Is there any way of salvaging / recommissioning abandoned tanks in Spring 1944? There's often still tons of vehicles on the battlefield, apparently without a scratch, which are "abandoned". Now I can't imagine that this feature was added for nothing, but I tried to salvage / repair them with that halftrack but it won't do anything.
Hints anybody?
Thanks!
TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
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Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
They are certainly not ressurrectable, I don't think wrecks are salvageable (reclaimable) either currently (One of many things we never / have not yet got around to 
). Which halftrack? I assume you actually mean the engineer vehicles?
). Which halftrack? I assume you actually mean the engineer vehicles?
Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
dint the enginners be able to salvage stuff?
Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
Karl wrote:dint the enginners be able to salvage stuff?
Most destroyed things are pretty much scrap. Maybe if the treds were blown off or the armor dented...
Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
Salvage = Reclaim in S44, Smoth.
IIRC they should be salvageable but give 0 resources or something, that's the case for map features anyway.
IIRC they should be salvageable but give 0 resources or something, that's the case for map features anyway.
Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
Ah, apologies, I thought he wanted the resurrection mechanic in s44.
Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
We were - and hopefully are - going to have the resurrection mechanic on a limited scale. This is why many of our tanks have an initial corpse which is slightly damaged. It is part of the ongoing Finland work.
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SpikedHelmet
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Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
Actually this was possible a long time ago and somewhere along the line the feature was removed. Dunno why. In fact the primary role for engineering trucks was for as recovery vehicles.
Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
One of the problems was that recovered enemy vehicles would have inappropriate voice sets (not even mentioning side specific markings on the texture).
I once had some code in unitdefs_post which made a copy of every unit for every side with that side's voice (so there would be rust60, gert60, gbrt60 and ust60), and it worked, but the whole thing somehow never got into main branch. The idea was that players would recover a version of unit suitable for their chosen faction, with appropriate voice at least.
I once had some code in unitdefs_post which made a copy of every unit for every side with that side's voice (so there would be rust60, gert60, gbrt60 and ust60), and it worked, but the whole thing somehow never got into main branch. The idea was that players would recover a version of unit suitable for their chosen faction, with appropriate voice at least.
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SpikedHelmet
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Re: TA Spring 1944: salvaging abandoned vehicles
Also please in the future make threads like this in S44's own subforum located here.