SA Released Vice City Stories: PC Edition

[Tranquil_Suit]

Mission Bug: Boomshine Blowout: during the main crate moving part, the city is empty (no peds or moving cars). Also, when the timer runs out and the explosion happens, you die no matter how far away you are from the building.

 

 

 

Sheeit, I was swimming towards starfish island and I still got killed.

[Ash_735]

Mission Bug: Boomshine Blowout: during the main crate moving part, the city is empty (no peds or moving cars). Also, when the timer runs out and the explosion happens, you die no matter how far away you are from the building.

 

 

 

Sheeit, I was swimming towards starfish island and I still got killed.

...How are you getting out of the warehouse, I thought we blocked that off.

 

And that's how the game treats it, Rockstar's work, to compensate for the heavy factory explosion, peds and other outside activity were turned off so the game could focus on doing that, they only re-appear for the factory blowing up scene. So yeah, if you get outside the factory, there's not a lot that will happen, and yeah, Vic's scripted to die no matter where he is when the factory explodes.

[Tranquil_Suit]

 

...How are you getting out of the warehouse, I thought we blocked that off.

Umm, doesn't look blocked at all. I just climb on a box and the walk out. Or jump/climb over the truck. It's real easy.

[Ash_735]

...How are you getting out of the warehouse, I thought we blocked that off.

Umm, doesn't look blocked at all. I just climb on a box and the walk out. Or jump/climb over the truck. It's real easy.

OF COURSE, Climbing, our one weakness!

[Tranquil_Suit]

...How are you getting out of the warehouse, I thought we blocked that off.

Umm, doesn't look blocked at all. I just climb on a box and the walk out. Or jump/climb over the truck. It's real easy.

OF COURSE, Climbing, our one weakness!

*slight facepalm*

 

No offense to the team, but commoooon. Climbing is the X-factor here?

[[PTM]Al_Pacino]

The problem isnt the climbing at all, but the ability to get off the forklift during that mission.

[Ash_735]

...How are you getting out of the warehouse, I thought we blocked that off.

Umm, doesn't look blocked at all. I just climb on a box and the walk out. Or jump/climb over the truck. It's real easy.

OF COURSE, Climbing, our one weakness!

*slight facepalm*

 

No offense to the team, but commoooon. Climbing is the X-factor here?

Truth be told, I don't know if any of us actually tried climbing around in that mission, there was a bug where Phils Truck wasn't weighed down, meaning you could actually push his truck back around and get to the street that way, which is now fixed of course.

[gmortars]

 

OF COURSE, Climbing, our one weakness! 

Which can also take you to Vice Beach past the gate on Starfish Island. No need to swim! Fun!

Although, you don't need climbing for this at all, just a strategically placed car and then jumping will do the trick.

 

 

Here, you have all the time in the world to shoot Marty.

Actually that's how R* did this mission. They leave more bugs than you would expect!

When they're fun bugs, I don't mind. It seems you can shoot Marty at any time while inside Verdi's and you won't fail. Which, in a way, is kind of silly when compared to Phil during Cholo Victory. I got the truck pretty banged up, so I drove into the Pay'n'Spray. As I forgot to brake, I smashed into the back wall and the truck started burning. At this point Phil jumped (or, as it appeared, fell) out of the truck and died and I failed the mission (meanwhile, of course, Pay'n'Spray closed the door and fixed the truck.... Grumble).

 

Fun fact: I passed the Marked Men mission! After I passed it I got the "Can you come over? We've got trouble with Marty..." message from Louise, but no blip on the radar. However, I believe you said D.I.V.O.R.C.E. isn't supposed to be unlocked at this time, so it seems I completed all the available missions. This mod is fantastic. Can't wait for the next update!

 

Also, this was funny:

 

 

The cars can drive through the road block (like the train can in SA), but the bikes can't as you can see by the two guys on the ground below the Warning sign. They're two bikers who crashed into the invisible wall there.

 

Oh, I remembered something: when you start a Turismo race, or after you climb back on your bike following a crash (no faceplant?), the first/nearest checkpoint is not shown on the road, only on the radar. The subsequent checkpoints are then shown on the road as well. I don't seem to recall races in other GTA games behaving like this. Bug? Feature?

[undergroundvicious]

Ash, you've done a great job configuring colormod to VCS PC Edition - it reproduces very well the original PS2 atmosphere. I'm not asking you to do this, now or on the future, but I'd like to know if you can recreate the atmosphere of the PS2 on the original GTA SA using colormod. I know this is totally offtopic, but do you think you have skills to make it ? SA graphics on PS2 are just the best (IMO). Oh, I'm waiting for Silent's fix for TTDISA too (not pressure, Silent. I know you have only 2 hands LOL ).

[VinceDreux]

First of all, compliments for the work

Second, guys, I don't know if someone had this problem and it was already resolved, if so I'm sorry. When I launch the game, it freezes for 1/2 seconds when the Rockstar logo is showing, when the song starts and so on. What's the problem?

Edit: Oh and my weapons disappear everytime I start a new mission :v

Edited July 3, 2013 by VinceDreux

[Tranquil_Suit]

Mission bug: Boomshine blowout: It rains inside the building (when it rains outside).

 

Mission bug: Shakedown: I lose all my weapons when I start the mission.

[Ash_735]

I could have sworn the weapon one thing is listed in the error report, ...infact, ...where the hell has that gone.

 

edit: Aha, here it is when it was last updated...

 

 

BUG/Error	Known/In-Progress/Fixed	Notes
VehicleAudioHook.DLL has fail to load   Truck Stop: Phil drives into a wall and refuses to move   Marked Men: Crash when killing the attackers   HUD has incorrect proportions   Land Mine has no HUD Icon   Various vehicles have Model Bug after collisions   Radio stops working after News Reports   SFX Errors on Weapons/Vehicles/etc   Laser Sniper has no Center Dot   No Safehouse/Pay 'N Spray/Ammu-Nation Icons on Radar   Weapons vanishing between Missions   5:4 Aspect Ratio Issues   Standard Sniper Rifle has no Zoom Mode   Boomshine Blowout: Barrels spawn too far into ground   Rocket launcher Center Dot is repeated four times	[X] [X] [X]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [/] [/]   [X] [/] [/]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [/] [/]   [X] [/] [/]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [X] [/]   [X] [/] [/]   [X] [/] [/]   [X] [/] [/]	Vehicle Audio Hook requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed   On Hold: Reason currently unknown   On Hold: Reason currently unknown   Will be corrected at a later point   Will be fixed when this weapon is being work on properly   Vehicles are currently being re-worked and checked by CP, expected to be finished for next major update   This is caused by an error when packing the STREAM Archives on the User Side, we may have to pre-packs Streams on our side, will be done this way for next Major Build   This is caused by an error when packing the SFX Archives on the User Side, currently unknown how to fix this WITHOUT resorting to shipping the 2GB+ SFX files   Will be fixed at some point, not a priority for now   Currently being worked on   A bug caused by RUSHING an update, should be fixed in next major update   Will be fixed with other GUI corrections   Not important for now but will be fixed when Weapons get re-worked   Unknown reason, appears to be random depending on playthrough   Will be adjusted later with other GUI changes

Edited July 3, 2013 by Ash_735

[undergroundvicious]

Ash, the colormod question...

[Ash_735]

Ash, the colormod question...

Well like I said earlier, bor BETA3, pretty much all colormod settings are disabled now except for Bloom, Vice City doesn't have Bloom so, i don't know what else to do, the guys over at VC Recover have done a fine job of porting the timecyc.

[gmortars]

 

BUG/Error	Notes
Truck Stop: Phil drives into a wall and refuses to move   Marked Men: Crash when killing the attackers	On Hold: Reason currently unknown   On Hold: Reason currently unknown

For what it's worth, I replayed both missions several times today and observed the following:

 

Truck Stop: Phil doesn't drive into a wall/building/tree/whatever if you seize the truck before it makes a left turn behind the building with the Mal Viento shop (the one in front of which you first see the truck). In this case, when the mission continues, the truck respawns in front of that Mal Viento store (facing away from it), and Phil manages to to avoid all buildings on the way back to his depot. If you seize the truck after it makes that left turn, the truck respawns elsewhere and Phil drives it into pretty much the first building he sees. Sometimes he may begin sliding along that building (trying to make a turn) and continue driving if there is no obstacle when he runs out of the building (after one such case he was clearly unhappy and nailed a tree shortly afterwards, but I was able to push the truck away from the tree with the car and eventually passed the mission).

I also noticed that sometimes the second or third car of attackers was spawned in such a way (facing a building or away from me) that it didn't give chase.

 

Marked Men: the game crashes when I kill all the attackers first and then try to drive the truck out of the courtyard (the crash seems to occur about halfway through either alleyway). However, if I leave the courtyard first (pushing either stallion out of the way with the truck) and then get rid of the attackers (some follow me out of the courtyard, some tend to not find their way out of either alleyway - they keep running into the wall), there is no crash and I can drive back to Phil's depot.

[Tranquil_Suit]

Taking Out The White Trash: Is Louise's health bar supposed to show up on the screen? (it doesn't)

[VinceDreux]

I've put my Custom Music and whenever I try to listen to it in a car, the game crashes, but in the Menu there aren't any problems

[Jitterdoomer]

^ Was it an ASI bug on Custom Radio feature, if not try updating it.

[Tranquil_Suit]

Could anyone recommend me some video recording (and basic editing) software? To record some gameplay obviously.

[undergroundvicious]

Could anyone recommend me some video recording (and basic editing) software? To record some gameplay obviously.

Try Bandicam. It destroys Fraps on FPS and size.

[Gummy]

I'm wondering if I should download it again, I heard there are tons of bugs...

[Mateos]

I'm wondering if I should download it again, I heard there are tons of bugs...

Thank you for your interest >.>

[Gummy]

I'm wondering if I should download it again, I heard there are tons of bugs...

Thank you for your interest >.>

What? I mean is it worth downloading this mod now?

[Tranquil_Suit]

I just mananged to get run over by a car... which I was driving. #YOLO

 

 

Edit: Not a bug report, just to be clear.

Edited July 4, 2013 by Tranquil_Suit

[DrMogilus]

I just mananged to get run over by a car... which I was driving. #YOLO

A taxi driver almost saved me once by pushin' the car away but, sadly, stopped right on my *ss after that. Wasted.

[VinceDreux]

^ Was it an ASI bug on Custom Radio feature, if not try updating it.

Already tried Does someone kno how to fix it?

[mgenya911]

Well ive been thinking, and i think there is somthing wrong with LOD's. Even on the lowest draw distance i see high quality buildings very far away. That might be the cause of the FPS lag on slower Pc's.

[Ash_735]

Well ive been thinking, and i think there is somthing wrong with LOD's. Even on the lowest draw distance i see high quality buildings very far away. That might be the cause of the FPS lag on slower Pc's.

San Andreas had very crappy Draw Distance.

 

We've simply updated it to handle the draw distance VCS is suppose to have and to properly cache it, ...so yeah, if you're used to SA Draw Distance, this can be roughly twice to three times the value depending on the weather.

[Mateos]

I'm wondering if I should download it again, I heard there are tons of bugs...

Thank you for your interest >.>

What? I mean is it worth downloading this mod now?

Your question sounded like: "Is your thingy working or broken? I don't want to waste my time on it if it isn't perfect".

[Ash_735]

We should probably do a post about this or something but whoooh! 10,000 Downloads on ModDB: