Kratos development has progressed a lot with v0.42!

Banshee

Greetings, Comrade General! Kratos has been receiving constant improvements in recent weeks. Right now, the latest release is Kratos v0.42p8. For those unfamiliar with it, Kratos is a Chinese solution that extends the modding features from Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge with Ares and YR Dynamic Patcher. Here are the changes and the fun stuff from Kratos v0.42:

Some changes involve the tags:

AllowMakeVoxelDebrisByKratos=yes,
MinDebris,
MaxDebris,
DebrisMaximums,
MetallicDebris,
DebrisMaximums,
DebrisMaximums,
DebrisTypes,
DebrisMaximums,
NotAffectMarks,
ClearDisguise=no,
AttachEffectTypesX,
AttackBeacon,
AffectsOwner,
SpawnDelay,

A proper translation of 0.42 features relies on the cooperation of our Chinese friends, especially kenosis, the "Kratos major tester". The best we can get without their cooperation is what Google Translator can provide:

- Google Translation

If you are curious about Kratos, visit the Official Website to obtain further information about it. An english Kratos Guide covering version 0.38 is available Here. Download Kratos v0.42. And this is all for today! Enjoy Kratos and provide your feedback about it so it can get better.

Key Words: #News #Release #RedAlert2 #YurisRevenge #Ares #Kratos #YRDynamicPatcher

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southfar_2 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 17 Jun 2023

Why is all of this content Chinese in the first place? What happened to Ares? And on that note, what happened to Phobos (which is also Chinese, I think)? Are they all dead, and Kratos picks up the lineage? Or is this a branch?

Banshee · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:46 am Post subject:

For starters, Kratos' content is in Chinese because the author is from China, and he/she doesn't seem to speak English fluently.

Ares has been inactive for a couple of years.

Phobos is not Chinese at all. The most active authors are European. And it is active and they had a couple of releases recently. The last known one was Build 38

And finally, for further clarification, Kratos, Ares and Phobos are different products with the same purpose in mind. Ares patches YR with new features. Phobos patches Ares. Kratos does what Ares do, but it was created using YR Dynamic Patcher, which is a Chinese alternative for Syringe that "injects C#" code instead of C++ code injected by Syringe (used by Ares). It has some other tricks in its sleeves. Here's the official description:

Quote:

Dynamic Patcher work differently from Ares. It can dynamic patch Yuri's Revenge by dynamic compiling the C# code and syringe the binary code to Yuri's Revenge.

It give a completely different way to write our extension features. We can use it to do something below:

use the very nice reflection technique in C#
use "*.cs" file as a script, which mean it can be a weapon script, map script and so on.
coding when the game is running, without restarting the game.
without building a dll file. instead, we can use "*.cs" file as hotfix.