Firesworn
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- Sep 6, 2019
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The other day I found myself replaying Silent Storm. I played it a lot back in the day along with the Sentinels expansion, but while I thought about working on a mod, I didn't do so at the time because reasons. And now I'm realizing I should have... Because it seems impossible to get the editor to run at all on a modern OS.
Supposedly the game made use of MySQL 2008, which of course has been deprecated nowadays but can still be installed provided you find the correct MS file. I've found a couple of tutorials for installing it, and running the editor, but they generally have two problems. One, they assume installing MySQL will happen flawlessly, which isn't always the case. Two, they seem to be purposedly vague or lacking steps. The editor itself isn't available in the GOG version and because of this, some tutorials point to a download on PCGamingWiki, which includes both the editor and the MySQL setup. That version doesn't work for me so I tried the Express version of MySQL and it installs fine but then throws some errors and I can never access the editor anyway.
SO as per the topic title - did anyone manage to install in on any modern OS? I've heard it's hard to use but would be interesting to see what can be done with it, even if just to develop something that's not the usual reskin or some accurate weapon realism fetishes in a setting with Nazi mechs.
Supposedly the game made use of MySQL 2008, which of course has been deprecated nowadays but can still be installed provided you find the correct MS file. I've found a couple of tutorials for installing it, and running the editor, but they generally have two problems. One, they assume installing MySQL will happen flawlessly, which isn't always the case. Two, they seem to be purposedly vague or lacking steps. The editor itself isn't available in the GOG version and because of this, some tutorials point to a download on PCGamingWiki, which includes both the editor and the MySQL setup. That version doesn't work for me so I tried the Express version of MySQL and it installs fine but then throws some errors and I can never access the editor anyway.
SO as per the topic title - did anyone manage to install in on any modern OS? I've heard it's hard to use but would be interesting to see what can be done with it, even if just to develop something that's not the usual reskin or some accurate weapon realism fetishes in a setting with Nazi mechs.
