Eastern Front: Soviet Storm v1.96b (Link Fixed)

[Sakodar]

Hi, perfect mod, but I have the issue with scenario Kingisepp-Gdov - after the win at Krasnoy Selo instead of new scenario start only black screen appear and freeze it at all

Do you know what to do?

Thanks a lot.

[Akkula]

Hello Sakodar,
thanks for your kind words!.
Very strange issue indeed, honestly I can figure it out a solution. Did you try to exit the game and run it again?,or maybe even restart the PC?. Sometimes the memory gets "dirt" and some good restart do the thing.
One question: are you running the game with the /nocache option?.

Best regards,
Akkula.

[Sakodar]

Yes, I used / nocache. Tried it in all versions since 1.7. Several times replayed, but the error is always in the same moment. He put the mod from various sources. And different versions of Panzer corps. Nothing helped. Sorry for very bad english. I am from Russia and use an electronic translator.

[Sakodar]

The "FINAL BRIFING TEXT ADDED LATTER" briefing appears and when you press the PROCEED button in place of the game card, the black screen is displayed, and the interface menu is not active

[Estherr]

Hello, Akkula

Thanks for the great mod first of all. I totally prefer yours to official soviet corps (no offense to devs tho, lol). Ran through Forgotten Campaigns twice earlier (1.5 and 1.6 I believe), started again with 1.95 and ran into trouble during "Operation Spark" mission.

There you can deploy some of your units along the western bank of Neva River (and briefing actually encourage this and there's bunch of objectives near by), plus there's few aux units pre-deployed there and on the north (from Road of Life I guess). Thing is, with new "ice" river crossing tiles it became impossible to move tanks, SPGs and such there. More so, there's Aux T-34/42 and GAZ-MM SPAG literally stuck on the ice along the Road of Life. Oh, also one of the Neva crossing (next to Marino town) is still old school A-type one. Not allowing tanks and SPGs through either tho.

It's kinda annoying 'cos you facing bunch of dug-in infantry supported by overstrenghten armor and dealing with them literally by infantry alone... Not sure it's working-as-intended-deal-with-it or a bit of mess-up with older map design and these new icy tiles. 'Cos I remember for sure using my core armor units to open "second front" from the west in earlier versions

Thanks in advance

[Akkula]

Hello, Akkula

Thanks for the great mod first of all. I totally prefer yours to official soviet corps (no offense to devs tho, lol). Ran through Forgotten Campaigns twice earlier (1.5 and 1.6 I believe), started again with 1.95 and ran into trouble during "Operation Spark" mission.

There you can deploy some of your units along the western bank of Neva River (and briefing actually encourage this and there's bunch of objectives near by), plus there's few aux units pre-deployed there and on the north (from Road of Life I guess). Thing is, with new "ice" river crossing tiles it became impossible to move tanks, SPGs and such there. More so, there's Aux T-34/42 and GAZ-MM SPAG literally stuck on the ice along the Road of Life. Oh, also one of the Neva crossing (next to Marino town) is still old school A-type one. Not allowing tanks and SPGs through either tho.

It's kinda annoying 'cos you facing bunch of dug-in infantry supported by overstrenghten armor and dealing with them literally by infantry alone... Not sure it's working-as-intended-deal-with-it or a bit of mess-up with older map design and these new icy tiles. 'Cos I remember for sure using my core armor units to open "second front" from the west in earlier versions

Thanks in advance

Hello Estherr, thanks a lot for your words!
To see players going through my campaign more than once is a good sign for any modder
Regarding the issue in Scenario 18, very strange, the terrain in those cases is lakes which should be frozen. I really dont understand why your units cannot move through it. Anyway I just changed the terrain to normal ground to fix the issue quickly (those hexes are frozen through the whole scenario anyway). Just download the fix and restart the scenario:

The new tiles are just cosmetic and should hadn't changed any terrain feature, but thanks for the catch
http://www.mediafire.com/file/nhv12bh6r ... 18_Fix.rar

Thanks again,
Best regards,
Akkula.

EDIT: I found the cause, it was the new movement type for the medium and heavy tanks

The "FINAL BRIFING TEXT ADDED LATTER" briefing appears and when you press the PROCEED button in place of the game card, the black screen is displayed, and the interface menu is not active

Odd, I replayed the campaign up to this point and I didnt find any issue....
Maybe try to delete the mod folder completely (Soviet Storm) and unzip and install again; maybe some old or corrupted file is messing with the game.
Hope it helps.

Best regards,
Akkula.

[Akkula]

Download Soviet Storm 1.95b:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/rmdb841j7 ... v1.95b.rar

Version 1.95b
* Scenario 18: Tracked units on the Road of Life now can move normally. Issue fixed.
* KV-1: Snow icons for some variants fixed.

[Estherr]

Hurray to the fix! (yet to pass Sevastopol on my playthrough tho)

Couple of minor glitches I ran into while playing through Caucasus mini-campaign aswell:
- Hs 126 B-1, Fi 156 Storch, Ju 88 D-1 Recon (Fighter) Planes all have "reconmove noupgrade" in their name box in market. If you check info in the field everything is fine;
- Invisible minefields in front of your positions in Taman scenario. Not a game-breaker like invisible Bulgarian units in Italy 2.0 mod, but still.

[Cataphract88]

Thanks a lot for the update.

[uzbek2012]

Download Soviet Storm 1.95b:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/rmdb841j7 ... v1.95b.rar

Version 1.95b
* Scenario 18: Tracked units on the Road of Life now can move normally. Issue fixed.
* KV-1: Snow icons for some variants fixed.

Oh well ) I Hope someday will reach the place to fix Sebastopol
Here is a Save at the beginning of the defense of Sevastopol ! Try to get, maybe someone will be able ...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mva4vq10r7u030j/Save.rar

[Estherr]

Oh well ) I Hope someday will reach the place to fix Sebastopol
Here is a Save at the beginning of the defense of Sevastopol ! Try to get, maybe someone will be able ...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mva4vq10r7u030j/Save.rar

IMO, this mission rely heavily on your luck with Luftwaffe moves in very first turns and then on these nasty Skoda artillery units placement. I've completed mine run today (after 5 or 6 attempts) with only loosing one of northern shore batteries.

Oh, and looking and your core layout, I'd say it helps to have extra fighter and torpedo bomber for this one. I know Soviet air units tends to be fragile and core limit is very low fr Sevastopol, but I totally prefer no enemy bombers over my units as soon as possible - there's already metric crapton of artillery on this map. Will try with your save a bit later (and will try not to alter your core way too much, 'cos I use different composition)

[uzbek2012]

In mission, the defense of the island Hanko will be added Swedish volunteers ?
http://www.runivers.ru/doc/d2.php?CENTE ... _ID=151006
http://soginec.livejournal.com/5872.html

[OldWolf_slith]

I took up the translation of fashion, this wonderful fashion, there are questions, the author how to contact you? I would like to discuss some problems!

[Akkula]

Hi OldWolf, just send me a private message through this forum.

In the next weeks / month I will try to update the mod in order to fix some minor issues and other details.
Although the mod is losing popularity over time, still have a strong player base that keeps playing it. So I think they deserve an update .

best regards,
Akkul.a

[rubyjuno]

Thanks for continuing to support EF: Soviet Storm, Akkula, it's an excellent mod that many have enjoyed and we all appreciate the work you have put in

[glaude1955]

Hello Akkula,
Please continue to maintain your mods, they are really wonderful!
And if one day, you have some free time , I would like to see the version played German side of your big scenario in 99 rounds.
A big thank you for what you have already achieved.
Best regards
Yves

[OldWolf_slith]

Dear author, I sent you a message on the mail, but you are silent.

PC
Russian-speaking audience, there are those wishing to persuade the translation of the mod?

Русскоязычная аудитория, есть желающие потестить перевод мода?

[uzbek2012]

Dear author, I sent you a message on the mail, but you are silent.

PC
Russian-speaking audience, there are those wishing to persuade the translation of the mod?

Русскоязычная аудитория, есть желающие потестить перевод мода?

Уже тестим по техоньку )

[Akkula]

Dear author, I sent you a message on the mail, but you are silent.

PC
Russian-speaking audience, there are those wishing to persuade the translation of the mod?

Русскоязычная аудитория, есть желающие потестить перевод мода?

Hi OldWolf,
That would be great, unfortunately my knowledge of the Russian language is zero
But I accept any help for any Russian friend that wish to translate the mod,

Best regards,
Akkula.

[Estherr]

I can help with Russian localization/testing if necessary.

ps: also I plan to do some English briefing/debriefing bughunting on winter holidays - there's few typos in Forgotten Campaign.