[SS] CornCobMan's Fun Mod version 1.75 (07/05/2013)

[corncobman]

Long overdue update, the next version is out

Grab 1.30.5 Attrib here or here Outdated see further down for most up to date version

Grab 1.30 Art here or here

Grab Tyranids add-on 1.30 here or here
(Requires the Tyranids mod version 0.45 to work)

Have fun. .

[Firewarrior1705]

great news, dnld-ing now

Found one bug so far: when playing with heroes on, the experience level gained by the units don't show up properly, instead os showing the current level, it shows a "no target" message followed by a number with the $ symbol.

I saw that the broadside squad is now 3 men strong again. Is it intentional ir a bug?

And also you might wanna consider making aircraft squads of 2 with increased damage values. The current values are a joke, even with the HP modifier on it takes almost 30 secs to kill a single guardsman!!!

[corncobman]

Hmmm I may have forgotten to include the Heroes .ucs file.

Download and extract this file

Yeah I made Broadside squads have 3 in a squad. 2 just didn't feel right to me.

Aircraft might need more tweaking, I haven't tested them extensively.

[boblaffly]

Welcome back!

One thing I've encountered when I've built a chaos mark, a purple box appears near my HQ. Is anyone else noticing this or is it just me? I really like the screamers though =).

Also for IG, the Grey Knights can enter a MARs pattern command but when I try to deepstrike them, they won't come out. It might be because GK takes up 2 slots while Kasrkins take 1 but I dunno...

Anyways good work!

[corncobman]

Ah that should not be happening, thanks for reporting it. I will try to fix that for the next release.

[RetroInfinity]

Some bugs from 1.30.0

Eldar upgrade "Fortune:Imbue" makes Banshees not lose morale.

Heavy Weapons Team Lascannon cannot target air units but bolter/autocannon upgrades can.

[boblaffly]

It looks like all of the chaos marks are fixed except for Slaanesh, I'm still getting a pink box... All the others show a glowing orb.

[corncobman]

@RetroInfinity

Strange, are you sure it's Fortune and not something else?

@boblaffly

That should be fixed in the next version. Hopefully.

[Firewarrior1705]

Try making the air units 2 in a squad and adjust the damage accordingly, atm 4 fighters are very hard to manuver, not to mention that the crappy damage they do(they can barely scracth enemy armor and soldiers) makes them completely useless on the battlefield.

[corncobman]

The way I see it is I either make them single units or I make them a squad of at least 3. I don't know why but 2 in my opinion seems a bit daft to me.

[RetroInfinity]

I'm pretty sure since once you upgrade the Fortune the Banshee morale stays at 400 despite losing units and taking damage by flamers,immolators or any morale damaging weapons.

[boblaffly]

I can confirm what retroinfinity is experiencing. Even withouth the fortune upgrade, Banshee's morale regeneration is unusually high and stays as 400. With the upgrade, when one unit from the squad dies, it drops to 398 for a split second and comes back up instantly.

I've been playing with only Assassinate and Destroy HQ objectives on.

[corncobman]

I think I have a theory as as to what's happening. It might be caused by the evasion passive ability which gives a 20% chance of receiving no damage or morale damage. The problem (I believe) is that when morale damage received is set to 0 the morale for the squad jumps instantly to the maximum value.

[reitschule]

This is my first attempt at modding DoW and I found my way here. I like the sound of fun mod lol. I also have the tyranids mod - so how exactly do I use them together? which module do I run? do I have to combine or rename some folders? *scratches head noobishly*

[corncobman]

If you have the Tyranids mod, you need to download and extract the Tyranids addon at the first page of this thread as well as the other two files (if you haven't already done so). Then run Soulstorm and select the Game Manager from the main menu. Then click on "Corncobman's FunMod + Tyranids" and that should run the Fun Mod combined with the Tyranids mod.

[reitschule]

Thanks!

[RetroInfinity]

Dark Eldar
-"Upgrade Leader Health 1" gives Incubi black spikes with no texture.
-"Upgrade Leader Health 2" gives Incubi black helmets with no textures.
-Warrior Squad Units with upgrades "Splinter Cannon/Dark Lance" does not appear when loaded on a Raider.

Necron
-"Restore Monolith Upgrade" is faded.

[corncobman]

Haven't noticed the Incubus texture bugs I'll take a look at them later.

I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about the Warrior weapons when in a Raider.

I noticed the Restored Monolith bug and it's fixed.


EDIT: Achon wargear texture fix (which includes the Incubus) from DoWPro will be included in the next version. Thanks to Nicodemus and the DoWPro mod team.

[mlai]

Your latest Data folder download seems to be messed up. You have the AI folders repeated twice, and no Data Attrib folders at all.

[corncobman]

Strange, I will fix it later tonight when I get home and/or upload the newest version.

EDIT: Mlai, by any chance is one of the ai folders inside the corncobmod folder itself instead of the data folder? I made a mistake in one of the earlier releases so that might have been the cause. Just delete everything in the corncobmod folder apart from the 2 .sga files prior to installing the new version and hopefully that should be it. Anyway glad too see you haven't lost interest in this mod.

New version is available

here or here

[2_X_S]

somehow, in 1.31 the DE ai is completely braindead ie. it does absolutely nothing.

2x

[corncobman]

Yea, probably. Probably a mistake I made when I tweaked the AI files. I also noticed that the IG AI crashes. I will try to fix those soon.

[mlai]

I downloaded your latest version and I didn't have any previous version. What I saw was that you had the ai and attrib folders inside the data folder, but inside the attrib folder I saw the ai folder repeated again, rather than the attrib folders such as ebps or sbps.

Here's something fun you can do with Banshees' power swords that I don't see anyone else do. I had it in DOWpro a long time ago, but I think it got lost in the version edits...

How to make Banshee power swords light up like lightsabers only while in combat:
1. Currently, as soon as you research COW, Banshee swords light up permanently.
2. Go into eldar_banshees event manager files. Ability/fighting_juice_event controls the light-up powerswords.
3. Change has_active_range to True. Set range_min to 1, range_max to 100. This means that when the value is between 1-100, the event activates.
4. Give banshees an "apply_to_entity" modifier (in its self-modifier table) that gives "enable fighting_juice_event" a -10.
5. Give banshees an apply_to_entity in_melee modifier that gives "enable fighting_juice_event" a 3.
6. In COW research, set "enable fighting_juice_event" to 9.
7. Now, as soon as you research COW, Banshees will fight with light-up swords. But when not in active combat they'll turn off their lights to conserve energy. ;-)

[corncobman]

That sounds really cool. I have got to do that. .

Thanks.

EDIT:

New version is out:

Download 1.31.5 Attrib (25/05/2009) here or here

With any luck it should fix the AI bugs for the Dark Eldar and the Imperial Guard.

Also has the Eldar Banshee glowy swords thing suggested by mlai.

[RetroInfinity]

Some bugs with 1.31.5

Orks
-I get " Fatal AI error" when fighting orks.

Sisters
-Seraphim Superior and Mistress don't have "Zealot Charge" animation.

EDIT:
Tau
-Getting crashes when fighting Tau using "mont'ka path".

[corncobman]

I'll have a look at the ork AI. Not sure if Seraphim ever had an animation for the Zealot Charge, I could be wrong though.

[corncobman]

New version is up!

1.32 Attrib here or here

1.30 Art here or here

Tyranids add-on 1.32 here or here
(Requires the Tyranids mod version 0.45 to work)

[Gatoche]

Best mod ever!!!! thanks!!! amazing keep working on your mod please.. by the way could you please add more win condition or units in the future please!!! sorry for my bad english hahahaha well thanks for the wonderful mod friend keep the good work

[corncobman]

You're welcome! Thanks and glad you enjoy it.

I'll try to add more win conditions but it may be hard due to my lack of skills and imagination. .

[Gatoche]

well i have some simple ideas what about add skills to heroes and units that have no skills or have 1 or 2 this will add more fun to the game and... you could make all units more expensive this way players will care way more about units making the game more slow and strategic and if they have more skills i think they will no care so much about the new costs hehe well ..only some ideas

[corncobman]

Nice ideas, I will think about adding cost modifiers to units. Some to increase the costs and some to decrease the costs.

[RetroInfinity]

The new teleport, drop pod, jump Knockback effects = Amesome

Bugs:

Ork-
" Fatal Ai Error"
IG-
Ai spams millions dropship deep strike planes. Probably the IG Sentinel deep strike thing.
Chaos-
Getting game crashes when fighting more than 3 of them. Probably something to do with win conditions . Since "Annihilate" do not crash but when adding more win condition to it does.

[corncobman]

Could you take a screenshot of the console when the Ork AI error happens?

I have also noticed the drop ship animation spamming. I'll try to see what's going on.

[RetroInfinity]

Here you go

http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x...negade/oRK.jpg

[corncobman]

Thanks. It's a very strange error I've not encountered before.

It appears to be Fortress that's causing the problem. Try disabling it for the moment and see if it helps.

Could you also list the win conditions you've activated along with what maps and such it happens on?

[thudmeizer]

Odd. We don't have any reported Ork AI issues with Fortress since all scar does is increase the potency of LPs, Turrets, and Mines. If it breaks for Orks it should for others. If anything its Massive Battles that still has minor Ork problems due the Waagghh Resource.

[corncobman]

It could also be my woeful attempts at coding the AI too.

I added a bunch of strategy files for the new units like the Deff Dred and the Killa Kan.

The error doesn't seem to happen when I'm playing though.

[thudmeizer]

Hmm but the Fortress game mode should not be impacted if your mod's Orks work fine "as is". Does your fortress code look like:

	},
	ork_race =
	{
		Post = "ork_gork_totem",
		PostAddon1 = "ork_gork_totem_addon_1",
		PostAddon2 = "ork_gork_totem_addon_2",
		PostHealthModifier1 = 1.5,
		PostDamageModifier1 = 2.0,
		PostHealthModifier2 = 2.0,
		PostDamageModifier2 = 3.0,
		Turret = "ork_waagh_banner",
		TurretAddon = "ork_waagh_banner_gunzaddon_2",
		TurretHealthModifier1 = 1.5,
		TurretDamageModifier1 = 2.0,
		TurretHealthModifier2 = 1.5,
		TurretDamageModifier2 = 2.0,
		Mine = "ork_mine_field",
		MineHealthModifier = 3.0,
		MineDamageModifier = 3.0

If anything, comparing our Advanced AI 3.10 with yours should yield code differences that may divulge the issue. We're releasing v3.20 for SS VERY shortly as well as a DC equivalent so perhaps u can update to that new code base as well.

[corncobman]

I don't remember making any changes to the Fortress file and running a comparison shows the two being identical, so it might not be Fortress after all.

[RetroInfinity]

Pretty much been using

Annihilate
Auto Reinforce
Game Timer
Handout
Handout More
Handout Bonanza
2x production
faster production-both are checked even if you click one or the other
Fortress

I turn off Fortress but I still get Ork ai error on original and custom maps.

[corncobman]

Ok, try loading each of them one at a time and see if there's any change.

[RetroInfinity]

I still get the error with Annihilate only.

I tried Take and Hold only and got this http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/x...rktakehold.jpg
this was a IG/SM/Sister vs 3 Orks.

[corncobman]

Hmmmm, very strange. All I can suggest for the moment is to completely delete everything in the CornCobMod folder and reinstall the mod again. Sorry

[Crimson Blade]

Are you going to add new units in the next release?
By the way you have done a great job with the mod.

[corncobman]

I will probably be adding the Striking Scorpion Exarch and the Swooping Hawks from the FoK mod (love that mod) when the next release is out, all being well.

Apart from that I dunno.

EDIT: The SM will get the Razorback in the next release. Starts with Twin Heavy Bolters and upgradeable with Lascannon. Slightly tougher than Rhino, and slightly slower. 1 transport slot.

Eldar Warp Spider Exarch will get an ability that temporarily boosts the squad damage to heavy infantry since I feel that Eldar are slightly lacking in late game.

I also feel SM is a bit too powerful late game especially the Land Raider. So I will be toning its damage slightly against infantry.

Oh and More Sluggas for Orks will no longer make Slugga squads free. *evil laugh*

[Crimson Blade]

Great I cant wait for the next version, I will kick some ass with my razorback!
Will you include chaos mark system like in FoK? If it is possible?

[corncobman]

I sorta already have. You build the "mark" of your chosen god from the HQ and a glowy orb appears. The only thing it does is give you a choice between Khorne Berserkers, Noise Marines, Plague Marines and Rubric Marines.

It's also worth noting that you can change your choice at any time by killing the orb and kill the above troop choice and then rebuild a different mark.

[Crimson Blade]

Oops I didnt notice that, *hides in shame*
So I if I choose mark of slaanesh, can I recruit horrors of tzeentch or not? And does the chaos lord change and gain particular ablities, if you have choosen a particular mark?

[corncobman]

No nothing else has been made dependent on the marks. You can recruit Horrors at any time.

As for the Chaos Lord having different abilities, it doesn't fit with the vision of the mod that I have, a.k.a. I am too lazy.

[mlai]

Has anyone done the Valkyrie air transport yet? Soulstorm has made it possible. Perhaps FoK does it?

Do air transports! ^o^