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2 years 9 months ago #2323 by Copy-Cat
Replied by Copy-Cat on topic Career Mode
take a look at the directory career/SWAT3 Tactical GOTY 10 Man Career.dat
I believe there is a 5 man also.
I think DarkSynopsis is right, it wasn't release till the multiplayer patch was released. Then they released the remaining missions in the 10 man.

will look for game after werk. about 8pm cst. talk to you guys then.

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2 years 9 months ago - 2 years 9 months ago #2324 by Slippery Jim
Replied by Slippery Jim on topic Career Mode
I wondered about the 10 player career too but I suspect it just added the extra AI as a feature?

I would expect to see it reflected in the MENU.DAT?

Since those missions were downloadable how would the game know you had them installed? There is a special note in the MENU.DAT that the order of the missions is important due to a quirk in the code. It has to follow the order that the career mode follows.

// Due to a quirk of the menu system, these must be in the same order as they are played in career else the wrong button will start out selected after playing a mission
// Also, do NOT insert any buttons before these, unless you change the code to match (the index of these buttons is hard-coded)


My hunch is they cheaped out and didn't bother with the CAREER mode with the downloadable missions. Just told us that we can run them in MISSION mode.

I suspect the only way (without the source code) to add them to CAREER mode is to combine all the downloadable files into a new .RES file and then add them to MENU.DAT file.   Treat them as if the game was shipped with those missions.   Not only is that a lot of work adjusting all the appropriate .DAT files but all of the pre-assault information would be missing ie voice recordings, security camera photos, map layout images, etc.

A lot of work!

Update:   of course the only way to know for sure is to play through the 10 player career mode.  The only mission names I see hardcoded into the game executable are the ones that trigger a movie upon failure.

Update 2: Actually I do see what looks like the career mode missions hardcoded into the game.  None of the downloadable missions listed.   Probably can't do anything about it

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2 years 9 months ago - 2 years 9 months ago #2326 by Perlmutter
Replied by Perlmutter on topic Career Mode
I cannot give you a source for a secure no cd .exe, in fact my first thought was gamecopyworld.
Considered the security issues, why not install Swat 3 1.0 in a Virtual Machine Environment either with XP or Windows 10 and the no cd exe from gamecopyworld?
Seems a doable workaround that for my understanding would isolate/mitigate any security risk while being able to look into version 1.0, especilly given the games low specs.
That is probably what I would do

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2 years 9 months ago #2327 by Slippery Jim
Replied by Slippery Jim on topic Career Mode
Ultimately I was just too lazy. All I wanted to do was view the 1.0 files anyways. I was able to install from CD no problem but I didn't have a working 1.0 no-CD crack. Opening the .RES files told me what I needed to know.

The trip down memory lane wasn't worth the extra effort. I had Valheim to play :)

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