Hey just wanted to give another update on the fast depleting energy bug: Dr Q loses all his energy whenever he takes a bullet. He drops down to the ground like 3x a battle.

<!-- Dr. Q -->
	<BACKGROUND>
		<uiIndex>33</uiIndex>
		<szName>Chinese Doctor/Martial Arts Expert</szName>
		<szShortName>TCM/Martial Arts</szShortName>
		<szDescription>Dr. Q is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and martial arts. Not the fastest way to cure a patient, but it works.</szDescription>
		<agility>5</agility>
		<strength>5</strength>
		<dexterity>5</dexterity>
		<medical>5</medical>
		<wisdom>5</wisdom>
		<leadership>5</leadership>
		<speed_bandaging>-25</speed_bandaging>
		<resistance_fear>15</resistance_fear>
		<resistance_suppression>15</resistance_suppression>
		<resistance_alcohol>-20</resistance_alcohol>
		<meleedamage>10</meleedamage>
		<cth_blades>10</cth_blades>
		<stealth>10</stealth>
		<drink_energyregen>300</drink_energyregen>
		<food>-50</food>
		<water>-50</water>
		<no_male>1</no_male>
		<no_female>1</no_female>
	</BACKGROUND>

<!-- Dr. Q -->
	<BACKGROUND>
		<uiIndex>33</uiIndex>
		<szName>Chinese Doctor</szName>
		<szShortName>Chinese Doctor</szShortName>
		<szDescription>Dr. Q is trained in the arts of ancient Chinese medicine. 
Not the fastest way to cure a patient, but it works.</szDescription>
		<medical>8</medical>
		<speed_bandaging>-25</speed_bandaging>
		<resistance_alcohol>-20</resistance_alcohol>
		<meleedamage>6</meleedamage>
		<no_male>1</no_male>
		<no_female>1</no_female>
	</BACKGROUND>

// Flugente: backgrounds
iBPCost = (INT32) (iBPCost * (100 + pSoldier->GetBackgroundValue(BG_PERC_REGEN_ENERGY)) / 100);

So every time merc loses BP, lost value is increased by BG_PERC_REGEN_ENERGY percent, in this case effectively multiplying BP loss by 4.

But it also increases every energy loss -- THAT I didn't know when I did that.

There should be probably a check added for BP > 0 in the code, or another quick solution is to remove this tag from backgrounds.xml

godspeed.7 wrote on Wed, 04 January 2017 15:54

3.
While I'm at it, I was wondering if the OCTH in this mod may not be affected by the NCTH in a way?
I'm getting a lot of point-blank misses with the CTH bar Full, like my merc ADJACENT to knocked-out soldier; I miss my aimed shot.. or ..Soldier appears from corner next to me, takes a full burst at me and doesn't hit me once. The CTH seems to act a lot more like the NCTH since 7609 or newer unstable versions. Firefights take MUCH MUCH longer than I'm used to with the OCTH. The are like the NCTH, require lot's of spray & pray.

If you disable INACCURATE_CTH_READOUT option, you will see exact CTH values instead of what your merc is guessing.
I always play with this option disabled, and if CTH bar is full, it means 99% hit.
CTH balance is slightly different than in stock 1.13, but in general it's the same OCTH, the code is not changed.
Once you get better rifles, scopes and lasers, it will be much easier to hit enemy (and the same for enemy shooting at you as the game will progress).

godspeed.7 wrote on Wed, 04 January 2017 21:54

I am using your full download link that includes stable 7609; on top of a fresh JA2 install. Using win8 fix as usual. I have not changed anything in any .ini apart from change MERC website availability to False.

1.
I have Barry as my tech and to open locks. Atm, I don't have a lockpick yet, so I use crowbars and feet
Crowbars seem to be practically useless. Kicking opens everything within 2-3 kicks (Barry has 80 Strength), but with the crowbar, I can completely deplete his stamina 3 times before the same locks open. I have only been able to see this in Omerta sectors and Drassen so far (because that's as far as I got... slow player, I like to check every little detail ).

2.
Also, the Drassen Airport sector; when "attacking" from the Northern sector, I feel it is unfair that I get to 'spawn' within the Airports fences. (A little bit like Alma in basic Vanilla or 1.13, you cannot spawn within the protected fenced area unless you manually change maps from within the fenced area in Tactical). Not a bug really, more a suggestion.


But where are my manners? I am really enjoying this new experience. It is extremely "atmospheric".. the music, sounds, etc.. really have my attention! Thank you for the awesome work!

Thanks for the info and the compliments, and good to hear you are using all of the suggested settings for now.

1) I'm not sure what the go is with the crowbars but we did have some data corruption on some items in the past, though I doubt vanilla items like this would have been affected.

2) Drassen airport does have a north entry point to the NW away from the fences, but I have moved it even more NW and added an isolated point just in case. Will have to test if that fixes things in the next update or grab it from here in the meantime...

My IMP lose stamina much faster than normal, maybe this is related to his background? (extreme athlete)

Edit: sorry i had to read the thread before ask,
Yes, it seems related to drink_energyregen in the extreme athlete background
now i have to remove that line and start over, or just use another background
thanks god wasn't very far in the game.

No, you don't have to start again. It will work fine after you change the value.

Just noticed binoculars don't work, unless you have the scout skill, but even so the extra vision is very limited and without tunnel vision.

ratpaz wrote on Tue, 10 January 2017 22:31

Just noticed binoculars don't work, unless you have the scout skill, but even so the extra vision is very limited and without tunnel vision.

Binocs work well, but you need to activate them - similar to how you raise weapon.

I find Skyrider but as soon as I get him to Drassen airport he doesn't "act" like he used to and the dialog where he used to declare that he now will fly my mercs doesn't kick in. I can see him in the tactical section where I can "unescort" him, and I can also place him in the heli but he won't fly it. Am I doing something wrong?

It seems like there's no item progression in Bobby's gun sortiment. Same guns as the first day and I'm now in day 44 atleast.

It seems like there's no item progression in Bobby's gun sortiment. Same guns as the first day and I'm now in day 44 atleast.

Hey, Sparky's voice has a very high pitched whine in the background. Love the voices otherwise!

I have the same issue. Game progression is 19/19.

massiive wrote on Wed, 11 January 2017 01:36

I find Skyrider but as soon as I get him to Drassen airport he doesn't "act" like he used to and the dialog where he used to declare that he now will fly my mercs doesn't kick in. I can see him in the tactical section where I can "unescort" him, and I can also place him in the heli but he won't fly it. Am I doing something wrong?

The same bug happens for me - escorted Skyrider to helicopter in Drassen but he doesn't do anything, just stops.
I can unsecort him or put into helicopter but he refuses to fly.

Seems with the "yellow" Skyrider the Trigger #43 "Skyrider is close to his chopper in Drassen" can not be activated and Skyrider is not recruitable and working as pilot.
Any idea what the yellow name lettering means?

Tinkering with bobby ray settings and/or progress, I so far have seen basically nothing but pistols and rifles on BR. BR settings or progress make "better" pistols and rifles available (and more types of ammo, various scopes, other attachments and all that), but the rest of weapon categories never do (with the exception of exactly 1 assault rifle that seems to apeear at some point). I've never seen any machine pistols, smgs and so on. So far, the same seems to hold for Tony.

That said, my testing of that has so far been very limited as I've spent most of the time on a die hard save so far, so don't take my "findings" as anywhere near definitive i might just be an idiot

How many cities do you control?

What is your current game progress? (press [v] in tactical screen)
How many towns you have captured?

Worrying. In older VR versions Skyrider works. In older VR versions where Skyrider is working his name lettering is white (as all other mercenaries), but in current VR install Skyrider's name lettering is yellow.

Does it matter at all? Is progress really different than pushing starting BR settings up? I just gave it a try, starting with BR on 10/10 produces the same thing. All pistols available, all rifles, all shotguns all attachments, all armors, all kinds of ammo.... 0 machine pistols, 0 smgs, 0-1 assault rifles, 0 sniper rifles.

Then someone probably was too tired when committing r1362 at night on 27.12.2016
This means you only can buy pistols, revolvers, hunting and sport rifles and some old WWII rifles from BR, so no automatic weapons or heavy weapons or sniper rifles from internet.
You should be able to buy good weapons from Tony and mortars/grenade launchers from TNT.

Scheinworld wrote on Wed, 11 January 2017 17:46

Worrying. In older VR versions Skyrider works. In older VR versions where Skyrider is working his name lettering is white (as all other mercenaries), but in current VR install Skyrider's name lettering is yellow.

Changing merc type back to 4 for Skyrider in MercProfiles.xml fixes the problem.
It was changed to wrong value in r1144.

Cursory look through Items.xml would suggest that everything works as it should, now whether the intention was that all those things to have no BR quantity set is another question

Changing merc type back to 4 for Skyrider in MercProfiles.xml fixes the problem.
It was changed to wrong value in r1144.



Yep. The mistake was made in the MercProfiles.xml. That was the reason for the wrong Miguel sector coordinates too.

Thank you Seven. I will check and correct this. Need to check the other PCM characters too I think.

Wait. "4" is NPC, "3" is RPC. Am I missing something here, or will this change from 3 to 4 mean Skyrider is no longer recruitable?