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A little list so we have an idea where we're trying to get for the first patch which we should have ready by mid January. Matrix will get it out sometime after that, please keep the timing under wraps since it is very much up in the air but the best guess at present. Please respond to the topic with things we're missing for the 1st patch. Updated Jan 19, 2008 Complete: 1. Multiple crash bug fixes in GE and SE 2. Additional SE zoom levels 16x, 32x, 64x 3. Prevent 100% CPU usage except when game really needs the power 4. SE adding bases refinement for adding multiple bases 5. AI will now fire surface to surface torpedoes 6. Surface to Air guns now adhere to …

HCE - 2008.026 ============== - Chg:0000 GE For pre-commondb battlesets, play prop launch sound only when propulsion type == 1. (thanks NAVMAN) http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1732358 - Chg:0000 GE In debug builds, show when the GE expires. - Chg:0000 GE Split sounds out of Harpoon32.dll and into individual files within the Sounds directory. - Chg:0000 GE Allow high PicIDs for commondb battlesets. - Chg:0000 GE Ignore BattleSetPath from registry, make it the same directory as the one the game was launched from. - Chg:0000 SE Allow high PicIDs for commondb battlesets. - Chg:0000 SE Ignore Battl…

First i want to thank Tony for new Model and Dale for explanation about Gunnery in H4 and for providing his Gun Spredsheet. He says it is under development/beta. But i think atm it fits for the purpose. The Gunnery in H4 is based on 1 Minute bursts. So all values are based on this. I´ll take the 127mm MK30 as my example. And the russian 100MM BU-34. Bu-34 has a Range of 8.8 nm,a near ph of 35 and far of 18 MK30 has a Range of 8,3nm, a near ph of 25 and a far ph of 13 Acording to navweaps.com the ROF is BU-34 = 12 with 26 Ready Rounds on the Mount and 850 rounds on a Riga Class FFL for 3 Mounts (772 in the magazine) MK-30 = 15 with XX (needs to…

So I'm safe overwriting:

HCE - 2008.064 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Subs damaged to 75% will surface, subs damaged to 50% and flooding will surface. They are not forced to stay surfaced. I can confirm part of this. I was playing GIUK 3.0 "Hide and Seek" with the show-all running. I attacked a sub contact with a Lynx's helo and scored a hit. I was shocked when I was told I was being detected by surface radar, yet the yellow surface ring was centered on the sub contact. I clicked it into the Unit window and found it was a surfaced Victor III with 79% damage right in the middle of my task force. After a "wow, how weird" moment, I tried to engage it with gunfire. However, it had already sub…

HCE - 2009.020 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Upon scenario load, the raw event side is no longer checked for MESSAGE_EVENT events which was resulting in staff message events being ignored. In sum, this should now allow the Red side to see staff messages from the scenario file. - Chg:0000 GE Here is a bit more explanation on the behavior of the Staff Messages as entered by the scenario designer. * Message length should not exceed 63 characters * If you have a group selected when you enter the Staff Message, that group will be ref…

Defect Name: Incorrect range metric being displayed for ranges under 1 Nautical Mile Build: HCE 2007.031 GE Repeatable: Yes Operating System: Win XP SP2 DB used: Scenario used: GIUK 5.0 Gatekeeper Battleset: GIUK Orignally reported: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1641789 Long Description: When examining small distances in the unit window, ranges under 1 Nautical Mile which should be measured in metres? get displayed as Nautical Miles. Process: - Open any scenario - Set unit window to 128x magnification - Click once in the unit window - Click again a very short distance away from the first click - Note behaviour at bottom left where range i…

Due to recent upgrades to the forum software and components here at HarpGamer, the Bug Tracker referenced just under the HG logo has become useful for defect tracking. I'm wondering what everyone's thoughts are on just having one set of defects listed for HCE, all of them being in that single area. http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...p;showproject=6 Please explain your choice. With this change I think we'll stop making new entries into Mantis as the Bug Tracker is doing all of the key steps of Mantis. Thank you

A new scenario (for play by BLUE only) using the Caribbean Basin battleset found here and the latest version of the HCDA database. Please take this scenario 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. Thanks again in advance.

Tony and I were discussing this issue on IRC and it seems we may have some wiggle room in the code. Basically, we could probably create a rule in the code to deal with increased acoustic signatures when ships receive cumulative damage. The easiest way to implement such a rule would be to effect an increase in BSL values for every increase in value of the DP damage. For example, +2 BSL points for every 10 percent increase in damage. There might also be a different rule for submarines than for ships. This post is intended to provoke discussion on the topic, so please let us know what you think.

HCE - 2008.051 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed crash where a non-air unit was getting checked for dogfight gun ammo. (thanks Brad) Brad verified that this works.

This continues from an issue reported by Akmatov, raised in a thread here and reported in the Issue Tracker here. Essentially, it appears that AI controlled aircraft of the 'Recon' type have not been activating their radar unless painted by enemy radar. This appears to have been the case since a version of HC Gold (specifically, hcg-2003.16b4b+) and, amazingly, has gone unnoticed until now. Currently, or at least until the next build is released, only aircraft of the 'AEW' (airborne early warning) and 'EW' (electronic warfare) types would activate their radar otherwise. In the case of the AEW aircraft, they can energize upon reaching the 'next leg' of thei…

I am looking for a few players to give a potentially GE and SE combination a workout. They support doubling from 2047/8 items per annex in the database to 4096 items per annex to give the database authors breathing room for a little while. If you are interested and can invest at least an hour in the next week exercising as many capabilities of the GE and SE as possible looking for crashes, please PM me your interest and e-mail address. Just to set expectations, in my limited testing the GE and SE are working well for existing scenarios, existing saved games, new saved games, and new scenarios. The PE (Platform Editor) changes have not even begun. Thank you

Defect Name: Graphical weapon range circle is to big Build: HCE 2007.000 & 028 GE Repeatable: Yes Operating System: W2000 DB used: HCDB-070524 Scenario used: HDSL-9_modified Long Description: By having a target within the graphical weapon range circle it is not possible to launch every time the weapon, because the graphical weapon range circle does not correlate precise with the weapon range (vaild for AAM's, AGM's) Expected behaviour: When the target is within the graphical weapon range circle it shall be possible to launch the weapon. Observed behaviour: It is not possible to launch the weapon because the target is still out of weapon range. Rangecirc…

HCE - 2008.052 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Submarines weren't able to fire torps if they didn't have guns since 2008.050 came out. Fixed that (thanks Brad) - Chg:0000 GE Removed a situation where telling a submarine to fire guns would result in weapons allocations including torpedoes. (thanks Rene) See 2008.050 Release notes for test files for the second item.

Load up EC2003 IOPG 5.0 Edit the Group ABb Delete the unit Base - Diego Garcia. The above shouldn't be possible yet it is. The Delete Unit button should be greyed out when the installation is selected. 2008.064 SE

HCE - 2011.006 - 2011/06/04 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Made enough sides changes that player should now be able to enter some basic commands for both Blue and Red sides. Examples are launching aircraft, setting paths, and adjusting EMCON. This does not include intercepting opposing forces. Hint, choose to play a scenario as both Blue and Red to try it out. You can leave the visual sensor dll in play if you want, either way should be fine. I also gave playing as Red and Green a quick try and was able to launch a green plane.

HCE - 2008.027 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Split graphics out of Harpoon32.dll and Winharp32.exe and into individual files within the Graphics directory. So in addition to testing the things in 2008.026 release notes, note if images are missing from dialogs (victory, staff assistant, etc.) in various battlesets. If you are a bit more advanced, try replacing some of the graphics and see what happens. If you are really advanced, look for memory leaks as there are two parts of the changed code that may be leaking memory with each load of one of the graphics.

HCE - 2008.040 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Widened game time display and made it dependent upon screen DPI - Chg:B023 GE WestPac 2.0 Victory Conditions revamped, instead of targeting a specific class of ship, a larger number of any ship must be destroyed. (Akula says fixed) - Chg:B022 GE WestPac 2.0 Blue default courses were resulting in groundings, Blue courses in many cases recreated but in all cases will not run aground anymore with the default courses (assuming the ships are stopped by the player at end of course). - Chg:0000 GE Removed text in WestPac description talking ab…

HCE - 2007.032 ============== - Chg:0000 SE If a ship/sub/... has no unit names available, tell the user that instead of throwing an assertion. (thanks Stalintc) - Chg:2367 GE Neutral submarines have no sink image when sunk. - Chg:2000 GE Message Log wasn't clearing when loading a saved game. This was intentional but has now been changed anyway to clear the message log contents when a saved game is loaded. - Chg:0000 GE When launching aircraft to attack, allow attacking unknown groups as well as known enemy groups. (thanks Herman) - Chg:0000 GE When telling aircraft to attack, if the first uni…