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[zaimoni]

Has the Close Assault of German Motorcycle Infantry crash-out (Alpha 12.1) been fixed on your end?  (If not, I'll need to look up instructions for submitting the reproducer savefile triple.)

[sudasana]

No but I know why the crash is happening - I'll upload a development build tomorrow with the crash fixed.

Edit: The GitHib repo has been updated with the fix, but I'm going to hold off on a dev build until I can test it further. No sense just giving you more bugs and crashes to experience!

[zaimoni]

No problem; I don't have a clear idea how to make Python programs compile-error on bugs rather than runtime-error.  This felt like something that could be a systematic error.

[sudasana]

Sadly I just forgot to include definitions for motorcycle units in the close assault firepower table. So it tries to look them up in a table where they don't exist. 

Edit: Sorry I didn't read your comment closely enough. Python doesn't really compile, the builds are packaged up into an exe but inside there is still a Python script. Syntax errors will get caught by the interpreter and throw an error, but things like a variable not existing in a dictionary will only produce an error when the script tries and fails to find it.

[sudasana]

New development build available, fixes the crash mentioned above and adds a bunch of new features: https://www.armouredcommander.com/blog/2020/02/09/development-build-9-february-2020/

[Little]

Finally got internet at the new place, and I come back to new releases! Playing the defensive French campaign, accidentally hit the X key on the scenario map instead of C or Z and the game crashed immediately. Neat to see German motorcycle squads on the battlefield! 

[sudasana]

It's when you hit X on the campaign day map, or indeed most inactive key commands - fixed in next dev build. Don't press any inactive keys on the campaign map for now!

[EuchreJack]

It's when you hit X on the campaign day map, or indeed most inactive key commands - fixed in next dev build. Don't press any inactive keys on the campaign map for now!

Ok, so that is why pressing down key closed the game.  Game saved, so nothing lost from what I can tell.  If this were an ahem different sort of game, it would be a feature!

[sudasana]

Well old games used to have "boss keys" that would replace the contents of the screen with something that looked like work...

[zaimoni]

The 105 K/13 anti-tank gun is Fated to never die in Close Combat (game crashes instead).  I have a reproducing save on hard drive, should it be needed (Soviet side of the Winter campaign)

I know how I would deal with this sort of thing in C# or C++, but that needs some way to specify a developer/debug build for doing runtime unit tests on game open.

[sudasana]

Please do send me the save game, I can run it in Python and track down the bug that's causing the crash.

Edit: Fixed now, I uploaded a kind of hotfix to the development build, if you re-download it will still say 09-02-20 but it will fix these two crashes.

[Little]

Playing the beta candidate! French campaign.
A more clear visual indicator of dug-in/entrenched might be useful, unless there's some sign I'm missing.
How do you set the default load?
Not sure where you would put it in the UI but maybe an option key then a pop-up menu displaying message history would be useful. Hit/miss chances and taken, weather changes, enemy moves, etc.

Found a crash! Motorcycle squad was pinned after I fired the machine gun at them, full crash, no error message.

[zaimoni]

I find it somewhat jarring to instantly identify "that unspotted unit is infantry" from the hover-text reported that it is entrenched/dug-in.  (Smoke about an unspotted unit makes complete sense.  Entrenched/dug-in in the hover-text, suggests that the unspotted unit UI should be leaking infantry vs vehicle classification; I'd have to read up on WWII accounts to know if that is actually reasonable, rather than just a powergamer snap impression.)

EDIT: just hit a total crash on Refit day against the 2020-02-14 download (i.e., not latest build).  Soviet side of Winter Campaign. Dec. 28 1939.  All of declining to refit, no-op, and trying to upgrade from BT-7 to T-28 fail.

[FAA]

How realistic is it - mainly about sortie ratios, tactics and scenarios available. Does it really feel like you are a tanker in a unit that has plausible tasks? What about combined arms? Do those relatively large hexes not simplify things a bit too much, compared to, say, Steel Panthers?

Sorry for so many questions, it seems too good to be true.

[sudasana]

Fixed the motorcycle crash (heh), working on the refit day crash now.

Entrenched/dug-in status needs to be displayed better, and should be hidden for unspotted units.