The Squad Mod 2.5 for DoW2 v2.2 & CR v2.3[Updated 01/09/2010]

[Souske22]

maaay have found a solution to my issue, found an old as heck backup copy of dow 2 vanilla, which it'll need to update to work properly again, but if it isnt bugged with the dev command I'll be happy as a clam especially since a full and ready version of vanilla doesnt take long to update too CR

[guardsman lover]

Weill this mod continue to be updated? Just wondering. =)

[Operador]

when this mod is gonna be updated and a better details of the installation??!!?

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Someone please tell me how i install this thing right.PLEASE!

[PanzerKrieg]

Hello ! Great mod !

I have a serious problem regarding the third mission of the game. Its the one just after you get Avitus and Cyrus, the objective being to "eliminate gutwrencha" or something.

As soon as the mission starts i get a fatal scar error. This has happened twice- I tried reinstalling and deleting my steam folder, I have installed the latest fix files, yet still i crash.

Please, explain why this is happening !

Edit: the mission name is "Argus Outskirts"

[cookiemonstah]

Yeah well I'm already 30 in the middle of dawn of war II campaign and all the gear is lvl 20. I need all those 4 droppods to survive even a simple defense, without them I get annihilated. It's silly >.<

[Operador]

forget, no one will answer, i posted my problems and no one answered.

[trintong]

Currently, Maker of this mod is not avaliable.

[methodicaltruth]

Do I need vanilla DoW2 to run this mod for DoW2 Chaos Rising? -> I think I have the most updated version of CR

[Grimknight321]

I have been trying to delete this mod from my game, i swear i deleted all the files i needed from the instructions that the mod maker gave, but it still loads it for some wierd reason, reinstalling the game and going to look into it more, sorry for bad grammer and will come back to see if anyone else helps. Thanks!

O i finally fixed it, dont pay attention to this post now,

[Joekid13]

hi jaylo i'm joekid13 and i love yur work i just wanna let u know that due to deus's wotbr mod wagear fall of taldeer is bugged and i'm sorry to say it is on your mod too cos after i found that bug i tried it on yours still the same result.
it ctds

[guardsman lover]

Now that Retribution is coming soon, wouldn't it be awesome if the Imperial Guard Drop Pod delivered 2 guardsmen squads, 1 heavy weapons team, 1 squad of Catachan Devils......?

[Joekid13]

hey man thats probaly gonna be in the retribution version of the mod if jaylo decides to make one.

[Offbeat]

I got a question about this mod.

It works for me and everything but the spawn rate of mobs are insane and is making my cpu lag. I was wondering which file do I edit to costumize the spawn rate in campaign?

All help will be much appreciated.

[jaylo138]

First off i'd like to apologize to all for not responding for some time as real life does tend to get in the way.
As DoW2 has been patched again since the last time i played it the mod may be a little glitchy until i find out what's been changed. If it's anything at all i would imagine it would be changed code in the campaign scars.

@Offbeat
The increase in enemy squad sizes was edited in two places, the campaign mission scar files & the squad entity blueprints.
The scar files are located in "Data\simulation\scar" & all the subsequent sub folders, there are many of them but these shouldn't need to be changed.
The squad entity blueprints are located in "Data\simulation\attrib\sbps\campaign\npc" & subsequent sub folders, these are the files that need to be edited or deleted.
The entries in these files are simply a min & max number which can be edited using the tools found on these forums or if deleted the enemy squads should return to vanilla values.

For reference, the scar files contain what gets spawned & any restrictions on their numbers hence they all needed restrictions removed so it was quite a lot of work.

@Joekid13
Thanks for the info about the corrupted wargear, i have indeed come across the librarian ctd when accessing his equipment screen but couldn't pin it down.

[Chaos Godstone]

I think a few people will be re-enacting the scene from Home Alone, running around the house crazy-like and screaming HEEEEEZ BAAACK!!!

I guess the Squad Mod Ultramarines march again, ... soon.

EDIT:
If you have the Beta and you download Cope's RB2 Extractor you'll be able to check-out the new sub-trees in the .rbfs that could affect the Retribution version, note the hope there, ha ha.

[guardsman lover]

Welcome back Jaylo!

[impoztor]

Hi, i have vanilla DoW (no CR) and i installed the mod, everything runs well but Thaddeus doesnt have his "Jump" ability how can i fix this or is it meant to not be there

[Croaxleigh]

Posts deleted due to warez discussion and responses to said discussion. Everyone else, feel free to continue discussing the mod.

[jaylo138]

Thanks Croaxleigh.

@impoztor
Have you copied over the 1.7 fix data on the first post?

[mystichead]

Hi guys,
This is an amazing mod, THANK you jaylo, i love, cant go back to original. Finished the vanilla campaign on Captain, literally amazed at how well it works.
However im having fatal scar errors, in the missions " The Rescue" the first mission on Calderis in CR and the first Khaine optional mission "BloodyHand".
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(registered only 3 days ago so wont let me post pic)

That is what happens first thing, because of this i cannot move on, it happens, more like the drop pod doesnt land and the whole screen stays dark, and incase of the calderis mission to rescue the scouts I can hear the fighting going on between the scouts and enemies.

Also on a sidenote and less important, the problem may have strted to indicate itself when Cyrus couldnt use his his remote mines, i mean what ever weapon cyrus had i could on a limited amount use those abilities and the heal thing since he's pure. Is it possible that this problem might have been caused by my whole strike force completing the mission of rescuing the Techmarine donning Term-armor "not the ones from vanilla" (using wargear unlock mod too[worked perfectly with vanilla, and Cr uptil now])

sorry bout this and thnx for ur time

[Cokehead]

That happens if you don't get the 1.7 fix. I'm still getting scar errors, but I can get further in the campaign.

[MAD]

Welcome back jaylo. So to tide me over till the Retribution release I installed the Squad Mod 2.5 + fixes and have found one small bug if you ever intend to update this. The command squad seems to gain HP with every model lost, and gains even more when reinforced. This only happens in mission and seems to be corrected between missions. My command squad had ~17K hp in the Skykilla mission by the time I reached him as an example. I'm on Primarch at the moment don't know if that'd affect anything.

[mystichead]

That happens if you don't get the 1.7 fix. I'm still getting scar errors, but I can get further in the campaign.

actually i have the fix, it does it anyway. I am stuck in one place in both mission, i guess i'll just start a new character again in CR and just hope it doesnt happen again
. Thnx for trying tho....

Still open to other opinions and options for corrective actions tho.

[shadowninja0069]

welcome back jaylo you have been missed,now to help with people crashes be sure and install mod as jaylo directed in his read me after that,delet the proceduale data before you
instal the 1.7 fix go into simulation scar ,its data,simulation,scar,procedualecontent,data and you delet the proceduale data file as its for 2.5 i think.now allso were the prcedulcontent folder is you see campaignmissions delet all those in there as these cuase your crashes was for 2.5 patch files.after all this then put in jaylo138 fix 1.7 files and your good to go i do hope this helps and dont piss no one off for me helping.i just know jaylos mod well as ive used it for my two campaigs mods before.

[mystichead]

Thnx dude

sadly tho it didnt work

[shadowninja0069]

hey mystichead im pretty sure you also want to delete the tuning file before the fix i forgot about that file sorry dude.hope this helps you

[Recon]

Hi,

I just started playing this after performing the 2.5 mod + 1.7 Fix install. So far it's okay. But wanted to check if these things I've encountered are common.

After the 1st mission in the DOW2 Campaign (Not CR) there seems to be an excessive drop of wargear, and by excessive I mean I find that I've received over 15+ pieces just from the 2nd mission! By the time I warp to Typhon my Inventory is crammed with 50+ gear, some of it being useless non-unique standard armor or weapon types. Weird thing is I've seen the same enemy squad drop 2 pieces of wargear. So is that normal for this mod to have ?

Also seems to be a bit of a XP imbalance at the beginning. I began on the Captain Difficulty, by the time I got to level 5 when Thaddeus becomes a part of the squad, I was already around level 7-8 (from trying to clean out all the crap from the wargear area). And thus he is already having difficulty with catching up and surviving against the higher-level enemies (After mission his level was 4).

So is that usual or should I try an reinstall this mod again ? Cause I was considering going into the Tuning Data and adjusting the values of the XP gain and drop rate.

But curious if there a 'limit' to how much wargear can be spawn on a single mission and if there's a primary modifier of how much XP is obtained from enemies ?

[PanzerKrieg]

Are there any plans to get this working with retribution, or does it already ? Im nervous about installing it for fear that retri broke it.

[General Kong]

@panzerkrieg: currently the squad mod does not work for retri, but im not sure if jaylo is working on a new version

[jaylo138]

I don't have Retribution at the moment.

[LokenIstvanIV]

Hiya Jaylo I hope you get time to come back and work over the Mod some. I love playing it and am getting alot of scar errors and dropping out of game lately. RL can get busy I understand if you cannot make any time for it, but hopefully in the future you will come back to modding DOW2 and Ret too. Thanks

[jaylo138]

I've picked up Retribution Collector's Edition from Zavvi.com for £17.85!, so i shall be having a look at that soon.

[shadowninja0069]

i for one will be watching this closley as your mod and you,was my first stepping stones to modding ty.

[DeusImperator]

Welcome back Jaylo. I hope you'll have gooc luck with Retribution

[LokenIstvanIV]

I am glad to hear you are going to be playing Ret. After you do I hope you get the bug to do some modding. Yours is one of my FAVORITE Mods, the other being WOTBR and Shuma's Excellent contributions. I still Play Combat Squads and Z405 Rising too. Again glad to hear your around still!

[djidaned]

hello I am writing to ask if anyone knows one if you have had a problem with
the following mission of the ship's carcass makes me any missions scar error
function init
thank you for your future answer
PS: I am French and I do not understand much English the day so I used google translation

[Operador]

there 'll be another version of the mod, because my chaos rising campaing is really buggy and some fucntions of the mod don't wok, its bad installation or it's a conflict if the current version of the game?

[rofl lord]

I have never had any mods at all for any of the DOW II games so I know nothing is mixing or getting in the way. I found the install instructions after a while of looking at the very bottom of the read me. I put the 2.5 version of the squad mod in the C:\Program Filesx86\Steam\SteamApps\common\dawn of war 2\GameAssets and the 1.7 fix in the same area. Am I supposes to put the fix somewhere else? Also I don't understand what this means as I have no shortcut on my desktop. "You also need to have the -dev command added to the end of your game shortcut so it looks like this where "C:\Program Files" is your game directory.
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 15620 -dev"

[rofl lord]

Is the mod leader currently not avaiable? Just trying to get this mod to work it looks like a lot of fun.

[Chaos Godstone]

I've seen it mentioned that the shortcut can be implemented in Steam, not sure how as I have not done it myself.
The other way is to go to the Dawn of War 2 folder and:-

right click on the DOW2.exe,
click on create shortcut,

right click on the shortcut,
click on properties,

in the Target box you need to over-write the existing text with
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -applaunch 15620 -dev

"F:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 20570 -dev -modname SquadMod <- this is my shortcut's Target line.

Understandably the -applaunch number is a Steam reference for the game used, Vanilla above and Chaos Rising below, also I have edited the .Module file and containing folder so both have the same name SquadMod, hence the last part.

[Infinity]

Hi there i have been playing your amazing mod for some time with little or no bug but i dont know if this is a bug or any think but the skill on the CR campaign are missing and imperial guard is just under powered they cant do anything but to be meat shields but enemy guards men are way stronger and when will you make a new version or for retribution ?

[rofl lord]

I do not understand. I posted what system and some info 4 posts above at # 1588. Come someone help me get this to work.

[jaylo138]

Just a bit of info for you guys, i'm finally working on a Squad Mod for Retribution.
I've got quite a lot done over the past few days using Cope's excellent toolbox.
Each hero will have a squad like the previous versions & not retinue's like Ret's Lord Commander, that's quite a lot of work as all hero wargear is setup for single heroes only so i have to edit every piece so they won't overwrite the squad members.
Also stuff like doubled size squads, all reward wargear is dropable, every weapon & armour shows it's best model, changed campaign colours, max level is 15 & the odd texture\tc tweak.
Shouldn't be too long now, as i'll keep at it.

[trintong]

THIS IS GOOD NEWS !!!

[Bloodangelfan]

I love your mod but there is something wrong because on The Secrets of Angel Forge and Ice and Blood it glitches and says fatal error and this happens every time i try and do this mission. Is it because I have the duel Dawn of War 2 combining both Dawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising? I would like something to resolve this issue I also did what Shadowninja0069 told me to do but it didn't help. I also um have both the wargear mods which lets me have all wargear that the person knows of in both could this be the issue.

[jaylo138]

You should really be using my mod on it's own before posting any problems.
Which release are those missions from?

[Bloodangelfan]

I'm sorry about the double mod thing didn't really think about before post and what do you mean by which release are those missions from I posted what both the mission names are in my prior post. Also before I make anymore posts on here I'll delete the other mod and see if it helps.

[jaylo138]

Are the missions from DoW2 original campaign or CR.

[Bloodangelfan]

The missions are from both the angel gate part 2 forgot to take tarkus termi armour off before I did the mission. The 2nd one ice and blood was from chaos rising 4th mission. The screen just went black and I couldn't do anything about it .

[Bloodangelfan]

I think the problem was I had terminator armour on during that mission. So I solved this problem oh and THIS IS A AMAZING MOD KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK