Comments - Araethuiel

One of the Zann campaign missions is literally "sabotage the thing with a defiler to progress" so having that back is a godsend and we thank you. Having said that, if I'd known it were that easy and doing it wouldn't break the mod, I'd have copied the defiler's bits from my backup files and pasted them in :D

Liking the Slink. Stealth tanks, the Technology of Peace... ;)

S'what I thought of too- which itself reminds me of the "rebel fleet arrives at Endor" bit in Return of the Jedi... so we've come full circle :P
This is awesome, both the unit detail and variety :)

So will the popcap allow for the whole fleet as shown here to be deployed? Will we be able to have this many ships in battle at once? Not even sure the game's engine can handle that tbh... O.O

It would, but then, Knights're still technically Space Marines so that might not be a bad thing :)

For no reason at all, it seems more space-y then atmospheric-flying to me. Possibly the lack of aerodynamics? It just says to me "heavy antifighter gunship" more than "aircraft"...

Saying that the models I've seen have been top notch from the start so possibly here I'm just seeing it wrong... :)

In the mods menu, to the far right, it shows the mod checksum. What's the number it should be displaying? I have 399352485. It seems too large...

Yeah it is, legally registered in the UK (And I assume elsewhere)...

If possible, could you please release what you currently have? You have the "gamma" version out, perhaps a "delta" version? To keep us distracted from harassing you until you can start work on the next version in your own time?
Also, good luck with your final exams :)

Your boss in tiberian dawn (1995) was called sheppard... I think that's the reference.

En.wikipedia.org
:)

Cause without sunglasses, he'd be blinded by sun-off-snow glare I imagine...

Wanna catch one now... Turn it into a desk lamp...

So... campaign support? Or as before, unsupported with chance of problems (errors, unfulfillable objectives, so on)?

I like this model- maybe blanking out the side MG mounts would've been better, maybe not (did they even bother filling those gaps IRL? Most brit tank conversions seemed pretty slapshod iirc)
Regardless of the usefulness of light tanks in a game where every soldier squad can be given anti armour weapons, this model is awesome.
And light, fast moving guns can cripple heavy tanks (damage engines or wheels, even disable the main gun if you're lucky) while costing, often, a lot less :)

Use the treads from this, replace the central body section with a larger transport section?
That is, if there's not already a canon design you wanted to follow :)

Boss general perhaps?

Edit, looking at the next picture, makes this comment obsolete >.<

Certain weapons would suit a laser sight, like the Locust, Mantis and the Cain. Other guns (tempest, avenger, some heavy weapons), probably not- inaccurate bullet-hose weapons, flame/icethrowers and homing missile launchers have little use for a laser pointer in my mind...

And for the widow, why not make it an incendiary weapon? Have its default ammo be Inferno ammo or Heavy Disruptor ammo, and give it a long reload time- maybe even adding in a recharging type noise (something like... bweee) to justify the new, longer reload time... though it seems to me if you make it charge before firing, that'd eliminate much of its use- targets rarely stay still long enough to be sniped.

Also, any chance of making the vindicator battle rifle actually fire 5shots/burst, instead of 3? The game states 5, the ammo counter shows 3.
Maybe give it more ammo to compensate, or just have it as a headshot-style weapon?

Carnifex could use a little more ammo, as the phalanx is currently better in every way but that's just a tiny balancing niggle, just to give carnifex a reason to be used again occasionally.

Also, possible to change things up so that shotgunners have SMG instead of Heavy Pistol as their backup weapon, otherwise they have 2 anti-armour guns and no anti-shield/barrier weapons...

Feel free to use or discard my ideas as time, ability and your own plans allow, though it'd be cool to see one or two implemented :)

EXCEPT the SS? Is that because they're getting their own unique superheavy? Or none at all, stopping at the Tiger/kingtiger?

...Will you guys be making other monster tanks? Like the P1000?
Or the American T28 (Pretty much designed as a Maus-Counter)?
Maus is awesome by the way- I've always liked how ugly and menacing it looked.

If Shaitan's too powerful, perhaps removing the main guns' anti-air abilities would help balance it more. It'd still be an awesome nightmare on the ground, but at least somewhat counterable this way...

I really liked the "you must kill things to unlock advanced tech" setup Contra has though- tech centre on 3-star works pretty well. If you find your enemies teching faster than you, stop letting them blow your stuff up; blow them up first. Simple.

Been following this mod for a while now, and I think it's brilliant. Keep it up :)

No more scanning. Frigging awesome. Just started playing so uh, will discover the other changes as I go :) And as you said, jacob with an assault rifle fits better with his backstory.
In addition to actually making him useful that is :)

Could turn the smaller barrel into a laser targeter. Have it so it fires a (harmless) laser beam onto its target... could even have it so that the laser targeter makes your nearby units/defenses more accurate...

There's a small problem with my copy of 2.3X...
In any space battle, if there're too many ships (I'm guessing the massive fighter swarms have something to do with this) it crashes.
I'm running windows XP 32bit, SP3. Hardware-wise it's got an nVidia 9600gt gpu, dualcore processor at 1.8GHz/core... that's about as much as I can remember from the top of my head. And it does this whether I have the graphics on high or low, so that's not the answer.
Anyway.
I like my ship swarms, but when the game crashes midbattle it's annoying.
What I guess I'm asking is, since it's more likely an issue with the game and not my PC hardware, have you noticed the issue yourself and if so, have you fixed it?
I've tried several things including wiping/reinstalling, updating various drivers and so on... no improvement.

Basically I loved every aspect of the mod other than the too-many-ships-caused crashes. I'd love to get 2.4 when it's released. But that would mean reinstalling the game as well so I guess I'm just asking whether the same problem still exists or not.

tl:dr
Game crashes when there are too many ships on screen, computer can (theoretically) handle it and more with ease, want 2.4x but can't justify it if swarming tactics are gonna crash the game like in 2.3x
Please could you try to fix this as it's the only real problem in an otherwise excellent mod.

About giving the orca a minigun, will it need to return to reload MG rounds as well or just rockets?

An idea that could work would be to give the orca no need for erturn-to-reloads at al but can only shoot, say, 6 rockets per salvo, with a fairly long wait between salvoes.

It worked in Generals with the commanche helicopter, pretty sure you can make it work for this...
I'm sure it's already been suggested but I thought I'd throw it in there anyway :)

Awesome models by the way, can't wait for the download :)

Oh come on guys they're not competing- they just had the same idea. Seems fairly obvious. And how different exactly can they be from one another while staying true to their own ideas, and to the look and gameplay feel of TS, which as far as I can see, inspired them both, hmm?
"I'm gonna make a TS-inspired mod for TW, but someone else is too, we must therefore be in direct competition" /sarcasm /rant

In all honesty, I'm enjoying Tiberian Essence immensely, but still can't wait for an Apocalypse release because it's looking fantastic...

I couldn't help but notice there WAS a 1.4 release... but you retracted it... sad times man, sad times...

Did I read that right? Removing the missiles? Why? They look so awesome... Besides, you could always have them as ground-only or unguided, perhaps as an anti-structure weapon...
Heavy firepower seems to be GDI's thing. And it would be awesome :D

Basilisk is in use: European mythos.
Yeah, Helge doesn't need to clear it by pretty much anyone to use the name.

What about Thor. Said to be the most powerful of the greek gods.
Relatedly, Mjolnir. It was the Hammer of Thor, king of the gods. Seems appropriate to me...

Other than superheat it, literally cooking the wearer like just so much meat in an oven... remember kids, metal conducts heat.

Also let's not forget EVERYTHING is basically impervious to flamers now... but in 38,000 years they'll have stuff that makes napalm- and phosphorus-burners look like a cigarette lighter... and phosphorus is able to burn through current-generation armour.
So yeah :)

I like the iron dragon... bulky and brutal lookin- but you're right. As good as the voxel itself is, pretty this plane aint.

Firstly the praise. I Dl'd the mod expectin maybe a few units/buildings, but not as in-depth as this. It's a brilliant concept, really well executed... I eagerly waiting for the next release :)
Now, the gripe. There is a problem... not huge but slightly annoying...
The mammoth crashes it for me, tried fiddlin with the rules.ini for a bit
but ended up just reverting back.
Basically, when I click to build it, the game crashes and exits.
Is there anything I can do, add, copy into or remove from the mammoth/apocalypse in the ini file, so it stops crashing?
Everything else I tried works fine, it's the only bug I discovered :)

Any help would be appreciated :)

Scud looks like generals' one because that's the pretty standard carrier for the missile. At least, similar enough.