Question Mission "bad surpirse"

[zitadelle]

I have a question, we are discussing a problem at BK Portal in the moment. The mission is named something like “bad surprise”, it’s the mission, where you have to bring 4 medium tanks to the end of the road to the west, while Russian counter attacks ( for the first time with T34) are appearing in the middle and later on the eastern edge of the map. When i first played the mission i haven’t had problems because i did not loose one of my 4 Pz IV. So after the Russian counter attacks i could bring, as described in the objective, four tanks across the road to the west.

After I have received a note that someone has some problems with the mission I played it several times again and had also some strange situations. When you fight the Russian attack in the middle of the map and you loose one of your tanks you can´t fulfil the objective to bring 4 tanks to the west. After a while there will be an attack on your positions in the east you receive reinforcements. I played the mission four times, three times ii received just a few trucks and Infantry, and ones i received 4 additional tanks. When you receive tanks the objective to bring the tanks west is easy to manage. If you have just Infantry, you have no chance, because after you killed all Russians, attacking your positions there is still no Russian left on the map and you have no chance to go on with the mission. Is someone able to explain the script a little bit deeper, so that we have a chance to find a solution.

Thanks and Greets Zit

[Adrian Taylor]

Hi Zit,

I think the english translation for this mission is "Rude Awakening" ;D

I have a feeling this is linked with not having acheived the necessary promotion levels to get the reinforcing armour. Thus, its a matter of going back and doing those random missions.


Adrian

[zitadelle]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the translation ;D

But I don’t think it’s because of the promotion level. As I wrote I did the mission yesterday several times and so my promotion level should have been the same all the time and sometimes I received armoured reinforcement but mostly not. Also I did all the random missions before and think my level is not so bad . I more think about the script expecting more losses in the middle to sent armoured reinforcements instead of Infantry. But if this is the case there is no way to finalise the mission / objective after loosing for example just one tank in the battle .

And by the way, the German objective tells me to bring at least 4 medium tanks to the west, I only have heavy tanks Pz IV so the German translation in failing here ;D.

Greets Zit

[Adrian Taylor]

Okay, checked the scripting and yes there are two potential flaws that may cause players not to get any fresh panzers.

First one is the use of the wrong symbol. When the script calls for the first set of panzer reserves the script will only call them if you have one of more Pz III's or Pz IV's still in play.This should have been set to "Zero".

Secondly, when we scripted this mission we were using the "counter routines" and not the "GlobalIVar" routines to keep track of variable events. The difference between these two routines is that if you save the game and re-start it the "counter" routines get set back to their default settings.

I will sort out a fix for this, but in the meantime try and keep your initial panzers in one piece and try not to do any game saves ;D


Regards


Adrian

[Adrian Taylor]

Have now carried a full review of the scripting for this mission. Yes, there were a few scripting errors that may not have allowed for the second Panzer reinforcements. This has now been fixed and will be released with the next map pack due shortly.


Adrian Taylor
ACTive Gaming

[zitadelle]

Super, like always great support.

Greets Zit