HUNTER IN THE SNOW - scripted campaign [GAZ-MM 72-K]

[Vendigo]

 

 

DOWNLOAD CAMPAIGN (version 5.201b)

 

It is November 1942 - and the tide of the war is turning.

After long months of retreating, we are now on the offensive!

Time has come to wreak vengeance upon the occupiers!

 

Required: "Battle of Stalingrad" and GAZ-MM 72-K collector vehicle! 

 

This is a 10 mission Campaign where you drive a truck with an anti-aircraft gun just as 6^th Armee is encircled west of Stalingrad. The enemy is attempting to deliver supplies to the besieged troops by air and you will have to prevent them from succeeding.   

 

Missions typically run for 20-25 minutes until the Main Objective is complete (only the first mission’s duration is 50 minutes) – if you survive long enough, the next mission is unlocked and the current session is terminated.

 

To properly navigate through the missions, the Player shall receive hints and orders via subtitles – the HUD must be turned on!   

 

Some missions feature customized terrain including a compacted snow area around the railway station, the defensive lines with trenches etc.

 

 

Installation instructions: download the RAR file and unzip it to the Game's root folder of the game. 

Do not rename the Campaign’s folder “Snowpiercer_GAZ-MM-27K_campaign”!

 

Special thanks to @Hamaha15 for his precious advice on the terrain editing, @jollyjack for creating the winter skin of C-47A!

 

This Campaign is free but if you enjoy it and wish to support me, you can do so via the details below:

 

Spoiler

My Paypal account is: dmitry.gor@gmail.com

 

 

Edited February 11, 2024 by Vendigo

[jollyjack]

Congrats ! ?

 

Just played through the first long road trip skidding all over the place; the player GAZ truck needs some steering skills i don't have.

Guess i should have had me a bottle of Vodka first.

Great scenery settings BTW, and efficient programming too probably as time scale works up to 8x even at times.

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by jollyjack

[DN308]

Nice idea

Many thanks

Edited November 5, 2022 by DN308

[jollyjack]

BTW got stuck on the road trip near the end: I couldn't get the GAZ truck refuel going near the refueling trucks ... tried R-cntrl A, F and R, NADA.

Also how do you unfold and refold the side panels and lock-unlock the gun?

Edited November 5, 2022 by jollyjack

[Hamaha15]

It appears that the ground vehicles rearm and refuel functions have been deactivated during one of the earlier game updates. Recently, rearming didn't work for the Sdkfz 10/7 FLAK either in the Operation Oyster setting I'm still being developping. Tried an older tank crew mission I had designed specifically - to the same effect: no rearming and no repairing. Tried the same with a plane mission - rearming and repairing worked fine.

 

Had no time to check the functionality after the latest update but the find by Jollyjack indicates that it still not back to work...

[Vendigo]

@Hamaha15 thank you and I noticed that refuel/rearm functions obviosuly work differently for vehicles than the aircraft. 

Based on my playthroughs - when you're in a vehicle, you don't have to press any buttons to initiate rearming and/or refuelling, you just have to be within the range of the supplies truck with your motor OFF then your vehicle is refuelled/rearmed automatically. In this Campaign a hint will pop up "Turn the motor off to refuel" whenever you are within that range.

 

In the first mission, it's the fuel truck around the middle of the supply column that you must approach and stop by, this truck has an icon attached to it (the rest ones in the fuel supply column are Noicon).

 

@jollyjack - press "T" to lock/unlock the gun!   As to the time acceleration - 8x works when there are no active aircraft entities in mission! 

 

 

 

Edited November 7, 2022 by Vendigo

[Vendigo]

8 hours ago, jollyjack said:

 

Just played through the first long road trip skidding all over the place; the player GAZ truck needs some steering skills i don't have.

 

Hehe, same with me - no ABS, no traction control, driving a GAZ is a challenge!   

[jollyjack]

41 minutes ago, Vendigo said:

Hehe, same with me - no ABS, no traction control, driving a GAZ is a challenge!   

 

Like an old Lada maybe, or worse, Moskvitch

[jollyjack]

2nd attempt, fuelled up and all .... what else is wrong there in that country?

BTW I still have troubles with getting the gun up, and then back to the F1 drivers position view.

F1 only jumps back to that mean gunner's face.

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by jollyjack

[Vendigo]

2 hours ago, jollyjack said:

BTW I still have troubles with getting the gun up, and then back to the F1 drivers position view.

F1 only jumps back to that mean gunner's face.

 

I switch between the driver and the gunner with the combination Left Ctrl+C.  

[jollyjack]

found it, on my rig it's Left -Cntrl-V.

[FeuerFliegen]

every time I try to load misson #3, the game freezes up on loading screen, and I get a pop up window titled "Object undefined" and then states "luascripts/worldobjects/mapemitters/test/ammoexplosioin_big.txt"

 

I've never had any problems with any campaigns before, or anything like this.  is anyone else having issues like this?

[Vendigo]

52 minutes ago, SCG_FeuerFliegen said:

every time I try to load misson #3, the game freezes up on loading screen, and I get a pop up window titled "Object undefined" and then states "luascripts/worldobjects/mapemitters/test/ammoexplosioin_big.txt"I

 

@SCG_FeuerFliegen do you have any mods installed? 

On my PC, all missions load and play alright (I use the vanilla game), so I am thinking maybe it's some mod conflict at your side..  

 

Edited November 12, 2022 by Vendigo

[DN308]

I had that kind of issue after an update. I just had forgot to switch off some mods before to uodate

[alpenspion]

1 hour ago, SCG_FeuerFliegen said:

every time I try to load misson #3, the game freezes up on loading screen, and I get a pop up window titled "Object undefined" and then states "luascripts/worldobjects/mapemitters/test/ammoexplosioin_big.txt"

 

I've never had any problems with any campaigns before, or anything like this.  is anyone else having issues like this?

Same problem to me. I have found this .txt datas in the Chir front or Velkie Luki campaign. Copy this to the missing path. 

ammoexplosion.txt ammoexplosion_big.txt

On 11/5/2022 at 10:42 AM, Vendigo said:

 

 

DOWNLOAD CAMPAIGN (version 5.002b)

 

It is November 1942 - and the tide of the war is turning.

After long months of retreating, we are now on the offensive!

Time has come to wreak vengeance upon the occupiers!

 

Required: "Battle of Stalingrad" and GAZ-MM 72-K collector vehicle! 

 

This is a 9 mission Campaign where you drive a truck with an anti-aircraft gun just as 6^th Armee is encircled west of Stalingrad. The enemy is attempting to deliver supplies to the besieged troops by air and you will have to prevent them from succeeding.   

 

Missions typically run for 20-25 minutes until the Main Objective is complete (only the first mission’s duration is 50 minutes) – if you survive long enough, the next mission is unlocked and the current session is terminated.

 

To properly navigate through the missions, the Player shall receive hints and orders via subtitles – the HUD must be turned on!   

 

Some missions feature customized terrain including a compacted snow area around the railway station, the defensive lines with trenches etc.

 

 

Installation instructions: download the RAR file and unzip it to the Game's root folder of the game. 

Do not rename the Campaign’s folder “Snowpiercer_GAZ-MM-27K_campaign”!

 

Special thanks to @Hamaha15 for his precious advice on the terrain editing, @jollyjack for creating the winter skin of C-47A!

 

This Campaign is free but if you enjoy it and wish to support me, you can do so via the details below

 

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My Paypal account is: dmitry.gor@gmail.com

 

 

Onca a again a great campaign from you! Much fun but very difficult to hit a plane. I´m on misson 4 and i have only shot down 1 He-111 and 1 Ju-52

[DN308]

Yep. That’s exactly these files I had too.

Sad but true, I had to reinstall everything…

[FeuerFliegen]

58 minutes ago, Vendigo said:

 

@SCG_FeuerFliegen do you have any mods installed? 

On my PC, all missions load and play alright (I use the vanilla game), so I am thinking maybe it's some mod conflict at your side..  

 

 

no mods

[Hamaha15]

Hi,

 

from experience with my Operation Oyster mission for which I carried over the ammoexplosion_big effect too:

 

The ammoexplosion_big effect has a history: It has been created initially by the Veteranen team for use with their Velikie Luki missions/campaign. They put it into the "data/luascripts/worldobjects/mapemitters/test/..." directory along with other custom made effects. These add-ons work without mods on from this location. In the meantime, the ammoexplosion_big effect has found its way into the official release - buried inside the .GTP files. That is to say: this effect is available from two different locations. To make matters worse: only the "official" ammoexplosion_big has been updated with one of the recent releases. The unchanged Veteranen version doesn't work anymore.

 

I edited Vendigo's mission 03 and I found a merry mix of big ammoexplosions from both locations clustered around the ammo storage in Sector 0821.4.

 

The lucky ones who didn't face any loading errors have both versions available because they had already used the Veteranen version and created the specific "test" subdirectory. The others have either to create the missing subdirectory according to Alpenspion's instructions above or to fix the issue in the mission file text which is the cleaner solution, safe against future updates of the effect but a little more complicated.

 

Delete the MSNBIN file, edit the Mission file with your preferred text editor and delete systematically the "/test/" subdirectory from all applicable address paths using the editor's search function. Recreate the MSNBIN file by opening and resaving the mission in the Mission Editor.

 

Should work that way

 

Cheers

Edited November 12, 2022 by Hamaha15

[Vendigo]

@Hamaha15 thank you for such a detailed explanation! How do you know all this - your expertise is just unsurpassed!  

 

@SCG_FeuerFliegen I am going to update the Mission files of this Campaign as per Hamaha advice, although it might take a little while. So if you don’t feel like doing it by yourself, just please wait till I fix it and post the patch!   

 

@alpenspion very true - handling that 72K gun is way too different than the dogfight shooting. I had a hard time trying to score hits even on low passing Ju-52's.  

 

Btw you can check out this how-to video: 

 

Spoiler

 

 

Edited November 13, 2022 by Vendigo

[Vendigo]

I found a bug in the first night mission - an extra searchlight that shouldn't be there; makes entire mission a little off balanced... Will fix this asap!  

[FeuerFliegen]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:20 AM, Vendigo said:

@SCG_FeuerFliegen I am going to update the Mission files of this Campaign as per Hamaha advice, although it might take a little while. So if you don’t feel like doing it by yourself, just please wait till I fix it and post the patch! 

 

Hey Vendigo, no rush,  but I just wanted to check to see if you have had any time to update those mission files yet? 

[Vendigo]

@SCG_FeuerFliegen now I am away from my PC, I think around end of next week I will be finally able to update the Campaign files, fix the bugs and add the proper winter skin to C47, which @jollyjack has kindly created for us.    

[Vendigo]

Greetings to all, I’m back in Kyiv and finally I have been able to update the Campaign! To make up for the long wait, I have added a new Mission, hope you have fun!

 

You can download the updated Campaign from the link in the first post.

 

Be sure to delete the three files: ctreecache, mtreecache, ttreecache from the “data” folder, otherwise the mission list in the in-game menu will be botched.

The list of improvements and fixes:

·         New mission added – “Deadly frozen barren” (note that to successfully finish this mission, you must travel to the destination then return to base);

·         New 4K winter skin for C47-A, kindly created by @jollyjack;

·         Tactical markings have been re-worked on all aircraft;

·         Briefings have been fine-tuned;

·         Fixed the bug with ammoexplosion_big effect - special thanks to @Hamaha15 for pointing it out for me;

·         In mission 3 - one extra searchlight that is not supposed to be there has been removed;

·         Some new custom radio messages have been added.

 

Cheers, 

Vendigo. 

Edited February 23, 2023 by Vendigo

[Vendigo]

 

 

Campaign updated to 5.201b!

• Li-2 added in a couple of missions;
• Some rogue subtitles in mission 3 "The graveyard shift" have been removed. 

Download the full updated Campaign from the first post in this thread.