Rebellion Reloaded BETA - Questions and Answers

[Lord_La_forge]

Yupp there is a BETA in our hands

It is time to answer all your questions!

 

ABOUT BETA:

It will be released after the following task are completed:

-Animating some advisor gestures. (in progress right now)

-Recording the lines of the NR advisor.

-Embending the 2 new droids.

- main installer for Reloaded

- some basic site where you can get it (half done)

 

It won't include:

all movies

new voices (except for the advisors hopefuly)

full game balance (that's why it's beta in the first place)

some event pictures (most of them are done however)

 

It will come with:

all new cards

all models

new GUI and interfaces

animated advisors

encyclopedia entries

reshaped galaxy

bugs

 

Why was it taking so long:

I've just counted. I have 1366 image files on my hd, produced all for Reloaded. (not counting the animation frames of course, which is about 5000 more)

Lot of voices, movies, text needed to be changed to fit with the Thrawn era.

We had a very small team for all these tasks.

 

 

Release date is not yet set (sorry, is impossible to tell when our team members have time to finish their tasks). As we have a date I will tell you.

 

Before release, you will see some more screenshots on this site, so keep an eye out for them If you see the new GUI on one of the screenshots, then the release won't be far away anymore

[Lord_La_forge]

So let's hear, what do you want to know

[Ikelae]

I would love to test this:)

 

question though... are you gonna have more seclection of ships and such to buy?

[tacoJoemeru]

Awesome!!!!! I've... I've... waited so long! *breaks down and sobs*..

 

What about Moddb for the site?

[Lord_La_forge]

I would love to test this:)

 

question though... are you gonna have more seclection of ships and such to buy?

 

We have 10 new ships and a battlestation. But all ships have new graphics and models. (and some ship are now available for both sides)

 

 

"What about Moddb for the site?"

 

I'm not sure what that word stands for

[DarthTofu]

I'll test... Does "ModDB" stand for "Modifications database?" I dunno... Oh, and I'm downloading Audacity right now. I'll try to do a good voice or two for some of the characters.

[Evaders99]

I assume he means http://www.moddb.com

But why put it on another site when we can put it here! Esp since it matters to the Rebellion players here. Not to mention that Rebellion isn't even a game listed on Moddb

[tacoJoemeru]

True.... But i assume it is good enough to make them like it! *shakes fist at them idiots there* I agree, host it here.

[DarthTex]

So let's hear, what do you want to know

We have 10 new ships and a battlestation. But all ships have new graphics and models. (and some ship are now available for both sides)

What are the new ships and battlestation, and the stats? Which ships are shared by both sides? What are the fighter, army and spec force units (I'm assuming they all changed)? Are there any changes to facilities? And what are the changes to the character slots for each side?

 

That should be enough for now ...

[Lord_La_forge]

Well I'll tell you some of them:

The Corvette, Carrack crsr, Star Destroyer mark I., neb.-b will be set for both sides.

We have new ships like: Modular Starhauler, Mc40, Mc80b, and 3 kinds of SSDs.

The battlestation is the Golan III, that Mask created.

For the fighters, we did only chagnge the y-wing and the bomber to something new.

 

For the army units, there still will be wookies, stormtroopers, darktroopers, but it will include airpeeders and clonetroopers.

 

For the special forces we have stealthtroopers, NR Regulator (repalcing stupid guerillas), Scout Corps, Noghris and fully new espionage units (yupp the bothans and the protocol droid had to go)

 

Of course all cards are updated with new graphics. Stats are new too, but since beta will be a test for them, It won't be of any use to give them out now.

[Eagle]

What about old custom cards, can they also be used in the new version? Thx.

[DarthTofu]

Can you give us the stats for all of the new ships? I like to use the poster that came with the game as well as a sheet of paper and some calculations to determine whether or not I want to take part in some battles...

[nordwindranger]

Im super pumped for this

 

so..

 

does a MC80b beat a Star Destroyer mark 1, or the other way around?

[Lord_La_forge]

You can still import your own cards after installing Reloaded. It will have an own install tool, and you don't need to have RebEd for it, but you can still use it of course. That's why all BETA testers will require RebEd, to see the stats and discuss it here.

 

I don't want to post the stats, you will see it in the BETA. Calculations can't be enough, we need space battles to test them.

 

"The MC-80b is a 1200 meter long cruiser built by the famed starship designers, the Mon Calamari. A distinctive design, the MC-80b is considerably more powerful than the more common MC-80 design and can fight most Imperial Star Destroyers to a standstill. Although it has the same amount of guns, the new targeting systems and linked firing controls increase its firepower significantly. The MC-80b carries 4 squads of fighters."

[DarthTofu]

Good to see that there are fewer round numbers in the carrying capacities of ships, now... Got kinda annoying in the original game.

[LoneWolf14]

Hey all... It's good to see there's still an active Rebellion community after all these years. I'm a first time poster, but a long time Reb vet... bought it the first day it was out and have played it off and on consistently since then. I've been a gamer for a long time, but this is the one game I seem to always come back to.

 

Anyway, for some reason it took 9 years for me to realize "hey, there could be mods out there!" Long story short, this mod looks extremely promising, and I'd love to help out in testing if I'm welcome.

[Huertolero]

me and my friend are playing this all the time since it came out and we cant wait for teh beta. Cheers for the hard work! It is much appreciated!

[Eagle]

-Recording the lines of the NR advisor.

There´s still some voice needed??

 

If yes, you´re talking about that calamari guy? What should be the lines?

[DarthOminous]

I'm pumped about checking out any kind of version, I wish I could help but Ive got the next couple of months up north and im still trying to get dial up, what a pain. Hope I dont sound like a record of everyone else but I'd love to play it, thanks!

[Huertolero]

Its been 20 days im checking the site 3 times a day waiting for some new but still nothing

[Lord_La_forge]

If everything goes well, it will be out until the end of March.

(beta will have all important feauters in it, so don't get confused. The beta will be fully playable, yet unbalanced. Only some movies and voices are missing.)

[Eksim_Enrol]

will there be a fact sheet, like a pdf or something that lists all the characters and ships with the stats, r&d info, sortta like that poster that came with the game?

[Lord_La_forge]

I'm not planning to do that, maybe for the full version of the tc later on, with the assistance of the community perhaps

[Eksim_Enrol]

ah okay, i guess for the beta i'll have to rebed it and write down my thoughts. still, i can't wait. i really want to play it!

[sledneck]

Count me in for beta testing. I also have some experience at graphic design and a some coding if theres anything you want to pass off (like going through really long code or something).