Posts by SWAT_OP-R8R

  • Crossfire - Upcoming changes, upcoming content

    Hopefully you have a bit more patience with me.

    I have not yet managed to include the new Coalition update stuff into the mod, but worked on other stuff instead.

    The patch size already exceeds 2gb and contains a large amount of bug fixes, visual improvements, structural changes, rebalances, story improvements and a lot of stuff I mentioned earlier.

    Ive spent much time analysing existing content and tried to improve it. Many of the changes won't be obvious when you are not looking for them but in general they improve the quality of CF signifiantly. The mod will look a bit different, it will feel a bit different. Many changes happen "under the hood", others will be obvious.

    So far I have focused mostly on general improvements (stuff that has mod wide influence) and improvements around Sirius (with focus on vanilla systems).

    The update will be much bigger than expected and I keep running into stuff that I want to improve.


    One of these things I would want to add are the voices.

    CF already contains a hundreds of new voice samples that I have added/improved a few years ago when AI stuff was new. The quality was better than what we had before, but as you know it isn't perfect (far from). I'd like to give this another try. Today AI voice models are much better and it certainly is worth putting some time into it.

    But all that of course takes time.

  • Crossfire Launcher - Beta Version

    The settings for the UI selections were not included.

    However, for now I think this should not be public yet since I there are potential changes to these settings. I would try to test the options first and do required changes before a public test can be done.

  • flplusplus.dll Threat detection

    The daily (small) update does not contain this file.

    I can only assume that your antivir put it into quarantine and then because it was missing it was re-downloaded by the launcher.

    The file currently is not used by Crossfire due to various problems it caused. It will do no harm if the file is missing from the installation. I can disable the download via launcher for now.


    The upcoming CF update does already contain a new version of this plugin which triggers less "immune-response" ;)

    VirusTotal - File - d8713102e4aef2d263e8cd9f261919ca3d30c4130022d38dade329a9dbe553e5

  • Crossfire - Upcoming changes, upcoming content

    Just want to keep you informed about the progress.

    Progress has been slow actually since I suffered a few health issues in the past weeks (and still struggle a bit).

    However, that should not serve as excuse since I slightly shifted the type of stuff I was working on instead. Infact the plans for the next update changed a bit and involve further updates to existing content now.


    Huor has created the new launcher which is working great and is getting better and better.

    Based on that further improvements in combination with the new launcher will be included. It seems that it will be possible to do stuff that was not possible before, which eventually will improve compatibility and the way certain stuff previously worked.

    Furthermore have I spent time to investigate certain issues like crashes, structural inconsistencies, minor errors, etc,

    Ive already done +1000 changes (a low estimation since I refuse to spent time for detailed change logs) to the mod as it is (without the new content). I am not totally done yet but I think that this will create a good foundation for the upcoming content.

    The changes done involve, minor rebalances, crash fixes, general stability improvements, fixes to spelling mistakes, fixes on system layouts, performance improvents, visual fixes, improved ship and solar loadouts, new and improved animations, UI improvements, AI improvements, Audio improvements, Reshade improvements, minor improvements for Story missions, minor improvements to random missions, changes to equipment, fixes on scripts, fixes on 3d assets, improvements to effects,...


    I basically wanted to get this stuff done first before I put new content on top and also use the opportunity make stuff perfectly compatible to the new launcher version.

    Certainly I will need another week to complete this work (if my health condition will allow it), after that the assets for the Altair content will be added.

    Currently the update size is slightly below 1gb. With all the additional stuff I assume we are aiming for something significantly bigger. But that is only guess work atm.


    Huor brought up potential improvments on the server side with updates to the server software aswell as new features.

    That certainly is going to be also some very interesting stuff worth looking forward to.


    I am also investigating into potential graphical improvements. I spent an evening playing with new tools and found something that is pretty promising, eventough I will have to buy a license to fully make use of it. Ill make a deicision about this later when I have more time again.


    Just wanted to let you know what is being worked on, why it takes time and what to expect.

  • Freelancer and 4K

    The strange part is that i am currently running 16:9 3840x2160. Therefore the same 4k that you run.

    For reasons I can not explain 0.025000 does not work, only 0.020000 does.

    However, I am pretty sure that when I lowered the setting from 0.035000 to 0.025000 it used to work.

    Dunno what is different now.

  • Freelancer and 4K

    I still will update it to 0.020000 since for some reason 0.025000 does not work for me on this monitor.

    I am not sure why.

    Maybe its an issue with the aspect ratio. I am on 16:9. What is yours?

    In theory I can adjust it to a 21:9 mode and test the values with that aswell.