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COMMON ISSUES:
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CD ERRORS
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Symptom:
It appears that many CDs had a corruption problem on CD3 during duplication. These bad CDs
are the cause of missing images for items etc for some users. Vehicles and doors will also
not appear if you have one of the CDs from this bad batch. Naturally we are disappointed
that this has occurred.
Fix:
Either exchange your copy for another from the store you bought it at, or send the copy to
interplay for replacement. Also calling tech support is a good idea, to confirm that this
is your problem.
For those who can afford to download it, a separate patch is available of around 85MB that
will replace the corrupted file.
FREEZE ON BLACK STARTUP SCREEN
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Symptoms:
Game hangs on startup, Game gives you a black screen, or Sound is choppy.
Cause:
Miles sound system asks for DirectSound preferred game device.
DirectSound is using the Modem Wave converter (or other device) as the default game
device.
Fix:
Install this patch.
MISSION 03 GATE
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Symptom:
There is a gate in mission 3 that will only open once. Unfortunately if your characters
are in the way of the gate, it will not open, and there is no way to re-open it.
Fix:
Install this patch.
FIXES IN THIS PATCH
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Following is a list of what we have changed or fixed.
A note on savegames: All old savegames should continue to work after the patch. In the
following list, any fix that has a ‘*’ next to it means the fix will only be visible
if you haven’t reached this point in the savegame. In some cases you would have to start
a new campaign for the changes to take effect.
GUI
- Target location in mouse-over text on hands gets updated correctly
- Added warning when creating a tough guy character
- Fixed nasty crash with recruit pool. Fixed other recruits pool problems such as
characters losing their progress.
- Multiplayer screen remembers last IP address typed in
- Fixed a bug in non-english versions with accent characters.
- Added non-living health descriptions (undamaged to destroyed)
- Stance & sentry buttons only reflect state of group if all squad members are in the
same state, otherwise they are all unchecked
- Perks window closes when switching to another actor that cannot take any perks
- Fixed up target window button position
- Fixed sticking buttons problem
- Disabled save in multiplayer
- Cannot quicksave from barter window, and many other fullscreen windows.
- Minimap: Vehicles are white when you occupy them otherwise gray
- Limited minimap zoom, because it was causing performance problems.
- Can now use steal commands to easily loot from one squad member to another.
- Characters age over time.
- Stat changes only reported for drug usage
GAME
*- Single player recruits pool greatly improved.
*- Paramedics bag and field medic kits are actually better than standard kits.
*- Fixed armour pierce values for 2mmEC, Flamer Fuel and Explosive rounds
*- Rocket launcher damage increased 20%
*- Some of the special encounter traders have more useful items for barter.
- Fixed sentry modes losing user target
- Tweaked down armor piercing ammo strength.
- Fixed nasty bug with Turn-Based AI reactions.
- Disabled cautious nature, since it does nothing.
- Tough Guy is now double XP
- Fixed multiple attacks in one fire sequence
- Brain Kills dont shift alignment
- Death sense perk now available
- Flamer does damage sooner so the pain and death animations caused look better
- Books no longer print a message twice
- When stealing, everything weighs at least 0.1, this means things that normally weigh 0
like BOS script, actually get harder to steal when there is lots of them
- EMP damage +50% against non-living, -50% otherwise
- Fixed Mutate perk
- Dogs have some optional trait changes.
- Fixed duration of drug and other consumable effects
- Path finding more robust during collisions.
- Recruits correctly gain rank now.
- Special encounters correctly save now.
- Fixed armor values bug for recruits.
- AI is correctly using over watch mode during turn-based play. It should now be harder to
exploit turn-based against the AI.
- Fixed bug that may have been causing the main character to become last squad member.
- Swift leaner perk correctly gives +5% XP instead of 1 XP
- The science bonus to criticals on robots is working properly
- Camera centers on players actors when reentering missions
- Tweaked barter skill calculations so that the BAD pricing side of the scale (when you
have worse skill) changes twice as fast as you put up skill. And the GOOD side of the
scale (with better skill) changes in a more linear way. Basically I fixed the math.
- Dead large actors (Behemoths etc) are no longer ethereal (cant walk through them)
- Non bos human races can use first aid skill etc
- Fixed random encounters chance so that frame rate does not alter the chance of
encounters, as a result it should be more consistent (and lower) on all machines.
- Fixed nasty recruit pool bugs
- Fixed errant stat changes from hand items
- Free heal for bandaged/winded/concussed whenever heal rate kicks in (each hour in game,
rapidly while moving around world map)
- Fixed problem where vehicles would keep moving when arriving on a new map
- PathFind - Fixed problem with large critters and some ladders
- Doctor skill lets you heal bandaged state, without getting the error message
- Squad Turn Based - Restores previous turns selection states
- Random encounters much rarer, fixed many errors in the random encounter chance code
- Fixed a path finding bug with ladder tops and building gutters
MISSIONS
*- Mission 1 has a lot more healing loot.
*- Tutorial movies are also available from the pip-boy archive
*- Mission 11. Fixed bug which meant that if you killed the mutant generals and then
killed *- Fixed problem where Mission 3 Rock Falls, gate switch works one time only and
will fail if gate motion is blocked by another character.
the mutant attackers the ghoul elder (Devcon) would not say his last line of dialogue and
the exit grid would not appear)
- Mission 4. Added some steps to the ledge of one of the buildings in mission 4 to stop
characters getting stuck on the ledge. Theoretically they can't get onto the ledge anyway
but at least one guy has managed to get his character stuck there.
- The broken ladder in St. Louis should now be fixed.
- Movies only play the first time, and not when you revisit bunkers.
VEHICLES
- The APC is no longer higher than walls, and thus no longer becomes stuck indoors.
- Fixed vehicle and character duplication bug
- Stopped vehicle losing inventory when left behind on maps
SOUND
- Black Screen of Death. New DirectSound device detection to prevent lockup of Tactics on
startup. If the client machine has an invalid device set as default, FOT will ignore it
and search for a usable device.
- Plays sound when using shortcut keys to switch between textlog / minimap
- Vehicle engine volume lowered in TB when not vehicles turn
ENGINE
- Choppiness
- Running out of RAM
- Random crashes.
Most of the above should be fixed. Tactics no longer uses up all available virtual memory
during extended play.
MULTIPLAYER
- Fixed numerous problems with chat, team chat, and observer chat
- Fixed vehicles in MP disappearing after game end
- Fixed broken turnbased after game end
- Fixed sync bug with character screen and changing character tabs
- Re-Enabled sync testing
- Added team-respawning option
- Multiplayer drugs now operate in minutes not hours
- Can set a server option for squad selection time limit
- Changed point limit to apply per character not per team. This should sort out the major
imbalance when players took one super character instead of a squad.
- Experience and level-ups now propagated through multiple maps
- Levelling works correctly in TB multiplayer.
- Fixed crash bugs involving kicking and session lost in startup screens.
- Re-enabled kick option on readiness screen.
- Fix to observer chat
- Server screen: When setup changes, the server remembers what player was selected.
- Fixed <+p> problem on word wrap in multiplayer chat.
- The multiplayer recruits pools is taken from a text file now
- Fixed black screen lockup bug in multiplayer setup screen