Mega Pack issues

[amd4ever]

hi there

i've just bought the game, Panzer Corps: Wehrmacht + Panzer Corps Grand Campaign Mega Pack.
and after installing the Mega pack didn't add anything nothing was added to the game.

but i think i should see new icons included in the Mega pack.

[huertgenwald]

Click on the Iron Cross in the main menu to Play Panzer Corps "Vanilla" (with the new patches the default is Allied Corps)
Then click on the "classified" folder in the bottom right corner to select your campaign.

HtH

[amd4ever]

the allies star icon on the right isn't showing up, the afrika korps campaign is still dark when i hover over it, it ask me to 'purchase it'

[amd4ever]

the Mega pack install doesn't add anything to the directory, even after installing it in another directory

[amd4ever]

Dear AMD,

Thank you for your purchase of:

(1) - Panzer Corps Grand Campaign Mega Pack - PC Promo Download

Your license key (serial number): GC.......

Order ID: 78390167

Your product download URL: https://www.plimus.com/jsp/dlapp.jsp?re ... 0C40852783

Your download link is valid for 14 days. Please download it before your link expires or you will have to request a new one.

this is the mail i received
why dose it say Promo download when i bought it for some cash ?

[Tarrak]

Just click on the classified folder and a window should open where you can chose to start any of the Grand Campaigns. The "palm icon" stands for Afrika Korps campaign and the "allied icon" for the Allied Corps both additional stand alone expansions which you have to buy extra so it's absolutely correct they are not working if you only own PC Wehrmacht and the Grand Campaign Megapack.

When you start the game and click on the classified Folder you should see the following on the screen:
Now just click on the GC campaign you want to start and here you go.

If this doesn't work for you please describe or provide screenshots how it looks on your screen and we can investigate further.

[amd4ever]

so the mega pack doesn't include everything !?

the developers went Very greedy with this game, you are encouraging pirating actually.

[huertgenwald]

what exactly are you talking about ? The mega pack includes all DLCs just as promised. Nothing less .. and nothing more.

[amd4ever]

see here

The "palm icon" stands for Afrika Korps campaign and the "allied icon" for the Allied Corps both additional stand alone expansions (which you have to buy extra) so it's absolutely correct they are not working if you only own PC Wehrmacht and the Grand Campaign Megapack.

is there a difference between expansion and DLC????

[huertgenwald]

Yes, of course.

An Expansion is a full (standalone) program with usually one campaign.

A DLC is essentialy a mappack (with scenarios forming a campaign during one year in WW II, western or eastern front ).
DLC campaigns are considered to be harder (especially those on the eastern front ).
A DLC needs the main program PzC .

[Tarrak]

Huertgenwald explained everything correctly i just want to add a few details to it to clarify it a bit: DLC and expansion aren't sadly hard defined in the gaming world. A lot of companies uses them in different context.

In Panzer Corps context an expansion is a standalone game (you don't need anything else to play it) which offer a new single player campaign, some multiplayer maps and usually some new content like new terrain tiles, new units and more. The expansion integrates into each other if you own and have some installed already, this is why you see the different icons starting the other expansion from within another one but they do not require anything else to play. You can buy and play only Afrika Korps if you wish for example.

A DLC in Panzer Corps context is a lot smaller and require at least one of the stand alone expansions to be playable. It only contains a single player campaign each which cover a year of the war on either the eastern or western front. Obviously before the eastern front opened there is only one DLC per year in 1939, 1940 and 1941. You can play every year of the war, as in each DLC, totally independent and start each one with a new default core. They do offer tho an option to import the core from previous DLC and carry on with it allowing you so do play through the whole war in a huge long campaign if you own all of the DLCs. That's why the campaign that builds from the DLCs is called the Grand Campaign. You can buy the DLCs one by one or you can alternatively get the Megapack for a convenient easy installation of all of them and a little money save.

The developers and publishers of Panzer Corps are not greedy rather on the contrary. They could easily not make the expansions standalone and require you to buy the base game for it like most of other companies do, yet they did not. The DLCs with 3 euro for around 15 maps per campaign are a plain steal. Three Euro may buy you two beers in a pub, if you go to a really cheap one, and here you get at least around 15 hours of fun for the money assuming you play it only once. Additionally some of the changes made in the expansions are offered for free as a patch to everyone owning the game. In multiplayer you can only issue challenges with maps from expansions you own but you are able to accept challenges from someone else even for maps you do not own

[IainMcNeil]

Any discussion of piracy is banned so please think before you post. The product pages explain exactly what you will get and we've never had anyone misunderstand in the hundreds of thousands of units of Panzer Corps sold so we feel the information is clear.