1st Cav Div. campaign problem...

[DRG]

Looks like we have another mystery on our hands guys. That 1st Cav campaign works perfectly in the my developement copy of the game AND in the game I use to test the patch intallers. Both start up just fine and I do recal testing this one because it's the one where you start by choosing how you want to play it by marching your HQ to one of the selected V hexes.

I will post the files for this later but I would like a bit more info on what it is that won't "start" for you that have this problem and I would like anyone else who reads this thread to try that campaign as well and see if it starts for you as well.

Don

[narwan]

I checked the game files and there is no campaign in slot 005. There are no C005xxx files. The only two files present referring to the campaign are the ucamp005 dat and text files.

Narwan

[markgame]

I just tried it as well and got the same result as the first two posters. I'm running CD version 3.0, patched from 2.51.

When I hightlight selection 005 from the campaign list, which is '1st Cav Div : "LZ X-ray"' and then press the START button I get the "click" sound and the screen flashes just a tiny bit, just like every other menu, but then it displays the exact same game menu I was looking at, the campaign selection menu.

Selecting item 006, "B Company, 11th MEU" takes me directly to the purchase screen, there is no introductory text screen.

All other campaign selection menu selections take me to their appropriate text introduction screens.

[DRG]

OK. I'll be digging the files out today and sending them to Andy to test. If this helps him it will help everyone else as well and I will post them on the forum.

Don

[junk2drive]

I had no problem with LZXray. I had previously used the installer to add this campaign to the game when it first came out.
I sent the installer zip to a friend with the missing files problem and that fixed it.

[DRG]

Gentlemen

THE MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED !!

I had forgotten the LZ XRAY campaign was released separately from the game releases and had instaled it in my master game. When I issued the patch I made a slight adjustment to the main text file which is what you see when you start the game. Anyone who had already DL'd that campaign will see it work perfectly. Anyone who had not installed this campaign prior to V3 being relased will see this error.

There were no alterations in any way to the campaign other than a minor change to the main text file. Anyone who wants this campaign click on the link below and the DL will start


http://download.shrapnelgames.com/do...0Installer.exe


I will ensure this campaign is included in the next patch

Sorry for the confusion

Don

[Warhero]

Thanks about fix Don! But how about that 2nd Para thing? If I understood right, I must purchase landing vehicles for units ok? I saw that description but I didn't noticed that player must add vehicles separetely...

[RVPERTVS]

Don: The readme intro says there is one slight usa oob change, is it going to wreck any pbem or saved game or something?

Regards
Robert

[DRG]

As Mike noted the campaign text tells the player before he starts the first game.......

"
So, in addition to landing-barges be sure to request some anti-air missiles to cover your paratroops from Argentinean planes.*"

It's not a bug in the game or the campaign it's the way it was designed so YOU need to buy landing barges and SAM's ( your choice... either the infanty LAAD or the one of the larger SAMs ) with your support points and then decide what else you can buy with the remaining points. It's designed to give the player flexabilty in what he decides to bring along. Four barges will usually load everything you need but buying 6 allows you more flexabilty where you land the troops and equipment.

It could have been designed to be all set up for you but he's given you some choices to make in how you put your landing force together and to allow that you need to decide on your own how many barges you need

Don