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Title: Red Alert
Post by: MLCBotMan on January 25, 2012, 04:15:29 pm: I recently joined the forum after appreciating many good works from afar.

That said I have encountered a problem with my most recent str playthrough.

The game skips past all red alert missions with no hiccup

I can go back and play those missions in the tech room but they don't play through the normal campaign

I checked both the fc2 and relevant fs2 files for any explanation and everything looks right

debug shows no attempt to even load said missions. I'm really confused

any help would be appreciated thanks in advance

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Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: Goober5000 on January 25, 2012, 07:14:35 pm: That's very strange. Try playing with 3.6.12 instead, and see if you get the same result.

Notably, the FSO codebase has had severe problems with red-alerts for quite a while. We need to get the code rewritten.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: mjn.mixael on January 25, 2012, 08:42:38 pm: If he's playing with the most recent FSPort and MVPs, the 3.6.12 exec is not going to be friendly.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: MLCBotMan on January 25, 2012, 10:45:59 pm: yeah 3.6.12 doesn't work with str anymore

That's interesting to know that red alerts are having problems, especially as they work with fsport just fine. stranger and stranger. too bad i can't code

Thanks for the replies.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: SypheDMar on January 25, 2012, 11:58:28 pm: Thanks for the awesome first post with the debug log. You did everything right. It's a shame that we couldn't help you solve your problem.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: MLCBotMan on January 26, 2012, 12:38:17 am: Interestingly enough I was able to revert to 3.6.12 and everything worked ok. so it's definitely a difficulty with .14 RC

Bummer, because I really like some of the newer Features like widescreen huds.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 26, 2012, 04:06:09 am: Quote from: MLCBotMan on January 25, 2012, 10:45:59 pm
That's interesting to know that red alerts are having problems, especially as they work with fsport just fine. stranger and stranger. too bad i can't code
They don't magically work any better in FSPort. You just were lucky while playing it. Red Alerts are horribly broken everywhere they're used.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: Mongoose on January 26, 2012, 10:03:56 am: If I'm remembering things correctly, weren't red alerts initially broken a long time ago, then (relatively) fixed for a while, then apparently broken again? It's certainly being a real ***** of a feature.
Title: Re: Red Alert
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 26, 2012, 10:14:33 am: It's basically been broken since retail. We're waiting on the new pilot code to be approved and end up in trunk to fix it, among other things.