MegaCampaign Bugs please post here!

Anthony_MatrixForum · Post by **Anthony_MatrixForum** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 4:24 am

Goto Tankheads site

http://www.tankhead.ca/SPWaW/downloads.asp

and scroll down to my 'Campaign Fixer' application.

This works for any MegaCampaign, not just MCNA.
It is a simple GUI application to edit the values of the leaders back to something more reasonable......

Anthony

Gen.Hoepner · Post by **Gen.Hoepner** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:34 am

Thanks Antony..very very usefull!!!

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 7:17 pm

A possible MCNA/Watchtower bug:

:D

(Sorry! Couldn't resist.)

Eric Maietta

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:12 pm

Originally posted by Anthony
Goto Tankheads site

http://www.tankhead.ca/SPWaW/downloads.asp

and scroll down to my 'Campaign Fixer' application.

This works for any MegaCampaign, not just MCNA.
It is a simple GUI application to edit the values of the leaders back to something more reasonable......

Anthony

Hello Anthony,

The link you posted isn't working (anymore). Can you send me a link to the Tankhead site? Thanks.

I'm having problems with Desert Fox (see the Desert Fox version thread) and would like to take a look at those patches.

Cheers,

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:00 pm

Hi Gman, long time no see

.

I think you would find interesting this thread here .

One more bug to report: now I have one motorized mortar that doesn't fire indirect fire. It have ammunition, chose a spotter, do everything right. His fellow mortar X1 is firing but x0 isn't !!!!

Nice to see you.

RockinHarry · Post by **RockinHarry** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:49 pm

Originally posted by RichardTheFirst
Hi Gman, long time no see .

I think you would find interesting this thread here .

One more bug to report: now I have one motorized mortar that doesn't fire indirect fire. It have ammunition, chose a spotter, do everything right. His fellow mortar X1 is firing but x0 isn't !!!!

Nice to see you.

you need to be more specific! Is it something you found in Lost Victories, Watchtower or Desert Fox??;) Which scenario/node??

Anthony_MatrixForum · Post by **Anthony_MatrixForum** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 4:02 am

For those people looking for a copy of the Megacampaign leader fxiing utility, it can now be found on

Leader Fixing Program

Give me a yell if there are problems.

Someone asked for German ranks to be added - sorry too hard in
my limited time.

Anthony

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 5:17 am

Originally posted by RockinHarry
you need to be more specific! Is it something you found in Lost Victories, Watchtower or Desert Fox??;) Which scenario/node??

Harry:

If you could have the trouble of following the link I provided (where it says "here") in my last message you will have all your questions answered.

The reason I posted this like this was to avoid repetition of messages whitin the same forum. What is the cost of a click????????

RockinHarry · Post by **RockinHarry** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 5:40 pm

Originally posted by RichardTheFirst
Harry:

If you could have the trouble of following the link I provided (where it says "here") in my last message you will have all your questions answered.

The reason I posted this like this was to avoid repetition of messages whitin the same forum. What is the cost of a click????????

Ok..Desert Fox, the only one I did not participate. Can´t help then, sorry!:o

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:23 am

Well, I got no help from you guys so far regarding Desert Fox.

But I think this error is so serious that I really need help or I stop playing Desert Fox and never play a Mega Campaign again.

Here's the situation:

I finished with a Decisive Victory the 8th batte at Bir El Tenidor. Now I had the option of choosing for Derna 3 options:

- No option
- New mission - Free the prisioners
- New Mission - Get the boats

I decided for "Get the Boats" (seemed strategicaly more important) and clicked continue.

Some messages "Error Reading OOBxxx" begun passing very quickly and the game crashed.

Restarted the game and it appears that I'm at the "Free the Prisioners" battle!!!!!! At least there are some IT Prisioners, GE Prisioners, IT and GE Woundeds surronded by barbed wire and there is a GE EXIT HEX. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But more serious than that, my order of battle is now a mess. Let me explain:

A0 HQ Group Dietsl Col Dietsl - OK
B0 GE Rifle Sqd 2Lt Wildman - OK
B1 GE Rifle Sqd Sgt Hartueb - OK
B2 GE Rifle Sqd Sgt Krogel - OK
B3 GE MG34 MMG Sgt Wagner - OK
B4 SPW-251/10 Sgt Ziege - OK
B5 SPW-251/1 HT Sgt Stumpf - OK
B6 SPW-251/1 HT Sgt Gebhart - OK
B7 SPW-251/1 HT Sgt Schumacher - OK
C0 SdKfz-222 1Lt Schweitzer - OK
C1 SdKfz-222 Sgt Schwendt - OK
C2 SdKfz-222 Sgt Vebber - OK
C3 SdKfz-222 Sgt Naumann - driving unit D0 PzKpfw-IIIe
C4 SdKfz-222 Sgt Weisbach - driving unit D1 PzKpfw-IIIe
C5 SdKfz-222 Sgt Harmel - driving unit E0 PzKpfw-IIIe
D0 PzKpfw-IIIe Cpt Schurz - driving unit E1 PzKpfw-IIIe
D1 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Briel - driving unit E2 PzKpfw-IIIe
E0 PzKpfw-IIIe 1Lt Hoffman - driving unit E3 PzKpfw-IIIe
E1 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Weiss - driving unit E4 PzKpfw-IIIe
E2 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Bauman - driving unit F0 PzKpfw-IIIe
E3 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Hoernlein - driving unit F1 PzKpfw-IIIe
E4 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Schwartz - driving unit F2 PzKpfw-IIIe
F0 PzKpfw-IIIe 1Lt Steiner - driving unit F3 PzKpfw-IIIe
F1 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Frentzen - driving unit F4 PzKpfw-IIIe
F2 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Becker - not appearing
F3 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Kortenhaus - not appearing
F4 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Petereit - not appearing
G0 PzKpfw-IIIe 1Lt Bauer - not appearing
G1 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Kleemann - not appearing
G2 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Metzger - driving unit H0 PzKpfw-IVd
G3 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Letzelder - driving unit H1 PzKpfw-IVd
G4 PzKpfw-IIIe Sgt Boettcher- not appearing
H0 PzKpfw-IVd 1Lt Heidrich - leading unit J0 - Sp Ops Squad!
H1 PzKpfw-IVd Sgt Hitzelberger- leading unit K0 - Sp Ops Squad!
H2 PzKpfw-IVd Sgt Meyer- leading unit L0 - Sp Ops Squad!
H3 PzKpfw-IVd Sgt Wirth- leading unit M0 - Rifle Squad!

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? Is this going to continue for future battles? What is the point of following-up the careers of this soldiers if all is going to turn into a mess?

Decided I will not play anymore until I fix this.

Please HELP!

P.S. - I got the Leaders Fixing Utility provided by Anthony but I'm afraid of installing it now! Anyway I think it got nothing to do with this.

Anthony_MatrixForum · Post by **Anthony_MatrixForum** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:57 am

Sounds like you need to go back to a good save - you have been
making backups of the save games ??

Given the instabilities with the saving, I take a backup at least
once for each new battle.

If you don't have a save, maybe someelse playing DF can send you one - however all mine are long gone.

Anthony

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 6:52 am

In the old days, I used to make saves every game too.

But (hellas) I thought not having that advantage would be more challenging to my skills.

Didn't thought about b** problems

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 6:56 am

What I would like to know is if this is a OOB problem or something like that.

If it is, how can I fix it?

And, if I fix it, should it be ok for next battle?

I wouldn't mind fighting this battle like this if I know all is well in the future.

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 7:08 am

Just as adicional information, in my OOB folder I have txt files all dated 09-09-2000.

It's really confusing the fixes and patches that are around. Can someone tell me everything I should install to have things as good as possible?????

Have 7.1 version, with DF Mega Campaign, with DF 1.1 upgrade and the 09-09-2000 OOB's. What do I need more?

chief · Post by **chief** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:55 am

Richard the 09 dated OObs are useless and are a hold over from a previous time. The OOBs you want are in the main Steel Panthers WAW folder and are dated 04/07/02.

About saving a word of advice "Do not" expect the Auto Save feature to work correctly, Save only manually and after a move, wait at least 30 seconds before ending game.

If that don't work someone smarter than me (thats everyone) will have to help you.

Oh yeah periodically delete your steel prf in the save folder its been known to do some funny things also. The game will reconstruct same.

Good Luck.

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:08 pm

Originally posted by chief
Richard the 09 dated OObs are useless and are a hold over from a previous time. The OOBs you want are in the main Steel Panthers WAW folder and are dated 04/07/02.

About saving a word of advice "Do not" expect the Auto Save feature to work correctly, Save only manually and after a move, wait at least 30 seconds before ending game.

If that don't work someone smarter than me (thats everyone) will have to help you.

Oh yeah periodically delete your steel prf in the save folder its been known to do some funny things also. The game will reconstruct same.

Good Luck.

Someone in this Fórum told me that the good OOB's were the 09-2000 ones. And I installed it.

Anyway I saved the old ones in another folder but they are dated 25-03-2002.

Where can I find the 04-07-2002 ones? Or can anybody send a zip to me? My e-mail is rpgomes@mail.telepac.pt.

Will do as you say and be careful with autosaves and delete steel. prf from times to times. (By the way - does the game allow for manual saves??? When I tried that it always said that the game have auto-save and you can't save manually.... Will try again.)

Manitou be with you, Big Chief.

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:13 pm

Originally posted by RichardTheFirst

Where can I find the 04-07-2002 ones? Or can anybody send a zip to me? My e-mail is rpgomes@mail.telepac.pt.

Oh, just found the 04-07-2002 in the SPWAW root folder (so this is the main folder

), sorry didn't understood.

Shall I copy them to the OOB folder? What should I have in the OOB folder?

chief · Post by **chief** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:02 pm

NO NO NO do not put the OOBs in the Mega Folder, they are part of the Game, the mega will use them when it needs to.

Now go to downloads, last box., right column, click on, and check all the possible downloads and see if you got them. I know you have the correct OOBs, recheck the other patches.....

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:41 pm

Originally posted by chief
NO NO NO do not put the OOBs in the Mega Folder, they are part of the Game, the mega will use them when it needs to.

Now go to downloads, last box., right column, click on, and check all the possible downloads and see if you got them. I know you have the correct OOBs, recheck the other patches.....

Chief,

I don't understand.

1 - My OOB sub-folder is under the SPWAW (main) folder, not under the MegaCam sub-folder. In my main folder I have OOB's dated 07-04-2002. In my OOB folder I have OOB's dated 09-09-2000

2 - I checked the page you told me. In there we have:

2.1 - Patch (?) World at War complete games. size 439.09 Mb
(seems to be the complete SPWaW 7.1)

2.2 - Mod Chlanda SPWaW Kit (I don't need this, I think)

2.3 - Mod (?) 7.1 SPWaW OOB Spreadsheet (?), size 6.59MB (I downloaded this file. It has 3 OOB's dated 07-04-2002 and the rest is dated 19-01-2003. Shall I install this??????)

2.4 - Patch Version Number:v7.1 Update, Size: 2.50MB
(This is the one I used to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 version, I think).

Point 2.3 is marked as "Mod". However it have more recent OOB's! Is this really a Mod?????? What a mess!!!!!!

The more I try to solve the problem the more confused I am.

HELP!!!!

RichardTheFirst · Post by **RichardTheFirst** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:03 pm

That Downloads Matrix page seems to have errors, for example the "Download PDF File Info" links aren't working. It could help if I could see what's in there! Now I wonder if that Mod is really a Mod.

Tell you one thing: this is becoming too confused in my opinion. Everybody is talking about patch this, patch that, newbies installations, fixes this, fixes that.

Seems that nobody really knows what is the CORRECT and OFFICIAL version of the game. Even Matrix spreads confusion with errors in pages!

Is this too much to ask? I just want to be able to play in peace and with no errors the Desert Fox MC I paid for!