Few bug fixing and QoL improvements suggestions

[zolw78]

After spending some time playing the game now, I can say that it can be really rewarding taking different approach to several key concepts for this type of games, yet at the same time it can be very frustrating due to either bugs or weird features of the UI especially.
As I still have high hopes for the game and want it to improve, here are some suggestions:
1. When I got to the Middle East mission after Libya I had to choose the new main commander again, even though I have just created a separate army group AND appointed the commander for it in the last mission. Is it intentional? If so, some explanation as to why and when it occurs would go a long way. If not, please fix
2. All units in the beginning of Middle East battle can't be deployed and so I also loose the chance to repair them cheaper. Again intentional (if so why?) or a bug?
3. When deploying aircrafts during the 1st turn, they don't disappear from the list of units still to be placed on the map until you close and reopen the deployment window
4. When buying a new unit with special abilities (e.g engineer special actions,) those abilities are not visible before you finalise the purchase, but icons appear next to the unit once you bought it. Manual helps with it somewhat, but it should be an easy fix for those icons to be visible during the purchase phase. With tooltips explaining the abilities would be even better.
5. The most surprising for me though is the awkward way the game handles looking for what is actually your objective in current scenario. Even with fog of war, you should know where the cities are and which cities you need to occupy straight away. I suggest clearly visible outline for the key hexes, rather than hunting for them by looking through coordinates that seem to only be visible at the very beginning of each turn.
6. Fix for the sleep button. At the moment it does absolutely nothing for me, so I end up either missing some units each turn or waste ages scrolling several times through all of them to find one I might have missed
7. Already suggested elsewhere, better visual way of distinguishing between core and non-core units
8. Better explanation (even with manual I am still not 100% sure) what counts as close terrain and what does not when it comes to units' abilities and bonuses (like close combat specialist) For example is farmland open, is it closed terrain is it something else entirely?
That is all I can think of for now, might add some later.
Best of luck with improving and fixing some issues, the game is definitely worth it.

[blitz]

Thank you very much for the input. The issues you describe are serious and will take a day or two to fix, but I will get to them right after today's patch. I will try to fix the deploy issue in todays patch.
As for the objectives, you can see the golden star above the city even with fog of war (mentioning this only to help you in the meantime), but this has been mentioned before and we will need to adress this obviously.

[zolw78]

Thanks blitz.
Problem with gold stars next to objective is that I have encountered cases where they do not display correctly. France was particularly bad for it. The star would display after I got the city, but not while it was still in enemy's hands. I think I still have the screenshot. I am not sure if it is possible to attach it here.

[blitz]

Originally posted by zolw78:

Thanks blitz.
Problem with gold stars next to objective is that I have encountered cases where they do not display correctly. France was particularly bad for it. The star would display after I got the city, but not while it was still in enemy's hands. I think I still have the screenshot. I am not sure if it is possible to attach it here.

If you have the save for the france, please send it to support email.

[zolw78]

I still have the save. I am not sure what the email address is though.
Sorry if it is something obvious I am missing, but I checked the announcements part of this forum and can't seem to find the link where to send it.

[OzWally]

Siegfried Line wont end game on turn 37 just after French tank capture objective Gold Star town that I lost.

[Diarrhea Cactus]

Weird, I just beat this level with no problems...

[Warriordude]

I'll add the Trondheim victory objective city in northern part of Norway map you can't capture it the game locks up every time I try to move a unit into the city. I think someone else reported this bug.

[blitz]

Originally posted by OzWally:

Siegfried Line wont end game on turn 37 just after French tank capture objective Gold Star town that I lost.

I would love to get my hands on that save. Could you please send it to the support email?

[blitz]

Originally posted by Warriordude:

I'll add the Trondheim victory objective city in northern part of Norway map you can't capture it the game locks up every time I try to move a unit into the city. I think someone else reported this bug.

I haven't see this reported. Could you please send the save file to the support email?

[Warriordude]

Originally posted by blitz:

Originally posted by Warriordude:

I'll add the Trondheim victory objective city in northern part of Norway map you can't capture it the game locks up every time I try to move a unit into the city. I think someone else reported this bug.

I haven't see this reported. Could you please send the save file to the support email?

I have no idea how to send save files. I end turn 5 and an error comes up on top of screen and says "AI encountered and error and will shut down" I can move and attack but as soon as I destroy the Artillery on Trondheim city and try to capture it, game locks up. I'll try to start battle over to see if it locks up again, might be just a rare lockup IDK?

[blitz]

Save should be in In the documents folder, under PanzerBattles. On win10 it's C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\PanzerBattles\default\campaigns. I'll send a private message with the email. Please send the save and logs, I would like to resolve this to you and other players.

[blitz]

For me logs are in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Klotzen! Panzer Battles\logs, depends on the Steam install folder

[Warriordude]

I just restarted the battle and won a major Victory, was only on turn 5, weird bug I guess. If I encounter another bug like that I'll try to send a save file, thanks.

[blitz]

Originally posted by Warriordude:

I just restarted the battle and won a major Victory, was only on turn 5, weird bug I guess. If I encounter another bug like that I'll try to send a save file, thanks.

Ok, event the log files and a desription help a lot, please send them. I would really like to this, as I haven't encountered a bug like this before.

[Warriordude]

I did notice after i got the battle to work the British and French relieving force pretty much set in top left of map while I sunk all of their transports. This is an error i kept getting throughout the battle, not sure it will help or not?


06-05-2022 02:05:34.113 [LWJGL Application] DEBUG com.maxim.panzerbattles.game.screens.widgets.ag:120 - Show floating message The AI has encountered an error and has shut down