Thank you for playing BATTLETECH! We appreciate your patience and support as our team works to quickly investigate and address reported issues with the game. Release 1.0.2 is now available for users on the “public_beta” Beta branch on Steam and GOG. If you are experiencing any of the issues listed in the Release Notes below, we recommend opting in to the public_beta branch at this time. If you are experiencing any issues running the game that aren't listed below, or if updating to public_beta does not address your issue, please contact Paradox Support here: https://support.paradoxplaza.com
Release 1.0.2 Notes, 5/3/2018
How to switch to the public_beta branch (Steam):
IMPORTANT: If you switch to the public_beta branch, please note that when playing Multiplayer Skirmish, you will only be able to play against other players on the public_beta branch. The Lobby browser does not currently denote which players are on the public_beta branch and which are not (but will in future releases.) If you switch to the public_beta branch and then want to create a multiplayer lobby, please add [BETA] to the front of your Lobby name.
If you experience any issues after updating, the first step we recommend is to restart your computer, and then verify integrity of game files. Occasionally, the Steam update process can act weird - this will ensure that the update has been properly applied. After this, if your experience is worse than it was on the live version, please report that to customer service and go back to the live branch (v1.0.1).
Release 1.0.2 Notes, 5/3/2018
- Fixes to video player codec behavior to resolve .dll access violations that were causing consistent video player crashes for a small set of users.
- Memory management improvements.
- Fixing issues with the Valhalla Shadow Hawk variant failing to load in missions when selected.
How to switch to the public_beta branch (Steam):
- In the left column games list of your Steam library, right-click BATTLETECH.
- Select Properties
- Click on the tab labelled BETAS
- In the dropdown menu, select public_beta (Note: if you do not see this available, you may need to restart Steam and/or wait a few minutes.)
- Click the CLOSE button
- BATTLETECH should start updating automatically
- When the update has completed, right-click BATTLETECH again, select Properties, and open the LOCAL FILES tab.
- Click the VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES button.
- When this completes, restart Steam and then launch the game.
- Within the GOG Galaxy App, Navigate to your library.
- When you hover over the BattleTech library entry, find the small menu expansion arrow in the bottom right corner of the BattleTech App - select “Settings”
- Click Beta Channels on the right side of the header and select “On”
- Click the Channel dropdown and select “public_beta”
IMPORTANT: If you switch to the public_beta branch, please note that when playing Multiplayer Skirmish, you will only be able to play against other players on the public_beta branch. The Lobby browser does not currently denote which players are on the public_beta branch and which are not (but will in future releases.) If you switch to the public_beta branch and then want to create a multiplayer lobby, please add [BETA] to the front of your Lobby name.
If you experience any issues after updating, the first step we recommend is to restart your computer, and then verify integrity of game files. Occasionally, the Steam update process can act weird - this will ensure that the update has been properly applied. After this, if your experience is worse than it was on the live version, please report that to customer service and go back to the live branch (v1.0.1).