Cold War 2020 Mod R.C.0.6 is out!

PanzerBob · #1 July 26th, 2008, 12:54 AM

One question, on what seems to be an excellent piece of work. Does this effect the Canada OOB? I have an MBT loaded just for kind of thing, just wanted to know if I should protect my Canadian OOB.

Bob out

PlasmaKrab · #2 July 26th, 2008, 06:16 AM

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PanzerBob said:
One question, on what seems to be an excellent piece of work. Does this effect the Canada OOB? I have an MBT loaded just for kind of thing, just wanted to know if I should protect my Canadian OOB.

Nope, not yet. The list of affected OOBs was posted pretty much everywhere on this thread, on the mod page, the readme... Canada I haven't got around to do yet, but probably soon. There are no icons, lbms, picklists or other changes that should affect the Canadian OOB, and the .obf file itself is not overwritten.

In any case, I once again advise everyone to install the mod over a new copy of WinSPMBT rather than over the one you usually play and edit, to avoid PBEM conflicts and losing custom files.
If you want to install the Cold War mod on a fresh game folder and then copy your custom Canadian OOB into it, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Please tell me if it doesn't, and how.

PanzerBob · #3 July 27th, 2008, 06:45 AM

Seems everything has worked as advertised, it didn't effect my Canada OOB. Just to clarify, is there supposed to be a Comache or a Abrams follow on? Not a problem otherwise, seems to play fine so far.

PlasmaKrab · #4 July 27th, 2008, 10:29 AM

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PanzerBob said:
Seems everything has worked as advertised, it didn't effect my Canada OOB. Just to clarify, is there supposed to be a Comache or a Abrams follow on? Not a problem otherwise, seems to play fine so far.

Great, nice to know everything works as planned!
Abrams follow-on is pretty clearly included in the US OOB in the shape of the old Block-3 tank and family. That's the non-export version, export-proof successor coming soon.
Comanche follow-on would be rather out of scope in terms of game timeline and technology IMHO, and the late Apaches and Comanches are already fearsome enough to hold the line until 2020.

Warhero · #5 July 27th, 2008, 11:17 AM

You are in right Plasma

... I didn't noticed that I forgot to install 4.0 patch from some reason. It's ok now.

cbreedon · #6 July 27th, 2008, 08:36 PM

Plasma

Thanks for all your work here. I have never downloaded your Cold War Mods so I have a question. I was looking at the E German (Ukraine) OOB and it looks like it is the same as the Official Ukranian OOB with a different flag. Has there been work on the OOB or did I screw something up? I have a separate install for your mod.

PanzerBob · #7 July 28th, 2008, 02:22 AM

Ok as I suspected I loaded things up wrong I forgot to copy your OOB's into the OOB file. {cbreedon this may be your problem the CW OOB file is a separate folder placed into the OOB folder. This must be done by the user. As well the DDR OOB is in the Ukrainian slot the name change required to an exe change not possible.)

Anyway now everything is right in the future universe, I'm impressed with the work done here. BTW no problem again with my Canada OOB. If you�d like I�ll line it up with your AH vision and send you a copy.

FYI I've found a couple small errors thus far:

#1- US OOB one of the FB-22 Raptors has in it's #1 wpns slot a cannon listed as a GBU-35 JDAM. I beleive you meant for a cannon to be there.

#2- POLAND OOB the Hibernyt SPAA looks to be meant to be Truck/AAA unit, however the icon is a Lt Tank.

If I find anything else I'll let you know.

Bravo Zulu on a job well done.

Bob out

PlasmaKrab · #8 July 28th, 2008, 01:48 PM

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cbreedon said:Thanks for all your work here. I have never downloaded your Cold War Mods so I have a question. I was looking at the E German (Ukraine) OOB and it looks like it is the same as the Official Ukranian OOB with a different flag. Has there been work on the OOB or did I screw something up? I have a separate install for your mod.

As explained by PanzerBob (and in the readme and the install notes, incidentally), the modded OOBs are installed into a dedicated "Custom OOBs" folder called "ColdWar2020_v0.6". Once the mod is installed, you still have to use the "Custom OOB Sets Manager" to load the OOBs.
This is meant to prevent overwriting other preexistent custom OOBs that may be in the default OOB folder.

I hope this helps and that you enjoy the content! (and the differences with the regular Ukraine OOB, of course)