[Vasudan Commander]

How come so many good looking campaigns have such nasty bugs?

[Cobra]

IT'S A 3.6.9 BUG YOU IDIOT!

[karajorma]

Calm down Cobra.

[Cobra]

I am calm, it's just so damn annoying that he will not take the proper explanation that it's a 3.6.9 red alert bug and not the campaign.

[karajorma]

Nonetheless let's not start flaming.

[Agent_Koopa]

So, does this mean Homesick and the Procyon Insurgency will be compatible with 3.6.10, which I understand will be released soon?

[Snail]

So, does this mean Homesick and the Procyon Insurgency will be compatible with 3.6.10, which I understand will be released soon?

Where'd you hear that?

[Game_Master64]

if by soon you mean sometime in the next decade, you'd probably be right

[karajorma]

Where'd you hear that?

It's common knowledge that 3.6.10 is coming soon.

[haloboy100]

how soon, per sae?

[Mongoose]

End-of-the-month soon, from what I've heard.

[haloboy100]

OOOOOO! I'm excited!!!

[Game_Master64]

wait, 3.6.10? i retract my comment. i misread it.

[Snail]

Where'd you hear that?

It's common knowledge that 3.6.10 is coming soon.

Then I must not be a common...

Anyway, sweet.

[G0atmaster]

yeah, Back on topic, I also noticed that upon deleting the Red Alerts, some of the briefing stages on some missions become corrupt (because the animation pieces were never set).  Deleting the first stage of the briefing always fixed tihs for me, if anyone else is having this problem.

[haloboy100]

ya, on one of the missions the briefing crashes while loading the text

[CP5670]

So, does this mean Homesick and the Procyon Insurgency will be compatible with 3.6.10, which I understand will be released soon?

PI at least will work fine with it, as it does right now. There are ways to get around the red alert issues even in 3.6.9.

I haven't played Homesick in a long time, but if ships are not showing up in a red alert mission, it's often because they departed in the previous mission. The game currently doesn't like that and just thinks they are dead when that happens. If you can stop them from leaving the mission, it works fine in many (but not all) cases.

[G0atmaster]

well, I've experienced 4 Red Alert bugs in the past.  One crashes the game to windows, another spawns every ship, except you're off the map, all you can see is black and you can't target anything, but you can see ships moving on sensors and hear them fighting.  Another loads the mission like normal, except most ships have all subsystems and turrets destroyed.  The fourth was ships that don't show up.  And on some campaigns, I've found that it works just fine.

[ionia23]

Yeah, time to violate that whole "Don't post in old threads" thingy....

I would like to 'think' this has already documented, but if not, here's your 'hack' for getting around crashes in "Homesick" due to red-alert issues with SCP 3.6.9 (and probably earlier builds).

Yes, replacing the Red Alert: 1 with Red Alert: 0 flags will do the trick but you have to do it a specific way or the VP will be rendered unreadable.  If you do it incorrectly, what will happen is you'll go to launch with the launcher, get an hourglass, and then...nothing.

So.

1.  You absolutely want a hex editor for this.  I'm partial to WinVI32, myself.  Google it.
2.  Open the "Homesick.vp" file with the program.  Switch to Hex mode.
3.  Go to "Search" and search for the following hex string: 52 65 64 20 41 6c 65 72 74 3a 20 31
4.  Replace all instances with 52 65 64 20 41 6c 65 72 74 3a 20 30
5.  Save your changes.
6.  Launch away!

No more red alerts, which degrades the game experience a bit IMHO.  Instead of red alerts you'll drop to an actual briefing.

At least you can continue.

Alternately, you can install the full retail version of Fs2 and play it totally vanilla.

If this solution has already been thoroughly documented elsewhere, my apologies.

[Goober5000]

YOU!  I thought you were dead!

You owe me an email.