AlanSA
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18 minutes ago, DesertFox said:
Me neither and I am native german.
I recall in the age of Trump that Germany was touted as the new "leader of the free world". All the while Merkel was making Germany more reliant of Russian gas with her energy policies and going ahead with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline screwing over her European allies who benefited from the tariff revenue off existing pipelines. All to the benefit of Putin who had supposedly struck a dagger to the heart of American democracy. With friends like these....
Lets not get started on Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder who counts Putin as a close personal friend.
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47 minutes ago, womble said:
And the Ukrainians should just knuckle under to a dictator who enforces his will with draconian measures and flat-out lies, because the West is leaving them to swing (which they aren't)? The Ukrainians aren't fighting Putin because the West wants them to, they're fighting him and his gangster buddies because they don't want to be ruled by them. This battle isn't about getting Crimea and Donbass back it's about resisting international criminality.
I'd expect them to find an alternative to engaging in a major urban firefight with the Russian military. If that means capitulating and facing the imposition of a foreign dictator so be it. Especially since that will be the likely result in the end anyway.
It's easy to advocate martyring people, especially if it's from afar, but what are the realistic outcomes people expect from continuing to fight in this manner? What would be a, for the lack of a better word, 'satisfactory' outcome and the odds of actually achieving it vs potential consequences?
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1 hour ago, melm said:
Very sadly. Yes. But what else can people of Ukranian do then? Giving up easily won't help to get Putin's leniency, won't get Crimea and Donbass back. They just have no choice.
Yes they do. They can choose not to engage in an urban war that will cost thousands of innocent lives. Crimea and Donbass are not coming back for the foreseeable future and thousands or perhaps tens of thousands more Ukrainian civilian deaths isn't going to change that.
Bottom line is Russia is willing to fight for Ukraine and the west is not. Putin called the west's bluff and now it's time to cut losses and spare lives. Not prolong the conflict and the devastating consequences that will have for innocent Ukrainians and also vulnerable people across the globe from the economic fallout. Not to mention the ever increasing possibility of war between nuclear powers.
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30 minutes ago, melm said:
It's good to see at least Ukraine is not totally abandoned to their own fate.
Except it's only enough to keep them in the fight a little longer increasing the bloodshed.
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2 hours ago, chuckdyke said:
1994 Ukraine made a big mistake. The nuclear weapons on its soil went back to Russia. If they could say: Stop otherwise there is no more Moscow. I don't think Russia would ever have started it.
Yes because what the world needs is more nuclear armed states. Particularly deeply unstable ones wedged between competing nuclear armed world powers.
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Excellent. Looking forward to getting stuck in. Thank you
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12 hours ago, akd said:
LAV-AT is currently missing its thermals. (known issue)
Been known for about 18 months now.....
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4 hours ago, Placebo said:
I believe it is just talking about voices, I thought the same there is already ethicities so must just be extra voice wav files. I can't believe they want to spend the money to do this but must be ticking an "inclusivity" box for someone.
Well the grifter earning a reported £110 000 a year as a "director of diversity and inclusion" in the MOD has to do something with their time. Problem is when he/she has to come up with more boxes to tick.
It's one thing finding voice actors, it's quite another when you have to bring in a third partner into the business to meet diversity quotas so as to qualify for future contracts. Literally happened to a company I worked for. Lo and behold a humble company driver suddenly found himself a partner in the business......
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Who knew race was so monolithic. Apparently all white people belong to the same hivemind.
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Yes second link is working for me as well.
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Unfortunately I'm getting a "The folder ‘/Ghost Rider CM Missions’ doesn’t exist." error from the link.
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6 hours ago, LukeFF said:
You bumped up this topic to make a juvenile comment like that?
It's a syndrome....
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The updated version or the original?
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Of course reinforcements /facepalm. The creators of the campaigns wouldn't appreciate me making my revised edits of their work available without permission on the forum. Suppose I could PM you directly though.
Seems I've come a cropper with my next attempt "In Search of a Ghost". The Core unit is a 'Stryker Infantry MOUT battalion' but unfortunately a newly created "Stryker Infantry MOUT" Core unit file won't sync with the scenarios instead replacing the scenario units with the entire battalion from the core file.
I suspect it's because the battalion from the campaign is a different TOE to the one in the editor now. For example the battalion in the campaign has no Headquarters Company but the current battalion in the editor does. There are other differences with mortars etc
The solution being to replace the units in each scenario as well and keeping it as close to the original as possible.
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I've completed the 'updated' Guardians of the Homeland campaign successfully with no oddities or crashes. So it is possible.
I've now moved on to another campaign but in the players core units of a scenario in the editor I am seeing (R*) at the end of some units.
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I see. And those AI units will have "core" and the end as well? In the scenarios I'm looking at the AI's units and they have [U2 A*] and [u4 A*] which I assume is something to do with AI plans .
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Thanks I'm experimenting with the "Guardians of the Homeland" campaign as it's 3 linear missions. I've created a "Core Units" file after identifying the core units from each individual scenario. I take it core units are only from the players side or does the AI have equivalent units?
Uncam provided the "campaign script file" 99% complete so that was easily filled.
Put everything together and the game spat out a cam file so I guess I'll play through the campaign, now with allotted time extended and see if anything goes noticeably awry.
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I like to extend scenario time limits in campaigns which requires de-compiling campaigns with ScaneCade and recompiling them again with CombatMissionUniversalUtility after editing individual scenarios. However SF1 user created campaigns are incompatible with ScaneCade. Uncam de-compiles just the scenarios with some other basic info which is not enough to recompile again with CombatMissionUniversalUtility.
With the info and scenarios from Uncam and other info I can glean from www.combatmission.lesliesoftware.com regarding the campaigns I hope to construct the campaign again via the traditional way.
Reading the manual I would need firstly to create a "core units file" which unfortunately is not supplied by Uncam. I suspect identifying core units would be possible by going through the units in the scenario editor for each scenario as the manual states core units have "unique identification numbers" and for any mention of units in the campaign description. Then creating the file....
Then there's the "campaign script file" but before going on I'd like to know whether it's even possible to succeed with this endeavor or could there be hurdles impossible to overcome?
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So much for quarterly releases through slitherine/steam then.
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Incredible work. Greatly appreciate it, thanks
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After some more testing it seems the issue is that I had extended the allotted time for the scenario. There have been no crashes when saving while playing through the scenario with the original allotted time.
Are there known issues when extending the time given through the scenario editor? This is the first time I've run into this issue and I extend the time with every scenario and in every campaign I've played issue free. Although this is my first user created campaign in SF2.
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Recently started having CTD issues when creating a new save game in SF2. Started about 120 turns into a user created scenario. It's now continuing in a user created campaign. I can save multiple times no problem then the game will crash on a save attempt. Reload the last successful save game and it will crash on the next save attempt. Then it's a case of reloading the last save and attempting to save again multiple times until it no longer crashes on saving. Consecutive save attempts work until another crash. Rinse and repeat.
I suspect maybe something is triggering after loading the save on certain occasions and this is then causing the CTD upon saving. That would explain why saving doesn't always cause a crash.
I've removed mods, re-installed the game but to no avail. I also have had no other issues with other games or programs.
If somebody would be willing to take a look at the save that would be greatly appreciated. Just load the save and attempt another save after scrolling around, placing orders etc. If it works first time, reload the original save and make another attempt. If there are no crashes after a few attempts then it must be my PC. I am using the steam version of SF2.
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Excellent, thanks.
Keep the CMFI content coming.
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IIRC it's been stated titles are going to released quarterly to steam. The next in line was going to be CMBN but since CMCW has been revealed and released one would suspect that would be next followed by CMBN.
Not sure what the order beyond that would be. So best case scenario is 1st quarter next year as I understand it.
How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?
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My money would be on convincing Zelenskyy to no longer martyr tens of thousands of his people and capitulate. Can NATO maintain a limited conventional war with Russia in it's current state and are they very confident it won't escalate to nuclear war?