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Title: Game Breaking Bug
Post by: JustJace on October 09, 2022, 05:05:15 pm
Hello all! I am experiencing a huge bug with Freespace 1 (vanilla) Steam port.

Mission 6, Paving the Way, is bugged to where the ship you have to escort will NOT finish its route, leaving you in purgatory. It keeps flying around the destination.

I am playing this on my Steam Deck, so I really can't mod anything as far as I know. I don't have a PC otherwise I would simply get FSO working.

Is there any fix at all, to where I can brute force this? Could I skip the mission somehow?
Title: Re: Game Breaking Bug
Post by: Cyborg17 on October 09, 2022, 06:44:36 pm
I think anyone's advice here is to just play FSPort through Knossos.  I don't know of anyone who has tried to get through the steam port at all.
Title: Re: Game Breaking Bug
Post by: JustJace on October 09, 2022, 07:20:56 pm
I think anyone's advice here is to just play FSPort through Knossos.  I don't know of anyone who has tried to get through the steam port at all.

I am guessing I need to either get windows working on my Steam Deck OR get a PC to get Knossos?

Sorry I am not the most PC savvy  :nervous:
Title: Re: Game Breaking Bug
Post by: Cyborg17 on October 09, 2022, 08:49:43 pm
I'm not sure what you mean.  What OS are you on?  You'll get much better (and quicker) help on our discord, btw.
Title: Re: Game Breaking Bug
Post by: JustJace on October 09, 2022, 08:59:43 pm
I'm attempting to play the game on a Steam Deck: https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

It runs fine, but this bug has halted my progress.

As a sidenote, FS2 does not run on the Steam Deck though.
Title: Re: Game Breaking Bug
Post by: Goober5000 on October 09, 2022, 11:41:22 pm
Mission 6, Paving the Way, is bugged to where the ship you have to escort will NOT finish its route, leaving you in purgatory. It keeps flying around the destination.

This is an old, famous bug.  The Galatea can't quite reach its waypoint so it keeps circling around it.

This file (https://staff.hard-light.net/goober5000/downloads/sm1-06a.FSM) should fix it.  You'll need to put this in your data/missions folder in your Freespace installation.  If the "missions" folder doesn't exist, create it.

I retitled the mission "Paving the Way (modified)" so you'll be able to tell if you replaced it correctly.