New Beta available!

[IainMcNeil]

Hi guys

a new version is available - check the top post for details.

You need to update both the base beta and the DLC beta as both have changed.

Thanks!

[Kerensky]

This is most likely the final version of DLC 42/43 West, baring some sort of serious problem.

Changelog:

Final visual polish added
Various text corrections

Corrected St Nazaire scenario name
109E is now a SE 109F

Added german air transport to Dieppe
Reduce hurricane strength from 13 to 11
Increased experience to 1 star fw190s

Added gironde german air transport
Slightly less rain
+2 turns
Added extra victory condition, marginal victory if all cargo ships are safe but not all vh are captured

Etna line N and S
Reduced 2nd wave strength, spread out enemy aircraft waves

Messina
Added a few Italian forts, immobilized AUX FlaK units
Updated pzloc file

Salerno landing
spread out second air wave and reduced strength slightly
Made it more difficult to end the scenario with a rush strategy

Salerno counter attack
prestige bonus for destroying supply dumps

Taranto
italian captured units now have german flags

[ThvN]

I can't get the beta3 to work. When I start a new game I get the briefing for St.Nazaire, after that I only get the UI over a black screen, i can press all the buttons but no response.

I will re-download both files, but that will take a while, I suspect something maybe went wrong there, because I had trouble earlier reaching the Slitherine website, so might be ISP issues. I will post again to let you now if that helped.

I had deinstalled beta2, so I have deinstalled beta3 and reinstalled beta2, and that worked fine.

EDIT: problably ISP issues that corrupted the download, everything seems fine now.

[Kamerer]

I had that happen at first, too. It was because I did not realize I had to download the whole game again, not just the DLC8. Once I did that (de-installed both game and DLC8, and re-install both), it worked fine. Try that.

[ThvN]

I had that happen at first, too. It was because I did not realize I had to download the whole game again, not just the DLC8. Once I did that (de-installed both game and DLC8, and re-install both), it worked fine. Try that.

I had done that, but something must have went wrong somewhere, but I re-downloaded and reinstalled everything, and just tried again, and result, it now works! I was busy posting my earlier message when I remembered I had trouble getting on the website earlier, it wouldn't load properly, I had the same with websites based in the UK, so must have been some weird ISP problem. Maybe one of the files was corrupted during download, but this time it worked.

[Ballacraine]

This is most likely the final version of DLC 42/43 West, baring some sort of serious problem.

Changelog:

109E is now a SE 109F

On trying to upgrade the SE109F on the opening of the Dieppe scenario, the upgrade screen is entirely blank.
I can however purchase fighters including a 109G

Balla.

[ThvN]

This is most likely the final version of DLC 42/43 West, baring some sort of serious problem.

Changelog:

109E is now a SE 109F

On trying to upgrade the SE109F on the opening of the Dieppe scenario, the upgrade screen is entirely blank.
I can however purchase fighters including a 109G

Balla.

Let me guess: for the SE airplanes in the equipment file, 'Theatre' is still set to 0 for these units, so they are still limited to African Campaign.
*Checks beta3 eqp file*
Yep, so you can alter the beta3 eqp file (remove that 0) so you can upgrade your SE fighter.

[Ballacraine]

Nice to know the nuts & bolts of how to do it, ThvN, and thanks for the trouble; but I do think a fix is in order.
As it stands it is a bug.

BTW where do I find that file, please? ...I had a look & couldn't see it.

Balla.

[ThvN]

Nice to know the nuts & bolts of how to do it, ThvN, and thanks for the trouble; but I do think a fix is in order.
As it stands it is a bug.

BTW where do I find that file, please? ...I had a look & couldn't see it.

There is an even easier fix, enable the cheats, and use the cheatcode 'all eqp', this will enable all units to be available to the player, so you can upgrade your fighter. Press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+C for the cheat window, enter 'all eqp'. Doing this again turns it off, don't forget .

I modded my pzeqp file, because this will be the only way to play this campaign 'normally', and I wanted to experience that. The eqp file will have to be changed anyway for the release to allow SE fighters to be upgraded, otherwise this SE fighter will have to be taken out again, unless they don't want the player to be able to upgrade it. Which can also be the intent, I don't know.

OK, the hard way:

There should be a 'Panzer Corps Beta' and a 'Panzer Corps DLC Beta' directory on your drive. The first one (the base game beta version) has a subdirectory 'Data' that has the equipment.pzeqp file which this beta uses. I'm not sure how familiair you are with editing that file? I made a small mod myself so I could upgrade my SE fighter. The problem with this is that the SE fighters are now part of the 'bonus' units, so instead of only SE tanks and SE infantry being given to the player, there is now a chance you will be given an SE fighter instead.

I only enabled the SE fighters in my eqp file, not the SE tactical bombers (Bf110, Stuka). So make a backup of the original (rename it or something), and put this one in the zip there instead. Or open your pzeqp file and edit out the 0's in the column 'Theatre' in the pzeqp file with the units you want to be available. 0=africa only 1=west only, no entry=available everywhere.

[Ballacraine]

Thanks for your time & effort.

I tried copying your attached file across to the destination file, but it doesn't seem to have altered anything in that regard.

Balla :/

[ThvN]

Thanks for your time & effort.

I tried copying your attached file across to the destination file, but it doesn't seem to have altered anything in that regard.

Balla :/

OK, couple of questions:

1. usually you need to re-start a scenario to get Panzer Corps to re-read the equipment file. So when you go to the next scenario it should read the file, and any change should start becoming visibile. If that doesn't work:

2. which directory did you copy it into?
3. did you extract the .zip and replace the original file with the new equipment.pzeqp, check the file dates to be sure.

BTW, I posted your comment about the missing SE planes in the bug thread, and I have just found another problem in the eqp file: the SdKfz 10/4 hast lost it's icon, another easy fix fortunately.

[Ballacraine]

You are quite correct, my friend.

It reread your modified file fine in the next scenario.

Thank you for your help.

Balla

[zappel]

Taranto
italian captured units now have german flags

No chance to use two italian flags?
One for Italy (axis) and one for Italy (allied)?
I have not tried it yet but I suspect these units will be in german upgrade path not in the italian one. This would be a pity because the upgrade of the P26 to a Panther is cheap.