Good day my loyal citizens of the Cardassian union. It has come to my attention that your civilian leaders in the Detapa Council have been sadly neglectful in keeping you informed. They have been tried and found guilty of high treason for their crimes. I, Gul Dukat have taken on the heavy burden of enhancing your understanding of the current state of affairs.
Let me begin this auspicious broadcast by thanking each and every one of you for downloading Armada 3. The Second Order's leadership has been flabbergasted by the overwhelming response we've received and we can't express how grateful we are to you all. Now, my faithful "colleagues", let me tell you about recent developments that will be included in our next release.
Updates to Iconography and informational tool-tips.
Since the beginning of the occupation, plans have been in motion to replace the tired old iconography in your systems and replace it with something more fitting for a valued protectorate of the union. Progress is well underway for this goal and will be included in the next release of armada 3 for all races. Below is an example of the work in progress.
In addition to this, Obsidian order infiltrators have managed to secure complicated informational accounts of other races systems and vessels. This information has been compressed for use as a holographic tool-tip for any budding commanders that wish to gain a stronger tactical grasp. Shown below is an example of the information. All relevant stations and vessels you are likely to see now have this functionality. No matter what situation you find yourself in, you will go in with understanding. Understanding after all, is victory. Cardassia expects nothing less.
View-screen updates and optimization
Work is always in progress to further optimize and update your graphical displays and the next update will be no exception. As you can see from the above image taken by a brave commander piloting a Hideki Class fast attack vessel our optical systems are continuing to improve. A lot of work has been done in order to improve lighting effects and bloom reception, in addition to several graphical upgrades to our systems. Below is another image taken by one of our long range scouts, on a mission deep in Federation space. He is an honored hero to the Cardassian people!
System fixes and upgrades.
The Second Order have had an excellent response from our citizens, and with their helped have identified many flaws in our systems. I shan't bore you with the details, but suffice to say, dozens of bug fixes and tweaks have been undertaken. Included in the next release will be a re-appraisal of all races tactical capabilities based on feedback received from our citizens. A large scale re-balance has happened based on feedback, and I'm sure you will be much happier with the way our simulators depict each races strengths and weaknesses. Many new abilities previously unknown to the union have been updated on enemy vessels also. Upon release, a full list of all the fixes, tweaks and additions will be included in the changelog for your perusal.
As always if you have any comments, suggestions or questions please feel free to comment below, and a member of the order will be happy to get back to you.
Once again, a huge thank you to the community for all the support we've received so far. We hope to repay your faith and interest in us. We hope to release the update soon, but I'm reluctant to give you a specific date. Expect it soon though! Finally, here's CaptainShack's next episode of his multiplayer let's play against the Borg.
P.S Look closely at the tooltip of this news piece. What do you see?
Hey Guys
I like the fact you took icons from Sto for the research menu :)
I really have to reinstall SOE for this :P
Greetings
yea it looks epic and then some
hmm wasn't expecting even more GFX improvements. I thought it was as perfect as it was going to get with the games engine. The few screens here I think people are really anticipating, Armada 3 *the polished version*
All that's great, but did you guys remember to turn the volume of the U.I down? Because whenever I play your mod I find it's u.i is so loud that I need to turn it's volume completely off because it will wind up annoying the crap out of me. Still though loving the mod.
Great update... Looking forward for more soon.
what type of galaxy class is that in the picture above? a refit?
I think that is the New Orleans Class starship if I remember correctly
I only recently found out how to summon that 5 ship fleet. Its hidden in the hangar defence page pressing back, hope that becomes more obvious next patch, I just wonder what else im missing.
yep it is , you can call it at the hangar , go back from there menu with the BACK button , there is an option to call reinforcements .
is there a planed date for this uptdate ??
Your icon picture expresses how I feel about your question.
LOL
something to bear in mind. People have been really enjoying the mod are excited to get a hold of the new update. It's just like any gamer being excited for the release of the next game in their favorite franchise. Just remember that fellas. You're doing great work and people are excited about it.
in all that writing above.....contained are these words " We hope to release the update soon, but I'm reluctant to give you a specific date. Expect it soon though!". GODDAMN.
sorry , for any offensive questions , i know you are working hard on this mod, i have it as my favorite since i first played SoaSE in 2009 i think . i waited so long for it to be released .
i understand that many are really excited for updates, even me .
i thought i send a pm if i can help , with the icons , im not a pro artist. but i guess this job is already done ^^ .
sorry for any circumstances , i dont want you to force this . i just asked if the date is planned like the beta release , but it isnt yet .
keep working on this great mod . i will stay tuned for updates whenever they will come .
and if there is something i may can help , (without bothering you to much) please tell me if i can send a pm .
greetings from germany ( sorry )
This mod is great :D
Hope for the Dominion soon ^^
Our Cardassian slave mast...I mean Overseers are making us work as efficently as possible.
Pardon my basic question, but what are the two images demonstrating regarding visual upgrades? I don't think I understand bloom completely.
The glow, the wonderful glow! Do you not see it general!?
Ah. Pretty!
Please tell me I wasn't the only one that read this in Dukats voice :P
question... why does it look like the edge of the crystalline entity in the small picture for this news article? the picture with the Talarian Observer in the news list page.
We know nothing of what you speak :D
Of course not. I'm sure it isn't part of some Obsidian Order experiment to turn the entity against their enemies. ;)
Please tell me you've somehow managed to put in Crystalline Entity encounters...Imagine the possibilities... The CE... Hirogen... Microwaved nachos with cheese... o_O
Also, is the bug where the Raptor doesn't cloak because it doesn't have any anti-matter being addressed? First and last time I use a 'baby Warbird' to scout ahead, I assure you...
I'll note that down Heheh.
Just wanna add my voice to the crowd of supporters. It's pretty nice stuff, and the little touches - like those you've mentioned in this post - are what set it apart from a lot of other mods. Now, if we can just get someone to mash together this mod and one of the Star Wars ones we can recreate Armada 1's STvsSW. Ah, the memories.
I'm quite excited about this, and hope for a quick release :)
I really hope some time is spent on faction balancing, its pretty much impossible to play with the borg present.
ask about on the comments and the forums. many of the community have sure fire ways of defeating them. Not as impossible as you might think.
Anticipating the new release! Played 0.95 with a friend. great fun and pretty darn good for a first public release!
Looking forward to the changes / bug fixes. Can't wait :-)!
Greetings from the Netherlands
groetjes terug van het dev team ;)
Max Loef. Hoe kon mij niet opvallen hoe Nederlands dat klinkt? :)
I read undertaking as Unikraken.
Good luck on the VO to Killa as well.
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I never played STO but are those STO models in the loading screens or as player pictures? I hope they are placeholders since they're..well.. quite terrible
those are indeed from STO.
the borg one however is not.
Every Icon above apart from the ships, are from STO. the new ones as well.