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This is buggy developer version of PMC Europe Theater release for Falcon 4 Allied Force and RedViper (should work in OpenFalcon too but I have not tested, Couby hint hint). This version comes with full exe installer and there should be no problems installing it (unless you are AF only user when the installer fails). It has few nasty bugs so thats why its developer only, please do not submit any news/forums posts about this theater to anywhere else as the common users in public do not understand theater dev stuff and I dont want to read their bitching posts about how buggy the theater is. I am not kidding about this, in AF this theater is pretty much unplayable.
Changelog
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--- bugs
- pak map image missing, but pak is configured properly.
- small islands should not have farmland tiles (no roads/population)?
- save1 (hardest, bottom) campaign is missing/empty, didn't get it to work in time.
- all campaigns crash on sim exit, does not effect normal gameplay.
- eastern edge, terrain features missing, russia or something else?
- payerne airbase is on top of a bridge, (yellow team).
- coastlines need terrainview + tacedit check and coordination.
- bergen is bit cutoff terrain/road wise.
- BA102 DIJON LONGVIC airbase on top of a bridge.
- Drachten airfield is too short
- AB unleveled at x=198.26, y=1111.29, z=-930.83.
- Hungary there is the Balaton, a big lake without water.
- SE from Aviano AB. Sea is growing up, coast directly before Rijeka AB.
- fix the terrain in alps?
- RedViper B52's cannot takeoff from Wonsan type airbase in Europe campaign(s).
--- fixes v0.5
- AB unleveled Koln-Bonn, fixed.
- AB unleveled Cameri, fixed.
- AB unleveled Fritzlar, fixed.
- te_new.tac is incomplete, fixed.
- latvia/lithuania objectives are doubled, fixed.
- added two nuke plants to finland, olkiluoto and loviisa.
- finished all links to whole theater.
- CATE AB configuration for many airbases fixed.
Install
Delete any and all old Europe theater installs. Read the readme and manual in the release rar but remember that manual is quite outdated by now. Run the PMC_Europe_Theater_v0.5.exe file and choose either RV/OF or AF install depending on your Falcon version. Remember that the installation takes a long time to complete and is extremely heavy on the system, be prepared not to do anything on the background and to reboot your computer after the install is complete. If you're AF only user, the installer will NOT work for you.
Done!
Feedback
We are looking for bug reports and feedback, if you are interested of helping to edit this theater, just let us know, we will welcome any and all help being it research, bug testing or actual editing. Report all bugs into the Europe v0.5 bug reports topic.
We will answer all your questions and then some. If you do not have account in PMC Tactical, you need to email me so I can create one for you (new user registrations disallowed because of too many spammers). Email me to pmc at pmctactical dot org address or contact me at Frugals or FreeFalcon forums.
And finally the readme:
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Falcon 4 - PMC Europe Theater
v0.5 released May 5th, 2007.
This version is really a developer version as there is quite few nasty bugs which the average joe would not understand. Please do NOT submit news/forum posts about this theater to anywhere else, you are free to discuss this in PMC Tactical forums or with persons whom you know are developer types who understands what it takes to build a theater. This release it not meant for the public!
We have the new User Interface (UI) for all falcon versions in this installer, mainly its fixed for AF and OF leaving RV quite empty. OF even has the background image for main screen and campaign. RV has brand new UI file-system so its quite empty, just the basic items are included. All the campaigns will crash on exit, terrain tiling has quite some errors. Worst problem is that AF while in 3d gets buffer overrun error (a CTD) at some point. As you can see, this is quite developer release but at least we now have one single exe installer for all three different falcon versions with UI, the development from here goes easily and we can drop in quickfixes if they help (like campaign crash fix etc). It was just important to get this theater into the devs now and not next year.
Having said all that above, the theater is still enjoyable to fly with RV, I have flown many OCA and SEAD Strike missions against in the middle campaign. I havent had any CTD's in 3d with RV so far (I have tested mostly with RV since AF has the CTD bug).
There is the old PDF manual included in the download package, its pretty much unchanged from the last release, I just changed few addresses and basic info. If anyone want to contribute for the manual, I would be very happy. Let me know in the forum if you want to help document this theater.
Changelog
--- bugs
- pak map image missing, but pak is configured properly.
- small islands should not have farmland tiles (no roads/population)?
- save1 (hardest, bottom) campaign is missing/empty, didn't get it to work in time.
- all campaigns crash on sim exit, does not effect normal gameplay.
- eastern edge, terrain features missing, russia or something else?
- payerne airbase is on top of a bridge, (yellow team).
- coastlines need terrainview + tacedit check and coordination.
- bergen is bit cutoff terrain/road wise.
- BA102 DIJON LONGVIC airbase on top of a bridge.
- Drachten airfield is too short
- AB unleveled at x=198.26, y=1111.29, z=-930.83.
- Hungary there is the Balaton, a big lake without water.
- SE from Aviano AB. Sea is growing up, coast directly before Rijeka AB.
- fix the terrain in alps?
- RedViper B52's cannot takeoff from Wonsan type airbase in Europe campaign(s).
--- fixes v0.5
- AB unleveled Koln-Bonn, fixed.
- AB unleveled Cameri, fixed.
- AB unleveled Fritzlar, fixed.
- te_new.tac is incomplete, fixed.
- latvia/lithuania objectives are doubled, fixed.
- added two nuke plants to finland, olkiluoto and loviisa.
- finished all links to whole theater.
- CATE AB configuration for many airbases fixed.
Install
1) Run the PMC_Europe_Theater_v0.5.exe and choose RV/OF or AF.
Done!
If you're AF only user, this installer will NOT work for you as it expects to see original Falcon 4 registry entries. Feel free to check our forums for fix.
Please take a notice that the LxNormalFix utility is very heavy on your computer, it will cause approx 780mb memory usage so if you're short on memory get prepared for very heavy swapping by win. Its most likely you cant do anything else while the installer run and then you have to reboot your computer. Also if you install to RV or OF there is additional SeasonSwitcher which takes long time to run also.
We are looking for bug reports and feedback. More details can be found at PMC Tactical forums in this theater area where all bug reports should be posted.
We will answer all your questions and then some in the forum. If you do not have account in there, you need to email me so I can create one for you (new user registrations disallowed because of too many spammers). Email me to spam my ass address or contact me at Frugals or FreeFalcon forums.
May 5th, 2007.
http://www.pmctactical.org
PMC Tactical
Snake Man, PMC.
PS. Some of you may have noticed my frustration during the last days of Europe development, I am still completely exhausted about debugging the campaign and by miracle I got it working, but even now the hardest campaigns (bottom one of campaign buttons) is not available simply because I didnt get rid of the CTD on it. I want to get this theater out there, I would have wanted it to be more stable, but now its really for developer types only. I would want some help on figuring out the remaining issues on the campaign here as honestly I'm lost, I've reached the limit of my campaign understanding here. Also I'd like to say as you can read from the upcoming v0.5 topic, that I had tons of fun in RV flying the development campaign (without bridges, this release however does have the bridges), it never crashed on me or had any other problems, that is one reason I want to get this out and not just keep it sitting here on my desk. But please understand what you're sticking your hand into, this is far far from stable theater and many things are missing/bugging etc.