Combined Arms mod for StarDrive

Stardrive has always been a very good real time x4 game with excellent mod support. The main issues of the game were low performance on end game and bugs.

The Blackbox project addresses these issues. And we decided also to work on and improve some of the better mods out there, created for StarDrive 1 over the years.

Combined Arms is based on Combomod (keeping the best parts in Combomod). We did a lot of balance work on Combomod and added such vast amount of new content that we decided it deserves a new name.

A short summary of the new content:

• 118 New ships 3D models and hulls. Every role (besides Titan) has 2 more 3d ship designs to research, along with dedicated slot maps. This is of course, per faction. So with the new Bomber and Drone ships, each faction will have a total of 19 hulls to design ships for. The new Titan per faction is truly big. Draylok Titan, for instance is 4.8k slots.
• Each Faction has it's own battle station, which is also rendered as the space port, when a planet has it built.
• 8 New Missile 3D models: Blackbox code opened the option for us to create different 3D models for missiles, instead of using the default 2.
• Kulrathi and Vulfar got their own 3D freighter models, instead of using the Terran ones.
• Two new space station models; Small Station and a huge Sector station.
• New drone role - a 4-6 slot (based on faction) small, automated fighter which is launched from drone bays
• New ship hull (classified as Fighter Role) per faction - Bomber, which contains internal slots to unleash Anti capital bombs
• New weapons, such as Rapid Blue lasers, new versions of mass drivers (extended, compact)
• New Reactors. You can take a path of lower output, but non exploding reactors such as the Cold Fusion or Quantum Fusion reactors, or go crazy with very high output, but highly unstable Anti-Matter or Dark Energy reactors
• 19 new types of armor, including shields combined with armor, self repair armor and more. These were present in Combomod but got new textures and massive balance
• New, hi-res textures for all the lower texture modules in the game
• Tech tree is 2.5 times the vanilla one

Installation:

In order to install and play Combined arms you need a Vanilla copy of StarDrive 1. Once you have that installed, you need to install the alpha version of Blackbox, called Texas. This are not the mod itself, but major code refactoring and new features of StarDrive core game. Once you have the above installed, you can download the latest copy of combined Arms from Bit Bucket.

• Install Mars latest release
• Note that you only need to install the release. If there are patches, the auto patcher will prompt and install the latest patch for you.
• Download the mod and extract it into the mods dir of StardDrive. If you have an older Combined Arms version installed. Delete it before extracting the new package. Once you initially install Combined Arms, the auto patcher will handle future patches of Combined Arms as well.
• It is recommended to remove your saved ship designs if you saved designs using the old combo mod. Usually its located in c:\users\[username]\.appdata\roaming\stardrive\saveddesigns
• Start the game and load the mod from the mod menu.
• Drop us a note in Discord chat.