Cm_blast

1 Campaign added: -New house Sequel, By Cm_Blast

The old post is pretty much outdated since then now with all the new releases of new versions of the editor we have actual regular numbers and not hexadecimal counts, although overall still works the same. I don´t remember if I mention the proportions on the original post: this is a screenshot from the lastes editor that no longer use hexadecimal values. If you have a proportion of 1,000, killing your own units won´d do anything, as you get both a kill an a casualty at the same time. Because of these, the mercenaries with whatever proportion they had (I don´t remember from memory right now), even if they kill their own troopers with the sieges that won´t affect them, or at least not in a negative way. I guess you can make them kill their own troopers with their sieges just to make it to not turn against you easily on those missions. And, if I recall, crushing over infantry also count.

I don´t understand, I have no link on the first post here. so not sure if you mean that you clicked on the index, or you clicked something here. Regarless, if you only need the mission launcher, check the signature of the user of the 2º post, that´s the autor of the launcher, that will send you to a topic that contain a big "DOWNLOAD" to download.

like awil mention, the ally getting really stuck because it stop sending units, this is also true for the enemy, the smuggleres (mission 6b) had a gallilion of units, I had to provoke them just to make them to move at all, and well, not just smugglers but pretty much every one. And the main reason is this value, the Morale Attack building, that the lower it is, the more scared an AI will be based on how many units their allies died. This is not a screenshot from your mission, I picked a random mission from the original game, but thing is that I know you are reusing missions, maps and ais from the original game. On the original game is not too much because the enemy doesn´t have thousand of units nor get lots of reinforcements and deliveries, so the AI becomes more pasive but won´t gather as many as your missions. Also, if you check the Ordos missions where you have an ally, you will see the mercenaries have "100" in all of them, to avoid issues with your ally not doing anything. Now it´s up to you if you want to change that, and if you don´t do it for the enemy, at least do it for the ally on your missions, otherwise, they may get stuck forever since a Player will never stop figthing one way or another (and well, game will potentially crash when a frigate don´t have room because there is just too many units, either ally or enemy, just because it didn´t happen it doesn´t mean it cannot). Here, a good reason to not give the Ai priority against walls, he will try to use the sabos into them

I completed mission 4 and 5, there are a couple of things to mention. The main issue is this one, you blocked this entrance, which makes those enemies landing there unable to exit, luckily the mercs can deal with them with raiders and tanks, but still, this is kind of bad to have there The second is something minor, but worth mentioning. Your ally like to attack every piece of wall. Although this is not too bad, once the mission is kind of over and walls doesn´t matter Anymore, you have an ally that keeps wasting time, instead of just finishing the mission. This wouldn´t be an issue if the player has his own base and army, but here I just wish they just continuing destroying the remaining harversters and the few smugglers structures left, and more in a mission where destroying enemy buildings don´t stop enemy reinforcements to happen. You can change that here: Just put 0,000 on all the 3 walls and they will stop doing it. you can keep it for the enemy if you want them to break through walls or something, but for an ally it is a bit problematic. Anyway, I kind like the idea of having an ally with a big main force keeping the enemy busy while you sneak with the infantry to do damage that you wouldn´t do on your own, so so far enjoying the campaign even if it is so different than the usuals one, will keep playing nexts ones.

I started playing the early missions on this campaign, and I want to point a couple of things that you maybe didn´t notice. First, on the first mission, I saw a quick blink of text that I could´t read. Checking the editor, I saw you wrote "1" in duration, this means that the message only last 1 tick: Either you put a "0" there (this is the default, which I think is 400-500 ticks, around 16-20 in game seconds), or you write a different value, but surely not less than 400 to let people read it. The second is, that I notice that on the 2º mission some walls were under my control, I feel that you weren´t suppose to have them and you put the wrong ones by mistake? I cannot tell, but just in case I put the screenshot, with the "ownership" activated to let you know that most the pieces are on my control. If done on purpose then disregard this, if not, you may need to change it, mostly because "base under attack" got me confused thinking my barracks got attacked, and well, you can sell the walls for both movility and extra credits to train more infantry. Nothing wrong with mission 3 I am halway mission 4, and I already notice some guys going iddle, you forgot to put them into hunt mode Also, I don´t know the rest of the campaign yet, but it is a bit confusing figthing blue vs blue. I didn´t mind on early missions since they were only a few of them and they were iddle and just mean to be killed, but here sometimes I don´t even know if that combat tank is mine of enemy.

STORY: This is a sequel to the "A new house" campaign. That campaign presented an alternative story how a fourth House, along with Atreides, Harkonnen and Ordos join the battle for Arrakis. Despite being behind in tech and manpower, that House defeat the other 3, and even the Emperor, to win the competition and take control of Arrakis. Now the planet is theirs, although some Frigates has been lurking and threaten to make some trouble on the new rulers. THEME: The main theme is the presentation of 5 minor houses that will try to fight for the planet. The minor houses are Ginaz, Ecaz, Moritani, Mutelli and Richese. All these will have less tech available than the player, and they won´t be able to produce certain units based on the house, like building siege tanks but not combat tanks. Instead, they will have multiple bases or the game will present variants of the "destroy all", making lots of self references as the structure of the sequel is the same as the original (similar objetives if you compare both). This campaign also present the "autoqueue", which means that once you click on a unit, that unit will be keep being produced constatly and non-stop unless the player cancel it or the money is low. The maps used the expanded version from Fey´s, so they will resemble the original maps from the campaign; they have been expanded and altered, so people will remember the maps but they won´t play exactly as the original. This is still a vanilla campaign with no mods applied, although the duration is going to be more than the original as the overall tech of the game (for the player at least) starts bigger, but also you fight more enemies. Screenshots: Attacking an Ecaz base that only have low tech units available. Protecting the Smugglers from Ginaz attacks. Moritani and Richese forces keep hostage the smugglers, stealing any units being delivered to them. Trying to escape from the Mutelli Ambush that forces the Fremen to fight back. FILE: New House Sequel.rar This is a vanilla campaign, It only uses custom colors for the new enemies. HOW TO INSTALL: Unzip the file and copy every folder into the root of the game. Any folders included will go to the path that it is suppose to go. If the launcher triggers and error is because the color files are not properly applied, game still will run, but the enemies will be the main colors instead.

Same, only reason I keep playing the game since the last 10-15 years is only because the custom missions, if not I would have this game totally forgotten (and only ocassionally playing the original missions once every +5 years). Also, I just finished a new campaign, a sequel of a really old campaign of mine, which will be release really soon, so that´s even more stuff to play!

In preparation for the sequel, I made some balance changes to the original campaign to make it not feel as hard on certain parts that didn´t mean to, the main post has a summary, but here there are some detailes. -First, I added coloring into the Atreides, it is hard to know if that quad is yours of theirs, same with combat tanks, so I gave them a taint of blue. They only appear on 3 missions, so feel free to not apply if you are using the online color path. The launcher will say a file is missing but it will be playable. -Mission 4: I gave the player some reinforcements, they are rather small as the mission wasn´t too hard to start with, but this will give you a bit room of error in case you under-perform. Also, near the completion of the timer, you will get a harvester for free, which either will speed up the production of tanks on the 2º part (to make the mission less tedious) or replenish the harvester that the sandworm ate, thus making the mission more bearable and not having to restart if you loose one. -Mission 5: the enemy dropped lots of reinforcements, so I removed and reduced some of them; but also the enemy at the top was really defensive. Now the amount of units defending it is smaller, and instead it will build more focused on sending attacks. The attack will be slighly stronger, but it will consist on more quads and less combat tanks and with the reduced/removed enemy reinforcements it won´t feel as bad to try to attack them now. -Mission 6: mission is untouched. Now, due having some buildings as part of a "cutscene", you could always deploy structures there. I never did for testing-balancing purposes, but the thing is that by using it, the mission is easier. Some people may not even be aware that you could do that, so now the game will trigger a message reminding that that area is available so every player has an evenly knowledge of it. This alone speed up the mission so it takes less time to win. Also, there are no longer fake concrete, so now there are more room for extra buildings on that spot. -Mission 7: The mission present a High Tech factory that deliver reinforcements in loops on the Mercenaries, and later on the player if you capture the structure. However, those reinforcements were into used to defend, making the mercenaries to gather an insane amount of units every time they attack. Now they get the same amount of units but those will attack as soon as they land, so the player will have to deal with 4-8 units every once in a while instead of a big 30-40 unit wave (much stronger than the Harkonnen sends on this same mission). Since now the mercs no longer hold the units, they will be less defensive too, so easier to destroy. Overall these are the changes done, done to make some missions less punishing, and enemies less defensive. Maybe a little more aggresive but better to face minor waves often than a massive wave later that may destroy you if you are not expecting it.

The creator of the Launcher is Feda, so he is the only one that knows exactly how it works, but just to be clear, the files that are going to be overwriten are named as ".bak", so for example you have the file "template.bin" which contain the units on the game. If my mod make that the raider now cost 5000 credits, that file is already modded. when you play my mission with the that modded file, the launcher first pick up the original "template.bin" and named it as "template.bin.bak", so in the worse case of a pc shutting down, you at least still have the original missions and you can proceed to renamed your self. But also, on the main folder on the game installed, a folder called "MissionLauncherBackups" is going to send the original files that were about to be overwritten, so if the Pc just "break", the best solution is going to that folder and copy everything on it. It probably will contain files that weren´t part of the group copied with this mod but previous mods, but at least you know that copying these files into the proper folder (usually is "\data") is the safest way to recuperate the original state on the game. And to be even more safe, if I am not wrong that mission folder back up copy the file only the very first time, so with the example of the raider, it will copy the template.bin there before applying the modded version, but later, whatever is replaying this mod or 5 other campaigns that modified the cost of other units, it won´t matter, the "template.bin" on the back up folder still will be the one that was originally before loading any mod.

Did you download from this post or the all in one installer? (or any other site). Also, if you played other custom campaign/mission prior to my campaign, your game may have loaded wrong stuff on it. The butlerian is a vanilla campaign, which means it doesn´t use any mods, so you know for sure that it is not a mod of mine wrong applied (this campaign showcase intel and tactical map, but it is not modded in anyway). So what may be happening is that you applied whatever mod from other mission, and now the mercenaries (ordos) structures no longer exist, maybe whatever mod reused those structures for a different side, or removed from existing to the ordos/mercs side and, when trying to play my mission, they don´t exist to beging with, thus failing the mission, as mercs loosing any of the heavy/light factories or barracks is what make you loose. So at the end, a random mod removed any of those 3 building from the ordos/mercenaries and because of that you "fail" the mission instatly. Only way is to recuperate the game to the original state, either using files from the "MissionLauncherBackups" folder (if you have it), or reinstalling the game. I know the mission works fine as the previous user just played it right, hard, but right.

I have no idea then, it is really really weird. I could understand 1 campaign being all wrong because I uploaded the wrong file or something, but just 2 specific missions not working is incredible odd (missions 10, 11 and 12 use all 3 the same files, either all show up wrong files, or none do, but happening on just 1 of the 3 would be incredible weird). Even the border color is displaying (assuming still happens the same way) the tleilaxu one (tha greenie/blueish mix) , instead the Coalition (wine color) which it match the color of your units. This is not exactly a solution, but if your all in one installer works with every other mission except those two, you can at least play all the other campaigns it contains, as right now there are like around 50 campaigns to play, so you have lots of hours of content, skipping this one specific campaign won't change that much.

I don't know what it is wrong, any other mission, whatever is mine or from another player works fine? just to know if it is mine or it is something that happens to your whole game. just random missions you can find, or only happens with those 2 specific missions? Just load any Atreides mission, original or custom one, to see if it is something realated with my mod or just the whole game is broken for whatever reason. But seeing how all seems so wrong (is literally impossible to see damage buildings on your game unless a files there went really wrong) I could suggest to just uninstall and delete all, and just redownload the all in one installer, doing a fully fresh instalation, withouth copying anything more and try again.

Here. Now, after you download and try the first mission to see if it works. If it works, before playing more (I mean, you can still keep playing more), pick up this one. I updated this mission because I did a mistake I wasn't aware, it is the mission 18, so it is near the end of the campaign, so no need to rush, but if you can play missions 1,2,3... just fine, download and apply this one. The folder is just "data/missions" and should prompt you to overwrite.

@FunkyFr3sh Colour editor link doesn't work. either update the link, or just straigh upload the tool directly into the forum ( I can upload it myself).