Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

First of all, thanks for all your feedback for the 3.1.0 release. Thanks to everyone who gave us their thoughts on this version and also to those who reported all the little bugs. I guess the biggest flaw in 3.1.0 were for some the non working save game function. This and other bugs should all be covered by the 3.1.1 patch we are releasing today. Despite 3.1.1 is more of a maintenance release to 3.1.0 we have also a few new features integrated notably the new phase armor plate upgrade for the Romulan Rhienn class. Four maps from our community maps forums have been added with this patch. Thanks Boggz, Chris and funnystuffpictures!

Patch 3.1.1 is only compatible with a previous 3.1.0 installation. Patching an earlier version (3.0.7 and below) results in a corrupt installation.

Download Fleet Operations Patch 3.1.1 (http://www.fleetops.net/download/Download/FleetOperations3.0/)

(http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Federation/thumbs/FOScreenShot_100120_100231.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Federation/FOScreenShot_100120_100231.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Romulan/thumbs/FOScreenShot_100120_095658.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Romulan/FOScreenShot_100120_095658.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Borg/thumbs/FOScreenShot_100120_100648.png) (http://www.fleetops.net/images/Gallery/FleetOps3Borg/FOScreenShot_100120_100648.png)

Changelog:

Features

• There are disturbing reports about Romulans experimenting with phase armor plates on Rhienn Class vessels. Check the Research Institute for details
• AI Borg ship handling improved
• Subsystem icons of active-over-time special weapons will now flash to show their changed status
• New maps
  • Rain by Boggz
  • Malta II by Boggz
  • Hazard by Chris Bacchi
  • Allies by funnystuffpictures

Changes

• Build queue delays don't abort the currently constructed ship anymore and get pushed on position 2 of the queue instead
• Default "instant trading" values changed to more commonly used amounts
• Multiplayer AI takeover now uses the Merciless AI
• Federation
  • Assault Mode energy costs reduced to 159 (bf.: 249)
  • Canaveral Class costs increased to 308 dilithium, 343 tritanium and 14 supplies (bf.: 300, 285, 13) and construction time increased to 86 seconds (bf.: 80)
  • Norway Class (Admiral Mayson) costs increased to 329 dilithium, 304 tritanium and 14 supplies (bf.: 300, 285, 13)
  • Hyper Impulse Drive evasion boost is now more effective against small attackers
  • Platform construction time increased to 84 seconds (bf.: 70 seconds)
• Dominion
  • Phase Shield energy costs reduced to 332 (bf.: 346)
  • T-15 Heavy Cruiser movement speed increased and costs increased to 382 dilithium, 107 tritanium and 40 supply (bf.: 330, 88, 34) and construction time increased to 80 seconds (bf.: 71)
  • A-26 Bomber movement speed increased and costs increased to 313 dilithium, 96 tritanium and 33 supply (bf.: 286, 86, 30) and construction time increased to 71 seconds (bf.: 66)
  • A-20 Attack Destroyer movement speed increased and costs increased to 220 dilithium, 70 tritanium and 28 supply (bf.: 201, 63, 24) and construction time increased to 61 seconds (bf.: 57)
  • S-2 Escort Cruiser movement speed increased and costs increased to 327 dilithium, 111 tritanium and 35 supply (bf.: 313, 105, 33) and construction time increased to 70 seconds (bf.: 67)
  • The Hyperspace Sensor System is now equipped with a long range Graviton-Tachyon Ping (bf.: short)
• Klingon
  • Scout Station attributes increased to 20 Defensive Value and 9 System Value (bf.: 15 / 7) which allows the Scout Station to use all abilities as intended. Costs slightly increased
  • Imperial Stance energy costs reduced to 186 (bf.: 290)
  • SuS'a' Class movement speed decreased and costs reduced to 380 dilithium, 131 tritanium and 15 supply (bf.: 415, 145, 16) and construction time reduced to 67 seconds (bf.: 73)
• Romulan
  • Slightly reduced all Romulan research costs
  • Auto Repair System energy costs reduced to 60 per second (bf.: 150). It is now the level 2 Leahval Class ability. It switched places with Advanced Energy Reeling
  • Advanced Energy Reeling redone: Now grants 10 Offensive Value and 10 Defensive Value. Reduces special energy regeneration, but improves all special abilities with additional effects. Lasts 20 seconds and costs less energy
  • Metaphasic Disruptor energy costs reduced to 125 (bf.: 139)

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when saving or loading a game
• Some passive ability icons were not shown correctly on Dominion prototypes
• Fixed a subsystem display issue on leveled up Federation Excelsior II Class vessels
• Federation Veteran Galaxy Class vessels with Type 3 Torpedoes enabled now still show the correct Modified Photon Torpedoes icon
• Fixed a crash loading a custom map with yard-objects
• Solved several tooltip issues
• Only up to 16 Ships could be added to a ship group by using ctrl+shift+(group number) instead of 30
• Fixed crash with the map "Nebula Gate"
• Fixed a minor sound file loading problem
• Game mechanic
  • Breen research now remains unlocked if a Breen vessel ranks up
  • Some weapon effects were blocking station construction while firing
  • Maysons Eraudi Yards got their 30 second delays back
  • Fixed a bug causing special abilities to sometimes consume one point more energy as intended
  • Several location-bound area weapons dealt too much damage
  • The initial Dominion Worker Ships are now free as intended
  • Veteran Dominion Tetryon Spread now works as intended

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY! :lol: I love the promptness of FO even more!

Thanks guys  :thumbsup:

awesome...  :thumbsup: can't wait to test it  ^-^

Instaloing right now =)

Wow relased in the middle of a game :lol:

you have time to surf the net during a match? :D

excellent  :shifty:

What can i say i have a short attention span. Actually dom told when i got done

I'm so tickled by the inclusion of my maps!

  Thank you so much!   ^-^

Wow, that was fast ... (compared to 3.1.0)  :D
Nevertheless great work! Keep it that way  :thumbsup:

ohh and of course: THANKS!

thanks for the hard work.  :thumbsup:

And I think I found the first problem with the new patch....
With dominion, when you have selected a group of bugs (for instance group 1) and u select 1 bug to go to emergency repair, the other bugs do not move untill that bug repairs itself -.-

  Whoa, really?  Do all the bugs ignore other commands until the first repairs itself?  If you hit Stop while having them all selected does it change?

What  prompt reaction. I am amazed. I believe i can get back my beloved  :cloak:

Well they just sit there....
I didnt try pressing Stop though :)

Excellent!  :thumbsup:

You guys are great!  :D B)

 :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby: :crybaby:
So...I'm not playing computer games for about 5 more months...you guys are making it SOOO hard...lol. That aside, this is the only game that has my anticipation to the same level as Mass Effect 2. And believe me, I'm REALLY excited for ME2. I'm so glad that you guys are who you are  :D

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-sorry if i went overbord, I'm exited (if you coulden't tell!)

im kinda worried about what you guys did to the fed, i dont think the increase for the support ships were needed at all, i think you had them just right, (personally i still like old norway plasma coil) but everything seemed to be good with the support ships not to powerful, and all that good stuff, i just dont think a cost increase is the way to go, and whats up with the turret increase? how long does it take for other turrets to build?

thanks for continueing to make this game better, always appreciated, now to reinstall wippien and star trek!

long story......

Ray, you can't make these wild assumptions about how balance works without vigorous online play against other humans. That's why we always encourage people like you to play online :) I still suck but I've played enough to understand.

Feds, where once again one of the top races, now they are a bit closer to the middle :)

Fed Platform:
Risner: (was) 70, (now) 84
Mayson: (was) 53, (now) 63

Klingon:
Torpedo Turret: 142

Dominion:
Phaser Sentry:  78
Perimeter:  159

Romulan:
Turret:  77
Turret: (after prefine) 52

 
 So please ... Mayson could build a Torpedo turret in 53 seconds ... Nearly three could be built in the time it takes to build a Klingon turret and exactly three in the time it took to make a perimeter.  People would say that "Oh well the Torpedo turret was expensive and so you wouldn't be able to make ships while you made those" but since Mayson can get his SFC up so fast he's got free Warp-ins while he makes a couple phaser turrets, his Eraudi yard and then begins to spam Torpedo turrets.  On a map any bigger than Openfields this is NOT hard and because Mayson can build so fast it happens alot.  The kind of firepower you need to have in order to either destroy the early turrets or to kill things quickly and run is pretty hard to have before those turrets are done.

If ray's worried about these changes, I wonder what he'd say to the changes I've been thinking of. :sweatdrop:

"WHAT?!!  Mayson feds actually need to purchase chassis upgrades?!  Perposterous!  RAWR! :badgrin: :badgrin: :badgrin:

Oh, and very nice title, Doca! :lol: :thumbsup:

Yeah, as of this most recent patch, I think the balance has crept more to this:

Mayson Feds
(yes, the gap is there for a reason...)
TaQ'roja
Optimize, Martok
Puretech, Helev, Risner, Mijural
Assimilate

Obviously I want to play more though before saying "this is IT"

  I disagree about the placement of Risner and Martok (unless you tech directly to Negh'Vars).  I think Risner is maybe below Opti at the moment but above Martok.  At the very least on the same Level.


Mayson is still head and shoulders above the rest and I'm going to be honest:  I think at this point the ONLY reason is because of the decreased build time.  I think that's really the last piece of the puzzel that has kept Mayson better than everyone else this whole time.  It makes his start better, his expansions faster, and his turret-building almost unstoppable (even with the new time increase as his is still only 63 seconds).

Guys i have been playing online, and i know the norway before was pretty powefull,

however since ive played since 3.10 i felt a balance with the feds, i felt like the support ships wernt so killer death ships, and were actually support,

im just not sure about the cost increases

I know you're far more xperienced than me, but I see this as just a nerf to the Rommies and they're already underwhelming. The Leahval lost 20 offense in reeling mode, don't think he'll get to actually live to use that repair. I always felt that only really bigger ships could profit from active repair abilities as they get to actually use it. Small ships need more daka:)

  I disagree.  I just played a team game as Romulans and felt a lot more firepower at my fingertips.

  The Leahvals didn't need to keep that +20 offense nonsense as most of their damage now seems to come from groups of them blasting away with the variable disruptor.  It's very little energy to use and can be used quite quickly.  Most small vessels die instantly to 5 or more and they are FAST.  They can run off quickly when one starts to lose shields and cloak, saving it for another day.

  I have indeed used the repair ability and it's astonishing.  No more will you ever lose a vessel to broken life support.

Disruptor is great, do you stop using reeling now and save the energy for disruptor?

Well we might have different xperiences but in my last fifteen games I don't think I lost more than 5-10 ships due to some sort of permanent systems failures.

Actually yeah I have a habit now of using the Disruptor only in small-scale engagements as I feel that it kills things the fastest one by one.

  In larger battles that are likely to drag on though I think an opening phasic disruptor followed by Reeling is the best idea :).

thx a lot, installing right now.

Way to go guys!!!  Just downloaded this and I will play this baby tomorrow!

Downloading now...

EDIT: And here's the download on FileFront:
Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations Patch 3.11 Mod Download, Star Trek: Armada 2 Mods (http://armada2.filefront.com/file/Star_Trek_Armada_II_Fleet_Operations_Patch;109265)

You missed out Breen :P

But surely you hadn't played many 3.1.1 games when you made that post, so you wouldn't know whether the cost increases were balanced effectively. I have a feeling the Devs do know what they are doing when it comes to this stuff :)

If it weren't that way, FO would have to be considered a true miracle given to us by some guys who had visions from the great gaming and programming gods telling them what they had to do in order to develop that great stuff :lol:

Will install and play 3.1.1 in the next hours and call back in the evening (in the case I get access violations again or a Venture outguns a Negh'Var or something I will not; because in this case I'll destroy my computer).

great i and new maps too :-)

Does this fix the install error?

I downloaded this (3.1.0) first from here and then from A2Files and both crash when I attempt to start the game. I have tried using a fresh install through the installer and a existing installation again through the installer. I have also attempted to install it in a custom directory and then in the default directory, all with no luck.

- Majestic

Appreciate the hard and quick work guys!

Now all I need is a plan to get every one to play this at my lan this weekend......

Nice :) Was browsing the net on my phone while halfway through a match when I saw this lol  B)

I don't think teching to Negh'vars has anything to do with it. After Martok researches the shield breaking torpedo, the early counter to the K'vort (Intrepid) will fall without killing the K'vort. This is with the two Antares yard build up. With the Warp-In rush Risner falls faster.

I'm also not convinced that it is just the build boon that makes Mayson stronger. An early AoE damage weapon, combined with relatively early heavy battlcruiser Excel II's that have guided quantum torps, and torpedo turrets if your offensive is screwed tend to unbalance things more than just a quicker build time (although the build time definitely does allow warp in to be used very nicely early on, and the torpedo turrets to be built that much faster). Honestly, I bet if the Norway's position in the tech tree were changed, it could force him to build some early game units other than the Norway (and potentially Saber). Right now, the nuke and its carrier is a jack of all trades ability - fast, durable, able to be upgraded to a mini Akira, and destroys many units at the same time. Oh, and it supports Steamrunners's :D

I haven't actually been able to place Breen yet I think, but they fall below Martok as far as I can tell.

i may have experienced something simmilar in 3.1.0 for few times

but instead of not moving an entire group turn around for repairs and not respond to orders for few sec...

Wasn't that with Priority Repair Mort? You hit priority repair for one unit, and the entire group left and could not be told to stop :(

Why was this changed? To me this seems to defeat the purpose of using the delays, or at least, how I used mine.

Generally what I used the delays for was in situations where I was trying to get a higher-cost item built, like a research station, and had to delay build production of ships to ensure my resources did not get consumed.

Usually I would be trying to build the building, and a ship would start building at the exact time I tried to place it, causing the build order to fail.

I would go to the shipyard then and using only 3 mouse clicks (shipyard, build button, 30 second delay), would halt the construction and return my resources so my constructor could finish its task.

Now I'll have to add an extra click to this process - shipyard, build button, 30 second delay, cancel current ship.

That seems rather silly to me. I can live with it but I don't understand what was wrong with the current system.

It was considered flawed by people who didn't want to lose a ship already started.

the idea was mentioned in the forums, cause its illogical to cancel construction you already paid for. I think it would be a good idea to still push it on the first build slot, if the build item has not yet began construction (cause of to low resources for example). I will note that down :)

Then don't install the delay? I dunno, it seems like a simple enough system to utilize.

The current way simply adds more micro-management, which, in my opinion, is a bad thing. It's annoying enough micro-managing your resources while micro-managing your fleets as it is, more mouse clicks aren't really welcome, but as I said, I'll put up with it.

I love the new addition, as it allows you to plan ahead if you know you're going to run short on resources.  And it is just only one button.  Perhaps a new button called "cancel current construction" can be added right next to the delay buttons, that way it's very close to your cursor and you don't have to go down to where the ship is to click on it to cancel.  Or if there is a way to have both functionalities on the delay buttons by pressing the shift key or something. ^-^

Holding shift to have the old functionality would work for me.

Well, if it were me, I'd possibly have a crack at doing a custom job to mount a pc screen to the side of a traditional Desktop. Obviously screen and case choice would be pretty important.

However, not everyone has the ability to do a decent DIY job and I have never heard of All-in-One cases being available to buy so I dunno. Kinda pointless me posting really :)

Wrong thread, phoenix! :blush:  But that idea sounds really cool. :D

Dark Dragon, I think this new function would work better for what you described, wouldn't it?  You're going to build a Dominion tech lab and you have the funds at that moment, but a ship gets done and now you don't have enough resources.  This new feature allows you to not only build your ship that is probably 95% done, but ensures that you will have enough money for the tech lab even after the ship is built. ^-^

I need to report a bug. I have the new 3.1.1 version and I saved a game. When I went to load it, it loaded about halfway through then crashed again.

Just a follow up, I installed the patch and I still get the error. I have included a screenshot of the error message as well.

- Majestic

I just installed the update, and I have a bug report. The game loads a quarter of the way, and the tips don't show, then crashes.

The problem is I have to pre-emptively que up the delay, and then wait for all my current ques to finish, and then hope I have the resources at that time that the delay is qued to build the station/research/whatever.

In the old way if I needed resources I could just pseudo-cancel my production (usually anything under 50% done I would be willing to cancel) and get some resources back that I could throw into a critical station or ship or whatever. Now to do that it takes 1 extra click, which is annoying.

i know, overall there is a problem with the way armada 'allocates' the resources, actually i find it quite annoying. especially when i want to place a building and the money gets 'taken' by a beginning construction elsewhere.

@majest: someone reported a similar error not long ago. i think it had something to do with uac and registration of dlls. it may help to start fleet operations one time as administrator

Isn't there already a 'Cancel Current Construction' button? I'm sure there was one all the way back as far as stock.

To be honest, I have yet to get used to the current method, which has on more than one occasion very badly screwed up my build. However, given time, I think I can get used to it. Before the change however, I'd just let that 90% completed unit finish, then stick a delay button in, and that would be it. Now I have to stick a delay button in, and remember to remove the first unit, which adds up to QUITE a few extra clicks when I have a Starbase and a few shipyards building things. I still prefer the old method, because the only thing that had to be done was to watch the shipyard, whereas now I have to watch and click. Hopefully I'll get used to it again though :)

I never liked that I had to wait for a ship to build before putting a delay in, I usually forgot and had to wait for resources or go back to the yard and set the delay and get the station built location set up again (which takes longer than simply cancelling a ship). Especially annoying for ones with long build times.

Fleet Operations 3,11 ist die beste Version hochgeladen.  :thumbsup:

Intriguing  :blink:

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To contribute a little to this topic; 3.1.1 has been a welcome addition. All is working fine and the changes seem to been working good.

Indeed, 3.1.1 FTW. Looking forward to future release but this one will keep me busy for a while   :woot:

Great job, and with a quick response.  Awesome...  :thumbsup:

Hi, I am the Administrator, as there are no other accounts on windows. Is there any other solutions that could fix this?

Thanks

Did you try right clicking and selecting run as administrator.

If you're running Windows 7 or Windows Vista, your default user is NOT an administrator account by default. Try right clicking -> Run as Administrator, you never know, it might fix the issue.

If it's XP, then it's probably something else.

I always install as admin then run as admin and make sure I have run as admin checked in the properties dialog.
I do remember getting an error similar to majestics once but that was after I turned UAC off then back on again for something that I cant remember at the moment. But that was awhile ago, long before 3.1.0 came out.

i turned uac off completely, it never bothers me any more :P

This is a bad idea tbh. Probably over half of the infections and bad things you can get from webpages are able to run and work because Windows previously (XP and lower) started people off on a default Administrator account. If you don't run EVERYTHING (unless given permission) as an administrator, like you would do with Linux and the root account, you are much less likely to get hit with a driveby attack on some random website or advertisement.

That said, I have UAC turned off too, been considering turning it back on though, as my computer security class I'm taking has taught me a lot about the myths surrounding that area of computing.

Please now make it single player missions pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UAC in vista is clumsy, it's annoying and counter-intuitive. i've never been infected with anything, i use caution when browsing and have latest database for my antivirus. driveby attacks are the only serious concern for me. although using no-script can help.

Don't be a heretic. Have faith in the devs  ^-^

Thank you all, "Run as Admin" was the solution. I have been a XP Boy for years until these last couple of months where I have gone to Win7 and I am still learning it.

Thank again, had a fun game against the Klingon and Romulans. I love the new interface guys, it's beautiful and very functional. :)

Glad you got it working :D :thumbsup:

Lovin it fleet ops keep up the great work

it may be even enough if you just run it one time in "administrator mode". i have had the same issue with another software where windows had to register some dlls or something for the first time. after that i could use the software without full administrator privileges.

thank you so much for the fix.  love this mod and the new interface is great.  i especially like the extra info included like the descriptions for various weapon systems.  i actually lost a game cause i was reading the descriptions on my ship and didnt realize the my shipyards were being wiped out.   :lol:

I love it.

And now: But. It seems like the Borg gained a lot of power compared to the romulan stations. A normal station is no longer up to a borg sphere... thats awkward. Or willingly?

I'm getting nervous... every time I save a game it is not reloadable when played a time ago. I do 6 to 7 saves, all short behind each others and with small time interference between them, but it doesnt help :-(

Also a suggestion to the Serkas:
Is it intended that also own units get damaged by it? It is somewhat frustrating defending your base with those artillery ships and you blew up your own ships... on the other hand, it is hard to make them use in order to "follow" enemy ships. They are away in the second, you shoot the torpedo. Can we make something like an aiming point, and if friendly units are inside the blast radius, this vessel would simply not shoot and search for another one? This would outbalance the very weak defense of this vessel.

Sorry to hear about the first problem - hopefully you've sent error reports to Doca and he's able to figure out the issue :)

With the second, that is, I think, the aim (no pun intended) - simply use manual targeting to "lead" on your opponent's ships :)

maybe someone (or even someones) already posted: Repair Ships shouldn't try to become heroes in combar, but should do repair business, WITHOUT an extra invitation every time you need them.

Well, they have weapons - so if you don't want them to enter combat, stick 'em on green alert :)

......... Or just keep them in your base (movement auto set to green or 0), because usually that is where repair ships seem to be most effective (occasionally with a very large fleet one of them wouldn't hurt).

Indeed. As Dom suggested... my settings for repair ships is the following:

Alert: Green
Movement: high
Special Weapons: High.

This way I hardly ever need to micro or lose repair ships because they will not engage enemy vessels but they will move to the nearest friendly in need of repairs and repair them automatically.

Cool idea. Totally forgot about the alarm possibillities. Thx a lot!

hello opp team you have a horny mod done but developed what is still missing from the collection modes you the Cardassians were indeed in the Dominion war here so I would be delighted if I did not last for this

is only a suggestion

sorry for my bad english

The Carddies aren't in yet because they were massacred during the War and aren't strong enough to be a major faction. They will be around as NPC's in the future, though.

They're also not in the Dominion anymore and hate them like Klingons hate Romulans.

@anti: welcome to the forums, i wouldnt quite describe fleet ops as horny, but it is certainly a great mod.

the cardassians will be added soon, but not with the dominion. as tyler said

that works?  i always set them to  red red red  on fleet 0 (and sometimes wonder where they went)  i dont think they would work set to Green alert.

They do indeed work on Green Alert Bale (advised in the guide too) :) .

Check out the guide to FO if you want more info on the Cardies and Dominion :)

aha ok I've been there myself trying to fashion the Cardassians, but without the ladder to success, I have other boats purely gemodet have missed but still ships jetz new textures and looks even better from my point stands

Hi to all the other FleetOPs-Addicts out there!

I realize that FO 3.1.1 has been out for a while, but to tell the truth i haven't been aware of this excellent piece of work. (yeah, shame on me, i know)
Just wanted to say to all the devs and staff, massive kudos  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:, i haven't had so much fun playing any of the two original armada releases. They made fun of course, but they lacked those cool explosions and impact effects you have created.

One question though: is there anything i can do to stop graphics performance from dropping to nearly zero when playing the borg? With this mod/ST Armada 3  :woot: the borg make real fun for the first time!  :borg: :borg: :borg:
I am using a genuine install of Win 7 Pro X64 on a system with Intel Core 2 Duo T 7200, 4GB Ram (3 effective anyway), an onboard graphics adapter ATI Radeon X1400 (128MB dedicated and at all 1407MB video memory). Yeah, that notebook is now three years old. For resolution i use 1280x1024 because if i max it out to 1680x1050, the borg are not playable. With the other races i have no similar problem, except eventually when there is a massive attack with whole fleets going after each other.

I may try to reduce details and increase resolution bit by bit. But i would like to avoid decreased details. I like them too much! :D And nope, i cannot upgrade the graphics adapter (it is onboard). :crybaby: :crybaby:

Sadly no the problem is mostly due to the inefficient way that armada 2 handles explosions but its a known issue and being worked on.

Well, one quick fix (that loses MP capability) is replace the explosion SODs with the empty.sod file. Thought the rumble may also be the problem. B4 replacing sods, go into all explosion files and set rumble strength to 0.

Thx for the quick answers! I kinda suspected something like this...  >:( :crybaby:
Good to hear, that this is being worked on! :woot: :D
And i don't want to replace the SODs or tinker with the files.
But thx anyway! And keep up this excellent work!

that wouldn't help either way :) the problem is the algorithms for creating the fractions of models, not the basic explosion effects. those are quite fast

Welcome to the community :thumbsup:

I can't download the latest patch. I keep getting an error message in German  :crybaby:

Try A2Files.

the downloads are currently down, im sure they will fix it as soon as possible

Maybe the Dl is unavailable because the 3.1.1+ (3.1.2 or something) is being uploaded :woot:

There's a pleasent thought...

Nice thought, but it has been down for two days or so now - rather unlikely that it takes so long to upload the new patch.  :ermm:

unless the new patch is several hundred gb in size :P

kidding. but i wonder if the downloads stay down, how will the new patch be released :S

With Armada2Files, which also has V3 & 3.1.

there is mod db as well.