[fsphiladelphia]

Today I loaded up Freespace and continued where I left off in the Derelict campaign, only when I commit to the mission and it launches, I have no weapons.  When I quit back to the flight deck and try to change my ship/weapon loadout, it does not allow me to add any weapons to the ship, or to change my ship.

I don't recall changing anything, and last time I was in the mission, it worked just fine -- that is, the ship had weapons.  I can only imagine this has something to do with a table file, but that could be completely wrong.

Has this ever happened to anyone else, and what do I do to correct it?

If necessary, I can show post some pics of the problem(s).

[Game_Master64]

are you using FSO? if so what build. and when you go into the mission, try rearming right away, it will sometimes give you the basic loadout for the mission

[Snail]

I think he is, he has been posting loads of FSOpen screen shots.

[Dark Hunter]

It sounds to me like he's trying to use the original, non-voiced version of Derelict. I'd reccomend getting Blaise Russel's upgraded version.

[Snail]

IIRC one of the missions, where you are to protect the Phi Eridani jump node, the creator used the Dogfight ('D') variants of the weapons.

[Mobius]

I hard believe they have been removed from the tables, so I don't get your point.

Anyway, I recommend BR's edited version, since it's more a bug fixing version than a normal voice acted SCP version.

[Snail]

Yeah, it's fixed.

Wait a sec, did you just say that the D variants were removed from the tables?!!

If so, that would explain the problem.

[Mobius]

No, I said that it would solve the problem.

BR is around, he should give us the answer we need.

[Snail]

Yeah, but if it can't find the D variants then it won't load any weapons, which may be the case, right?

I'm not sure that he's using BR's version.

[fsphiladelphia]

OK -- I am not sure what happened, but, after some screwing around, I pressed the 'reset' button in the ship selection/weapon loadout screens, and bam, my choice of ships returned as did the full selection of weapons.

Weird.  I have no idea how they got turned off/disabled/removed as choices.

Oh, and I am playing the voice-acted version, by Blaise Russel -- the one that installed with Turey's installer.  I think someone was saying earlier in another thread that they preferred Mackie's voice in the previous version.  Without having heard that version, I think that Mackie's voice is perfect for the part -- cynical, annoyed, etc.

Anyhow, as always, this board has been very responsive to (yet another one of) my questions -- so thanks again guys!

[Mobius]

Oh, that's a common bug. I have already helped someone that had the same problem.

Sorry, I should have reckognized this problem before, I thought you had no weapons only during the mission, giving for sure that they were selectable during the briefing. Sorry.

[S-99]

Well if you got no weapons i really recommend getting stationed on a different destroyer or space station

[fsphiladelphia]

Oh, that's a common bug. I have already helped someone that had the same problem.

Sorry, I should have reckognized this problem before, I thought you had no weapons only during the mission, giving for sure that they were selectable during the briefing. Sorry.

I thought it was great that you (and everyone else) replied at all with suggestions.  This really is a helpful forum.  Seriously, thanks again.