The Bears Pit: Vengeance 1.13 Reloaded » VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips

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No-Nothing wrote on Sat, 24 February 2018 12:51

Are there good GUI tools for safe editing merks starting gear and merks themselves in this mod? Or at least a nice viewer to grab all data needed for xml-editing?

XML Editor in a separate folder, then manually copy changed xml files into your VR installation.

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Do you have somewhere a list with all secret items made by merging special components? It were helpful for players to know what this mod has to play with if you would open a topic sharing such a list! Updated with releases may be.

There is no such list, but you can see all merges and combo merges in XML Editor.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #352556 is a reply to message #352533]

Sun, 25 February 2018 01:45

Scheinworld

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Hi No-Nothing,

No-Nothing wrote on Sat, 24 February 2018 08:51

Hello!
Are there good GUI tools for safe editing merks starting gear and merks themselves in this mod?

You can use Dansken's MercStartingGear editor for that:

Please check MercStartingGear_v1.6.accde.txt file in your VR main directory for proper instructions.

Best regards; Schein...

[Updated on: Sun, 25 February 2018 01:47]

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Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #352580 is a reply to message #348249]

Wed, 28 February 2018 19:59

Vercingetorix

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Registered:February 2018

Hi,
is it possible to play the mod with NCTH?

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #352581 is a reply to message #352580]

Wed, 28 February 2018 20:27

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Vercingetorix wrote on Wed, 28 February 2018 22:59

Hi,
is it possible to play the mod with NCTH?

No.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #352680 is a reply to message #352581]

Tue, 13 March 2018 03:41

madbunny

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Registered:February 2015

I'm not certain it's CTH related, but it is it possible to edit a .ini file to change the aiming cursor to the style where the tighter the white circle gets = higher the hit chance?

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #352696 is a reply to message #352680]

Fri, 16 March 2018 13:55

No-Nothing

Messages:42
Registered:March 2013

Hello!
Can someone explain what means "no support for NCTH"? Does that mean ignoring all settings under "Stance Modifiers" section in pic bellow:
http://my-files.ru/1yw142
Another question I care even more about. May I not also set aim levels for every weapon? Or is setting the number of aim levels part of NCTH too?

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #352697 is a reply to message #352696]

Fri, 16 March 2018 14:11

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No-Nothing wrote on Fri, 16 March 2018 16:55

Can someone explain what means "no support for NCTH"?

It means that you can only play with OCTH.

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Does that mean ignoring all settings under "Stance Modifiers" section in pic bellow:

Yes and all other NCTH related tags.

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Another question I care even more about. May I not also set aim levels for every weapon? Or is setting the number of aim levels part of NCTH too?

In OCTH, aim levels number is calculated from weapon type, used scope and shooter's skills. You cannot control it directly using tags.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353025 is a reply to message #352697]

Tue, 10 April 2018 03:18

Cerhio

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Registered:March 2013

Does the destruction of buildings affect the mining income or use of certain functions? I'm just wondering if accidentally blowing up a hole in the wall of one of the buildings at the Dam facility will affect my mining income. I assume that is true of the oil rigs when they are detonated?

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353044 is a reply to message #353025]

Wed, 11 April 2018 01:09

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Location: Australia

Unlikely Cerhio, unless either miners or civilians are injured or killed in that sector, even more so if a head miner is killed which is possible on some of the oil rig maps. The Dam is unrelated to the mines, but again could affect town loyalty if a civ gets caught in the explosion.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353299 is a reply to message #348249]

Mon, 23 April 2018 17:22

faustwotans

Messages:1
Registered:April 2018

Hi Guys,

i Played 1.13 bevore but now i can not istall VR working. i tryd a lot but cant find the prblem. maybe you can Help.

at first i intalled a whole new Game from Steam (JA2 Gold)(Maybe it is importat that im German?)
then i downloaded the "Vengeance_Reloaded_Second_Beta_26.04.2017_v7609_English_Full" and unzipped it to the Folder.

if i start the Game by the "ini Editor" nothing happens. only a kind of new task in the bar for a few seconds but it closes by it self. nothing else happens. No error, no dialog.

i have no idea

(PS the intro is false, i also tryed after removig the intro file)

i run a 64Bit win 10
if i try windowed mode i get an 16 an 32 Bit error, but in full screen nothing happens

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353318 is a reply to message #353299]

Tue, 24 April 2018 01:30

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Registered:October 2005
Location: Australia

There is no intro in Vengeance, so something is not right. Ensure you are playing with the Vengeance's own exe.

I'm not sure if a German install would affect things either even though Vengeance: Reloaded started as an English translation of the original (German) Vengeance mod. Someone else should be able to clarify this.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353394 is a reply to message #353318]

Tue, 08 May 2018 19:02

Infinet

Messages:25
Registered:January 2017
Location: Germany

Hey,
is the fortification feature ingame?
I tried to use the shovel in building mode to get some sandbags but sometimes, in the bottem left corner, the game says that XY had to stop removing a fortification.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353395 is a reply to message #353394]

Wed, 09 May 2018 01:04

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Location: Australia

Sandbags do work, just not the advanced fortifications (using junk and rubble) I had that same warning come up too, and posted it on Flugentes fortifications thread here but didn't get a response.

http://thepit.ja-galaxy-forum.com/index.php?t=msg&th=19975&goto=351320&#msg_351320

It's more of an annoyance than game breaker, I just found I had to click again or reposition my merc or that warning text appears but he still builds anyway.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353621 is a reply to message #348249]

Tue, 29 May 2018 07:35

Cerhio

Messages:103
Registered:March 2013

Hello! Long time no bugs ;)

Found this NADA item. Figured I'd start letting you know about them because they're one of the few bugs I'm still seeing! Any idea what item this was supposed to be?

index.php?t=getfile&id=226&private=0

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Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #353640 is a reply to message #353621]

Wed, 30 May 2018 01:19

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Registered:October 2005
Location: Australia

Hey Cerhio, whereabouts in G1 did you find that?

NADA items in Vengeance tend to be leftovers from the original mod where the item has changed ID's or is no longer in use.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354076 is a reply to message #353640]

Wed, 18 July 2018 13:38

luk3Z

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Registered:December 2006
Location: Poland

This is what I noticed compared to old 1.13 when I played lately.
'Del' hotkey seems doesn't work anymore - it isn't showing up enemy's line sight. Is this changed in VR or in new version of 1.13 ?
How can I change this (maybe mod_settings.ini - which line) ?
Thanks in advance.

Edit:
I mean 'Del'.

[Updated on: Wed, 18 July 2018 13:46]

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354077 is a reply to message #354076]

Wed, 18 July 2018 13:46

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luk3Z wrote on Wed, 18 July 2018 15:38

This is what I noticed compared to old 1.13 when I played lately.
'End' hotkey seems doesn't work anymore - it isn't showing up enemy's line sight.

It works just fine.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354078 is a reply to message #348249]

Wed, 18 July 2018 13:55

luk3Z

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Registered:December 2006
Location: Poland

I mean 'Del'.

I run JA2.exe accidently and now when I try to start Ja2_Vengeance I have Fatal Error:

File     :  sgp.cpp
Line     :  761
Location :  InitializeStandardGamingPlatform
  Initializing Virtual File System failed

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354079 is a reply to message #354078]

Wed, 18 July 2018 13:58

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luk3Z wrote on Wed, 18 July 2018 15:55

I mean 'Del'.

It works well, too.

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I run JA2.exe accidently

You need to reinstall VR on a clean Ja2, as vanilla ja2.exe seems to break 1.13 installation somehow.
It is recommended to delete original ja2.exe after you install 1.13 or VR.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354091 is a reply to message #354079]

Thu, 19 July 2018 17:44

luk3Z

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Registered:December 2006
Location: Poland

Ok done (reinstalled).
When I click 'Del' button I got this message in game log:

SHOWING DANGER ZONES FOR MERCENARY
DISABLING COVER DISPLAY

... and I can't even see this zone :/
Holding longer 'Del' button doesn't help. I don't know what's going on at this point.

[Updated on: Thu, 19 July 2018 17:47]

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354092 is a reply to message #354091]

Thu, 19 July 2018 21:05

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@luk3Z do you have Highl3.sti file in Data\tilesets\0 which has frames with overlay sprites?
index.php?t=getfile&id=237&private=0

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Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354095 is a reply to message #354092]

Thu, 19 July 2018 21:40

luk3Z

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No. Dunno why.

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Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354096 is a reply to message #354095]

Thu, 19 July 2018 21:48

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luk3Z wrote on Thu, 19 July 2018 23:40

No. Dunno why.

That means your installation is broken somehow, because this file exists in VR SCI on my google drive and contains all needed overlay sprites.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354098 is a reply to message #354096]

Thu, 19 July 2018 22:54

luk3Z

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Location: Poland

It's archive from kermi:

Vengeance_Reloaded_Beta_02.07.2018_v7609_English_Full.7z

from http://kermi.pp.fi/JA_2/Mods_v1.13/Vengeance_Reloaded/

SHA-1: a33c6374c33e214f511cd5f32d1871dfbe9d2259

I have Highl3.sti file in Data\tilesets\0 but it hasn't frames with overlay sprites like in your attachment.
I just unpack VR on clean JA2 Gold (Jagged Alliance 2 - version 1.12) from GOG and it's not working for me...

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354099 is a reply to message #354098]

Thu, 19 July 2018 22:58

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Are you sure you enabled "All pages in one" option from menu?

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354100 is a reply to message #354099]

Thu, 19 July 2018 23:07

luk3Z

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Registered:December 2006
Location: Poland

OMG - it turned out that it is not working when your merc don't see an enemy.
I saw enemy because militia see them. I spotted enemy with my merc and it's working now.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354642 is a reply to message #348249]

Sat, 01 September 2018 21:55

SomethingOfAInterest

Messages:3
Registered:September 2018

Is it possible to get off Palaccio island? I mean back to the Arulco mainland.

[Updated on: Sun, 02 September 2018 01:05]

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354646 is a reply to message #354642]

Sun, 02 September 2018 06:31

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SomethingOfAInterest wrote on Sun, 02 September 2018 04:55

Is it possible to get off Palaccio island? I mean back to the Arulco mainland.

Toggle Spoiler

I went off to Tracona and finished the game but I realized I want to rewind a little bit and play some more with the current mercs, etc.

Didn't the game end and play the winning quotes afterward? It's been a long time since the final maps and pathways were discussed and completed. I've had to go through a number of old discussion threads to clarify if travel to the last locations were two-way. Originally they were only one-way at least once you are off the island. You could try and back-track your steps with the teleports you used.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354649 is a reply to message #354646]

Sun, 02 September 2018 10:00

SomethingOfAInterest

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Hawkeye wrote on Sun, 02 September 2018 06:31

Didn't the game end and play the winning quotes afterward?

Indeed they did, but at that point I realized I wanted to explore the map a bit further and complete a few more quests. So I resumed back a few minutes in time, in order to save officially winning for later happy

And thanks - your solution worked!

[Updated on: Sun, 02 September 2018 10:03]

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354689 is a reply to message #348249]

Tue, 04 September 2018 23:38

SomethingOfAInterest

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Registered:September 2018

A problem I have:

Two of my mercs got food poisoning at some point, and it got way out of hand. Now their health bars are nearly completely green at all times, and their condition will worsen (terminally) if left untreated. I've managed to keep them stable by employing a small team of doctors who tend to these two patients 24/7 in-between sorties. The doctor activity eats up medkits at a fairly rapid clip, and sometimes I'll have one of them inexplicably use up some silly amount like 10 medkits in a few hours or so.

A weird phenomenon that happens is that one of the mercs will occasionally go into a coma, drop down to around -100 health, and have a really weird health bar for a while - although this state eventually resets.

With other mercs who got slight cases of food poisoning, they were able to go into full remission using an antidote or having a doctor look at them for a day or two.

Should I just accept the situation, or is there a way to cure severe cases of food poisoning like this? My theory is that if I'm really patient and have them sit in base for a looong time, they will eventually be fully healed. The reason being that the condition does seem to get slightly better over time if treatment goes on without interruption - although it's a very slow process. So far, I haven't had the patience to try that.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354944 is a reply to message #354689]

Tue, 18 September 2018 01:05

OrkyRulez

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Registered:September 2018

Hi All

Ok so this will be a total sucker question which I'm surprised to seem to be the first one to ask (on this forum?), buthow can I get to the Island? This is the first topic I've found that names it (Palaccio Island?).

I've been looking for way too long but can't seem to find the trick. Did I miss some important NPC? I found a clicky thingie but it just makes my IMP curse... I should add that I've been having some problems that force me to play the game windowed, making it impossible to fast travel south from within sectors.

Thanks a ton as I've been trying to finish this mod for what seems like forever since I hit this wall...

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354946 is a reply to message #354944]

Tue, 18 September 2018 08:33

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There was for quite some time a meandering path to the island in Malino bay (sometimes referred as Malino island or Palaccio, but that's just reference to the Palace there.)

[Updated on: Wed, 19 September 2018 03:59]

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #354966 is a reply to message #354946]

Tue, 18 September 2018 22:37

OrkyRulez

Messages:2
Registered:September 2018

Perfect! Thanks mate

Storming in with my IluvD t-shirts on as we speak

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355802 is a reply to message #348895]

Mon, 12 November 2018 15:34

past caring

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LatZee wrote on Fri, 17 February 2017 14:19

Everything works exactyl like in vanilla until the end of the quest, after you bring her to Angel, get bla bla bla, kevlar leather and useless deed, Maria gets auto recruited (unless you interrupt it like it says up there). Went through that 3 or 4 times with no problem, so can't really say what is the problem, it works flawlessly for me

No good for me. I can get the quest ok - BUT once I bring Maria to Angel and get his dialogue, he gives me the deed and leather jacket and his dialogue screen pops up again - it doesn't matter how I talk to him,direct, friendly, threaten - or even just close the dialogue, the game just hangs (infinite clock).

So I've not bothered with the quest. I assume the deed has no use because the guy from vanilla in the tattoo parlour isn't there. And from what people say, Maria's stats are useless anyway. Perhaps more to the point, if I recruited her, I'd need to keep her clear of San Mona or I'd upset Kingpin? At the moment, I'm relying on the $10k from the Kingpin fights every couple of days, so I don't want to do that....

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355807 is a reply to message #355802]

Mon, 12 November 2018 20:19

LatZee

Messages:100
Registered:December 2015

There shouldn't even be a deed in newer versions of VR, unless I remember wrong, so maybe try reinstalling it with some newer version, if it is save game compatible, Seven or Hawkeye should know better. I did have occasional problem with that quest, such as game hanging/crashing at that moment, but saving before talking to Angel helped, it always worked by second try at worst cheeky

If you do get Maria, she shouldn't be seen by Kingpin guys, but other mercs don't have that problem, so you can keep doing fights, visiting Tony or doing anything in San Mona, just keep Maria out of those Kingpin controlled sectors.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355810 is a reply to message #355807]

Tue, 13 November 2018 01:06

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Some of the PCM behaviour or any Vanilla's characters who have interactions changed can at times be a bit flaky. It can sometimes be even due to where your merc stands when talking to NPC's. Here's the notes from Schein that came with the install;

Maria, automatically joins the squad after having met Angel.
Like Skryider, there's some time between the end of the quest and her joining the squad.
After having talked to Angel, Maria will leave the leather shop and, once standing on the road, join the player's squad.
In that time between the end of the quest (history log beeps) and her joining, the player can go to the strategic screen if he doesn't want Maria to join the squad.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355818 is a reply to message #355810]

Tue, 13 November 2018 03:00

edmortimer

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I don't know if this is the problem or not - but if Maria and Angel cannot walk out to the street (for example, a character is blocking the door) then you will get the endless clock.

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Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355820 is a reply to message #355818]

Tue, 13 November 2018 05:48

past caring

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Registered:December 2002

@ edmortimer - I don't think that is it. I got the endless clock previously with Kingpin not being able to leave the bar after the fights 'cos one of his henchmen had blocked the door. So I know to avoid that now.

@ LatZee - I don't know if there is a deed - or even a leather jacket - I am just going by Angel's speech. I can't get beyond that to see what he gives me.

And I only installed last week so assume I have the latest version?

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355824 is a reply to message #355820]

Tue, 13 November 2018 11:02

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Location: Australia

It's been a while since I recruited her, but I had no problems, but it was a while ago so don't recall how I did it now. As far as I can recall there's no deed needed now and as mentioned earlier Kyle has left Arulco. Schein can probably clarify, he's been around the past week or so.

Re: VENGEANCE: RELOADED Info, Hints and Tips[message #355834 is a reply to message #355824]

Tue, 13 November 2018 22:53

Scheinworld

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Registered:December 2007
Location: Baltic Sea, Germany

Hello,

past caring wrote on Tue, 13 November 2018 04:48

@ LatZee - I don't know if there is a deed - or even a leather jacket - I am just going by Angel's speech. I can't get beyond that to see what he gives me.

No deed. Kyle is not longer presented in VR anymore.

In my current test everything works fine like PCM_Readme.TXT file in \Data-PCM folder says:

Quote:

Maria, automatically joins the squad after having met Angel.
Like Skryider, there's some time between the end of the quest and her joining the squad.
After having talked to Angel, Maria will leave the leather shop and, once standing on the road, join the player's squad.
In that time between the end of the quest (history log beeps) and her joining, the player can go to the strategic screen if he doesn't want Maria to join the squad.

Best save your game before you move Maria and your mercenaries to Angel's leather shop to finish the quest.

Best regards; Schein...

[Updated on: Tue, 13 November 2018 22:58]

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