malibu43

If someone asked "what's it like to own a thirdwire game, in a nutshell?" I would point them to that series of articles.

I think this may have been mentioned or asked, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Is this normal for Widesky? Only seems to happen when the sun is in that position... Thanks! *edit* - in case it's not clear what I'm talking about, it's that band running along the horizon. As you get further away from directly below the sun, it fades out.

I agree.

Well, patrol boats in the targets.ini is actually a strike mission, not anti-ship. Has anyone seen anti ship missions in campaigns since the new patches came out?

There is a patch, and there's also a no-cd.exe out there, so there are lot of different things you could try to get it to work. Check out this site, if you haven't already: http://www.simwarrior.com/gunship/index.html

Also make sure you are using the latest weapons editor available from third wire. The old Bunyaps weapons pack (without modification) and the editor that came with it aren't compatible with the latest patches.

Here's another useful nugget I discovered today... With certain squadrons, I'd get a CTD every 3 or 4 attempts to start a new campaign. 3 Escuadrilla de Caza y Ataque of the Argentine Navy was the worst, with a CTD maybe 1/2 the time. Tried changing CAT pointers and referenced airfields and everything else I could think of but I couldn't figure it out... Then I had another idea and took a peak at the mission percentages for the squadron... [ANTI_SHIP]=90. As we all know, anit-ship missions CTD in campaigns. And that is the highest mission chance for the squadron. So unless anyone thinks TK is going to fix anti-ship missions in campaigns any time soon, I would look through both campaign data.ini files and change the mission chance for anti-ship for all squadrons to 0. PS - some of those squadrons had really high anti-ship chances and low strike chances, so after you change anti-ship to 0, I would bump the strike chance up to whatever anti ship was before it was changed.

Did you ever get it working? It works fine for me in XP. What specific problem are you having?

Yeah, the orginal creator mentioned that he would have an "SP5" version ready a couple months after the original release, but I don't think he's posted here once since then...

Create a copy of the weapon in the weapons editor and change the name of the nation to whatever you want to use it on.

Ok, I think you mis-understood me or maybe I wasn't clear. Yes, there are "scripted" anti-ship missions. But as far as randomly generated single anti-ship missions from the create mission menu, it can't be done because "anti_ship" is missing from the drop down list in WOV. You have to copy one of the menu files over from WOE so it shows up. Then you can select anti ship.

Nope. First of all, anti-ship missions don't work in campaigns. So messing with campaign files isn't going to fix it. Second of all, I'm pretty sure that what I said in my previous post is what needs to happen. A stock WOV install doens't have anti ship missions listed in the single mission type menu. You have to copy one of the menu files over from WOE. I'm still can't remember which one though. Someone will have to check...

I think I definitely will, it will just depend on when/how much best buy gift cards I get! However, I did rent CoD5 this weekend. I only had a chance to play through the single player campaign for a few hours, and didn't get to try mulitplayer at all. I wasn't too impressed with single player, hopefully the mulitplayer brings a little more to the table.

I'll try and check that out if i get a chance...

I forget which one, but if you copy one of the single mission files out of the menu folder from WOE, you get the mission selection list from WOE that includes anti-ship. So look around in the menu folder, but back up the original folder first...

I did not know what this zombie mode was when I read this thread so I youtube'd it... Holy shee-it! That is what ever zombie game ever should have been! This game was already on my x-mas list, but it just edged its way above Bros In Arms Hell's Highway...

Hey folks, I've got free-track and gunship running pretty well together now. However, I have to make a trade off between smoothness of panning and accuracy of small head movements/fine targeting. I won't get into the details of why... Anyway, if the chopper is stationary, I can use Free-track/IHADSS to spray targets that are relatively close. I say spray because it often involves having to walk a stream of fire around/through the target. Sometimes, I can actuall just get the cross hair on the target and fire a small burst. However, up above 30 kts or so, targeting anything off to the side of the chopper get very difficult unless I start spraying a lot of amo around. I was just wondering at what speeds/distances/situations is the real IHADSS targeting of the gun in the Apache successful, and in what situations/how often the pilot actually firing and targeting the gun using the IHADSS? Thanks!

If you guys read the readme that came with the add-on, the creator says that it has problems with post WOI patches (the harrier is mentioned specifically). The A-4 problems could be related as well. I would recommend installing this mod on top of the old patch, or you will have issues for sure.

I couldn't get some of the AIM-120's from bunyap's weapons pack to show up with the september and october patches, but they showed up fine in the old patches. I switched to the MF weps pack instead.

I had that problem with both the Sept and October patches, but never had that problem with the old SP4 patch.

My load times are a lot longer too. I think that's just the price we pay for better AI and game performance. Did you copy your control file from an older version? I think a lot of people have had problems doing that, since there are some new commands implemented.

Just be careful with that as that download is pretty old, and I'm not sure if any of the patches since then have changed any of the entries...

The SA-6 launcher and Barlock radar that it's networked with have service dates that end after 2008. You need to extract their respective data.ini files from objects.cat and change the service end year dates. Then drop the data.ini files in the corresponding folders in the ground objects folder. You'll also noticed that there probably is not too much AAA either. You'll want to repeat the above exercise for the KS-19, ZSU-23, ZU-23, and a few other ground objects that are AAA. I can't remember all of them off the top of my head right now. If you look in the downloads section (object mods... I think) you'll find some more modern SAM's to place in the game (SA-19, SA-3) as well.

Oh snap!

I just read that recently. Awesome book...