News Of The Week (1 to 7/03/2004)

Banshee · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 1:24 am Post subject: News Of The Week (1 to 7/03/2004)

Today, I've spent a considerably long time of my day to bring the latest news from CnC Community sites to you. I admit that I restricted the news from sites hosted networks that were partners of PPM in these latest months, which is almost all of C&C ones. I've organized by networks, instead of organizing by theme, so it was easier to check them out and grab the latest news for you. From the networks listed below, only one isnt really a network: Deezire. The networks not listed are the ones I didnt found news or I had DNS problems.

CnC Guild

-> Reneclips: They have recently added a lot of content to their site like:

- Iron Dragon (skin) by ChrisV80 and The Hunter
- Dune Buggy Remake (model) by Vanguard
- 3 Generals Wallpapers made by Desert Fox 2002 for his upcomming mod 'Burnout'
- Anihilator Tank (model) by Vaporiser
- Heavy Crusader (model) by Vanguard
- Battle Crawler (model) by Vanguard
- a truck made by ChrisV80 and skinned by The Hunter

-> YR Argentina: ArgCmdr has updated the site with the following content:

- Apollo's Soviet Howitzer (voxel)
- Iraq (map) updated by Educuevas
- a new tutorial about Enslaves= and Spawns= written by ArgCmdr

And he has also posted some screenies of the latest build of YR Argentina mod at this topic.

-> RA2: Graphic Heaven: Mig Eater has re-launched RA2 Graphics Heaven for public. This site will feature high quality voxels and it will have SHP files as well. In the moment it has 3 voxels:

- Crusader MBT (tank)
- Firewolf (mlrs or anti-air unit)
- Aurora (aircraft)

-> RA2: Broken Alliance: Lord Kal has recently showed a screenshot from the cruiser voxel and the rebel infantry that will be featured at this mod. You can see it in this topic.

-> Halo: Age Of Apocalypse: Solidus has posted a screenie of his latest infantry in this topic.

CnC Source

-> CnC Source: gandr96, the new mapper, has added a new Zero Hour map that he made called 'Pipeline'. Also, as mentioned in one of the lastest news here, Stucuk made a toplist for CnC Source.

Deezire

-> Deezire.net: Deezire has created a forum to hold all fan submited tutorials. You need to be registered to view it here. Registering is free, fast, easy and spam-free, just like here in PPM. So, you have nothing to loose by registering there.

Den Games Network

-> CnC DEN: Lion has posted a lot of C&C news there recently and he has also added Camper's Creek (a featured zero hour map) made by Hawk10314.

-> RADEN: Lions has recently added:

- Soviet Threat (yr single player mission) created by dlikee & Miggi03
- Ashencol (yr 4-player map) made by Ashcool01

Derelict Studios

-> Allies Revenge 2: Chrono has posted an ingame screenshot of the new, and very well done, Genesis construction yard. Check their site to see what will be in the next version.

-> Blitzkrieg 2: Blitzkrieg 2 has reached 50k downloads, which is a record for a mod made for a C&C game. They are also in the coverdiks of Gamestar (a german magazine) and they were mentioned in the lastest PC Gamer UK.

Listen To The Rain

-> CnC World.Org: Chickendippers uploaded Mars Redesigned, edited by Mill and Matt, for Zero Hour.

Nova Modding Team

-> Nova Modding Team: At NOVA, Sy has posted 12 renders of units that will appear in Energy Mod.

Origin-Network

-> Editing Source: Fenring has recently added:

- Howitzer voxel made by Apollo
- 3 recolored voxels recoloured by Fenring
- 8 Voice packs from RA converted by Fenring

-> Defcon: Agile has posted a great render of Aerosian Armed Forces featuring many of its units. The render is great and can be found here.

-> Halo Generals Mod: This Zero Hour mod is in need of staff. If you have some free time and skills, try to fill the following jobs:

- Conceptual Art: They need someone to make them few building designs for the UNSC.

- Graphic Art: They just need someone who have a good knowledge of Photoshop and usage of alpha channel's to help them with graphics and textures.

-> The Finest Hour: Stino has one good and bad thing to show. Starting with the bad thing, five members of his mod left it and they are in need of skinner(s) and ini coder(s). The good news is that Stino has recently showed 24 nice looking screenshots in the site. Check it out!

-> Isis War: Detail has posted an updated development log of what he has done so far for this mod at this forum topic.

-> Internal Destruction: MadHQ has posted screenshots of a mech harvester (interesting, but the screenshot was a bit pixelated). He has also showed two other units, although he just mentioned their functions. All three units were made for the side Zorgons. He was also sad to inform that he lost two members of his team.

-> CnC Reloaded: FS-21 has a great news for many of those who saw the resized TS buildings from the betas: the final version won't be pixelated. He is working hard to improve it (with BS SHP Builder) and the results are being good. He has posted a picture of an optimized Construction Yard that you can view here. Let's hope he does the same with voxels as well, although we know that this delays the release of the mod.

Planet CnC / GameSpy:

-> Planet CnC: Hexetic has added 2 zero hour replays that he played and PCNC staff always post a lot of updated C&C community news.

-> Red Alert TechCenter²: PuMa² has posted a Mega Maps Patch for RA1. This patch allows RA1 and Counterstrike expansion to play maps that are bigger than 126x126. If you have Aftermath, you dont need this patch.

-> Star Wars: Imperial Assault: They have showed two amazing renders of structures that will be featured in their mod like the Imperial Barracks and Hammerblow.

-> Only War: Tornado2099 has posted a full roundup of the progress of his team. It covers screenshots from the Space Marines's units, to Imperial Guard Vulture and Hyperious Platform in game and much more. I heavly recommend a broadband conection to check it out here.

-> Purple Alert: At Purple Alert, martyr has released the third and biggest release of YR Unofficial 1.002 Mini-Patch in this week. (Note: Do not confuse this project with Fenring's project at CnC Guild). This third release contains the follow:

Code:

Release #3: 2004-03-03
Bug Fixes:
- Arnie Frankenfurter, Flint Westwood & Sammy Stallion names and sounds restored to 1.000 settings.
- Grizzly Medium Tank firing origin fixed.
- Rhino Heavy Tank firing origin fixed.
- Lasher Light Tank firing origin fixed.
- Apocalypse Tank anti-air firing origin fixed.
- Flak Cannon firing origin fixed.
- Sentry Gun firing origin fixed.
- Grand Cannon firing origin fixed.
- Tech Outpost now leaves rubble in all theaters, not just arctic.
- 'Hidden object' indicators for Tech Airport fixed.
- Robot Control Center damaged animation fixed.
- Weather Controller arctic image fixed.
- Boris will now attack naval units properly.
- Gattling Tank charged damage no longer reduced when elite.
- Refund amount for grinding a Guardian GI increased to correct amount.
- Refund amount for grinding a Crazy Ivan increased to correct amount.
- Refund amount for Yuri grinding an Attack Dog increased to correct amount.
Feature Additions:
- Full support for the YR Terrain Expansion.
- Minor Super game mode.
- Enhanced AI option."

And the previous releases added much more. You can find out all features and download it here

Savage War

-> Osmium: Rattuskid has posted some screenshots of his mod in the newest screenshot of his forum that can be viewed here.

Unleashed Network

-> CnC: Unleashed: The same Camper's Creek map featured at CnC DEN is also featured at CnC Unleashed.

-> RA2: Unleashed: They have some cool renders released recently like the tesla coil, prism tower and chronoshpere. They've also released a screenshot of the prism tower in game and it's great. Check all of it out in their site.

And finally, we wish the best for our friend Unidentifiedname, who is now hibernating for two months due to exams. His inumerous community roundups in CnC Unleashed and Deezire.net helped a lot to unite many C&C sites and helped the growth of many of them by spreading its good news around. That's all for today and soon, I will post news of PPM and its hosted projects. Enjoy the CnC RTS Community.