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Hello!
I have been working at making Obstacle compatible with MP4 and improving the mode as much as I can since July 2017. I faced a lot of problems due to the lack of documentation and this is especially true for campaigns.

I read a lot of different things in both Discord and the forums.
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The posts above make it seems like campaigns work. Of course they do, at least in Trackmania.
But to my knowledge there is not any Shootmania titlepacks with a working solo campaign. By working I mean that maps are unlocked based on the medals and the player's records are saved in a leaderboard as in Trackmania.
And from a quick look at the MP4 menu's scripts, the unlocking of the maps is based on the TM records (I don't remember the name of the struct).

So I guess the main question is do the campaigns work?

From my understanding they don't work with the MP4 menus.
But does Solo_SetNewRecord actually save the medals somewhere?
How the old MP3 menus worked then?

If there is no way to make the MP4 menus work with Shootmania, I am not against writing custom menus for Obstacle like Dommy did with Galaxy, I think that this is something that should be done at some point anyway.
But first I need to make sure that the different methods to make a campaign actually work with Shootmania or if everything is broken with Shootmania.

Thanks for reading this and I hope to receive some positive answers!
Have fun and play Obstacle!
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Hi,

Thank you for your report. We are investigating on the issue.

Some additional info might help.

I tried to build an Obstacle TP with Solo Campaign. The mode script uses Solo_SetNewRecord() to register newly earned medals. The menu (which I downloaded via StormMaker) does not unlock maps with medals, though.

Since the old Obstacle TP from Steeffeen with old MP3 menues still works in MP4 - it uses Solo_SetNewRecord() of course, maps are unlocked when earning a medal - I suppose that the saving method works under MP4 but the included mechanisms for reading medal info in the MP4 menues somehow do not.

I'm interested if there will be a way to have a ShootMania campaign with official online ranking based on points and not time.