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0 2024 Status Update
Posted by Starkku on April 11, 2024 in Project Phantom News
It has been a while since I've last posted a formal update for this mod. Regardless, work on this project has continued even during silence and keeps going relatively strong, and I do have few things to share.
Website
Project Phantom website has been updated with a new layout. Many of the pages are still under construction, and I'll be sure to keep everyone updated when they go live.
Discord
For those who may have missed it, Project Phantom does have an official Discord server that can be used for discussing the modification, receiving updates regarding it first in the line and eventually it would hopefully serve as a multiplayer hub as well.
Showcases
A while back I posted an article about various UI / UX improvements in Project Phantom, be sure to check it out if you already have not.
There's also a new showcase video, showing off some units & buildings in Project Phantom. It can also be viewed on ModDB.
As mentioned prior, development has been going on relatively strong, regardless of occassional pauses and challenges. With that in mind, I have the following announcement to make.
Early access version of Project Phantom will be released during Summer 2024
Exact release date will be made known closer to launch
So what will be in this first release?
Good question. Right now, we are looking at the following set of features.
- Three new factions - Western Coalition, Eurasian Dominion and Phantom Imperative, with complete arsenals full of new units, buildings and support powers (albeit many buildings will use graphics that can be deemed as 'placeholders').
- Three 'mercenary factions' - Fist of Titans, Crimson Crown and Excelsus Group, that have capturable buildings that provide various support powers and units to players who capture them, alongside the classic set of neutral tech buildings including capturable base defences.
- A large number of new map props and other miscellaneous buildings.
- Three reworked terrain tile theaters, Temperate, Tundra & Desert, with significantly expanded tilesets from the original game, including fully integrated urban tilesets and a basic interior tileset.
- Around 160 standard skirmish/multiplayer maps, some old and some new.
- Island Combat game mode, which is constrained to maps with water-locked islands.
- Scavengers game mode, where you start with a Mobile War Factory and are required to collect powerup crates for units and funds - your factory can reverse-engineer any vehicles found (including technology trucks for aerial vehicles) to unlock them as buyable units.
- One scenario for Hold the Line game mode, where up to 4 players (human or AI) are pitted against waves of AI-controlled enemies that scale based on number players in game, with objective to protect a critical structure from the said enemies.
A preview of Crimson Crisis scenario, where players are tasked protecting an Energy Research Lab against waves of Crimson Crown units.
- Challenges game mode, where 2 players (human or AI) are pitted against three AI-controlled enemies in specific scenarios that have unique modifiers in play and odds stacked against the players. Initially Challenges mode is going to come with three scenarios, one against each of the factions.
A preview of one of the Challenges, called Thunderhill Challenge where players are challenged by the nigh-impenetrable defenses of a W.A.R.D research base.
- A single Cooperative mission, testing the waters out, where two Coalition commanders are tasked with eliminating a Dominion mining outpost.
Preview of co-op mission Motherlode, where a small squad of Coalition forces is sent on an infiltration and elimination mission to a Dominion mining base.
- Various quality of life, bugfix and other engine improvements, courtesy of Ares Expansion DLL and Phobos Engine Extension.
- Full integration with the CnCNet client, allowing easy access to multiplayer games and easy download of mod updates.
- Bundled installation of two map editors, a version of the legacy FinalAlert 2 map editor as well as Rampastring's modern World Altering Editor.
- Installer software with compatibility with all releases of Yuri's Revenge.
I hope to have some more news to share about Project Phantom's development and the upcoming early access release in near future, but for now, I'm out.
0 Mental Omega Act III now in development!
Posted by Speeder on December 7, 2023 in Mental Omega APYR News
0 Mental Omega 3.3.6 is available for download!
Posted by Speeder on November 19, 2021 in Mental Omega APYR News
Yuri's Grand Kremlin Palace and the Black Guard
Yuri's Tower - The Mental Omega Device
0 C&C: Reloaded 2.3.0
Posted by FS-21 on May 8, 2021 in C&C:Reloaded News
C&C: Reloaded 2.3 released with latest CnCNet support and tons of changes.
The most noticeable changes of this release are:
- Phobos upgraded to the latest version 0.2 (Release Candidate).
- Updated cnc-ddraw library from version 1.3.9.0 to 1.4.0.0
- Updated MapTool to the version 2.0.0.3
- Added the FA2 Map Editor (& adapted for C&C: Reloaded). Can be located in the sub-menu Mod Tools, along with other mapping tools.
- Added a new side selection option in skirmish/online menu: Random NO YURI.
- Added new translations for the XNA CnCNet Client (in-game translations will come in future releases):
---> Russian
---> Traditional Chinese
---> Simplified Chinese
---> Spanish
- New production clock animation in the sidebar.
- New sidebar icons for GDI & Nod structures:
- Added the new alternative tech tree for the Brotherhood of Nod, based on the Tiberium Wars units with a Tiberian Sun skin and two new structures: the Battle Lab (enables the tech tree) and the Mech Factory.
- Now is possible to mix Resources from Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 with the new Map Editor:
- Added an initial attack delay for Magnetrons.
- Now the GDI Firestorm Defense will be available without the Super Weapons option enabled.
- Added 26 new Multiplayer maps.
- Improved multiplayer AI.
If somebody is interested to read the full changelog, please visit here:
0 Desert Combat - Contra Tournament
Posted by predator_bg on February 23, 2021 in Contra News (eng)
Greetings Generals
Following the growth of the Contra Mod community & the wonderfully balanced fun gameplay it offers, the very first tournament has opened for signups.
Date, Time and Location
Desert Combat will be on Sunday, 28th Feb beginning at 16:00 GMT. We will meet in the Contra Tournaments network on Radmin immediately after you check-in.
One map will be played per round.
- Tournament Desert / Map for Round 1
- Lagoon Day / Map for Round 2
- Barren Badlands / Map for Round 3
- Gorge Drought / Map for Finale
**** ALL REPLAYS MUST BE SAVED! ****
Desert Combat will be a SINGLE ELIMINATION. All rounds will be BO3 up to the Semi-Finals which are a Bo5. There is no 3rd place match.
Minimum participants: 8
Maximum participants: 16
Registration
All you need to do to register for this tournament is to post your in-game name & Discord name in the registration topic (also linked below). Only register if you're going to be able to show up on the day of. Registration officially closes on Saturday, 27th Feb at 20:00 GMT.
Check-in
The check-in period will be between 15:00 and 16:00 GMT, at which point the brackets will be drafted and made official. There will be an official check-in thread that will open at 15:00. To check-in: simply post in the check-in thread and include your in-game name if it's different than your forum name. If you check in and you don't participate, you may be banned from any tournaments for 30 days. If you can't play, don't check-in. Only players that are registered will be allowed to check-in. Only checked in players will be in the bracket. If you have a situation that would cause you to not be able to check-in, but you can still participate then message Leikeze.
You will have 15 minutes to begin your games after the brackets are posted. Brackets will likely be posted by 16:05, but this depends on how late players check-in. You must start your games by 16:15 or you will be disqualified.
If you're early then you're on time. If you're on time then you're late. And if you're late you're disqualified!
There is simply no fun in sitting around waiting on people, so the 15 minutes is the maximum grace period allowed in between all rounds. Failure to appear at any stage of the event will result in a forfeit. Extreme circumstances can be discussed with event staff.
If you need to take a break in between games, inform your opponent and the Referee. At most, five minute breaks will be allowed and only if needed. Maximum one break per round. If a player is found to be abusing this freedom or failing to inform the necessary parties or not returning on time, you will be disqualified at Referee discretion.
Streaming
All matches will be streamed. So do not start playing until you and your opponent have arranged with a streamer.
In case the streamer causes bad lag, you may choose to play without one, however, you must then send the replay after each match to a streamer so that they can stream the matches.
0 Contra 009 work in progress - News Update 17
Posted by predator_bg on December 14, 2020 in Contra News (eng)
- Besides laser visuals, Microwave tank got a makeover too, since he was using Avenger's basis.
- Many changes were done to Super Weapon general as well. We are very proud of Saturn's makeover. Besides just a visual update, he has a new weapon. He fires a new beam which has huge potential to freeze targeted vehicles, so in general he fires Ice beam.
- But we didn't forget other generals too. China infantry general was mostly changed in order to be more balanced, and more appealing to player. Helix is replaced with new helicopter, Harbin.
Harbin has speed and cost of Thor, but health of Helix. His basic weapon is a small machine gun, but his main characteristic are the bunker slots (currently 2).
Some in-game screenshots. New Saturn:
0 C&C: Reloaded 2.1.0
Posted by FS-21 on December 3, 2020 in C&C:Reloaded News
C&C: Reloaded 2.1 released with latest CnCNet support and tons of changes.
The most noticeable changes of this release are:
- Save / Load games fixes. Specially the missing name of some TS missions.
- Apocalypse tank replacement in the alternative Soviet tech tree.
Unlike the standard Apocalypse tank it has no air weapons. Enemy units that are being grinded can't move and/or attack.
Grinded mode produces money when the enemy unit is destroyed:
- Nod receives naval anti-air support with the Hydra submarine.
It has 2 working modes: surface and submerged.
=> In the surface (default behaviour) it can hit ground and air targets with the twin missile pods.
=> When submerged it switch the missiles with waterproof missiles that function like torpedoes.
- Added 2 units available at the civilian Tech lab:
-> Mobile EM-Pulse. The old TS:Firestorm unit with a portable EMP cannon. Until the charge is full it can't fire.
-> Guardian tank. When deployed it paints targets making them a 50% more vulnerable.
- Added the EMP Cannon for GDI and Nod. This Super Weapon has a limited attack range around the structure like in Tiberian Sun.
- Added the "Free for All" Game Mode. No alliances allowed.
- AI tweaks, fixes and improvements.
It can be downloaded in the downloads section:
http://reloaded.cncg...downloads&t=001
If somebody is interested to read the full changelog, please visit here:
https://forums.revor...ures-changelog/
0 C&C: Reloaded 1.7.1
Posted by FS-21 on November 8, 2020 in C&C:Reloaded News
C&C: Reloaded 1.7.1 released with latest CnCNet support and tons of changes.
The most noticeable changes of this release are:
- Re-enabled fire propagation in explosion & trees like in Tiberian Sun. Fire can ignite trees nearby and thus over time spread like a wildfire until the affected trees are burn or the fire disappear.
- New Ion Cannon for multiplayer games. The classic Ion Cannon is still used in the Tiberian Sun campaigns:
- Added the new alternative tech tree for the GDI, based on the Tiberium Wars vehicles with a Tiberian Sun skin:
- Added a remake of the first mission from the RA1 campaign "It Came From Red Alert" with RA2 graphics. In the future it will change so now consider it as a (beta) challenge. For now, depending the difficulty you'll face that mission with any of these friends:
- Added the tool MapTool for making massive map conversions without the help of Final Sun/Final Alert 2 Map Editors with +90 profiles compatible with C&C Reloaded:
- Allied artillery and the Nod experimental stealth harvester got new graphics.
- Added new Skirmish/Online Game option: "Disable Alternative Tech Trees". If set, it disables alternative tech trees, leaving available only the original tech tree of each faction.
- Added 49 new multiplayer maps
- More AI improvements.
It can be downloaded in the downloads section:
http://reloaded.cncg...downloads&t=001
If somebody is interested to read the full changelog, please visit here:
https://forums.revor...ures-changelog/
0 Contra 009 work in progress - News Update 16
Posted by predator_bg on May 3, 2020 in Contra News (eng)
Hi everyone!
Work on Patch 3 is almost on daily basis. From models, maps and audio to AI improvement, game balance and bug fixes.
You already know that our Patch version is more like a new Contra version, rather than patching missed things and errors.
Because of that, please have some more patience. Still, we need to show some work in progress.
Few new models and visual improvements.
- New addition to China Infantry general is "Propaganda Officer". Lately, we are focusing on Infantry general's play style. We want to improve infantry hordes and encourage player to use infantry units, rather than relying only on Troop Crawlers. Troop Crawlers are still there, and it is good to have them as support and transport units, but soldiers are what you need if you play Infantry General. Propaganda Officer is available at rank 1 and as his name tells, he grants propaganda effect to your units.
Voices are amazingly done by our Voice Actor Matthew Vanston.
Let's continue with models!
- GLA Chemical general "Acid Pump" is now a separate structure. So, now you can build both Toxin and Acid Pump for your defenses. This means that they finally have an automatic fire mode.
- China Tank General's early gameplay was sometimes unfair, because of the ECM tank unit. When you are Airforce general, or Cybernetic, or most of your arsenal is rocket-based, and Tank General has 2-3 ECM tanks in horde, it was extremely hard to do some damage and to get rid of them. That's why we removed ECM tank from early game and added "ECM tower", which can be built almost as easy as Propaganda tower. They have a bigger deflection radius than the ECM tank had last time. You can protect your base from fast attacks or advance with them slowly.
- Most of the units got redesigned parts, which improve their visuals. Showing all of them would be too much for this update, but here is the one that is easily recognized. "Katyusha" got remodeled back part, as well as turret, which can now pitch up and down. We've done our best to rebalance this unit as well.
- Another thing which we are working on, are small details for structures. Meaning, each general's structures which are shared with other generals, got unique objects as details. Most of those objects can be seen on Command Centers in previous versions. So far, GLA structures are made. Assault has scrap parts, rockets and barrels. Chemical has pipes, headers and chemical barrels. Demolition has explosive barrels and C4 charges. Stealth has surveillance equipment installed.
- And another big improvement is lately done by EmperorAlexander.
He is our new member and he works on particle effects. By now, he has done tons of new effects, but here is just a sneak peak into some of them.
**** At the very end, we need to say big thanks to people who supported us through donations. We will publish their nicknames in a new section in the mod credits with the next release. If you want, you can also support us and help with our development. ****
2 C&C: Reloaded 1.4.0
Posted by FS-21 on April 1, 2020 in C&C:Reloaded News
C&C:Reloaded 1.4.0 released with latest CnCNet support and tons of changes.
If somebody is interested to read the full changelog, please visit here:
https://forums.revor...ures-changelog/
The installation instructions is simply:
1) Create a new folder.
2) Extract all the content of the compressed download into the new folder.
3) Run the "RUN ME FIRST - C&C Reloaded installer.exe" or copy these YR game files (Yuri's Revenge must be updated to the 1.001 or it will not work):
- gamemd.exe (version 1.001, from original CD, The First Decade or The Ultimate Collection release, if it isn't the original file Ares might fall and the game will not work properly). - ra2.mix - ra2md.mix - language.mix - langmd.mix - expandmd01.mix - binkw32.dll - blowfish.dll
Optional files for a better game experience (specially for campaigns):
- thememd.mix - movmd03.mix
3) Run "CnCReloadedClient.exe", configure the settings and play offline single player or online multiplayer on CnCNet.
It isn't an April Fool's Day joke.