Missing Default Weapons

[Viggen 644]

Hi I'm new. Today I learned how to get downloads to work for Wings Over Europe. I wanted more bombs and missiles so I downloaded the weapons pack. I started off with all the weapons, both default and third party. When I closed WOE and started it later I had no weapons! Then I redownloaded the weapons pack and have some now. How exactly did this happen and will it happen again?

 

Also I don't know how to get the rar downloads to work. Can someone teach me how? Thanks!

[FastCargo 412]

RAR files are a type of compression. There are several programs that will open them up. I use 7-Zip, a pretty good program to open RAR files.

 

As far as what happened with your WOE installation, could have been just a glitch. Usually the problem with the weaponspack is that it renames Soviet weapons to their Soviet numeric designations, which can cause problems for single missions and campaigns where the Soviet side uses the west's designations. Example...the west uses a AA-XX prefix for naming Russian missiles, and early versions of the SFP1 engine did that. But the Weapons Pack readdresses them as R-XX, as the Russians actually do. So stock campaigns' Soviet aircraft may not have any weapons...until you redo the loadout.ini and data.inis (for individual aircraft) and the data.inis (for the campaigns).

 

FastCargo

[Viggen 644]

Well I got the weapons to work. Now the WP weapons have the NATO AA and WP R.

 

And do you need to download 7-zip? If so where?

[FastCargo 412]

Well I got the weapons to work. Now the WP weapons have the NATO AA and WP R.

 

And do you need to download 7-zip? If so where?

 

7-Zip is the program's name...yes, you need to download it.

 

Try this website: http://www.7-zip.org/

 

FastCargo

[Wrench 9,865]

Viggen: Now your work is just beginning.....

 

In the Knowledge Base, you'll find a whole slew of data and loadout inis all pre-set and adjusted for use with the weapons pak. The thread is "Weapons/Load Fixes" or something like that. Just look for the HUGE thread with my name on it!

 

The first several post explaing what, why and how to do it. For the most part, it's a simple copy/paste job.

 

If you have any questions, or run into a problem, feel free to give me a shout ... since I'm the official Keeper of KB, that's my job!

 

Don't forget to get the cat extraction tool, here at CA in the "SF/WoV/WoE Utilities Section". It's the most valuable tool you can own!!!

 

Wrench

Kevin Stein