Locked in blue stance in MP

[TrentAbru]

I have tried out loads of maps and mods over the past year or so since JKO came out. I have now encountered a bug when playing MP with two PCs head to head at home which is driving me abs crazy. I just do not seem to be able to solve this prob.

 

First off, a description of the prob. Once in a while one encounters a map or a saber hilt/blade which is so cool, you just have to have this, despite the fact that it is only completely stable in the unmodified retail MP version of JKO, Either you find this out by trial and error or the mapper tells u this. I loaded up MP which is officially patched, ver 1.04. nothing else. I did this in order to use a rather cool blade called warrior blade of Hades (which does not work in my fav Omnimod 1.0d vers), part way through my game, I was killed, on respawning, I noticed that instead of the normal 3 saber stances of the un/patched retail version, my saber had become locked, permanently in the blue stance. Nothing I can do now will revert this. Only completely deinstalling the game including saves and config files. If I do a clean install of JKO and start MP fresh with just the retail no of bots/models/ and maps, the lock on the stances has disappeared. The 3 stances remain only as long as long as i do not die and respawn, whereupon the stance becomes locked in blue again. What is even more annoying is that when playing against bots in MP it is obvious they are using all the stances, blue yellow and red, BUT I AM LOCKED IN BLUE!!!! (apologies for the caps). My antivirus software has not identified any bugs which could be responsible and I have borrowed other master discs from other pals to do a reinstall. The same thing happens on respawning.

 

Nothing like this happens when I use MP omnimod vers 1.0d which is my fav mod at the moment. I do not play any net MP games cos I have only got a 56k modem.

 

Does anybody out there have experience of this? Effectively now I am deprived of playing MP in the the unmodded retail version. using the official patches does abs nothing to correct this.

 

Please Help anybody. SOS!

[Andy867]

it sounds like a possible compatibility issue between the blade and the OmniMod. Perhaps the blade is only meant to have the blue stance, and when you die, it corrects itself to how IT was supposed to be. Thats my best guess as to your dilemma.. Have you tried using other saber/hilt combos to see if it does the same thing?

[TrentAbru]

First off, many thanks for a reply, it really is appreciated!. There is nothing more depressing than watching the forums and seeing how many people read your prob but do not reply or have no idea of how to go about tackling it.

 

A further development in the history of this prob. I have found a way of making the fav blade mod work in omnimod. In fact I found that it had become visible when I turned off the TCK saber colour mixing mod!

 

It is so easy to become superstitious and put your probs down to what you have done most recently. I was under the impression that this blade mod would not work in Omnimod 1.0d and so I loaded up the retail patched version. Lo, I have three stances blue/yellow/red but only until I respawn, wherupon respawn brings the lock in blue (this is by the way without any blade or hilt mod now.) If I stop the game and restart a new MP game when I start up, I actually start locked in blue. Only either a complete deinstall removing all mods, and reinstalling anew from CD and re-patching (1.04) reintroduces the three stances on starting a new game, but this only lasts until the first respawn. if I start a new MP, or reload JKO MP, the saber is lockedin blue.

 

The only other thing that will correct this is to restore factory defaults option before I start a new game. This however is a pain because you lose all your saved altered key settings. This restores the 3 stances but this reverts to just blue after a respawn and this then remains locked in any subsequent MP sessions.

 

So I think it may not be the saber blade or hilt mods which are causing this prob, it just provided me with the opportunity to discover it in the unmodded officially patched version. In reality I have no idea how long this has existed, or what maps/mods/bots/skins or what may have caused it.

 

Thanks again for your thoughts, they are very much appreciated.

[DarkLord60]

I ve had this same problem. I found first of you have to have a certain amount of force level in saber combat skills like saber throw and ect.. Try changing level of force for the saber. Thats how I fixed it. But if you dont want force powers then I dont know what you would do.