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Modest Mike (english, hiring hostile Hero Mike)[message #242802] Fri, 29 January 2010 14:18 Go to previous message
the scorpion

 
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 Welcome to another Minimod

This one is a bit more tricky than previous character minimods

what it does: it allows the player to actually hire Mike even though Mike is initially hostile.
Once you spot Mike, you get, if you're AIM, the usual dialogue. Nothing of this dialogue has changed, you can't do anything new here. Talk the talks and close the dialogue box. You might note that his facial expression are a bit odd. Nothing to worry about.

The new part will be after this initial dialogue is finished:
This simple version of the patch only requires you to shoot him up a bit and he'll be modest enough to know that working for us is better than dying (you can't make much money once you're dead, Mike always sais)
So once you injured him, you have to get close to him and use the "lips" icon to be able to talk to him. While he first wants to fight you, he then changes his attitude and joins up. In this simple version he even joins for free. Later versions may change this.

The tricky bit is to isolate Mike from other AI soldiers. Because it will be hard for the player to get close enough to talk to Mike without being shot by other AI. And once Mike joins up with the player, the AI will of course also try to kill Mike. Admitteldy, in my test i used cheat codes and the AI still has a window of opportunity to do harm.

compatibility: it is compatible with pretty much every version and mods of ja2 that don't drastically alter slot 149's behaviour or character.
Exe shoulnd't matter, custom maps shouldn't matter etc.

save target as

http://ja2vengeance.webs.com/Mikepatch2_ENG.rar

installation: extract the 3 subfolders in the archive (npcdata, faces, battlesnds) to your data folder of highest priority.

limitations:
- Mike joins for free
- Lacking a second set of coordinates for character 149, Mike's Face before joining up may look a little odd during his speech.
- This english version only has battlesounds, no speech yet

you can use speech and mercedt from Renegade republic or extract it from Ja1 or DG using the voice ripper tools for these games.

advantages: the lack of speech makes this download really small. the german version of it that uses ripped speech (from DG i guess) is a few megabytes large. I might upload that one as well at some point.

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