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Re: Arulco Revisited Mod v1.1[message #302865]

Fri, 06 April 2012 13:51

JAsmine

Messages:306
Registered:May 2011

Have been away for some days, so here is one big answer to all.

tao

@Jasmine

You should make a full fledged modification. You can still keep an alternate download for maps to keep it compatible with other mods.

Mauser

anyways, i would love to see this map mod expanded some more and turned into a full fleged mod with item mod and all.
maybe consider a merge with parts of AIMNAS?

We have not yet made up our minds about where this mod will be going. We *will* develop further versions to clean bugs, better balance the mod and add some more content. But we aren't sure yet on which "scale" this mod will end up. You know, it's first of all a question of what is possible with our very limited ressources (two people with jobs and family & friends and limited skills). If things were only about what we want, then we would create a "full fledged" mod, but then, most people would, right?

K0ukku

This mod sounds great! Can't wait to test this!

I'd like to play this with HAM5 thou with the explosive shrapnels, any experience if this really works with it?

HAM5 and AR should be compatible. We have tested it, but only to a certain extent (lack of time Sad

).
You should be aware, that we consider HAM5 to be buggy and unstable atm (cause it is not finished).
My guess is, that when playing with AR and HAM5 at its current state, you will run into issues sooner or later.
You should maybe give it a try. Someone has to take the role of the pioneer!

VinnieClaymore

[...] I don't know who to give the credit to here, but this is absolutely fantastic! I've just started a game on Insane, with as many weapons as possible and fastest increasing coolness - and in contrast to my last experience playing 2XXX on Insane, this time 'round it's actually challenging! The AI is brilliant! Those bastards hide in the meanest possible nooks and crannies, I love it!

Most of the suff that seems so cool to you is probably because of the new v1.13 release. So, credit should go to the v1.13 team.
However, we've have tried to make the maps look godd, but also play good at the same time. So, we have of course paid attention to enemy placement and stuff.

Dieter

Yo JAsmine, I entered Cambria from G10 to G9, got Mike, killed everyone in the sector, got enemies from adjacent sectors, killed those too, then went from G9 to F9, killed everyone in the sector, no enemy reinforcements, now the sector still shows as hostile.

When I Alt+E there is a dying Mike lying at the corner of the south west house (Bull is standing in front of him), not sure how Mike got there. I checked a save at the beginning of the sector combat and Mike was already lying there dying. I can't target Mike to kill him and he won't die on his own.

Here is the Quick Save from the Profiles\UserProfile_JA2AR\SavedGames folder.

Thanks for this report. I'm quite sure that this bug is related to v1.13 (I ran into it in a similar way with a terrorist I had killed before!). Please, submit your savegame to the v1.13 team, maybe they can identify and smash this bug?!

Dieter

[...] At the Cambria SAM site I8, there is a 5.56x45mm Match belt with 65,480 rounds. Inserting the ammo into a gun adjusts the count to the correct value.

Items aren't changed by AR mod. But I will fix this one way or another. Thanks for reporting.

Mauser

[...] the enemy AI seems to have learned the secret of using cover and evading MERCS line of sight.
makes them seem a little less suicidally dumb, but also makes them much more static and defensive once they get to the edge of your LOS.
[...]
are these AI improvements part of the less retarded AI from HAM5? or did you do that yourselves? anyways, great feature!

1) The improved AI you're facing is part of the official v1.13 release!
2) Changes to the AI are *far* beyond what I can do!
3) HAM5 is not integrated into AR for several reasons. You can however use both mods at the same time and help testing HAM5.

Damesh

I started getting this error during battle in Chitzena the first day. Decided to go west and take Chitzena first. Took the mine and continued up to next sector and about half way through started seeing this message every minute or so:

Runtime Error
Assertion Failure[line 1171 in File.\Scheduling.cpp]. Attempting to debug save as SaveGame97.sav(this may fail).

This is a problem of v1.13, that may happen in sectors where civilians or NPCs are.
It is a severe error, but don't worry, there are many workarounds:

If the crash happens exactly at the same place and the same time again and again (e.g. sector D2 @ 10p.m.) you can enter tactical view of that sector at 9.59 pm, wait for 2 minutes till 10.01 pm and it should work.

As I said: This bug is a known problem and can be worked around. Don't worry and pls report back if you managed to get around somehow!

lockie

Umm , I having a few ctd's , anyone else suffering ?

Please be more specific and give some information on your crashes.

The mod should really be just about as stable as the official v1.13 release, since the changes in the AR mod are not of a very complex nature.
If the game keeps crashing constantly and seemingly random, you most probably have a bad install!

whew... quite some writing.
Thank you all for reporting stuff and giving feedback.
I wish all of you lots of fun playing this mod!