Downloading 7th edition Warhammer 40k disables ability to use Astra Militarum in 8th edition Warhammer 40k
I tried it both on the phone and on the PC, it disables it on both. And just to confirm that its not me being blind i tried loading a saved roster and it informed me that "You do not have the right data files to be able to edit this roster. Would you like to open it for viewing?"
Just to confirm it i deleted 7th ed and updated 8th and it worked perfectly.
Posted Dec 23, 2019, 8:46 PM UTC · edited
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In order to ease transition into 8th, we made a final commit and release on 7th, and then began updating the files to 8th in a new repo.
To make this update easier on ourselves, I believe we used the existing GUIDs for the most part.
In short, you cannot have 7th and 8th datasets on your device at the same time. It sucks, but it saved us a LOT of time when doing 8th.
Or I could be entirely wrong, because this was over 2 years ago now. But it is the most likely answer without being able to look at each dataset at the moment.
Yep, they both have the same GUID. I have no idea why that causes conflicts between two separate game systems, but apparently it does.
Edit: just did some digging - all of the GUIDs were regenerated just before the initial commit, but IG's was reverted, which is why it's the only catalogue with this issue.
Doesn't that mean this guy could just generate a new ID for the old one and he'd be gucci?
He would be, but it's still an issue. There was a similar thread recently where a new player erroneously downloaded the 7e data set before getting the 8e one, but then couldn't find the IG catalogue. Turns out this is what caused it, so it probably should be fixed at some point.