Mod to "fix" the Advent corvettes bug

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A bug I've seen documented before, and which I've just now reproduced myself, is that Advent corvettes' laser weapons stop working after saving and loading an ongoing game--only their beam weapon will fire, which nukes their DPS. I have zero experience with modding this game or modding in general, but I was thinking I might try to make a simple "fix" that would involve setting the weapon damage on the corvettes' bugged side weapons to zero and increasing the base damage on the beam weapon to make up the difference. Will this work? Also, does a simple fix mod for this issue already exist? I've looked around yet cannot find one......

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I did try reporting these items.

Invalid weapon points cause save games to act wonky like this when they are reloaded.

In regards to the corvettes it appears the weapon points are mixed up. You could rename the weapon points in the mesh or switch the order in the entity file and it should fix that issue.

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Okay, it was a really easy fix--switching the order of the weapon data in the corvette entity files for the laser weapons does appear to solve the issue. So bizarre that this hasn't been patched after what is it, 4 years? Considering I fixed it myself with 0 modding knowledge in about 15 minutes (someone who knows what they're doing to start with could've done it in about 2 seconds) :/

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

As a software developer, I can attest that this is more common than you realize. Nearly all software created is not bug free and minor non-breaking issues are easy to miss. I'll poke them again on the 1.87 thread and see if they'll take a look at these. There's also a couple of titan's that report weapon mesh point errors. 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Any way to know which titans have the bug and where the weapon entries need to be placed to fix them?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Its all fixed for the next update (thanks ZombiesRus5). Also, if any mods have the same problem I've written code to create fallback placeholders.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Wow, thanks!