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ORIGINAL: Elwro

Goodies? In "Private Downloads" section of the Member's Club? For CS I only see the 1.03 update and the manual, am I missing something?

Sorry. I've unintentionally caused some confusion.

The 1.03 patch itself has a manual folder, and within the manual folder are several files with goodies: (1) the revised manual, (2) an article by Richard Simonvich about DCGs, (3) the bootcamp instructions by Jason Petho, (4) an assault hex demonstration (I think by Jason Petho), and (5) a scenario ledger. You can access the manual folder with these files only after installing the patch. I'm still trying to figure out how to print the manual and the scenario ledger. I'm not the best with computers, so I hope my explanation makes more sense this time.

On the members' page, under the private downloads, there's also a manual, but it's the original Matrix manual from June 2007. It's not (at least not yet) the patch 1.03 manual.

No, not yet. I am still revising the platoon files, correcting the issues that were found.

Sometime this week though!!!

Jason Petho

ORIGINAL: camz

was the final update going to come out today?

Hi camz! I don't know when the final update will come out.

You also had a question about the AI, I don't think that was improved per se, but I think some things were added to make it a little more competitive. That is, I don't think the AI codes were worked on, but other things that impacted the AI indirectly were tinkered with. That's just my understanding from reading other posts.

Thanks for the answer,1925frank!

I only planned to download 1.3 after the small issues are fixed, but in this case I'll get it now and enjoy the goodies

Thanks again!

Alright, now I am confused as well. I downloaded the 1.03 update from the members section, and have assumed everything was great. Now I read that there is more fixes being made, and a 1.03 release expected "soon" again..... What did I download? And do I have to download it again? It seems to work from my view.....?
Sorry, this is not meant as a complaint, just as a "what...?" I guess that will teach me to keep reading the forum even after the releases [:'(]

ORIGINAL: kg_1007

Alright, now I am confused as well. I downloaded the 1.03 update from the members section, and have assumed everything was great. Now I read that there is more fixes being made, and a 1.03 release expected "soon" again..... What did I download? And do I have to download it again? It seems to work from my view.....?
Sorry, this is not meant as a complaint, just as a "what...?" I guess that will teach me to keep reading the forum even after the releases [:'(]

It was the unofficial 1.03 UPDATE.

The official 1.03 UPDATE will be ready on Monday.

Jason Petho

ORIGINAL: Jason Petho

ORIGINAL: kg_1007

Alright, now I am confused as well. I downloaded the 1.03 update from the members section, and have assumed everything was great. Now I read that there is more fixes being made, and a 1.03 release expected "soon" again..... What did I download? And do I have to download it again? It seems to work from my view.....?
Sorry, this is not meant as a complaint, just as a "what...?" I guess that will teach me to keep reading the forum even after the releases [:'(]

It was the unofficial 1.03 UPDATE.

The official 1.03 UPDATE will be ready on Monday.

Jason Petho

Hmm, ok... Couple of questions then..
I waited, patiently mostly, for a release of the 1.03 update, and then immediately downloaded what was said to be the release,,special to members, after it was done,but the day before being officially released. I then put the units from that update into a scenario I have been working on off and on for months. Nowhere was there a mention that it was a unofficial update, everywhere, that I read, all the work had been done(great job, by the way,from what I see) and it was ready,just was released in the way it was,because another update to a different game was scheduled that day,and the staff at Matrix was being kind and giving us a 12 hour-ish headstart.
Now, I just happened to check back,and see that, that was not REALLY?? the 1.03, it was just a sort of pre? update...so,
1. Why was it described as the actual update,
2. Does this mean that I have to redownload the "real"update Monday?
3. If I decide not to download the "real" one will I be missing anything?

Please dont get me wrong, from everything I can see, I love this entire game, and Jason, you, and Matrix, have always been great. I just am somewhat stunned at how this particular point has been played out (1.03) And, in reality, none of this will matter, if the answers to my #2 and #3 above are"No" and "no" [8D]

What you downloaded was a "preview" release of what we thought would be the v1.03 update. We released it via the Members Club two days early. After getting a few reports about bugs or data issues, we decided that instead of making what we had uploaded the official release, we would hang on to it for another week and fix as many of the reported issues as possible. That will be the v1.03 "official" update.

Thank you Erik,
That is sort of what I thought, but it didn't really answer the main questions I asked, which were...
1. Do I have to redownload the update(and then,resubstitute in my oob of this scenario) or is it safe to just finish the scenario. In my view, what I have works fine, but not sure what bugs,etc were reported, but does that mean there will be a stability issue with my scenario, or are the fixes *entirely*oob related, so I can just run with what I have?
Thanks

ORIGINAL: kg_1007

Thank you Erik,
That is sort of what I thought, but it didn't really answer the main questions I asked, which were...
1. Do I have to redownload the update(and then,resubstitute in my oob of this scenario) or is it safe to just finish the scenario. In my view, what I have works fine, but not sure what bugs,etc were reported, but does that mean there will be a stability issue with my scenario, or are the fixes *entirely*oob related, so I can just run with what I have?
Thanks

The update will have no influence on the scenario you are playing. You should be able to update to the official version of the 1.03 UPDATE with no issues.

Jason Petho

Thank you Jason. That is a relief. Curious question, do you ever have the time to actually PLAY this game?
good job guys
k

Play the game? You mean you can play the game too?

Woah!

*laughs*

Yes, I find time to play as well, although the vast majority of my playing is playtesting.

Jason Petho