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Well, I must say. I was very happy with the produced result of QF2. Very thorough campaign, very smooth gameplay. All worth the wait in my opinion. Only trouble I had was with one of the missions not working, however apart from that, I enjoyed it.

Good Job BBB

What did you guys think?

I'm low on time these days so I won't get a full play through till later, probably once it is patched. Ironically I could end up helping with patches depending before ever seriously playing it

All I can say is his cutscenes with the humans tripped my uncanny-valley senses.

Thanks AI - and which mission wasn't working?

game play was solid easy to get into mission 1 - 3 are ok

the jungle night mission needs to be spaced out ah-bit the dude harassing the player can't tell what they are saying cause it is so close to each out

I do like the gameplay very good .. the voiceing ... ehhhhh keep it to my self

Is there any chance to change the map/radar size and cockpit fonts?

** Spoiler Alert **

I kept getting annoyed with failing the first mission and ended up rage-quitting like 5 times, everytime I got the car out of the garage, I couldn't move anywhere without being spotted. Going to go back to Minecraft for a while instead

It's not really that hard. You've just gotta move behind the fence quickly. I know it's a bit tough for the 1st mission, but the story of the mod surrounding the occupation took precedence over ease of playability in early missions.

It would perhaps have been better for gameplay if there had been a little longer between being spotted and failure, to give the player the chance to get back into cover (the mechanics as they are are quite unbalanced). This is the same reason the world-border gun towers in Borderlands don't shoot you immediately. Such quick failure leaves the player confused as to why they failed, and doesn't give them any chance to correct their mistake.

Psssst, hey TJ: game.cheat bzstealth

I already did, but perhaps I could slow down the surveillance tower rotation rate even further for the patch.

Well I cheated through the first mission, started the second and the dialogue just got too much for me, also the .dll controlling the players graphics options was pretty frustrating too, it's WAY too dark on my screen.

Now imagine my feeling about these dialogs... English is not my first language.

Hey BBB - was hoping you might be able to help me out. I have been trying to install QF2 but keep getting a DX9 error on start-up (not present before QF installed).
Specifically it says "The program can't run because d3dx9_40.dll is missing from your xomputer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem."

I have tried in 1.365 and in 1.364(43), the log file for the latter copied below.

Would really appreciate your help getting this up and running. Apologies if I have missed a previous reporting of this issue.

Many thanks,
voxnat


---- Battlezone II Log File ----
//=====================================================
App version: bzone 1.3.6.4z43 Public Beta May 19 2014 21:22:16
Windows version: Windows Version: 6.1.7601 'Service Pack 1' PlatformID=2

Last few battlezone.log lines (may or may not be relevant):

DIAG| maininit:547 |20:50:54|0 |Version Information Section
DIAG| maininit:548 |20:50:54|0 | BZ2 build 1.3.6.4z43 Public Beta
DIAG| maininit:559 |20:50:54|0 |Session started Fri Jul 11 20:50:54 2014
DIAG| maininit:565 |20:50:54|0 |CPU: 8 processors, type 586
DIAG| maininit:566 |20:50:54|0 |CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
DIAG| maininit:567 |20:50:54|0 |CPU: Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3
DIAG| maininit:570 |20:50:54|0 |Executed by WIN7-PC\Win7 on Windows Version: 6.1.7601 'Service Pack 1' PlatformID=2
(done)

Exception code: C0000005 (ACCESS VIOLATION) READING from 00000000h
Message : Exception
Error occurred at 7/11/2014 20:53:38.
D:\Battlezone II 1.364\bzone.exe, run by Win7.
D:\Battlezone II 1.364\bzone.exe, run by Win7.
CPU: 8 processor(s), Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3
Process Memory : 1809 MB free out of 2048 MB total
Physical memory: 13752 MB free out of 16278 MB total
Page(swap) file: 29952 MB free out of 32553 MB total
This exe is using 51 MB (7 MB dlmalloc), peak use 51 MB

Fault address: 00F59275 01:00208275 D:\Battlezone II 1.364\bzone.exe

Registers:
EAX:005AE314
EBX:005AE2C8
ECX:00000000
EDX:00000000
ESI:005AE314
EDI:00000000
CS:EIP:0023:00F59275
SS:ESP:002B:005AE230 EBP:005AE3D0
DS:002B ES:002B FS:0053 GS:002B
Flags:00010246

Call stack:
Address Offset1 Offset2 Module SourceFile
00F59275 +00209275 00000095 bzone (bzone): : DXUTBuildOptimalD3D9DeviceSettings

00F59D3C +00209D3C 000000AC bzone (bzone): : DXUTFindValidDeviceSettings

00F600F5 +002100F5 00000325 bzone (bzone): : DXUTCreateDevice

00F7B23D +0022B23D 000000ED bzone (bzone): : Main::CoreSystemInit

Run Redist\DX9\DX9setup.exe. Installing the prerequisites that come with 1.3 is a good way to prevent errors like this.

I don't recall if BZ2 1.3.5/1.3.6 natively uses v40 of DX9. If you have an internet connection -- and you should if you're reading this -- then run the Redist\DX9\DX9WebInstaller . That will install all possible versions of the DX9 helper DLLs -- up to 40/41 versions of the helper DLLs, in 32 and/or 64-bit versions. Then reboot.

-- GSH