Hello everybody,
I am an occasional BZ2 player and have just registered to ask for help in Forgotton Enemies campaign. I was unable to search the relevant answers despite finding few posts which touched it briefly.
My concern is with one of the last EDF missions "Two-Minute Warning", where you must seize and use the Wormhole Controller. The latter is my problem: upon pressing the "I" key, a short message "Logging to alien network appears, but they apparently must have some kind of heavy lag out there, because nothing else happens..
I've downloaded the Full-installer yesterday, which may contain later revision than I had used before, but it doesn't help either - maybe the savefile itself is corrupted by some "unwanted" action done before. I don't want to play the mission again, because I'm afraid I would end in the same situation as before. Thus, my questions are:
1. How do I activate the controller (which keys to press, etc.)? I've checked the entire keyboard, but nothing seems to work.
2. Which action(s) should I avoid when playing the mission again?
Ugla
yeah - ive had that problem too
Oddly, the full version stopped working for me and I have to install in parts.
Is this the hacker scout mission?
An interface is supposed to open.
I remember having that issue too, but I just remember it working suddenly.
Try getting really close to the thing. I ended up basically flattening everything there except the controller and then getting next to it. Then again, only do all that if I am talking about the mission I think I am.
Quote from: Nielk1 on March 27, 2008, 08:17:19 PM
An interface is supposed to open.
I remember having that issue too, but I just remember it working suddenly.
Try getting really close to the thing. I ended up basically flattening everything there except the controller and then getting next to it. Then again, only do all that if I am talking about the mission I think I am.
Yes, that's the one. However, it doesn't work for me. Do I need to press any special key combination? I'm somehow suspicious about this mission, because it shows some strange features from the very start. Namely, I have found two groups of procreators (three vehicles each), but two of the vehicles in the southwest group are "white" instead of "red", read: not enemy. Whether I destroy them prior or after destroying the original procreator, or not at all (I was ordered to do so in the very beginning of the mission) makes no difference. Moreover, after I receive the code from the rebel technician, a new red nav called "go to Cerberi landing" appears on my HUD, pointing towards far southeast corner of the map (over my main base). That is IMO some pretty strange behaviour which shows that something may have gone wrong..
All I had to do was be near the controller after the certian point and wala. It's all DLL controlled, you just gotta be in the right spot at the right time. Follow the missions navs closely, and make sure to complete objectives in order.
There are no other objectives than destroying all enemy procreators (which I suppose causes the trouble - see the above post) and picking up the rebel technician (who appear to arrive upon destroying enemy factory).
I have tried the two-parts install, but the procreators' "condition" is exactly the same as before, even if I head there in the very beginning of the mission.
make sure you kill all the white procreators. They're merely unfinished.
Killed off all six vehicles (4 red, 2 white), then destroyed the procreator in the controller area and rescued the rebel technician; still no point. I give up, I assume the .dll file included within the current installation must be bugged. I replayed the mission using just the B revision (not C), but the behaviour is exactly the same.
During my unsuccessful attempts to access the controller, the enemy keeps spawning nearby without posing any significant threat, and once I pilot the hacker scout to the vicinity of my main base, or hop out of it, I instantly loose getting the "I cannot believe you've lost the hacker scout.." comment from my superior.
Quote from: General BlackDragon on March 28, 2008, 03:29:57 PM
make sure you kill all the white procreators. They're merely unfinished.
Right on my brotha. Native american supremacy foreverrrrrr!
you must fly the hacker scout to this special building i forget the name of...
god it would be so much simpler if we could just get the fe bzs scripts, then we could tell what to do
Which special building, or at least where? There is obviously the Wormhole Controller and also some weird complex surrounded by a lake with green liquid in the northeast corner of the map - haven't noticed anything else.
think ur supposed to sit next to the wormhole controller for like 30 seconds or more...
That sounds about right. I think it was made that way so that the player wouldnt just charge into the base and quickly activate the controller befoer he loses his ship.
http://fewalkthru.sequoyahcomputer.com/
I believe the code is B52.
Quote from: General BlackDragon on March 29, 2008, 01:05:06 PM
think ur supposed to sit next to the wormhole controller for like 30 seconds or more...
I was sitting there for about 10 Min's and nothing happens, only a few enemy units come in and get destroyed upon the gun towers I was ordered to build there.
I have tried everything I could think of, including recycling all my units to stay alone in the area. I have read the walkthrough before, seen the screenshots, but I never get that terminal window appear. There was a similar window that popped up during the mission "Rebuilding the Arch", and I had no trouble back then.
game.cheat bzwinner :-D
LOL
Now, this worked :-D, Then, I normally finished the last mission which was rather long than difficult and so it is finally over :roll: (I have already played the Hadean part before). Thanks for the tip, because it was definitely the best possible solution. My friend has tried it too and ended up exactly the same way (unable to access the terminal).
I was going to suggest that, but I figured people would think of me as some kind of cheap loser who wants to beat all of his friends to the end of the game.