Topic: SFC 2 Tutorials Help... (Read 1326 times)

DistantWords · « **on:** November 03, 2003, 03:54:22 pm »

Hello,

I've had this game for a while now, but never really got into it. I've just kind of messed around with it.

Well, I finally decided I wanted to try and understand it, so I started doing the various Tutorials. However, most of the tutorials don't go anywhere past the first "event".

For example, the second one you have to target a small asteroid and destroy it. I did, and waited, and waited, and waited. Nothing happened until I finally got bored and ran myself into a big asteroid.

There is another, the first of the Science ones. You are supposed to launch a probe at a cargo box, find out if anything is in there, and get it. I go through all the steps, find a spare part, and am told to beam it aboard. I do. Then nothing. Nothing happens. I finally got bored AGAIN and beamed it back to the cargo box and got yelled at for firing a weapon.

I installed version 2.0.0.2 and ran a patch that upgraded from 2.0.0.2 to 2.0.3.3. I also installed a patch that was supposed to be a bonus mission patch.

Any ideas as to why this keeps happening? I mean, it seems like a pretty fun game, but the darn thing came with a bible sized manual, and there are like a million things you seem to have to keep in mind and know. I was hoping that these tutorials would help a little.

Thanks in advance.

sarge33rd · « **Reply #1 on:** November 03, 2003, 11:31:53 pm »

it isnt the tutorials themselves that are 'hanging'. I have too often ended missions in campaign mode, only to find that for whatever reason, the game doesnt realize I have ocmpleted the mission. I have to forfeit the damn thing, then either keep going OR, reload my last save from the menu and replay the mission. (Yep, I save after ea completed mission, so that when it 'hangs', I dont end up replaying the last 4 or 5 missions.)

Pestalence · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2003, 11:40:48 pm »

If you are talking about EAW, then have you patched to latest version? 2.0.3.6 is the last patch for EAW and can be obtained from my site at :

http://www.nightsoftware.com/effhq/sfc22.html

you will need to use add/remove probrams and uninstall sfc 2, delete the Taldren folder off your system, reinstall SFC 2 then patch with 2.0.3.6, run the SFC2Setup.exe and set your screen resolution, then launch you game using the Starfleet2.exe file, not the SFC 2.exe as that file causes game bugs to occur....

also, you will need to save the mission "ISC_7BattleGrave.scr" before you patch then add it back into your assets/scripts folder replacing the one updated by the patch.. due to newer coding software, this mission got bugged and does not work properly unless you do as I have stated...

See if this helps...

The Postman · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2003, 06:58:23 am »

The readme has this to say on the subject:

Quote:

10) The tutorials are time sensitive. If you play faster than the default speed, the tutorials may get out of sequence. There are no problems playing the tutorials at a slower speed.

also this from a lower patch level:

Quote:

6) In Weapons 380 Tutorial, if player destroys the disabled freighter with phasers instead of photons then you will receive no further messages on what to do and the game will not continue.

DistantWords · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2004, 08:34:16 pm »

Thanks for the replys. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond.

The thing about them being "time sensitive" can't really be it. I mean, unless they expect every action to take 30 or more mintues, because as I said I would wait FOREVER and nothing would happen.

Also, as far as "following orders", I do until I get bored waiting.

My last question, if anybody is still reading this, is why do the tutorials have a secton for the "Score" if you don't actually GET a score? I mean, I've completed a few in the past, and they NEVER gave me any kind of score.

Is this maybe an XP thing?

Thanks,

Robert

Pestalence · « **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2004, 08:46:42 pm »

Actually, it was a hold over from SFC 1 that never got removed.. just ignore it.

DistantWords · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2003, 03:54:22 pm »

Hello,

I've had this game for a while now, but never really got into it. I've just kind of messed around with it.

Well, I finally decided I wanted to try and understand it, so I started doing the various Tutorials. However, most of the tutorials don't go anywhere past the first "event".

For example, the second one you have to target a small asteroid and destroy it. I did, and waited, and waited, and waited. Nothing happened until I finally got bored and ran myself into a big asteroid.

There is another, the first of the Science ones. You are supposed to launch a probe at a cargo box, find out if anything is in there, and get it. I go through all the steps, find a spare part, and am told to beam it aboard. I do. Then nothing. Nothing happens. I finally got bored AGAIN and beamed it back to the cargo box and got yelled at for firing a weapon.

I installed version 2.0.0.2 and ran a patch that upgraded from 2.0.0.2 to 2.0.3.3. I also installed a patch that was supposed to be a bonus mission patch.

Any ideas as to why this keeps happening? I mean, it seems like a pretty fun game, but the darn thing came with a bible sized manual, and there are like a million things you seem to have to keep in mind and know. I was hoping that these tutorials would help a little.

Thanks in advance.

sarge33rd · « **Reply #7 on:** November 03, 2003, 11:31:53 pm »

it isnt the tutorials themselves that are 'hanging'. I have too often ended missions in campaign mode, only to find that for whatever reason, the game doesnt realize I have ocmpleted the mission. I have to forfeit the damn thing, then either keep going OR, reload my last save from the menu and replay the mission. (Yep, I save after ea completed mission, so that when it 'hangs', I dont end up replaying the last 4 or 5 missions.)

Pestalence · « **Reply #8 on:** November 03, 2003, 11:40:48 pm »

If you are talking about EAW, then have you patched to latest version? 2.0.3.6 is the last patch for EAW and can be obtained from my site at :

http://www.nightsoftware.com/effhq/sfc22.html

you will need to use add/remove probrams and uninstall sfc 2, delete the Taldren folder off your system, reinstall SFC 2 then patch with 2.0.3.6, run the SFC2Setup.exe and set your screen resolution, then launch you game using the Starfleet2.exe file, not the SFC 2.exe as that file causes game bugs to occur....

also, you will need to save the mission "ISC_7BattleGrave.scr" before you patch then add it back into your assets/scripts folder replacing the one updated by the patch.. due to newer coding software, this mission got bugged and does not work properly unless you do as I have stated...

See if this helps...

DistantWords · « **Reply #10 on:** January 27, 2004, 08:34:16 pm »

Thanks for the replys. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond.

The thing about them being "time sensitive" can't really be it. I mean, unless they expect every action to take 30 or more mintues, because as I said I would wait FOREVER and nothing would happen.

Also, as far as "following orders", I do until I get bored waiting.

My last question, if anybody is still reading this, is why do the tutorials have a secton for the "Score" if you don't actually GET a score? I mean, I've completed a few in the past, and they NEVER gave me any kind of score.

Is this maybe an XP thing?

Thanks,

Robert

Pestalence · « **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2004, 08:46:42 pm »

Actually, it was a hold over from SFC 1 that never got removed.. just ignore it.

The Postman

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