge the friendly-fire option, while claymores at spawn points no longer crash the servers. Flag respawn and zone color issues have been resolved across the board. On the single-player end of things, there are some waypoint fixes for mission Diplomatic Immunity and minor goal fixes for mission Radio Aidid.

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Version 1.0.272.0 of SimCity 4 has tackled the zoom and rotation issues, resulting in faster switching for both. A number of other performance improvements, such as better framerates, more effective management of the memory cache, and new settings options, all go a long way to improving the enjoyableness of this game. Several dozen other fixes address everything from graphical glitches to gameplay elements, such as neighbor deals and graphs.