Failed a mission (a campaign one!), now what??

Garashta · Post by **Garashta** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:06 pm

What can I do if If I failed a mission??? I just failed the mission from roman lynch where he asks me to deliver weapons to siva on rikal, and now he reprimends me for failing, and wont talk with me anymore!! how to progress on the campaign???? Anyway, even hacking, please help!

zeo1234 · Post by **zeo1234** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:38 pm

Pretty much you have to start from a save game from a previous point. Or start from the beginning, either by new game or go back and see if you can trigger the first mission again, the later option allowing you to keep your present ship and funds.

Editing the save file is not really recommended and even if you did it might skip over all the missions from Lynch.

Garashta · Post by **Garashta** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:58 pm

isnÂ´t there any other way??? To begin a new game from the very begining??? it would be a waste of time all the hours I've spent so far! and what do you mean by this:

either by new game or go back and see if you can trigger the first mission again, the later option allowing you to keep your present ship and funds.

Can I begin a new game with my current ship, killing score and funds? How?

Solon Halwinder · Post by **Solon Halwinder** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:32 pm

I believe if you open your save using a hexadecimal editor and edit the "campaign score" value to zero, it will reset the campaign. Don't quote me on it, though.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:17 pm

You can also use Wordpad -- remember to save the file as text. Notepad will occasionally "eat" carriage returns and is not recommended for this purpose.

zeo1234 · Post by **zeo1234** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:54 pm

Garashta wrote:Can I begin a new game with my current ship, killing score and funds? How?

I did it once after finishing PR but hadn't triggered RF yet, went back and guy you get artifact from and if he's there you can restart the campaign with your present stats and ship.

If you do decide to try and hack the game make sure to make a backup copy of the effected files you are changing in case it doesn't work.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:27 pm

You have to go to the planet jolson in xx 1917 or something like that to trigger RF. But do REALLY want to?

zeo1234 · Post by **zeo1234** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:22 am

RF can only be triggered if you have the boosted Steltek gun and according to the topic it's the first campaign that still has to be finished first in order to get the boosted Steltek gun.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:23 am

wonder if editing the boosted steltek gun onto your ship would be enough... I have had the gun before i evan start PR.

zeo1234 · Post by **zeo1234** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:19 am

Hmm, it should be enough though you might have to make sure the gun status is set to "1 1.0" in the save game file. Then just go to Jolson to test it out.

Note though the plot of RF is that the gun gets stolen so you're going to lose the gun when RF is started.

If you equipped your ship with more than 1 boosted Steltek gun then the game will remove 2 of them.

You also only have a slim chance of getting it back at the end of the RF campaign by purchasing a ship it's equipped on just before the final battle. (Just one though since in the story you are only ever suppose to have 1).

Though there are other ways of getting boosted Steltek guns besides hacking, for example if before you finish the PR campaign you can use a Draymon to tractor the Steltek fighter (it's actually a scout since the ship you get the gun from is the actual fighter) and you can swipe the three guns it has when you get to a base through the ship dealership.

You could also create your own army of Steltek (scout) Fighters if you have enough creds. Since a one time bonus at the end of PR is the ability to purchase a depreciated Paradigm ($$$$$$$$$$$-Expensive).

By selling the Steltek fighter it will appear on the purchasable ships. Just keep buying it (one at a time, since "My Fleet" might merge them), flying into orbit, eject, leaving ship in orbit, go back and repeat as many times as you want or can afford and then use the Paradigm (Cargo hold is like 100000) to tractor them all and you'll have an army of Steltek (scout) Fighters.

Another board member did this and destroyed a base with his fleet of 100 ships, under the "Destroy A Base In Under 5 Minutes" topic. And of course you can swipe a boosted Steltek gun from each.

This is the main use for the Paradigm since it's a cap ship and piloting it is like trying to navigate a whale. So fighters are the best option to dealing with enemy ships. Though you can more than make up the cost of the Paradigm in cargo runs, which take into account your massive hold so missions can pay up 6-7 figure creds each run)

Other than that you can steal regular steltek and mass produced steltek guns from certain enemy ships (hint: they Stole the Original) in RF.

You'll eventually want to trigger RF because most of the cool upgrades aren't available until you get to RF, which takes place one year after PR ends.

There are also a few side campaigns you can trigger after RF that helps keep things interesting.

If you want more than that then look into the Parallel Universe Mod topic.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:48 am

What's the 1 1.0 thing about? i would belive you anyway as you sound like someone that knows much about such things.

zeo1234 · Post by **zeo1234** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:15 am

Like you I've experimented but I'm still learning how the game works and what effects what. So someone like z30 can tell you a lot more.

But to answer your question. It's a line in the save game file.

If you have the gun it should read, "have_the_gun 1 1.000000 "

Basically if you are going to hack the save game there are two files.

1) The Save Game file (Whatever you named your save game) is in the, "\Privateer\.privateer100\save" folder. This contains all the game details like how many creds you have, what ships you own, your kill count, campaign status, etc.

2) The other folder is, "\Privateer\.privateer100\serialized_xml" , which has the specs on each ship you own in the saved game. Ship type, speed, armor, shields, cargo, equipment, etc can be adjusted there per ship.

But as always, save a copy of the original before you save the changes as the files can get corrupted and you could lose them. Excell for example has been known to do this at random.

Though for game enjoyability it is recommended to not hack the game. Even though I know it is really tempting with many of the balance issues of PR.