Quick News Round Up (covering december until... now)

Banshee

Hello everyone. Sorry for the lack of news. It was a mix of a lot of effort into OS SHP Builder with real life stuff and I eventually got tired in this whole process. Nonetheless, we had some interesting news which were not covered by this site:

- OpenRA Playtest 20131220 has been released:

Several playtests from OpenRA were released in this month. The main one (20131211) had the features in the quote below, while the latest one fixed some minor bugs.

Quote:

Added support for Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Dune 2000 shroud rendering.
Improved the way cliffs, smudges and player color remaps in the d2k mod are rendered.

OpenRA is a game that recreates (and improves) old Command & Conquer games, as well as Dune 2000. Download it HERE and if you decide to modify it, discuss it in our forums.

- Command & Conquer Free To Play's server was officially shut down by EA:

The official announcement was made by Chris Mancil from EA:

Quote:

We wanted to let you know that we are suspending the Command & Conquer Alpha Test and the servers will no longer be available.

Thank you all for your continued support and dedication to Command and Conquer. Your feedback and participation in this community is a crucial part of the success and future of this amazing franchise. We look forward to seeing all of you in-game in a new Command and Conquer sometime in the future.

See you soon,
The Command & Conquer Team

- CNCNZ.com has been redesigned:

Our friends over CNCNZ.com have redesigned their site and they are using more friendly URLs for their features.

They've also recently restored their download system and they've posted a new episode of their Carton and Conquer.

- OS SHP Builder 3.37 Beta is downloadable at PPM:

Check the Editing Tools section in our left menu to download the latest beta version of OS SHP Builder. This main feature is saving SHP (TD) files in a stable way and this is the reason why we are already recommending it over 3.36. It also fixes issues with SHP (TS) radar colors and Final Sun and it includes several features and bug fixes (see list of features HERE).

The beta comes with an installer that may download files from our SVN in the first run. The uninstaller is still being coded.

For the other news, check the latest Community BattleCast Primetime Episode in the video below:

And finally, regarding ModDB's Mod of the Year event, I was not motivated to promote it here at all. We all know that the editors will only praise the FPS mods and Black Mesa because these games can use models with higher amount of polygons and, if lucky, perhaps Mental Omega may reach the user vote top 10 mods... but I have my doubts about that, although I think they do deserve it as well as Twisted Insurrection (which will not be at the top 10 at all).

Dutchygamer · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 10:42 am Post subject:

At least MO, TI and RotR have made it to the top 100 again. You're probably right, but saying it doesn't matter to vote because of those FPS mods isn't helpful either #Tongue

OmegaBolt · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:40 pm Post subject:

Disappointed that CBCPT missed off my mod release despite messaging them about it. #Tongue

With nearly 30,000 downloads MO will hopefully get in the Top 10.

Banshee · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:13 am Post subject:

After posting this news, I've checked the scoreboard from MOTY and I've got very skeptic about MO hitting the top 10. There is no sign of Command & Conquer in the top 6 games.