"Battle of the Bulge" - recruiting Betatesters -

[knife-=108=-]

@halftrack: does the BotB V2.1 should be work on patch 2.400 ,and how about 2.301?

[cooljunk93]

I used to play this a while back.. a few months at least. It was amazing, i can remember having a long line of Howitzers for the US, and constantly bombarding those Jerrie's to hell :P

I can't wait for it to be released for 2.4 as i really want to play it again

Good work on all the new things you appear to have added. Keep up the good work!

[Cozmo]

It works you just need a new shortcut and module.

[bodtchboy]

[QUOTE]It works you just

How do you do that? Mine won't launch in 2.4

[Halftrack]

Sorry for letting you guys down in the last days, but as the patching madness is
still in progress, I just want to wait for the 2.5 respect. 2.501 changes before
releasing some official stuff. I am sure that 2.5 will bring some new nasty surprises
for mods...

[Lethal Dosage]

I am sure that 2.5 will bring some new nasty surprises
for mods...

God i hope not, if 2.500 kills mods, i can see this area of the community getting rather quite again like after 2.0 and OF. I doubt i'll be starting Cross of Iron again from scratch, hopefully someone will come up with a way to convert mods like with 2.400, or at least Mannerheim or Corsix might write a tool to save us!

[cooljunk93]

Sorry for letting you guys down in the last days

I'm pretty sure you haven't let anybody down, we can only be gratefull for such a good mod, and even if 2.5 DOES (hopefully it doesn't) kill modding, then at least some of us have had the oppurtunity to play it. And i totally understand why you are going to wait, because its only a matter of time before Relic release a new Patch, probably when Tales of Valor hit the stores in the UK.. in a few days by my reconning.

[lin]

is there an ETA on the 2.500 patches? because Tales of Valor is going live tomorrow, so i wonder if they coincide

[GunsEmpty]

Man, all I can say is I'm glad I bought Supreme Commander Gold Edition and Dawn of War Platinum Edition a few weeks ago.....I'd go crazy not being able to get any BotB games in.

[Halftrack]

@lin: of course there is no ETA . Have to get the 2.5 patch, then look after the cahnges it does to the game, trying to solve the problems, and care about RL, to...

[Celution]

Halftrack can you post your .module file here? I can't seem to get it working right. (I really messed things up because BotB works different than my own mod...).

[Halftrack]

I haven t updated to 2.4 yet...

[lin]

i just learned that 2.500 will come with ToV and will be like 1.5 or 2 gigs in size like OF was, so i guess lots of work is ahead of the team

[Copernicus]

Xalibur and me are just about to get the Blitzkrieg-Mod running on 2.500 - and Xalibur has a pretty good "connection" to Halftrack, so this shouldn't be too hard. Big patches don't mean big troubles .

[lin]

so be it

[sirpsychoj]

yeah and then theres patch 2.501.0 and it also looks like theres another after that as well, as ive just updated to 2.501.0 and it still says needs another patch which isnt available at present, a m8 whos online informed me it comes in 5hrs, hopefully with the maps, so as with my mods, I'm not trying anything to fix until I know exactly when everyone is patched up from relic and then sort through it, as it seems in vain at moment to try anything, as new stuff keeps arriving

[lin]

my steam version is updating now

[GunsEmpty]

Is there any news on if/when BotB will be working again. I'm slowly losing my CoH powers while increasing my DoW powers....

[Ramfanatic]

All, maybe I missed it before, but I couldn't host a map before, it would CTD when I pressed the "Host" button.

It works now, I can host BotB multiplayer. This is the module info I'm using:

[global]

UIName = BotB
Description = BotB
DllName = WW2Mod
ModVersion = 1.0
ModFolder = BotB\Data
ScenarioPackFolder = WW2\Scenarios
SpeechManagerCache = SpeechManagerWW2.cache

[attrib:common]
folder = BotB\DataAttrib
archive.01 = BotB\Archives\AttribArchive
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\AttribArchive

[movies:common]
folder = WW2\Movies

[movies:common:01]
folder = Engine\Movies

[movies:common:02]
folder = DLC1\Movies

[movies:common:03]
folder = DLC2\Movies

[movies:common:04]
folder = DLC3\Movies

[data:common:01]
folder = BotB\Data
archive.01 = BotB\Archives\BotBData
archive.02 = BotB\Archives\BotBArt
archive.03 = BotB\Archives\BotBSound
archive.04 = BotB\Archives\BotBArtAmbient

[data:common:02]
folder = COH\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Data
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2Art
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2Sound
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2ArtAmbient
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFSPData

[data:common:03]
folder = WW2\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\Engine

[data:common:04]
folder = COH\Data
archive.01 = RelicOnline\Archives\RelicOnline

[data:common:05]
folder = DLC1\Data
archive.01 = DLC1\Archives\DLC1Data

[data:common:06]
folder = DLC2\Data
archive.01 = DLC2\Archives\DLC2Data

[data:common:07]
folder = DLC3\Data
archive.01 = DLC3\Archives\DLC3Data

[data:common:08]
folder = RelicOnline\Data
archive.01 = RelicOnline\Archives\RelicOnline

[data:sound_low]
folder = WW2\DataSoundLow
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundLow

[data:sound_high]
folder = WW2\DataSoundHigh
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundHigh

[data:art_low]
folder = COH\DataArtLow
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2ArtLow

[data:art_low:01]
folder = DLC1\DataArtLow
archive.01 = DLC1\Archives\DLC1ArtLow

[data:art_low:02]
folder = DLC2\DataArtLow
archive.01 = DLC2\Archives\DLC2ArtLow

[data:art_low:03]
folder = DLC3\DataArtLow
archive.01 = DLC3\Archives\DLC3ArtLow

[data:art_high]
folder = COH\DataArtHigh
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2ArtHigh

[data:art_high:01]
folder = DLC1\DataArtHigh
archive.01 = DLC1\Archives\DLC1ArtHigh

[data:art_high:02]
folder = DLC2\DataArtHigh
archive.01 = DLC2\Archives\DLC2ArtHigh

[data:art_high:03]
folder = DLC3\DataArtHigh
archive.01 = DLC3\Archives\DLC3ArtHigh

[locale:english]
folder.01 = CoH\Locale\English
folder.02 = CoH\Engine\Locale\English
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\English

[locale:english:01]
folder.01 = DLC1\Locale\English

[locale:english:02]
folder.01 = DLC2\Locale\English

[locale:english:03]
folder.01 = DLC3\Locale\English

[data:english:01]
folder = CoH\Locale\English\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-English

[data:english:02]
folder = CoH\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[data:english:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\English\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineEnglish

[data:english:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\English\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineEnglish

[data:english:04]
folder = DLC1\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = DLC1\Archives\DLC1SoundSpeechEnglish

[data:english:05]
folder = DLC2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = DLC2\Archives\DLC2SoundSpeechEnglish

[data:english:06]
folder = DLC3\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = DLC3\Archives\DLC3SoundSpeechEnglish

[locale:German]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\German
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\German
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\German

[data:german:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\German\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-German

[data:german:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundGerman
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechGerman
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechGerman
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechGerman
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISGerman
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechGerman
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechGerman

[data:german:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\German\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineGerman

[locale:French]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\French
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\French
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\French

[data:french:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\French\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-French

[data:french:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundFrench
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechFrench
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechFrench
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechFrench
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISFrench
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechFrench
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechFrench

[data:french:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\French\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineFrench

[locale:Spanish]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Spanish
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Spanish
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Spanish

[data:spanish:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Spanish\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Spanish

[data:spanish:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundSpanish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechSpanish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechSpanish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechSpanish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISSpanish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechSpanish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechSpanish

[data:spanish:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Spanish\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineSpanish

[locale:Russian]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Russian
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Russian
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Russian

[data:russian:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Russian\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Russian

[data:russian:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundRussian
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechRussian
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechRussian
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechRussian
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISRussian
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechRussian
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechRussian

[data:russian:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Russian\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineRussian

[locale:Italian]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Italian
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Italian
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Italian

[data:italian:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Italian\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Italian

[data:italian:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[data:italian:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Italian\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineItalian

[locale:Czech]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Czech
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Czech
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Czech
folder.04 = BotB\Data\Locale\English

[data:czech:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Czech\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Czech

[data:czech:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[data:czech:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Czech\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineCzech

[locale:Polish]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Polish
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Polish
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Polish

[dataolish:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Polish\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Polish

[dataolish:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[dataolish:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Polish\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EnginePolish

[locale:ChineseTrad]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\ChineseTrad
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\ChineseTrad
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\ChineseTrad

[data:chinesetrad:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\ChineseTrad\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-ChineseTrad

[data:chinesetrad:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[data:chinesetrad:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\ChineseTrad\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineChineseTrad

[locale:Japanese]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Japanese
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Japanese
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Japanese

[data:japanese:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Japanese\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Japanese

[data:japanese:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[data:japanese:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Japanese\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineJapanese

[locale:Korean]
folder.01 = WW2\Locale\Korean
folder.02 = Engine\Locale\Korean
folder.03 = RelicOnline\Locale\Korean

[data:korean:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Korean\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Korean

[data:korean:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[data:korean:03]
folder = Engine\Locale\Korean\Data
archive.01 = Engine\Archives\EngineKorean

[lin]

halftrack, can u confirm that this is a correct module file?

edit:
when i want to start the mod the Data Execution Prevention shuts down reliccoh.exe, why the hell?

[TheWickedGerman]

All, maybe I missed it before, but I couldn't host a map before, it would CTD when I pressed the "Host" button.

It works now, I can host BotB multiplayer. This is the module info I'm using:

So just copy & paste into mine and it should work? Or have I to do more to make it work under 2.501?

[lin]

i doesnt work for me

[Panzer Jager]

It might not work because of the smiley faces.

[lin]

nah, i corrected the smiley faces still couldnt get it to work

[TheWickedGerman]

Spoiler

[dataolish:01]
folder = WW2\Locale\Polish\Data
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2Locale-Polish

[dataolish:02]
folder = WW2\DataSoundEnglish
archive.01 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundSpeechEnglish
archive.02 = WW2\Archives\WW2AlliesSpeechEnglish
archive.03 = WW2\Archives\WW2AxisSpeechEnglish
archive.04 = WW2\Archives\WW2SoundNISEnglish
archive.05 = WW2\Archives\OFCoreSpeechEnglish
archive.06 = WW2\Archives\OFFullSpeechEnglish

[dataolish:03]

noticed these typos. Also some entries at the end seems missing. Also I can´t save the Module with word pad, it says access was denied. Any suggestions'?

[lin]

those are not typos but the smiley

maybe the module is set to be read only? that would explain why u cant modify it

[Great Ajax]

The module worked for me as I just copied and pasted over the old one and I also had to make a new shortcut as the installed one would not work. The new shortcut had changed the "-modname" to
-mod" and it works fine for me. Only problem I saw was that the maps show a string of characters instead of the actual name of the map and thats it.

Trey

[lin]

okay i managed to fire it up but its a bugfest, missing rgms everywhere

[TheWickedGerman]

maybe the module is set to be read only? that would explain why u cant modify it

You mean the check box copy protection? No, this one is unchecked.

How can I view the text without smilies? I copied the text pasted it into my reply box and pressed preview post with disabled smilies. The text showed up like posted above. Can I totally switch off smilies? I didn´t find the option.

[Panzer General]

Does this work with TOV?

[Slavik1]

Not I do not think since t'is for the patch 2.501 in any case, i await the MOD impatiently. Sorry for my english.

[lin]

so i got the mod fully working, only a few icons are missing from the doctrine seletion menu + the botb maps have no key strings, otherwise its flawless

the AI seems broken, it doesnt build vehicles/tech up, but its a nice infantry only game

[TheWickedGerman]

With which exe do you laucnhing the game? Do you need any command line parameters in the shortcut? Keeps crashing on start.

[lin]

u need a shortcut of the reliccoh.exe with -dev -mod BotB in the command line

atm i cant get it to work online, it gives the notorious "incompatible version" error, anyone with any ideas on how to solve this?

Halftrack please please help

[TheWickedGerman]

Almost every< text in game says some numbers + nokey. Also the intro is not playing.

[Twitchy]

Lin, use the CoHLauncher to play online. Or try asking Sweeten/SIG_Surgeon, I hear they are good with this sort of stuff.

[lin]

cohlauncher doesnt work with the mod

[sweeten2213]

@ lin - not to jump into another mods thread, but mods online are a little banged up atm.

I'm assuming BoB uses scar, and that will make it incompatible. If not, then you need the same EXACT version as whoever you're playing against. I'm guessing it's scar though.

@ BoB team - if you guys figure out anything with these AI issues, I'd love to know. It's a rather disobediant little guy these days. I'm working on it for N44, but it's a tangled mess. I'll also pass on anything I come up with, but I can tell you that a ton of stuff has changed ever so slightly. Custom units are a nightmare, as simply setting demands in rules_unit_purchase has little bearing

[lin]

yea i suppose its a scar thing

as for the AI i dont mind if its broken, i usually play humans

[Halftrack]

Hey Guys, I thought I should keep you informed about the actual status of the mod and
whats happening at the moment.

1. I still havent updated to CoH 2.5 yet, with so much issues going on, I thought it would be a good idea to
finish version 2.1 of the mod before patching. But due to RL mostly, I am way behind with the next update

2. Honestly, the patch has AGAIN changed so much, that I doubt its easy to transfer it flawlessly to 2.5,
but I will give it a try. I really lost some motivation to work on the Mod by now.

So the plan is as follows:

Update 2.1 will be CANCELLED.

Main Focus is to make a patch 2.5 compatible version of the mod first. Some changes will be included,
like new maps and bugfixes,but no new features ( like mannable HTs ).Sorry, but that all hasnt been tested yet

After that I may restart from scratch and with version 3.0 ... IF I am still motivated to do so...
( I am a little fed up with snow.. Wink )

[lin]

well if you are fed up with it im sure there is someone you trust and can continue the development

[Celution]

Halftrack, keep in mind custom veternacy icons don't work anymore... . I'm like you really not happy with alot of those changes.

[Lampshade111]

Somebody help out this man/or use a cattleprod. We can't let this mod die!

I will understand if you cease development of the mod but I would really love to see other people pick it up if you move onto something else.

[lin]

yea we absolutely cant let it die, its THE best mod for coh for people seeking realism

[Halftrack]

easy, nobody said its going to die...

[Celution]

Indeed, it's normal for modders to have some times less motivation to continue, I got that aswell as maby others I think. But most of them will recover from it.

[Ramfanatic]

Hey Haltrack, great to have you back!

Some things I've noticed so far:

1) Repair stations don't repair

2) Sturm Artillery and Panzer buildings don't get built by AI - likewise for Americans.

3) Off map units are called in by the AI, but often bunch up at their HQ's

4) Colliope doesn't fire it's rockets

Most BotB options do seem to still work.

Those are the ones I can think of at the moment...

[tskross]

@ramfanatic
I'm assuming your talking about after the latest patch (2.5) ?

[Celution]

Hey Halftrack + BotB Team, I got this idea to make it look better for the towing at-guns. (I don't know if it's possible to trigger the action when it "loads" into the halftrack)

Add a animator_set_state to the ebps of the At-gun, and set the state_machine_nameto: antitankgun_state.
And set the do_action_state_name to: towing.
Now the "arms" are almost closed! (with NIS they are totally closed, but when adding it as a animator_set_state if refuses...).

Animator_Set_State resut

NIS result

I also tried to add the animator_set_state to make it lifted as when the crew moves the AT-gun, but that failed to work together either. (I'll keep trying)
Now you only need to find a way to get the crew invisible, which I didn't try yet.



~Edit~
I found a way to make the arms closing completely with the animator_set_state. Add another animator_set_state to the ebps of the pak, make it exactly the same but set the do_action_state_name to: invisible. That should do the trick.

[fragiator]

wow, great work here. looks nice