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Due to the unnofficial release of hardwar beta patch 3.00b I have decided to mirror the five versions
You can switch between the U3 beta's & 2.04 pretty
quickly,
just remember to check your graphics & controller options before you play.
The way i do it is to have a shortcut to each of the patches on my desktop
close hardwar
run the patch (password for all 5 of the beta3's is psychobobs2)
start hardwar
check graphics & control options
then launch the game to join the appropriate server.
-- all five of the beta's are available from my downloads page --
-- originals copied from downloads made available by Solidox (thanks) --
These are beta patches and each version has it's own bugs as new things where fixed & new idea's where added with each version.. see the very detailed notes Timski's posted at Zedo's forum below..
Typical bugs you'll come across..
graphics card issues (see through hangers & moths, you may have to play
in software mode). Joystick throttle not working, you have to switch off the
throttle and use keyboard or reassign joystick buttons for thrust. crashes using
the new TI (terminal interface).. especially in beta1 anything I typed in the
TI crashed the game, Cycling through buildings in the navigation. Bring up navigation
when not in your hanger. In later beta's the crashes where mostly fixed but
in their efforts to make the economy more interesting things got out of hand
prices go up and up & things don't get manufactured, even downtown moths
refuses to list their moths for sale.
You might ask yourself why bother playing the U3 patch version, but the things
that do work are very very good. Online games with the ability to password protect
your log-in name so nobody logs in as you in your absence. The ability in a
limited way to run your own faction, hire AI pilots to do things for you or
with you. e.g order your hired thug to kill a pirate and go give him a hand.
Order them to fly your moth full of cargo to sell, while you pick off any pirates
that attack him. Even get your thugs to play taxi driver fly you to a moth dealer
so you can buy more moths. Have the game give you an alien moth to fly in or
any other moths you want. Solidox is trying to see if he can edit the last beta's
to fix the economy problems.. And has announced he will update hardhanger for
use with U3. Timski & others are working on a TI script fix for the economy.
Medicated is trying from the top down driving the economy by forcing faction
battles where as Timski is going from bottom up adjusting prices and demand.
Hardwar beta5 seems to be turning into a management/god game where you play
babysitter.
If your a new player to hardwar I suggest you stick to the version 2.04 patch until you've had time to learn to play without dealing with bugs. Then when your confident you know how hardwar works try each of the U3 patches to see what the team at SR was trying so hard to get finished.
Approx 1.7mb each
- Note you won't be able to play your older saved games & i think
each beta version will also require you start from scratch.
U300b1 download
U300b2 download
U300b3 download
U300b4 download
U300b5 download
password required during install psychobobs2
For full details on how to use the new features read the excellent guides that Captain Zedo has just added and updated on his site. www.zedo.hardwar.org.uk
-- Timski's
hardwar site http://www.capsu.org/hardwar/ --
A very detail Hardwar F.A.Q. compiled from forum answers over the years,
updated with everything we currently know about the Version 3 beta patches.
Including scripts to try to fix the economy issues in beta 5
Also full printable A4 maps of all the hardwar craters (as of 2.04 version)