1.02.12 Beta Hotfix Update

[Erik Rutins]

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately we couldn't get this into a nice installer or uploaded to Steam before the Christmas break, but we didn't want to wait until January to give you access to the fix for the rare warping units to Vienna issue. Please download the zip file, then unzip the files within to your WITE2 installation folder (this is usually C:\Matrix Games\Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2).

For Steam users, it's a bit more complicated. You'll need to first find your installation folder by right-clicking on the name of the game in your library, then choosing Properties, then Local Files then Browse. Unzip the attached zip file to that location and it should work. If you have any issues, click on Verify Integrity of Game Files in the same location as the Browse button I mentioned above and it will restore you to the previous version.

Here's the change list for this update:

v01.02.12 – 15th December 2021
New Features and Rule Changes
• This version includes the War in the West editor manual in the /Manuals folder that was accidentally left out of the 1.02.11 official update. Although there are many differences between the WitW and WitE2 editors, the WitW editor manual is a useful guide to understanding the WitE2 editor.
• Greatly reduced the chance that more men show as disrupted in the combat report detail than were in the battle. If it happens, this indicates an element has been disrupted more than once.
Bug Fixes and AI Improvements
• Day/night button on top menu display not appearing during air transport ops. Fixed.
• Can air transport any unit into an enemy hex adjacent to friendly airbase and it acts like an airborne drop. Fixed (not allowed into enemy hexes).
• More AT guns are built than the build limit. Fixed.
• Guards Rifle Corps was incorrectly downgraded to a Guards Rifle Division. Unit used to create corps had a rename that was not cleared that should have been cleared at the time of corps creation. Fixed.
• AI - Soviet unit warps to near Vienna (far behind enemy lines). Fixed.
• AI – Improved Axis AI in late war.

It is also available as a zip file for download via this Download link.

[vinnysix]

Default for Steam is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2

Regards

[king171717]

Just checking that it is installed correctly

[Joel Billings]

Yes, that’s what it should look like.

[malyhin1517]

Starting patch 1.02.12 in Steam is not possible.

[steevo38]

Doesn't seem to work.
I'm getting an error message referring to something about steam

[Erik Rutins]

I just tried it again and it works here as a manual update for Steam. Is it possible you unzipped it incorrectly? You could always Verify Integrity of Game Files on Steam, then try again per the instructions in the first post.

[oldMarinePanzer]

Is there a high level estimate as to when the fix will get released so that we can edit the scenarios? Just looking for a "guesstimate"

[Joel Billings]

We hope sometime in the first quarter of 2022. It depends mostly on the amount of distractions Pavel gets from other issues that come up that require his immediate attention. It also depends on how much his day job distracts him from this work. For that reason it's very hard to pin down when the editor work will be ready to go out.

[Joel Billings]

I was also able to manually extract the exe to my Steam WitE2 game folder and run it from Steam. For those having a problem, have you browsed the local files for Steam and do you see the revised exe in the folder after the extraction?

[Denniss]

unpacking those files inside the WitE2 folder should come with pop-ups asking you to confirm overwriting existing files. If that does not come you made something wrong.

[DeletedUser44]

I have done the manual update on my steam installation and have not encountered any issue so far.

EDIT:

This is a wild guess, but after doing a manual overwrite of the WiTE2 executable in the steam folder, the system may flag and block that executable unless the 'Unblock' check-box is checked.

(I think this is dependent on local system security configuration - and may not always be required)

[malyhin1517]

ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

I was also able to manually extract the exe to my Steam WitE2 game folder and run it from Steam. For those having a problem, have you browsed the local files for Steam and do you see the revised exe in the folder after the extraction?

I was only able to launch the file through the game launch shortcut on the desktop. It is not possible to launch the game file manually from the Steam folder. I just never used the shortcut on the desktop and launched the game from the folder.

[Joel Billings]

Odd, I was able to launch the updated exe normally through Steam.

[Denniss]

ORIGINAL: malyhin1517
I was only able to launch the file through the game launch shortcut on the desktop. It is not possible to launch the game file manually from the Steam folder. I just never used the shortcut on the desktop and launched the game from the folder.

Was steam client not running when you directly launched the .exe? Are you sure you overwrote the existing files with those from hotfix? I assume you did not open the .zip and started the .exe from within the .zip ?

[malyhin1517]

ORIGINAL: Denniss

ORIGINAL: malyhin1517
I was only able to launch the file through the game launch shortcut on the desktop. It is not possible to launch the game file manually from the Steam folder. I just never used the shortcut on the desktop and launched the game from the folder.

Was steam client not running when you directly launched the .exe? Are you sure you overwrote the existing files with those from hotfix? I assume you did not open the .zip and started the .exe from within the .zip ?

Steam is running, but the game is launched only through the Steam shortcut on the desktop. Version 1.02.12 is launched. Apparently this is the protection of steam.

[steevo38]

Hi,
As a computer Luddite am confused. Don't have the game on steam so don't understand the reference to it.
Just unloaded the zip file to desktop then unzipped to the wite2 location in program files then matrix. Went there and opened, clicked on application but got that error message referred to above.
Is this all essential now or will be dealt with anyway in a future patch?
Thanks

[potski]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately we couldn't get this into a nice installer or uploaded to Steam before the Christmas break, but we didn't want to wait until January to give you access to the fix for the rare warping units to Vienna issue. ...

It is also available as a zip file for download via this Download link.

This is a fatal error. If you play your GC game and any Soviet units teleport to Vienna, they then will capture it. You can play for many turns (hours of play) before noticing that you have lost 30 VPs. There's no real way back from this. This is extremely embarrassing that it is in the Steam version, because anyone who has waited for Steam, assuming that by now there will be a largely bug-free version, and are now starting GCs after playing some of the smaller scenarios, are going to have their games ruined playing with this bug from now until January.

At least the players who started pre-Steam are perhaps more used to checking the forums and downloading patches, might see this thread. But the patch file you have attached has very few downloads. But Steam users aren't going to come here and see this, before the bug strikes.

Are you sure this is rare? I saw the thread yesterday(Sat), but still thought that I would wait until Steam updates my current game, rather than do a manual patch. Until I was in October and checking why I didn't seem to have progressed much towards the score necessary to avoid a sudden death loss at the end of the year, even after just capturing Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk. Only to find that Vienna was listed as 36 VPs against the Soviet Union. Because there is no reason in the game to ever look at that part of the map, you can literally play for days without noticing.

I now see from the Save files that on the very first Soviet AI phase after changing over from manual install to Steam, that the Soviet AI sent two Rifle Divisions to a hex very near Vienna, and captured it the following turn.

There is no excuse for not patching the Steam version immediately.

[Erik Rutins]

We've posted an alert to this download hotfix for Steam users as well. I regret that our operations office had already closed for Christmas when the fix came through, so this seemed a better option than waiting until January to provide a fix. In normal times, we would still have found a way, but there are other factors related to the pandemic that made this the only solution available for now.

[Joel Billings]

The Vienna problem didn't happen for 8 months after release. The part of the code that caused the problem hasn't changed in 6 months, but it's possible that something else that changed had an indirect impact on that code. IIRC it has been reported by 2 players and I saw something like it happen in 1 game. All of these happened in the past 2-3 weeks. So the bottom line is it was non-existent until recently, at which point it happened to a few people, but because it just started happening we can't say just how rare it is now. As soon as we were able to repeat it from a save, we fixed it, but as Erik said, the holiday/pandemic issues kept it from getting into an installer. We wish we could get it out in an installer, but have made it available via the forum. There are literally thousands of games going on, so 2-3 reports sound rare. If you have your saves, you should be able to go back to before it first happened and rerun the AI turn. If it repeats (it might not for you), you will have to get the hotfix or wait for the installer to proceed. We're sorry we can't do more.