[REL] FOTRS Ultimate Project

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by merc4ulfate

Probeanie I think The Task Force hates me. The following is beginning from a good save.

So I have forgone attacking the force with CTD issue in the Marianas instead I am sitting in the Subuya sea waiting for Karita's center force to come through.

The first try they turned around and left and I couldn't catch up and over take them due to all the planes they kept in the air.

The second try I went to the San Bernadino pass and waited for them and sank a Fuso, two Yamato, three DD and a CA. After that save however it can not be reloaded and the whole game crashes upon loading that save.

The third try I move to the far west side of the sea to try an attack there since it is narrow. I see a lot of large groups of allied planes coming and going moving from east to west then south west. Just when the TF should be showing up on radar CTD which I found weird since I have see this TF twice before but at different locations along the route.

I had no issues with IJN planes around me so I am thinking maybe this is an issue with one of the allied planes? I am going to try to rerun the last one and see if I can get any more information.

Do you remember the dates of the 2nd & then 3rd encounters? I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but I did find some "naming" convention troubles in the BattleofPhilippineSea.mis file? The file shouldn't be capable of loading in the ME and "playing" the VCR feature if there is something wrong with the file, but it did. Hence, my supposition that all was well with the file. It might be now that you have a corrupted Save file from the 1st encounter and / or the 2nd encounter. The new BattleofPhilippineSea.mis file will be different than the one in V0.90, and should (in theory) run better. We are in the process of jumping over the last few hurdles to bring out the next version.

[merc4ulfate]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Do you remember the dates of the 2nd & then 3rd encounters? I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but I did find some "naming" convention troubles in the BattleofPhilippineSea.mis file? The file shouldn't be capable of loading in the ME and "playing" the VCR feature if there is something wrong with the file, but it did. Hence, my supposition that all was well with the file. It might be now that you have a corrupted Save file from the 1st encounter and / or the 2nd encounter. The new BattleofPhilippineSea.mis file will be different than the one in V0.90, and should (in theory) run better. We are in the process of jumping over the last few hurdles to bring out the next version.

Excellent. I had not read that about the file.

All dates were Oct. 24 1944 simply at different times of that date. 1st encounter maybe around 1000 if I remember correctly, 2nd around 2400 maybe on Oct. 25 near 0500 I honesty do not remember I do remember it was after sunset and very dark which makes me think more about 0500 10-25-1944.

3rd encounter I think about 0700.

[propbeanie]

Attention all FotRSU campers! Stay tuned to this channel for upcoming announcements and further instruction. Just remember that this next release will not be backward compatible, and you will have to have a "fresh" install and empty the Save game folder for it, just as almost all releases in the past have been like. Just the nature of the beast when there are certain changes in a mod's files. We did find issues with campaign files, ships, planes and flotilla assignments. Nothing major in any of them, but as merc4ulfate found, if you encounter two issues in one scenario, it can cause a CTD. We do hope and pray though that we aren't like Ubisoft and fixing one issue while breaking three others... - we will have more info ASAP WOF.

[torpedobait]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Attention all FotRSU campers! Stay tuned to this channel for upcoming announcements and further instruction. Just remember that this next release will not be backward compatible, and you will have to have a "fresh" install and empty the Save game folder for it, just as almost all releases in the past have been like. Just the nature of the beast when there are certain changes in a mod's files. We did find issues with campaign files, ships, planes and flotilla assignments. Nothing major in any of them, but as merc4ulfate found, if you encounter two issues in one scenario, it can cause a CTD. We do hope and pray though that we aren't like Ubisoft and fixing one issue while breaking three others... - we will have more info ASAP WOF.

As always, any new release is eagerly anticipated! Thanks for the very hard work!

[Immelmann]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Attention all FotRSU campers! Stay tuned to this channel for upcoming announcements and further instruction. Just remember that this next release will not be backward compatible, and you will have to have a "fresh" install and empty the Save game folder for it, just as almost all releases in the past have been like. Just the nature of the beast when there are certain changes in a mod's files. We did find issues with campaign files, ships, planes and flotilla assignments. Nothing major in any of them, but as merc4ulfate found, if you encounter two issues in one scenario, it can cause a CTD. We do hope and pray though that we aren't like Ubisoft and fixing one issue while breaking three others... - we will have more info ASAP WOF.

Staying tuned.

[merc4ulfate]

Eager to give the new one a good run.

[s7rikeback]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Attention all FotRSU campers! Stay tuned to this channel for upcoming announcements and further instruction. Just remember that this next release will not be backward compatible, and you will have to have a "fresh" install and empty the Save game folder for it, just as almost all releases in the past have been like. Just the nature of the beast when there are certain changes in a mod's files. We did find issues with campaign files, ships, planes and flotilla assignments. Nothing major in any of them, but as merc4ulfate found, if you encounter two issues in one scenario, it can cause a CTD. We do hope and pray though that we aren't like Ubisoft and fixing one issue while breaking three others... - we will have more info ASAP WOF.

[cdrsubron7]

[Larrywb57]

Attention all FotRSU campers! Stay tuned to this channel for upcoming announcements and further instruction. Just remember that this next release will not be backward compatible, and you will have to have a "fresh" install and empty the Save game folder for it, just as almost all releases in the past have been like. Just the nature of the beast when there are certain changes in a mod's files. We did find issues with campaign files, ships, planes and flotilla assignments. Nothing major in any of them, but as merc4ulfate found, if you encounter two issues in one scenario, it can cause a CTD. We do hope and pray though that we aren't like Ubisoft and fixing one issue while breaking three others... - we will have more info ASAP WOF.

Expecting my new rig any day. I can't wait, is it Christmas soon!

[Front Runner]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Attention all FotRSU campers! Stay tuned to this channel for upcoming announcements and further instruction.......

Standing By.

[fitzcarraldo]

Waiting the new iteration with some girls at the Hotel Royale in Honolulu.

Fitzcarraldo

[propbeanie]

Oooohhhh... our crew will be right over! Expenses go on Lockwood's account, on account of he isn't looking right now... - We are currently working on getting some drive space for the upload, so hopefully, it will be very soon!

[captcrane]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Oooohhhh... our crew will be right over! Expenses go on Lockwood's account, on account of he isn't looking right now... - We are currently working on getting some drive space for the upload, so hopefully, it will be very soon!

Ready to Batton down the hatches! Can't wait been loving the last release. Appreciate all the hard work you guys do. It's above and beyond!

[Skipper44]

I'm very excited about this. I got through to 1943 in the Asiatic Fleet but I'm willing to put a pin in that save to experience the new version.

Is there a tentative changelog?

[propbeanie]

An actual, well-planned and layed-out change log? No. For the most part, all but a few of the updates done to FotRSU have not been backwards compatible, and this one is no exception. Anytime you change the Flotillas.upc and PatrolObjectives, you usually are not backwards-compatible. In this case, there are also changes to the DynamicMiss.cfg, as well as quite a few files in the Campaign folder, as well as the PatrolObjectives folders. I can tell you this though, we found issues with:

1. Some load-outs on airplanes did not function - fixed
2. Type B, C & D IJN DE with zon file issues - fixed
3. Several flotillas had a bad assignment in one of their boats - fixed
4. Some of the PatrolObjectives.cfg entries had typos - fixed
5. Some of the DynamicMiss.cfg entries were inappropriate - fixed
6. A Battle mis file had improperly numbered entries - fixed
7. Two PatrolObjective folders had typos in their mis and / or tsr files - fixed
8. Edited DynmaicMiss folder tsr files messages for better clarity (at least, better to this befuddled brain)
9. A SingleMission had a somewhat confusing Objective - clarified
10. Several supporting Campaign mis files edited
11. Several entries added to PatrolObjectives
12. Several entries added to DynamicMiss.cfg
13. Several files "standardized" for future updates / add-ons
14. Finally got Kendras "B17s Over Europe converted for the Pacific
15. Several optional add-in mods added to the MODS folder
16. Expanded "help" system, with a "01_FotRSU_Support_TOC.bat" file in the game's root folder, that will start a pdf when run. The file has links to some of the other pdf files in the Support folder

There are a few others, but the grey matter is muddy right now, and cannot pull the data from the banks. I also cannot remember if we had all of the ships in v0.90, so you might notice a new IJN CA, seaplane tender, US Patrol Boat, and the like...