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  2. Posted

    I'm having the most fantastic of experiences replaying DoW!

    What if I said I did the first half of the mission in less than 30 min?

    I already conquered Chernogorsk and own half the map!!!

    This is what I did:

    Used a gang approach!

    Ganged up everyone from town to town... as soon as the Chedakhi made an incursion, I took their farthest town... as to cut of their troops from suplies... and it worked like a charm!

    I sent the gang up North and headed myself to the south aboard a BMP-2.

    They were completely overhauled!!!

  4. Posted

    What I was trying to say is you can get complexity and freedom of choice if you keep campaign structure, especially the triggers simple.

    For instance, Badlands mission is good in that you are required

    to take 4 villages. It is rather simple to program mission success criteria but you get the freedom to choose when, how and with what forces to execute the mission. Contrast that with the Prizrak task where many users have reported Prizrak missing or being invulnerable. My point is that the mission competion trigger should not be killing or not killing Prizrak but something else that is not bug prone.

    Everything is bug prone... the difference is that city taking is not so bug prone as the other thing you compare it to.

    Just because it's more polished doesn't mean It's bug free....

  6. Posted

    I guess it's a tradeoff....

    Complexity (with bugs attached) vs Simplicity (nearly bug free)

    I honestly prefer the complexity and the freedom of choice that the engine allows!

    Much more than the heavily scripted/limited traditional missions... see COD...

  7. Posted

    Hello,

    The mission titled Manhattan will not finish or give me any information on how to end the mission even after completing all tasks, i find that after a while of playing the officer in the base you speak to is dead on the floor through no fault of my own.

    I have restarted the mission 3 times now and each time i do all the tasks i find that the officer that you may need to speak to, to end the mssion is dead. I have no idea what to do next as there are no new tasks given after i have seccessfully completed all tasks that are set.

    I have aplied all patches up to 1.3.

    Well known issue... origins unknown....

    Try to do your mission in a different order.... that's all I can suggest...

    The only time that happened to me was at the start of a mission... a restart (complete restart, revert wouldn't cut it) of the mission solved it.

  8. Posted

    I must be doing it wrong. I tried this work around but I still get the 'receiving...'. This is what I do:

    1) Click buy to show buy menu

    2) Press M to show map

    3) Press M to hide map

    I cannot use the buy menu in the map screen. What have I done wrong?

    What he's saying is:

    - Open buy menu

    - the menu appears

    - loading appears

    - don't close the menu!

    - press M&M

    - when you come back to the menu it will have loaded the list.

    Do it several times... sometimes the buy menu itself takes a long time to load.... doing M&Ms several times makes it faster...

  9. Posted

    Can anyone explain what is the right way to conquer a town?

    After conquering the whole map (flushed down the toilet because of an incompletable quest), I still can't say for sure...

    Sometimes I go to the main site (the town hall if you will...) and it will only take a few minutes being stoped near it.

    On other times, I could stay at the main site for hours... and nothing happens... then I have to conquer all strongpoints before going to the main site.

    Explain me your techniques....

  12. Posted

    Hmm, when you killed the spetnatz did a CDF guy appear and check the bodies and tell you that the blond russian was one of them?

    All I can say is that I did the Russian mission before destroying the last Chedaki base. This seemed the logical way to do it. After destroying the base I don't think I even had to go back to my base to talk to Marney; it just went to the cutscene or next mission- I can't quite remember.

    No that didn't happen!!!

    There was no one checking the bodies... I killed 5 or 6 guys and then went on my way....

    I'm gonna kill someone!!!!

    GRRRRR!!!!!

    I just feel like screaming!!!!

    ---------- Post added at 09:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:19 AM ----------

    My game clock reads 03:20....

    So many hours WASTED in this mission.... almost a week in real time...

    Went back to the ambush site to see if I could find something to explain how that happened... and I remembered that as soon as the cutscene ends and you have the spetsnaz shooting at you, 3 dead bodies pop up.... from russian soldiers...

    Also confirmed (setting terrain detail to very low) that I killed 5 spetsnaz...

    Had to reload several times because someone from Razor kept getting killed...

    I also got screwed, because at the time I made the delivery my Razor teammates were safely stashed away, across the map in a T-72.... and where teleported to me... I was accompanied by 2 AT soldiers that went AWOL... probably kidnapped by aliens... eventually had to disband them...

    I also was left with NO means of transportation... thank god I had the MH-60 from the landing force... and didn't have to hike all the way to HQ.

    Basically I had to eat a sandwich of shit, and in the end it didn't matter because the quest is screwed...

    ---------- Post added at 10:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:01 AM ----------

    Loaded the mission in the editor... just found out what's wrong:

    Missed a Spetsnaz scout... don't know why... or even if he was there... but I didn't kill him... killed the other 5... but not the Scout...

  14. Posted

    Can anyone explain to me all the twists and turns of the "Deal with the russians" assignment?

    This is what I did:

    Found Lopotev and took him to the ruskies... killed some spetnatz and now after doing everything else, it tells me to talk to Marny.... but he won't say anything. I already took EVERY Chedakhi town, already destroyed the main camp, and I'm stuck... what am I supposed to do.... already did the Prizrak debug console thingy as someone suggested... and after more than 11h real mission time.... I'm stuck!!!

  16. Posted

    Yes, but this is the bug - he is again live (regardless you have killed him in previous mission) and the dialog (and thus code activating different things) will not continue until he is dead again... ;)

    Did what you suggested and killed him (different clothing though)....

    Still I am unable to finish the mission... will try to conquer the last 3 vilages.... but after around 11h real misssion time, and 5 days in real time... kind of tired of this mission....

  17. Posted

    And you will not be able, until Prizrak is killed. And you cannot kill him, because he is far far away... use my solution and you will be able to talk with Marny...

    I killed him in the previous mission.... I had to restart the whole mission because I installed the BI hotfix....

    Will try it out!

    No harm done!

  22. Posted

    I had this same trouble with Prizrak not dying, but hotfix and restart corrected it.

    Now Im having trouble with ending the mission. I have all the tasks completed except the 'Find evidence' part which is 1/2. Do I need to find evidence somewhere to end the mission? I'd like to progress without using 'endmission' or other workarounds.

    Also, someone mentioned the optional missions, I have played this mission three times to Prizrak point and I've never seen any side missions. Yesterday I found the group with BMP-2 and couple of UAZ loitering around, but havent got that as mission.

    The 2nd find evidence only appeared for me on my 1st play through... it's a side quest.

    Then I had to restart the mission because of the hotfix and it didn't show up. But I finished the mssion anyway and didn't care about the evidence... it affects nothing...

    My 2 cents: Probably as I was much more efficient in my 2nd run, I didn't give enough time for the enemy to capture the town which the quest is about.

    Detailed explanation on the quest:

    The quest starts by someone radioing you to meet in the HQ (way before the Prizrak quest), you then meet a couple of guys who ask you to go on a village and defend it from attacks.

    You go to the village, Vishnoye (or something like that), talk to the natives, and soon after a couple of BMPs show up with some APC support.

    After you've destroyed them, you'll have the 2nd evidence.

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