Need help!!! Please

[Red Devil]

The fe mpi is setting the wrong aip's.

Looks like I either supplied the wrong mpi dll or the dll I supplied is borked.

I'll go see what's up.  In the meantime, stock works okay.  By stock, we mean without any "Mods".  FE is a mod.

[GSH]

What might be simpler is this:

1) Install BZ2 and 1.3pb3 into one directory, e.g. "c:\program files\games\Battlezone II 1.3pb3"
2) Install BZ2 and 1.3pb3 into a different directory, e.g. "c:\program files\games\Battlezone II 1.3pb3FE" . Then install FE in here.

Try to get #1 working ingame first.

-- GSH

[Red Devil]

Found the problem.  I added the Cerberi ships to the starting vehicles list and that threw off the math.  The FE PB3 DLL is using the old method instead of the new (better) method. 

I'll post a fix shortly, but do what GSH says and use stock PB3 for now.  FE is kinda hard...

[Steeveeo]

Speaking of which, there better be a playable mode for the less "|337" people like me...

[Spawn]

Type "game.cheat bzfree" into the console.

[anomaly]

Can the missions be fixed to work in th editor? and what would need to be done to them?

Speaking of which, there better be a playable mode for the less "|337" people like me...

I don't think FE was that hard.  Though that was before 1.3 ai...Ok assuming RD compensates by slightly reducing attack waves where needed, it really shouldn't be too hard.  I think the main problem was just how time consuming some missions could be due to having to start over. 

I found the editor to be quite useful in saving time by rebuilding my base in the event of any of the mission halting bugs in 1.2.  Also, sometimes I would also delete the occasional siren or krul if it meant not having to try and rebuild my base from the ground up.  So I think that between the bugs, fear of loading saves due to corrupted files, and the occasional attack wave arriving at a very bad time, what made FE sometimes frustrating to me was the amount of time it could take to complete a mission.

Has the save game bug been fixed? That would be a great help.

[bigbadbogie]

i just dont play FE anymore - if the editor worked with the dlls i would get right back into it but it doesnt

WHAT I NEED IS A WAY TO PERFECTLY TURN DLLS BACK TO .BZS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maybe bs-er could create a dll importer by reversing the dll export process in the scriptor

[Spawn]

Save games should work in 1.3.  The general solution to that was not to use them, or only keep one at a time, but that was in 1.2.

If you use the editor in 1.3 to play a mission it doesn't allow you to advance in the campaign, bz2 detects it and the results of the game become invalid.

[Red Devil]

I think the best things about running FE in 1.3 is the lack of crashes and that that you can save games.

I still have a number of things to do for FE for 1.3, but I have a *ton* of projects to finish this spring and summer, so it will be hit and miss for awhile.

For FE for PB4, I'm actually making Hard harder. 

Oh yeah, found that the plans aren't switching well in FE MPI for PB3.  Have to add some things.   

[Red Devil]

 I'm working on the MPI DLL now and will post a zipped fix shortly.  Six more inches of snow here.

[TheJamsh]

that thing about the timestamp...

i always have to delete the .mshs made in the bindata folder if i create a new XSI?? whats with that

[Red Devil]

binData is where the newly-created .msh files are created.

[VSMIT]

The geometry call in the ODFs may say ".xsi," but they always use .msh files before the xsi files.  If an msh file doesn't exist, then it creates it from the xsi.

VSMIT.

[Red Devil]

Who bit your face?

[VSMIT]

How long did it take you to come up with that one?



VSMIT.