Different Antietam lsl files

Hi NSD people, this is a issue for Norb and Matrix to resolve, I think, or at least whoever helps Norb high up in the publication side of things.

There are two versions of Antietam in publication or in circulation. In the game's BASE/MAPS folder are kept the .lsl data files for each map. For ANT_1, ANT_1PM, ANT_2 and ANT_3 there are two sets of these files in public use. One set is dated 2/22/2013 (or 23/2/2013 for UK users) and the other set is dated some time in 2011.

For some reason the original NSD release, and the early Matrix release of Antietam had the 2013 dated files. I know this because I updated my Antietam install when Matrix first took over publication and I have the 2013 files. The most recent copy you can download/buy from Matrix however has the 2011 files. The problem our MP group is continuously having is new players joining, buying the Matrix game add-on and then crashing out of MP sessions with a map mismatch error. This has in the past confused us and wasted a lot of time but now we know the problem is out there we send the 2013 version file to all new players who join our group and play on these maps.

We're wise to this. Other MP groups may not be.

Can NSD and Matrix please discuss and resolve this? Every owner of SoW:Antietam should have the 2013 .lsl files.

Many thanks guys.

Hi guys, any update on this please? Our group encountered another frustrating time last night with a new player and we had to send him the correct .lsl file for the ANT_2 map. This problem has got to be confusing some MP players who haven't worked out the different files yet.

Thanks for looking into it.

Thanks for the feedback LP. However - sorry to be blunt - but Matrix do not know what they are talking about; their answer proves they don't understand the problem.

We ALL have the 1.61 patch. Nobody can play SoW:G MP without it!

The problem isn't in the 1.61 patch, its in the Antietam add-on pack published through Matrix. The lsl files in that are not the latest files; they are 2 years older than the ones NSD issued. And that isn't the point anyway, the point is they are different. They need to be the same. NSDs and Matrix's files need to be the same. NSDs files now can't be changed so the only fix is to change Matrix's to match the NSD ones.

Why did Matrix go with a much older file for their release?

The problem is that our (large) MP group has many well established players all using copies of SOW:G released by NSD. We encourage new people joining our group to buy the add-ons because we use the maps for MP scenarios. The new people then get the 'old' lsl files from Matrix and we have the same problem getting them to join MP games.

LP, we only know this because we have people in our group who do modding and are savvy enough to have worked out what the problem was. I expect there are others out there who don't know why MP games on the Antietam maps won't work between certain players.

My main point is that there has to be other players out there who can't play MP on these maps because Matrix's file is older than NSDs. Telling them to update to Matrix's version isn't really the answer because there'll always be people with the original NSD game.

My suggestion is for Matrix to release a patch. It'd be a tiny one, just a few Kb and it would fix all the problems we get and no doubt others problems too.

That's right, yes.

The NSD Antietam add-on has the .lsl files dated 23.02.2013 at 02:58 hours. I think in the USA it will have a date of 22.02.2013 due to the UK time difference.

The Matrix Antietam add-on has .lsl files dated some time in 2011. I'm sorry I don't know the exact date.

These files are not updated in the 1.61 patch.

If there's going to be a patch issued I guess it doesn't matter if customers have the 2013 or the 2011 .lsl files though it would be wise to check and see if the newer one includes some kind of fix or improvement but they need to be the same.

Thanks again for looking into all this for us LP, its been a right pain in some of our MP sessions in recent months!

That's right.

When Matrix took over publication I did update (or was it register?) my game files via their website which I think was required at that time. This didn't affect the NSD lsl files I have - and which a lot of users in our MP group have.

I'm happy to answer any other questions you have to help you resolve this.

Saddletank and Little Powell - this might be the problem with why there are different versions of the same map, it would depend on how the game was updated by the user .

The first two-pages goes over how some of us installed the patch without going through the Matrix forums.

www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/technical-help-a-bug-post/56110-scourge-of-war-16-beta-patch

davinci

Hey LP, any update to this? Matrix can be a little slow sometimes.

cheers

Five months after this issue was made known to NSD and Matrix and no effort made to fix this. C'mon guys, Matrix needs to issue patches.

Six of us in our regular MP group discovered last night that this same problem affects Brandy Station as well. Not only are the NSD and Matrix .lsl files of Brandy Station different but the Brandy.dat file in the Base/Maps/Packages folder are different between the NSD and Matrix versions as well.

This means that due to Matrix's error or sloppiness customers who have the original NSD download cannot play MP on these maps with customers who bought the same product through Matrix.

It seems pretty clear what has happened. NSD sent Matrix an initial release of the add-ons for them to test and check. While Matrix had this evaluation copy NSD fixed and updated a few things so that the .lsl files for both Brandy and Antietam and the Brandy.dat file were updated. When Matrix published the add-ons however they didn't include the updated files and issued the add-ons on the basis of their (now out of date) test/evaluation copies.

Buyers of the products are losing out. MP groups like ours waste time and get very frustrated.

Please get Matrix to issue patches for ONLY the Matrix versions of Antietam and Brandy that are not needed by customers of the original NSD downloads.

Thank you very much Norb and team.

Thanks LP. Have you sent Matrix the updated files they need to issue?

Someone in the KS group had a different date. He downloaded through Matrix.