MechWarrior 2 and the crashing thereof

Stormwatcher

So, guys, I'v just reinstalled MW4: Vengeance, patched it up to PR3, But I'm facing a very weird freeze-bug.

After I finish the first mission, when the game goes to the next mission's briefing, the mouse just stops working. The audio briefing plays all the way, but I can't click anything. Ctrl+shft+Esc and alt+F4 didn't work, either.

Any ideas?

Der Waffle Mous

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Shadowen wrote: »

why wrote: »

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Phoenix-D wrote: »

Syngyne wrote: »

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Mostly it's just that I am a big fan of autocannons and PPCs, though. In the board game they were fucking clutch when you needed some medium mechs that can hurt heavies.

I couldn't stand the ACs in MW4. Actually, I didn't like a lot of how they handled the direct-fire weapons, it felt too much like they were trying to shoehorn the Virtual World targeting system into Mechwarrior, where every weapon was hitscan. I can understand lasers and possibly PPCs being instant hit, but ACs, machineguns, and Gauss rifles?

..huh? The only hitscan weapon in MW4 was the (pulse) lasers.

PPCs, Gauss, missiles, MGs and ACs all had different travel times.

This is truth. I'm not sure how anyone could prefer the MW2 autocannon over the MW4 one regardless though, given that the things were utterly worthless in MW2.

someone hasn't played Ghost Bear's Legacy.

I was about to say...

Hell, they're even damn good in MW2 if you pick the right mission and bring enough ammo with you.

Most missions in GBL required me to kill more than one enemy. Autocannons were still worthless.

I'm sorry, I finished the entire game, save that one mission where you needed to disable that Raven, using an Incubus with a single UAC/20 and about 10 tons of ammo.





Wow, this is a hella old thread.

Stormwatcher

Yeah, well, I need some HEALP!

Stormwatcher

Update: I know that the crash is caused by the stupid little video that plays on the briefings, because when I manage to click "Lauch" before the video starts, everything works fine.

Anyone knows how can I find out what coded is used there, and how to fix that?

Because all the intro movies play fine, and the little briefing movies still freeze, even after installing K-Lite Codec pack and Indeo.

Orogogus

I want to say that the videos were in Smacker format (link), but I'm not sure if installing the RAD game tools will help. Wouldn't hurt to try, though.

Stormwatcher

Orogogus wrote: »

I want to say that the videos were in Smacker format (link), but I'm not sure if installing the RAD game tools will help. Wouldn't hurt to try, though.

Yeah, it's surely worth a try, thanks.

Nah, no dice.
God damned crazy video.