v2.42 Limited Public Beta Available

[Erik Rutins]

The Uncommon Valor v2.42 Limited Public Beta should be available later tonight or early in the morning. Please post feedback on this release in this thread only. Thanks.

Bugs Fixed:

1) Aircraft were disappearing for no apparent reason. Fixed.
2) Pilots in excess of maximum aircraft for group were being retained. Fixed. Note that if the group has many excess pilots, it may take a couple turns to reassign them all and pilots with kills will not be removed from group, so if you have a 24 plane group with 28 pilots, all of whom have kills, don’t worry. Be happy.
3) Coast watcher reports for enemy shipping far out to sea were being generated. Fixed.
4) Air groups in the reinforcement queue with zero aircraft were being classified as “Disbanded/Withdrawn”. Fixed. All groups in the queue are now classified as “Reinforcement”.

Clarification: When a player tries to bomb a target hex, with friendly troops in it, effectiveness will be reduced, as group commanders try to avoid friendly fire casualties.

Clarification: If orders to load a task force are given and the entire load can be accomplished, immediately, the load orders become “Idle”. So, if you give orders for a fast task force to load a small land unit and it can load the entire unit right then and there and you want to take some supply in some extra, empty destroyers, you should then click on “Load Supply”.

[Erik Rutins]

To clarify, this v2.42 public beta is available through the MEMBERS link above and requires signing up with our Members' Area. If you have an older copy of UV, just click on the "retail" link for it to download the update. If you have a newer digital download version, you can register it to get the digital update.

Regards,

- Erik

[TAIL GUNNER]

Erik, I'll give you a fully detailed and thorough report on patch 2.42 come Monday morning.

[timtom]

The old disappearing C-47 bug is still bugging me [:(]

Scn.7, before:

[timtom]

Scn.7, after:

[tanjman]

Erik,

Bug Report:
Scenario 19 - Allied vs. Japanese AI - Historical - started under version 2.42

While Transfering a C-47 squadron form Cairns to Townsville the C.O.'s plane was an operational loss and he was killed. The C.O. was replaced with a staff officer. All buttons in the air group screen stopped working. I was unable to exit that screen, I was however still able to select another air group but the buttons still did not work. I exit the scenario and reloaded the save game. Same problem. Save available upon request.

BTW I have not seen any other problems yet.

[Veer]

While Transfering a C-47 squadron form Cairns to Townsville the C.O.'s plane was an operational loss and he was killed. The C.O. was replaced with a staff officer. All buttons in the air group screen stopped working. I was unable to exit that screen, I was however still able to select another air group but the buttons still did not work. I exit the scenario and reloaded the save game. Same problem. Save available upon request.

You need to exit the game to fix it. It's one of GUI quibbles.

[tanjman]

Erik,

Bug Report:
Scenario 19 - Allied vs. Japanese AI - Historical - started under version 2.42

1) Aircraft were disappearing for no apparent reason.

Bug # 1 is still happening. I Have saves available of float planes disappearing off of my USN CA's. I had stood them down on turn 1 and they have reduced in size from 4 to 1 aircraft. Also two of my stood down USAAF C-47 squadrons have reduced in size from 16 to 12 aircraft.

[Nikademus]

Are these fresh restarts under 2.42?

[tanjman]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Are these fresh restarts under 2.42?

Nikademus, my game is.

[Nikademus]

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very odd. one of my first tests was to verify this bug was squashed. My machine experienced no loss of aircraft, C-47 or otherwise in a 3 week (game-turn) run. Prior to the patch, the loss of aircaft started as early as Turn 2.

can you send me a save? before/after. (lansoar@hotmail.com)

[TAIL GUNNER]

Nik, I assume you can patch directly from 2.30 to 2.42...

If this is the case, I'll do a fresh install of 2.30 this weekend, then patch to 2.42...

I'll let you know how it goes this weekend...

Meant to do it this last weekend...but some stuff came up...

Chad

[tanjman]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

[:@]

very odd. one of my first tests was to verify this bug was squashed. My machine experienced no loss of aircraft, C-47 or otherwise in a 3 week (game-turn) run. Prior to the patch, the loss of aircaft started as early as Turn 2.

can you send me a save? before/after. (lansoar@hotmail.com)

Nikademus

Nikademus,

Save game files sent.

[TAIL GUNNER]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

[:@]

very odd. one of my first tests was to verify this bug was squashed. My machine experienced no loss of aircraft, C-47 or otherwise in a 3 week (game-turn) run. Prior to the patch, the loss of aircaft started as early as Turn 2.

Nik, I did a clean install of 2.30, then went directly to 2.42...

I can verify the same problems timtom has.....Scenario 7, after turn 1, hordes of c-47s dissappeared from Townsville.....some Wirraways too...

maybe it's a scenario specific bug?
I didn't have time to really delve into the game this weekend....

Chad

[Nikademus]

OK, i've received a set of saves from Tanjman that i was able to test tonight. Using the 2.42 patch, I am not getting any disapearing aircraft using the 'before' save

Does anyone else have a save that I might use to compare? Unless we can get a working save, I doubt Mike will be able to nail this bug assuming it has become unsquashed again.

[tanjman]

ORIGINAL: Juggalo

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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very odd. one of my first tests was to verify this bug was squashed. My machine experienced no loss of aircraft, C-47 or otherwise in a 3 week (game-turn) run. Prior to the patch, the loss of aircaft started as early as Turn 2.

Nik, I did a clean install of 2.30, then went directly to 2.42...

I can verify the same problems timtom has.....Scenario 7, after turn 1, hordes of c-47s dissappeared from Townsville.....some Wirraways too...

maybe it's a scenario specific bug?
I didn't have time to really delve into the game this weekend....

Chad

Juggalo,

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think you needed to go from 2.30 to 2.40 then to 2.42

[Nomad]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

OK, i've received a set of saves from Tanjman that i was able to test tonight. Using the 2.42 patch, I am not getting any disapearing aircraft using the 'before' save

Does anyone else have a save that I might use to compare? Unless we can get a working save, I doubt Mike will be able to nail this bug assuming it has become unsquashed again.

Yes Nik, I am sending you a set that again shows F4Fs disappearing for no reason.

[TAIL GUNNER]

ORIGINAL: tanjman


Juggalo,

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think you needed to go from 2.30 to 2.40 then to 2.42

I asked about that before, but didn't receive an answer...so of course I assumed going from 2.30 to 2.42 was legit...

I'll try your suggestion tonight.
Thanks.

[TAIL GUNNER]

ORIGINAL: tanjman

Juggalo,

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think you needed to go from 2.30 to 2.40 then to 2.42

Still the same problem within scenario 7.....only this time one of the c-47 groups went to ZERO aircraft after one turn of play...

Surely you don't have to apply patches 2.30>2.40>2.41>2.42????????

By the way Matrix-people, thanks for making this a BETA patch...hopefully one of us will nail this bug dead....

Chad

[Erik Rutins]

Yes, please update through the full set of updates - 2.30 -> 2.40 -> 2.41 -> 2.42 Beta. We cannot currently duplicate the issue with the disappearing C-47s in your save. Has anyone else seen this?

Regards,

- Erik