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Title: Vassago's Dirge errors.
Post by: Iain Baker on January 13, 2019, 05:09:01 pm
Hi all.

Trying to play Vassago's Dirge  :) but running into some problems  :( When I run it error messages pop up. If I click debug to get past them the game runs, but with some issues. The level where you sue the mojilers to destroy the Vassago appears bugged, as it always kills the Carthage before the they can get a proper firing solution on it - even if playing on very easy. I don't think I had this problem when playing it a few years back via wxlauncher. I used the 'control+shift+S cheat to unlock the missions after this in the tech room. The mission after the planting the virus will not load and crashes Knossos / FSOpen.

I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, verifying file integrity etc, but get the same problems.

Any ideas?

Is this link that people more tech-savvy than me need to fix things ;-) https://fsnebula.org/log/5c3bc247cb0d335cd34f9b76 (https://fsnebula.org/log/5c3bc247cb0d335cd34f9b76)

Many thanks in advance,

Iain 'Nomad' Baker
Title: Re: Vassago's Dirge errors.
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on January 13, 2019, 05:36:18 pm
I just played through it from a fresh install and had no issues. Strange.
Title: Re: Vassago's Dirge errors.
Post by: Axem on January 13, 2019, 07:57:42 pm
Can you try updating the files? Before it was set to use the latest mediavps, but I semi-recently updated the meta-data on Knossos to make it use the 3.7.2 mediavps only.

And for that mission where the Carthage dies, did any Shivan ships escape from the trap to engage the Carthage directly? They (especially the Lilith) can damage the Carthage enough that it can die during the Vassago's long range beaming without a chance for you to win (which admittedly is pretty bad).
Title: Re: Vassago's Dirge errors.
Post by: Iain Baker on January 14, 2019, 03:24:57 pm
Thanks for the advice. I notice there has been an update to VD recently. I updated it and it now works fine with no error pop us. Also managed to kill the VD this time - taking out the Lilith instead of the Moloch helped :-)

Superb campaign BTW  :yes: