(Review Completed) [SP] Abandoned Armies

[THobson]

Well no one else has reported this problem and no one else has mentioned running the latest version of ECP.  Have you tried it without ECP?  Did you get any sort of error message?

[Planck]

Well, I ran this mission using the current version of ECP, everything worked......just veeeeeeeeeeeeeery slowly......  2 - 3 fps.

I imagine it might be the new ECP version, but, as I don't have that yet  ;D  I can't say for sure.  Doesn't the new version store all it's variables in one big array?


Planck

[Fragorl]

Do you mean v 1.071 or 1.075?

[Dubieman]

Joy, downloading now and I'm preparing to lose lots of my spare time to this mission. Damn you THobson.... ;D

Took me a little while to find the 1.10 version, but read some interesting things along the way.

[THobson]

GRK:

I hope you enjoy it.  The top of the thread also has the link to the latest version - it saves having to hunt through all the posts.

All:
Communication will be a bit sporadic again this week - I will be out of the country for most of it - and hopefully will not forget to take my laptop this time!

I have plans to reimplement the flag changing routine without using triggers or names.  I have got to get that lag down.

Acecombat:
I would be interested to know if ECP is causing the crash so if you get a chance to test it I would be very grateful.  Is this  pre-release version of ECP?

[sim]

Okay I noticed this a while back but never really had much of a chance to get it but after seeing 49 pages   I thought, damn sim you muppet download it  :toocool:

So I am now and will report back later  

sim

[THobson]

Sim:  welcome.  I composed part of what follows before going out for a wonderful dinner in deepest Provence, I came back from dinner to find your post.

@all potential testers.

First let me say that I am not presuming that more people will test this mission, or even that those that tested v1.00 will want to test it again but just in case:

If you have not yet tested this mission and are thinking that maybe you will try, or if you tested the first version but not yet this one and are wondering about giving this latest version a try I would not want to stop you…. but you would be doing me a great favour if you didn't.  

I already have a tonne of work to do on the mission here based on the testing done so far and there are some very big changes between the latest version here and the next one.  It would be a real help to me to have fresh eyes look at the next version.  What I want to avoid is creating something that has meaning to those that have followed the development of the mission from the beginning but is totally incomprehensible to anyone coming new to it.

Sim/anyone.  If you have found things you want to tell me - please do.  If you have not got far it would help me in the long run if you could wait for the next version.  I promise it will be a significant improvement on the current version.

[Dubieman]

Well, seeing as I haven't got the latest ECP nor have I gotten far, I'll wait for your new version as suggested. I've only just released the first civvies closest to Vigny. So I'll wait and hopefully soon, you'll see a semi new mission I'm working on before another project I'd like to finish. ;D

[sim]

Was just about to load it up but then I saw your post Thobson  :'(
Ok I'll wait for the next version  

[THobson]

GRK, sim

I really appreciate it.  Thank you.  The next version is sooo much better (I think anyway) and I really do need people to look at this without being tainted by the earlier versions.   I have two cutscenes to finish and several cutscens to re-record.  I am targetting the end of the month for the next version.  I really do appreciate this.  Thanks.

[sim]

It better be good  ;D

[THobson]

No pressure then

[sim]

lol none at all ;D

good luck  

[Mikero]

@Thob

put a post in your 1st msg 1st page to that effect, it needn't be long winded, possibly a one liner is sufficient. I agree that fresh eyes are important. You need 'untainted' opinion.

I will put a similar msg in the beta news.

[Dubieman]

It better be good

He's got this far. ;D