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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Asuko on October 18, 2007, 02:23:04 pm
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I've trawled the forums a lot in the last few days but I still haven't gotten a solution that works.
I have installed the latest version of SCP because I recently started playing FS2 for the first time. I am playing just the FS2 campaign.
My problem is that I accidentally skipped the mission "Bearbaiting" where I have to attempt to destroy the 4 main guns of the Sathanas. Now, I want to play that mission but it does not turn up in the Tech Room, Mission Sim (since I did not beat the mission).
I have tried editing my .cs2 pilot file, though use of a batch file with instructions (fail), or just the root.vp file, but I haven't figured out how to do so.
So, how exactly do I go about this solution? I figure that starting the campaign at that mission would work.
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You just wanna play it? Once? Go to the mission simulator in the tech room and hit ctrl + shift + s. If you want to play it during the campaign... yes, restarting the whole campaign would solve it.
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Click on restart campaign.
Download and extract this file (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/Downloads/CampaignRestarts/SM3-01-FromBearbaiting.zip) to your Freespace2\Data\Missions folder.
Play the rest of the campaign.
Delete the file.
For some reason I get three requests to restart the campaign from Bearbaiting for every one I get for every other mission put together. :D
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Eh, that's not my point really. You see, the next mission "High Noon" would start and since I 'skipped' the last mission, all four cannons of the Sathanas would be alive to kill the Colossus. It's a lose, lose situation there and I want to fix that without any real cheating.
Click on restart campaign.
Download and extract this file (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/Downloads/CampaignRestarts/SM3-01-FromBearbaiting.zip) to your Freespace2\Data\Missions folder.
Play the rest of the campaign.
Delete the file.
For some reason I get three requests to restart the campaign from Bearbaiting for every one I get for every other mission put together. :D
Thanks. Now, how can I do this sort of thing on my own?
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Eh, that's not my point really. You see, the next mission "High Noon" would start and since I 'skipped' the last mission, all four cannons of the Sathanas would be alive to kill the Colossus. It's a lose, lose situation there and I want to fix that without any real cheating.
Actually, the condition in Bearbaiting is that you have to take out at least two beam cannons for the Colossus to stand a chance. Therefore, if you skip it, you'll be thrown into the default version of High Noon, where the Sathanas has two operational forward beam cannons.
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Strangely enough, that isn't what happened. At this point, I don't really care. I just want to enjoy Bearbaiting all over again.
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...a what? Is that even possible?
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All four cannons were alive. 'Nuff said.
...It slaughtered the Colossus too easily. Frankly, it pissed the hell out of me the first three times I tried before I started thinking rationally.
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:shaking:... what have you done? You... you killed the campaign!
Seriously, try karajorma's solution. He is one of the great senseis around here, after all.
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The game uses is-previous-event-true SEXPs to determine whether or not a beam cannon was destroyed in Bearbaiting. If it was that particular cannon is destroyed at the start of the mission. Since none of the events were true in the techroom all 4 events evaluate to false and none of the cannons are destroyed.
The solution I posted will let you play the entire campaign from bearbaiting. It's basically as if you hadn't skipped it.
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Ah, that explains it.
So the lesson here is: Never, ever skip Bearbaiting or other is-previous-event-true SEXP missions.
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That's rather obvious :p
Ah, now I have another problem. I followed your instructions karajorma, and the game crashes whenever I try to load and start playing the mission.
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Restart the campaign again.
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I thought about that but it's a little . . . extreme. Is there absolutely no other solution?
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That was a part of the solution:
Click on restart campaign.
Download and extract this file (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/Downloads/CampaignRestarts/SM3-01-FromBearbaiting.zip) to your Freespace2\Data\Missions folder.
Play the rest of the campaign.
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Ah, that explains it.
So the lesson here is: Never, ever skip Bearbaiting or other is-previous-event-true SEXP missions.
Not really, That was the way I remembered it happening but on looking at the mission it seems I was wrong. Apparently :v: considered the fact that people might play the game via the techroom and did use the 3rd argument of is-previous-goal-true correctly. Sathanas beams 2 and 4 should be disabled while Sathanas beams 1 and 3 work.
Hmmmm. Might have to test this one out myself.
I thought about that but it's a little . . . extreme. Is there absolutely no other solution?
The file I've given you is a new campaign file where the action starts from the mission Bearbaiting, skipping the earlier missions. However you are currently on mission 20+ if you don't press reset the game will attempt to load mission 20 of the new campaign file rather than mission 1 and the game falls over when it finds that there are only 12 missions in the campaign.
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Hmm. I think I'll do the same. This sounds so funky that it has to be experienced.
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Ah, got'cha on that. Thanks karajorma.