Are you saying my mod delets safehouse night? 
Cos yeah my mod doesnāt touch safehouse, so either something else is or you just keep having bad luck
The only thing I noticed is that there is always daytime on the outside every time I enter the safehouse. There is never night on the outside. Most likely bad luck.
Edit: you wonāt believe it, I just had night outside the safehouse for the first time after a mission with your mod enabled. LOL!
Version 1.5 - Hawkeās Bay
Iāve made a variant of The Politician (Hawkeās Bay) accessible in Haven Island (non-showdown only). It is a cross between The Politician and unused Ghost Mode NPCs which I have modified. There are 12 custom targets that can spawn, they are all civilians. There are 28 possible targets total. Itās definitely not the most difficult variant in the world, but sometimes a relaxing stroll on the beach is nice, yāknow?
Iāve also enabled a bad looking map for Hantu Port so you can have an idea where everything is, and Iām hoping it will show whether the ātarget is missingā issue is the fact the hostages are the targets but have their glow overridden.
Changelog
- Haven Island: Adds Hawkeās Bay - The Politician (Territory Takedown only)
- Whittleton Creek: Night - Removes Bitter Pill āsplashā title and intel stuff, correctly blocks off secret tunnel in showdown
- Hantu Port: Enables (broken) map for rough target, supplier, etc indications
- Chongqing: Noodle Massacre - some couriers now have Asian voices
You will need to update your JSON either way because Haven has been restructured toā¦ not automatically load Haven
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Not sure if I did something wrong or mod itself did an oopsie but Hawkeās Bay loaded for me on TOP of Haven Island rather that instead of it (also broken lighting).
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Hmm, Do you have any other mods on like LU?
Yes, I do. I can try disable both Haven and Hawkeās Bay to see if it helps.
edit: Yep, it loaded correctly after disabling.
Works fine. Thank you.
Yeah, unless I tell Sieni about it, the method they apply LU to Freelancer maps is via the scene file, but my scene files need to be totally empty so they can load either of the two maps. I dunno if theyāre still updating that mod but Iāll at least let them know
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A palatable, bonus mission version of Romania (Which may be called Siberia for Diana voiceover reasons) is still being made for FV, letās say itās 65% done to be conservative, but Iām now looking toward finalising which map slot it uses.
I think Iāve found a way to get it to work in Coloradoās slot without breaking other mods etc, all that will happen is it will add 2gb to your game folder, instead of 1gb like if I put it on Ambrose. So which slot would you like it to use?
(Keep in mind this does not affect download size or deploy time)
- Ambrose Island (Adds 1gb to your Runtime folder)
- Colorado (Adds 2gb to your Runtime folder)
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I voted for Ambrose, but in truth, either is fine. Space is cheap so the extra gigabyte isnāt a big deal. Do either of those two maps have any variants at the moment? Iām not recalling anyā¦
Colorado has The Vector (Sandbox) and ETs (Night). Ambrose just hasā¦ daytime
But people seem to really dislike Colorado (Including me) so Iāve put it as an option anyway, so people can completely replace it if they like. Thatās why Iām putting it to a poll
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Iāve been wondering, are there any plans to include Meerkat elements into Sapienza variant?
If Iām not mistaken it changes a number of things like complete change of room above Bravumoās office, suit guards in Villa Caruso and Sanguine shop open.
Maybe it can be merged with Methlab variant?
By the way I know that at that point Iām kinda scrapping bottom of a barrel regarding additional content but I have a couple of ideas regarding additional variations and changes to existing ones:
- Mendoza with Greed NPCs and without crowds outside set during cloudy afternoon (from Dartmoor)
- Blackout New York with most of light sources and computers turned off (only some of necessary ones are on thanks to emergency generator)
- adjustments to Nighttime Mumbai - lack of crowds and police replacing patrolling crow members with one of streets or alleyway blocked off with a crime scene
- virus destroyed in ETs version of Sapienza - sets off alarm and red lights in virus chamber and relocates people in hazmat suits
- KAI sabotaged in Midday ToD variant of Hokkaido - changes movement patterns of surgeons and causes lights to flicker
- Satelliteās control unit destroyed in Sunset variant of Ambrose Island - puts soldiers in cave in constant search mode
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Right now Iām focussing on big variants that are taking weeks and weeks to complete, thatās bonus mission Romania + (probably) Hawkeās Bay.
Looked into Meerkat, it cannot be merged with any existing version of Sapienza because it has a different NAVP, and I think Sapienza has enough variants as it is Iād only put in the work (Donāt forget itās full of untextured crap, incomplete scripts, floating text bubbles, yadda) for it if I was really really out of things to do.
Day Hokkaido only exists because it had an IO-made ToD brick ready to go, otherwise I wouldnāt have included it all since PZ has the day ToD. I wonāt rule it out butā¦ itāll be at the bottom of the list. Are you sure the change in surgeon dramas isnāt caused by the fact Soders is dead rather than KAI is hacked? Because I have a Soders dead variant that changes their paths already (Night ETs)
Not interested in New York, done all I could, and āblackoutā sounds very uninteresting to me, especially since itās an indoor map.
Not interested in figuring out crowd systems or coming up with police uniforms for Mumbai or coming up with new shit.
Sapienza already has at least one virus destroyed variant (Night) and to be honest Iām 80% sunset ETs also has virus destroyed. All it does it make hazmat peeps permanently stand in the showers which makes them worse targets
Didnāt know about the satellite thing in Ambrose, might look into that in future.
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Taken a break from Romania and have been experimenting with giving Hawkeās Bay its own slot (Something that was cut and has remnants around Iām able to use). Still needs to hijack some Ambrose Island stuff on the server because no remnants of HB Freelancer stuff remains on server, but HB will be able to show on world map in its own slot and not share with Haven, nor need to be copied to somewhere itās accessible. And I will put Hantu Port in this slot so itās not detracting from Sgail.
At the moment itās working alright (Some things to be worked out, this is just a brute force test that isnāt suitable for release) but I note that:
- It doesnāt say āTerritory Takedownā and location at the beginning (Unsure if this is a mod issue or a something else issue)
- Says āAmbrose Islandā on end screen but oh well
- After youāve completed a syndicate with Hawkeās Bay in it, it will still show as crossed out before you choose your next syndicate (All other maps turn into dots as normal). Itās just visual, your next campaign will be fine.
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Nice
Special slot its amazing
Romania and Singapore could be cool too
Hypothetically they could all share Hawkeās Bayās slot, but they couldnāt all have their own slot, no
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The SMF mod side of things is done now, just some tweaks here and there. Part 2 will be piepieonline modifying the SDK mod to be able to detect when youāre travelling to Hawkeās Bay (because right now the mod doesnāt distinguish between HB and Ambrose Island, whose contract it borrows), he wonāt be able to for a week sadly.
Hawkeās Bay must now have a showdown (which Iāve made) since it is the only variant in this new slot if you donāt have Hantu Port installed.
To make things not as easy, Iāve increased difficulty in these ways:
- Nightcallās hard mode brick will always be on (Mainly just extra cameras)
- I brought back 11 patrolling guards that The Politician removed (Politician removes ALL Nightcall NPCs fyi)
- Most outdoor guards will now have Haven viewcones, which makes more sense because unlike Haven thereās no trees or buildings in the way, and a dead body on the beach should stick out from much further away
I think Iāll make HB and SMF option that is on by default, so anyone who really doesnāt want HB or Hantu Port can just disable it without having to download Freelancer Map Remover or something.
I donāt think the mod will be receiving an update until SDK is ready to support the new map slot, so youāll have to wait a bit.
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Not gonna lie, I have a little mixed feelings about change of viewcones. I never liked gameplay inconsistency in Haven which is why Iām using a mod to āfixā it. Ah well, guess Iāll see how i feel about it once update drops.
By the way, will upcoming Train map be also ported to this slot?
I think itās a decent idea to use this bonus map slot forā¦ well bonus maps 
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Like I said, it fits this map much better. Itās limited to NPCs who are only outside, and you see them ages away which means they should be seeing you ages away. Did a playthrough today and even with Haven viewcones it still feels like their sightlines are too short tbh
It should be noted that the viewcone only applies to some things, for example this guard has Haven viewcones but he still cannot disguise enforce me even though Iām right in front of him
However if I was trespassing then he could enforce me
I need to run a new poll! But keep in mind it already has Hantu on top of Hawkeāsā¦ three maps might be piling it on a bit
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Iāve tweaked the map so the whole house and the whole outside arenāt alerted when certain NPCs are spooked, so there wonāt be that awkward situation I posted on reddit where all suspects flee because of one stray bullet outside the house
However yeah, Iām not going to pretend modified The Politician showdowns are the best of all time. Hereās what the sniper method might look like for you if you bring the worldās worst rifle like I did
And until thereās a bonus mission alternative Hawkeās Bay (Which will be a long time away) I guess Iāll have a midday and/or sunset version to serve as variations
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