Added new unit to the Ivory Groundforce, being the MRT (Mobile Repair Transport). Has two drones that fly around and repair your units within the new heal area indicators. The Ivory Airforce Maintenance Drone has a slightly nerfed heal range as well as now a new Heal radius indicator. Fixed up some wrong cameos and text strings. Added bridge to upper north-west cliff area in general Granger's Generals Challenge map to access the Easter egg easier, which can only be triggered by ground units now.
DISCLAIMER: THIS MOD IS STILL A WIP,
THERE IS NO SKIRMISH AI FOR THIS NEW FACTION, SO DON'T CHOOSE THEM IN SKIRMISH THINKING THEY'LL WORK!!!
DISCLAIMER: before you go whining to me that the Ivory Specters faction is too OP, thats kinda their purpose tbh. Game balancing isn't my strong suit, this mod was for my personal use ONLY to make the game more fun for me, but i felt generous and decided to give it out to the public to see what they think about it. You're free to decompile the mod and make balance changes as you see fit.
This mod was mostly meant for PVE, but PVP could be possible with this mod. Would love to see some gameplay on it.
I decided to leave the vanilla zero hour campaigns intact and still playable, BUT now ALL Generals Challenge maps are compatible with the Ivory Specters. If you need to FIND the ivory specters on the Generals Challenge selection menu, look to this image.
You CAN play as the ivory specters in the challenge as theres a hidden button to select them in the menu where you select your player general. You may find some hidden eastereggs and secrets within the somewhat revamped GC maps, a time-travelling nuclear companion will sometimes lend you his aid in the battles!
Someday in the future, i'll make an official campaign map pack for this mod to supplement that as i've tried numerous times and failed to do that via through the menu and replacing and editing maps, so i'll make it being in the skirmish menu as maps you can add to your game.
Anyway there could be some easter-eggs here and there in some voice lines i took from other games that sounded perfect for an RTS unit, as well as guest appearances of my own shitty voice for some voices of units, a major one being the Ivory Specter "Hero Unit", Doug White. (Should change his voice sometime... sounds cringe.)
Changes with this version:
- IVORY GROUNDFORCES IS NOW COMPLETED, YOU CAN START PLAYING THEM PROPERLY NOW!!!
- Added new unit for Ivory Groundforce, the MRT (Mobile Repair Transport). A vehicle that deploys two healing flying drones that heal vehicles below them in small visible radii. Also an infantry transport that can allow it's passengers to fire out of it for self defense.
- Added visible healing radius indicator for the Ivory Airforce Maintenance Drone as well as slightly toning down it's healing radius too.
- Fixed up some cameos of the Ivory Groundforce as well as wrong text strings and stuff.
- Edited Ivory Groundforce power plant power output, and some building power intakes as well.
TO DO:
- Alter Ivory Airforce Humvee and Warlock Tank's textures to look the gold skin. Same for the Ivory Sentry Drone and Hover Transport.
- Do the same above for the Ivory MiG and Helix.
- Use Alpha 98 Aurora bomber model as a replacement to the Aurora Alpha model.
- Use Alpha 98 US Dozer Model as a replacement for the Ivory Airforce Dozer.
- Use Alpha 98 Scout Drone model for the scout drones of the Ivory Airforce.
- Make Gold Skin for the Ivory Point Defense Drone and Stinger Drones.
- Add more custom skirmish maps.
- Continue work overhauling vanilla skirmish maps
INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS
Extract the Data, Maps, ControlBarPro BIG files, and Art folders into your main C&C Generals Zero Hour Directory, oh and don't forget to back up those folder's you're about to replace too as precaution due to the mod files not being big files yet. There is no launcher for this mod as well since i have no idea how to make one for it.
Oh and if you see the following maps in the game Official Maps section, they're new, some edited from other maps i found online, some edits to some official maps, some completely made from scratch, some made that were modified from the Alpha, or from inspiration from another C&C map and they are the following:
The Alamo
Yuri's Plot
Dune Patrol
Unrepentant
Al Hashire
Dogs of War--Stadium Edition
Tournament Island 2
Urban Attacks
Fortress Assault (1 v. 5)
StyleMap3 Skirmish
(More maps and modified base-game maps will be added in future updates)
BTW, Those maps will ONLY WORK with THIS MOD, so it's INCOMPATIBLE with base Zero Hour.
If theres any bugs to be fixed or some gripes to be had, do put a comment down below to see what i can do about it the next update. :D