Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

In the last month many doubts appeared in the community concerning the Armada2 engine. The engine - an improved version of the decade-old Battlezone engine - is of course far behind her best days. Thats why we spend much effort in improving the quality of the engine. Many new eye candy features will be presented in Fleet Operations 3.0 unseen in the community till now. That includes enhanced shaders for starships as you already saw in the great visible detail of past screenshots.

Another very important improvement was made to all effects in the game. Besides dynamic point-light sources you will find a lot of new graphical material. Here are some pictures from old special abilities in a new look. Its always hard to present an animated special effect in a screenshot, but you will get an impression on what the engine will be able to.


(http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Federation/thumbs/FOScreenShot_080220_155119.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Federation/FOScreenShot_080220_155119.png)
Federation Plasma Coil
Instead of a strange blue something you will now see an impressive plasma cyclone crushing your enemies!


(http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Romulan/thumbs/FOScreenShot_080228_124650.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Romulan/FOScreenShot_080228_124650.png)
Romulan Sensor Jammer
Overloading your opponents sensors with high-energy partciles will now show a correct particle explosion on the affected vessels


(http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Federation/thumbs/FOScreenShot_080228_135410.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Federation/FOScreenShot_080228_135410.png)
Federation Sensor Blackout
A complete field of high-energy fluctuation combined with an impressive shockwave? here we go!

Wow thats some kick ass stuff you got going there and it just keeps getting better and better  :thumbsup:

the engine is based of battlezone - o0? I thought I had saw some weird comments inside the AI scripts hinting to some civ game o0

In terms of graphics, the original A2 is starting to look like the original Super Mario Brothers 1.  :blink:

O my god I think I am in love!


I have all wase knowest that beem weponds end with a very square end. If it posabule to put a Fire Effect at the point of contact at the end of the beem.

Yes, A1 was based on the Battlezone engine. If you look in A2's odf/other folder you'll still find some of the old files, referring to it.

in fact, look at this, odf/other/asteroid.odf

Heat Signature, Scrap Value, Ammo...

Sooo impressive... must... have... v3!!  :sweatdrop:

I agree with Ewm that it would be nice to have some effects at the tip of phasers; they have always looked a little blunt when striking the shield or ship... possible, if it was possible, the beam could look "rounder" at the end... or have a spreading effect just as it touches the "object" to make it look more as if the energy is spreading?

I gotta wonder, would a beam weapon even have a tip on the end? Or would it just be flat. I don't know much about particle physics and stuff like that, but I was just thinking that if a beam was emitted, it would be emitted evenly over the area it was being projected into... I don't know if u could make it pointed. Also, what would be the point of having it pointed? I mean, apart from being aesthetically pleasing?
Just some thoughts.

I misspoke  :lol:

What I meant was that the beam looks a little too 2D currently... it would be nicer if it hit the shield dead on, rather than obliquely (the beam never looks like it lines up with the shield (or ship) correctly, parts of it even are "through" the bubble, whereas other parts are not connecting at all).

yes I have always noticed that as well

one other thing when you destroy a ship with phasers right after the ship is dead for like 1-5 milliseconds the phasers keep firing and go across the whole map and it bugs me I dont know if this is fixable but it would be nice

Plasma Coil - one word:  Momomomonsterkill!!!!!

Guys... you are stunning. This looks impressive.

Thanks for the footage. :)

HOW DID YOU DO IT!!! THATS AMAZING, new life for A2 :)

Looking Great As always can't wait to see the final product

In 3 years, I have yet to see the FO team do something that isn't incredible.  That would be the upside.  The downside would be the whole '3 years' part.

great work guys.

As always, absolutely stellar work. I'm looking forward to V3's release date...which I believe is currently set a month or two after Duke Nukem Forever comes out... :ermm:

pretty pictures amount to pretty pictures and a master piece is worth exactly the paper its painted on when it never sees the light of day.. :(

this is really stunning. Hope to see more  :thumbsup:

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a76/8_of_11/Someday.jpg)
A tribute to one of the longer WIPs of the developing world. Probably been done over 9000 times before now, of course. Okay, no more memes for me.
Seriously, though these effects are beautiful and make me wish I had a better computer. That's the nice thing about long waits for games: plenty of time to upgrade.
Oh, and apparently Duke Nukem Forever is going to come out... eventually, even now. That's a fairly recent piece of game-stuff I edited there.

Great work guys. 

I was just looking around the site a bit, as I havent been here in awhile and noticed something.  Are there really only 5 of you working in spare time????????  Didnt there use to be more?

In any case its no wonder this project is  taking so long.  If you look at the credits of other games, they take half an hour or more to roll and they still take a year or three to produce.  Not that I like waiting, but I can understand how a project of this size could take awhile. 

Thanks for all the hard work,
Cant wait for V3 Full release. 
Maybe by christmas 08? 

Great Work! 
The best Mod for Armada 2!
You guys need help from other modders to finish this project. Maybe you guys make a application Site or ask people on Armada2 Files.

FO will never be finished, it will live on forever!!!  :sweatdrop:
Yeah, I know what you meant, but I doubt many people would be qualified to help.

Something that i've noticed is that the people that are a part of the actual modding team are an incredibly mature, wise, and knowledgable group. I doubt that they would be able to find many other people that are going to be able to have the right qualities that they are looking for. There may be a few out there, but we should be thankful that we have such a gifted group of individuals that are willing to spend their spare time modding a game that went out of style....several years ago. Thanks FO team!
That was my little tribute to you.