Hi dear FH-2 Team/Devs,

Let me suggest the following:

1.Tropicalised Hurricane Mk.I i.e. with a 80.Sqn Skin for
dual purpose on greek and early Western Desert Maps
2.Hurricane Mk.I or Mk.I/Trop with SAAF Skin exclusively for KerenMap
3.independent Skin for Hurricane Mk.II/C from Mk.II/D
4.Hurricane Mk.II/B & Mk.II/B/Trop, both should suit Western desert and Russian Maps too
5. Ju52 static SAAF skin for Keren Map
6.Fw190 standin Skin for Tunisian Maps to swap out the Bf109F
There could be a SKG10 Skin for the bombed up version and/or a JG1 Skin for
the fighter. I preferr the Jabo myself in my install.

I know the Würger ingame represents a late model and lacks the Filters,
but there were filterless in service too and the Würger just gives that final immersion
for a map like Bou-Zid.

Suggestion for correct Skins:
7.The current Kittyhawk represents a false serial/marking outfit.
Recently I released a large P-40 No.112 Sqn. Skinpack on the actual Desert Sharks on Mission4Today.

AK772 was Clive Caldwell's famous "London Pride" it bore GA-Y for tacticals and a completely different
Sharknose design.
See here:
http://www.mts.net/~royb/112_photos_page_2.html


GA-T could be a different type, but not under this Serial allocation.

Anyway how you decide or what you pick up from here, Thanks for this great Mod.
Regards
Knochenlutscher

  In 2.45 it's not as easy as editing the Mapdata.py, though it's a Python editing, but you must
take a file from 2.40 and update according the Levels you have installed.
WORDPAD or TEXTEDITOR is good to go

The following is OFFLINE ONLY, DON'T USE when Multiplayer addict, may result in Banns, Flames or other Insults. ONLY FOR THE ADVANCED OFFLINE FIDDLER.

The File that is not easy to edit in 2.45, but in 2.40, is called:
...\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\fh2\python\game\plugins\NCOrifleData.pyc

Editing in this older is easier, takes 5 Minutes, but be as precise as a swiss watch and control
each init.con in all Mapfolders. Maps that you haven't got in Levels, but in this original file, are from the Devs (Kuuterselka, Crimea...).
I took the naming for my files from the Levelfolder Mapfolders and deleted these WIP stuff.

REMEMBER TO MAKE A BACKUP First of a Clean 2.45, SP Patch Fixed, your custom FH2 AND HERE'S THE EXAMPLE WHY YOU SHOULD KEEP A CLEAN BACKUP OF OLDER 2.40, MAKES MODDING EASIER.
ALL NCO RIFLES will be activated even on custom Maps. Even in Bootcamp_1 (Multiplayer only).

NO CLASSES ARE SHOWN IN SELECTION SCREEN
PICKUP KITS ARE NOT SHOWN INGAME

A: tmp.con not handling init.con content, i.e. you tried converting a 2.40 Custom Map to 2.45 which wasn't delivered a tmp.con, then you supposedly get empty selection screen or CTD before seeing the Map-start screen.
B: Map is supposed to be 2.45 standard, but your custom Classkits not showing up, nor your Pickupkits ingame. Make sure to use the classkits of init.con and place their lines to tmp.con as described above
(only 14!!!, not one single more, 7 per side!!!), same for the pickupkits you wanna see ingame.
Those you forgot, you won't see ingame.

In case of custom Classes and Kits:
All is corrected and you still experience this BUG, then you made a mess with conflicting Weapon-indexes
or using a non handled weapon (without AI code).
I made myself an Excel file handling all ingame Weapons indices and showing them correctly.
This is crucial if you wanna create custom-kits bug-free.
MAPDATA.py and old custom Maps:
You can try to create a mapdata.py the way described above and still it won't work flawless,
NOT ENABLING RIFLE NCO's nor other things written in the Mapdata.py. Why? Don't ask, I tried all.
Best is:
If the map lacks this file, that is no problem to run in 2.45 as some may think.
My old maps run fine and CTD free without, if delivered without originally, creating this file causes problems and seems to be CTD prone to the bone.
Not to mention it is best to use the original mapdata.py on their pre-defined Maps.

UPDATED
Knoch

Thanks for another great Coop package. Will try this out.
Happy modding

Unchecked Friendly Fire and Auto-Balance, now all working as it should.
Didn't disabled after install, unaware of the affects
Thread marked as Solved

Stay objective Mates.
It's the Buzz_loop.wav right? Can you confirm? I changed it to pure_silence and my Panther didn't screamed while being destroyed.
If you're left one mark in health-bar, this is an international sign for gamers knowing, another hit and Bye.
The sound of the burning tank was always a good additional sign in this case, not too noisy, I got used to it, hope we can have this back at least.

Hi Mates, recently I have found in SP/Coop if manned by bots the StuGIV's fire a bit too much smoke rounds instead armor piercing like they should.
Not to mention they use to throw these towards enemy tanks like HEAT rounds.
Been buisy to delete all Smokegrenades from the Kits, to get a somewhat less AI-smokey atmosphere,
but this keeps me bugging.
Is there a way to manually tweak the StuG IV, maybe someone pointing to a .con or line that is causing them smoke-proning?
Thanks for any Help

Take a closer look at this, I can't help myself.

>Panther, StuG, PzIV and Tiger II

http://ironfront.deepsilver.com/en/vehicles-of-the-wehrmacht

AI has two different behaviour,
US rushing, making it fun to play, as AI supports Player on this side the best.
Flag cap radius (in the Town) is great enough to win the game in less than a minute.
Town has easy to outflank blank areas, besides streets, in the back of german main etc. where I grab my head thinking, that's all they put up? I can outflank a whole division alone, better than Hollywood.

Playing as a German, you see most of them staying around waiting and simply no defense.
When 2 or more flags are capped by US, they became sth. more active, moving.
Playing the Germans, Players actions are too weighty, like Rambo style. Here too, if Player acts like Rambo, he can rush in his StuGIV capping a simply empty(defense) Northern Approach or US HQ/Farm and win the Match.
I caught myself being bored from doing the job almost alone, having 5-6 Bots by my side,
just getting killed, like bullet magnets.

Player needs definitely more Bot-support, there's also a lack of Bot-accessible static defenses,
i.e. MGs. Player has some creative ones to choose, but rarely seen Bots manning them.
What frustrates Player too are some defense positions in the Town being turned against Defenders.
Curiosly enough I have seen US manning the SDKFZ Wreck MGs, instead my Bots. Good enough for US,
these positions are too turned in favour of attacker?!
Church, here I saw a tactical good positioned US-MG, well, I don't think only US were clever to find such good positions, so I changed it to German side too, from us-only. The 2 other roof-MG-Nests are nice but useless in game, as Player gets killed as soon as sniping AI can see trough the heavy fog, where Player has some deficits.
I recently put up 2 static MGs near the stonebridge myself in text-editor, at vital sandbags. At least this helps a bit, as they get manned by Bots. Now Willy has a prob rushing at the last strongpoint, he can cap, but his action soon cracked by fierce resistance. At least sth. I Know from default Maps.
To use unused blank territory in back of the german main, I would recommend add another flagpoint at the Villa/Railwaystation, just to stretch gameplay and bring battle in this vital nicely built quarter.
Also added ESAI to it, but I have no slightest clue if it's better or not. Will test this further, with and without ESAI.