Strange Gameplay Problems, Autosave Issues, General wierd problems Options

[Ixion00x]

Hi.

First of all, I love the game, its great, its fun.. and immersive. Okay, so I borrowed my friends copy and I've been playing it. It runs beautifully. That is, until the strange things start happening. It starts with the first training mission. When it comes to the grenade range, I have to either throw the grenades before the targets light up, or the throws will not register, especially at the high window. I could throw them all day, and the game does not register a correct throw. Not sure exactly whats going on there. Okay, now I have to reload and do the whole thing over again, I try it again, but when I run out of potato grenades, I can't pick any more up! On top of the crates, next to them, crouching, crawling standing, running towards them, away from them, everything... nothing seems to let me pick more up. Reload again... Okay, so now I'm coming around one of the autosave points and I attach the explosives to the panzerwerfer, it explodes, and then.... nothing. The game autosaves, but then refuses to move on. All the objectives are met, but the scripting is screwing up. This is to say nothing of the strange bug at the end of the soviet mission to destroy the building, (2nd soviet mission I think) at the end, the scripting messed up again and I couldn't continue. I have to constantly replay the missions until the scripting just happens to work right.

The second major thing I've noticed. The health system makes no sense. Am I just not understanding it, or is something wrong with it. During the first mission, to destroy the panzerwerfer, I get hit once, and I start gasping, the heartbeat, everything. Okay, take a few more hits later on and die. Okay, second mission, I take a few hits, and then the red bloody halo kicks in, and tells me to get to cover. Thats the one and only time I've seen it. Then on the third mission, nothing.. I get shot three times in a row, no nothing, no halo, no gasping. And then maybe 10 minutes later, I get hit once out of nowhere and I die. Can anybody please explain what is going on with the health system?

I've also noticed the game either autosaving in different places, or not saving at all at places where it had before. If I play a mission over, I see it save in different places all the time. Sometimes it will save after an objective is completed, sometimes not. I've noticed this especially with the 'repairing the wire' mission.

And also why is the game so devilishly difficult on the regular difficulty setting? I've gotten killed more times on the first level on regular than I have one the last level of the previous game on the hardest difficulty setting. Is there just something wrong with the scripting and the health system? Am I not triggering the events in the correct order? Or is it that the Germans are just supernaturally accurate with their rifles? Does the player gain a defensive bonus by taking cover? Should I be even more cautious? Is there a limited number of enemies in the level? or do they constantly spawn until you press on them?

Okay, about my system. I'm running a dual core athlon 4400+. 2 GB of RAM. a Geforce 7800 GTX. Directx 9. I think thats all that should really matter about the system specs. Any help you all could give me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot!

-Ix