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November 2005 |
| Yuri's Armory Released | | - MooMan65 | November 28, 2005 | Finally! Sorry for the long wait for this page to come online, I was quite busy recently with my other job as Admin on the DGN Forums. Anyway! Yuri's Armory is up and available for your viewing pleasure! This is where you begin to see some of the major changes to Yuri's army. Not only does he get a brand new defense structure, but his other two primary ones undergo drastic changes of their own. I won't ruin anything for you here, so go read now! You won't miss anything on this page, I'm done now.  | |
| Major Feature 2 Part E: Lunar (TX) Retexturing | | - MooMan65 | November 20, 2005 | Hot on the heals of NewUrban comes the last of Major Feature 2's work and another 2% done bringing the total to 35%! I told ya things will start back up once my study was over!
Just like Feature 1's Lunar retexturing, there won't be any screenshots for this, primarily now due to lack of any Lunar Terrain Expansion maps, and that the retexturing is nowhere near as extensive as the others. The biggest change is probably the switch from using natural, dirt cliffs to the Urban-style pavement cliffs for Lunar's cliff set due to the fact that there are no whethered, rocky cliff faces on the surface of the moon in reality. As a result, the concept has been adjusted so that any sharp cliffs are man-made instead, as shown in the comparison shot below:
Any Lunar maps you may have already created using the TX will look different if they involve any cliffs or other tilesets based on the cliffs (Slope Set Pieces, Tunnels etc.), but I believe this is necessary to keep things as realistic as possible.
So! With Major Feature 2 completed, what could Major Feature 3 be? Time vill tell!  | |
| Projects Mirrored | | - MooMan65 | November 20, 2005 | Big thanks to tarquel who has offered to mirror all my current project downloads on his C-GEN Mirror website which can act as a backup should the primary server here be slow or down.
Currently, MooMan's Rules and it's two expansions, and the Capture Pack are mirrored. Head to their accompanying download pages as usual for the download links. | |
| Major Feature 2 Part D: NewUrban (TX) Retexturing | | - MooMan65 | November 18, 2005 | I'm back!! Okay, so it's not the Yuri Armory pages you may have been expecting, but this is actual progress! We are now at 33% completion thanks to the conclusion of the NewUrban theater Terrain Expansion retexturing. This theater was probably the most involving theater to retexture, just like during Major Feature 1 when I retextured the standard tilesets.
The goal with NewUrban was that it should not only include all the little tiddly bits that the TX adds in, but also convert over as many of the original Urban tilesets as possible. Reason being is that before you people will get your hands on this mod, all official Urban maps will be converted into NewUrban. This was not done out of choice, but I won't reveal anything more just yet as I don't want to get ahead of myself. One thing though: Fan-made Urban maps will need to be converted too before they can be used in YR˛, but with the introduction of NewUrban in Yuri's Revenge, using the original Urban theater for maps has certainly not been as commonplace as before.
Anyway! Screenshots! "Gimmie" I hear you say!
Head here as usual for some more!
Thanks again to Cannis for his Below Sea Level and Pretzel Logic maps, and Seniorwhoppy for his Turtle Town map all used by me for this screenshot set. These wouldn't be possible without them!
As I said: I'm back! Exams are over! And straight away things are progressing again. Only one more theater to go with Major Feature 2 (Lunar). If you can add, you'll notice that Lunar's 2% will not increase the bar far enough to reach the Beta 3 mark, so what's still to come? Don't touch that dial!  | |
| New Poll While You Wait | | - MooMan65 | November 6, 2005 | Almost there people; just two more weeks before I can restart work! I did find time though today to change the poll over considering the last one has been on for quite a while and I need that one to finish before I can release Yuri's Armory since it was the page that either would or would not include a Gate option depending on this result. Anyway, now that Gates are over and done with, it's time for the next topic of interest: the Installer!
How would you like YR˛ to be packaged?
I believe it is about time for me to start thinking about how you guys will be able to install the mod. Would you prefer it to be a professional installation package, or a simple self-extract exectuable? The former would require less thinking on your end as to what to do, but the download will be larger and the release will be delayed while I design it additionally at the end. On the other hand, having it as a self-extract exectuable requires you to do some thinking so to where you want to install it, manually create shortcuts, remove existing mods/expansions that will conflict with YR˛ and so on. Right now I'm leaning towards the installer considering how many of you hated the manual work for MooRules, but this is your chance to voice your opinion. Of course, if you have a better option than either of these two, you can voice that as well. All yours!
So. Now that I have to type up Yuri's Armory page, will I include Gates or not for him? Let's see...
Should Yuri get gates along with the Allies and Soviets? [288 votes total]
-Of course! He's Yuri! (157)
-Nah. He doesn't need them. (131)
It was quite close in the end, with a surprisingly large number of people against giving Yuri the gates... However, I do believe my mistake in not letting you know the changes to Yuri's anti-spy detection capabilities, so a number of you who probably voted for 'No' was because you thought they already had enough spy detection methods (the comments reflected that as well). Because of this, I do believe it could have been an even bigger majority preferring him to get Gates, and because it is in the lead anyway, Yuri will include Gates in his arsenel for YR˛.
Good to see you people having discussions in the comments too! | |
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