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Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:32 am
by DarHan
I’ve taken advantage of this release to reinstall everything and restart the campaign from scratch. Wheee!

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:52 pm
by JeremyaFr
Ace Antilles wrote:
Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:47 am
Red_Leader wrote:
Fri Nov 27, 2020 11:06 pm
in Endor mission 3, the S-foils on Wedge's X-wing never opened. I watched him for about 2 minutes and they stayed closed.
Anyone have those issues?
So I fixed the Endor bug. It's to do with the Shuttle! I don't know why. Something to do with the weird mission parameters maybe.
I had disabled the Shuttle in missions 2 and 3. Seems fine in 2 but not 3. Bizarre.

So open the 1b7m3w.ini in notepad and just change this

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LoadShuttle = 0
to 1 and it fixes it.
We have pushed the Hangar options a long way so who knows. Thanks for the bug report. We will fix that in our first patch.
This is caused by a bug in the hangars hook.
I've fixed it.
Please redownload the hangars hook.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:57 pm
by JeremyaFr
BUG REPORT

In battle 7 mission 3, Red 1 appears in blue in the CMD instead of green.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:05 pm
by Ace Antilles
JeremyaFr wrote:
Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:57 pm
BUG REPORT

In battle 7 mission 3, Red 1 appears in blue in the CMD instead of green.
This is not a Mission bug as the mission is fine.
This is a Wireframe issue for some reason to do with Blue Max effects.

Thanks for the Hook update that fixed the Shuttle issue :)

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:27 pm
by Red_Leader
Are we posting bug reports in here? If not I apologize but seeing a few were posted in here, I noticed the Outrider has an ion cannon.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:30 pm
by Rookie_One1
And turrets don't work on it....hmm

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:13 pm
by Ace Antilles
Red_Leader wrote:
Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:27 pm
Are we posting bug reports in here? If not I apologize but seeing a few were posted in here, I noticed the Outrider has an ion cannon.
Rookie_One1 wrote:
Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:30 pm
And turrets don't work on it....hmm
Neither are bugs. DTM can discuss more on those as it's his ship.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:18 pm
by Ace Antilles
We have posted a small Day 1 fix for the few critical issues.
You can find it on the Download page.


Future bug fixes will be sorted if found at a later date.
If you have any installation issues then please read back on this topic to see if it has been answered.
Otherwise please post in the Bug / Help section
viewforum.php?f=10

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:24 pm
by DTM
Rookie_One1 wrote:
Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:30 pm
And turrets don't work on it....hmm
The Outrider does not have turrets. At least not the Outrider I made.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:34 pm
by Rookie_One1
They were set as turrets in the old patch, ah well, not like it's a big issue

Found something else, the findings I made at the time that permitted corrected turret orientation were removed, we see the default turret orientation for the YT1300, YT2000 and the falcon from the vanilla game in the current megapatch, instead of what was added before

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:04 pm
by DTM
Rookie_One1 wrote:
Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:34 pm
Found something else, the findings I made at the time that permitted corrected turret orientation were removed, we see the default turret orientation for the YT1300, YT2000 and the falcon from the vanilla game in the current megapatch, instead of what was added before
The original authors made no mistake when they drew the orientation of the turrets. It was intentional. The turrets are oriented this way to make the turrets' firing arc work better. In the past, having "adjusted" the orientation of the turrets was a mistake, which made it impossible to complete some original missions. We must have respect for the original authors. Before changing their work, we should investigate the reason for their decisions.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:06 pm
by Rookie_One1
On my side I fixed that issue by "squarring" the fire arcs (put the same value for Y as it was for X), ah well, I can just redo it for my build

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:38 am
by Rookie_One1
Found another one !

The MC80 (Defiance model) missing it's outside hangar hardpoint, which mean that you are likely to collide when you take off after landing for reload or repairs

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:39 am
by Charger116
Thank you to everyone involved in putting this patch together and for all the efforts put into XWAU as a whole. It's so great to see this classic game still getting love and amazing modifications to this day.

And as others have already mentioned, this is an absolute treat in what has been a challenging year for all.

Can't wait to start my 493298th run of the campaign and test out all the amazing features (not that I need an excuse to play this gem of a game again... :D )

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:40 pm
by Rookie_One1
Found another bug!

Multiple craft have either wrong laser color or wrong impact color (best example I can find is the dreadnaught, for some reason it got green lasers that impact in blue

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:44 pm
by Avarice1987
quick question about the modpacket: i have the german language package from Darksaber, can i iron it over it, or does it chop something?

Or is there any way to change the ingame language with the modpack?


2nd question, Angel is working on a reimaged campaign of Tie Fighter

Will there be something like this in the future for the XWAU campaign? there would be something, I was asked by German users, what about the Star Viper, if it will come back in (many people think that the Star Viper is a better Black Sun fighter, because Shadows of the Empire plays parallel and the SV is used there)

Last question: In some preview videos on Yt from X Wing Facility or XWA artists I hear completely different ingame sounds ( rocket warning for example ), will there be a soundpack?

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:51 pm
by dhollinger3
Quick question about the new X-Wing and Y-Wing Dynamic Cockpits. Why get rid of the physical MFD displays in favor of holographic ones?

I personally liked the more tactile look of the physical MFDs (they obviously don't work everywhere - like the Gunboat and Missile boat)

Regardless, I'm loving the new megapack! Great work!

I also maintain the Lutris installers for Linux users - this update has made that job significantly easier AND everything "just works" when setup with Lutris!

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 10:05 pm
by Rookie_One1
Craft that I found with the laser color/impact color issues up to date :

Corvettes (all of them)
Modified Corvette
Dreadnaught
Assault Frigate
Nebulon-B Frigate
Escort Transport

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:53 am
by brassman2468
Just finished B0M8, the Deep Space Strike evaluation, and was surprised to see two squadrons of TIEs in addition to the two escort shuttles protecting the final convoy. Was this an intended addition to the mission? I don't remember seeing them in previous playthroughs.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:31 am
by Forceflow
brassman2468 wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:53 am
Just finished B0M8, the Deep Space Strike evaluation, and was surprised to see two squadrons of TIEs in addition to the two escort shuttles protecting the final convoy. Was this an intended addition to the mission? I don't remember seeing them in previous playthroughs.
Those were actually included in the original mission but didn't show up due to a bug in the original mission. This was fixed so they do show up.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:54 am
by Jaeven
brassman2468 wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:53 am
Just finished B0M8, the Deep Space Strike evaluation, and was surprised to see two squadrons of TIEs in addition to the two escort shuttles protecting the final convoy. Was this an intended addition to the mission? I don't remember seeing them in previous playthroughs.
Yes. The TIEs had always been there, they were just bugged so they never spawned. The original mission was kind of stupid because it forced you to go up against two Assault Shuttles in a Y-wing, and more often than not, your wingmate would be useless. So the Assault Shuttles were changed to Escort Shuttles, and to compensate in difficulty, the TIEs were unbugged.

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:05 am
by dhollinger3
I found what appears to be a bug. If I set

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SwapJoystickXZAxes = 1
in the ddraw.cfg file, but have the `Hook_Joystick_Ff.dll` in the root of the XWA directory, then the X Axis on my joystick just stops working. If I delete, disable, or otherwise move the Joystick_Ff hook it solves the problem.

This is with the XWA2020 FixPack installed

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:13 pm
by Avarice1987
In the battles 0/3 and 0/5 (data recovery and bacta transfer with the smugglers) I always noticed with Allied Editor that attack gunboats should appear in the missions, but they didn't. Are these also old bugs or is it because of the difficulty settings?

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:13 pm
by JeremyaFr
dhollinger3 wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:05 am
I found what appears to be a bug. If I set

Code: Select all

SwapJoystickXZAxes = 1
in the ddraw.cfg file, but have the `Hook_Joystick_Ff.dll` in the root of the XWA directory, then the X Axis on my joystick just stops working. If I delete, disable, or otherwise move the Joystick_Ff hook it solves the problem.

This is with the XWA2020 FixPack installed
Hello,
You can try that:

EDIT: link removed
See joystick hook

Re: X-Wing Alliance Mega Patch 2020 available NOW!

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:17 pm
by brassman2468
Jaeven wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:54 am
brassman2468 wrote:
Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:53 am
Just finished B0M8, the Deep Space Strike evaluation, and was surprised to see two squadrons of TIEs in addition to the two escort shuttles protecting the final convoy. Was this an intended addition to the mission? I don't remember seeing them in previous playthroughs.
Yes. The TIEs had always been there, they were just bugged so they never spawned. The original mission was kind of stupid because it forced you to go up against two Assault Shuttles in a Y-wing, and more often than not, your wingmate would be useless. So the Assault Shuttles were changed to Escort Shuttles, and to compensate in difficulty, the TIEs were unbugged.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot of sense. The modified mission does seem quite a bit more doable now, it only took me two tries to complete without having to resort to invulnerability. Still a bit of a challenge, but not impossible :)

EDIT: just went back and looked into the mission in YOGEME, turns out the Escort Shuttles are still Assault Shuttles just with difficulty set to Novice.