2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

OK we are back to normal. Both game's 2022 consolidator upgrade patches are back on each of Shrapnel's DL page so anyone who has skipped a year or two updating now can do that before installing the 2023 patch.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS ANYONE WHO HAS ALREADY DOWNLOADED THE 2023 PATCH DOES NOT HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN

https://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_W.../WW2_page.html

Re: 2013 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

New/ Revised Icons

(258,90): 460 Churchill " Black Prince " 32 33 460 *****REVISED winSPWW2 v16
(743,76): 870 A-1H Skyraider 48 870 NEW-V5 New winSPWW2 v16
(866,85): 612 25mm Portee 32 33 612 ****REVISED winSPWW2 V16
(4634,83):{11828, 11829}, //4362. SdKfz 251/17 (camo) NEW-V7 *********REVISED WinSPWW2 v16
(5028,65):{19084, 19085}, //4740. Sikorsky R-5 ********* NEW WinSPWW2 V16
(5029,65):{19086, 19087}, //4741. Humber 1A AA ********* NEW WinSPWW2 V16
(5030,76):{19088, 19089}, //4742. Super Pershing ETO field Mod ******* NEW WinSPWW2 V16
(8463,79): {18649, -1}, //8049 Germany 29cm/30cm NbW 41/42 **********NEW winSPWW2 V16
(8464,96): {18650, -1}, //8050 Germany NbW with 28cm WK Spr & 32cm WK Flamm **********NEW winSPWW2 V16
(8552,95): {18738, -1}, //8138 Nakajima B6N **********NEW winSPWW2 V12**********REVISED winSPWW2 V16
(8648,91): {18834, -1}, //8320 P-51 USAF **********NEW winSPWW2 V12*******REVISED winSPWW2 V16
(9566,57): {19845, -1}, //9115 Nakajima E8N New winSPWW2 v16
(9567,59): {19846, -1}, //9116 Kawanishi N1K1 New winSPWW2 v16
(9568,60): {19847, -1}, //9117 Kawasaki Ki-100 New winSPWW2 v16
(9569,52): {19848, -1}, //9118 Ki-4 New winSPWW2 v16
(9570,52): {19849, -1}, //9119 Ki-4 New winSPWW2 v16
(9571,59): {19850, -1}, //9120 Ki-4 Manchukuo New winSPWW2 v16
(9572,55): {19851, -1}, //9121 N1K Kyofu New winSPWW2 v16
(9573,57): {19852, -1}, //9122 Nakajima E2N New winSPWW2 v16
(9574,57): {19853, -1}, //9123 Nakajima E4N New winSPWW2 v16
(9575,58): {19854, -1}, //9124 Nakajima E4N2 New winSPWW2 v16
(9576,58): {19855, -1}, //9125 FM-2 Wildcat New winSPWW2 v16
(9577,53): {19856, -1}, //9126 He-219 New winSPWW2 v16
23 occurrence(s) has been found.

Re: 2013 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

WinSPWW2 version 9.0 - 16.0 Consolidation patch - Released April 2023
( the 2023 patch updates any version of winSPWW2 ver 9.0 and up to Version 16.0 )


2 New Scenarios (there are now 875 scenarios included with winSPWW2v16)
265 Updated Scenario files
2 Updated Campaigns
42 Revised/Updated Scenarios
66 New or Revised OOB Photos
36 Updated OOB files
11 New or Updated Graphic SHP files
23 New or Revised vehicle/aircraft Icons
116 New or Revised Encyclopaedia/Help Text file
2 New or Revised sound files

Re: 2013 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

There are new special hotkeys that allow adjustments while the AI turn is active

* The plus '+' and minus '-' keys will zoom the map in and out
* The '[' key turns Fast arty ON
* The ']' key turns Fast arty OFF
* The 'u' key toggles smoke on and off
* The 'i' key toggles ID tags on and off
* The 's' key toggles game sounds on and off
* The 'p' key brings up the preference screen

It sometimes takes a second or 2 to register while the AI finishes whatever action it is currently engaged in. So, you now can, for example, turn on or off fast arty to either speed up a bombardment or slow it down for closer observation while the AI turn is running

* There was a bug that popped up when a map was made that used both a city grid and lakes that allowed troops to be place in what seemed to be buildings on solid ground but were not and this drowned the units on the next turn. This appears to be corrected now

ADDED April 23/2023

• It is now possible to once again let the AI play the AI and the game will not pause at the end of both turns every time allowing continuous AI vs AI play

ADDED April 24/2023

• You can now use a two word search string in Scenhack search. The only restriction is there must only be a single space between the two words.

ADDED April 25/2023

There are Alternate mine symbols added to winSPWW2.
Original https://i.imgur.com/adVG6P9.png Alternateshttps://i.imgur.com/2I52WQT.png .

Players wishing to switch from one to the other can find a folder named Mine Alternate located in the Graphics folder and contains a "Mine warning sign icons" subfolder and an "Original Mine Icons" subfolder. There are simple instructions on how to COPY ( do not MOVE ) one or the other into your game. Copying the files allows you to change from one to the other easily. This will have NO EFFECT on PBEM games


PLEASE NOTE: For winSPMBT the new alternative Mine symbols will show up as the default set. For winSPWW2 the originals will show up as the default set

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

We are starting the final assembly and checks now. Likely release date will probably be early May 2023

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

The TENTATIVE release date is now May 1/2023 ( subject to change )

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

NOW AVAILABLE !


This is the link to the winSPWW2 game page. You can find the update there under Downloads

https://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_W.../WW2_page.html

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

I use Firefox - it shows a red dot and moans, but if you then click on the red dot and answer the nanny question and allow the download, it works as it should.

No idea what other browsers do with "suspicious" downloads but there should be a way to get rid of the nanny, somehow.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Same thing with this link on post # 8.

See my discerption here:

https://forum.shrapnelgames.com/show...8&postcount=11

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

I have changed that to use the link to the game page

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

For some reason the main pages don't work either for me on Chrome. It displays a Shrapnel page that says your download will begin in 8 seconds but nothing happens.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Try it now. It takes me to the game page and you can select it from the downloads

For me I have to copy the link per the instructions on the page that shows up then paste into a new tab but I am using Chrome

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

The fine print at the bottom



Let me know if that works for you

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

I am still getting the same no response, if I copy the link and paste it into a new tab, it sends me to: Your download will commence within 8 seconds. But nothing happens, if I click the link at the bottom of that page nothing happens.

Can you repost the original link you had posted and I can then strip out the zip part and see the list of all the zips since 2013 and pick the ones I need?

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

From that 8 second page I copied the link into a new tab and then am able to see all the zips that seems to be the only Chrome is letting me download files it seems.

http://download.shrapnelgames.com/downloads/winSP/

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Don...... right click on the 'click here' link on the page and select copy link and paste into your browser's address bar and press enter.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

I tried that and its not working for me on my version of Chrome.

I have to go here to be able to download it for some reason.

http://download.shrapnelgames.com/do...winSP/?C=M;O=D

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

This is a frigging nightmare.

When I follow the instructions I posted...... right click on the 'click here' link on the page and select copy link and paste into your browser's address bar and press enter.......... I get a DL starting right away EVERY TIME but that is the third step last resort procedure and it would appear even that is not working for some

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

QUESTION

Is anyone able to simply click on the link to the update on the Game page and the update actually starts downloading in under 8 seconds?

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

FWIW I now have 16 different copies of the installers in my downloads folder using the links and procedures I have provided so this should work for everyone

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Works fine for me, I use Firefox

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Just downloaded without problem with Chrome.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Shrapnel made some changes and now It will start DLing for me in under 8 second with no need for pasting links to browsers

JUST FYI -----if anyone has noticed the kerfuffle on the MBT forums about missing files rest easy..... WW2 was not affected

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Halstein.... you would probably not notice at your end but your signature looks like this......

"Til fr�g�ar skal konung hafa, en ekki til langlifis!" Magnus B�rrf�tt"

That's assuming you see the diamonds with ? in the middle.....

......unless that's Norwegian secret code........:)

( though Google sees "skal konung hafa" as Islandic for "the king shall have"

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Worked perfectly (and quickly) Firefox Win 10

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Mu old patch "WinSPWW2 Ver9-Ver14 Consolidation_Upgrade(2021)" is 160MB - the new "WinSPWW2 Ver16 _Upgrade(2023)" that is supposed to replace it is 9MB.
Did I download an incorrect file?

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Seems like the forum don't like Old Norse/Icelandic characters then. It is a quote from King Magnus "Barelegs" of Norway, who was raiding in Ireland, and was asked to be more careful answered "We have kings for glory, not long life". Shortly afterwards I got killed in an ambush.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Just heading out the door so cannot investigate right now but I will as soon as I can

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Well folks I really did mess up.

I investigated the post made by Void1984 and he is correct.

The patches posted yesterday for both games ARE ONLY THIS YEARS WORK..... they are not consolidators that update over a number of versions they are just this years work so I have to build everything again.......... If you have been patching every year you don't have to do this again but if you have not patched for a couple of year hold off until I can build and test new ones and that may not be for a couple of days

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

As noted above we have a problem but with reflection it is perhaps not as bad as it sounds

There are time lags with all the people to make this work being in different places on the planet so none of what I am writing now is carved in stone and MAY change but I am offering a solution... NOT forgiveness....... it's too late for that

The last consolidator for both games was starting to get too large and we were due to start a new one anyway ( This is why there had been comments about how fast the DL was )

The WW2 patch posted is JUST A v15-v16 PATCH...... so it is NOT a consolidator and if you have been updating all along nothing changes for you.

What I hope will happen is the previous consolidator will be reposted and this latest patch will be the potential start of a new series but that idea has not been cleared with Shrapnel yet but it is a plan that causes everyone the least amount of grief..... players, Shrapnel and me

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

OK we are almost totally back to normal. Both game's 2022 consolidator upgrade patches are back on each of Shrapnel's DL page so anyone who has skipped a year or two updating now can do that before installing the 2023 patch.

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IS ANYONE WHO HAS ALREADY DOWNLOADED THE 2023 PATCH DOES NOT HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN

https://www.shrapnelgames.com/Camo_W.../WW2_page.html

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Thank you. I keep my copy of the patch sets for WinSP games, in case I wanted to do a reinstallation, so the size difference was easy to spot for me.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

And I do thank you for pointing it out when you did as it saved the problem from getting worse. I should have realized I missed a couple of steps. The procedure has been:

1. Build this year's single patch
2. Copy last year's consolidation patch files to this years game patch folder
3. Extract the new patch into the the new copy of last year consolidator files
4. Build the new Consolidator installer from the combined files.

I missed step 2 and 3 for both and I SHOULD HAVE noticed that when I built them. There is no excuse but more importantly I should have noticed they uploaded far quicker than they should have and the issues reported with people having problems getting the DL to start that we had initially were fixed and people were reporting how quickly it was downloading I just thought it was the fix Shrapnel made not that the "consolidator" was 15X smaller than it should have been and your post turned all the lights on finally

So thank you for mentioning it when you spotted it. The day was far more "interesting" and stressful than I wanted it to be but it was my fault it happened and everything is now resolved.


However... you reported you had "WinSPWW2 Ver9-Ver14 Consolidation_Upgrade(2021)"
Which means you missed the 2022 update so you need to go back and DL and install the 2022 consolidator AND THEN RE-INSTALL THE 2023 PATCH

Right now you are missing one whole year of updates


I just sent you a couple of PM messages about this

Don


EDIT. If anyone corresponds with "Void1984" please let Jakub know he's missing the 2022 update. I have not had replies to my PM's

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Chrome hates me the last few days, just tried the new link, get the 8 seconds page and nothing, right click link, nothing.

Just used my fall back (the one link: http://download.shrapnelgames.com/do...winSP/?C=M;O=D) to get the file I needed.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

That is odd and it was happening to a lot of people yesterday so we thought it was the link Shrapnel was using and after they told me they had made changes is when people started reporting how quick it was ( which was a sign I thought was good but turned out not so much )

I have been using chrome for testing DL a number of times and twice this morning and it starts up every time..... it may be your anti virus

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Thank you all, I got the message.
Part of my daily job is spotting inconsistencies like that, so I am vigilant when I see unexpected changes.

One more thing:
https to http redirection is something frown upon by web browsers, for security reasons.
That can be blocked be default, as it was in my case.

The download page:
https://www.shrapnelgames.com/Patches/PD_WW2_11.html
links to the file without a secure connection:
http://download.shrapnelgames.com/do...rade(2022).zip

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

I will pass that on. Thanks

What you wrote makes sense and I tried both this year's ww2 patch and the 2022 consolidator and you are correct, these years is https and the 2022 consolidator is HTTP and for me this year's patch DL started right up but I had to paste the link for the ww2 2022 consolidator into a new window to get it to start

I tried the same experiment with MBT and got the same results and the MBT 2022 consolidator is also http

http://download.shrapnelgames.com/do...atch(2022).zip

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Try the 2022 patch now. Changes have been made. It's an https and it starts up right away for me now using Chrome

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

Thank you. Downloading works fine now, with https.
I could do it with http previously, it was just a bad page design.

Re: 2023 winSPWW2 V16 upgrade/Patch info
 

I'm adding this as a reminder becasue there has already been one customer support complaint that the new scenarios were not showing up in Scenhack.

From the Game guide at the end of the Scenhack section

Important to remember

If you make any changes or add new scenarios you need to press the "Make tables" or "Create Tables" buttons so scenhack can find what you are looking for !

We cannot do that with a patch because there will always be people with their own scenarios in their game so if you use Scenhack you have to remember to run the instructions above so it refreshes its DB and I will endeavour to remember to add that info to future installers