Tide of War - 1. ASEX-25 (Unofficial) Update

[Kushan04]

Hi everyone. Here's an unofficial update to ToW - 1. ASEX-25. This should fix most of the known issues. Official update to follow, probably sometime next week.

- Fixed Special Action: Radio Warning failing.
- Fixed scoring penalty after being allowed to exit the exercise area to attend to the distressed civilian vessel.
- Adjusted points loss for violations of the exercise area. Every 60 minutes you will lose 10 points for each PAFMM ship that is inside the exercise area. Every 5 minutes you will lose 2 points for each ASEAN ship outside the exercise area (until the distressed ship event fires, then you can leave at will).
- Successful boarding actions now reward 10 points. Failed boarding actions will lose you 10 points.
- Added description of seaplane mechanics to scenario briefing.
- Points loss at start is now -250 (was -500).
- Fixed Aircraft and RHIBs being able to ram PAFMM vessels.
- Updated radio warning description to tell players it works for aircraft and ships.

[HalfLifeExpert]

I've played this revised scenario, and it works MUCH better now.

The only note I would give is that the player should receive some points for successfully boarding and detaining a PAFMM ship. I understand there not being any score for successfully ramming due to political consequences, as in this playthrough, I ended up only ramming twice, and both times were preludes to successful boarding.

[Kushan04]

I've played this revised scenario, and it works MUCH better now.

The only note I would give is that the player should receive some points for successfully boarding and detaining a PAFMM ship. I understand there not being any score for successfully ramming due to political consequences, as in this playthrough, I ended up only ramming twice, and both times were preludes to successful boarding.

I agree with the points being rewarded for successful boarding, and I'll probably end up undoing it. I think the original designers intent was that you got your points from completing the exercises, and then you had a menu of bad choices for how to react to the PAFMM vessels. It was fairly easy to get yourself into a death spiral of points. Rewarding points for successful boarding actions was a "panic reaction" in case the changes to PAFMM ship scoring didn't work out. I do plan to shorten the scenario to 12-16 hours, we'll see how that version plays out internally before committing to to the idea. I don't want to change the scenario too much but I kind of feel there needs to be another option for dealing with the PAFMM vessels. Maybe water cannon or a warning shot action. The structure for the actions being Radio Warning -> Water Cannon (or whatever) -> then either boarding (with a risk to increase tensions and points loss) or ramming (which risks damage to your ship).

[SchDerGrosse]

Thank you for the quick patch.

Can steam users also (maually) apply the fix?

[blu3s]

Yes, you can drop the scen file into the ToW scenario folder in the steam installation (you can rename the original scenario and keep it as backup)

[SchDerGrosse]

Yes, you can drop the scen file into the ToW scenario folder in the steam installation (you can rename the original scenario and keep it as backup)

Neat, thank you!