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  1. Mod package has been updated to Version 1.1; huge update, read the change log and updated description for further details. If you've been using a previous version of this mod, it's recommended that you completely remove the Speech folder from your mod folder before installing this new one.
  2. Of course you can! Where have you been? We've done it on ODS 30AE to enable given loadouts on specific days of the conflict. Even the B-52G you reworked for the mod should be using specific loadouts at given dates. More details on the parameters available for the loadout.ini here: https://combatace.com/forums/topic/78200-mig-31bm-mini-update-pack/?tab=comments#comment-755029 The site's search bar is incredibly powerful, with few key words you can soon find an answer.
  3. Add-on package has been updated to Version 1.1; read the change log for further details.
  4. Add-on package has been updated to Version 1.1; read the change log for further details.
  5. A clarification for the few ones that experienced a not working installer (without giving clues nor proof they could have given). The installer is a highly compressed package (15GB compressed to 3GB); this was possible thanks to a 64bit compression algorithm. This means that the installer may not work on 32bit systems; I am surprised people still use x86 systems in 2022 as my low-end PC already featured x64 architecture back in 2013. In the future I may plan to recompile the installer (it takes half a day if not more just to compress all files). I do not guarantee it will happen, definitely not soon. Thank you for your understanding.
  6. I'm working on a major expansion of the Speech Enhancement mod. Next version will include rather complete and correct speech packs for Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese and Arabic languages, obviously taken from different sources which will all be credited. A modified Nations.ini file, based on the one from my Nations Expansion mod, will add all such languages to the proper nations where these languages are official. I would like to add Russian, German, French and other speech packs, but the ones we already have are either much incomplete, a total mix of random words, or whatever. So I will not add those. The ones I will include are mostly complete and meant to be proper, not just for immersion. I also found what appears to be a Persian speech pack (from the Multinational Speech Pack available here at CA, it was wrongly classified as Arab, no idea where it comes from or who made it). No idea if it's coherent or if it's just a mess of casual words. Can someone tell if it's proper? In such case, can anyone help me transcribe which the callsign names are? Without a transcription, I cannot fix in-game speech subtitles and callsign names to reflect those of the speech files.
  7. @EBW For troubleshooting and support, you might want to post in this topic instead of the review section. Thanks for the positive comment, though! No idea why the mod does not work on your end, but if you have an old low-end system, you might try to set all graphics settings to Low. This is not stock Strike Fighters 2, the mod is much heavier on resources than stock ThirdWire games, hence you might not be able to use the same settings between the two. Also, you must have a dedicated GPU. Intel's integrated GPU is not supported and never will be, it simply cannot handle a big number of polygons and high resolution textures on this old game engine. Let me reiterate to anyone; Minimum Requirements about video card and CPU are what they are, minimum requirements. If you're just above them, don't expect to be able to run this mod with settings on High or Unlimited. Strike Fighters 2 is one thing, this mod is another. If you can run Strike Fighters 2 on High and Unlimited, the same cannot be directly applied to the mod. It all depends on your system. EDIT: Mod page appears as updated, but I simply added some more info in the Suggestions for CTD issues section. Mod package is the same of December, please do NOT re-download.
  8. The mod folder gets installed automatically on the system drive. If you run a stock game executable, I think a blank mod folder would be created in the same spot, so this shouldn't be a problem. You need all three TW games that are listed, one does not suffice. You might want to move the mod folder elsewhere and see if it changes anything, but then you'd need to fix the mod's path inside the Options.ini file manually. If you don't know how to do it, check the SF2 Knowledge Base: Running mods from a different disk partition - Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Knowledge Base - CombatACE Wish I could help, but you gave zero details. The above post may help you understand what may be wrong with your system. I cannot see nor imagine what the situation is on your end.
  9. My thanks to you for the kind words. It's nice to see our dedication being recognized. Some might take it for granted but should remember that many payware products don't get the same amount of bugfixing and end-user support. We are doing it for free, all for passion and fun of creating new virtual experiences. The mod also got its own page on ModDB, but just for spreading news about it. It's only available here. Got a pointless comment by a Guest user claiming that the mod is a scam, requiring users to buy it on the other site where it is hosted. We modders got no single dime from it, even though I'd need some for a new crate; ironically I can barely run the mod on my decade old PC due to excessive loading times. Maybe I should pride myself in seeing some amount of false and/or hateful statements. If we attract both flak and praise, it means we've done something special, I guess. In other news, I just added Suggestions for CTD issues at the end of the mod's description page, above the Hotfix. Those suggested settings should help end-users experiencing crashes to desktop.

  10. Scusate Il Ritardo! (ovvero, Terreno WIP)

    Menrva replied to Menrva's topic in Italiano

    Thank you so much for these kind words, Wilches. You even bothered to to use the translator, I really appreciate you saying this. It's not just the passive attitude of the community, but also a lack of free time in the coming months won't allow me to put effort into terrain modding. The lack of activity in the site is somewhat demotivating for such efforts, things used to be a bit different one or two years ago. Anyway, a WW2 version of the terrain is unlikely to happen, it would require many more researches, but there will be two versions, one for Cold War and the other for the 1990s conflicts in the Balkans. Thank you again for your support! Grazie molte per queste belle parole, Wilches. Ti sei anche preoccupato di usare il traduttore, apprezzo davvero tanto quanto hai scritto. Non è solo l'atteggiamento passivo della community, ma anche la mancanza di tempo libero nei prossimi mesi non mi permetterà di impegnarmi nel modding di terreni. La mancanza di attività nel sito è alquanto demotivante per certi sforzi, le cose erano un po' diverse uno o due anni fa. Ad ogni modo, una versione del terreno per la Seconda Guerra Mondiale è assai improbabile, mi richederebbe molte più ricerche, ma ci saranno due versioni, una per la Guerra Fredda e l'altra per i conflitti degli anni 90 nei Balcani. Grazie di nuovo per il tuo supporto! Ti ringrazio molto per le tue gentili parole. Come ti ho scritto in PM, è anche per una questione di tempo libero che non potrò più dedicarmi con la stessa cura alla creazione di terreni. Senza dubbio certi terreni sono meno affascinanti di altri. Tuttavia ho come la sensazione che qualcosa sia cambiato nella community, c'è un atteggiamento molto più passivo e meno attivo. Non so a cosa sia dovuto, ma in molti hanno più o meno lasciato SF2 e ad essere rimasti sembra siano per lo più utenti che scaricano mod passivamente e che anzi chiedono sempre di più anziché essere grati di quello che già c'è. Anche il mio terreno precedente a quello del Corno d'Africa, ovvero le Hawaii su scala reale, è passato quasi inosservato. In passato ho rilasciato terreni meno originali, eppure qualcuno si prendeva la briga di scrivere qualcosa. Il numero di download direbbe altro, ma non vedere più commenti o reviews sulle ultime release è un po' demotivante. Detto questo, spero di ultimare alquanto prima il terreno dei Balcani per una release. Non sarà mai perfetto come vorrei (SF2 ha le sue belle limitazioni), ma occorre ultimarlo con aggiunta di targets e correzioni manuali al tiling di città e paesini, affinché sia visivamente completo e un minimo giocabile per missioni singole ed eventuali campagne per chi avrà tempo di crearne.

  11. Scusate Il Ritardo! (ovvero, Terreno WIP)

    Menrva replied to Menrva's topic in Italiano

    Buon anno! Ho passato giorni poco piacevoli ahimè, e mi sono reso conto di non provare più alcuna soddisfazione nel creare nuovi terreni per Strike Fighters e poi condividerli. L'ultima mia release del terreno dell'Etiopia è passata largamente inosservata, e ho investito mesi di intenso impegno per crearlo con una topografia dettagliata ed accurata. Questo mi ha provocato un po' di dispiacere. Ho degli update a riguardo il terreno dell'Italia e dei Balcani. Ho speso dei giorni a cambiare nuovamente l'intero tileset, e stavolta sono deciso ad utilizzare quello che vedrete nelle immagini sotto tratte da TFDtool. L'Italia ora possiede anche un sistema di strade/autostrade che ha richiesto lungo tempo per aggiungerlo manualmente al tilemap, ma al momento non è ben visibile dalle immagini sotto. Non farò altrettanto per i Balcani e il resto dell'Est Europa, data la già immensa complessità del terreno. Ci sono voluti lunghi mesi per aggiungere tutti i percorsi dei fiumi e i laghi, dunque sono un po' schifato dall'idea di dover spendere altro tempo su dettagli a cui i più non fanno caso. Recentemente ho aggiunto tiles per rappresentare piccoli paesi, usati un po' dappertutto dall'Italia all'Albania etc. Detto questo, il terreno ha richiesto un grande sforzo finora, e non voglio che tale sforzo venga sprecato. Farò in modo di ultimarlo seguendo i miei soliti standard, compatibilmente con gli impegni della vita reale. Tuttavia, con quasi assoluta certezza questo sarà il mio ultimo add-on per Strike Fighters. Negli ultimi anni la community di Strike Fighters si è notevolmente rimpicciolita, e non ha senso per me condividere mod in cui mi sono tanto speso, per poi ricevere più critiche distruttive e indifferenza che altro. Penso che pochi, buoni utenti potranno apprezzare il terreno una volta ultimato e rilasciato.
  12. A hotfix has just been uploaded, it is available at the end of the mod's description page. Manual installation knowledge is required.
  13. Whichever one Gepard will choose in the end, I will always be grateful. Many end-users underestimate the amount of work that is required to create a quality terrain addon. As a terrain modder myself, I know of all the time and efforts required to make one with detail, especially from scratch. It's no easy feat, it's a very long process that can be easily exhausting sometimes. If I'd have to choose, I'd say Diego Garcia. It would be a very original addition, with a tileset made entirely from satellite imagery, much like the Midway Atoll terrain I was working on. That kind of texture work pays off in the terrain engine of Strike Fighters. I wish all modders of CombatACE a productive and happy 2022!
  14. Then you should avoid Unlimited and use Medium to High settings. Only very high-end computers can run Unlimited without encountering CTDs. The crashes happen because you run out of memory, the campaign features the highest number of aircraft and ground units ever seen in a SF2 campaign. Nothing else we can do, the campaign data is bug free, it's all a matter of the settings and system on which you run the mod. It's also advised to set Sound Channels to 32 instead of 16, due to higher quality sounds of the mod, but your experience may vary.
  15. Do you meet minimum requirements? The mod obviously is not for low-end computers. It works fine for others on High settings.
  16. No, that mod is totally unrelated to ours, it was made by other authors and it's entirely different. There are no other means. In the download page there is a description of how to use the installer. The path for installation needs to be your Strike Fighters 2 game directory, where you have the required SF2 games installed. The mod will be installed automatically in a proper mod folder in the correct path on your system disk. We cannot provide more help than this. I just explained it and more details for installation are in the download page. If you do not know how to use the installer, nothing we can do.
  17. @Icarus999 Thanks to you! Not everyone bothers to say a simple thank you. I also want to stress out that this was all possible to teamwork and to all the support I got from awesome and talented modders. I found myself in some sort of lead role during the project, but without them the mod would have been a mere shadow of what it is now. My thanks go to @yakarov79, @guuruu, @GKABS, @Viper63a, @paulopanz, @daddyairplanes, @1977Frenchie, @dtmdragon, @Crusader, @baffmeister, @Jimbib, @ravenclaw_007, @Nyghtfall, @Veltro2k, @Dels, @RustyKurnass, @Stick. Other previous modders are also credited in the Thanks screen of the mod; many of them did contribute indirectly with their amazing past creations, still used to this day.
  18. There's no other source I know of. Please tell me where you got it from.
  19. @orsin Hi, Orsin! Yes, I know that's Centurion-1's cockpit, sadly it was left somewhat unfinished. Contact me via PM, I'd be glad to include a newer version in a future release with due credits to you. Cheers!
  20. @alecsandru1990 Why did you give the mod a 3-star review? The problem is definitely on your end, the mod works fine for pretty much everyone else. You must be doing something wrong. Do you have all required TW games installed? Are they all patched to the latest July 2013 version? Have you pointed the ODS installer to the correct location of your Strike Fighters 2 games? If you need support, this is the correct topic. You shouldn't be reviewing it badly only because it seemingly does not work on your system. It's just disrespectful, childish behavior overall. We put months if not an entire year of much hard work into this project. Most download it, some complain but few actually show gratitude for such efforts, done all for free and passion. The development team deserves more respect.
  21. Yes, you need all three. The mod makes use of many stock ground objects, aircraft and cockpits from those games. I'm actually surprised campaigns worked on your end so far, but you were also lucky not to encounter those units requiring stock assets from those games. No worries! We're here to help. Take care. @VVitchaven BTW, can you remove or delist the video you made on YT? Right now it's visible to anyone if you happen to search Strike Fighters 2 videos on YT. The issue has been addressed, I don't want others to believe the mod is broken, that's all. Thanks.
  22. No. Please let's not make wrong assumptions that only cause more confusion. The Options.ini included with the ODS mod works as is. It's obvious that if you change aircraft name to Scramble it crashes, because the game wouldn't find the required default aircraft for that game mode, that is the F-15C. You're not meeting minimum requirements. ODS requires three games: Strike Fighters 2, Strike Fighters 2 Israel and Strike Fighters 2 North Atlantic. You need to install them all, and it's better that you download the latest installers from the ThirdWire store. Without any more clues, I cannot provide more help than this. It works fine for everybody else on a clean installation.
  23. There's no need of a video, I understood it in your previous post. This has nothing to do with graphics options. It seems the game fails to initialize the proper DLL library for the single missions screen. The mod has no relation to this issue, this has more to do with your Strike Fighters 2 installation. EDIT: post by Wilches below could be a good hint. Most likely your audio driver needs an update and/or different settings.
  24. Never had such an issue. I cannot replicate it on my end, it works fine on a fresh installation on my laptop. So basically it crashes to desktop once you press Missions in the main menu screen? The only plausible reason for this is that your Strike Fighters 2 installation is not up to date or is somewhat broken. ODS 30AE is built to work on the latest July 2013 patch, it has not been tested on older patches featuring outdated .DLL libraries. You should reinstall the required Strike Fighters 2 games, and make sure they are updated to the latest July 2013 patch. It's explained in the mod's download page. The installer should automatically detect your Strike Fighters 2 installation folder. Make sure that the installation path points to your Strike Fighters 2 game folder, not to a custom mod folder. The installer does not allow you to choose a custom mod folder path at this time. The mod folder will be installed automatically in the proper "X:\Users\YourName\Saved Games\ThirdWire\" path, like any other mod folder created by TW's stock Strike Fighters 2 games. After installation is over, simply run the mod by using the created Desktop and/or Start Menu links. Make sure that you run the installer with admin rights, and that no third-party antivirus programs interfere with it.

  25. HAPPY HOLIDAYS

    Menrva replied to Veltro2k's topic in The Pub

    LOL, of course not. That is an amateur print I made for myself, though it might look very professional. However, you can do it too! If you download the ODS 30AE package, inside the Goodies folder you'll find a high resolution PDF of the DVD cover I created, the very same one I showed. You can print it and add it to a blank DVD case. You can even burn the package, which is an .ISO disk image, to a DVD!
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