I’m having trouble with the post-battle rewards:
at the beginning of the game I used to unlock one hull and (if victorious) one gear for my lil tanks,
after a few mission I didn’t get an hull anymore, even if there are still some to unlock.
Now, after ~25 missions, I dont unlock components anymore, but my armory has still a lot of free spaces to fill.
Is is an issue or it is scheduled like this?
Ps: I would love to know how to “cheat” to unlock some componenst, because I would like to unlock at least the 1st engine and the 1st reloading system
so i could finally use the hulls I’ve unlocked.
Thanks for everyone who took the time to read this.
you should continue to get offered ‘free’ unlocks after every battle until everything is gone, but some unlocks are only given on victories, so you need to win a fair few battles before you absolutely unlock everything there is.
I actually have the same problem. I cannot unlock stuff any more. No matter if I win or lose, it doesn’t reward me with nothing anymore…
And I am sure, that I haven’t unlocked everything yet. Because I see it when I try to build my own units
As Cliff mentioned earlier, you should be getting unlocks for each battle (until you have unlocked everything). So we need to work out why you are not been offered them
To help me understand what your game is doing:
Please post your \My Documents\My Games\GratuitousTankBattles\unl.dat file
Please post your \Gratuitous Tank Battles\data\unlocks.txt file
Hopefully this will give me an idea of what is happening (or not in this case)
Analysis:
According to your unl.dat. You have unlocked everything available to you (These are the items under [free] and [choice])
However, for some reason you are missing all the items which were given to you automatically at the start (Anything under [defaults])
Since the game assumes you have been given those items, they are never offered as an unlock after a battle.
Hypothesis:
At a guess, i would say that either:
The unl.dat file was not created when you first loaded the game.
Or
You have edited your unl.dat file and accidentally over written the items that are automatically given you you at the start.
Solution:
To solve this, all you have to do is copy the defaults into your unl.dat and your good to go.
Once that is done: If you want to unlock any more stuff, you are going to need to install a mod
I never changed any of the original game files, so the error must have occured during file creation.
Well, doesn’t really matter.
Now I tried copy and pasting the [default] section in my unl.dat file, but it doesn’t work. Everytime I start the game after copying it, they rewrite my file and change it back to the old one…
The Steam verification did tell me that all game files are fine.
But I indeed found another unl.dat file, in the Steam\userdata<somenumber><someothernumber>\remote\ directory.
Seems because of that it allways changed the other file back.
[Note: I even tried it before with Steam Cloud Synchronisation turned off, but still it overwrote the other file.]
Thanks a lot!
Finally I can make my own units XD
(I think I will delete my unlocks, though… Is it enough to just delete them out of the unl.dat file, or do I have to place them somewhere else?)
Glad your back in buisness,
I would say at some point these files became out of sync.
If your going to remove your unlocks to you can start from scratch again I would suggest that you modify both of them
(Although the Steam one appears to be the master file.)
Remember: when you remove the unlocks leave the defaults in there
