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==Objective==
 
==Objective==
The goal of this project is to even out the effectiveness of Star Control II's ship line-up so that everything is worth using in competitive player-versus-player melee. The various ships have been strengthened or weakened accordingly. Additionally, many minor adjustments have been made for the sake of aesthetics or continuity. The changes are quite extensive, though I tried not to stray too far from vanilla gameplay. The Balance Mod is not intended for Star Control II's campaign, nor melee against the cyborg.
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The goal of this project is to make every ship in Star Control II's line-up worth using in competitive player-versus-player melee. To this end, the various ships have been strengthened or weakened accordingly. Many minor adjustments have also been made for the sake of aesthetics or continuity. The changes are quite extensive, though we tried not to stray too far from vanilla gameplay.
  
  
==Recent Changes==
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==Credit==
  
===v1.33===
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* Shiver is the original creator of the mod. He came up with almost all of the ideas and wrote most of the code. He does not work on the mod anymore, so Gekko and Oldlaptop have taken over the development.
  
* Implemented fossil's fix for the 0.6.2 desync bug involving duplicate ship types.
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* Gekko was Shiver's primary play-test opponent early in the mod's development. He also helped port this mod from UQM v0.6.2 to v0.7.0.
  
[Arilou]
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* Oldlaptop has been a great help in testing and debugging the mod. He has implemented many of the latest features and fixed bugs.
  
* The Skiff may teleport again as it is reappearing. This allows for 100% safe fake-outs against Shofixti using forward teleport.
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* Xaionaro wrote the original retreat patch and has helped in the general mod development.
  
[Melnorme]
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* UQM core team members Meep-eep, Fossil and McMartin provided coding and debugging assistance.
  
* Confusion disables the Ur-Quan autoturret for its duration.
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* Elvish Pillager wrote a few bits of the most difficult code for this mod and gave significant design input. His Crazy Mod source code was a valuable reference when altering melee.
  
[Shofixti]
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* Bleeding Star gave some useful design input which led to several necessary adjustments.
  
* Mendokusai dart speed decreased from 96 to 92.
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* Death 999 cooked up a nifty program which saved hours of work when making a larger antimatter cone for Umgah.
  
* Mendokusai dart duration decreased from 10 to 9.
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* Gostu--a stranger to the Star Control fan community--helped port this mod from UQM v0.6.2 to v0.7.0.
  
* Weapon relativity effect increased from 1/2 to 3/4 of the Scout's current velocity.
 
  
[Thraddash]
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==Links==
 
 
* Reverted energy consumption back to 0.5.
 
  
* Afterburner thrust increment decreased from 12 to 9. This is functionally the same acceleration rate as seen in v1.31 and before.
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* [[User:Shiver/Balance_Mod/List_of_Changes | Mod Details]]
  
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* [[User:Shiver/Balance_Mod/Installation | Download & Installation Instructions]]
  
==Credit==
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* [https://github.com/Roisack/Shiver-Balance-Mod Github]
I received extensive assistance while making this project. I wish to express my thanks to the following individuals:
 
 
 
* Elvish Pillager wrote a few bits of the most difficult code for this mod and gave significant design input. His Crazy Mod source code was a valuable reference when altering melee.
 
 
 
* UQM core team members Meep-eep, Fossil and McMartin provided coding and debugging assistance.
 
 
 
* Gekko was my primary beta test opponent during this mod's creation.
 
 
 
* Bleeding Star gave some useful design input which led to several necessary adjustments.
 
 
 
* Death 999 cooked up a nifty program which saved me hours of work when making a larger antimatter cone for Umgah.
 
 
 
 
 
==Links==
 
 
 
* [[User:Shiver/Balance_Mod/List_of_Changes | Full List of Changes]]
 
  
* [[User:Shiver/Balance_Mod/Installation | Installation Instructions]]
 
  
 
[[Category:Mods]]
 
[[Category:Mods]]

Revision as of 19:17, 27 October 2017

Objective

The goal of this project is to make every ship in Star Control II's line-up worth using in competitive player-versus-player melee. To this end, the various ships have been strengthened or weakened accordingly. Many minor adjustments have also been made for the sake of aesthetics or continuity. The changes are quite extensive, though we tried not to stray too far from vanilla gameplay.


Credit

  • Shiver is the original creator of the mod. He came up with almost all of the ideas and wrote most of the code. He does not work on the mod anymore, so Gekko and Oldlaptop have taken over the development.
  • Gekko was Shiver's primary play-test opponent early in the mod's development. He also helped port this mod from UQM v0.6.2 to v0.7.0.
  • Oldlaptop has been a great help in testing and debugging the mod. He has implemented many of the latest features and fixed bugs.
  • Xaionaro wrote the original retreat patch and has helped in the general mod development.
  • UQM core team members Meep-eep, Fossil and McMartin provided coding and debugging assistance.
  • Elvish Pillager wrote a few bits of the most difficult code for this mod and gave significant design input. His Crazy Mod source code was a valuable reference when altering melee.
  • Bleeding Star gave some useful design input which led to several necessary adjustments.
  • Death 999 cooked up a nifty program which saved hours of work when making a larger antimatter cone for Umgah.
  • Gostu--a stranger to the Star Control fan community--helped port this mod from UQM v0.6.2 to v0.7.0.


Links