[Akalabeth Angel]

Odd. When I took out the generator it's status changed from hostile to neutral. This doesn't happen for you??

[Nehemiah]

No, it doesn't.  I'm starting to wonder if I have a bad version or something.  Maybe its a problem with how I extracted the zipped folders that I downloaded to my main COTS folder.  I'm not going to lie, I am a little confused with the way this campaign download is set up.  There are a couple extra files that come in the COTS_fix file that are not contained in either folder in that package, and I am wondering if incorrect placement of those two files is why the game tells me in mission 2 that I am missing ship models.  I don't know anymore.  I have had more trouble with this campaign than any other I've downloaded before.

[Nehemiah]

i think I figured out the problem.  In the COTS_fix file, the folder is called "mission", while in the main COTS data folder, it was called "missions", therefore, the changes were not being overriden by the fix.  I changed the name of the folder in the fix files to "missions", so we'll now see if this works.

[Nehemiah]

Okay, so the game is working better than it did before, but Fort Knox is still not turning to unknown status after its generator is destroyed and is still hostile, resulting in my wingmates and allied cruiser destroying it.

[TrashMan]

Weird...

Where did you get the fix from?

[PwettyPony]

Hi!
So. Uhm...Im kind of newb in this, but so far all the mods Ive installed so far, simply required me to exctract them into a certain folder called modxyz, which will then have subfolders like Freespace2/modxyz/data/missions/ etc

However this Mod kind of confuses me, as Trashman himself and also the readme itself tell me to extract all of the .rar's into freespace2\modxyz, where all the files and folders like data\ remain in subfolders like FOW_COTS2\ and the likes.

However if I keep it like that, then the mod wont even initiate. If I extract all files to where they are in all the other mods, modxyz\data\etc then it gets initiated, I can launch the game, but I get 36 errors at startup, and so on. Also mission 2 had an error, which I was able to fix thanks to nehemias posts. However uhh...I Donno still feels kind of weird. After all if I do whats in the readme and what trashman said, it wont work, and if I do what I do with other mods, it works,"<<

PS I didnt download the music files, may that be the reason for the 36 errors?


PS2, yesh Im new here, kind of.

[TrashMan]

Errors? You mean warnings.

Warning are mostly leftovers from ships and weapon tables that have some unused lines and they aren't serious. Or the new exe version have some things change and give your warnings.

[PwettyPony]

Anyhow uhm...Is it supposed to be silent in mission 02 (I spy) ? Cause theres no music at all, only in the first mission so far.

[High Max]

^_^

[dotofdeath]

Okay, it should be immediately obvious that I'm new here. Sorry if I sound really stupid.

Now, I've got this (admittedly) weird problem.

I've gotten the FoW_COTS (all 100+mb of it) from freespacemods, and I got the fix from same location. Extracted them all to same location, selected mod in FSO launcher, started the game, no errors. So far, so good.

Then I go to the campaign menu and I only see... the main Freespace 2 campaign. No FoW.

Naturally, I assumed I was just being stupid, so I went and did what any other person would do: read the README.txt.

README.txt told me I needed FoW_COTS1, 2 and C, so I went to the main page, and tried to download all three. And the fix, of course. Went to the mediafire page, downloaded everything except... COTS_C. Mediafire reported a broken link.

I'm stuck.

Help...? Please?

[High Max]

^_^

[dotofdeath]

Ahh, see, there's the problem.

All the *.fc2 files already are in the missions folder, and when I go to the Campaigns room, I still get... only the main Freespace 2 campaign.

EDIT: Just to clarify something...

I only see two .fc2 files, fow_cots.fc2 and Fow_gate.fc2

Is this correct?

[High Max]

^_^

[dotofdeath]

Um, okay, I think we're a little muddled here.

Well, I'm muddled, at least.

See, I'm not running the install files off http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2c937bcb38ef65c1ab1eab3e9fa335ca25c30194ef361344

I'm running off the great big pack found on freespacemods.net

Reason being, of course, that the FOW_COTS-C link in http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2c937bcb38ef65c1ab1eab3e9fa335ca25c30194ef361344 doesn't work for me. Everything else on the mediafire page downloads fine, except the COTS-C, and I think that's the most important file of them all...

Which is why I have strange problems. Probably.

And I've tried copying everything in \Data from the COTS1 and 2 files into the \data folder, still nothing. Sorry.

[High Max]

^_^

[dotofdeath]

Ahh. Glad to see that it's not just me being an idiot.

No worries, I'll just wait for the mediafire link to be fixed. This campaign seems well worth waiting for, anyways.

Thanks for all the replies, mate.

[TrashMan]

Broken link? Dangit, I'd re-upload it now, but I'm not at my gaming rig right now and FS2 is onyl installed there.

On the laptop I'm using now, I don't have FS2 or COTS, so I can't uplaod files. And I won't be back home before Friday

[dotofdeath]

No worries, I'll wait until friday. Been trying to get this to work for over a week already, so what's a few more days? Haha.

Still, really glad that you guys are on it so quickly. And thanks again, Trashman, I've played some of your other stuff and those were fantastic.

[TrashMan]

Well, it's a small file, so if SOMEONE who has it can upload it for you, you can have the thing working before friday.

[dotofdeath]

Hey, the link works!

Fantastic. Can't wait to start playing.