Re: Vietcong Starter
Sibyl Piccuillo
Acting as an elite soldier, players of "Vietcong" command the A-team, part of the U.S. Special Forces, in realistically represented Vietnamese environments. Players will lead as many as six expertly trained soldiers through 20 dramatic missions, and follow a storyline that captures the danger, fear and unpredictability of the war itself. The full-featured multiplayer mode also allows gamers to play as U.S. Special Forces or Vietcong soldiers and to battle over specially designed levels. In "Vietcong," the player chooses from more than 25 weapons, including M16's, grenade launchers and sniper rifles. Players can order air strikes or ambush enemy patrols, but success ultimately depends on their ability to keep a level head in the thick of intense action.
Thank you very much for your hard work! Can you please also tweak objects LOD in the next patch? There is no level of detail fading anymore on players, but there is aggressive lod on weapons and trees/rocks... Also, can you look into weapon clips and make them stay on the ground for a long time, just like enemy bodies? Or maybe make bullet holes permanent... Thank you.
Hello,
I'm the creator of this tool.
I tried to disable object LODs but it seems that some objects disappear then..
About your other suggestions: I'll surely have a look!
I'm also creating a community platform for Vietcong, called the "Vietcong Community Hub".
Be sure to check out www.vietcong.info and www.mycong.net
thank you very much for this great tool!
I dare bother you for I encounter a nasty bug. My cursor gets stuck in the main menu. Luckily there is a second invisible cursor thanks to whom I am able to select and enter the game.
However the stuck cursor also figures in combat...
I'd be grateful for any piece of advice!
Okay I installed it without the fix now the FPS are fine aaaand, and thats the reason im writing again, apparently the game runs without crashing on Windows 10. Played the base game and Fist Alpha, without getting any crashes upon radio appearance.
So here's the problem. After I installed Vietcong and then updated it to 1.65.1 - in the suggested sequence - I load it up. I get a metric f***ton of errors that say something about "Enable Texture" or something along those lines. Then the game starts up. It all moves fine; but then as soon as I tried playing the tutorial, it progressed to a black screen and stayed there. Tried Alt+F4, Task Manager, nothing. So I then manually turned my PC off.
Restarting the computer left the game in a worse state. It went straight to the main menu before just flat out freezing. Another reboot.
Hi and at first thx alot for your work! my problem is that the vcstarter wants directx 8.1 and iam not able to install that. please tell me iam 2 dumb and there is a easy way 2 get vietcong runnin`. best game of my youth^^
thx a lot :)
No you're not dumb, Later versions of Direct X include the older versions, so you shouldn't need to install v8.1, which by todays standards is ancient. You should be able to skip the installation. Not installed this yet, so don't know exactly how, but usually you just press a continue button.
I remember this coming out. I was really into Line of Sight Vietnam at the time but Vietcong was on a different level, with lots of maps from the modding community and a great community. I also got into Battlefield Vietnam (BFV) and Men of Valor (MOV). Vietcong and BFV were the best for online play. I loved Men of Valor, but most of the servers were inhabited by spawn rape'ers, who would shoot you after the initial few seconds of cool down unless you could run for cover, which was rare. Also, if you were shot by someone, you could basically act as a spectator until you pressed your mouse button, which enabled you to watch where they were hiding. The sniper maps were particularly prone to this, but at the time MOV was the best of the bunch with respect to graphic and realism, but apart from the add on map pack the game wasn't moddable.
too old. please anybody use 1.7 from the official fancommunity websites to get it working with the latest windows with proper hardware support and proper framerate.
Vietcong.info
Vietcong1.cz
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i found a profile online , using the vietcong starter converts the game to DX9. But the visuals are very poor and lots of distraction , in z buffer and z normal the game would look good but all is sunken one grahics layer beaneath level. So not usable, g3d somehow works, but very wonky.
If you can convert the game to dx9 then you could try running reshade and use the depth3d shader to get stereo 3d image.
Then go to vorpx and run the desktop viewer
Within vorpx go to image settings and set content type to stereo.
I agree I really like vietcong. It was the only vietnam game that really captured the mood and soldier 'slang' of the time. The expansion was quite good too. I wasn't really a big fan of vietcong 2. it was ok but jungle warfare with traps and gook tunnels ruled.
Agreed, this was one of the major pluses in the Vietcong games. This and the fact that the AI used cover effectively too. I used to play Vietcong on LANs with about 8 people, all of us as a team against the AI. Some firefights took ages. It was awesome. :)
Vietcong was awesome and pretty much the only really good Vietnam game ever made, in my opinion. The music thing isn't a poor argument at all, 60's music is very important for a Vietnam game. The atmosphere of the game was amazing, it felt like a real, claustrophobic jungle and the pace of the game was relatively slow (because you had to look out for traps). Patrolling through the jungle was fun. I also liked how you had to walk over to your radioman to receive orders from HQ. The graphics were good enough to immerse you into the game, even today. It was semi-realistic.
Definitely an excellent game and recommended. I really wish Vietnam wasn't such an overlooked setting, I would love to see another (semi-)realistic Vietnam game. I think BIS would do a pretty good job at that :)
Graphics wise i agree. I dragged this baby out of the draw late last year while i was building a new computer. I finished Mafia and Vietcong again and must say for early naughties they are still very good games. Damn tunnel, easy to see why Hawkins is crazy in the second one.
We grabbed his M14 for arma 1 and I've been really pleased to have it again in A2, though we don't havethe wooden one aymore, which is a darn shame. I was chuffedto bits though to find an SKS Simonov carbine in the Vilas AK pack...
I really like to see Vietcong 3. Vietcong 1 is one of the best games ever. Its had almost unmatched atmosphere with very hard difficulty, the single-player was long and even the multiplayer was very fun. Vietcong 2 was really poor when compareing to first game. It was released too quick and that probably destroyed the whole game studio.
I hope that illusion softworks (2k czech) will make a real sequel for it after the Mafia 2. Every game that illusion softworks create is a pure gold. Only BIS (and looking glass) can challenge them. It just sad that most of the real game studios have been replaced with hollow and sterile zombie factories that print copies of call of duty with 5hr playtime. I wish to see more quality games in future again.
The coop mode was rather poor as far as i remember, it was just kill all bots scatered thru out the map to win (no objectives or anything), also the maps were just too small for coop. CTF was real fun but pugs were unplayable with all the cheaters.
Ha, I didn't know that either the first time I played it! :D I used to drop a few chem-lights on the floor, drew a map on a piece of paper, load a saved game, go blindly using the map and repeat... I felt like an idiot when I found about the flashlight... seriously, my biggest gaming fail :o
After just reinstalling it and using vista it keeps crashing to desktop at a certain point on mission 2. Its a shame its done this and i hope someone comes out with a vista patch to fix it. I have seen older and less popular games come out with vista patches so i can assume its only a matter of time.
Sadly the second part has AI that don't care about being shot anymore, if it doesn't kill them they brush it off, while part 1 incapacitated them for a moment. That and the stupid spawn triggers make us still play mostly VC1 on LANs. Well, that and my bayonet ^^
Comments (12) Add comment04.02.2015 07:51:33 by Ahoy Mateys! Oy u guys still playin VC mates? Lets go im on, yes !08.02.2015 11:09:02 by Lerner About freaking time troop! There are still some sneaking around as well, maybe if you stay alive long enough you'll find them.;)28.02.2015 11:53:51 by ::Crocker::[LV] Lerner is still alive, i thought VC got you in Battle of A Shau :O05.03.2015 11:42:06 by BEL Jesse Stil some old names spamming by here. :) Just passing by, Too bad VC Coop is this inactive. 17.12.2015 15:32:34 by Attentive visitor Hm, during last eight months 5-10 downloads every day? Vietcong doesn't already have so many players. This is only ludicrous attempt to get VCstarter on absolute top in number of downloads.
For "hard-working" downloader: This is old version VCstarter, not newest. About 1700 people need old version? Hahahaha.23.12.2015 09:36:37 by Don Turtuma Probably at least half or more of the downloads on the top files are fake. They are probably caused by bots and such. Or there's a bug in my download counter code. :)
Annoying? Yes, but it's not the end of the world. :)26.12.2015 21:16:51 by [ATZ]Sandi79 no more MP servers :( or I did i miss something?13.01.2016 16:52:41 by xhc multiplayer still alive:
visit vietcong1. eu
(also read FAQ on that site)29.03.2017 17:11:06 by Blood201997 When I clicked extract file it said no files to be extracted04.04.2017 12:50:44 by Intruder If you still can't extract the exe from the zip file, try this link to obtain the latest version of the VCStarter program:
Note: re-write the "http" correctly!
h-t-t-p://www.vietcong.info/portal/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=899#post_998122.02.2018 20:34:54 by Exper I'm faster than ever with my goldfingers :o02.04.2018 20:53:07 by Exper - What's your memory of coop ?
Exper : I had great times on vc-coop.eu, i remember it was well administred. I think MB was really tatented with the servers/scripts and both of them with Shogun had a interesting view on coop, the internet site was nice too. For the law on the servers, some old school players like The Ace or MadDog were administrating with the strict ethic they learned on the 6th Sense servers so it avoided the ramboing. The gameplay changed when pick-up artists from a second generation arrived, the teamplay mentality was into them but they had more skills, th game had years and they could clean maps by themselves so became the times of the great balance, it wasn't about fraghunting or stats but the hundreds of perfects. You had some "perfect" artists. Th sensation of perfect without casualties is still alive, like i said MB made it possible by changing the coop to another level.
- Do you remember the names/nicks of some of the players that impressed you ?
Exper : I believe Krakatoa was probably the best player technicaly, he's legend that really inspired me, he was also total gentleman on servers. Sgt.X from Italia was skilled also. I was impressed by some TLs too, some of them had serious team plans that made the rounds very interesting. You know we're talking about dozens of thousands of missions, years of work. We're not talking about big forum guys/posters with thousand posts and no play. We're talking about the ones that gave years to this, it's a lot of sacrifices, and it's same when you come to mapping, scripting... When you're into graffiti you want to be all-city, to be th king of th city, it's same for coop, you chase th perfecto, to be th king of th jungle. Hard work baby, only hard work Ask someone like Rick/Chavez from VET to tell you about VC dvotion.
- No doubt, no doubt. Speaking about VET, what is the beef with TRAVX all about ?
Exper : i was looking for new releases on Jari's site (Vietcong Coop) and what i see, the most unfair coopist trolling on the comments of the Citadelle remake.
Bitching and whining like spoiled kid, claiming i stole terrain or trees from VET Map. I remember asking personaly Rick/Chavez if i could use th .bes. I did and now he's crying i should have put a VET name in front of my level. TRAVX is disgrace for the VET clan, for years he entered th coop servers, doesn't salute, fails and leave without th end without waiting. Very rude, TRAVX is a gringo, total scumbag :o
- You still play?
Without any talk or politics,now we have VC flying on choppers on our maps you know, trying to release new scripts wherever i'm not banned, i would like to share this pack with you.
- Looking for it bruh, thanks you.
Exper : Thks m8