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Nighthawk

Now, there has actually been nothing new on the EA site that's C&C3 related in the past two weeks, so I'm going to skip straight to the modding news.

Be sure to check out the updates for our hosted TC mod Only War 2 at their website.

Tiberium Wars Advanced have posted up some new screenshots for their new v1.5 release, which is available for download at ModDB and Thundermods (site in German).

MidEast Crisis 2 have posted some screenshots of updated maps. One, Small Town Israel, has a recognisable building from Red Alert 2 on it. Also included is information on the "Augmented Reality" UI. In their most recent news post, they expand upon some of the gameplay featured in each map. Included are the deadly crows in their Temple Mount map, and the traffic feature in their Highway of Death map. Also, their release date is back to being "TBA", and they apologise for the release in August mention before.

Cold War Conflict: War of the Future has now been redesigned as Operation: Rolling Thunder. Currently, the mod's information just consists of a large weapons list. They are looking for a coder as well.

CnC Fallout have released their first full-length trailer to mark their one-year anniversary. The trailer shows off many of the NATO, USSR and Australian units.

Alternate Warfare is another Cold War-type TC mod. The mod seems very early on in development at the minute, but they've got a few renders available to view, as well as an ingame video.

And that's it for now. Normal news posting activity shall resume as soon as possible, do not fear

Nighthawk.
Division Head.

Boomerang Python

Yep, it's that time of the month now, news update time.

I've done loads of skinning, so we've got a bunch of things to show you this month,
the months to come might be less visually beautiful in the new model department but
we'll see what we can manage, we will likely be showing some more civilian props that will be
in the map Cal is making right now.

At the moment I'm at hard work making new animations for the Basilisk since the
original ones were completely psycho. (you have to agree that's a pretty damn good reason)
And they should be done in a couple of days.

That makes the Imperial Guard basically done, in the model/texture department anyway
but they still need hulks and craploads of 2D stuff sorted like a command bar and cameos.

Still can't tell you a certain date we'll be releasing our first uber-alpha version, but we're still
getting there, slowly but surely.

For now, enjoy these screenshots of the ingame Departmento Munitorum, Hellhound and
Grenade Launcher guardsman.

Until next time,
Emperor Protects.

Nighthawk

Gasp! Shock! Horror! Burnt toast! What's this? A news post in the middle of the week?
I've been a bit delayed with the news posting recently, partly due to things in the real world that need attending to, and partly because I wanted to let last week's poll run for a while and give as many as possible a chance to vote (the poll's still open, by the way. See the previous news post).

Basically, it was a unanimous vote (from the 6 that voted) for EA to develop a KW Mod SDK. While 6 does seem a rather small number, it is somewhere around the current number of forum posters during the summer here.

Anyway, this is a news post, so I suppose some news should be expected. Wading past the never-ending RA3 news on the C&C site, there are some things relevant to us here in the C&C3 community.

EA forums member DaFool321 has churned out a series of 24 maps for Kane's Wrath all recreating various maps present in Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. While I haven't played through them myself, if you're in one of those nostalgic moods, or you just liked the environments in RA2 or YR, be sure to download them from this thread.

Apart from several tournament related things, there's not really much else to post about on the EA front. If you're interested in either the progress of Ladder Season 2, or the EVGA Kane's Wrath tournament announced almost a week ago, head to the EA site.

Now, modding news.

This first one technically isn't part of our usual repertoire as a C&C3 community site, however, I thought it was worth a mention after reading about it. This mod is called Tiberian Wrath, and is actually for C&C Renegade. It's a total conversion mod aiming to turn Renegade into Kane's Wrath. Now, from what I saw on both their site and ModDB, they haven't been public for long. However, the renders on both their site and ModDB show signs of promise. Between this and C&C Reborn (which I'll not discuss here), I may consider reinstalling Renegade again .

Tiberian Apocalypse have posted new screenshots of their Titan and Wolverine units ingame. Look them up either at their site using the link above, or their ModDB profile.

Cold War Conflict: War of the Future are interested in people with skills at modding C&C3 to help them out. Also, if you have any suggestions for the mod, be sure to tell them.

Sigma Invasion have posted some new renders of units and structures.

Now, I can't actually remember altogether too clearly if I made a post on this mod before. This must be the first ever case of senility in a young person, but anyway . Tiberian Dawn, a TC mod from C&C3 to, well, Tiberian Dawn, have posted up some new renders of the Weapons Factory, Silos and the MCV. If you're into any kind of TD total conversion, you should keep an eye on this mod.

MidEast Crisis 2 have set their release target for this month, August. Aside from that, there are some new screenshots, including the Blackhawk helicopter, and updated unit lists for the Guardians of Islam and the Israel Defense Forces.

CnC Fallout have posted up some new screens as well (this seems to be the season for mod screenshots ).

And that'll do for this week. I think that's about as much news as any normal person could take. And I think that's about as much strain as my fingers can take typing it all... or maybe that was because of the massive essay I had to type before this, oh well .

Until next time.

Nighthawk.
Division Head.

Nighthawk

I've decided to go with something different than the usual weekly news post today.

As you may know, Banshee has started a campaign to try to persuade EA to finally produce a Mod SDK for Kane's Wrath. You may have read about at Project Perfect Mod, or indeed at the campaign topic on the EA forums.

The purpose of this poll is to try to get the views of the community here.
To vote, you need to be registered at Revora Forums. Go to the topic itself, and the poll should be at the top of the screen. If you want EA to develop a mod SDK for Kane's Wrath, select the first option. If you would rather EA didn't develop a mod SDK, then select the second one.

Your views do count, so please, if you can vote, vote.

Nighthawk.
Division Head.

Boomerang Python

Yo peeps, We're back with another update today but not a very significant one
however it has some niceness to it, the Armamentorium which would be the
Imperial Guard Barracks. As you can see I've gone for a basic bunker kind of
look so no windows or anything, after all they are keeping all sorts of explosives
in there.. I've also tried to keep the look similar to that of the Armamentorium
from OW1 (which i also tried to do with the Manufactorum), oh and yes the
door is supposed to be that gigantic.

I've now started texturing the Departmento Munitorum which is the
Imperial Guard Command Center, it should be done pretty soon actually..

Also we have decided that we will be releasing a first super-alpha build of
Only War 2 that will only contain Imperial Guard (so you'll have to imagine
your enemy as a heretic commander ), a unique resource system and probably
some custom map(s) and other things not yet decided..

We can't tell when but we're getting there.. Imperial Guard is basically done and
just needs some polishing once the buildings are done.

Until next time,
Emperor Protects.

Nighthawk

Right, let's see what's been going on in the past fortnight.

EA have posted up their Replay of the Week for Kane's Wrath. This week's replay is a match between the Ladder Season 1 Champion - relativiT and ToObeyIsLife. You can download the replay here.

Mastermind has started up a weekly news post on the C&C3 site, entitled 'Mastermind's Monday Madness'. This week, he's reviewed a rather different map for Kane's Wrath, entitled 'HERO', as well as information on the Renegade-X TC mod, and a trailer for Asylum. You can check out this post here.

In 2poc's Community Coverage, he covers how to use vehicles in C&C3 to crush, well, an enemy army. There's a Replay Guide by C&C3 player Khufu. A map zooming mod, cleverly titled "C&C ZoomMapMod" has been released in order to let you zoom out really far and view more of the battlefield. Read all about it here.

For the competitive multiplayer members among us, Ladder Season 2 is now online. As always, there are some great prizes up for grabs. First place in the 1v1 tournament gets $6000 sponsored by EA and HP. Along with that comes a bunch of Logitech merchandise. 2nd, 3rd and 4th place will also win around $2500 worth of prizes. The three qualifying rounds run from July 11th to August 11th; August 11th to September 11th; and September 11th to October 11th, if you want to get yourself in with a chance to win those prizes. More information on how the ladder system will work can be found here.

And lastly, an E3 special of Battlecast Primetime is now online. While most of it focuses on Red Alert 3, there's still the usual C&C3 matches in there somewhere. You can view it on either the C&C3 site or download it in HD from this article.

That's it for this week. I'll have modding news back again next week.

Nighthawk.
Division Head.

Yes, yes, I know, I hear your screams saying that I'm a day early with the news, but this is slightly more important.

Kane's Wrath Patch 1.01 has finally been released. For those who grabbed the leaked one earlier in the week, they're the same EXE, so you're fine if you installed the earlier one.

The changelist stands as follows:

Firstly, the serious fixes - the Desync Errors:

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