After installing new updater 2.5.5 DCS stalls trying to launch the Mission editor

[vicx]

After installing a new updater. BUG appears when trying to launch the Mission editor

 

OK I found the problem ... I disabled a mod via JSGME before the update and left it disabled when I loaded DCS after the update.

 

However it looks like the ME stalled while trying to load some cached data. I'm sure this cached data was to do with COALITIONS for missions.

 

vdata.country 	= countries[1]
vdata.task 		= country_tasks[__view__][vdata.country][1]
vdata.type 		= country_task_aircraft_list[__view__][vdata.country][vdata.task][1]

 

This kinda shows that there is still no way to smoothly add and support new countries and factions not already built into DCS.

 

Why did the US Agressors have to be hard coded into the engine when all of their units are inherited and the rest is mostly metadata. If ED had made a mechanism for adding factions without requiring changes to db_countries then other agressor forces could be created easily and without triggering bugs (even when a MOD is disabled)

 

Mods can feel free to put this in the wishlist section where it now belongs.

Edited November 19, 2015 by vicx
not quite a bug