War of Assassins - Ordos Mission 8 is different from YouTube playthroughs

[Abbat]

Hello everyone.

I am playing War of Assassins using Gruntmods Dune 2000 (Mission Launcher).

I have a problem with Ordos Mission 8.

In my version of the mission I cannot build:
- Starport
- Rocket Turrets
- Palace
- IX Research Center

I also cannot build upgraded turrets that are available in the YouTube playthroughs.

However, I found several YouTube playthroughs of the exact same campaign and the exact same mission where all of these are available.

Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olbQapVl8hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hW_-GP-N1s

I already checked my installation, opened D2K_O8.MIS and D2K_O8.MAP in the D2K Map & Mission Editor, and compared the mission settings. Everything seems normal, but my mission is clearly different.

Could someone please tell me:

1. Which version of War of Assassins are those YouTube videos using?
2. Is there a newer or older version of the campaign?
3. Could someone share the correct campaign or the correct D2K_O8.MIS file?

Thank you very much!

[Fey]

On 7/1/2026 at 2:57 PM, Abbat said:

Hello everyone.

hey mate! sorry for the late reply. I tried to get in touch with Feda first, but he's pretty busy nowadays. doesn't have time to troubleshoot, himself

I can't be sure what the exact problem is, but I can tell you that the Mission Launcher automates file replacement. in the old days, before this function, people had to replace their game files with modded ones if they wanted to play any modded campaigns. it was quite troublesome! the new Mission Launcher is not perfect, however. the most frequent issue that results in things changing unintentionally on other maps is a file permissions problem, where the Mission Launcher may be able to move modded files into place so you can play a mission, but fails to restore backups afterwards. this results in mod files being left in places they shouldn't be, and affecting other maps

I could recommend a few courses of action. you could try a fresh install of gruntmods, or dato's 'dunemaster' version instead of gruntmods. you could check Cm's index, linked here: 

 

for the WoA thread, redownload it from there and see if that fixes the issue. and to prevent the file permissions-related issue I described earlier, simply make sure you're running both the game exe itself and the Mission Launcher in administrator mode.

you can also feel free to drop by the Landsraad discord server for more help and information. that's also linked in the above index

hope that helps, mate. good luck!