Mystery solved. It rejoins a vehicle/crew or gun/crew that have been loaded then unloaded from an AIR TRANSPORT during deployment . This is the new "J"oin hotkey code mentioned in the release notes. We'll make sure the next release includes descriptive text :doh:

Don

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See Item 1 of the release note in the first post of this thread. It does the "J" function, if you had gun crews or vehicle crews split by e.g. a load and then unload from a cargo plane because you changed your mind.

We simply forgot to add the descriptive text for the mouse-over event.

Cheers
Andy

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Hi,

Quick question. I'm running version 5.02 which I updated to a while ago. Can I go straight to 5.5 or will I have missed something?

Thanks.

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Thank you very much for your work, again.


Two of these were already mentioned, but to summarize, there are a number of duplicate scenarios in the scenario list and so there are "only" 10 new scenarios. The other 5 (15 new scenarios mentioned in the listing of patch updates) accidentally copied over by old scenarios? If so, would a "hotfix" to correct the scenarios be possible relatively soonish?

Duplicate Scenarios;

Highway 1 Ambush (226 and 249)
Night Action in Chipyong-Ni (227 and 250)
The Road to Simmin-ni (228 and 251)
Fight along the Rach Ba Rai (229 and 252)
Battle of the Barricades (232 and 254)
Somali Pirate Hostages (225 and 255)

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Update directly from what you have now. :up:


Don

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I have added these to the next "to-do" list to investigate. I know for certain that no older scenarios were overwritten but obviously there was some confusion when the new ones were assembled.

Don

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Here is what happened

All of the duplicates were in a one RAR of eleven scenarios numbered 244- 255 sent to me by one scenario designer as "new" scenarios. None of the scenario names rang any bells with me so I assumed they were indeed new not duplicates of ones we had released a year or so ago but, as we all know now, 6 of the 11 had already been included in the game in the past

Yes, this is our error for "assuming" and not checking closer but nothing like this had ever happened in the past and with any release, especially a double release, things can get "hectic" so we had no reason to doubt they were anything but new so had no reason to double check all the "new" scenarios against all the previously released ones.

In future, we will check them more closely and those duplicates will be replaced in next years upgrade

Don

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5/ HQ's, scout classes, Forward Observers and ammo vehicles will now
withhold opfire if they have not been fired on so these units will no longer
give away their position prematurely. This makes scouts , for example, much
more likely to be bypassed than in the past

Very nice tweak, thank you.

7/ Non FLAK units in the delay or defence will not fire AAA weapons except
if the fighter bombers are very close in the first 12 or so turns . This
stops " recce by spotting AAMG fires "', if you put strike planes in as a
pre-game deployment to find the enemy layout. Those units with AAMGs WILL
fire at paratrooper carrying aircraft and gliders normally, however.

Yay !

15/ SAMS are now filtered on warhead size versus spotter planes and UAVS.
Large SAMs will no longer needlessly engage small spotter aircraft or UAV's.
These will be left for the smaller SAMs

Bless you my son.
Much needed and much appreciated change.

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Thank you for your continued work on this game guys. I tend to check these forums rarely these days, although I do play the game from time to time. Always good to see it keeps getting updates!

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YES! Thank you once again Shrapnel Games!

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I'm playing my first new scenario with the smoke rounds. This is a great improvement! Just one question: ALL my tanks have smoke rounds now. I thought the fix only applied to "0" label/command tanks. Are all tanks supposed to have smoke rounds? I'm currently U.S. Army in 1969.

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We changed it to include all tanks

Don

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Thanks for the cool new bunkers!

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Just noticed this new upgrade, just in time as i was going to dive into a new campaign.

Thank you to everyone involved for so many years of improvements on what is the finest computer wargame i ever played.

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I really hate to ask a question because of the number of people that might insult me or make me feel dumber than I normally do. Here it goes....I downloaded the 5.5 patch and I own the CD version of the game. I got confused during the install because it said something along the lines of 'You must download this to a different directory' or something very close to that. My operating system is Vista. Normally I can just download the patch and execute the program. Can anyone give an old Infantryman a hand with this computer talk?

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Download the patches wherever you want and install them.

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Thank you very much.

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We have been recommending that IF you are using VISTA or Win7 the games be RE-INSTALLED outside of the PROGRAM FILES folder. Some version of vista and all version of win7 can do strange things to the files when installed under program files.

So, The existing file structure on all the installers and patches is c:\program files\shrapnel games\The camo workshop\winspxxx

And we HIGHLY RECOMMEND that if you have VISTA or Win7 you reinstall the main game and all the patches to something like this

c:\shrapnel games\The camo workshop\winspxxx

As you can see that is easily accomplished simply by deleting "program files" from the path

YES, it's a PITA. Blame Microsoft. Everything worked fine until they decided to treat anything in Program files differently than any other folder. However, if you have the main game and patches handy re-installing doesn't take too long and then you won't have any problems.

So NO, it's not as simple as "Download the patches wherever you want and install them". The main V1 game has to be in place first then all the patches re-installed . DO NOT simply copy the files out of program files or you will have trouble


Don

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Hi,

This is possibly a silly question but here goes. I have downloaded this game from Shrapnel Games. Do I have to download all the patches as well or are they included in the download?

Many Thanks,

Lee Wykes

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You need to DL and install all patches in order to bring the game up to date. The patches MUST be installed oldest to newest



Don

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DRG,

Many Thanks, will download.

Lee

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I'm running 5.02x-CD am I ok to upgrade to 5.5?

Re: WinSPMBT v5.5-- NOW AVAILABLE
 

Yes.