[Culando]

*delurks*
Ok, I played chapter 1 of this camp and loved it. But Chapter 2 is giving me horrendous difficulties. If I try running it with 3.6.5, I can't even get to the character select screen. It crashes to the desktop. As for 3.6.7, I get a runtime error about the Shivan Light Laser or something.

Can anyone help me with this?

[karajorma]

Table files probably need fixing. What's the exact error?

[Culando]

Here's the error I get when trying to use 3.6.7. It occurs just as I'm supposed to go into the character select screen I believe.

Error: ItDOH2-weap.tbm(97):
Error: Required token = [$Model file:], found [+nocreate]
in weapon: Shivan Light Laser.

File: parse/parselo.cpp
Line: 551
[This filename points to the location of a file on the computer that built this executable]

Sorry I didn't give that info in the first place. My day started out kind of frustrating.

Edit: Ok, using Kara's latest SCV(csv? whatever) build seems to have fixed all my problems. Lock or delete this as you wish. Sorry for being a bother.

[Dan1]

Good luck with this campaign, go through 3 and 4 the storyline gets even better.  I'm eagerly awaiting part 5 which apparantly had to be split into 2 different parts.

[Mehrpack]

hi,
here on hades combine you can get a SCP compatible version of Chapter2.
http://hades-combine.com/web/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=221

but the chapter 3 & 4 are running only under FS2, not under FSO .

Mehrpack

[Culando]

Actually, I got that download. I prefer using FSO when I can. It's shiney after all. Chapter 1 seemed to work fine under FSO. Until it randomly broke anyway.

I actually had a crash on the second mission in Chpt 2 last night. The game just froze. But I forget exactly when. I think one of the Vasudan capital ships was blowing up or something. If it happens again, I'll let you know. Hell, maybe someone IMed me and that crashed it. *shrugs*

Edit:
Mission 2 works fine. Now mission 4 crashed me. Maybe it was that bug I read about on one of the more recent builds somewhere. Not being able to do more than one or so missions in a row? *shrugs*

On a side note about mission 4.
*clears throat*

Edit:
...and now it just crashes at random points in mission 4. Great. I really love having to restart my computer every time I try playing this game.
HOLY CRAP BEAMS.

[karajorma]

It's issues like this that make me want to have a big effort to clean up all the campaigns that have been released. It's hard to know if the error is down to problems with the mission or FS2_Open or what.

[Qwer]

Well the best way is to just play it with retail. That will solve all problems.


BTW Any news about Chapter 5? I'm waiting for it good 4 months and i want to see Nightmares in action finally.

[Culando]

I agree with that Kara. One of my biggest complaints, though unspoken most of the time, is the annoyance dealing with what version of FSO is usable and/or NEEDED with certian camps. Wish there was something I could do about it.

Maybe in the mean time I'll tinker around in FRED2 again. Make my own missions. But don't expect to see anything out of me. XP I learned my lesson about announcing stuff that I never finish. *points to sig*

[karajorma]

That's a pity cause Noise is basically one of the most prolific FREDders on this board. Putting together a single campaign is quite a feat. Having managed 4 releases singlehanded is very impressive.

[neoterran]

Yeah, hopefully someone can spend some time to convert it to SCP compatible, becuase the SCP makes everything worth while, IMO. Otherwise the game looks way too dated.

[Manunkind]

I didn't wait for the SCP conversion and played all 4 chapters on vanilla FS2, and I can't imagine having a better time, that's how good these missions are.

Don't let the joy you get from playing good games depend on stuff like graphics too much

[karajorma]

While I agree with the principle this sort of stuff should be fixed. Once it works we can say that it's the SCP's fault if it breaks but right now most coders won't touch campaign problems because we have no idea if the problem is due to a change we made or sloppy tabling from the original campaign maker.

[Spicious]

Chapter 3 with fixed tables is now available at Hades Combine.

[neoterran]

joy !

[Mefustae]

Frankly, i've always wondered how the hell to read those "fiction" things that come with the campaign. No matter what I try, the format is for some weird obscure program that doesn't want to work with anything...

[Kszyhu]

It's the Microsoft Works format. I think that MS Ofiice could read that without problems.

[neoterran]

I'm using a beta of Office 2007, and it doesn't support that format, incredibly. you can still "recover text from any file" and read them, but they must be in a really old version of works.

[Kie99]

AFAIK .wps is used in the latest version of Works.

[Qwer]

There's no need for Chapter 1 SCP Conversion, as it has got only new missions, no new tables.