The Blue Sun Mod

[R@S]

You need to follow the second car, it will be leaving Puerto Viejo right after you. Just left-click on the arrow and you'll automatically stick close to it. If you don't, you'll miss the ambush event and the mission will fail.

[Vityek]

Hello people!

I just encountered a rather annoying error during the Querano showdown. No bullets come out. Yeah, you heard me. The guns fire but that's it, nuffink leaves the barrel. It's pretty hard to shoot all those meatbags this way.

Did some foolin' around: it happens with different mercs, different weapons, different places and firing stances. Reloaded map, reverted to earlier save and entered fresh, still no joy. Curiously sometimes bullets DO come out but mostly the ones that miss by a margin and give a skill increase. Sometimes happens to the enemy as well.

Map itself seems fine, already did the trader rescue on it.

I may be able to finish that quest but it would take days of constant reloads, and I just don't see myself doing it. Anyone had this one before?

[R@S]

Originally Posted by Vityek

I just encountered a rather annoying error during the Querano showdown. No bullets come out. Yeah, you heard me. The guns fire but that's it, nuffink leaves the barrel. It's pretty hard to shoot all those meatbags this way.

Long time no see, welcome back

It's a vanilla bug, the reason for it is unknown. Luckily it only happens on very rare occasions. IIRC it also happened sometimes in BE5, so it must be some weird circumstances in the combat engine that makes it appear.

[Vityek]

Wow, thanks for the welcome-back. Never thought someone would actually remember me from back then.

Anyway I seem to attract the rarest bugs in all games, must be my karma.

The other thing I noticed is the Ford car model. Shouldn't it be the Mustang? There is even a model for it in the harbor but my car looks like an old Renault or something. Or do the car objects behave differently?

BTW is it possible to coerce a merc into a certain slot? I mean I want a guy to be #2 but he insists on being the last in line. Telling the others to stay put and rejoining them doesn't work.

[Nat_Crelk]

Originally Posted by Dr.Q

[...] the way this was done in HLA, with a modular system where the sights and mountings are separate items.

Can it be possible to implement such a system in BSM (maybe a part of the new HLA launcher ?

Nat

[R@S]

Originally Posted by Vityek

Anyway I seem to attract the rarest bugs in all games, must be my karma.

Try to keep the play time down below 2 hours in any session, after that you need to restart the game. It doesn't matter how good your computer is, after 2 hours weird errors such as this start to appear. And if you save after the error has occurred, if will follow you 'til the end of the game.

Originally Posted by Vityek

The other thing I noticed is the Ford car model. Shouldn't it be the Mustang? There is even a model for it in the harbor but my car looks like an old Renault or something. Or do the car objects behave differently?

The problem is that one needs the ACT file for any new car, and the only one I found was the crappy one I already implemented. There might be others hidden in some other folder or in Reloaded, but I haven't had the time to check it more thoroughly.

Originally Posted by Vityek

BTW is it possible to coerce a merc into a certain slot? I mean I want a guy to be #2 but he insists on being the last in line. Telling the others to stay put and rejoining them doesn't work.

I think the order of the mercs are determined by their GUMID number, not sure if there's a way to alter that. It might be the MERCENARIES file order that gives them that number, but I haven't tested it so it's only speculations on my part.

Originally Posted by Nat_Crelk

Can it be possible to implement such a system in BSM (maybe a part of the new HLA launcher ?

It could be implemented without the HLA launcher as well, the problem is all the attachment models required. If I had the models I'd prolly do it, but I'm not willing to borrow them from the HLA guys.

Even tho Ive been terribly busy at work I've been able add a lot to the next version already. The work project deadline is tomorrow, after that I'll add and fix a few more things before the final testing period. Here's a small preview of what will come


- New weapons (G36K WR, G36 WR, Type 56-1, Zastava M-91, Remington Model Seven LS, Remington Model 710 and BAR)

- New missions ("Suicide Bomber""We meet again mr Lond""Plugging the Leak")

- Some rare weapons has become unique and are only available through missions

- Muerte and Paquito has gotten new voices

- Added an on/off switch for Merc comments in BlueSunMod.ini

- Iron Man mode added, switch in BlueSunMod.ini

- 7 New Uniforms from TodeswolF that will give a small camouflage bonus

- Manuals and other magazines can be read, giving a small bonus

- New Benicia model from Deadhead

- New treatment system at hospitals, mercs will have to spend time there to recover if wounded more than 5 HP

- New weapon repair system, only a few NPC's can repair.

[Vityek]

Originally Posted by R@S

I think the order of the mercs are determined by their GUMID number, not sure if there's a way to alter that. It might be the MERCENARIES file order that gives them that number, but I haven't tested it so it's only speculations on my part.

When I got Paquito and later hired two guys they were after him. Then I left Paquito at the base and when I picked him up again he appeared after them. Same thing didn't work later tho.

Anyways, thanks for all your answers and your hard work!

[ivanra78]

Hi, i have a problem with this great game. I played it earlier, but now i can't even install it. When i try to install a patch 1.06 i get this message AZP.EXE-UNABLE TO LOCATE COMPONENT and that a MSVCR71.DLL was not found, and then when a press OK i get this COMPRESSION COMPLETE PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE.I have done everything that is explained in the first page by R@S, I followed all the steps and the game is not working, i can even start the game but then the game crashes.I am using Windows XP, and if enyone can help thanks .Sorry for my bad English , but I am not from English speking area.

[R@S]

Unistall, the game, then reinstall. Then copy the Unofficial Patch 1.06 to your game folder along with Windows 7 fix file found here:

Windows 7 Patch Fix

Then Run the PatchMe.bat file and the archiving should work.

[Nat_Crelk]

Originally Posted by R@S

The work project deadline is tomorrow, after that I'll add and fix a few more things before the final testing period.

Again, I can give a hand for testing if you want !

Nat