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We of HC3 (TonyE, Akula, CV32) would like to welcome all of the beta testers and thank you for your time. I played Harpoon for a decade before I came a beta tester for HC2002, and have since alpha tested and programmed many creations. Each of us has been there and realize most of the frustrations and opportunities the testing brings. We ask that you make an effort to contribute to the process and help to make the game better. Over time we will be able to distinguish those who are just downloading the betas from those who are aiding the process. You can be sure those putting in long hard hours will be rewarded with more resources from those of us towards the top of the he…

Below is an installer that should bring any copy of the game purchased from Matrix Games up to the current build. https://www.harpgamer.com/downloads/HC2025.025_ComprehensivePatch.zip When you get to selecting an installation directory and Start Menu group, please double-check that they are correct before proceeding.

Tony hinted I could a write How To on Issue reporting as "Would you write one?" so I took the hint. I don't think there is much technical novelty to add to the topic (but I will try), Tony said my issue reports were good but all I did is based on the beta guide and the forums here. Perhaps there is one thing, I want to write good issue reports and this is because I did my share of debugging in the past. To understand why do you want to write a good issue report you only need to understand (a little) how issue fixing works. From the software engineer point of view there are 4 steps in fixing an issue, these are Reproducing the symptoms, Identifying the bug, Analy…

Hello, while testing Brad´s new scen "Foxes in the Henhouse" I found something strange: After I split the sub group, entered a slightly different course and a higher speed for one sub, the subs kept close in the unit window. They separated in the group window, but not in the unit window.

Defect Name: Helicopters on land order at final waypoint land instantly. Build: HCE 2008.033 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 DB used: HCDB-080406 Scenario used: TESTINS (Purpose built for this test) Battleset: EC2003 IOPG Long Description: When a helicopter is assigned the *land air* order at the final waypoint of its course, it will instantly land at the target airbase when it reaches that final waypoint. It will negate the entire distance to its home base and the operation will be performed in the space of a second. Process: - Open GE - Open the attached save for EC2003 IOPG named InstaLand1. - Ensure helicopter group ABH ha…

HCE - 2010.016 - 2010/12/12 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed bug that resulted in crash when launching bearing only missiles with the 'b' hotkey. - Chg:0000 GE Missiles shouldn't be running normal visual detections. Torpedoes shouldn't be running normal passive sonar detections. Missiles should be detectable by Vis, IR, and Radar Torpedoes should be detectable by Sonar The above four items are addressed in this build (thenks Don Thomas)

HCE - 2010.017 - 2010/12/12 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed the logic that decided not to count individual planes shot down towards the related victory conditions and only counted plane 'Units' shot down instead. (thanks Don Thomas) See test files at: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=9964 Neat how this explains the randomness isn't it...

HCE - 2011.001 - 2011/01/28 =========================== - Chg:B184 GE Game will no longer crash when selecting to play as Green side. (thanks Gopher, Don Thomas) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=184 HCE - 2010.020 - 2010/12/31 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE It should no longer be possible to drag the Group and Unit windows tall enough that the game crashes. To make this happen a verticle resolution > 1080 pixels was needed for me. I accomplished that by placing dual monitors one above the other in my Windows screen set…

HCE - 2011.002 - 2011/04/07 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Connected game options dialog checkboxes for playing multiple sides. - Chg:0000 GE Staff Message dialog title will now be pre-pended with the side-name of the relevant side (i.e. "BLUE Staff" Message for an item for which the Blue side needs to respond). - Chg:0000 GE The land aircraft dialog was calculating distance to each landing location from the currently selected group instead of the group that was landing. Remedied. (thanks Joe K) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=1296…

HCE - 2011.012 - 2011/09/18 =========================== - Chg:B206 SE Modified the Edit Group dialog in the hopes of aircraft list only resetting to the top when it should. http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=206 - Chg:0000 GE Changed the -S command line option to add two specifiers -S123450100 would save the game every 12,345 game seconds and would go from .001.hp? to .100.hp? before rolling over and overwriting .001.hp?. Also added the save message to the message log window.

HCE - 2012.001 - 2012/05/15 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Added additional licensing mechanism via LicenseDLL.dll - Chg:0000 GE ge.log now shows both the database version the scenario was created with and the current database version. - Chg:0000 GE Fixed sensor code so that TCS can actually have a successful detection. Modelled after H3 Paper rule 5.4.2.

HCE - 2012.002 - 2012/05/16 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Checked that Infrared detections are attempted and they are. However, periscope, snorkeling, and surfaced subs had broken flags that prevented detection by IR, that has been fixed. - Chg:0000 GE Checked that LLTV flag has an effect and it does. It makes visual detections as if they always happen in broad daylight even in the dead of night.

Thanks Tony!

First of all thank you Tony and testers for your work. I check the forums a couple of times a year and every time I find new patches, new scenarios, new ideas, even now that you are left with no support whatsoever. Now, I just installed 2015.012 (on top of a 2014.XXX) and it crashes at start. I'm on Win7 64 and the last patch was working fine. ge log: Logging begins. Version = 2015.012, Build Date = Aug 5 2015, Build Time=22:20:26 0 harpoon.c:902 - done processing arguments. Activating logging for: 0 harpoon.c:946 - OpenMP enabled=200203 0 harpoon.c:947 - OpenMP num_procs=4 Crash info: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: W…

AutoTest Batch Results for 2022.024: USNI re-make: no issues Original GIUK no issues NACV no issues MEDC Cannot reproduce: Exit code: -1073741819 command: Winharp32.exe -f 03-04b.txt -a -b 03 -c 04 -g 011111118 -p 4 -u -1 IOPG no issues HDS I GIUK no issues NACV no issues MEDC Cannot reproduce: Exit code: -1073741819 command: Winharp32.exe -f 08-11r.txt -a -b 08 -c 11 -g 111111118 -p 4 -u -1 IOPG no issues HDS II GIUK Cannot reproduce: Exit code: -1073741819 command: Winharp32.exe -f 10-09r.txt -a -b 10 -c 09 -g 111111118 -p 4 -u -1 NACV no issues ME…

January 10th I restarted the attempt to make a 32-bit scenario editor based on the current codebase. That day saw the development environment configured well enough to start compiling. Ended up at 39 errors, 667 warnings during compilation. For reference, the program doesn't get to run and go down in flames until there are 0 compilation errors. January 20th update: 23 errors, 652 warnings, progress...

As you may have noticed, we have a 32-bit SE. The main side effect of that from the programming side is that I no longer have to maintain backwards compatibility with the Win16 API. I can allocate memory in chunks larger than 64kB and pull off all kinds of other "fun" stunts without writing and debugging it all twice. I could even go wild and implement right-clicking, wow . That said, even writing against the Win32 API natively is painful and that is where the GE and SE now reside. I'm more likely to take advantage of the underlying commonality to do things like work towards raising the items per annex limit in the database rather than add "pretty". Recapping an…

Defect Name: Active Unit Display Build: HCE 2008.023 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: W2000 DB used: Official HCDB-200... of the HCE 2008.021 installation Scenario used: any Long Description: After selecting a unit in the unit window and then select the "Full" in the Unit status window the "Active Unit Display" appears. There are the following issues recognizable: 1. The picture of aircrafts is truncated 2. For aircraft carriers: Instead the picture of the carrier (if available), the picture of a sinking carrier is visible. Similar behavior for ships and subs. (SAM units were not tested based on the lack of pictures.) 3. If the class name (example: of an air…

After four years of being out of date I've revised and uploaded the AARdata tool in the tools/mods section of the downloads. Sorry it's taken me so long This tool writes a txt file to your main harpoon folder AARdata.txt that holds info from the game play since the current file was started, so you can archive your old file (by changing its name or moving it to a different folder) before starting a new scenario and you'll have a record of major occurrences and time for the life of the scenario. I'll now start looking at provide a snap shot of the content of magazines to be included.

Hello, is there any tool that allows to edit air formations like surface formations (main, aaw, asw and pickets)?