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Today we are happy to tell you that there is several new stuff regarding our mod to be released, as you already might have heard over at CryEdit. A small list of the most important news: - the story is finished - many new wip images to look at - ingame screenshots - new Aurora Mod logo - and last but not least a completely new page design

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M98

 

The M98 sniper rifle originally based on the M95 back from 1995. Passing the years, this highly precise rifle has experienced huge development. The latest version is the M98 which fires powerful projectiles. Moreover, this weapon is famous for it's high quality sniper scope. The M98 sniper rifle represents a nearly perfect combination of power and precision so that it counts as one of the best sniper rifles in the world.

MG21

 

The machine gun 21, shortly known as MG21, is quite a punchy automatic weapon. The high speed projectiles are being accelerated very fast by a complicated mechanism inside the gun. This allows an amount of up to 200 projectiles a minute fire rate. Combined with it's huge penetrating power the MG21 is one of the most deadly automatic weapons the world has ever seen. But only when an outstanding shooter fires this gun it can reach it's full penetrating power which the shooter only can envolve with high precision.

Okay now, let us come to the vehicles. Firstly of course the most important one which the mod is about:

Aurora

 

The Aurora is the greatest war-ship humanity has ever built. It comes with most modern technology, for instance the hyper space drive.
In principle the Aurora is a complete basis, it includes the barracks, two arsenals, two hangars. That explains why the Aurora is a good 1000 meters long. Its approximate 500 meters wide. In defense the Aurora comes with heavy gauss cannons which have to ability to eliminate a tank with one single shot. In addition it has very effective Railgun AA cannons. But it's probably strongest weapon is 8 of the heaviest nuclear missiles ever built.

Battlewalker

 

The Battlewalker is a new invention which mainly is being used in war against the UAP. Thanks to it's six spidery legs the Battlewalker is able to move fast also in very hilly environments. It's weapons: one strong front gun, one highly efficient Railgun as antiaircraft gun and one Gatling. (This model is based on the MW-77 Prototype from cybergooch.com)

FAW

 

The Fast-Attack-Walker, short FAW, is a very fast Walker which is equipped with two Gatlings. It's often used to supporting of discovery tasks, but also for assault and surprising issues. (This model was inspired by mechwarrior mangas, not only by the Nova mech.)

Shuttle

 

The Transport Shuttle is the all-purpose vehicle of the Aurora crew. Thanks to it's vertical starting and landing ability it is able to drop and gather troops nearly everywhere. It has no amory so that it only can be flown into the war area after it has been cleaned.

Today we proudly can announce that there are the very first ingame screenshots:

Space 01
Space 02
Space 03


These 3 ingame screens show a space scene with view on earth and moon.

Let's come to the logo part.
After many hours of desparation we finally could agree to this logo made by our member 'sic':

 

Logo

 

But we don't just have got a new logo, we also created a completely new homepage design. Not enough, we also got a Top-Level-Domain. From now on you can reach us by visiting Aurora-mod.de!

And lastly: we are still looking for animators, modelers, texturers and scriptors. All other positions, like mappers, are still needed as well.

Your

Aurora Mod Team

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Renardin
Renardin

Cybergooch.com the aurora is a rip off of a model of Eric Gooch. A modeler of Tiberian Sun. You steal the property of someone and claim it as your own. Shame on you.

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Phoenix85
Phoenix85

Very much a shame. At least give credit to cybergooch for the models copied or based off of.

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sathanas
sathanas

Yeah it's a bit cheeky that it's basically a 1:1 copy. At least make it your own.

Inspired by is fine... being the exact same as is another thing though.

Actually all of these look kinda borrowed. The Aurora is a blending of other ships as already mentioned. The FAW is a WH40k Dreadnought. The shuttle looks like a slightly modified Puddle Jumper, though looks the least likely to have been "copied".

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S4lz
S4lz

Ok, as I said, the Walker is a "copy", ok. We have decided to change some characteristics of it and we'll give credit to cybergooch.
But the other models like the Aurora or the Shuttle are no copy!!
A puddle jumper is much different to our shuttle.
For the Aurora I didn't use the Galactica or Prometheus (I don’t know why Nanobot has written this...). It may looks like the Deadalus, because I’m a great fan of Stargate. But I didn’t use any picture or something....
The Aurora was completely made out of my fantasy
The weapons are based on existing ones with added details.
The FAW may looks like a existing mech too. Took the arms away and its Starwars….
Whatever we will do someone knows something that’s approach…
For example, I’m currently working on another spaceship. It could be a modification of Halo’s Pelican Dropship… I’ve never seen this before, unless my brother shows me.

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sathanas
sathanas

Yeah there's only so many designs for things that look "right", so don't worry too much about similarities, but the battlewalker needs changing up a little, as you said.

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sebi3110
sebi3110

Yes I was inspired by this picture.We will change some details and we'll mention, that I was inspired by this picture.

But I wonder, why there are guys in the world, who try constraining mod teams, which want to make mods.

Mods are for you, guys!! That you have more fun with crysis.....

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RogerRamjet
RogerRamjet

Nice start guys, looking forward to the next media release and see some textures on those very nice looking models. Keep it up...

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Nanobot8800 Author
Nanobot8800

The Aurora is a model made from S4lz, he used the Battlestar Galactica and the Prometheus from Star Gate as impression. He never used any models from Eric Gooch for this.

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Nanobot8800 Author
Nanobot8800

Upsss, i did not notice that you were talking about the walker. I didn't make him, but I think our modelers have seen this site before making the walker, but I can't tell if you are right.

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S4lz
S4lz

He's right. We was inspired by this Walker. But i think there will some changes on it to make it look different. And also it's not clear if we really can use this model unless we got the SDK.

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fragapple
fragapple

looks good ;)

show us more

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Renardin
Renardin

sorry I wasn't pointing aurora, my mistake but the "spider walker" wich is a rip off.

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