Situation of Viet War Pack for WinMBT?

[Warhero]

Laurent, if you see this, could you give us some update ok?

[junk2drive]

I'm interested too.

[Ambush7169]

Hello,

I have a lot of work, but there will be (in late) a WinSPMBT Viet War Pack !

Best regards,
Laurent

[Warhero]

Laurent, any hope to release it until 2005 ending? Or sometimes 2006?

[thatguy96]

What are the contents going to be? Are you looking to add in a lot of new units, or primarily just new campaigns and scenarios?

[Ambush7169]

Hello !

Warhero, the Win SPMBT pack would be released until 2005 ending, but, I have a lot of work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Injured.gif
When I have time, I work on it.

For the content Thatguy96, that's right : you'll find a lot of new weapons, units (with new icons), new formations, corrections for both, scenarios and campaigns !

Best regards,
Laurent

[thatguy96]

Interesting, I've been working on a number of these things for my own personal use, so I'm interested to see how your's will differ from mine. Probably a lot, given that you probably have a better idea of how to properly represent the values for various unit attributes.

Also, out of curiousity are you a veteran or a historian? I personally am neither (well at least right now, give it another 7 months and I should have two undergraduate degrees), so I'm just interested to see where you interest and background is.

[Warhero]

Laurent, I have one wish. Please, release "basic" files (oobs/icons) first, then scens/campaigns sometimes later (like Camo guys did sometimes) ok? This way we (potential players) could come "familiar" with new units/formations in generated battles. I suppose that those scens/campaign progress/testing will need more time than oobs?

Can't wait to see your oobs and icons (which were very impressive in dos version)!

Warhero

[Warhero]

Any updates Laurent?

[Warhero]

Just bump. Same question as above;)...

[Ambush7169]

Hello,

Sorry for this delay. I have some concerns in my life. So, the pack is by now stopped. I think I'll restart to work on it in a few days. But I can't give any date of release.

Best regards,
Laurent

[Warhero]

Hi Laurent, well I had to reinstall that VWP files but every time as I launch WinSPMBT, I get only CTD:(... I copied all files (oobs/icons etc.) but if I press "battle" or "editor" same thing happens. Finally I had to run latest 8.0. patch to get WinSPMBT to work properly. Hopefully you are still here in forum? Any help?

PS. If possible, please reup your dos SPMBT version of Viet War Pack into somewhere and give me link ok? I still play dos version and it would be great to have older mod there too;)...

Warhero

[troopie]

It's The Latest I have.

troopie

[Warhero]

Thanks but I already have 0.81 version to WinSPMBT. I think that battle.shp is somehow "corrupted" because CTD. I just left it from reinstall and everything else seems to be ok (well some units have wrong sounds but it's just minor "fail";))...

All I need now is that DOS version files. I would like to add VWP files into my SPMBT v.3.1 as part of my "SP archives";)...

Warhero

[Warhero]

FYI:I have finally got both mod files:)!!! So, there's no need to search/send me anything...

Thanks

Warhero

[Warhero]

Btw, has anybody complained before this about sound "errors" in this WinSPMBT Viet War Pack? Especially in South Vietnam/USA oobs are some guns which have wrong sounds (tank cannon sounds like "zipgun", some rifles/mgs have bazooka/explotion sounds etc.):(... Any corrections made after publishing mod? Any patch?

Warhero

[DRG]

That will be because those OOB's predate the change we made that put sound file info in the weapons data and those sounds take precedence so if you want to stop that go through all those OOB's weapons data and set "weapon sound" to zero

[Mobhack]

Moved to the correct forum as this is a 3rf party mod, and apparently no longer supported.

[Warhero]

Thanks Don about tip:)! I changed almost all sounds to 0 with Mobhack and now it's ok. Well it's big task but really worth of doing;)...

Warhero

[iln82]

Easy solution to the sound problem: Install only the 6.0 consolidation patch.
BTW I tried the "set weapon sound to zero" method suggested above and it didn't work.
The new Battle.shp only changes the flags in the battle screen (where you select the opponents and the type of engagement); it has no other effect in the game whatsoever...
On the subject of the current state of the Vietnam War Pack, I did contact thatguy96 on another forum back in 2012 and he told me that he had stopped working on it due to work commitments and anyway didn't seem to me to be much interested in the game any more.
While the work done by him is generally excellent, his ARVN & NVA OOBs have quite a few errors, so i'm posting these corrected versions for those that downloaded the mod.
I basically added missing types (eg M107 SPGs for ARVN), changed the availability dates for some types (NVA now uses ZSU-23-4 during the 1975 fighting) and removed some non-existent (Chinese-built BTR-40s & BTR-152 for NVA) or inaccurate (M108s for ARVN, JSU-152 for NVA) types.

[Warhero]

Thank you Iln82 about corrected oobs:)!

Warhero

[Warhero]

Btw are those made for DOS or WinSPMBT mod version? I want to be sure before installing them into game...

Warhero

[iln82]

Btw are those made for DOS or WinSPMBT mod version? I want to be sure before installing them into game...

Warhero


The mods are for the Vietnam War Pack made by thatguy96 for the WinSPMBT posted here:

https://sites.google.com/site/spreadsheetcommando/vtc

[iln82]

The link posted above is dead.

If someone wants to download it, the mod has been posted as an attachment here:

https://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=827688&postcount=13

[Warhero]

Thanks but I meant only DOS-based mod for SPMBT v3.1...