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SWR Productions Forum _ Custom Maps _ Chinese Covert Mission 1

Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 6 Apr 2018, 13:16

"The GLA have ambushed our first and only base in Africa Comrade General. If we lose it completely, we will not be able to influence the east of the continent, nor will we be able to counter the threats from Russia and Europe."

"Our most capable Black Lotus agent has requested you to assist her on this mission, see to it that she locates any survivors and liberates the remaining structures of our base. Once you gain control of the Command Centre, destroy the bridges linking the island to the mainland and eliminate all GLA Tunnel Networks to cut off our enemies so we may re-establish a foothold in the region."

Objective 1: Destroy all GLA units in the Chinese base.

Objective 2: Destroy both bridges and all GLA Tunnel Networks.

Hints:

As you damage the bridges, you may not be able to target them below a certain health %. You will need to force fire to destroy them completely.
This hint will pop-up in-game.

The more survivors you locate, the easier it is to retake the base.



This is the first mission of my Chinese covert campaign. Please give feedback much like my US mission 1 released earlier.

The missions in this campaign are not directly linked to each other, but will tie in with my interpretation of the lore, much like my other campaigns.

This campaign will be Black Lotus heavy, so don't expect to be using a lot of Chinese tech for these missions (apart from the last one wink.gif )

I hope you enjoy this mission and as always,

Good luck, Comrade.

 ChinaCovertMission1.zip ( 123.79K ) : 87

Posted by: jl319 6 Apr 2018, 16:14

Ah LOL I see what you did there. You made all the GLA buildings uncapturable eh? Nuuuu ohmy.gif Just when I thought I was going to get to abuse this mission huh.gif

Posted by: jl319 7 Apr 2018, 0:34

By the way- I don't know if this was intended, but the radar vans in the west base of the GLA before the bridge- they detect some kinds of stealth, I guess, but not Black Lotus though I smashed the base and got all my Battlemaster Tanks to heroic veterancy quite easily by abusing the the the tunnel network rebuilding of the GLA, even before taking my base back.

Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 7 Apr 2018, 10:57

QUOTE (jl319 @ 7 Apr 2018, 0:34) *
By the way- I don't know if this was intended, but the radar vans in the west base of the GLA before the bridge- they detect some kinds of stealth, I guess, but not Black Lotus though I smashed the base and got all my Battlemaster Tanks to heroic veterancy quite easily by abusing the the the tunnel network rebuilding of the GLA, even before taking my base back.



My original plan was to have the Radar Vans upgraded to detect Black Lotus, but then I thought as it was the first mission I'd go easy. I'm guessing you placed a Signal Transmitter on something in the GLA base? They are easy to detect even without the Radar Van update.

Destroying the GLA base first is fine but you need to take back the Chinese Base before the bridges become destructible so whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: Reaper19 26 Apr 2018, 3:26

QUOTE (RedDeadSmeg @ 6 Apr 2018, 3:16) *
"The GLA have ambushed our first and only base in Africa Comrade General. If we lose it completely, we will not be able to influence the east of the continent, nor will we be able to counter the threats from Russia and Europe."

"Our most capable Black Lotus agent has requested you to assist her on this mission, see to it that she locates any survivors and liberates the remaining structures of our base. Once you gain control of the Command Centre, destroy the bridges linking the island to the mainland and eliminate all GLA Tunnel Networks to cut off our enemies so we may re-establish a foothold in the region."

Objective 1: Destroy all GLA units in the Chinese base.

Objective 2: Destroy both bridges and all GLA Tunnel Networks.

Hints:

As you damage the bridges, you may not be able to target them below a certain health %. You will need to force fire to destroy them completely.
This hint will pop-up in-game.

The more survivors you locate, the easier it is to retake the base.



This is the first mission of my Chinese covert campaign. Please give feedback much like my US mission 1 released earlier.

The missions in this campaign are not directly linked to each other, but will tie in with my interpretation of the lore, much like my other campaigns.

This campaign will be Black Lotus heavy, so don't expect to be using a lot of Chinese tech for these missions (apart from the last one wink.gif )

I hope you enjoy this mission and as always,

Good luck, Comrade.

 ChinaCovertMission1.zip ( 123.79K ) : 87


Is it possible if you can put this mission into a rar file for some of us to download? I can't seem to get it from it's compressed folder because it always gives me an error when I try to extract it from the said folder...

Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 26 Apr 2018, 21:09

QUOTE (Reaper19 @ 26 Apr 2018, 3:26) *
Is it possible if you can put this mission into a rar file for some of us to download? I can't seem to get it from it's compressed folder because it always gives me an error when I try to extract it from the said folder...



What does the error say? I've never heard of anyone having this issue before.

Posted by: jl319 27 Apr 2018, 2:34

QUOTE (RedDeadSmeg @ 27 Apr 2018, 4:09) *
What does the error say? I've never heard of anyone having this issue before.


If you'll give me permission, RDS, since it's your mission, I'll send him several archive formats. If he still has problems with that, well, then I don't know.

Posted by: Reaper19 27 Apr 2018, 3:28

I download it, I try to extract it as usual with these types of file folders and it says that it's empty even though it says that it's not, when I do the same thing with rar files it's alright so yeah it's why I was asking

Posted by: jl319 27 Apr 2018, 7:45

QUOTE (Reaper19 @ 27 Apr 2018, 10:28) *
I download it, I try to extract it as usual with these types of file folders and it says that it's empty even though it says that it's not, when I do the same thing with rar files it's alright so yeah it's why I was asking


Reaper, what archive extraction software are you using?

Posted by: Reaper19 27 Apr 2018, 10:29

Compressed Folders Extraction Wizard

Posted by: jl319 27 Apr 2018, 10:46

I don't know why you'd have issues, but perhaps you could open the file with a different archiving software such as Bandizip, or Winrar? I have both installed, as well as 7zip. I've had no problems with any of the mission archive files uploaded by RedDeadSmeg in the past, so perhaps you should try another archiving software.


Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 27 Apr 2018, 18:03

QUOTE (jl319 @ 27 Apr 2018, 2:34) *
If you'll give me permission, RDS, since it's your mission, I'll send him several archive formats. If he still has problems with that, well, then I don't know.


That would be a great help, thanks.


QUOTE (Reaper19 @ 27 Apr 2018, 3:28) *
I download it, I try to extract it as usual with these types of file folders and it says that it's empty even though it says that it's not, when I do the same thing with rar files it's alright so yeah it's why I was asking


That is very strange...have you tried this with other missions I've done?

If so, do they appear under Documents>Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour>Maps?

I don't really know what else to suggest other than jl319 creating a rar folder and putting them on this topic, sorry.

Posted by: Reaper19 27 Apr 2018, 21:45

Yes i've tried with other missions that are in zip compressed files and the same thing happens, rar files don't give me a problem though

Posted by: jl319 28 Apr 2018, 4:34

QUOTE (Reaper19 @ 28 Apr 2018, 4:45) *
Yes i've tried with other missions that are in zip compressed files and the same thing happens, rar files don't give me a problem though


Anyways, here you go. If you're still having issues with the RAR file, then let me know.


 China_Covert_Mission_1.rar ( 122.49K ) : 9
 

Posted by: Reaper19 28 Apr 2018, 6:27

Thanks, i've managed to download it, I'm going to play the mission now ;D

Posted by: Reaper19 29 Apr 2018, 5:21

Awesome mission, it got a little tricky half way through but other than that it was good smile.gif

Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 13 May 2018, 22:10

Can somebody check if this mission works on the latest build? It seems to crash on launch on my end.

Posted by: jl319 14 May 2018, 8:40

Crashes on my end too. Your other missions seem to work just fine though.

Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 14 May 2018, 19:35

QUOTE (jl319 @ 14 May 2018, 8:40) *
Crashes on my end too. Your other missions seem to work just fine though.



It's fixed now, turns out the Communications Download shortcut was renamed, so the map.ini crashed the mission on launch.

Here is the fixed version, which will work on 1.87 version 6. there are no other changes to the mission.

 ChinaCovertMission1.zip ( 123.67K ) : 18



Posted by: swrp11 12 Jun 2018, 15:00

Hi, 1.87 v8

QUOTE (RedDeadSmeg @ 14 May 2018, 20:35) *
It's fixed now, turns out the Communications Download shortcut was renamed, so the map.ini crashed the mission on launch.

Here is the fixed version, which will work on 1.87 version 6. there are no other changes to the mission.

 ChinaCovertMission1.zip ( 123.67K ) : 18


; Reason Error parsing INI file 'c:\users\...\documents\command and conquer generals zero hour data\maps\chinacovertmission1\map.ini' (Line: 'CommandSet SpecialPowerShortcutChina ')

same with Mission2

Posted by: swrp11 12 Jun 2018, 15:00

QUOTE (jl319 @ 28 Apr 2018, 5:34) *
Anyways, here you go. If you're still having issues with the RAR file, then let me know.


this work

Posted by: RedDeadSmeg 12 Jun 2018, 16:22

QUOTE (swrp11 @ 12 Jun 2018, 15:00) *
Hi, 1.87 v8



; Reason Error parsing INI file 'c:\users\...\documents\command and conquer generals zero hour data\maps\chinacovertmission1\map.ini' (Line: 'CommandSet SpecialPowerShortcutChina ')

same with Mission2


That update was done before the latest version , I probably won't update the first 2 missions before I release the entire campaign just in case Hunter updates 1.87 again.

If the RAR files work, by all means use those as I'm only about 70% done with the campaign .

Thanks for playing smile.gif

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