Update on 1.03

[yeats]

I think its been awhile since anyone's asked so how about an update on the release of this patch - What's left to do?

[Jason Petho]

Just wrapping it up, it should be ready for release in a few weeks.

Jason Petho

[tide1212]

It's gonna be SWEET!!!  

[Warhorse]

Oh yeah!![:D][:D]

[Hermann]

Very concise update - Thank you.

[tide1212]

Hi Herman
 
The Right Honorable J. Petho just doesn't want to ruin the excitement of the release. All I can really say is the wait will be woth it. Although J. Petho is one of the best people to work with and for if I say to much he may have me looking for bugs that are not really there  [:D]
 
Tide1

[junk2drive]

I come home Friday night looking for an update. I was hoping to see Jason post hours or days NOT weeks.
 
Just release it and we'll all test it for you... [:D]

[paulsalayko]

All i can say is that i hope this patch fixes the decade long epic problems of the dynamic games. Its been interesting to sit back and read over the past few months just how many DCG junkies there really are out there. I know in the past on many occasions people have spoken on the merits of the LCG's, but i guess people just like what they like. Needles to say i have suspended all campaigns till the 1.03 in hopes that this will do it, and also because i just couldnt take losing another game to critical errors in 43 after dozens and dozens of hard fought battles as both German and Russian. I hope i dident bore the hell out of anyone on my little rant, i just wanted to express whats on my mind as a hopeless CS addict.

P.S. I hope the patch comes soon because my 13 year old nephew got me playing WOW and if i get fragged by another 11 year old snottnose, i'm just gonna lose it.
Semper Fi

[Tim41]

Dude! Dude? DUUUUUUDE!
Not all of us want to pay test it for them again $%^#!

[Deputy]

Well I sure am glad the support is still there. I'm really enjoying playing a Rising Sun campaign and if they can patch the sim to make it even better, then great!!! [;)]

[Tim41]

The way the game is currently working-they better be there.

[Deputy]

ORIGINAL: Tim41

The way the game is currently working-they better be there.

You make it sound like there are all kinds of major problems. All I see is minor tweaking being needed. The could have just said f-it and left it the way it was.

[Tim41]

and if the game continued to crash in the Campaign mode it would have been worthless and I WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR MY MONEY BACK AS THE GAME IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY! In it's current state-it is NOT! It crashes in Campaign which is what I play. What good is it then to many players like myself? It's nothing more than a highly DEFECTIVE product at this point. There are not a few problems but many, and I have documented many as have others. The truck loading problem Jason did not know about till a few weeks ago and that will still be there in 1.03.
You don't a buy refrig that only the frig works and the freezer does not. You don't buy a car that breaks down everyday (unless your English). So quit selling me on how great Matrix is. Right now I can't play the game I bought. They didn't test it-read Jason's post to me. That's an omission of great import as regards basic business practices. They turned off a long time customer-another dumb business move.
They have one last try on this 1.03 and if it does not work at least as good as the Talonsoft vesrions, I want my money back and will get it.
Yeah, they could have said F-u-and lost a lot of customers for not only this, but Harpoon (still more fun on the table than the computer) and other games they sell. It would be a cold day in hell for me to buy another of their products at this point.

[e_barkmann]

what a whinger.

It's a game, it's not life or death.

[Deputy]

ORIGINAL: Chris Merchant

what a whiner.

It's a game, it's not life or death.

LOL...I could understand his whining if EVERYONE was having the same problems. I have played campaigns and am playing campaigns on a daily basis. Rock solid, no crashes and no problems. How many patches did Talonsoft do and they still had weird glitches. I just bought 3 more Matrix games today and ALL THREE are working perfectly. Perhaps you are having driver problems or the settings or specs on your computer are off. But don't make huge generalizations that make it sound like everyone and his brothert is having problems. [8|]

[Tim41]

All Western Front Games you list there guy. My problems were in EF.
It's a game. You are right. It's also a defective product for the time being by the companies own admission. If the game crashes in EF, then obviously it is not working. My fun time is limited and to play into a second Campaign Corps action and have it crash-twice was not worth the money or time.
Glad your WF is working well. By all means, buy their products and enjoy them. My experience has been negative. You want to play test for them-go right ahead. Have been enjoying the older version-WITHOUT ANY GLITCHES-ROCK SOLID.
In my string and here-neither Chris or you have made positive suggestions. Whining-no: sending a message to the forum moderator that not all customers are satisfied. You seem to say nothing ever but my ^&*% is working and that is rubbing salt in the wound, not being a help.
I gave my system specs-no one said they are not capable. NO ONE SAID ^&*%! I even upgraded the laptop which was not needed to play the game correctly. I pointed out many flaws and my string was listed as a major victory which many have visited-a tad more than your strings, eh?

[Deputy]

John Tiller's Campaign series covers West, East and Rising Sun. Haven't had any problems in ANY of them. East Front plays just as well as West and RS. Now back when Talonsoft owned it, I had a problem with BOTH East and West Front. After about 3-4 battles I would get a failure to run. I e-mailed Talonsoft and their "fix" was to go into my saved campaign and DELETE three of four campaign files. This would "skip" the correct following battle and move to the next one. It worked...as far as making the game run again. But this kept happening REPEATEDLY throughout a campaign. Hardly what I would call a "fix". This bug does NOT happen in the current version of the game. And I'm grateful for that.

BTW....I just dumped 101st Airborne from my comp. What a POS game. I got it for free from a Torrent download. But I can sure see why the game flopped as a retail item. They (Sharpnel Games) have another version of it out caled 82nd Airborne. If it's the same method of operation, I predict it will flop quickly too.

[Tim41]

I have played TWO PAGES of Campaign battles without a crash in the older version-ever. This would be the 2001 release (the oldest I gave away). I am interested in many of the posts that explain problems with the older version. YOUR LAST POST HELPS! Thank you. If I run into that (which I never did), I now have some useful insight. Chris, as always, will continue to take shots while adding nothing constructive. I'm glad I am better entertainment for him than American Idol. He has that going for him, though he still needs a girl, pet, etc.
I am hoping 1.03 is the ticket-but there is always something in any game. Yes, there will be more problems. For you, it sounds like you have a highly POSITIVE experience with the new game. When others asked me to provide system specs vis a vis the new game, I gave them yet not even the moderator made comment. So it's not the systems. I described in detail the loading proceedures, unloading, etc. and only after some 75 posts did Jason even mention 1.02b! Not listed under the patches at that time, so how would I know it existed? Perhaps some of my frustration would have been reduced had I known about it. Perhaps not.
On my posts, you will see that I am not the only one to have crashes in the new version in Campaign Mode. From what I read-there are MANY players who get stuck in the never-ending-cavalry freeze! Game crashes at that point. Please review the many other players who mention this. I highly doubt you have run into this exact problem or your game would have crashed. It's a needed fix in the 1.03, again, per Jason. Not me.
Thanks for the tip on the other game.
-Your favorite whiner.

[Jason Petho]

An update on the 1.03 UPDATE.

The final build will be sent out to the testers on Sunday.

Two weeks will be given to do one last bug hunt and system check.

Any outstanding issues will be corrected and the whole works will be sent to Matrix for them to compile and release the 1.03 UPDATE.

Jason Petho

[Deputy]

Tim: First let me apologize. I try NOT to call people names on forums, and that was a BIG mistake on my part. I never ran into a cavalry bug, probably because I mainly play with armored formations. When Talonsoft was still running the show, I had EVERY upgrade and patch they made. I think, and I'm just guessing from memory, that their last version was 1.08, maybe 1.10. I still had that above-mentioned problem even with Talonsoft's newest version. I agree that the 1.02b patch should have been listed as available. But it was a temp patch that only affected a small part of the game. Still...it should have been in the downloads section.

Now before you think all is wonderful in "Dep's warland" [:D], I DO still have a problem with Steel Panthers: World At War. I save after EVERY move in that game because it STILL gets CDT, even after all these many years. I've tried shutting down EVERYTHING running in the background and it still does it. The save-after-every-turn thing has just become part of the game for me. I bought Shrapnel Games version called SPWW2 too. I hardly ever play it. Their conversion is rock-solid reliable and NEVER gets CDT, but they have made some changes that just make the game less enjoyable for me.

Anyway, I apologize again for calling you whiner. If you are having problems, you certainly have a right to voice them. BTW...can you post your system specs? Maybe there is something lacking there or you need driver updates?

Jason: Looking forward to the update with great anticipation!!!!!

Dep