New Mod Coming Soon!!

Yo Y’all,

A new mod is being developed by me. It is a combination of Unleashed, Unstable Space, Elite, and many other mods far and wide, only with my own personal tweaks. The objective of this mod is to make the game much tougher, but still playable, and add many new elements into the game to make it more fun and engaging. Title? Independence War2 Edge of Chaos ADVANCED.
If someone thinks up a better name please tell me. This is what it will be in the meantime though.

Examples of these elements are:

Re-written scripts. All the mission scripts and traffic scripts will be custom ones designed by the mod coder ( currently me ).

Longer combat. You know those independent spider tugs who randomly sometimes try to kick your weenie in Act 1? The engagement with them ( providing you have no t-fighters ) should last about 1 minute. Whether you win or lose depends entirely on your personal skill, as these tugs have the same weapons and same number of weapons as you. Yes, this means you will see Heavy Corvettes with four Neutron PBCs and two t-fighters ( this from Unleashed ).

As in Unleashed, the ships all have some form of rockets and lasers to complement their normal loadout. Talking about loadout, it is going to be random for the nonplayer ships. This way each ship will have a different loadout.

The player can purchase, sell, steal, find, manufacture, or be given ships, stations, planets, WHOLE SYSTEMS, you name it. Of course there will be competition too…

You don’t HAVE to be a space pirate to make a living. While it will be the only way to get started, you can make your later money by mining, trading, shipping, salvaging, anything you can think of.

The story line is WWAAAAYYYY longer. I’m talking ACT 6 kind of longer. Oh, and you may see the Dreadnought’s NairNama buddies again…

Those ships and stations you get? they won’t all be flown or manned by the player. Why not have some AI lackeys do some of the work for you? Just make sure they don’t desert…

You can plunder fuel transporters, as their fuel tanks can be ejected just like cargo pods. Good thing too. You honestly don’t expect the fuel in your tanks to last forever, do you? Just make sure, when you’re liberating more fuel, you don’t set it off…

Combat is WAY more realistic. You can shoot off external weapons, which are more powerful than internal ones, destroy fuel tanks to prevent the ship going anywhere, take out CPUs to mess up the enemy’s targeting, kill the crew to render the ship helpless, inflict heavy enough damage on a system that it can’t be repaired, and many more things. All while dodging his shots, as they will do the same things. Systems that get permanently taken out are not quite permanently, as a good shipyard ( or Lucrecia’s Base ) can easily repair the systems. Also missiles and collisions will now do damage to systems, like in I-war1. If you take serious damage, you may need to withdraw for about two minutes to repair.

Combat is also much harder. The enemy ships, as mentioned before, have the same weapons and same number of weapons as you. Shields have been upgraded too. All vessels have better anti-missile defenses, like countermeasures and point-defense cannons. Ship hulls, player included, can take surprising amounts of punishment. Also, don’t mess with capital ships unnecessarily. They have cutting beams, triple turrets, whole banks of missiles, fighter bays, deadly forward weaponry, and in the case of larger capships, energy Meson Cannons. Also the Carrier doesn’t just have fighters…

Missiles are much better. If you can detect a ship, you can hit it with a missile. They also move much faster, to make the range better. they live about one minute, instead of twenty seconds. The missile lock alarm has had the volume turned down, as it can get annoying after a while. You will still notice it though.

All the visual effects and sound effects have been touched up to make the game more realistic. Talking about realistic, wait ’till you see a ship explode! they are so awesome!

Multiple new ships and weapons have been added.

Stations are now huge. Ten kilometers huge. They are also well fortified. Marauder attacks have been changed to compensate.

Stealth works better. You can hide behind rocks and ships, power down some systems, use signal masks, go near something big, go into someone else’s signal mask, anything that can be conceived. In the vanilla EoC, stealth makes no difference. I tried setting my visibility to zero with a cheat. The nonplayer ships still tracked my ship and fired. Well, I’m fixing that in I-W2 ADVANCED.

You can land on planets if you fly really really well. Of course, you could just use an LST.

Piracy is harder. The longer you do it, the more likely it is the police will find you. They are very powerful, so try moving to different locations over time. Escorts are tougher, freighters use shields and weapons, and a few pack hidden surprises. Remember the Navy Q-ship in Defiance? Also the L-Points are packed with armed competition. They may know you. Favorably or not is decided by your behavior to the faction. The guys you try to plunder also will in all probability call for backup.

You will receive cluster news via e-mail. Also some new e-mails have been added and the old ones touched up to make the plot more clear.

How about some ground combat? Wouldn’t that be nice?

All the bugs I know of will be ironed out.

And the best part? Here it comes:

YOU CAN PERSONALLY FLY EACH AND EVERY SINGLE SHIP IN THE ENTIRE GAME!!!!!!!!! ( except aliens of course. )

If you forget something, which is likely, considering the sheer amount of stuff in this mod, simply check the encyclopedia. It is completely updated to include all ships and weapons in the game. Heck, it even includes tanks!!

And many many many many many more changes I can’t remember off the top of my head.

If anybody feels like helping I’ll be glad to accept. I don’t own lightwave, so editing the graphics is pretty hard. I also can’t create collisionhulls, which impairs the new stations. I am one person too, so at the present rate I’m going, the mod should be done in a decade or two…
If anyone has any bright ideas to include, please tell me and I shall consider them.
I refer to everything in the list above in the past tense out of habit. Over 80% of it hasn’t even been started.
If someone would kindly tell me how, I will try to post some screenshots to demonstrate some stuff. I would take video, but I have no software to do so, and my computer is not powerful enough to give anything more than 9 frames per second. My apologies.

Minimum Requirements. This is based off how well the mod works on my computer.
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz CPU.
512 Megabytes Ram for Windows XP/ 768 Megabytes Ram for Windows Seven
128 MB Graphics card. NVidia works slightly better than ATI.
And about half a gig of free hard disk space.

Recommended:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
1 Gigabyte of Ram.
256 MG Graphics card.
1 gig of hard disk space.

If you aren’t sure what your specifications are, then if the normal ( unmodded ) game works fine with the graphics set to about medium, you’re probably good if you turn the graphics all the way down when using the mod.

All of the above may change in the future. I apologize for any inconveniences.

Everyone have a blast,
–IronDuke

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