I attempted several times to make AR 1.4 work and every time I get Berry Unger's voice on the AIM page no matter who I try to hire and he is the only merc that will deploy in game no matter who I hire. This is an AR problem since the issue simply doesn't occur in 1.13 Installing the AR1.4 patch does nothing to fix the problem
Facts:
Game Version: JA2 Gold from GOG.com
1.13 version: SCI 8633
Where I installed AR1.4 : I put it in the main JA2 directory
OS: Win10
I am assuming that I installed it improperly but I can't figure out what went wrong. If AR 1.4 won't work with 1.13 should I just go back to 7435 ( I still have it on my machine) or is there a more modern version of 1.13 that I should use?
I did this:
install JA2 gold
added 8684 **I (the punk) feel lucky...**
then added the AR1.4_2014-11-03
Edited the xml to fix the barry voice bug
Enneagon explained it very clearly
If your code editor supports regex search&replace you can automate it as single command like this:
search: <ubFaceIndex>(\d+)</ubFaceIndex>
replace: <ubFaceIndex>\1</ubFaceIndex>\n<usVoiceIndex>\1</usVoiceIndex>
If you have no idea what this means (like i did not)
download notepad ++
open the mercprofiles // located in Jagged Alliance 2\Data-AR\Tabledata//
replace it this is how
basically, tick the regular expression box
done in 45 ms...
So far, it works... Kinda.
Started a new game and new items are there, everyone talks OK, bobby ray works, quest indicators, npcs work, BUT...
I only messed around for 5 minutes (one broken thing is the weather graphic overlay)
There are bound to be other quirks and broken mechanics.
I am playing the stock SCI atm, once thats done, going to AR an then UC and then not play for 2 years, and then play it again