The Blue Sun Mod

[MoreDread]

no you will just have to go exploring on your own =)

having done this mission means that you can now travel in the restricted zone
(marked by the borders around those 5 different cities you can see right from the start)

there are a few other cities and other sectors outside + theres a chance to get random encounters with bandits... those are a good way to hone your fighting skills and collect some loot.

for that it is very advisable NOT to miss that drunkard guy in the bar in santa maria.. because he will give you your first car.

beeing able to put loot in your trunk is essential if you wanna hunt bandits and not loose most of the loot after battles and it also greatly increases your traveling speed. (note that there are a few missions that don't work if you have a car... mainly escorting the german guy in puerto viejo and the assault on the convoy if you decide to work for tanya. if you want to do these missions, simply ask a bartender to look after your car for a while.)
the drunkard will also allow you to do quite a few missions for the corrupt policeman in sagrada. just give it a try, these missions are hilarious. you can fire him afterwards if you don't like paquito..

and Dr.Q was mentioning benicia, she is basically a free merc.
talk to the foreigner in the campecino hospital, he will ask you to save her from his overprotective father in santa maria. then instead of delivering her to her lover right away, you can just keep her in your team for free until you need that spot for hiring an 'actual' merc. (theres a non-violent way to solve this quest.. look around the forums if you can't discover it yourself, i explained it somewhere)

[Kyle]

MoreDread,

Well, I can't tell you how good it is to know that I wasn't "wasting" my time going waaaaaaay down south, enter that cloud, and just to see what would happen. So, the fact that I can even enter that region demonstrates that the Easter Egg mission worked, although I didn't know it yet!

In a way, having to explore that region with no assists makes it feel more foreboding, almost like living "Heart of Darkness." Interesting!

Now I have to get those "free" mercs, because my first encounter in the canyons was quite a challenge with me and the one merc I did hire, Warlock. Help is definitely needed from this point onward.

One thing that I miss from Brigade E5 is that a majority of these maps seem more restrictive both in the absence of vertical tactical options and with depicting regions that certainly look accessible to humans, but are made off limits in the game. The "Jungle" map is a good example of this. Those mounds look approachable to me!

The canyons map is the first map I've fought on where the threat of the lower and upper elevations kept me nervous. I hope that there's more of this down the road.

Thanks for your tremendously detailed response. It's got my interest level piqued!

[Dyhhan]

Originally Posted by Gnomy

First, thank you for improving one of my favorite (if flawed) games!

Unfortunately, I am having problem running the newest version of Blue Sun Mod. I re-installed 7.62, and applied unofficial patch. At that point, the game ran fine. Then, I installed Blue Sun Mod on top of it, and now it crushes whenever the first map loads after the character creation.

I am using Win7 64bit, and Gamersgate version. I am suspecting that the modified e6.exe included in the mod is causing problem with secuROM (GG version needed to be activated first), but I am not very sure. Thank you for the help.

I'm having the same problem as Gnomy, and I did what Legionnaire=M= suggested, but this still happens. I installed everything perfectly. I'm also running the Gamersgate version but on a 32bit XP pro os.

There is another issue I have. When I run the PatchMe.bat I get an error message that looks like this:
This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Anyone have any ideas, and what is that .dll about?

Forgot to say; mine also crashes after character creation, and it worked fine before the BSM install

[MoreDread]

microsoft visual c++ runtime components.. this is what you need, google vcredist or follow this link, then download, install and try again.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[Dyhhan]

Thanks for the help. I was looking around, found some answers, my friend sent me the file, and everything works perfectly now.

[Cel.Barbosa]

This mod is great but I think they are missing some weapons such as pistols SIG SAUER for example and have too many variations of Mosin Nagant and AK47, you can put a Mauser 98, a pt24/7, a MT40 and a RT410 from TAURUS, some modern variations of the 1911, some real guns. except for that everything is great, keep up the good work.


sorry for my bad English, I used the google translator.

[R@S]

I would like to see the DSR-50, and the new m14. And a few older SMG's would be nice too. Anyone feel up for some 3d modelling?

[Cel.Barbosa]

a LUGER P08 and a MP40 would be nice.

I having a problem on paquito first mission. whem i press "give that key" the game crash back to windows. any sugestion?

[R@S]

Do you have a car when you do that mission? And what does the log file say about the CTD?

[Cel.Barbosa]

Originally Posted by R@S

Do you have a car when you do that mission? And what does the log file say about the CTD?

I don't have a car and the CTD says nothing.