News Of The Week (March 29th to April 5th 2004)!
... There was also a good mod released: Savage War. And, a nearly unknown mod from Daz, was also released, although both are still beta. The great bomb planned for this week, which was called nuke here, is that 2 big C&C networks and Total Destruction Mod will move all nearly at the same time to the same server. The nuke already has a date: wednesday. PPM will probably move on thrusday. CnC Guild and Origin-Network on a big dedicated server and ready to host more mods... it's time to think about expanding PPM as well 
. Anyway, back to the round up, I must admit I havent checked all networks this time... I might be adding further news here in the next hours on the sites I didnt cover, but the stuff below is already a good start.
[b]<u>Important:</u>[/b]
-> Savage War 1.0 Beta Released: Clazzy has released the first version of Savage War for YR. It adds some new units, modify others and changes the gameplay keeping the C&C style.
-> Remember The Silence: Daz has released a new release of his mod, Remember The Silence, for RA2/YR, at Origin-Network forums. You can download it here.
-> Broken Alliance Alpha Testing Has Started: Lord Kal is looking for Alpha Testers for his mod, RA2: Broken Alliance, to test the new economy system applied in that mod. The Alpha version also feature Great Britain, France, some German new units, few of USA and few of Korea. No new AI or new game modes in the moment. If you are interested on helping him by testing it, reply at <a href-"http://forum.cncguild.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4197]this topic[/url]
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-> BS SHP Builder: On April 1st, I posted an april's fool news with the features of BS SHP Builder 3. The news had 4 features that won't be made until v3 which are Infantry Generator, Damager, Multi Documents Interface and Find And Replace. Also, beta testing date was an april's fool as well. I have worked very hard recently in this tool (this was even the main reason of the delay of this news), but it's far from being finished. In this weekend, I tried to apply the Multi Documents Interface, but it's really hard to adapt it to the way BS SHP Builder works, so in the moment, I dont believe it will really be featured in v3.0. Other than that, there are few tools that needs to be finished like Colour Replacement, Cameo Generator and few others... It will still take long, but it will certainly be much better than BS SHP Builder 2.1.
[b]<u>Community News:</u>[/b]
-> CnC Guild Version 2 Comming Soon: Des08tor has announced that there will be a vast change in CnC Guild in the middle of the month. First of all, the whole network is migrating to a new server with Origin Network and [url=http://www.destructionmod.com" target=_blank">Total Destruction[/url]. And also, the site layout, the news system and the forums will change.
-> Origin Network's Prefect Five Announced!: Detail has recently announced the Perfection Five, adding new network sites, improving forums, doing some smaller changes and hosting more projects
-> Deciler's Maps: Aparently, CnC Guild decided to ressurect few sections of the old site CnC Map Guild. You can now go into Deciler's maps, and download 9 great looking maps from Deciler and the Survival Mode that he created with Reakon.
-> Derelict Studios Expands: Phoib has recently announced True War 2 and it that wasnt enough, the mod Call To Arms has left NOVA to join Derelict Studios as well.
-> Sleipnir's Stuff: They've recently reformed their forums and it's looking much better now.
[b]<u>Events:</u>[/b]
-> CnC Guild Voxel Grand Prix 1: And the winner is... Mig Eater! That was expected
! Mig Eater's Aurora has beaten Raminator's Panzer IV for less than 2 points. In the end, 3 good new voxels for the community. Now, Voxel Grand Prix 2 has started and you can submit your voxel unti april 30th. There are few changes on the rules now: You can only submit fully new voxels and the voxels rated higher than 60% will be available on YR: Argentina.
[b]<u>Tutorials:</u>[/b]
-> Making A Technician/Mechanic, for RA2 or YR, by Psycho at YR: Argentina.
[b]<u>TS & RA2 Editing Resources:</u>[/b]
-> A6E Intruder, voxel, by ArgCmdr at YR: Argentina.
-> Knight, infantry SHP, by Zarzoz at [url=http://yrarg.cncguild.net/" arget="_blank">YR: Argentina[/url].
-> Aurora, (Voxel Grand Prix March 2004 Winner) voxel, by Mig Eater at [url=http://yrarg.cncguild.net/" arget="_blank">YR: Argentina[/url].
-> Panzer IV, (Voxel Grand Prix March 2004 Second Place) voxel, by Raminator at [url=http://yrarg.cncguild.net/" arget="_blank">YR: Argentina[/url].
-> Guardian Post, building SHP, by MedalMonkey at [url=http://yrarg.cncguild.net/" arget="_blank">YR: Argentina[/url] and Editing Source.
-> Red Ring, animation SHP, by MedalMonkey at [url=http://yrarg.cncguild.net/" arget="_blank">YR: Argentina[/url] and Editing Source.
-> Sgt Mac's Rules, RA2/YR modification, by Sgt Mac, at RADEN.
-> Crazy Rules Full Version, RA2/YR modification, by NikeMaker, at RADEN.
[b]<u>Renegade/Generals/Zero Hour Editing Resources:</u>[/b]
-> Tripple Barreled Artillery, skinned model, by Creator at CnC RenEclips.
-> Joint Fighter, skinned model, by Trex238 at CnC RenEclips.
-> Venom, skinned model, by Vanguard at CnC RenEclips.
-> Hover Tank, skinned model, by Daz at GenDev.
-> Tripple Master, skinned model, by Vanguard at CnC RenEclips.
-> Enhanced Air Force General, ZH modification, by Mapsimus Maximus at CNCDEN and CnC World.
[b]<u>Red Alert 2 Maps:[/b]</u>
-> Prism Bear, multiplayer map, by capalex65 at RADEN.
[b]<u>Yuri's Revenge Maps:[/b]</u>
-> Romance, multiplayer map, by ArgCmdr at YR: Argentina.
-> Bullzome's Fall, multiplayer map, by Natus at YR: Argentina and Editing Source.
-> Heaven's Gate, multiplayer map, by Natus at YR: Argentina and Editing Source.
-> Riverside, RADEN Thumbs Up multiplayer map, by Ashcool01 at RADEN.
-> 3 Map Packs by Diesystem at Editing Source.
[b]<u>Zero Hour Maps:[/b]</u>
-> Area 51, CnCNZ Featured multiplayer map, by Osey at CnCnZ.com.
-> Frost Bite, CnCNZ Featured multiplayer map, by Osey at CnCnZ.com.
-> Jungle Oil, DEN's Featured multiplayer map, by Freedom (and lightly edited by Lion) at CNCDEN.
-> Das Paradies, DEN's Featured multiplayer map, by Sisslik at CNCDEN.
-> Homeland Assault, DEN's Featured multiplayer map, by cncfan32 at CNCDEN.
-> Town Strike, single player mission, by Alex B at CNCDEN.
-> DMZ, multiplayer map, by Derek at CNCDEN.
-> Hell's Mountain, multiplayer map, by Kedric Frick at CNCDEN.
-> Winter Valley, multiplayer map, by WNxColor_42 at CNCDEN.
-> River Raid, multiplayer map, by cncfan32 at CNCDEN.
-> Alpine Assault, multiplayer map, by Jarmen Kell at CNCDEN.
-> Yorkton, multiplayer map, by Billman3600 at CNCDEN.
-> Iron Cross, multiplayer map at CnC World.
-> Island Fortress, multiplayer map, by Mapsimus Maximus at CnC World
[b]<u>Zero Hour Replays:</u>[/b]
-> 6 replays submited by Capt.Colesterol (2), lil9, HITMAN, WNxAnthrax, DarkMatter at CNCDEN.
[b]<u>RedAlert2/Yuri'sRevenge Mod News:</u>[/b]
-> Allies Revenge 2: Chrono has posted screenshots of Nemesis barracks that may now be garrisoned, boosting Nemesis defense.
-> Robot Storm: Natus has posted two in game screenshots of build 1.5 delta that you can see [url=http://forum.cncguild.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4238">here[/url]. One of them features a good looking ion strike chrono.
[b]<u>Generals/ZeroHour Mod News:</u>[/b]
-> Blitzkrieg II: They've recently posted a screenshot of a new airfield that will be featured in their mod.
-> The Finest Hour: They have got some new staff recently. Mithril on AI, Sync3Ds on skins, Zealot on maps and csharp on models.
-> True War II: Phoib has showed us renders of M-2A3, M1-A2 Abrams, BMP-3, T-90 Main Battle Tank, M270 MLRS and SS-21.
Finally, I'd like to call your attention for 2 things. First of all, thanks to Unidentifiedname for the news template (which helped a lot). And second, farewell to our good friend MaperRiz... It's hard to talk about this, but he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and has been given three days to live by his doctor' [ more info HERE ]. He has been a great mapper for RA2/YR and he is currently staff of Robot Storm. Farewell, my friend, and good luck on whatever comes next for you...
