Spring RTS Engine

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Now that Spring .75b1 is out, we can show you what we've been up to. Here is a stable-ish release so you don't need to download the a new version every day. Please report bugs here, we usually fix them in quickly.

Have fun!



===Features===


=User interface and LuaUI=

-New cursors
-Centers and selects the Comm at startup,
-Warns when d-gun is limited,
-Shows which units are being transported,
-Depicts unit experience with tank icons,
-Automatically controls your metal makers for maximum efficiency,
-Always see what your factories are building and give the orders quickly with buildbar.
-New button graphics.
-Units reply with speech.


=Gameplay and LuaRules=

-No effective single unit spam (hopefully).
-Kbots and Vehicles are both viable on most maps.
-Arm and Core have a different play style.
-Set at which percentage of remaining health your units will retreat to the nearest Commander or nanotower.
-Pointless micromanagement is not rewarded.
-The Commander can cloak nearby units or toggle the stealth ability, for a hefty energy cost.
-Once you have a factory, you can concentrate on the battle while the your metal extractors, radars or metal makers automatically upgrade themselves.
-Windmill output increases with altitude.
-Sharing with an enemy is disables unless cheat mode is active.
-Unit sharing is delayed to avoid share at last second before death scenarios.
-Lose the resources contained in a storage building when it is destroyed.


=Graphics=

-New models and textures.
-New explosions, weapon and unit effects.
-Play in cartoon mode with the outline widget.
-Higher resolution 3do textures.


=Deployment Mutator=

-Place your units and give orders to them before the game starts: you don't have to wait to use the big guns.


=Tactics Mutator=

-Place your units on the battlefield before the game starts then wipe out your enemy. With no economic management, you are free to exercise your tactics.


=Absolute Annihilation for Complete Annihilation Mutators=

Bleeding edge graphics, old school gameplay!
These two mutators turn CA into AA 2.11 or AA 1.46 while keeping the new effects and models.

AWESOME!
This is the best mod EVAR!!1!11one!1

The Commander can cloak nearby units or toggle the stealth ability, for a hefty energy cost.

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( yes, its annoying >___< )

You should limit the voices so a unit will only use voices of one type, not respond first with a female voice and then a grumpy dude.

-Lose the resources contained in a storage building when it is destroyed.

I don't get it, isn't that how it's always been?

Only when your resources exceed your surviving storage, this sounds like you get the penalty immwediately

KDR_11k wrote:You should limit the voices so a unit will only use voices of one type, not respond first with a female voice and then a grumpy dude.

Or you could just disable the LUA widget called voices

Your missunderstanding. The voices themselves are excellent, its just the management of them thats a bit off. Like how kbots will have voices that were obviously meant for air pilots, and how one unit will have a male voice and a female voice next.
Also, if core were to have its own voices, that would be so cool. There robots though...so the voices have to be awesome!

This realese is made of win and awesome.


I agree on the voices issue though. Keep up the good work.

i prefer the old cursors

but yes, ca is made of pure awesome

Defence structures seem excessively overpowered for the most part, as well as T2 balance making Lvl-1 pretty much useless.

Which isn't the case on other mods, T1 always had a use before, but now they're pretty weak and harmless against T2, except for the Overpowered Defences.

Quantum, are you lads ready for my input these days?

Caydr wrote:

-Lose the resources contained in a storage building when it is destroyed.

I don't get it, isn't that how it's always been?

Nope in normal mods the structure that's empty always happens to die first. In CA when you lose 50% of your storage you lose 50% of your resource, whatever level of it you have. Also if you're full it doesn't instantly get transported to your allies as in other mods; its now lost :)

ps CA is sweet!

problem with turning of voices is you don't get the old responses back, if you did it'd be fine.
and I imagine if someone would want the voices they wouldn't want windmills requesting orders

neddiedrow wrote:Quantum, are you lads ready for my input these days?

Sure, we welcome any help.

About the sounds, thanks for the feedback. I'll work more on them.

I agree about tech 1 d-fens being too powerful, we'll do something about that.

Why didn't you just throw the voices into the unit acknowledgements? You can have 8 per action for each voice set so I don't see why you'd want to use Lua for those.

Also, I didn't express enough how much I love this mod in my first post. Best ever TA based mod, no question.

KDR_11k wrote:Why didn't you just throw the voices into the unit acknowledgements? You can have 8 per action for each voice set so I don't see why you'd want to use Lua for those.

i think that's so you can turn them off if you don't like them

Massive love. The start screens are brilliant.

WTH would be the point in giving these guys ranking based on Exp..?

Do they actually get a decent bonus, or is it just a gimmick?