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Title: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 08, 2006, 06:54:01 pm
I never got around to fixing the RFC bugs, and since the search is down... *glares at administrators* :p

so, post 'em here.

[EDIT] No table errors. Mission bugs only.
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 09, 2006, 04:43:24 am
When I want to start missions, the weapons loadout is minimal.

I wanted to start mission 3, I got the report that I have access to a Cyclops 2 but my ship selection was ... odd. I had a Ulysses by default, stripped of all weapons and only a Tornado Missile and 3 types of lasers. The other ship choices where Zeus and Medusa. No sign of this bomb I was promised to get.
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 09, 2006, 04:46:29 am
When I try to load the 5th mission of Revenge, I get this

Error: Invalid ship class name.

In sexpression: ( when
   ( has-arrived-delay
      5
      "GTVA Marco Polo"
   )
   ( allow-ship "GTVA Marco Polo" )
)
(Error appears to be: GTVA Marco Polo)
File:C:\projects\freespace2\code\Mission\MissionParse.cpp
Line: 3552

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: karajorma on January 09, 2006, 05:57:52 am
Turalyon. I suspect your problems are due to another mod. Lets resolve this on the other thread before you post them here as legitimate bugs in the campaign that need to be fixed in FRED.
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 10, 2006, 04:01:05 pm
Ok, this has to be a mission bug.

In the mission "The Portal" where I have to fly through the Knossos portal to scan some shivan ships, I fly "through" the portal and come out of the other end but still in the same system, not the one where the shivans are supposed to be in. When I try Alt + J, I get the mission failed report
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 10, 2006, 06:16:09 pm
for one thing, this isn't X-Wing Alliance, where you can jump to different systems. :p

also, i'll see what i can do. :)

[EDIT] err, since i can't read german, which mission is it?
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 11, 2006, 02:05:40 am
It's the first mission after you became ´were transferred to the Marco Polo. (after the mission where you have to fly 50 km to the MP and you are attacked by 3 wings of Thots)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 11, 2006, 09:13:41 am
It's me again, the bug monster.

The last bug  reported, with the jump error, it was my mistake, sorry :)

My gaepad was bad calibrated and the game interpreted even light rolling as movement and the mission failed.

But I have another thing.

I just had played the first and second mission in the nebula, where you have to protect 3 gas miner ships. After completing the missions, I got the mission success report but also the mission failed report. Since it's not a game ending but, it's just cosmetic and therefore not primary. But I just wanted to tell you :)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: karajorma on January 11, 2006, 12:35:14 pm
Now that is definately a bug :)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 11, 2006, 01:31:31 pm
turalyon's gonna post a few pages with bugs. :lol: :p
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 11, 2006, 03:37:14 pm
Well, I might. I play the campaign right now.

But I think I have to lower the details a bit, in big battles the game tends to crash
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Mehrpack on January 11, 2006, 11:54:22 pm
hi,
first: sorry for my english, i dont have write much in the last years, i more read and my orthograhpie is terrible, but i hope you will understand me.
i try my best *g*
second: i have the last time play revenge a half year ago, so i dont know all name exactly.

yeah with many trouble in the sector bring revenge FS to crash.
and second thing is that the weapons will dont "fire".
you have sound and the game count your rockets and energy down, but no graphic and any effect on the target.
thats realy big ****, why you cant fight so.

in the second campaign:  mission Taxi!, where the supplier you should bring to the second knossos portal in the nebular, thats didnt work with SCP.
first time: he rotate 180° and than he undocking and fly away without you and the mission failed.

in the second campaign too: but is a old error: there where you recapture the 2 aeolus corvettes, there were muntiy, the corvettes jump out, but dont have any effect, so that you can jump out too.
the game say: mission failded, retreat without permission.
i have the capture data edit, so that if you try it to repeat the next mission will load, but i think thats not a real patch *g*

Mehrpack
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 12, 2006, 03:27:54 am
The Bug Monster is back

I have another one in the mission "Löcher stopfen" (in english it would be "Plug a hole").

It's the mission where you have to hurry to the Vega - Gamm Draconis Knossos Portal to save the GTD Babylon and the GTI that controls the gate. At the start of the mission, you arrive in a jumppoint and you see 2 Lilith Cruisers and one Rakshasa already there. When you use the T button to click yourself through the objects at one point the game crashes everytime. I don't know which object it is, I think, it's one of the jumppoints, since I could mark everything else (every fighter, capital ship, installation and the knossos portal).

To conclude: Whenever you mark this jumppoint (if it is the JP) the game does a CTD
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 12, 2006, 11:16:50 am
hi,
first: sorry for my english, i dont have write much in the last years, i more read and my orthograhpie is terrible, but i hope you will understand me.
i try my best *g*
second: i have the last time play revenge a half year ago, so i dont know all name exactly.

yeah with many trouble in the sector bring revenge FS to crash.
and second thing is that the weapons will dont "fire".
you have sound and the game count your rockets and energy down, but no graphic and any effect on the target.
thats realy big ****, why you cant fight so.

That's an SCP bug.

in the second campaign:  mission Taxi!, where the supplier you should bring to the second knossos portal in the nebular, thats didnt work with SCP.
first time: he rotate 180° and than he undocking and fly away without you and the mission failed.

Hmm...

in the second campaign too: but is a old error: there where you recapture the 2 aeolus corvettes, there were muntiy, the corvettes jump out, but dont have any effect, so that you can jump out too.
the game say: mission failded, retreat without permission.
i have the capture data edit, so that if you try it to repeat the next mission will load, but i think thats not a real patch *g*

Obviously there's a misplaced objective SEXP somewhere...

Mehrpack
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 12, 2006, 12:11:29 pm
The Bug Monster is back

I have another one in the mission "Löcher stopfen" (in english it would be "Plug a hole").

It's the mission where you have to hurry to the Vega - Gamm Draconis Knossos Portal to save the GTD Babylon and the GTI that controls the gate. At the start of the mission, you arrive in a jumppoint and you see 2 Lilith Cruisers and one Rakshasa already there. When you use the T button to click yourself through the objects at one point the game crashes everytime. I don't know which object it is, I think, it's one of the jumppoints, since I could mark everything else (every fighter, capital ship, installation and the knossos portal).

To conclude: Whenever you mark this jumppoint (if it is the JP) the game does a CTD

thats an error with the engine. :blah:

if you get CTDs or texture errors or anything other than the kind of bugs Mehrpack posted, check with the SCP team, if you're playing SCP and not retail.
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Mehrpack on January 13, 2006, 12:56:23 am
That's an SCP bug.

hi,
first time i played revenge with the normal FS2 and there are the bug, too.
maybe a limitation or error in the engine, but in inferno all work, and there was mission with many fighters and capital ships, too.
so i think its maybe a script or the modification of the weapons or fighters in this campain, that the weapons will not work.

btw: inferno i played with normal FS2, too.

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Hmm...

with normal FS2 its work, but not with SCP.

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Obviously there's a misplaced objective SEXP somewhere...

dunno, i dont understand fred *G*
ok i find the number of the mission, is mission 50.

Mehrpack
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 13, 2006, 02:17:48 am
Quote
thats an error with the engine.

if you get CTDs or texture errors or anything other than the kind of bugs Mehrpack posted, check with the SCP team, if you're playing SCP and not retail.

I play it on retail, it doesn't work on SCP for me, because it needs a modified root_fs2.vp which won't work on SCP (at least for me, I tried it)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Mehrpack on January 13, 2006, 03:55:50 am
hi,
mhhh for me work it, if i put the files in a seperate folder with name revange.

Mehrpack
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 13, 2006, 10:52:41 am
i just checked the missions in the vp. it's so damn confusing! i can't tell which is mission... hey, you sure it was 5 and not 50?
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 13, 2006, 03:12:04 pm
The Bug monster is back with more stuff

Quote
yeah with many trouble in the sector bring revenge FS to crash.
and second thing is that the weapons will dont "fire".
you have sound and the game count your rockets and energy down, but no graphic and any effect on the target.
thats realy big ****, why you cant fight so.

I experienced the same thing several times. I fire my energy weapons and I hear it firing but I don't see them firing. It's like firing a machine gun at night and one in 10 shots is light tracer ammunition, which themselves come out at random. Same with rockets, you fire them, but you don't see them fly away. IN rare occasions the rocket(s) still hit, experienced that with 2 Trebuchets which I didn't see coming out destroying the beam cannons of a Rakshasa.

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in the second campaign too: but is a old error: there where you recapture the 2 aeolus corvettes, there were muntiy, the corvettes jump out, but dont have any effect, so that you can jump out too.
the game say: mission failded, retreat without permission.
i have the capture data edit, so that if you try it to repeat the next mission will load, but i think thats not a real patch *g*

I just had this mission. It's called "Massnahmen" in german (would be "Measures" in english). You disable both Corvettes, the transports jump in, dock with the corvettes, jump out a second later, mission says "successful", Marco Polo says "Jump out, mission accomplished", the mission debriefing says "Well done, we got them, thanks to you" but upon clicking done you have the choices between "Back to debriefing", "To Flightdeck" and "Repeat mission".

Related to that. The mission before this mission I just described. There you have to try to disable the corvettes, but they jump out. A minute or so later, a group of 20 cruisers jumps in and you have to kill them all. After killing them, and leaving the mission I get the mission failed report with the first sentence being "Because of your failure the cruisers destroyed the Marco Polo." You still can click done and the game continous to the mission described above.

Regards
The Bug moster
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 13, 2006, 03:26:04 pm
You won't believe it, but I seem to have found this mission-failed-despite-success bug

In the mission, on the left side on the list where you see what to do, the color of the primary targets (to protect the Malvolence and Marco Polo) turn blue which normally means accomplihed.

BUT

When you press F4 to see the mission details, you see this, even after the transports jumped out with the corvettes and the Marco Polo tells you to do the same.

http://home.arcor.de/son-goku/Bug.bmp

The primary objectives, protecting the Malvolence and Marco Polo are still active and their status doesn't change. So the mission can't be accomplished successful, since I jump out "too early"
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Mehrpack on January 14, 2006, 12:13:17 am
hi,
the missions are in a vp?
mhh strange, that version that i have is the missions seperate and the modificated root_fs2.vp
if that missions are in a vp, have you a link to this version?

yes is mission 50 and turalyon discripe the mission "Massnahmen", as this.

i have a question: any attemp to rebalancing any missions?
some missions are really really hard.

@turalyon: yes sometimes i have in the debriefings: mission failed, too.
but the missions was succesful and i had can play the next missions.

Mehrpack
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2006, 10:36:55 am
that's strange, i only have 37 RFC missions, the rest are retail FS2 missions. :wtf:
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 14, 2006, 10:41:29 am
I have 91 files from Revenge, 88 of them mission files, 3 of them are the chapter files.

If you want, I can send you these files.

PS.

Here is a part of the mission file, regarding the targets: the words after the // are my own, not in the file

#Goals      ;! 3 total

$Type: Secondary
+Name: Kreuzer bergen
$MessageNew:  XSTR("Kreuzer bergen", -1) //Recover Cruisers
$end_multi_text
$Formula: ( and
   ( is-iff "Friendly" "GTC CMP-3" )
   ( is-iff "Friendly" "GTC CMP-5" )
)
+No music

$Type: Primary
+Name: Schützen sie die Marco Polo
$MessageNew:  XSTR("Schützen sie die Marco Polo", -1) //Protect the Marco Polo
$end_multi_text
$Formula: ( and
   ( not
      ( is-destroyed-delay
         0
         "GTVA Marco Polo"
      )
   )
   ( has-time-elapsed 1200 )
)
+No music

$Type: Primary
+Name: Schützen sie die Malovolence
$MessageNew:  XSTR("Schützen sie die Malovolence", -1) //Protect the Malovolence
$end_multi_text
$Formula: ( and
   ( not
      ( is-destroyed-delay
         0
         "GTCv Malovolence"
      )
   )
   ( has-time-elapsed 1200 )
)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 14, 2006, 10:48:08 am
Would it help to finish that mission when I change the "primary" to "secondary" for the Protect Objectives and the "secondary" to "primary" for the Recover target?
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2006, 10:51:20 am
no, because then it would screw up the mission and make it no fun when it's fixed. ;)

uh, karajorma? the VP you gave me has only the retail missions, i just bothered to look at the missions. :wtf:

Turaylon, post the full campaign. post the entire download.

oh, and help us translate it. ;)

[EDIT] I think i see the problem. the goal SEXPs shouldn't be not-destroyed, that always causes problems. PM me with the full storyline of Massnahmen. :)

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I just had this mission. It's called "Massnahmen" in german (would be "Measures" in english). You disable both Corvettes, the transports jump in, dock with the corvettes, jump out a second later, mission says "successful", Marco Polo says "Jump out, mission accomplished", the mission debriefing says "Well done, we got them, thanks to you" but upon clicking done you have the choices between "Back to debriefing", "To Flightdeck" and "Repeat mission".

yeah, there's definitely a mis-used goal SEXP in the debriefing. once you post the vp for me i can take a look. :)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: karajorma on January 14, 2006, 11:16:27 am
that's strange, i only have 37 RFC missions, the rest are retail FS2 missions. :wtf:

It's possible the version you got from me is different from the versions the others are using. I have no recollection of where I got my version from.

EDIT : I suspect it's the renamed, altered  root_fs2.vp that was packaged with the campaign. In that case the missions are probably lurking in the data folder on my HD. Catch me on IM and I'll send them over.

EDIT 2 : The problem is not the is-destroyed SEXP. It's the time elapsed. If the player leaves the mission before 20 minutes the game will say that he has failed the goals. You shouldn't ever use time-elapsed in this way. The goals should be linked to an event that comes true when the mission is complete.
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 14, 2006, 01:33:39 pm
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EDIT 2 : The problem is not the is-destroyed SEXP. It's the time elapsed. If the player leaves the mission before 20 minutes the game will say that he has failed the goals. You shouldn't ever use time-elapsed in this way. The goals should be linked to an event that comes true when the mission is complete.

I did wait 20 minutes. When the transports jumped out the mission was approx 6 minutes old. The Malovolence and Marco Polo had a 17 minute trip to a waypoint where they just stopped their engines and sat there.

The mission as still failed :-(

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Turaylon, post the full campaign. post the entire download.

oh, and help us translate it. ;)

Revenge - German Version. All you english folk out there, beware the language   :p  (http://home.arcor.de/son-goku/revenge.zip)

What would I have to translate? Just the text? PM me :)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2006, 02:20:57 pm
well, you can translate what you want to. just pick a mission (or all 84, your choice ;)) and go to town. :)
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: karajorma on January 14, 2006, 02:21:42 pm
Here's a fixed version of mission 50. Someone posted an error a couple of years ago and I fixed it for them. I don't remember anything about it beyond that.



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Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 14, 2006, 03:29:58 pm
Thx. I start translating :)

Lets see how long it'll take to finish translating all missions ^^
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 14, 2006, 05:39:55 pm
Ok, I finished the first mission. Could you do me a favour and have a look at it? Just play it if possible so I can see if there's something missing :)

http://home.arcor.de/son-goku/001-Revenge.zip

I'm heading to bed now. See ya tomorrow.

Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Cobra on January 14, 2006, 07:09:28 pm
excellent work, Turaylon. The only thing wrong was a few grammar errors that i just fixed. :)

i tried to test the goddamn thing and i got this:

Error: Cannot load mission -- wing Lambda -- ship  not present in #Objects section (or specified multiple times in wing.

File:\fs2_open\code\mission\missionparse.cpp
Line: 4097
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 15, 2006, 02:08:53 am
What the...

I only changed the text in the " " nothing else. Maybe I forgot a " anywere °_°

Edit: Just checked, didn't forget anything. And in the objects section, there are all 3 Lambdas present.
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Deepstar on January 23, 2006, 05:56:38 am
Oh, nice, a bugfinding Thread :)

Maybe i find here a few bugs, there i haven't noticed yet, good work :)

To the Translation... the Translation is still in Progress (additional i haven't Internet @home atm.), i have no problem, when you translate the missions.
I add a few SCP features to the Campaign (new Nebulas/Planets/Weapon Effects and different (SCP)SEXPs in the Missions to fix a few problems or simply to speed up the mission, but then i don't need to translate the rest :)


But i must say, i'm impressed of all these Revenge Threads
Title: Re: Report Revenge: Final Conflict Bugs Here
Post by: Turalyon on January 23, 2006, 07:15:46 am
@Deepstar, check the other thread concerning the translation. I already finished quite a few missions ^^