Carrier bug in SF2 Air and Ground War Expansion 75 campaign

[Vittorio43]

Not quite sure if i installed something wrong but all the navy aircraft that are supposed to be stationed on carriers in the three campaigns included with the 1975 endgame expansion all spawn in the middle of the sea. I suppose it does put me on'solid'ground at least until i get off the ground then the water magically becomes not solid again and i could just end the mission immediately in place of landing on a non-existent carrier but it's really quite immersion breaking. Has anyone else had this issue before or any pointers on how to fix it? Thanks in advance

[+EricJ]

Did you download the carrier? That's probably the issue, it's simply not there. And campaigns require some sort of download to make it work, unless you don't have SF2: Vietnam

[Vittorio43]

I didn't install any custom mods for the carrier and i have both Vietnam and NA and all the mods/updates for the expansion. The campaigns included in the expansion itself like Steel Tiger work just fine and spawn you on carriers correctly. Its only the campaigns from the 75 expansion that doesn't have them, I didn't replace any of the files in the mod folder either . The mod page doesn't say anything about files that's mandatory for it to run aside from the expansion,updates and the VPAF addon so i didn't miss anything,at least i think,so i'm a bit stumped

Edited Saturday at 08:40 PM by Vittorio43

[Vittorio43]

Upon further testing it appears the bug seemingly only happens for squadrons based on half the carriers while the other half spawns in just fine in both the Ho Chi Minh and Linebacker III campaigns. The ones that work are the Oriskany,Hancock and Kitty Hawk while Enterprise,Midway and Coral Sea are bugged. I dug through the files with references to each carrier but i have no experience whatsoever in modding so i have no idea what to look for and what might be broken

[+EricJ]

A campaign person would be able to help you, one just has to come along and see what can be done to fix it.

[Vittorio43]

i found a bit of a scuffed workaround. i noticed that Midway,Coral Sea and Enterprise had their carrier types set as things that didn't exist in the objects folder hence probably why they didn't spawn. I changed Midway and Coral Sea to be set as CVN-63 and Enterprise as CVN-68. Not necessarily accurate and ik some naval buffs might find this an unsatisfactory compromise but i can live with it for now, They seem to be working and spawning aircraft on the deck just fine now. I guess it was either a missing file after all or one that wasn't included by mistake but i could've sworn i didn't miss anything from all the downloads so i'm not sure how that happened but the campaigns work fine enough to play for now,but thanks for the help regardless lmao

Edited Saturday at 11:34 PM by Vittorio43

[+EricJ]

Nice to hear that you fixed it. Yeah sometimes in the README they specify what stuff to download, but good that you fixed it.

[Vittorio43]

That's the weird thing. The readme for the endgame expansion mentioned nothing about carrier models i have to get. I was looking for that since most mods either include everything already or make sure you know there's more things needed but the only things i saw on the readme were for the main files,updates and the VPAF expansion. Maybe it actually is my bad i am a bit of a klutz after all but i swear i didn't see a single mention about carrier models needing to be downloaded. Regardless it's fixed for now and thank you very much for giving me the time of day to help out

[+simonmiller416]

After all your discussion, I think it sounds like an oversight on the modder's part (I make similar mistakes too), maybe you can find the correct carriers in the download section.

[Vittorio43]

I did find a few mods for CVA-41 and CVA(N)-65 but I'm not sure if those were the models they intended to be used in conjunction with the mod though it might be possible. Guess i'll have to download and replace them myself sometime later

Edited yesterday at 02:53 AM by Vittorio43