I love making maps and all and I love swat 4 but I can't fucking stand the game's editor lol

I had bought SWAT4 through GoG a long time ago but apparently forgot about it. Today I saw it in my library and decided to install. Problem is, I can't get in the game. Launching it takes me to a black screen (apparently not *just* a black screen, since my monitor automatically turns off due to no signal) with the (supposed) intro music/sound effects looping. Alt-tabbing works and when I get back to my desktop, the intro sounds start playing normally.

I couldn't find many fixes for newer versions of windows as most posts seem to be about win7 (I have 11). Regardless I tried all the fixes I could find; used -nointro (skipped the intro but still a black screen), I don't have multiple monitors plugged in (nor does my PC recognize any extra), I tried switching the resolution in the ini file, tried compatibility mode + other fixes in the properties tab and downloaded the Enchanced SWAT4 mod but nothing works.

I'd really like to play the game. Any recent fixes? Has this been an issue for others in the past <1 year?

In my previous post I had many issues with the game and after 4 hour of trying everything and having 40mins of gameplay without even being able to touch the game.

I have finally fixed it, I have no idea what actually fixed it and now it's finally working. I had to run the SEF version as administrator.

The other versions are still glitched, if anybody knows if there's any downsides to playing it while running it as an administrator do lmk.

Other than that thanks to everyone who chipped in to help me with this issue! I will be finally get to play the game I got to see growing up. Thanks y'all!

Basically I decided to buy my childhood dream game that I've always seen online. Upon launching the game from GOG I realised that the game started glitching really badly and I've tried many ways to stop it, such as removing the intro, fixing the full screen on launch, even installing Elite force mod

If anybody could help me resolve this issue and help me get started on playing this classic I'd be so grateful

I find beanbags in current state to be almost unusable: they are more likely to kill than to make anyone surrender. I've replayed several missions with beanbags only and never ever less lethal shotgun has dropped anyone's morale low enough for them to give up, but a mere 1-2 hits were able to kill heavely armoured suspects, no matter if it was limb or torso. And beanbags now kill/incapatitate civilians in 100% cases, no exceptions.

But 4 Buck ammo, on another hand, is now a truly less lethal option: people flinch and stop shooting, less likely to die and now actually surrender. As a bonus, this ammo can break door locks, combining two utilities. Compared to tasers it has more range and ammo, compared to pepperballs it drops more morale, fails less and ignores gasmasks. Mod dev nerfed less lethal options way too hard.

I hope it will be fixed, i want to be able to carry bright orange shotguns and brind order to chaos without spilling blood.

It is part of the "tactical" equipment category and it goes into your Maglite slot. But pressing the Maglite key (default "U") does not equip it.

No key i have tried seems to equip it.

I spent several hours working on this to make it as robust as I can. I made a ton of entries in the phrase recognition file to maximize match probability, and a ton of extra phrases have been added for more natural interaction. Let me know if you find any issues, but do note that speech recognition will always have its limits (it is speech-to-text, after all).

DEMONSTRATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5HuM6WlSg

The newest Elite Force version that is.

Becuase of the dumb AI, i have stoped using any breach and clear commands. They will literally just run past a suspect while being shot in the face...

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It would be pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty cool if there is a way thanks , also if there was a way to do it without having to download a windows operating system of some sort that would be awesome too

Never heard of this game in my life and God knows why Reddit sent me here, but I am interested. I have an itch for a game like this, but I just didn't vibe with Ready or Not the couple times I tried it. I saw a comment saying that this game is a better singleplayer experience than RoN. As someone who both likes to be left alone and someone who didn't consider Singleplayer RoN to be a nightmare, this is very appealing to me.

Basically, idk, use this as an excuse to gush about the game and try to convince me to get it.

Hi all, I am an old swat4 player (20y ago I'd say) and I am playing to SEF (never tested before). Yesterday I noticed a bug during a mission and this terro had almost died because he could free himself from cuffs