First of all, thanks for all your replies, Bruce (corrected, as bru888 sounded... bizarre).
(I'm posting a general reply, as quoting would be... well, impractical
.)
A simple fix it may be, but meanwhile it puts my entire momentum on hold. And momentum is hard to build in a game as frustrating as
OoB. Well, on the bright side, the devs know about it (but it'd sure be nice to drop a few lines about it, every now and then, to people who've invested quite some time in their game).
I've read the threads you pointed me to. I'm not very savvy with the editor (which is a nightmarish mess imho, esp. when compared to
Panzer Corps' editor), but couldn't this be fixed by editing some of the scenarios' settings? If possible, it could provide a quicker solution until the patch arrives.
Yes, those are the Steam achievs I was talking about. Sorry for not clarifying this, I thought it was obvious
. Again seeing the half-full glass, at least these bugs trigger said achievs, not makes them forever locked. I don't really expect any solution here, as achievs seems very low priority around here (
Panzer Corps' Grandest Campaigner is still broken to this day, despite lots of reports about it
).
What the fudge indeed - so glad you read it the correct way
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That Yes key starts working if you first click Close on the Options menu which is underneath it (again, should've been clearer here).
I've completed three campaigns so far, and nothing is available under the Scenarios tab. It only shows current campaign and scenario.
Ouch, I made a typo (corrected now): it's #giveall. This one works... sort of, I never know how exactly. Here's what usually works for me:
1. Launch game, type code in main menu, check Single Player, no scenarios unlocked.
2. Launch Editor, exit it, enter code again, check SP and everything's in there.
It might be more complicated than this, because I also tried #gimmeall, and then #giveall, also restarted the game between steps 1 and 2 and even loaded a save and exit back to main menu. Plus the unlocked scenarios may be there for some time, then vanish and you have to restart this fun exercise all over again.
Fun fact for the devs: this procedure also unlocked the scenarios from the second Russian campaign, even though I hadn't yet bought it at the time
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Not-so-fun fact: why would you make these scenarios so inaccessible in the first place?
F5 saves your game on-the-fly (so to say), without taking you out of it (that is, no menu, edit save name, accept bla-bla-bla). F8 is supposed to instantly load your game (that's how it works in every other game I've ever played). Not so in
OoB, where you have to go through a confirmation screen, thereby negating the purpose of a quick load. Using hotkeys or combos for saving and loading the game is another given in the gaming business (a good example is
Panzer Corps, with Ctrl +S and Ctrl + L). It's usually faster and easier than clicking and navigating in another menu, but no as handy as quicksaving/loading. But hey, it doesn't really matter as long as we can put capture screen on a hotkey, right?
In any case, F5 and F8 have never crashed the game for me. And they're definitely not intended for the editor (hence your crash?
).
Frankly - and God knows how much I'd like to be wrong about this - I don't see much room for improving and I don't even think it's possible at all. As of now, the game is a mix of frustrations and absurdities with moments in-between, hard to recommend even to wargamers...
), they look interesting. I want to take a look at what you pointed out and comment further in another post.
) through a scenario while playing a campaign, will you get all secondary objectives too along with their rewards (commanders, extra units, campaign variables, etc.)?
. Just saving them for a series of Steam reviews, but I can also list them here, if anyone thinks it helps. Though I somehow very much doubt they'll ever come to their senses and implement an Undo Move option (heck, they did it again in FG2).
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