A Little Confused

[Canada Guy]

There seems to be a little problem with labels for CM:Black Sea. I just installed (all the way up to v2.1) and the labels are crazy. In the quickbattle screen as well as the in game labels.

Combat force choices are JPz IVs, MG4s or Armoured Knights. 

My Bradleys are carrying 2 x King Tigers each (who knew they were so roomy) which my troops can aquire (turning out to be Javelins).

Has anyone ever seem this behavior before?

Jason 

[sburke]

You have a brz issue.  Either one from another title installed in your directory or missing one.  Post a screenshot of your CMBS data directory.

Edited April 29, 2019 by sburke

[MikeyD]

Yeh, messed-up text is diagnostic of either too many or not enough brz files in the data folder.

[A Canadian Cat]

Or a mismatched mod that tweaks the string file - for example Animated text.

[Canada Guy]

I uninstalled and reinstalled each patch.

1.0 -> 1.03 -> 2.0 -> 2.1

The game has differing values in 1.0 but they were fixed in 1.03. They went wonky again in 2.0 and stayed wonky in 2.1. I checked the quick battle screens after each install and only 1.03 worked as expected. I have not installed any Mods.

Here is my CM:Black Sea directory

I had deleted all files associated with Black Sea (incl those in the documents folder). I am now going to delete everything again and download the full Black Sea install and see what happens (rather than try the 1.0 -> 2.1 install). I do notice though that after I have deleted and reinstalled, it is not asking me for my activation code so that must be saved permanently.

Edited April 30, 2019 by Canada Guy

[Canada Guy]

So I deleted again and downloaded the full installer (v2.0) and ran that. All text is good. Ran the v2.1 patch and checked and text is still good. Data file now looks like this.

I notice that the v101.brz now exists in the main folder (while before it was in a subfolder). Weird. It must be that the Engine 4 upgrade for BS must be doing something odd like adding the BRZs into a subfolder.

Well, will actually try a game tomorrow and see if the game itself runs properly and can then start to add my favourite mods.

[sburke]

2 minutes ago, Canada Guy said:

So I deleted again and downloaded the full installer (v2.0) and ran that. All text is good. Ran the v2.1 patch and checked and text is still good. Data file now looks like this.

I notice that the v101.brz now exists in the main folder (while before it was in a subfolder). Weird. It must be that the Engine 4 upgrade for BS must be doing something odd like adding the BRZs into a subfolder.

Well, will actually try a game tomorrow and see if the game itself runs properly and can then start to add my favourite mods.

you need to watch the directory they install in.  Some times it wants the combat mission directory and will load into the CMBS sub directory and sometimes they actually want the CMBS subdirectory.