Battlefleet Gothic - Beta 0.7 - Part Two file

README

This is the first public beta for Battlefleet Gothic. The intention was for a first, full release, but studies and work got in the way. Rather than continue to wait - we thought it best to release this as a taster. So there is not as much polish as we hoped - there are bugs to remove, icons to remove, animations to redo and a lot of fx to do. With my schedule as it is, the fully polished edition will be the end of this week.

INSTALLATION

Unzip into the Dark Crusade/bfg_mod base folder.
CURRENT BUG LIST.
- Terminus Est holds the placeholder of a standard Despoiler Battleship.
- Untextured Chaos HQ.
- Chaos structures unanimated, to follow with a later patch.
- Chaos vessels are unanimated - to follow.
- No models for listening posts.
- Some pathfinding issues.
- No custom gamemodes - to follow.
- Leviathan, Longinus and the Conqueror are also outdated models.
- Blackstone Fortress is corrupted.
- Mars and Overlord are unbuildable - fix to follow.
- Several of the maps lack minimaps/are unfinished.
- Custom menu art to follow.
- Custom icons, voices and overall polish.
- Unit caps needed.
- Sacrilege builder ship does not reinforce.
- Chaos Boundary Marker is much smaller.
- Iconoclast: same; very small in comparison with IN Cobras
- Idolator: No model? (CSM tanks placeholder)
- Desecration Yards: don't produce all cruisers/grand cruisers with Nurgle fleet choice. (to be tested later with other patron deities)
- Firestorm / Sword share the same model
- Gothic has Pink Cube of Doom
- Dominator: position light FX is single, huge and set beneath the ship; Nova Cannon is absent (no selector icon)
- Lunar: no position light FX; Torps are absent (no selector icon)
- Retribution: no FX (exhausts or position lights)
- Emperor: position light FX disappear when moving
- Mars & Overlord not accessible (no vermillion Level research available)
- Unit speech is all over the place, using a combination of vanilla Chaos, Imperial Guard and Tau speech files.
- Mod still uses vanilla loading screen and frontend menu artwork.
- Unit responsiveness and pathfinding can be quite bad, especially with squadrons.
- Remnants of any race inside are meaningless. Ignore them. Imperial and Navy only.
Any others - please report!

THE CURRENT BUILD IS A BETA - ORIGINAL INTENTION WAS A FINAL RELEASE.

Updates will be frequent across this week, with tomorrow/Tuesdays adding the full Chaos fleet, fully 3d.

CREDITS:

In no order of importance -
- The guys from MRIT for putting up with us for so long, both on IRC and elsewhere: particularly Kresjah, for his code insight and general support, and Lleman, for his TT knowledge and help with design documents
- All of our internal playtesters, particularly fuggles for his feedback and design contributions
- Fixer, for helping out greatly with texture work
- #art, for dealing with our mod-related spam over the past few months
- Everyone who has contributed to the BFG project over the years, in any capacity. - Relic for making the game in the first place and providing the mod support necessary

PERMISSIONS:

No aspect of this mod is to be used in any modification, at all, without first checking with Heretic or Gorb. Including assets and code - it has been eight years of work and we would like to know if you want to use them and for you to ask - but generally, so long as you ask, replies will generally be favourable.