Topic: SFC 1 Hydran Campaign. Anyone Finish This? (Read 3104 times)

kiloton · « **on:** August 02, 2004, 07:34:40 am »

I downloaded the "missing" Hydran missions 6-8 from StarFleetUniverse. I completed mission 5, then it skipped to mission 9 and I just got a "dismissed" in my debriefing despite the mission ending in success. I never got the 10th mission before the campaign ended.

I went back to my saved game where I had completed mission 5 and removed all scripts from the scripts folder except Hydran missions 6-8. I got mission 6 but the briefing screen was incomplete, saying something like "The {insert race with highest dislike for Hydrans here} are going to attack a starbase in the {insert system 1 here} etc...."

It was like the script was messed up. I flew the mission anyway and despite completing the objectives (getting the beast to agree to help us in the next battle), the mission never ends and when I disengage I get mission incomplete.

Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Is there a way to finish this? Does something else need to be done to let the game know the missing scripts are there, like change the scripts.lst file? If so, how do you edit that file? I don't see any .mct files like are in EAW and OP. Does this work in version 1.021 and not in 1.03 or something? Help!

Thanks,

Ken

3dot14 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 02, 2004, 02:33:45 pm »

The scripts WERE messed up. That's why they aren't included in the released version. the download for 6~8 are for curiousities only...

I wonder if anyone has managed to recompile them with the released SFC1 source codes?

kiloton · « **Reply #2 on:** August 02, 2004, 03:59:29 pm »

I looked through the SFC1 script source code and the primary problem I have found so far is that the missions are not linked together. That is, the kNextMission_msg variable, although enumerated, is not set in any of the Hydran scripts. I am not sure how I got to mission 5 based on this fact or how it skipped from mission 5 to mission 9, but it did. Maybe something is hardcoded in the source code, don't know.

Anyway, every other mission script in every other campaign has this variable set to the next mission in the campaign with a random number of filler missions (usually 0-2) in between.

I will try recompiling the source and playing this campaign again to see if I can fix it.

I assume the Gorn campaign (part of the same Gold version release and internet download) did not have these problems? Did anyone play through that? Did any of the other campaigns have problems?

Thanks!

Ken

kiloton · « **Reply #3 on:** August 02, 2004, 04:03:21 pm »

If there are any ex or current SFC1 mission scripting gurus out there, please post here and let me know. There are some variables in the Hydran campaign mission briefing messages that don't seem to be defined. For example, it is using "{second_system_name}" and I only see things like "SYSTEM_NAME" that actually work. This results in the phrase itself actually being output to the briefing screen. Not sure if there is a list anywhere of which of those values are defined to get things like the enemy race, system, etc. I don't see anything with a second system name anywhere.

Thanks,

Ken

kiloton · « **Reply #4 on:** August 03, 2004, 11:32:44 am »

OK, I went ahead and recompiled the Hydran campaign with what I think will fix the issues it has. There are still a few goofy things like the debriefing in the first part of mission 6 (a two part mission) is largely missing but I just wanted the campaign to flow correctly as a short term goal. I am going to start it tonight and see how it goes.

Anyone else want to crack open SFC1 and try this out? I can e-mail the files to you. Let me know.

Ken

Commander Maxillius · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2004, 05:26:52 pm »

If i recall correctly, this is one of the reasons I loved flying Hydran so much in SFC1. The campaign never ended!! I just thought they were supposed to live a very long time and the campaign length reflected that. I have finished the Klingon campaign and nearly finished the Fed one. That damn Mirror, Mirror mission would always kick my ass, and if it wasn't that one, it would be the one with 6 planetkillers headed for earth.

God that was a long time ago!

kiloton · « **Reply #6 on:** August 04, 2004, 06:45:06 am »

I think the campaign ends after thirty years no matter what for all of the races. Doesn't it? At least when I stopped getting campaign missions for the Hydrans and just played the other filler missions I eventually got a little blurb about my career achievements and was told I was retired.

Ken

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