General

[Adrian Taylor]

Now that Mission Kursk 1.4 is available in all three languages (English, French & German) we thought it was time to add some useful topics to the board to help players set up and play multi-player games with Mission Kursk.

Multi_Play FAQ

1) To play Mission Kursk MP you need to make sure that both your installation of Blitzkrieg and Mission Kursk are "clean". This means free from any other mod files that may cause "wrong resource or data corruption errors". These are usually third party mod pak files that go into the Blitzkrieg\Run\Data directory. This is a screen shot of the folders and pak files that should be in your Data directory, anything else may cause conflicts so should be removed.



The Blitzkrieg game automatically updates the maps folder with various tga and dds images of each map you play, be it MP or SP. These images are used to show what the map looks like in the in-game pre-selection screens. However, if you have any other files such as "Bzm" or "Lua", these may also cause potential conflicts.

Mission Kursk Data Directory should only have these folders, anything else should be removed. Exception is the MK_Plane_Explode.pak file, although this will cause conflicts if not all players have this pak installed.



To save confusion and alot of "heartache" it is best practice to re-install both Blitzkrieg and Mission Kursk. Remember to update Blitzkrieg to Version 1.2 though.

2) The ailogic patch works perfectly well with Mission Kursk and certainly improves game play. However, all players must have this patch installed otherwise data corruption errors will happen.

3) Lessoning potential "sync errors". These are caused by differences in PC performances, but not necessarily "high ping". It is when one PC takes longer to process actions on screen than any other connected PC, thus the "out of sync" data errors.

To lesson the chance of this happening, especially for older PC's, you need to make sure your PC is running as fast as it can. This means closing down all other applications not required to play Blitzkrieg on-line. This includes "GameSpy" (launch games through the Blitzkrieg game menu). Also reduce your "Effects Quality" and turn off "High-Optimization".

If your PC is a Pentium 4 and uses "hyper-threading" this may also be a cause for "sync errors". You can turn hyper-threading off only through BIOS setup.

More to come......


Adrian Taylor
ACTive Gaming

[Adrian Taylor]

Mission Kursk 1 & 3 (2 Player & 4 Player Assault Map)

Based on the Kursk Single Player Introduction Map the Germans have to assault through several Russian defense lines to achieve their Assault Objective. Watch the minefields and beware infantry units will retreat if they take too many casualties. Also various goals/events have to be achieved before reinforcements arrive for both sides.



Mission Kursk 2 (2 Player Flag Control Map)

Representing the Germans holding back the Russian offensive after Kursk. Rolling landscape with wooded valleys. Restricted access in central field. Reinforcements are triggered as per normal Flag points, but are random.



Mission Kursk 4 (4 player Flag Control)

Roughly based on the Battle for Ponyri, open fields on one side close wooded valley on the other with a small town in the middle. Great for use with the ailogic patch. With only one Flag per side reinforcements will take time to arrive. Russian are in defensive positions to start but Germans will have superiority in numbers. Again reinforcements are random and special events need to be achieved for specific reinforcements to arrive.



Mission Kursk 5 (2 Player Flag Control Map)

With only three flags this will mean the battle will rage around the central flag. Close terrain with alot of infantry on both sides. Keep an eye on the air as no fighters are available. Random Reinforcements with additional units appearing to defend both base camps.



Note: On all 4 v's 4 player maps the map scripting maintains correct reinforcements when a player is dropped.

[wolfseven]

What about the other stuff like the authinticgerman pak and the gamespy pak file?

[Adrian Taylor]

Both those files are fine. Without the GameSpy you would not be able to play on-line through GameSpy assuming you only have the un-revised 1.4 patch installed.

The German Authentic patch only includes texture updates files so will not cause any data conflicts.


Regards


Adrian Taylor
ACTive Gaming

[wolfseven]

can we have a compiled list of whats usable with the mod 1.4 i.e.
Icon mod; germanauthinticmod; sounds; arrasflank.pak?; us bar sound .
I'm going to have to reinstall BK vanila some sounds are not working all of a sudden.
Rolling thunder is still good.

[Adrian Taylor]

Hi Wolfseven,

It would be too much work for use to check every single mod that is available for Blitzkrieg so basically it is at owners risk. However the following mod will work as long as ALL participants have them installed.

"Stalingrad ailogic patch"

In general texture paks that do not include xml data files will also work and not all players have to have it installed. This is because texture info does not get communicated across network games. Thus the following we know works as we produced it!

"German Authentic Pak"


Any other mods that we know work we will update this list.


Regards



Adrian Taylor
ACTive Gaming

[LSF-Seth]

Blitzfront Realism Mod v1.00 works..
You can get that from this link
www.blitzkrieg-portal.co.uk/default.asp?Download=349

Regards

[generalme]

i will say guys are you sure you want to mod the mods before the mods on the mods have finished being modded...loll, it sounds like crashes and wrong resources waiting to happen to me, in multiplayer keep it simple, single player set mission kursk up in rolling thunder and play about with that copy.