Matrix Games

• Ensure subGroup not added twice when generating right echelon formation. Fixes assert at ScenForceFormation 2612.
  
• Add extra test to assert at PD 3759 to handle cases where a unit requests extra time to slip its plan and where the boss abandons its plan in the process.
  
• Ensure that AssessForSubAttacksWhoseReorgsCanBeBroughtForward() aborts cleanly if the force is waiting to receive orders from boss aand has already curtailed the missionTask end. Addresses assert at TaskAttack line 1727.
  
• Ensure that static arty units assigned to their own mission plan within the onMapBoss's OpPlan are searched when calling GetAvailableOnCallSupport(). This ensures that they get a chance to fire if not in direct support of a particular mission.
  
• Ensure that dateTimes are validated for local settings.
  
• Ensure that cases where no valid route can be generated are handled properly throughout the assessment functions.
  
• Remove and prevent UI loopbacks that were causing task changes not to stick while the game was paused.
  
• Added new code to assess for stalled moves that will either wait, bypass or replan depending on a number of factors like are there any subordinates attacking, can we bypass effectively. In the process overhauled the AssessBypass() and ensured that the caution factor was increased each time a bypass attempt was made thus making it more likely the force would select a route that avoided the enemy.
  
• Added new unit log messages and player reports for stalled moves.
  
• Fixed bug inside MustWait() that was allowing filler units to move off even though the unit ahead of them was still receiving his move orders. This should fix cases where support units charge off on their own ahead of the main body.
  
• Ensure that the nextRouteIndex and nextRouteLoc are used consistently throughout the formation movement code. This avoids formation lockups.
  
• Ensure that units don't request emergency resupplies of ammo for which they have no weapon left that can use that ammo type.
  
• Revise the cap on emergency resupply ammo qty, ensuring that units get at least something. These two fixes prevents the never ending loop of units requesting emergency ammo that they don't need and also of not getting ammo they do need.
  
• Ensure that when creating a new route that all exiting waypoints are cleared. This fixes a bug that wasn't clearing the interim waypoint and adding it to the new route, even though it shouldn't.
  
• Ensure that routing and recovering units do not try and create a new route if they reassess their task. This could see a routing or recovering unit heading back to its objective before it had recovered. This may explain some cases of units retreating toward the enemy.
  

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Ensure that static arty units assigned to their own mission plan within the onMapBoss's OpPlan are searched when calling GetAvailableOnCallSupport(). This ensures that they get a chance to fire if not in direct support of a particular mission.

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ORIGINAL: loyalcitizen

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Ensure that static arty units assigned to their own mission plan within the onMapBoss's OpPlan are searched when calling GetAvailableOnCallSupport(). This ensures that they get a chance to fire if not in direct support of a particular mission.

Can you explain a little about what this means? If I turn a bunch of arty units into one command and personally direct the firing missions, will they now still support their native unit from time to time?

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ORIGINAL: wodin


Big thanks Dave..thanks for putting up with us all.

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ORIGINAL: GBS

Three or four weeks is ridiculous. Nobody has ever explained why Matrix takes so long to provide the patch for CO when it is completed, when patches for games by other developers are available seemingly daily. 2by3 for example. Three or four weeks? Please....

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ORIGINAL: GBS


SO lets give it at least three or four weeks before we all start moaning;)

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ORIGINAL: Arjuna

We're doinf final playtesting on COTA now. It's al;ways hard to give a prediction as it depends on what is thrown up if anything by the testing. If nothing then we will probably sign off in a week or two. But of copurse Matrix will need time to fit it intop their schedule.

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ORIGINAL: phoenix
I think Matrix will have it sorted by the end of the week. They were very quick with the last build. Only the christmas illness issue slowed them. That was a one off. I hope.....

They're less prompt at keeping us informed sometimes. A quick message to say - it will be up by Friday/Monday/whatever - would be nice. I don't think you can claim that work pressure stops you posting a five second message. Though it's a hassle to do so, of course. It may be, however, that their processes do not include checking posts here at all, except periodically, so they haven't a clue that we're already griping...... (But we still love you, Erik, honestly....)

It may be that we're the smallest title they publish, more or less. That wouldn't surprise me (despite being the best wargame ever made). Hence bottom of the pile.

Real men go to war on Real tanks

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And I'm also pretty positive that their processes don't include sharing their scheduled tasks with random peeps in the Internet :o)

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ORIGINAL: phoenix

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And I'm also pretty positive that their processes don't include sharing their scheduled tasks with random peeps in the Internet :o)

Not sure what that means, Bletch. Is 'peeps' a noun (as the 'in the internet' suggests) that I don't know of? Or did you mean 'I'm pretty sure their processes don't include checking the internet'? Or some such. At any rate - are you condoning the lack of info? Just don't understand what you mean, sorry. But it takes a few seconds to post something saying 'should have it up by x', and I'm not sure what the harm of that could be. Sounds like good customer relations, no? But maybe you were just saying they don't, in fact, do that, as I suggested they don't.

Real men go to war on Real tanks