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Unit promotion gives away your position in multiplayer

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:13 pm
by LOGAN5
A big star pops up when you promote your units, so if you are hiding in a building your opponent will know where you are? Any chance of this getting fixed, also when bog the camera jumps right to where you bogged.

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:28 pm
by ChickenSalad
so if you are hiding in a building your opponent will know where you are?

I've only played this a day. Seems to me the word 'ambush' will pop up in the general area, if the computer kills the unit and is promoted though, a star pops up revealing the exact location.

It does this in multiplayer too? :?

Re: Unit promotion gives away your position in multiplayer

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:47 am
by Merr
LOGAN5 wrote:A big star pops up when you promote your units, so if you are hiding in a building your opponent will know where you are? Any chance of this getting fixed, also when bog the camera jumps right to where you bogged.
I think it can be fixed ...

They need to add the parameter [alwaysShow] to the end of the AddVizUnitSpotAnim and AddVizSpotAnim.
For bogging down, commenting out the AddVizCamCenter should work.

My best guess that is.

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:55 am
by pipfromslitherine
I think that's already on our buglist. But thanks for the remind.

MP causes all kinds of headaches with doing things on one machine and not the other. We are work in progress for a better system - but it's non-trvial...

Cheers

Pip

Re: Unit promotion gives away your position in multiplayer

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:07 am
by pomakli
Merr wrote:They need to add the parameter [alwaysShow] to the end of the AddVizUnitSpotAnim and AddVizSpotAnim.
For bogging down, commenting out the AddVizCamCenter should work.
In which file?

:?:

Re: Unit promotion gives away your position in multiplayer

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:27 am
by Merr
pomakli wrote:
In which file?

:?:
I was hoping you wouldn't ask .... It's a major job :( ... You can comment out (//) the AddViz script calls for a temporary fix.
I don't know if this works in MP.

You would need to go through ALL the BSF files that you copied over in your folder .... \My Games\BBCBA\CAMPAIGNS\My_Campaign\Data\Battle\Scripts.

Example .... To stop the camera from centering on a bogged vehicle ... Open the Move.bsf file and comment out any AddVizCamCenter scripts that pertain to bogging down.
You can also comment out any AddVizUnitText while you are there.

Good luck! :wink:

Re: Unit promotion gives away your position in multiplayer

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:53 am
by pomakli
Merr wrote:
pomakli wrote:
In which file?

:?:
I was hoping you wouldn't ask .... It's a major job :( ..
:lol:

Thanks!

If you comment "major job!", I can forget it!

But maybe PIP helps!

:twisted: