Combat Team 2 - Questions & Solutions & Answers

Q: How do I play the game ?
A: Yeah I know that at first you may find it difficult to start
   playing the game. But here's a brief list what you should
   do to start playing game (at first time):
   1. Type RUN or RUNTRAN
   NOTE FOR ALL DOS USERS:
   USE RUNTRAN IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOAD CWSDPMI !
   2. Go to game config screen, you might want to select
      the number of human players, and reconfigure keys, etc
   3. Click team editor button, and there click the new team
      button, after it you NEED to select your team's "home"
      country. And you might want to type in the team's name.
   4. After that you need to buy soldier(s), when buying please
      note that better fireskill & more HPs are needed to survive
      from combat usually...
   5. After buing soldiers you MUST select active soldiers by
      clicking show team members button. There you just click
      the number before soldiers name, and the soldier should
      become active. ATLEAST 1 SOLDIER IN TEAM MUST BE ACTIVE !
   6. After that if you don't want to buy more soldiers, just
      save the team
      (You need to type MANUALLY the team file, unless you have older
      team files and you want to overwrite them by clicking over them)
   7. Now you have build a custom teamfile, but if you have
      more than 1 human player then you need to build the
      count of human players team files !!!, because you
      can't use simultaneously same team file (it would
      be possible, but I disabled it, because I guess
      nobody wants to shoot same teams soldiers !!!).
      CLICK START SINGLE MISSION AND SELECT MAP & HUMAN
      PLAYER TEAM FILE(S) !!! THEN SHOPPING SCREEN WILL
      BE DRAWN TO SCREEN BUY NEEDED WEAPONS AND START
      PLAYING !!!!

      IT WASN'T THAT HARD, WAS IT ???

Q: Where can I get the newest the version of the Combat Team 2 ?
A: There's no known place yet... if you have know a ftp server
   where I could the send this game. Send me the server address
   and you'll be awarded with name in credit scroller.

Q: Game reads keyboard keys too fast/slow
A: Go to setup and set the keyfirstdelay and keynextdelay (unless
   you don't know what values are fine) then I recommend you to
   run the restcfg.bat file (hopefully you haven't deleted config.def file !).

Q: When I run the setup some options contain very weird values that
   shouldn't be there.
S/A: Please run restcfg.bat file, which restores "default setup".
     if it doesn't help then I recommend you to unpack the game
     overwriting older files from the CT2 package.

Q: When I start the game with (CT2.EXE or with run.bat) the execution
   stops with error message: no DPMI present or something....
A: As the message says you have to load DPMI extender (.\bin\cwsdpmi)

Q: Why can't I hear anything in game (not music or sound)
S/A: Have you run the game with run.bat or runtran.bat if not then I
   recommend you to run. If it don't help then you need to check
   if your BLASTER (environment variable, you can look it by typing
   set in DOS) is valid, means that you have right baseaddress, dma
   channel(s) and irq. If that don't help then have you set the
   volume of your soundcard (hardware/software) ?. Please remember
   to set both master and voice volume (if your soundcard supports
   them) to quite "full". If that don't help then do you hear a
   pop when you start the game ?. If you don't then are you sure
   that you have loaded all necessary drivers, if you aren't sure
   check your soundcard's manual for more details. If you don't
   then I guess your soundcard is not 100% SB compatible or you
   are running a OS (NT/OS2) that prevents CT2 using SB directly.
   If you still want to play then you need to reboot to DOS, if
   possible and run the game from there.

Q: When I start the game the screen turns off (to black color) and
   I can't see anything.
S/A: Are you sure that you have VGA compatible
   display card ?. If you have then I guess your system is incompatible
   with this game.

Q: When I start the game I have to wait very long time and simultaneously
   my harddrive is VERY BUSY.
S/A: By more memory PLEASE !!! the game has just started to use HD as
     virtual memory and the "system" gets really SLOW.

Q: The game is really slow and my HD is busy.
S/A: I guess you have also run out of physical memory and the game
     has started to use HD as memory. Same solution as above !

Q: The game is really slow
S/A: Don't run the game under any multitasking OS (like Win95).
     Disable sounds & musics, by typing in DOS mode set BLASTER=
     and running the game with run.bat or runtran.bat). If that
     don't help then buy better CPU/display card !.

Q: The game crashes randomly/always
S/A: There's no solution ! (hope you won't suffer from game crashing...)

Q: The mouse control sucks !
S/A: Write better one and send it to me, and I'll thank you and
     mention you in credits !

Q: The game reboots my system everytime when I start it
S/A: Please reinstall the game from the package that you downloaded
     from somewhere !.

Q: I see extra pixels in bottom right corner of the screen.
S/A: I guess there's some sort of bug in the decompress data routine
     and it seems to decompress some times wrong data. There's curretly
     no solution.

Q: Why the soldier can walk through some non walkable / blocked blocks
S/A: There's a bug in mouse walking routine, fix it and send me the
     how you fix it ! and you'll get your name in the credit list or
     coming "bugfix" list.

Q: Why my question is not in this list !!!
S/A: I can't find all problems in mind, send me the question if it's good
     enough and I add it to this list. And I may add your name in the
     greetings list.

Q: I get sick of the game graphics ! (yeah I know the graphics are VERY UGLY)
S/A: Draw better ones and send them to me, and you'll get name in
     the credit list.

Q: I get sick of the game sounds / musics
S/A: Same solution as above !

Q: I can't a great routine that would cool in this game, can I send it ?
S/A: Send it to me if it's worth of implementing for this game
     (I'll verify the worth of implementing !!!)
     --> SO DON'T SEND ANY GARBAGE !!!

Q: Where's the map editor for making custom maps ?
A: Don't ask me :)
   Actually you will never get map editor for this
   game (atleast not made by me), because the editor
   is VERY POOR, it won't work well on other computers
   than my computer, sorry dudes..., so unless you're
   willing to make a new mapeditor (in that case,
   contact me for further information, if required).
   I WILL GLADLY ACCEPT ALMOST ANYKIND OF MAPEDITOR
   CODED BY ANYBODY !!!

Q: Can I change the game graphics/sounds ???
A: Yes you can freely modify the graphics/sounds but
   you MAY NOT distribute the modified version !!!

Q: How then I get my graphics which are better than
   the game to the game ?
A: Send them me (pcx or gif FILE PLEASE !)

NOTE, BEFORE SENDING ANY GRAPHICS TO THIS GAME YOU
MUST KNOW THAT THE GRAPHICS BLOCK AREN'T NORMAL SQUARE
BLOCKS (LIKE 40*40) THEY ARE 32*64 (THAT'S WHY THE
ASPECT RATIO IS SO POOR) AND THEY ARE "DIAMOND" TYPE.
BEFORE SENDING/MADING ANY GRAPHICS CONTACT ME FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION (I MAY SEND YOU THE OLD GRAPHICS,
SO YOU CAN MODIFY DIRECTLY TO THOSE SQUARES, OLD DRAW
NEWER ONES)... !!!

Q: And what about sounds ?
A: If you have some cool sounds, like door opening,
   weapon reloading, new weapon sounds, new suffer sounds,
   new dead sounds then send them me (voc,wav or rawfile PLEASE !)

NOTE, SAMPLES MUST BE IN 11KHZ FORMAT, I MAY CONVERT
THEM, BUT I WOULD BE APPRECIATED IF THEY WOULD BE IN
THE CORRECT SAMPLING RATE FORMAT.
