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Now that HCE has been released, I have several under-construction-scenarios on the backburners that are being dusted off and polished up for release. This one, 'Oubliette', is for play by BLUE in the Westpac Battleset. This one sends an Ohio SSBN into the Sea of Okhotsk to take up a deterrent patrol during a time of war. Please take it for a spin and let me know if you have problems, issues, thoughts, opinions, whatever. The scenario is NOT ready for release, so please do not distribute it. oubliette.zip

Playable as BLUE only. As with French Titan, I would over the moon if someone\some people could give this a test run and provide me with some feedback, I would be very grateful for any information that will go towards making this a quality scenario! Lets hope this one turns out as nicely as French Titan did!!! Cheers Operation_Philippine_Crunch_V101.zip

HCE - 2011.010 - 2011/09/05 =========================== - Chg:B210 GE Nuclear missile impact could crash the game. (thanks Mack) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=210 Test fix with 2009.063 since that's what we have test files for.

HCE - 2009.029 ============== - Chg:0000 GE ASMs/SSMs with the Snap Up/Down flag can now be shot at by point defense weapons. (thanks Miller7219) - Chg:0000 GE Fixed wacky characters in the "Please turn on your radar" messages. (thanks Miller7219)

HCE - 2009.044 - 2009/09/20 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Disabled the DEBUG ???? could detect us debug messages, they are still logged to the EMCON_AI log if that is enabled. - Chg:0000 GE Aircraft ready messages now show the Group ID where the planes were readied. "4 x A-6E Intruder (AntiRadar) ready at ACb Oslo" - Chg:B134 GE Force recalculation of group range rings and force Group map update when any planes are shot down. (thanks Joe K) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=134 - Chg:0000 GE Disabled DEBUG messagelog messages for eff115 and point defense. - Ch…

It would be very helpful if as many folks as possible could take for a spin some (or all) of the newly revised EC2003 battleset scenarios. HG member PAK has graciously donated his time and effort to revise a number of these scenarios to resolve certain outstanding issues, typically problems with Victory Conditions. Please take one or more for a spin with the latest HCDB and check fit and functionality with the changes reported by PAK. Thanks!

On a quick try to check this issue i found 3 Problems with the guns. 1. Guns sometimes are firing more than 1 round at once even if the 2. Ammo is out of range. Only happens when the longer ranges Ammo is listed below the shorter ranges weapon 2. Guns with dual purpose Ammo sometimes can´t be used at the ground range against ground targets, you need to close in until you´re in the AA Range to engage a ground target. 3. no damage on installations by Dualpurpose Ammo, no flash/hit animation! (needs confirmation!) Test Scen attached, simply attack the Base with guns and observe what happens. Regards René GUNTEST.zip

Defect Name: Game crash by selection of SAM unit Build: HCE 2008.023 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: W2000 DB used: Offical HCDB-200... of the HCE 2008.021 installation Scenario used: see attached Long Description: Start the attached TEST.SCq file and try to select the AIm SAM-unit. Every time the game crash on my PC. Test.zip

NOTE, grab the most recent HCDB for use with this build. Brad has removed air to ground capability from many of the aircraft guns, bringing the AI back to having a little more sanity. http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...mp;showfile=235 HCE - 2009.046 - 2009/10/24 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Allow aircraft to fire ASROC type weapons at submarines. (thanks Brad & Brains) - Chg:0000 GE If there are radars or sonars added to a plane's loadout they will now be used as sensors by the GE if there are open sensor slots available (a plane can currently have at most eight se…

HCE - 2007.026 ============== - Chg:0000 GE In CheckMissileHits, show ecm reduction to PH. This doesn't show missiles hitting planes. - Chg:2347 GE Game crashes when starting EC2003 scenarios without starting with full ordnance. (thanks Terminus) - Chg:2112 GE Really make show all and iterative saving work in release builds. - Chg:0000 GE After firing command guided missiles, if the firing unit is destroyed before the missiles impacted, the game would crash due to a null value for sourceUnit. Fixed by adding a null check, say "Firing unit destroyed" as the name…

By playing the HDSL 1.0 (WestPac) with 2008.023 I discovered the following behavior: for tanks, 5 DP ; for mobile SAM units (ZU-23), 100 DP. So for a tank it is easier to kill an other tank than a SAM unit. I do not know exactly were to address. On one hand this shall be corrected in the DB. On the other hand this shall also be corrected with low priority in the modeling, so that it is similar than in Steel Panther Game. What are your points of views?

I've suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure on my home computer, and with it being the holidays it will be several days before I can even get a new one in to fix it. I will be able to get an old one up and running, but it will basically be limited to internet and the like. I'll update you when I am back to full running capacity.

Component: SE Version: 2008.045 (and earlier) When adding air units the scenario designer is allowed to specify a % chance of inclusion for that air unit. However, if the loadout is changed in the SE, even if all planes in the unit are changed at the same time, the % chance of inclusion is reset to 100%. Correct behavior: 1. If you change the loadout for the entire unit (which may be 1 plane or 8 planes, whatever increment they were added in the first place), the unit should keep the % chance of inclusion originally denoted. 2. If you change the loadout for part of the unit I think the % chance of inclusion should stay as originally denoted as well. …

HCE - 2007.027 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Anti-Surface Guns now adhere to mount rate of fire limitations, only after the initial allocation, player can cheat on initial allocation. AS Guns will fire the correct ammunition now, and will not 'dump ammo overboard'. Previously guns were firing one burst per 15 seconds and throwing any other bursts overboard. AS Guns by the AI will fire 2 x target remaining DP of bursts at the target, this helps reduce overkill/ammo wastage. AS Guns will stop firing when the firing platform is out of …

Hello, was a little busy in RL in the last weeks, but now it looks better. My first installation of HCE2008.021 (in a separate folder) corrupted the current installation of 2007.000 release - nothing worked any longer. One error message was about problems with serail number (think it was error code 300). Then I deinstalled the release version, reinstalled 2008.021 and copied the latest exes in this folder. Two issues so far: 1. no sound ! Remark: It´s on my brandnew, fast Vista PC. 2. Starting the game instantly shoots me in a scen, not the battleset selection window. I´ll go on testing this weekend. Regards, Ralf

HCE - 2008.048 ============== - Chg:0000 SE When loading a scenario that had a % chance of inclusion for planes, that % chance of inclusion was lost. That means only scenarios using % chance of inclusion other than 100% for planes that were only saved once acctually honor the denoted % chance of inclusion. (thanks TonyE) Brad, I think you are the only one other than me capable of testing this conclusively, but the rest of you can use some common sense testing (i.e. use low % of inclusion and see how that works in the GE after messing with the scen in the SE a few times, changing loadouts of thos…

HCE - 2009.037 ============== + Chg:0000 GE If the loaded scenario has no time limit set, default to 72 days. (thanks Brains) + Chg:0000 GE Kamikaze plane capability added. Any loadout weapon that contains the fragment Baka (case sensitive) indicates a kamikaze weapon that if fired will shoot down the launching plane making in essence a kamikaze weapon. (thanks Brad) + Chg:0000 GE Allow inertially only guided weapons to be fired against ships. This probably breaks something else! + Chg:0000 GE Move RCS logging to radar log, before it was always logged. + Chg:B117 GE Ferryin…

HCE - 2009.010 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Added a Nuclear Release event to the ExportDLL interface. See: http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...mp;showfile=390 Easy testing, try it out, if you see a different dialog, then it works. Hint, Alt-3 gives immediate nuclear release. I guess this is my Valentine's Day present to everyone.

HCE - 2010.002 - 2010/03/07 =========================== - Chg:0151 GE Point defense allow max of 15-seconds worth of ROF to be used in each point defense engagement. (thanks Miller7219) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=151 - Chg:0000 SE More work on 32-bit SE conversion. Nothing to test for the SE conversion as yet.

2007.016 Sees more AI Ship to Ship torp launch work as well as work on the battleset builder and the introduction of hdsm battleset (so you don't have to overwrite an existing battleset). Please Test: 1. Make sure AI will fire torps against player ships (it will only do this when it cannot fire missiles or guns) 2. Keep testing the battleset builder. It needs work but the acceptable parameters have yet to be found (on how large/small/wide/tall/etc. at battleset can be before the GE and SE go really strange).