Holman Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Another quick question: what's the rule of thumb on using older scenarios with the latest version of the game? If I'm running 4.0+, will weird things happen if I play scenarios created under earlier versions of the game? How far back can I go? Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted October 29, 2016 Members Share Posted October 29, 2016 In principle it works. With scenarios made in version 2.6 and older there is however one snag: Mech infantry would automatically dismount in those versions (and auto-remount), something that we had to break with version 3.0 So, in those cases it may be required to do some repair work. In Steel Beasts 1 scenarios vehicles could pass through any water tile adjacent to a land tile - IOW, rivers of up to 25m width could simply be driven through. That was no longer possible with any version 2.x, so some movement routes would have needed to get adapted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotareneg Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 (edited) Scenario scoring doesn't convert from Steel Beasts 1 to Steel Beasts Pro PE either. Edited October 29, 2016 by Rotareneg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted October 30, 2016 Members Share Posted October 30, 2016 Hm. Can you provide an example? I know of no inherent reason why it shouldn't, so it's probably a bug. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotareneg Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 It happens with any original SB scenario I've seen. The scoring in the old SB works significantly differently, with the option to subtract points from the total score instead of the current system which is purely additive. Here's a screenshot of the scoring from the old "Rock, Paper, Scissors" scenario: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted October 30, 2016 Members Share Posted October 30, 2016 Probably only goes to show how much I have forgotten over the years. Yeah, that part had to be changed for compatibility with the classroom version. I don't remember the exact reasons why we made the decision to break backwars compatibility. It may have been at a time, maybe 2004, when we didn't even think of the Personal Edition and how that might somehow become the successor to legacy scenarios. We committed to a maximum of backwards compatibility only with the Professional Version, acknowledging that the real investment for our customers wasn't the software license, but developing the library of training content. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadVuk Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I had some 2.x scenarios reporting some error with 4.x ( details reported in support section). But in general they do work "out of the box" more or less successfully 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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