Xandarb

Amen! I agree on your (whole) post completely! EA knew what was coming, come on they've released games before! However it seems like they just don't care, and I don't understand why. They will lose loads of customers on bad reviews etc, several big game sites recommend their readers not to get this game until they fix it. This will show in the sales for sure! What amazes me is the way EA tackles this though. They don't admit on having global problems neither do they apologize correctly. I'm Not gonna preorder EA games again, I did preorder BF3 and obviously this one, but I'm going to read reviews before buying more games. BF3 did go smoothly, but seriously, why pre-order? You get some fancy in-game trash? No thank you! Not gonna try to get a refund, I bought the hard copy and I'm sticking with it, stores aren't that eager to accept returns. Besides I'm sure this will be fixed within a week.

Yes it is. If you look at the shortcut for the editor it's target is: "D:\Program Files (x86)\sixteen tons entertainment\Emergency 4\EM4.exe" -editor You find this shortcut target by rightclicking the editor shortcut, choose properties, under shortcut tab "Target:"

Yeah, that is a good point but EA is not going to do that. It's sad that they destroy a really promising game with these kinds of bs.

Hey! I'll have to say, this game is awesome! It's really good, advanced but still quite easy to hop in to. I really, really like this game and I love the multiplayer idea. Although, I have been home for 6 hours and been able to play for two. EAs servers are down, full or not responding. All of them. *sigh*, well, there are loads of people who have this problem and that is probably the reason for the (user) metacritic score of 1.9. Now that is a really, really bad score. My friend who has been trying to get online for 5 hours hasn't gotten to play at all. I did get my homework done though . I am sorry to report that this is an awesome game, but I would recommend you NOT TO BUY THIS GAME until the servers and all the problems have been sorted out!

Yeah that is a big minus. It's there for the piracy I guess. Someone will crack it anyways, they just mess with their paying cuatomers . I strongly dislike this Well, I went ahead and preordered it and will pick it up tomorrow when the Europe release is (7th). The chick that sold it to me laughed when I preordered the day before launch. XD I did feel a little silly.

Hello! Yesterday a new SimCity was launched and it looks pretty cool. It's very multiplayer friendly and looks like lots of fun. I remember the good old days of SimCity 2000 and 3000 and I am thinking about getting this one. (edit: I pre-ordered since I wrote this ) It looks much simpler and more complex at the same time and the main difference to other SimCity games is that this one is all about multiplayer and it's region-based. The cities are medium sized but they are all in a region, and it's all about cooperation between these cities. Cities in the region specializes in different things and work together for the ultimate region, and lend out a helping hand with resources, firetrucks etc. Did anyone buy this already? Is it any good? Check this out! Greg Miller from IGN plays around in SimCity and explains the basics. ign.com

Thank you guys! Page one updated with new screens. Nothing new, just better screenshots.

Thanks to Marshall8946! New video! Update of the old units and preview on the new one. Bat2.

Thank you mate! Yes I am planning on using that one. I am currently waiting on permission to slightly edit the (model) lights on it. Thank you for your kind words! _________________________________________________________________________ It's Saturday! Whew! I've got an idea to motivate myself and tease the forums. Saturday is from now on my tease day, which means that I'll have something new to show you guys every saturday. Or I'll try to at least . Well, this Saturday I'm going to show off a new unit made by Nnico, reskinned and lighted by Honolulu mod guest star marshall8946. Thank you Marshall! The unit in question is the Battalion 2 unit from Honolulu. Credits: Model, lightbar and original skin(s) by Nnico. Reskin and lighting by marshall8946. I am working on an updated video to show of the fixed lights (briefly) and of course this unit. I'll also update the screens on page one soon enough since I've edited the models since then. Have a good day! Xandarb

You haven't overclocked your cpu have you? Overclocking caused these kinds of issues for me on my one year old semi highend desktop , but I fixed it by resetting the clock. (and eventually I started overclocking again, but that's irrelevant) As stated earlier, overheating of the CPU can cause these kinds of problems with that distinctive delayed effect. The CPU could overheat even with standard clocks especially if it's a laptop. Try to cool it down mate! It doesn't matter that it your computer runs gta or whatever, different games use your computer in different ways, especially when there's a big time difference between the games in question. (multithreading vs single thread, blah blah.). I built a platform (first out of books, then I refined it with some Lego ) for my laptop so that air could run beneath it freely. Try to run the game as administrator, I don't know why this would work but definitely worth a try since it takes like 2 seconds to do that. Can't one make your computer log the activity monitor thingy so that you can review it afterwards? Well try to do something like that. Edit: Posted a few links for what i meant: Clicky clicky. This link is better!

Hello Kim! Well, you mustn't ask that. It's against the rules of the forum. However, if we ignore that we don't even know the answer to your question. The team is busy and we can't give you any estimates. The NoMod team does intend to finish and release v2 eventually, we just don't know when. Cheers! Xandarb

Hi! I decided to ditch E22 (for now at least) and replace it with E5. Itfosho, Unit42, Pm's sent to both of you Progress on an ATV used by lifeguards. Obviously not finished. Model completely by me

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Thank you both of you for your pictures! Much appreciated! I don't think I'll include the airport vehicles though, but I'll keep that in mind.

Well, how much money are we talking about? tens? hundreds? a thousand dollars? I'd like to point out that Zmod2 is at the moment 20 USD, which I think is a bargain! Edit: Count me in!

Hello! Run the editor as admin

Thank you very much for your kind words! It's really nice! And THANK YOU for the tip with the fake volume, it's like magic how much better it looks now! Thank you! Xandarb

Video out! Take a look! Lights (and model) preview. @ENG343INE Thanks a lot! Just what i was searching for! Thank you! Xandarb Edit: new video:

Thank you guys for the feedback! It feels good! You made my day! @ENG34INE Thank you, those are really good pics! Much appreciated! Thanks! Xandarb

Thank you for your feedback guys! Today, I plan to finish E7 and start on E22.

Hello! Let me announce my first ever mod for Emergency 4: HONOLULU MOD Honolulu MOD has been canceled due to my military service. -Xandarb I've now (18th of may) made a public release for the demo. I am not completely sure that this is a good thing, because this is still very much not a complete product. Consider yourself warned! My intentions with this release is to show off what I have been doing for the last months and to get feedback on it. Keep in mind that this is my first mod and I have been working with the trial-and-error method so there are most likely loads of stupid mistakes all over it. I still intend to release the full version later on. Including all the required units and a better map. Download here: http://www.filefactory.com/file/32yq3h9wa1qd/n/Honolulu_mod_Demo_-_By_Xandarb_amp_the_Honolulu_mod_team.zip Please don't shoot me down! This is a mod based on Honolulu, Hawaii. I think Honolulu is a beautiful place and the emergency vehicles look totally badass! This mod is based on LaMod but I'll try to make this as much as possible my own mod, I aim on replacing every vehicle and the map from LaMod. I started working on this mod last month (January 2013) and I've spent around 50hrs on it already. As I see it now there'll be two releases. Version 1 will be a light version of the mod with only a few new units. The idea with two releases is that the first release will be released quite soon as a teaser/demo kinda thingy. And then, later, there will be the "real" release with the whole mod. The location of the mod is a free interpretation on Waialae, or the south shore of Oahu. A freeplaymap is in progress and it will contain a beautiful beach (it's Hawaii! Duh!), rich-people suburbs, some business buildings and a forest-ish park with nice forestfires . For the first version I will not add a firestation but I might add one for the second version. Mod trailer (April 2013): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bThAkv_uXX0&feature=share&list=PL9-WhrFCrqo66ZqK3zMFaFu7IRKEd-rY3 MOD TEAM: Xandarb: Creator of Honolulu mod, modelling, texturing, lighting and mapping. Rlast: Texturing & modelling. HDMods: Modelling, lighting and mapping. Here's my complete list of units for version 1: The lists and the plans for both releases are preliminary and may change. See them as guidelines. Green are done or nearly done, yellow started and black planned. Police Crown VicPolice unmarked Dodge Charger (or other unmarked unit)Fire Engine 7Fire Tower 9Fire Battalion 2Ems AmbulanceEms response oneFor my final release I will have more than 35 new vehicles (ems, fire, police and lifeguards, coastguard) from 7-9 different fire stations.A preliminary plan of units for v2: Unit previews in spoiler: If anyone wants to help, shoot me a PM! I need info and pics! Any Hawaiians here? Edit: 2013.05.19: Added Demo 2013.03.24: Added a few screenshots 2013.03.23: Added Units preview 2 video 2013.03.16: Added atv 2013.03.13: Rlast joined the team 2013.03.09: Added DCharger 2013.02.19: Added video, edited screenshot. 2013.03.02: Added Fire Chief. Added new video. 2014.01.27: Edited status to ON HOLD

Hmmm. Just a spontaneous thought, how is the toxic cloud made? This event could be modified to work as a tornado instead. Else, you could make the tornado as a rampaging civilian that shoots everything. Make it shoot everything that's close (instant hit, high firerate etc.) and then you should make him escape the earlier determined escape path. Then, somehow, make the event NOT fail when he reaches his goal and despawns, just make the event-objectives to treat all casualties etc. Replace the criminals model with one that looks like a tornado and you should be done. I have no idea whether this'll work, but it's sure worth a shot!