Donetz River Battles: No Wrap-Ups?

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Fri May 10, 2002 7:23 pm

I am fighting the third Donetz battle, no n or sc #s, just 'by mosh' on map. Neither of the two previous battles had battle wrap ups after the battle, just blank screens. Is this correct, or am I missing something? I've insalled all the patches for MCLV. Just wondering. I miss the wrap ups on these battles.

Eric Maietta

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Fri May 10, 2002 7:24 pm

Btw: In spite of strong opposition from the Soviets, I managed to eek out DVs on the two previous battles, if that makes a difference.

Eric Maietta

Grenadier · Post by **Grenadier** » Sun May 12, 2002 12:12 am

Thank you for the heads up. It appears that several documents are missing from the install. I will get them in a patch but it will be a while until it is done because my field commander, Mosh, is AWOL:D

There are a few changes in the Sevastopol battles being done for a patch and these documents will be included.

How did you get to the Donetz so fast? Did you start over after loading the patches or did you finish from where you originally left off?

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Sun May 12, 2002 4:29 pm

Actually, I had the nice folks at Ferrarri soup up the engines of my HTs and AFVs . . .

Restarting immediately after downloading the latest patch and several all-nighters got me there. (The kind of Friday and Saturday nights where I keep saying to myself, 'I'll quit and go to bed after the next move.) Not having a life sure helps! :rolleyes:

Eric 'SP:WaW addict' Maietta

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Tue May 28, 2002 2:11 am

Just wondering what the status of the wrap-ups for the Donetz River battles and those after is? Neither of the Crimea battles had wrap-ups either. I managed a moderate victory over all. I missed not having an after-campaign wrap up, though.

Eric Maietta

Grenadier · Post by **Grenadier** » Wed May 29, 2002 7:12 pm

The revisions are being tested now so it will not be too long. I need to know which battles in the Crimea are missing results? I will check to make sure they are in the patch

chief · Post by **chief** » Wed May 29, 2002 11:34 pm

Brent: Just for stuff and giggles, did you ever upgrade "Last Teutonic Knight...." for version 7.1 ? The reason I ask is I've been running all the supplied game scenarios to evaluate with ver 7.1 and up till now No major problems till I got to turn 8 of LTK.... and it flips to desktop..tried 6 or more restarts from save, same results. Any advice ?......

MrPlow · Post by **MrPlow** » Fri May 31, 2002 10:45 pm

I know you're already on it.

Missing:

DD0xx.txt 31,40-47,70-79
DR0xx.txt 31,40-47,55-59,70-79
DV0xx.txt 31,40-47,55-59,61,70-79
MD0xx.txt 31,40-47,55-59,61,70-79
MV0xx.txt 31,40-47,55-59,61,70-79

N0xx.txt 61

nodexxa.lbm/txt 66,69,80,82

I haven't advanced far enough in the campaign to encounter a missing file, so maybe it's not even a problem.

ivantheterrible · Post by **ivantheterrible** » Tue Jun 25, 2002 7:37 pm

By reading the scenario briefings (N040.txt ~ N046.txt) it appears that battles 40 to 46 are the Donetz River battles (Oct ~ Nov). Since the battle results/debriefing files (DD0xx.txt 40-46, DR0xx.txt 40-46, DV0xx.txt 40-46, MD0xx.txt 40-46, MV0xx.txt 40-46) are missing, therefore I haven't seen any wrap-ups after these battles.

Just wondering if anyone at Matrix knows the answer to this. Whether these files have never been created due to lack of time/resources, or they're available somewhere (but didn't get saved in the MCLV CD). I'd love to download all these missing battle wrap-up files if they've been created.

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 5:19 pm

Just wondering what the latest is on this MC issue? Thanks!

[Bump!]

Eric Maietta

Supervisor · Post by **Supervisor** » Sun Sep 01, 2002 12:53 am

Still a work in progress!:eek: :rolleyes:

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 11:15 pm

Just wonderning how things are going on the LV missing wrap-up front?

Eric Maietta

Supervisor · Post by **Supervisor** » Fri Sep 20, 2002 3:38 am

I wish I could give you a good answer, the last I heard was Brent Richards was still waiting for completed updated battles from skukko from across the pond. I haven't heard a peep in quite some time but I know it's not a done deal yet. At least this is what I'm being told.

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 1:53 am

I hate to be a pain, but is there any news on the current state of progress on these files? Thanks!

Eric Maietta

Supervisor · Post by **Supervisor** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:57 am

Not a pain you just missed the update in the other thread from Brent Richards dated 04 Oct 02
"Hello all
First of all I want to thank each and every one of you who have purchased lost Victories, Watchtower and Desert Fox. Your support has helped tremendously in keeping Matrix a viable entitty so the company can focus on the future of wargaming.

The issues of crashing addressed here appears to affect only a very small number of the nearly 2,000 purchasers of Lost Victories and I am not qualified to answer the questions on these issues. All I can say is that it does not have to do witrh anything in Lost Victories itself. The only possible exception is that because Lost Victories is so large, it may have outstretched the ability of some systems to coordinate memory issues. many people have resolved this type of crash by saving each battle and closing down and restarting SPWaW to clear the memory. I personally have nort experienced any crashes of Lost Victorries except when I played out 15-20 battles at a time using the quickplay test scenarios for checking documents, etc. The campaign scoring is an issue that affects all of the mega campaigns.

Ivan the Terrible is correct in his description of the final patch for Lost Victories. Several of the results files were accidently omitted and then deleted once the project was completed. AS the author of many of these has been unresponsive for some time I have been left with the task of redoing them. These results files DO NOT affect gameplay. They are for the storyline. The storyline also was suffering form a problem many have pointed out, that the characters at the point of the end battles no longer matched the characters in the core force due to losses, etc.

There are several battles in the Crimea that I was not pleased with the outcomes of and the scenarios were changed similarly to the way the opening battles were changed. Both Marauder, Mosh and I were doing these but Mosh has disappearred for some time and it now s apparent that Bryan and I will have to copmplete the changes he was doing. I was allso adding a few final documents such as a complete list of sources for the historical part of LV and a complete list of the scenarios and their authors andf d testers to complete the credits.

None of these issues affect gameplay. The campaign plays through to the end and all of the battle descriptions, sound files, photos and documents appear as programmed to do. Only the last few battles at the Donetz River and the Crimea are missing result texts.

I have been distrated the last few months by personal issues(my mother having a stroke, my son starting high school, my company sales being off by 60%) to spend as much time on this final patch as I should have and I apologize for this It is difficult to justify to my wife why I need to work on this with so many other pressing issues.

In all honesty I feel my team reacted very quickly to address the major issues that came up with the first release of Lost Victories and we isseued 2 patches in quick sucession as well as a complete redoing of the sound files. This is evidenced by the almost compleyte absecnce of mail or posts about unplayable battles and loops and the infamous T-26/ T-34 problems caused by incompatible OOB's. The final patch which will be completed in the next 2 months, will finish the result texts and revise the Crimea battles around the Isthmus and Ft Stalin and unless something else shows up unexpectedly, this will complete LV.

Again, I thank you for your patience and understanding and for supporting Matrix Games.

__________________
Brent Grenadier Richards
Raiders SP Arsenal Team
Lost Victories Designer""""""

Donetz River Battles: No Wrap-Ups?

Donetz River Battles: No Wrap-Ups?

Where in the Crimea?

Missing files