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Use the 'Check for Updates' in your SR2010 Program Group to locate & download the update.

As well, you can obtain the Update directly from:

http://www.battlegoat.com/downloads/SR2 ... te-4.5.exe


WHAT'S NEW IN UPDATE 5

Version 4.5.3

New Scenario
WWIII – World War III: The world is divided into 31 playable nation states. … World War III has begun. Take control of one of the remaining world powers as the peace surely cannot last. … In-depth story and map, notes and emails were created and written by Chris Latour.
European Wars: Play Europe with 31 indenpendent countries. The Battle for Europe is on!

New Missions
Cuban Crisis 2010 … Capture the entire island of Cuba within 18 months…
Operation Shamrock …Completely capture the country of Ireland within 18 months…
Breaking Point. – Designed and Submitted by forum user Red. … Lead a dangerously-overextended Germany to safety.

New Groupings
World scenario. … Americas versus the World AND Triple Threat … Submitted by Eric Larsen – These groupings allow players to play the World map with fewer and larger regions.
US North West Scenario… Western Powers
United States Scenario … All North America … Now you can play with a United Canada, The Caribbean, Mexico and Central America against 28 weaker divided US states.

New unit additions
60 new units, 7 new unit pictures. This newest batch allows players to research more units as they progress through tech levels.

Reference Card
---> Now included: a single page printable PDF poster listed several of our in-game icons such as unit classes, facility types and more. You should find the link in the Supreme Ruler program group.

Game Improvements / Fixes
Tech tree updated to remove mention of unimplemented tech effects
Icon spin rate now capped in unit popup window
Units suffer penalties if transiting in war-declaration region
'Path Around' region now supported
Fixed WM Water / Boat Pathing & return-to-base issues
Major improvements in Missile firing rate, especially from planes
Fixes & Improvements to Treaty and Trade Cancellations
Fixed issue where AI would refuse some very attractive trades
Missile "launch authority" is now limited to reasonable ranges
Partisans & Guerillas (non-loyal areas etc) implemented
Better spotting of high-stealth units in the same hex
Stealth hit on low efficiency units reduced
Carrier Stacking issue fixed
Locked-out minister no longer removes from market unless priority set
Electricity 'auto' pricing bug fixed
Fixed 'super-morale-mortar' bug
Training status not shown fixed
Long deck carriers no longer respond to sea transport requests
Airports (not airstrips) now have double the stack limit
Fixed issue where base popup would remain after destruction
Fixed bug that some missiles would not launch same day loaded
Going to war/Breaking all treaties also cancels all trades
AI may stop boycotts after going neutral
AI counter-offers improved
Relation & Belli effect on offers varies by value of offer
Manual re-basing air units on low-fuel return fixed
New Groupings added - US NW, World
Fixed rare crash bug related to dip trades / memory corruption
Fixed crash bug involving MP games with lots of clients & units
Re-Wrote DirectSound code; Optimized, Multi-Threaded, etc
Removed use of gamma-ramp from fadein/fadeout
Updated Volume Controls: Music, Sound, Windows Master Volume
Fixed Turn-based mode 'end time slip'
Europe scenario World Market commodities quantity adjusted
Replaced Sound code with Miles Sound; Finished implementation
Mission games now read GMC data for game information
Fixed Campaign Mode Progression for Polish Release

Thx Goats ...it will be a sleepless night....

BTW the update won't download by - check for updates-.
Only a few kB.....
The link above works fine.

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NO MORE NOISY FISH [unless they are green & furiously]
I HAVE STILL A FISH IN MY EAR

I tried the check for updates and had no troubles. Downloaded the entire thing to test on my home system.

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Chris Latour
BattleGoat Studios
chris@battlegoat.com

My check for updates worked fine.
I found two US research unit Avatar problems: they were white squares.

The WWIII scenario looks like it'll be closer to the type of game many have hoped for. Thanks. Will be busy for some time.

Holy mother of god! You guys listen to me

Airports (not airstrips) now have double the stack limit

I love you guys! I'm almost tearing. No other computer game developers have ever listened to me like you guys do

Major improvements in Missile firing rate, especially from planes

this is fantastic too

Relation & Belli effect on offers varies by value of offer

And so is this



This game is the best!

Awesome stuff, especially:


edit: When I get some time to play this I'll blow up something in your honor.

Update 5 ? Damn universtiy and work ! Reinstalling SR2010 right now !

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Welcome to modern warfare this isn't C&C

Partisans!

Thanks goats.

Comments to follow.

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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously [but otherwise, they do not worry and are happy].

Thanks for all the hard work y'all put in on this... now if you'll excuse me I am going to go play with my 4th of July present.

Thanks for the comments guys - I think we've put in a fair bit of goodies into this update, so hopefully everyone gets a little something they wanted

One of my personal favorites is the new missile handling for planes, it makes using smart bombs much more effective and lethal. The only problem is you run out of the darn things so fast when you start using them

Make sure any bugs and oddities are posted in the Bugs section, we want to jump on them pretty quick, especially with our European customers just coming on line.

BTW, I think I forgot to mention, but Update 5 works for:

- Original North American (Boxed) Version
- Digital Download Version
- European (BlackBean) Version
- Polish (Nicholas Games) Version

The only version it does not work for is the Russian Version, since the Russian publisher (Akella) customized the code and made it incompatible with our update system.

-- George.

One other comment I'd make is that there were a number of significant 'under the hood' re-writes with this update, many of which resulted in performance improvments and greater responsiveness of units. However, such big changes can also result in unexpected bugs in areas that used to work just fine. While this has been a very extensively tested update from our side, with the last 'big' internal change made almost two months ago and tested since, the possibility of suprise issues exists. Be sure to post anything you find in the bugs and issues sections.

-- George.

Looks like a happy 4th after all. I just reached tech level 124 as the World Union with over 5.95 billion happy campers and a $100 trillion annual income. Now I've got the update to download. Thanks for fixing the turn based time slip. Looks like some nifty stuff included. I look forward to the better missile handling.

Did someone update the printable website unit list yet? I sure hope to see what new goodies have been added.

Thanks for including my World level groupings. I've been chafing at the bit to play the Americas versus the World grouping variant as the Americas and make a super AI opponent now that I see I can give it stuff to research.
Thanks,

Eric Larsen

Thanks for the update guys.

To anyone who was tried it yet, how does the enemy unit AI look? I'm about to boot the game up, I'll see how it goes.

Some goof words from Europe

Thank you for work made with this new update and once again i express my opinion that this game is very nice.

Just downloaded and i'm going to check new improvements.

Surely as before updates gems improves in better way

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konan

You mean the only military equipment list? Not yet, I'll be working on that tomorrow. I've got a note about it. I did some prep work ahead of time but am out of the office much of today so won't be able to get to it.

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Chris Latour
BattleGoat Studios
chris@battlegoat.com