GS v2.01.31 status

Peter Stauffenberg · Post by **Peter Stauffenberg** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:19 pm

We expect to get GS v2.01.31 out by Wednesday this week.

The reason for the delay (should have been out yesterday) is that we're awaiting the final touch to the map changes and also the new large counters from Victor. Those will be slightly smaller and that means you can see more of the terrain below. The preview looks very nice.

I propose that if you're planning to start a new game soon then you should wait for GS v2.01.31. The main reason is that we want to test the map changes and also the +5 air tech difficulty we introduced in GS v2.01.30 (that will only apply to new games and not existing games).

The map in GS v2.01.31 is changed in the following areas:
* Holland (added Groningen)
* Western Germany (renamed Wilhelmshaven to Bremen and named the port Wilhelmshaven). Moved the transport loop 1 hex
* Spain / Portugal / southern France (changed some rough / clear hexes to forest)
* Jerusalem moved one hex and some desert hills hexes added
* Beirut moved further south
* Eastern Germany (added some forest hexes like the Seelow heights, replaced rough with forest near Breslau, added some forest in western and Eastern Prussia)
* Poland (added some forest hexes and changed some swamp into forest in the Pripyat marshes)
* Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (changed the map so it's not just forest there. Some forests are now clear, some are swamp and some clear are forest like Courland)
* Western Russia (some changes near Gomel and Kiev. Less clear and swamp and more forest).
* Southern Russia (Krasnodar moved 1x SW and the Kuban river will now flow to the Sea of Azov. Removed some swamp hexes there)
* Caucasus (added some forest hexes instead of clear and rough)
* Southeastern Russia (made the swamp area near Astrakhan less swampy. Now there will only we swamp hexes along the Volga and Ural rivers plus the delta area at the Caspian Sea. The Kalmyk steppe is added as desert in this area).
* Kazakhstan (east of Astrakhan and east of the Caspian Sea now have quite a bit of desert hexes to indicate the dry steppe that is there).

So the major change is that more forest and desert are added to the map. The desert won't affect combat, but the supply level drops from 3/5 to 2. So it's not a territory you can advance very fast. The forest area won't affect infantry very much, but will be stumbling blocks for armor and mech.

Here is a preview of Holland / Western Germany:

Spain / Portugal / southern France:

Poland / Eastern Germany:

The Baltic States:

Southern Russia:

Syria:

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:40 am

I have updated to .31, and the map at the start of '39 shows Bremen and the changes in that area, but I do not see any changes in Poland/East Germany re: forests or any changes around Pskov, etc.

Could I have done something with the installation? I copied the folders in their entirety over Grand Strategy Mod folders.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:52 am

Reinstalled as per instructions and I still see the changes around Bremen but nothing else.

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:53 am

Blathergut wrote:I have updated to .31, and the map at the start of '39 shows Bremen and the changes in that area, but I do not see any changes in Poland/East Germany re: forests or any changes around Pskov, etc.

Could I have done something with the installation? I copied the folders in their entirety over Grand Strategy Mod folders.

You will only see all the changes when you start a new game. Also, you can try deleting the three *.dat files in the image\background folder of the GS install and then restart the game.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:56 am

This was new games. I'll try the delete dat files.

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:57 am

rkr1958 wrote:
Blathergut wrote:I have updated to .31, and the map at the start of '39 shows Bremen and the changes in that area, but I do not see any changes in Poland/East Germany re: forests or any changes around Pskov, etc.

Could I have done something with the installation? I copied the folders in their entirety over Grand Strategy Mod folders.
You will only see all the changes when you start a new game. Also, you can try deleting the three *.dat files in the image\background folder of the GS install and then restart the game.

Hold off on the update. I've got a mismatch between the terrain types and map tiles. I've messed something up.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:00 am

That seems to have fixed it. Thank you.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:00 am

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:15 am

rkr1958 wrote:
rkr1958 wrote:
Blathergut wrote:I have updated to .31, and the map at the start of '39 shows Bremen and the changes in that area, but I do not see any changes in Poland/East Germany re: forests or any changes around Pskov, etc.

Could I have done something with the installation? I copied the folders in their entirety over Grand Strategy Mod folders.
You will only see all the changes when you start a new game. Also, you can try deleting the three *.dat files in the image\background folder of the GS install and then restart the game.
Hold off on the update. I've got a mismatch between the terrain types and map tiles. I've messed something up.

The upload is ok but in order to see the map tile updates PC users need to delete the *.dat files (Map25_nogrid.dat, Map50_nogrid.dat & Map100_nogrid.dat) in both the image\background and the image\backgroundnames folders of their GSv2.01.31 install. Then the maptiles will be correctly regenerated.

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:29 am

Also, I'd appreciate it if one or more PC users after applying the update and regenerating the map tiles (i.e., removing the *.dat files) could verify the map changes.

Brincobi · Post by **Brincobi** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:01 pm

It seems to work for me

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:05 pm

Brincobi wrote:It seems to work for me

Thanks.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:22 pm

Followed all the same steps on my XP desktop and no changes re: forests and such, but do see the changes with Bremen.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:20 am

Actually, it's weirder than that. On the zoomed out level, the hexes show the changes. For example, the hexes north of Poland, have forest in them (where the German units start at the invasion of Poland). On the next two zoom levels however, the forest images disappear, become clear, BUT the terrain of the hex, in the bottom left screen shows forests.

Any ideas?

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:16 am

Blathergut wrote:Actually, it's weirder than that. On the zoomed out level, the hexes show the changes. For example, the hexes north of Poland, have forest in them (where the German units start at the invasion of Poland). On the next two zoom levels however, the forest images disappear, become clear, BUT the terrain of the hex, in the bottom left screen shows forests.

Any ideas?

That was the same issue that I had until I shut the game down, deleted the *.dat files (Map25_nogrid.dat, Map50_nogrid.dat & Map100_nogrid.dat) in both the image\background and the image\backgroundnames folders and then restarted the game.

Let me know if this doesn't work. I can upload a new full file set that has all the correct map compiles if necessary.

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:53 am

No luck.

I have no idea why on my laptop (Vista) this solution worked.

Further weird: On furthest zoomed out level, when "show river names" is on, I see the forests and changes. If I take "show river names" off, the changes disappear.

Again deleting the .dat files made no difference.

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:56 am

Blathergut wrote:No luck. I have no idea why on my laptop (Vista) this solution worked.

Further weird: On furthest zoomed out level, when "show river names" is on, I see the forests and changes. If I take "show river names" off, the changes disappear.

Again deleting the .dat files made no difference.

O.K. I'm uploading a revised file set that has the correct map compiles in it. So all you need to do is copy the files over your current install. The upload is currently in progress. I'll post as soon as it's complete.

pzgndr · Post by **pzgndr** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:03 am

I deleted those .dat files and then loaded the patch. Game fires up ok and I'm seeing Groeningen but no new forests around Berlin? May be other discrepancies too (too late to check everything), but I'd say it's not a smooth install yet.

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:16 am

Updated file set is now available. Same name. Sorry for any confusion.

pzgndr · Post by **pzgndr** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:46 pm

OK latest download looks fine now.