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Close to Midnight - 4 Player Coop Campaign

Close to midnight (CTM)

NOT WORKING AT THE MOMENT:
Due to latest smaller patch, the mod "west 81 for hotmod1968" is causing the game to crash.
Mod Author is waiting for the bigger patch that comes with the "Liberation" DLC before updating and making his mod compatible again. Until such time, we have to wait before this mod can be made compatible/playable again.

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General & Useful info:

I just made this mission/future campaign to have some fun & great experiences with my friends when we play coop together. So I thought I would share it with the rest of the community too. I hope you enjoy it.

Let me know if you encounter any bugs and issues.
Please also give good feedback if you enjoyed it, or just let me know how the experience could be made more enjoyable. (try to keep it realistic/possible & constructive).

Limited play-test on Coop at the moment, Singleplayer works fine!
Let me know if there is any issues with COOP.

NOTICE, the manual "Save Game" & "Load Game" feature in the game might cause unpredictable bugs. E.g. missing units, etc.
Avoid Manually saving the game, you can try if you want to load it later, but do expect some bug to occur.
Take the time to play the mission, start to finish in one-go. This bug is related to the game and not the mod and cannot be fixed.
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Story Background:

US is embroiled in the Vietnam war.
Russia & China have signed a joint Defensive treaty in an attempt to stifle the influence of US and her allies.

Both sides are making very aggressive moves on the chessboard that is the world to try to push their own agenda forward.
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Gameplay story:
4 Player Coop Campaign.
This coop campaign aims to portray an alternative cold war where an actual "warm" war is becoming a reality.
Follow along special missions operatives as they try to accomplish their missions. They are mere pawns in the cold war chess game between the great powers.

Simultaneously, take part in great historical and/or fictional conflicts and battles of the time.
The campaign will be set between 1968 - 1980s (end date not determined yet).
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Current stage of the Campaign:

Set in Vietnam 1968 (Used early time period Chinese troops to portray the NVA, I hope it is still immersive enough).
Only 2 missions available at this time, more to follow.

If you do not receive the latest version of the mod automatically, just unsubscribe from the mod and subscribe anew. Then any update should apply.
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Required Mods and installation/load order guide:

To ensure compatibility of all mods, the sequence of MOD loading is very important!
It has changed a bit since originally uploaded this mission mod.

Once you have downloaded all mods, please follow this list below and enable each mod accordingly in-game:

1. enable hotmod1968，then accept.
2. enable ComradIvan's COLD WAR Skins ported by FEDOROV，then accept.
3. enable west 81 for hotmod1968，accept.
4. enable Close to Midnight - 4 Player Coop Campaign, accept.
Now it should be good to play.

If not, then you can try this:

Change the load order of "west 81 for hotmod1968" and this mod "Close to Midnight - 4 Player Coop Campaign".
So that you enable and load Close to Midnight as number 3 and West 81 as number 4.

Then please go into your "Options" file and ensure the mods are all set to "0".
This file is located by default here:
C:\Users\Myusername\Documents\My Games\gates of hell\profiles\0123456788

once you open the "Options" text file, scroll down to the bottom, the mod load order should look something like this (except the name in brackets, just put it here to make it easier):

{mods
"mod_2614199156:0" (Hotmod68)
"mod_2891040429:0" (ComradIvan's)
"mod_3045393413:0" (west 81)
"mod_2897299509:0" (Close to Midnight)

0 means that it is active.
1 means it is not active.

So even if you loaded "Close to Midnight" as number 3 and "west 81" as number 4, this should still be the mod order in the "Options" file.
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Credit:

Thank you to all the hotmod68 & 81 modders that made this experience possible.

Special thanks to:

Modder "Haseo" for letting me incorporate his awesome mod "Cold War Alter 1971" into mine so I can make full use of the assets.
Check out his awesome mod here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2933790997&searchtext=Alter+71

To the "Old Boy's 3rd Vietnam Mod".
Building & flora assets for Vietnam was taken from this awesome mod by "Old Boy" & "King of Wei" and added into this mission/campaign mod.
Check out their awesome mod here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2936158774&searchtext=Old+boys
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Extra:

If you would like to try a WW2 coop campaign from the German Army Group North's perspective.
Look at my campaign mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953338576

Uses only vanilla CTA: GoH assets so no mods required to play.