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Tech Issues / Re: Issue installing and running on Linux

« on: April 29, 2024, 11:01:53 pm »

it sounds like that launcher isn't removing 0kb files and it should be.

I wish I'd checked back again sooner because you're right.  I finally came back and tried again and deleted empty files and it ran just fine.  Well mostly.  The one issue I'm having is a lack of light on many indoor maps.  I'm running under wine on Linux but I'm able to do this with other CoH servers in the same wine prefix without this problem, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with wine generally.

If anyone has any ideas for things I could try I'd appreciate it.  I'm 99.9% of the way there but not being able to see on indoor maps is likely going to be a showstopper for me here.  I tried sort of randomly playing with graphics settings in the hope that maybe the problem was specific to one setting at one value but nothing I tried made a difference there.

 

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General Suggestions and Feedback / Move Mercy legacy contacts' mission doors closer to the contacts.

« on: April 28, 2024, 09:23:05 pm »

The two legacy Mercy contacts, Kalinda and Burke, were moved from their old location in the north of the zone when the zone was revamped back on retail.  As I re call the contacts were no longer accessible, but I think they were re-enabled with I24?  Anyway their missions still send players to the north of the zone, near their old locations.

Clearly the missions were intended to be close to the contacts, which they were previously.  Since the contacts have been moved the mission doors should be as well so new players without travel powers do not have to travel all the way across the zone repeatedly since they don't have the contacts' phone numbers right away.

Not the end of the world since I can rocket pack to the missions and use Longbow in that area to give me a quick "Hospital TP" to return to the contacts, but still not ideal.

If there's any room for someone new to get their hands dirty I'd be happy to edit the necessary files so no one has to do any additional work.  I'll do it myself if that'd help.

Also how about adding those legacy contacts to the contact finder?

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General Suggestions and Feedback / Re: E-Mail Test

« on: May 06, 2023, 09:18:04 pm »

I got it.  Didn't go to junk, just my regular folders.

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Tech Issues / Issue installing and running on Linux

« on: February 21, 2023, 11:43:18 am »

First of all I'm using a non-standard patcher, so I'm not necessarily expecting anything, but I'm curious if anyone might have any insight into the behavior I'm seeing.  I'm using https://github.com/Matt-Fitzpatrick/etoh-downloader, which I've used on other servers without any problems.  Running the patcher everything seems to run fine and I run the downloaded Rebirth.exe under wine and I get this:

./rebirth/rebirth_bin.pigg: Bad flag on file - not a Pig file-1

Your data might be corrupt, please run the patcher and try again.

So I look and I see that the file is there but has a file size of zero.  I download the file manually and get the same thing.  I examine the manifest and it shows the file having a size of zero.  So everything agrees the file should be empty, but the game client complains about it.  I'm confused about what might be going on here.