Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works

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3. February 2016 - 11:39
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Me and some friends have been having fun with an old Excessive Plus config on a map called 17+ for some years (actually, we started back in 2007!).

Recently I decided to try upgrading EP from what I believe was (OMG!) version 1.03 to the latest and greatest version. However, when I do "/load myconf.cfg" to load the config we were using with the old Excessive Plus version I get error messages and the config doesn't seem to load.

In this screenshot you can see the error messages:
https://i.imgur.com/BMvHIGc.png

Here you can see my old and trusty cfg:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/0e5821ed2fe0d4320dad

Looking at the config, I'm not sure what the suggested syntax error is.

We'd love to get things rolling again! Any clues?

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4. February 2016 - 2:50
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works

Try removing (based on default.cfg)

Config {
 
 
 
            Name: "myconf (based on default.cfg)";
 
 
 
            Date: "09 May 2007";
 
 
 
            Author: "anon";
 
 
 
        }

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4. February 2016 - 7:21
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works

I don't know how to help you with old cfg, but you might find some cool ones over there
http://www.excessiveplus.net/forums/thread/quake-3-weapons-configs-library

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4. February 2016 - 17:04
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works

As you figured out
- Yes, things have changed.
- Yes, configs aren't back-compatible.

However the new version have more configurable stuffs, which weren't back in the days.
You can read the whole story from the change-log file and the Documentation (see left side menu)

And +1 what terror said above.
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5. February 2016 - 0:44
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works

Thanks for your replies! I ended up rewriting it using the new default config as a boilerplate.
Only thing I haven't been able to reproduce is a grenade that explodes as soon as it meets a surface. We used this to achieve crazy grenade jumps without waiting for explosions.
Clues?

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5. February 2016 - 11:03
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works 

Grenade Launcher {
    Time to Live = 1;
}


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6. February 2016 - 0:30
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works
EVILUTION wrote:

Grenade Launcher {
    Time to Live = 1;
}

I'm afraid that just shortens the delay between firing and explosion, it wont make the grenades explode when they meet a surface. I've also tried Time to Live = 0;but that makes them explode right in from if you fire point your gun forward.

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6. February 2016 - 12:36
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works

wasnt bounce 0 the correct one for grenade launcher?

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7. February 2016 - 11:57
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Re: Upgraded Excessive Plus, my config no longer works
rUnThEoN?! wrote:

wasnt bounce 0 the correct one for grenade launcher?

^that


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