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Is there a list of available missions, as you might see at Mission4Today for IL2?

Could we start a sticky for it, rather than have newbies like me trawl for user-made missions made a while ago?

No there's no such list.Part of the problem is that lost of missions are made by various individuals with a particular mod or new model being introducedthere's no compiling of all the missions avaiable.Als not helping is that some of missions or mission packs are not compatible with vertian mods or only compatible with a given mod or new vehicle.Still Kyth's SF download webpage should give you a variety of missions available.

Heh heh  ;D much as I'd like to take credit, it is actually Godzilla's download page at Mediafire:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3021012/Steel_Fury_Kharkov_1942_The_Es.html#Post3021012 (http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3021012/Steel_Fury_Kharkov_1942_The_Es.html#Post3021012)

Ah yes, I have seen that list, and Godzilla's installation guide on that forum is the most helpful I have seen.

BUT!

Firstly, the greatest SFK42 discussion is here, on Graviteam's own forum. Over the last two months, I've seen little English-speaking traffic on simhq and none anywhere else. If there is good advice to be had on SFK42, it should be here.

Secondly, again it flows like a random stream of consciousness  ;D

Why not start a thread with a structure controlled by the mods, reflecting the helpfulness of Mission4Today:

for example, every mission/campaign added would have its own post something like this -

Mission/Campaign Name: "Tigers In The Mud Ver.2"

Date Added: xx/xx/xx

Missions: Single Mission

Player's Vehicle: German Tiger MkI

Map: Izum (game stock)

Historical or Ficticious: Historical - In February 1944 Otto Carius and his platoon of Tigers were called upon to prevent the Russian forces of the Leningrad Front from crossing the Narva River 5km north of Narva, and by-passing the fortified Narva Bridgehead.

Mods Required: SPM 1.5 Beta, Rends Newbuildingsv3, Pink Paintbomb mod

JSGME Ready: Yes

Download Location: www.(link).com

File Size: 54Mb

Notes: This mission was updated on xx/xx/xx to include the Pink Paintbomb mod.


This format would make it easy for people to see what they were getting, how old it is, and so on.

What do you think?

You mean... like a repository?  :o (Not to be confused with a suppository,)

Yes, but without the grassy knoll!  :o

I have a Kyth-stion ;D?
Is this Kyth's misison pack for Panzer III?

Quick put up some other missions, there's plenty more stuff! From other modders!

Oy vey  :o

Oy vey?Isn't that Yiddish Kyth?

I believe its German

German spelling would be "Oh weh."  :)

Cheers,

Fw

Whukid you'll never see the letter y in German unless it's a foreign word or old Germanic spelling may be....

Haha, I know! I meant phonetically it is the same expression used in German :P

Of course since Yiddish or Jiddisch is essentially Middle German mixed with Hebrew and a smattering of Slavic and other languages.When written or transcribed in Latin alphabet if you read German you can pretty much read and figure out 60 to 70 % of Yiddish except for some words.

Oy!  :o

This is now a separate "discussion" about the Mission List.

Oy!  ;D You are right we went astray back to the list of user_made missions please!I, for one, won't tolerate any of these distractions :o

The best idea would be to create a subforum: user missions, but I don't know how to do that.

Is there a "how to" about installing these missions?  Or is there an installer that does it?

Thanks to the mission designers.

Edit:  I see I have to modify a line in a config file.  When I open that file with MS Word, the line formatting is  a little off.  It's like it's word wrapped or indented so that the lines of text push over into the next line.  Is that config file just opened with a standard text editor?

Hi Tanker,
Yes I just use notepad
Cheers

Excellent intiative Panzerrfaust! On every forum we can always depend on you! ;)

Thanks for that.  It works better with notepad.

What is curious is that line was already in that camp file after I enabled Kyth's campaigns in the JSGME.  I did not have to add it manually.

Best of luck! As I recall, they're quite fun to play through  ;D

Hi everyone!

Are there any missions / campaigns that you'd like to see added to the list?

Yes the Panzer 38t campaigns!

Seriously, though, I want to add the Ukrainian/Russian missions, but I'd like to convert them to be JSGME-ready. I haven't had the time, wot with the Carius Files...

Yes !!  :)

I would like to see the following missions on the list:

Missions_pack_1.0c compiled by Lockie

Real Churchill_v1.1_full by Lockie

Miracle-weapon Jagdtigerv.1.3eng by Lockie

Saboteur_Panther M-10_v1.5 by Lockie

Kolobanov_v2.1 by Lockie

Mission Destroy Airfield_1.8 by Lockie

Ugly duckling_1.3 by Lockie

(Have I forgotten any mission done by Lockie? Please, add it if I have !!)

SF42_Orel_beta1 by Rends

Shamonin by  Hemisent

And of course the Panzer 38t campaign by Kyth !!


Thank you very much for the sticky post with the missions list. It is very usefull.

 
Txema

Yes that's a good list, let's see what happens,

I've idea to release my missions in one pack(may be deviator also), so plz, don't include them in any pack.

Great news, Lockie !!

Looking forward to having all your missions (and those by Deviator :)) in one pack !!


Txema

Txema
 There's one mission done by yl  called "Ambush"  it's very simple but has great replayability and is quite difficult. I would highly recommend it.

Cheers
H

Hi Estniche,
Well to be honest I did propose having a kind of file depot here at Graviteam a long...long...long time ago, that was way before the Graviteam subforum at SimHq. But for some reason Iceman wasn't recieptive to the suggestion  ??? Believe me when I tell you this site was a real ghost town then compared to now and as weird as this may sound SimHq had more SFK42 players asking questions on mods and installations then here. So I asked SimHq about a Graviteam subforum and they "sure" and asked me to do a sticky with some explanations of the mods and how to install them, I took it one little step further and included the Mediafire site (which was in all honesty just a quick and dirty solution) since it was a small problem finding certain mods at times. The main site that hosted most of the English and RU mods kept going offline for weeks, would come back on for awhile then go back offline again, it was pretty frustrating for new SFK42 players and to be honest it was getting really crazy for myself emailing all those mods with explainations on "how to" for individuals asking for them. But that being said I'm extremely happy to see this site becoming the main focal point for SFK42 and Graviteams games, and I would love to see what you proposed being done here. But also I'm extremely grateful to SimHq for allowing the interviews I did with Vlad and allowing a vehicle to get Graviteam products to be better known to fans of this genre.
Cheers

Hi Guys! Sorry to interrupt but I saw that"Pink Paintbomb mod " and I thought what is this weekend warriors fighting it out in a forest with paint guns????

 Panzerfaust you are doign an outstanding support work on both this and on the SimHq forum.Kudos and thanks on behalf of all SF and Graviteams's sims fans! :D

There's a very helpful moderator on the SUBSIM/Tanksim.com forum called Sledgehammer who had also created a sticky of SF resources.I wonder if you 2 guys could work together and create a unique source which would be available to all fans on all 3 fora?????

Kelly's Heroes couldn't have beat the Tigers if they didn't have the Pink Paintbomb shells...

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NdE6bfB1VC0/T2LxudmGQnI/AAAAAAAABnQ/1vPC4fu-CFw/s800/pinkpaintbomb.JPG)

Thanks comrade frinik for the compliment. As for Sledgehammer at the SubSim/Tanksim forum that sounds like a great ideal, hook us up and I'll be more then willing to help him spread the good news that is SFK42  :)
Cheers

 
Good luck, there's an almost total lack of interest in things Steel Fury over there. Except for one or two dedicated fellows, it's a 'TvsT and SBPro' discussion forum.

It's very true but I suspect this Graviteam forum has become our haven while the SimHQ forum has become the de facto forum for Graviteam's other sims mostly SABoW, APOS and AP....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I love the JSMGE picture in the OP :P

It's a good shot,  ;D

Might I suggest "Ctrl-Alt-Printscreen" to capture just the active window. Gimp and other programs also have "crop to selection" to trim things down,  :D

I cannot find the user_camp.engcfg file anywhere in my SFK42 folders.  I can find main_camp, final_camp and camp_list but no user_camp

The 'user_camp.engcfg' and 'user_camp_list.engcfg' files only appear after you create a new mission, using the Editor.
However, in my Mission downloads, I've included some txt files that you could rename, to serve as the engcfg files.

Hi everyone,

I've added the 3 missions from yl9961027 to the List.
The mission filenames and formats have been tidied up a bit and made compatible with Ultimate Update, but the missions remain original and unedited.

http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10102.0 (http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10102.0)

Enjoy!

Wow Kyth!excellent service!Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I recently translated of a couple of early missions by a guy called Xream, featuring the T34/76.
If I'm correct, they were some of the earliest user-made missions (in 2008) for Steel Fury. They should be compatible with the stock version of the game as well as all later updates.

If you're interested, I'll package them in a JSGME format and post them on the List,

Of course! Might even have one of my own shortly  ;D

These early ones feature some detailed instructions appearing in mid-mission, which you'll need to complete successfully. For players unfamiliar with the language, a translation could prove very useful,

Kyth, please, post these missions on the list.  :)

Thank you !!


Txema

Okay, I've put up the first 2 missions by Xream.

http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10102.0 (http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10102.0)

As always, I have merely translated the text, briefing and map. The files have been arranged in JSGME compatible format. Other than that, the missions are original, without changes to the units or force balance.

Take note, in these missions there aren't any difficulty levels - you're playing at full difficulty always!

Oh that mission! I have it since its inception and frankly it's the most unrealistic mission ever made.A lone T-34 against stugs, AT ect with limited ammo.Impossible to win.My recommendation is to change the T34 for a KV-1 to have a minimal chance of even getting half-way through the mission.The map is very nice though!

 :D

It's certainly imaginative,

I managed to survive the mission once so far. Stealth is the word ;D

I suggest to post no comments in the usermade mission list. Thats why we have this thread.

Okay, its done,

Just dl'd this and yes it's very imaginative. Only got past the first objective once after numerous tries even with being stealthy. Will give it another shot tomorrow.

Cheers!
h

Besides the naval and air bombardments, the most useful resource you have at hand are... the trees.  :D  Make full use of them! It is possible to hide in the forests to see and not be seen - be a tree, my friend. ( I'll allow you to figure out how to put that into practice )

HAH! Thanks Kyth, sneaking through the trees is how I got to just past the first objective. The damn Stug that shows up first is causing me all sorts of grief right now.

Off to get dead again..

Cheers
H

After getting through this one, you'll find that my missions aren't so tough after all,  ;D

Well.. unless you're a slacker like me and figured out that the Mission Editor is your friend ;D hahah

In my defense, I completed the mission on my 8th try. I hit that damned Stug on my first shot before they got me ;D

Believe it or not, this stupid mission is addicting. I made it to the Observation point and called in the barrage before the inevitable happened.

Yours are a cakewalk compared to this thing. ;D

Are you guys talking about XReam's 2 lakes mission with a lone T34????

That mission is addictive because every time you fail it you want to replay it until you win.Like Whukid I figured the ME is your best friend qand substituted the T34 for a KV-1...After 23 attampts finally succeeded but only because the KV has twice the ammo supply of the T34.YOu ought to try it with the KV-1e .THat tank is ven stronger.

Re Kyth' s missions; I have spent part of my week off replaying all his Panzer III missions.Great fun! What they lack in difficulty they sure make up in twists and finesse!

Wow-na wow-na wow-na!

Now it is time to try the Panzer 38(t) missions.

Hi Kyth
 I'm really sorry but I absolutely cannot stand the 38(t). As we discussed awhile back I've used the ME to change it over to a pzIII. I reset the enemy forces to full experience and moral and set the difficulty level to 10. This pretty much balances out the difficulty (IMO) and still gives the experience which I think you were aiming for.

Now, back to the stupid mission. Yes Frinik, this is the one.

Cheers!
H

Aww, that's quite saddening  :'(

Especially since there's more 38(t)'s coming up!  ;D Soon, soon,

Hi Hemi! Never said the mission is stupid(X Ream's) simply that it's ridiculously unrealistic! The map is great through......

RE Kyth's missions with the Panzer 38t I like them as they are but set the difficulty level to 10 and exp to max but this  I do all the time anyway....

We're ready Kyth!Bring them on! ;)

Hey Frinik
 I didn't mean to call the mission itself stupid, I just meant that it's very frustrating for me to keep getting clobbered with so little ground gained. Actually in many ways there's a stroke of brilliance here on the part of the author. He went thru a lot of trouble placing all the initial AT positions and the way they're randomly occupied. This is giving me some good ideas for the mission I'm working on now.

 And you're right about the map.
Cheers
H

Hemi one suggestion to make it more playable and enjoyable.Go into the ME and change the T34/76 for the KV-1e .Much more enjoyable.The tank is more powerful and has more ammo.... ;)

Sorry if this is a tit question, but I seem to be lacking the 'user_camp.engcfg' file in my Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942\data\k42\loc_rus\levels\LEVELS\camp folder :(
How do I go about remedying this?

I've included 2 files 'user_camp.txt' and 'user_camp_list.txt'.
Just change their extensions, to become 'user_camp.engcfg' and 'user_camp_list.engcfg'.

I've added some more details in the sticky, about the config entries for missions and campaigns.

Thanks for the mission Anddy.I installed it with Steel Panzer Mod 2.0 and it works fine.

Thanks for SVN from sukhoi.ru. He is author of polygon and mission.

Yeah I saw his post on the Avia  forum.I thought it was you with your handle there.

good evening everybody!!

I tried to keep "3. SPM1.5 ultimate update" on gamefront; I can't!
I think the link is dead!
Has somebody another link for ? !

Many thanks !

None of the links seem to be active.You'll have to send a PM to Lockie so he can give you an alternative.Once you download it again make a copy which you cna always keep as back-up so you can avoid dead links in the future.

Anddy... Thanks for a great mission.

Good evening everybody !
I found "ultimate update" on my external hard drive where I put all these kinds of importants things!

But I tried today the link with "gamefront" , it do'esnt with Internet explorer and when I try whith mozilla firefox " error 404" !

But the best important is that I found it on my external hard drive !

Have a nice evening !

http://www.4shared.com/folder/l-UlZk9G/three_of_the_same_mission.html

Three different versions of a mission... early days so don't expect too much...

Thank u! I'll check it out!
 Long time no see a new missions ;)

PS
Would u be so kind to accommodate er mission description according to the above ones?

PPS
I started er mission #3 in editor and got some mistakes. Would u like to create a separate topic (devoted to er missions) to make discussion?