Special changes on certain missions? Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

I've now encountered already on several different missions a special change in the game behaviour and want to know if anyone knows how it was done.

The first is in mission scb11ea /eb: There you have to capture the tech centre so you are able to build the stealth tank. How was it done that the stealth tank has for this mission a different prerequisite?
The second is in mission scb12ea: There you have to capture the normally uncapturable adv. comm. centre.
The third is in mission scg07ea: How does the game remember which building you destroyed in the previous mission, in case you don't destroy the airfield with your commando?
On some other missions they also changed the name of the technology centre to prison.

Are all these special changes hardcoded or is there any way to reproduce them in self-made maps?

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: Aug 20 2009, 06:15 PM

[Nyerguds]

The advanced comm thing is actually opposite. The building is ALWAYS capturable, but in any single player mission with a number above 12 the MOUSE function to show the capture cursor blocks you from giving the capture command. In the mission "Infiltrated" I tested that this is really only for the player; the AI could still capture my ACC since it doesn't need a mouse cursor to give commands.

I'm planning to fix this in my next patch, because this has the very annoying side effect that in multiplayer, it IS capturable, which seems hardly fair since it's a superweapon.

It also has the side effect that if you place an advanced comm center in any campaign mission below #12, it's capturable.
(this might be seen as a "mapping trick", though most addon missions are played throught the covert ops menu, and these alsways have a number larger than 20)

This post has been edited by Nyerguds: Aug 24 2009, 10:08 PM