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Sorry for the late notice but today at 9pm GMT (3pm Central Time US) we are going to be chatting live about possibilities for re-working the structure of a Unit in HC. This means arguing about whether a sensor should be part of a mount or whether a sensor is part of the ship itself,... Discussing how a Marine is carried in a landing craft, and so on and so forth. We'll be chatting on #harpgamer on the newnet.net IRC network (you can use the server irc.newnet.net) We have two Java clients available at http://www.harpgamer.com If you can't get the Java client to work or your regular IRC client, use the PHP chat at http://www.harpgamer.com and I'll see i…

It seems that at least one type of submarines stopping when they shouldn't is involved with how the scenario is started (i.e. if you use File\Load User Scenario the subs don't stop but if you do File\New... they do). Loading scenarios and saved games (not to mention saving them) is almost unbelievably convoluted. HC Game Start GE Load a saved game Auto-selects battleset [*]GE Load a user scenario Auto-selects battleset [*]SE Load a user scenario Auto-selects battleset [*]Select a battleset GE Load a BS Scenario SE Load a BS Scenario SE New Scenario What other game start situations are there? The only one that I can think o…

See the attached PDF for the heart of the exploration. First I had an idea, then I got a big piece of graph paper (roughly 36" x 24") and sketched out my ideas. For some reason a big piece of paper sometimes works for me when a letter sized piece won't, who knows why... From there came the digitalization, otherwise known as convincing Visio to show me something like what I so easily drew with pen and ruler. Then the longer document of explanation. And that's where the PDF comes from. As many of you know I'm part of the Stratsims gang http://www.stratsims.com and get the novel title of Lead Programmer. As well I have been and will soon again officially be an H…

Who: Anyone who wants to participate, hosted by TonyE and CV32 What: Discuss what you think is needed to consider the next HC patch 'ready', and anything else When: (Saturday) May 24th @ 19:30 GMT TonyE will be there from at least 45 minutes before 19:30, until at least 21:30 19:30 GMT = 1:30 pm Central Time US, 2:30 pm Eastern, 11:30am Pacific,... Where: #harpgamer on the NewNet IRC Network (irc.eskimo.com is usually pretty stable) Why: Because we need your input on the future direction of the game. How: Use your favorite IRC client; servers list: http://www.newnet.net/newnewnet/serverlist.php HG Java Chat 1: http://harpgamer.com/harpf…

As I tinker with window positioning to help people not lose windows, please ponder and answer the poll.

The game works on the Windows 8 preview, cool

Ideally this post will get prettier but with no further ado, HC Versions and Updates... HUCE Current Release Version: 2015.027 (prior version was 2009.097) HCE Current Release Version: 2009.050 (prior versions were 2007.000, 2008.024, 2008.048) HUCE/HCE Stable Beta: 20##.###

Eric finally got me over the weekend to revisit how the game sizes windows. I had re-worked the logic in 2013 and since then haven't really understood why as players we continued to see windows get cut off, the Formation Editor platform list dialog not showing any buttons for instance (since the window was drawn too narrow so the buttons were invisible). That has now been fixed in 2021.005. https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/29035-current-files/ . My 2013 code was good right up until I did a logical AND instead of a logical OR. That foiled my attempt to have the window restoring code skip the size, only restore the left top corner position and let Windows man…

I would like to write an exhaustive keymap for HC2005 but it seems that several keys wre added since HC97. I know one key => B for Bearing Attack, do u know others? Thx.

Steam is apparently launching this soon. I just fail to see the point. There already is a tremendous amount of work already laid down by the Harpgamer community and fragmenting the effort do not seem like a good idea.

I played HC'97 20-25 years ago and loved it. I completed a good chunk of the scenarios and battlesets back then. I noticed a few weeks ago that it was available on Steam, so I purchased it for nostalgia's sake. I completed all of the GIUK scenarios from the first battleset and moved on to the NACV battleset. Here is where I am running into issues. All three of the Okean class vessels in the first two scenarios are replaced with Kalinin class vessels. It is very odd to have a cruiser sailing solo with no escorts. It also causes severe imbalance issues, making the scenarios completely impossible for US/Blue and unenjoyable/non-challenging for USSR/Red. After doing a…

Hi, Don't laugh. I still have the Harpoon Classic 97 game on CD Rom. I'm trying to install it on a Windows 7 PC. I've got the program installed and running, however it comes with the Scenario Editor, but no option during game installation or instructions for installing the wscenedt.exe file. Please help, Thanks.

Hey folks, I got a couple of messages from AGSI and have been asked to send them forward to the Harpoon community. This request was passed onto me from Don Gilman, AGSI President. I know that there are many of you who have contributed snippets and nuggets of information regarding the various games, tactics, and scenario design ideas. If anyone is interested in helping put together a composite of all this stuff, please contact Don Gilman at AGSI http://www.computerharpoon.com/contact Herman Hum I'm looking for some glory-bound folks looking to promote their sites/names by pitching in on an HCCE task. Since most of the H3 manual was done by…

Hi: Is there a list of the changes, improvements, fixes, we will see in the new version?? Thanks. JJ

Matrix has released 2008.044 as a non-beta patch. Read about it and grab it from http://www.matrixgames.com/news/534/Larry....tion.Is.Updated If you already have the 2008.044 beta there is no need to re-download as you already have the proper files. As usual we're already hard at work on the next patch. Some of the highlights of the 2008.044 patch are: 2008.025 to 2008.044 Changes: New Features: • BattleSet Builder - Databases may now be embedded in user BattleSets, to distribute a map, scenarios, and database in one package the user need only distribute two files. • Split most sounds for the game into individual wav files enabling the user to customiz…

Tony...Is there a way to update HCE 2009.050 to HCUE's 2009.097 standard?

I'm old game player and access the forum as guest for some time. Recently created a log in, but never post. I'm from Brazil and love this game. Have some questions for you that are the specialist people: 1- Is there any possibility to increase AI difficulty? AI is too weak, not agressive, boring and predictable. 2- Is there any plan for 2 playes on HCE? 3- At this point of time, does it worth getting Harpoon 3 ANW? Or should I wait next version release? Thanks

Tony...I don't know how you feel about question relating to the "Ultimate Edition" here. If you are opposed just say. The version is 2009.050. Can you give any insight as to how that compares to your most current 2010.10 beta? Essentially, how "current" is the 2010.10 Ultimate version?

Since the beta version expiration date for HCE has come does it mean HCE latest version update is 2009.50. I was using the latest version (2016) but now when starting up HCE I receive go to AGSI get latest upgrade. The newer scenarios all use the latest version only.

Could that be fixed?