So, no sense of me modifying ItemChoices_Enemy_Admin, ItemChoices_Enemy_Regular, and ItemChoices_Enemy_Elite anymore because what I put there is overridden. LBE is in those XMLs also - I'm not supposed to have to go into the editor and give every single enemy LBE . . . we have XMLs for inventory that we modify.

I don't object to gas masks, or grenades, or flashlights, or whatever else you decide they need . . . but there are XMLs for that, and if the incidence of the game choosing from the XMLs is too low (which I think it is, and obviously you think so also) then perhaps increasing the chance (equal to progress, I'd say) that each soldier gets an item from each category within those XMLs is a better way to go.

Gas masks and ceramic plates were never supposed to be assigned using itemchoices or other xmls, I didn't change that. For example, in stock 1.13 7609, 75% elites have gas mask and the rest will have hearing aid, it was always like that.

Then what are those "Armor Attachments", "Gas Masks" "Low Quality Face Items", "High Quality Face Items", "Hearing Aids", & 'Miscellaneous" entries in Itemchoices for?

edmortimer wrote on Mon, 15 March 2021 16:29

Then what are those "Armor Attachments", "Gas Masks" "Low Quality Face Items", "High Quality Face Items", "Hearing Aids", & 'Miscellaneous" entries in Itemchoices for?

You can decide which items AI has access to, but not the chance for a soldier to have item. It always worked like that.

No, as I said, it ain't working like you think it is. Ceramic plates are rare in AV, and to have 2 dozen ceramic plates and no Doron or nylon or steel or titanium plate means the AI ain't picking from the lists I made out.

Where in the game files this "rarity" is defined?
All you can do is put item in the xml lists, making it available to AI for choosing, and define coolness after which it becomes available.

You have 50 slots to put items in. If you put a single item in multiple slots you increase the chance of it being selected. Correct?

So if you have 5 slots filled and 3 are of one item you will expect 60% of the time that item will be chosen.

There are no ceramic plates defined in armour attachments for regular soldiers in AV. Ceramic Plates are in 2 of 10 slots for Elites, and 1 out of 15 for Admin. That's how I define rarity.

So . . . how does a an incorrect soldier class happen? I can modify those default XMLs, but there seems to be something else happening if an incorrect soldier class is the problem here.

If you want to check on particular map/battle which class enemy soldier has, enable EXT_TOOLTIP_AI = TRUE in [Extended Options] section of Ja2_options.ini and it will show something like Class: SOLDIER_CLASS_ARMY in tooltip.

You want Skyrider as Pilot as in vanilla game?

I've fixed Skyrider...

Will there be an another patch before alpha version?

Murray "Pops" McGillicutty has an completely empty inventory window,

Arisaka Type 38 and Ross Rifle Mark 3B are making ammo disappear. I will post more if I found.

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Arisaka Type 38 and Ross Rifle Mark 3B are making ammo disappear. I will post more if I found.

The sector is more important as the problem is in the maps not the XMLs anymore.

Arisaka Type 38 and Ross Rifle Mark 3B are making ammo disappear. I will post more if I found.

The sector is more important as the problem is in the maps not the XMLs anymore.

How!? Well, should I report the guns AND the sector where the bug happened then?

Man, I... I recruited Kingpin. Is that supposed to happen!?

If that's what you wanted to do.

Stella's M2 Carbine isn't in her inventory

My game keeps freezing at day 18 exactly at 4:59AM. I hear a *blep* like I received a message but the game just freezes. I tried changing a lot of what my mercs are doing, but doesn't seen related to any action I do at all. Does JA2 have any crash log or something I can use?

Victor_Tadeu wrote on Tue, 11 May 2021 05:59

My game keeps freezing at day 18 exactly at 4:59AM. I hear a *blep* like I received a message but the game just freezes. I tried changing a lot of what my mercs are doing, but doesn't seen related to any action I do at all. Does JA2 have any crash log or something I can use?

You can run debug version in visual studio, it will show much more information.
Apart from that, only default logs that can be found in profile may help.

This should not happen normally, but maybe some part of the code could be optimized to avoid these slowdowns.
If you post a save with description, I may take a look to find possible fix, but cannot promise it soon.