Harpoon 3 ANW 3.7.2 Beta 15 Now Available

[hermanhum]

We'll have to wait for the next public release since the currently available Beta Patch 3.7.1 crashes every Multi-Player session and thereby renders the game totally unplayable.

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[mikmykWS]

3.7.1 was a beta man. The idea is to to test it for faults. That was done and now we have a fixed version in the works. What is hard to understand about that?

Use 3.7.0 until the next version is released.

This another wet paper bag you can't get out of or what?

[hermanhum]

Who knows what has or has not been done. That is PURE SPECULATION. The release will be examined when it is released.

Until then, all anyone can do is deal with is PURE FACT. And that is:

The currently available Beta Patch 3.7.1 crashes every Multi-Player session and thereby renders the game totally unplayable.

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[mikmykWS]

Weird...hehe[:D]

Dude you gotta get out more.

Next version will be great[:D]

[hermanhum]

It's way more than weird when the currently available Beta Patch 3.7.1 crashes every Multi-Player session and thus renders the game totally unplayable.

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[mikmykWS]

3.7.1 is still available where? I thought everybody rolled back to 3.7.0? 

[hermanhum]

Irrelevant.

My copy of Beta Patch 3.7.1 is quite capable of crashing each and every Multi-Player session thereby rendering the game totally unplayable.

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[mikmykWS]

ORIGINAL: hermanhum

Always happy to oblige a willing opponent! [:)]

Anyone looking for an MP game can drop a line here or look for us on HarpGamer pHp chat room or the HG mIRC chat room.

It's easiest to chat while walking you through the process.

How are you playing if its unplayable.

[hermanhum]

Just add a second installation.

One installation for 3.7.0 (which is marginally functional) and another installation for 3.7.1 (the infamous Crash Installation) which will crash each and every Multi-Player session thus rendering the game totally unplayable.

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[Bucks]

How very educational... [>:]

[Bucks]

The above isn't aimed at Herman or Tony, it's aimed at the thread in general. At first I thought it was about the Beta going public or something. No of course not. We're not happy with sinking each other's ships or the AI's or that there's violence all over the world, we have to get primitive in here. Go and play CS and Head Shot noobs if H3 isn't enough for you.

I would have hoped that in what I was lead to believe a more enlightened age than say 845, 1066,1106 or a year close to those, but no it's the same place with more technology. Defaming people by questioning their genetic makeup is uncalled for and not welcomed by me or I believe the majority of this COMMUNITY.

After seeing some of the posts here I have to be thankful that we can't SEE if we are too fat/skinny/wrong skin colour/religion/language/long hair/ and any thing else prejudicial creatures hold dear to their hearts. Nazi Germany? You're standing in it!

Thanks I'll go away and try to enjoy my life again. Somebody let me know when we're back in 2006.

Darren Buckley

[Widell]

ORIGINAL: Bucks
Thanks I'll go away and try to enjoy my life again. Somebody let me know when we're back in 2006.

Could not have said it better myself. This thread has lost all value a long time ago, and more than that, it most likely scares potential customers away from purchasing this great game (patches, bugs and what not aside). It´s a shame really......

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[Bucks]

If any of my remarks caused offence I apologise. I don't want to see this go any further. What started as an attempt to inform the members of this forum of what was happening with the progress of what I believe will be a great update for the game we all love, has turned into an insult trading session.

If we were able to pool our resources and work co-operatively the patch would have already been released. There are a few people devoting all their free time and lots of their not so free time to make this happen. I can personally vouch for the work that's being done on the game as I type this.

Let's just keep our frustrations in check and wait a little longer. If you're all sick of Herman's posts about bugs, ask him to post up the files and some of you guys test it out. If it real let someone from the beta team know. Dale, Jeff and myself are more than happy to receive confirmed bugs and get something done about them.

Again sorry for any offence given in my earlier posts.

Darren Buckley

[martxyz]

I don't know if this contribution will be helpful, though it's intended to be. When the original computer version of Harpoon came out (1989?), I read about it in a magazine which was, at that time, based in the UK and called Strategy Plus. I found the articles so fascinating that I ordered it and then the Battlesets, as they emerged, as imports from the US, fthrough a brilliant London company which has, sadly, recently folded. I loved Harpoon, and played it on an Amiga. It wasn't exactly fast on an Amiga 500. Well, the world moved on, and Harpoon 2 arrived, and then the world got very fed up as a result. It had quite a few "issues" and, as I recall, was clocked as an heroic and over-ambitious project which was inexplicably slow-running and basically didn't cut it. I lost track then for years, although I realized recently that people had secretly been sorting it out, while I wasn't looking! I no longer play Harpoon in either version, but I was really surprised that, almost from the moment the current forum opened, eloads of people seemed to be complaining, despite the fact that Harpoon ANW was clearly bucket-loads better than the original release of Harpoon 2. I certainly remember a time when Harpoon 2 was deemed to be so awful that it had effectively "killed off" Harpoon on the computer. People have put in so much work to make sure that did not happen, and produce what seems to be a fine product. They also seem to be trying to improve it and debug it on a continuous basis. Harpoon is a very complex, very detailed, very comprehensive, and very thorough program, which has been completely rescued. It would be really nice to see the team given some space to sort things, even when that means a glitch from time to time. It isn't Pac-Man. Personally I'm amazed at the job they've done with such a complicated program, and building on original code.

Well; that's my sanctimonious post for the week, but if you're out there, harpoon-fixers, I think you came up trumps.  [:)]