Hey guys.
It's been a couple months since we've had an update, so we thought we'd update you with out status and show you some things you can expect to see in the future.
As of the 19th, it's been exactly one year since the release of Unreal Tournament 3. Kind of funny, because we at Renegade X had bought it for a good fifty or sixty dollars, and now you can find it in certain places for less than ten dollars. So if you haven't gotten a copy yet, go ahead and get one, because you will not be able to play Renegade X without UT3. Wouldn't want to be late for the Renegade revolution, huh? :P
The team has been very busy for the past few months in all divisions. We've been making our push for some huge updates you could expect to see during the Christmas season, as well as getting C&C mode coded and working ingame. Progress has been grand, and we haven't exactly been telling you all about everything we've been doing - we're just a big fan of surprises - so bear with the project and stick around for progress reports. I can't say much right now, other than that there is a shocking update just around the corner, just in time for the Mod of the Year Awards too!
Interview
Sonic at CNCNZ has just performed an in-depth, informative interview with Fobby, the founder of the Renegade X. The interview carries a whole range of information about our progress, our opinions, comments about a possible sequel to C&C Renegade, etc.
Here's an excerpt:
7) Is Renegade X a direct remake of what the original Renegade offered us or have you added your own twist on how the game plays?
Renegade X will surpass the original Renegade in every way. Graphics, well you can see for yourself. Audio, for sure! Gameplay, definitely. No more glitchy bugs and bad net coding. There will also be more to this mod than what Renegade had delivered. Although we’re not changing much of the game’s actual mechanics, things like new game modes, oodles of server side options, and so much more will be coming to play. Also, just the fact that the Unreal Engine 3 has a much more dynamic physics engine than W3D will revolutionize things like explosions and superweapons, and cause them to blow you out of proportion, literally!
You could find the interview here!
Cncnz.com
And now for some work in progress shots of some of the things we've been dishing out:
Nod Airstrip
The Airstrip is back looking hotter than ever. It's where Nod gets its vehicles dropped off by Cargo Plane. Similar to our vehicles, the buildings in Renegade X will increasingly get dirtier, snowier, or visually more damaged depending on the circumstances of the match. Modeled by Deathlink, textured by Havoc89 and PT by JeepRubi
The Purchase Terminal is a work in progress, so it will not be a plain green in the released version of the mod. We've got some great ideas you will see with time :)
Islands
A beautiful map by our new member, Zixxer. Islands brings out the tropical side of Renegade X, with bright skies and luscious environment. Islands is a personal favorite for many, and now it is back looking better than ever!
Mammoth Tank Concept
The Mammoth tank is the biggest, baddest and most expensive vehicle in the game. It's very heavily armored and dual barreled for extra fire power. The Mammoth also has tusk missiles with the ability of locking onto targets for close range havoc.
The Mammoth Tank will be completed and ready for use in our next update, and I know you Renegade and Tiberian Dawn fans will love to see its triumphant return in Renegade X.
That's it for now everybody. Again, a major update is just around the corner, so stick around and be sure to check out Renegade-x.com for more news and WIP shots in the coming days and weeks. Hope you all enjoyed this brief update!
Later!
Im sorry to say this but I think those palm tree's are from crysis.
Otherwise good work!
I think the Palm Trees are from Mother Nature. Not Crysis.
Why recreate something that's already there?
I have to agree... there are too many remakes of remakes of a remake. Are there any original ideas any more? or are people just too lazy to think? Not meant to be harsh, just asking a legitimate question.
its a ******* tree, how can you make it in any different way?..stop taking some ******** words and going in-depth.
The gameplay in the multiplayer went unnoticed by a lot of people because the game didnt get the *best* reviews of the time. That multiplayer is still highly played and enjoyed by quite a large sum of people. However it will not be able to survive for long simply because it is way out of date.
At the time the game was release, the story was bad, the graphics were not as great for it's time, but the multiplayer alone has made this game last as long as it has. This multiplayer has surpassed games like battlefield, halo 1 and 2 and quite a lot of FPS games both old and relatively recent.
As I said before the original game wont last much longer because of bad net coding, lots of bugs, and a terrible anti-cheat system. After 6 long years, this mod is out to fix all of those problems and demonstrate just how amazing the multiplayer of this game is, and to show how much potential the gamemode has.
Not to say that there is no more creativity. There are tons of things that are being tweaked/changed/added. The main purpose of this mod is to really unveil the hidden gem that is burried within the multiplayer of the original game.
Surpassing halo multiplayer isn't hard.... =P
Jokes aside this mod is looking fantastic and it's good to see you guys know how to keep to yourselves during development.
As for the palm trees...whats the go with that, they're freaking palm trees, they pretty much all look the same, that's like having a small rock in a game and another game does a rock as well then accusing them of copying one another....GO FIGURE!
And if they are placeholders, so be it, they can do that since this is for non profit and it's shameless advertising for cryis's awesome palm trees :D
I doubt that they are crysis palm trees as they have not mentioned it in the news post (it would be unprofessional if they did use the trees and not mention it).
A palm tree is a freaking palm tree, they may LOOK the same, but they may not be the same model.
(For some reason, I am being reminded of guns in games....any other game that has a desert eagle or any weapon make that was included in counter strike immediately becomes "stolen content" by all the little fan boy kiddies out there, it's ridiculous because they just don't understand anything about 3d modelling, texturing or any of that, yet because they saw the same gun in a different game, or similar object, they immediately jump to the conclusion that it is stolen lol.
Buh...i'm rambling as i'm almost asleep. LET THE TREES GO....THEY DIDNT HURT YOU!
"If you don't like something around here, tell us and you'll be shot right away."
Love that quote. :D
That last screenshot of the levels is AWESOME! Greatly worked to get the atmosphere correct, i love it!
How about they are just a realistic 3D render of a palm tree :P
Awesome update as usual guys! I've been watching you since the beginning like most of the hardcore fans :D and will definitely be at the front of the line when beta comes around.
I'm hoping to see some blackhand ingame soon :D <3
Awesome recreation as usual. Mammoth tank <3. About the interview, I think the mechanics should stay fairly loyal to the original but make options to advance or improve gameplay with different gamemodes and server side options :D
Ps. I bought UT3 for 79 bucks :\
TO bad everybody on crymod says they are from crysis!
They're palm trees.
Stop arguing about them.
Except its illegal to rip them straight out of another game!
Actually, no its not. Provided their releseas as part of a Mod SDK its perfectly legal.
Just sayin'.
overall, crysis copied palm trees from farcry, and farcry copied the palm tress from the 2D renders of Sonic and those 2D renders were copied from REAL palm trees in REAL life, honestly how different can you make a palm tree?
**** the crymod peeps they're idiotic halo-fanboys.
(No offence to the smart halo-fanpeople... if there are any)
Yes, because every quality 3d model simply MUST come out of Crysis, right? /sarcasm
Srsly, if you think these guys can't make their own HQ palm trees, you srsly underestimate the mod and its dev team.
BTW, that last screenshot looks freaking epic.
They are from crysis god you people are stupidly ingnorant!
PIC of the tree's on very high and the tree's in unrela 3 look like either medium or some settings on high!
Pic of palms! I94.photobucket.com
Crymod forum of this mod! Crymod.com
the trees in those screens arent just close, there identical to the trees in crysis. i know what a crysis tree looks like and those are identical. if you compared them you would probably see they are the same.
Like triggerman said, they look exactly the same, model and texture wise. Can't you see that?
they are from crysis
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So nobody noticed the WIP tags on the images? I mean I swear I could see WIP stapled on those things if you look real close and are able to read. Yeah, I just checked again, WIP's. Okay, so the trees are from Crysis. Does that mean they're set in stone and will ship with the mod come hell or high water? Or maybe the mapper put them there until the model he intends to use in the final map is ready? Maybe he just wants to give you an idea of what the final product will look like and maybe you could pay a bit more attention to his actual mapping instead of a few ******* trees? Seriously, this is stupid. One comment pointing out the crysis trees in a UT3 mod was more than enough: this is just bordering on ridiculous. And no, callofduty511, I am blind in the ******* eyes and cannot see similarities.
angry_bot, it doesn't matter if it's WIP, ripping models from other games is illegal, even if you don't show it to anyone. And this may be stupid in your opinion, but it isn't stupid in mine, as the discussion of the prevention of illegal activity isn't stupid. And I wasn't necessarily referring to you when I said 'Can't you see that?'. Unless you can't actually see that they look identical to the ones in Crysis.
@Spycon_Fighter
We actually think they are from Crysis because they look identical (Model and Texture wise) to the ones in Crysis. I'm not doubting this teams ability at all, but the tree's are very suspicious.
I just want to say that I could be mistaken, so I'll be making a few comparisons.
Alright, I've worked with Crysis quite closely for quite a while. Looking at these trees, they seriously look IDENTICAL to the assets I'm used to in Crysis. Sorry to burst the Unreal bubble, there. This mod looked so good, pity.
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To everyone that says the trees are from crysis
OH MY GAWD THOSE TREES MUST BE FROM CCRYSIS BECUZE THEY LOOK TOO NICE FOR UT3 AND WE ALL KNO THAT THESE MODDERS AND TEAMS CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT STEALING THERE STUFF FROM ANOTHER GAME.... LIKE CRYSIS
Face it crysis sucked.... it looked nice but you have to have a super computer to look at the trees on high quality.... But hey since not all of us can afford that nice of a computer lets look at the trees on UT3 witch takes A lot less to run on your computer :D....
Now lets look at this from a logical point of view... they could have taken those trees from crytek engine and implemented them into the UT3 engine and they'd be the exact same tree that you all are thinking of.... or they could have easily made a model that is shaped like a palm tree and textured it with the square leaves that we all know are in games :D
If you bash me... so what I'm entitled to my on opinion as so are you :p
HOLY S**T YOU MISSING THE POINT THOSE ARENT THERE TREE MODELS THERE CRYSIS's caue the same texture same shape and same design!
ITS ILLEGAL THEY MIGHT HAVE A BIG A** LAW SUIT ON THERE HANDS WERE JUST WARNING THEM ALSO YOU DIDNT REALLY NEED THE BIGGEST SUPER COMPUTER to play crysis on high.
Why the hell is there color in this mod?
I don't want it. Can there be a poo brown option so I can disable these unsightly, yet amazing screen shots? I want a next gen feel damnit!
D:<
Hey Mod DB,
I'm speaking on behalf of the Renegade X team to apologize for this. What had happened was that we were making our own palm trees, inspired by Crysis, and we had been using the Crysis trees as a placeholder in the early stages of the map, until we had gotten our own trees polished and ready.
Due to a misunderstanding, our mapper had used the Crysis palm tree in our latest render instead of the standard Renegade X palm trees.
We thank the fans for pointing out this predicament, and have already gotten to work at replacing these palm trees with our own. As followers of the mod, I am sure you all know that misunderstandings do happen, and we apologize for the inconveniance.
Remember that the map is still a WIP, and we are looking forward to showing you all the finished version of the map in the coming weeks.
Thanks again!
-Renegade X Team
That's what I figured, glad to know what was going on. Thanks for clearing this up so professionally despite the childish mud-slinging against your team. Keep up the good work!
too bad those palm trees are from crysis, i hope you know its illegal using these models when you release the mod.
I also have a package with crysis palm trees and i know what i'm talking about. If you need any screenshots as a proof i'll get them for you.
You'll see the exact same palm trees.
Maybe they are just place holders for the moment
Read the post right above yours ^^
Lol you've unleashed crymod hell :P
Hi guys,
I know this mod since its annoucment but now I have to say, that this mod is just FREAKING AWESOME. First I waited for Mods like Apocalypse Rising for TW, JeepRupiMod for TW (sadly that its dead) and C&C Reborn, one oft the most famous mods in the C&C Community. BUT: I think, Renegade-X is the best mod of all! And do you really want to bring the C&C Mode to UT3? I cant believe it, but if you really do this: ******* THAAANKK YOU from me!
Keep on working :D
P.S:
Leave the team alone with this stupid palm trees. They're just placeholder ;)
this is best mod on this site right now.
Damn english language. There isnt a word in it that can explain it. Its more like "really good" but really good is only 10% of it.
Nice job guys!
Like they say...
Any publicity is good publicity.
True, well now I guess the mod has been introduced to the crysis community :P
Well I guess it looks nice, although most of the credit goes to the crisis team :/
Only the tree, that is not most of the update. We have made our own tree by the way, check my November 21 comment above, which is an official statement from the Renegade X team explaining the tree misunderstanding.
So your analysis of this update being one map + tank concept + building + another partial map + interview vs a tree = crytek getting most of the credit.
Nice :)
It's all good. Love the airstrip and the new design for the tunnels on Islands is awesome.