The Bug Report Thread

[Talax79]

Originally Posted by twitchy

Hi,
Thank you for a great game.
Im playing with Färjestad BK in the Swedish hockey leauge (SHL) and after the first season i can't make offers on players, every time i do the game crashes. Who ever i try make an offer on this happens. I tried two saves with this team but the crashes remains and its after the first season. On one save I've played 5 seasons but still the same problem.
i play on a PC with the latest patch and updates

I´m having the same problem. Playing with Karlskrona HK, Sweden.

[Stark]

Hi. I've been playing Mestis with Sapko for a season without any major problems until now. The date in the game is now TUE. JUL. 1 2014. I have the newest patch (Version 1.5 Build 20) and I'm playing with OSX Version 10.9.1. When I try to "Finish Today" the game crashes immediately.

I have FTPd a Stark_s.zip to ootpsupport containing the .dat-files from the crashing saved game. I really would like to continue that save so let me know if there is some way to avoid the crash.

[kulemin41]

I have recently encountered my first big snag playing the game. After saving and exiting the game, I reopened it to continue my sim. Whilst loading, it hit 100% before coming up with a runtime error, which closed the program.

Undeterred, I tried again. This time the save opened, but all the parts which were usually grey were now black. And it lasted about 5 minutes before the game crashed.

Windows Visual C++ Runtime Library

Program: C:\Program Files...

This application has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I have tried other game saves, and they seem to be working fine so I know it is not an application error. Anything I can do to save/repair this save? I don't want to lose it considering it is 2038. Zipped and sending a file.

Thanks.

[fhmplayer94]

I have encountered a bug occurring on the date June 17, 1995. I am playing as the NHL's Hartford Whalers in a game started in 1992. I am unable to sim past this date, as the program shuts itself off no matter what I try.

[Winnipeg59]

Newest patch - 1.6.2 - Thank you btw!!

Click on Owner Confidence and an Error! window seems to be beneath the confidence window (as it cannot be cleared).
And actually it shows in many other windows too, just happened to click Owner Confidence first I guess.

[Winnipeg59]

Started new game in new patch and assigned Scouting to my "Assistant".
When I go to team Scouting window it shows all scouts unassigned (expected as nothing has actually happened yet).
I sim one day only.
Scouts remain unassigned after sim.
** I was expecting them to be assigned to something by the AI after simulating one day of activity?

There is an "AI Assign Scouts" button on the lower right-hand side of the Scouting window and clicking that does assign all of the scouts, but nothing automatically done when option is given to Assistant it would appear at this point.

Also (minor related detail), after assigning scouts with the button the very first scout on my team is assigned somewhere for "9 weeks". After simming a full week that duration remains the same. And after simming yet another week the duration remains the same.
** I might have expected the duration to countdown by either days or weeks to give an indication of scouting progress (but not a huge deal).

EDIT: I should add that during the preseason, several weeks later, scouting reports do show up as messages for me and it would appear that after a period of time the scouting assignments do change, so that is certainly a big positive! Thanks.

[Winnipeg59]

After going back and re-reading the PATCH NOTES I see that this was to be expected as it was not one of the things tackled in this patch, but will be in future. I apologize for this post now but will leave it up and certainly check this again when the next patch that does tackle this comes out. And will certainly give full credit when this post is no longer relevant! Looking forward to it.

Not nit-picking, just trying to help.
I would consider the scouting and tactics being handled by the assistant to be rather big picture, helpful to newcomers to the game (and indeed hockey), items that need not be micro-managed by the player initially. Hence, checking them first.

Tactics are assigned in manager options to my Assistant.
Go to tactics window for my team and to test change the tactics on my FIRST LINE - TIED from what would appear to be the defaults to the "first" item on the pull-down options:
Mentality - v.Def
Forechecking - v.Pas
Shoot/Pass - Shoot++
Aggressiveness - v.Rel
** None of those, by the way, would be what I would select myself or would expect to be selected by my assistant as tactics in that situation.

I sim a day and nothing changes.
I sim the rest of the week and nothing changes. Those same selections remain for my #1 line in that situation.
** I would have expected the assistant to alter the tactics assigned to him (probably back to default at the very least - or something to better match the rest of the situations for that line).

Hope this helps?
Thanks again for this huge new patch. Can't wait to explore it further!

[Winnipeg59]

I might be missing something but as I continue to sim
- "New game" created with March 5th rosters in new patch btw
...I am now at September 24th, well into the preseason, and do not see any games noted across the top of the screen on the dates as they roll by, nor do I see any indication of preseason games or scores (unless I am not looking in the right place).
- The Standings, as an example, are still sitting at October 1st, with a bunch of zeroes, waiting for the regular season to begin. I thought we had preseason games, scores and even standings in an earlier version but may be mistaken??

By the way, the tactics assignments for my first line, as noted earlier, remain the same through this point in the preseason.

[Winnipeg59]

I will note the same apology for this post too, at the moment. Hope this is another huge fix in the next patch as I truly believe it will be a major help to both newcomers to the game (FHM and hockey itself) and also a nice bonus for any player wishing to assume just a GM-type role in his game. Can't wait for the next patch (is it too soon for that?)!!

Last one in this batch of posts, promise.

I had originally set the lineups to be handled by my Assistant (again a big picture, ease of entry in the game, intention on my part).

I am playing as Winnipeg Jets by the way.
I am at the first regular season game after simming through preseason.

I purposely changed G Al Montoya to LW and changed Evander Kane to b/up Goaltender and have both G Pavelec and new G Kane dressed and in the lineup.
Nothing appeared to happen prior to preseason when I simmed a few days, so I then clicked the ACTION button in the lower right of the lineup window and that seemed to adjust the lines and put Montoya on the wing and Kane at b/up G.
I then exchanged the first and fourth lines on my team manually (and also moved Al to the C position) and also swapped the first and third defense pairings for the first regular season game at even strength.

Simmed one day. Predictably we lost to the Oilers 10-3. Yikes!

I moved away from the lineups window and then back again but nothing appeared to have changed, Al is still my first line Centre.
Al shows 1gp and a -1 in his profile window for the season.
In Al's season stats window he has no stats (I would expect 1gp at least).
In his career stats he does show the 1gp and -1.
And in the expanded stats window he shows 18mins TOI, so was clearly playing forward one can assume.

It would appear that, despite Pavelec being noted in the lineup as G1, Evander Kane started in goal for us! That would answer some questions...
1gp - 1loss - 60mins - 10ga - 26save - 36shots - .722%save

One would think the backup (or in this case the starter) might have been sent in?? Pavs is OK healthwise and apparently OK with his role (the least of my worries).

I'll keep playing and see if anything else comes up...

[kelt]

New Patch. Historical mode.

Second entry draft looks like this (look at the number of players available):


Same draft, everyone drafted. Francis Bouillon went at #1.


This one-hundred-year-old problem still exists:


I believe it happend after I offer a contract to FA (720.000/y), other team offered him better contract, then I countered with even better one.

Also, I see no way to sign a rookie, who asks for more than entry-level-contract maximum. I.e. my 1993 draft pick Nabokov asked me in 1994 for a contract worth of around 1.300.000 per year. It was not possible to offer him more than 925.000 per year. No way to sign him?

P.S. I thought you guys have some testers there... Still, every next patch is a complete disaster (at least in historical mode).

[kelt]

Message 1 (7-2-2 is a very bad record):


Message 2 (4-5-3 is slightly better):


Maybe my boss wants me to loose? Will he be happy with me if I go 1-1-9?

[kelt]

Again historical mode. One of my goalies was injuried. Everytime I tried to sim forward I got message
"Not enough players to set lineup" (or something similiar). I was forced to move another goalie to my active roster manually, despite "Roster moves" setting being set to "Assistant". Never saw that problem before.

After I did move replacement goalie to active roster, my main control buttons (Left buttons "<", ">", "home","search" and right buttons "Game", "J.Average", "League menu NHL", "Team menu Team name" and "Play") stopped responding. Nothing happens when clicking them or hovering on them. Second time I got this problem today. Resolved by restarting the game (thanks God for autosave).

Also clicking "contract" of Ray Whitney's profile while in 1994 crashed the game once.

[Nefaro]

v1.6.2

I pressed a couple keys while checking out a player, in the hopes that I could find a "Go Back" hotkey, and the game CTD'd.

It happened when I hit the spacebar.

[umwoz]

In the latest version my training icons never change from red for any players, I'm in November of my first season.

[Alessandro]

Originally Posted by Winnipeg59

...I am now at September 24th, well into the preseason, and do not see any games noted across the top of the screen on the dates as they roll by, nor do I see any indication of preseason games or scores (unless I am not looking in the right place).

There are no preseason games, actually

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by umwoz

In the latest version my training icons never change from red for any players, I'm in November of my first season.

If it's a team with a lot of veterans, most of them may be at the point where they can't improve any further. Are there any players on the roster overview screen who have a potential higher than their ability?

[Shanamaj]

After I deleted the last remaining saved game I pressed "OK" button and the game crashed.

Naturally I should have pressed cancel to get back to main menu, but still a minor bug.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Nefaro

v1.6.2

I pressed a couple keys while checking out a player, in the hopes that I could find a "Go Back" hotkey, and the game CTD'd.

It happened when I hit the spacebar.

Spacebar normally does go back, then forward once it's gone as far back as possible, then to the home screen if it's gone as far forward as possible. We had a couple of reports of it causing crashes in testing, but no one could ever get it to repeat in the same circumstances. If you find a way to get that crash to happen in the same place repeatedly, please let me know, we'd definitely like to check that.

[thepete]

I play a game, a guy gets injured, I have to fill his roster spot and spot in the line-up immediately...yet I haven't got a game in days.

Edit: I mean seriously none of your testers found this annoying one bit? Seriously?

[umwoz]

Originally Posted by JeffR

If it's a team with a lot of veterans, most of them may be at the point where they can't improve any further. Are there any players on the roster overview screen who have a potential higher than their ability?

Oddly enough it was the current oilers