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HCE - 2008.041 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Made changes to allow the four new official battlesets. - Chg:2422 GE Improve ARMs against groups where the central unit's radars are already destroyed. (thanks Herman) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2333 - Chg:0000 GE Randomly pick between four splash screen graphics at startup. - Chg:0000 GE Use Matrix Games provided game icon instead of the old admiral. - Chg:B021 GE Fixed range rings so that they center on the group icon. (thanks Herman) - Chg:0000 SE Made changes to allow the four new official battlesets. - Chg:0000 BB Fixed but that prev…

I would greatly appreciate if someone can follow-up on http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=176 Specifically get the ship with active sonar only a longer ranged sonar and much closer to the object to detect (preferably one that doesn't sink the ship with the sonar). Thank you!

HCE - 2009.031 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Changed formatting of new detection messages a bit so there are fewer missing spaces (i.e. no more lack of space before the "Method Radar" part of the message and such. - Chg:0000 GE Minor performance tweak to eff115. - Chg:0000 GE Fixed formatting issue of command line switch reporting in the log file. - Chg:0000 BS Stripped photos/graphics from EC2000 battlesets while restoring the correct strategic maps for said battlesets. All that needs checking here is the Strategic Maps for EC2000 which you can do right from the Battleset selector dialog.

HCE - 2008.053 ============== - Chg:0000 GE In weapon type to fire selection screen for sub launched weapons don't allow selection of torpedoes unless the submarine has torps. (thanks Rene) - Chg:0000 GE Fixed a memory leak that meant the Staff Assistant image used new memory each time it was displayed and then didn't free the old memory. Leak was introduced in 2008.027. This is an interesting build. It is the first one you are seeing that was made with Visual Studio 2008 which may mean strange and unexpected errors. Hopefully not though, it has been working well for a day or so around here…

HCE - 2009.032 ============== - Chg:0000 GE EMCON messages for sonar weren't always appearing as a result of a utility function returning 0 as the active sonar range when active sonar wasn't on. Wrote a new function to give theoretical active sonar range if it were on. (thanks Akula) see http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=4166 for test scen. The Akula is nasty though, he likes to launch ASROC style weapons that the LA never sees. I found using Show All to give the Akula a path at Cruise, below the layer did wonders, especially if the LA creeps towards the Akula.

The only change in 2007.020 is to limit guns to their altitude limits as presented in the database. Previous behavior was that all guns could fire to any altitude. I placed limits both in regular air defence and in point defenses. Things to test: 1. Behavior in EC2003+ 2. Behavior in Legacy battlesets

Defect Name: Aircraft added to ship that is not highlighted Build: HCE 2009.18 Repeatable: Y Operating System: XP DB used: Official Scenario used: NA Long Description: Aircraft are being added to the wrong ship in the SE. Sequence to reproduce: 1. Build a new scenario with a group of 2+ ships that are Helo or aircraft capable and have differening landing platform sizes. 2. Choose one of the ships and add an aircraft. 3. Choose a ship with a different sized landing pad than that of the original. 4. Rechoose your aircraft and add it. 5. The aircraft will likely appear on the originally selected platform. Expected behaviour: Planes should be added to the …

test db and scen attached! Please give me some feed back! guntest3.zip

Since installing the latest Beta, I get the attached error message in the WestPac BS when loading scenarios 4.0 and above. Although the message states that the program will terminate, clearing the error repeatedly (anywhere between 3 and 9 times so far) will finally allow the scenario to be played normally. Buddha

HCE - 2008.054 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed a crash bug in the memory leak fix from 2008.053... - Chg:0000 GE More internal changes for Unit window efforts. Nothing specific to test for here, please take the update HCUnitWin1.dll export DLL for a spin instead (or finish up prior build release note testing).

HCE - 2010.004 - 2010/04/02 =========================== + Chg:0162 GE Fixed crash introduced by arc limitations in 2010.003. This was code attempting to grab non-existent arc information from aircraft loadouts. (thanks ChrisP) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?a...amp;showbug=162 - Chg:0000 GE Surface gunnery vs submarines Missile and Gun type radio buttons were improperly greyed out (lack of missiles greyed guns, lack of guns greyed missiles), remedied. (thanks Don Thomas) Both of these should be easy to test. Saved game showing the latter issue is in the 2010.003 rele…

This scenario, 'The Origin of Storms', is for play by BLUE in the EC2003 GIUK Battleset. The original intention of the scenario was to examine in part which new fighter aircraft would be best for Norway, the F-16, F-35 JSF or Eurofighter Typhoon. It subsequently evolved into something more than that. You will need the latest version of the HCDB, which I hope to upload in a few days. When I do, 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. Updated scenario (following initial testing) has been uploaded here. Origin…

HCE - 2010.014 - 2010/11/30 =========================== + Chg:0000 GE Player can now click groups on the map to select a target. This was broken with the new group windows. So when you intend to launch TLAM and you click "Attack", in the recent builds you had to select the target group in the list of groups rather than clicking the target group on the map. Now you can click on the map again. + Chg:0000 GE Version/Build added to header line of ge.log and MessageLog.txt + Chg:0000 GE Launch animations should only show for detected and own units. This was broken w…

HCE - 2008.055 ============== - Chg:0000 GE More internal changes for Unit window efforts. SonoBuoys and crash fix on battleset change. Once again, just test the new DLL build I'll have up in a minute.

I cant get the formation window to close in the Unit window with the new beta, not unless Im having a brain dump.

Herman has started making entries in the Bug Tracker. In the 'forum options' of each Bug Tracker project you can set what kind of notification you want of new posts. There are a few unfiled bugs there that need verification. We also have two builds since the 2008.025 and no verification of the changes that I've claimed to have made. Please contribute or I'll have to get mean (or something). Yes, Brad and Rene are pretty much excused since they are hard at work with databases and scenarios. Thanks guys, I know testing specific items isn't very fun but it is one of the more important tasks for beta testers now that we have end users doing the normal playing of…

HCE - 2010.005 - 2010/04/02 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE Fixed more crashes introduced by arc limitations in 2010.003.

Last weekend I discovered the following effect on the SE: The size of the zoom/unit window does not match the window box at the group window. Has someone discovered the same effect or depends this to my graphic card?

HCE - 2009.033 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Refined the EMCON situations for turning on Active Sonar... If detected unfriendly unit is: A torpedo within friendly unit Active Sonar range, turn it on. OR Using Active Sonar and is within friendly unit Active Sonar range, turn it on. OR if friendly unit is a surface craft AND friendly group meets an aggressiveness factor AND enemy unit is within friendly ASW weapon range AND within friendly Active Sonar range. The respective Message Log en…

HCE - 2009.048 - 2009/11/21 =========================== - Chg:B141 GE Unit detail display would crash if aircraft's home unit was destroyed. Fixed (thanks Don Thomas) HCE - 2009.047 - 2009/11/02 =========================== - Chg:0000 GE When using formation editor from Group window, the masking of the unit icons was going haywire (since oh, 2005 or so). Finally tracked it down and fixed it, the masking should now work (i.e. no black or white unit/group icon backgrounds in all situations. (thanks DonG, and many others over years) file will be uploaded in a few minutes…