Aquanox 2 Refit 2023 mod

Download english or german version, whatever you are using.

INSTALLATION:
Copy all content of this mod into the Aquanox 2 main folder where the file "AN2.dat" is also located.
In order to play this mod correctly, you have to edit your video settings. Open the settings, click on
"choose preset", select any preset you want and apply your screen resolution afterwards if there is no correct preset.
NOT DOING SO WILL RESULT IN GRAPHICAL ISSUES. You can also manually edit your config file if you want.
This preset only sets everything to maximum and texture cache size to 1024mb because the default maximum value of 64mb is not enough.

If you want to uninstall the mod, just delete dat, gui, ini, map, sfx and vfx folders.

List of changes (not complete):
-Replaced Mighty Maggie with Nudimund, a fast and flexible new scout from the Clansunion
-Replaced Lacewing with Deathblow, a heavy and strong EnTrOx scout
-Replaced Deimos with Succubus - yes, the one and only - but with a improved model and textures
-Added Slider 4 as new enemy (Standard and pirate variant)
-Upscaled most textures by the factor of 4 with an AI program
-Weapon and ship stats are now displayed correctly in-game
-Range of Hitman "corrected" to 500m, added secondary mode and increased damage slightly
-Replaced Leech with Stanley II torpedo because Leech was useless anyway
-Added secondary fire mode to EMPactor: Higher fire rate, less range, more spread, less damage
-Modified Sizzler, increased range, added zoom mode and balanced damage and increased beam speed in secondary mode
-Altered Torpedo balance - It takes longer for enemies to react to torpedoes. A single cheap pirate can finally no longer dodge 8 Man-Eaters within 10 seconds and firing homing torpedoes from more than 30 meters distance now actually has a chance of success!
-Seriously increased seeker quality of Thresher and Tiger sharks
-Increased health values of many enemies that were previously made out of paper
-Fixed non-working bonus objectives
-Most item rewards have been moved around and balanced. Did you ever use XT Vendetta? Now you have a reason to do so.
-Generally improved usefulness of XT Modules: XT Doom Mortar can now, for example, oneshot PIR-Carnages with secondary fire and XT-Sizzler can now two-shot ATL-Argons or oneshot Torpedo towers..
-Big Bang 2 is now faster than Big Bang 1, but a lot more expensive and does less damage than before
-Torpedo engines are now much louder
-Added a few new sounds from "Archimedean Dynasty"
-Small other graphical improvements, for example slightly better explosions and debris
-Fixed a bug with the harvester, leading to the problem that passive seeking torpedoes were always aiming for the harvester
-Mission "Crawlers and Angels" can no longer be played stealthy because there is no crawler scout available to the player anymore
-Increased health of El Topos Asylum by 56% to make instant mission 8 winnable
-Decreased rewards dramatically - bonus objectives are now very important
-Many translation corrections
-Many balance fixes

KNOWN ISSUES:
-Slider 4 has no cockpit weakspot for Vendetta sniper
-Sizzler in zoom mode does not trigger weakspots like Vendetta sniper
-A few enemies in "defend Harvester" missions may act passively and may not attack
-If you dont set texture cache to at least 512MB you will get extreme graphical issues, you have been warned!
-Sometimes torpedoes with passive seeker fail to track any target if there has another torpedo been fired before by the player. This bug is caused by the game itself!
-On Windows 10 and above the Game is somewhat unstable and may crash here and there, especially in shops or when trying to switch resolution. This bug is not caused by my mod!!