The promised release is finally here, it enhances the graphics, the effects, adds over 100 new sounds, adds new voice dubs for the marines,new models, rebalancement, semi canon events, new weapons, bugfixes,support for Galactic Conquest and Campaign (for now placeholder, the real campaign will come in 2018).
If you loved the Open Beta release of two months ago, prepare to be amazed !
I decided to push the boundaries with this release, I added and modified over 50 000 lines of code in total, and added more than 100 sounds as stated in the summary, and since everything have been said, it is time for the instructions, but first of all :
DISCLAIMER :
I can't be held as responsible of any damage made to the game, your computer, or any nuclear war between North Korea and the rest of the world, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, and BACKUP YOUR BATTLEFRONT FILES.
1. Backup your files, as for now, no one hosts a ferocious battlefront server, so it won't work online unless the host has the patch, the best way is to simply make a copy of your _LVL_PC folder and revert to the original when playing online, or if you have some disk space, clone your game and use one for Ferocious, and the other one for online play.
2. Open the archive with your favorite program aka WinRar or 7Zip.
3. Go to your Battlefront install location (something like C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront)
4. Copy the GameData folder of contained in Ferocious.zip in to your folder (again C:\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront, or something else if you got it from steam)
5. Overwrite when asked UNLESS YOU HAVEN'T BACKUPED YOUR FILES.
6. ENJOY Battlefront as you never did before... ;)
Whenever you start the game, you will see some changes in the start screens that'll easily let you know you are on Ferocious, as an example, my Multiplayer menu is Infrared colored, and my custom logo will show up alongside a legal disclaimer.
Also, last but not least, the mod is bundled with SWBFSpy Battlefont, no panic, this have been added if someone decides to host Ferocious Battlefront online, it allows who launches it to play online without GameSpy, as for now it is unusable with Ferocious, but if it is I'll let you all know ;)
Here is the page of the project :
Info.swbfspy.com
And also big thanks and thumbs up to swbfgamers.com, without them, nothing of this would've been possible :D
Special thanks to
Gistech, for the awesome assets provided to the modding community, his amazing 3D models (Vanilla Galactic Marines, New Stormtroopers, 70% of the weapons you'll see) and his help who allowed me to add custom sounds in game, I owe ya 10 beers man !
Sereja, for being the best modder of the SWBF community, and his Godlike assets and skillz (Most of the Galactic Marines's equipment, A180 and variants excluded)
Unit33, for graciously providing the V2.3's HUD
Tirpider, fot the Mandalorian Warrior model.
Harpic for handing me his computer when I needed to do some testing
And finally to my family and friends.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !!!!!! HAVE AN AWESOME 2018 YEAR !!!!!!
(my email is kengame2010@gmail.com)
The mod runs very slowly to the point of being unplayable , I think I installed it correctly , since we just overwrite the GameData folder from my understanding , when launching the game from SWBF1 Launcher.exe or even just the normal battlefront.exe the game opens up with no sound , the menus colors seemed very distorted or at the very least very bright and high contrast than from the normal game. When launching an instant action or anything really it runs very slow , even know before I was able to max the game out. (is the graphics much higher I'm assuming?) so I turned the graphics down and the game still runs very slow. (do I need a newer computer perhaps to run a mod for a 2004 game?). I'm not sure if I installed the game wrong or something , but I have no sound , the menu seems high contrast , and it runs to the point of being unplayable , (if I had to guess I would say , 15 to 5 fps on lowest possible settings (at 1080p). if you could help me at all or shoot me an email , and help , I would be very thankful. or if ,not ill understand as your most likely a busy person. At least thank you for reading till the end of my message.
As a small update , I tried installing the older version of this mod (the one from august 2017) and that version worked. its just this new version that has issues.
Got it working , however had to lower settings down , looks like maxing out at 1080p was too much for a 550 Ti. I just installed the first version of the mod , then the sound patch thing. and then this version of it.
I strongly recommend to not use the beta, I just keep it for historical purposes, as far as I'm aware I have uploaded a bugfixed version on the 23 of December (V.2.3B)
I would suggest you to try this one out without ReShade and see if you can hear the new sounds, if you don't, just hit me up and I'll see if I can upload another bugfix.
Sorry for the answer time, the mod includes a really powerful ReShade ScureHD preset that transforms the mod's graphics, however, older graphics that ain't dedicated may have some trouble running it, if it causes any problems, you can simply remove the ReShade folder in the GameData folder.