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Worth noting is that the revamp also hit an unexpected delay earlier but was saved by JonWil. This double-delay will be compensated for however, as the scope of the revamp was made bigger, so you can expect a lot of improvements to the visuals and gameplay.

Side note, we never did discover what caused the file corruption. Safety precautions have been made however so that in the future, damage can be better controlled. 

I don't believe it is currently being looked into, so I'm putting it on hold for now.

Delta has already been released for well over a year, so yeah, time most certainly flies.

And takes a train sometimes.

Occasionally a buss to avoid traffic or terrorism and other daily problems.

But mostly, it flies.

Still awaiting Pushwall to report back regarding whether or not it could be salvaged. If it's gone, then yes, over a year worth of level edit updates to the level will be gone. The 3DS side of things is unharmed though, as are materials, and even the script sequenced base destruction 'survived' because this was never touched in all that time. But everything added and changed since then would be gone.

I've actually hit quite a frustrating roadblock at the moment in the form of a new, unexpected file corruption, which somehow affects recent backups as well. So yeah...

Ah, certainly rings a bell (unless I got bells ringing in my head again, argh!).

Who were you back in the day then?

I'm more of a functionality person. You don't really take a screenshot from a non-rendered 3DS viewport for the graphics.

In this particular case you can expect a Naval Transport to properly eject passengers onto the flatform, no getting stuck issues on anything, and because of the square angles the transport won't unexpectedly bounce off the platform or correct itself to align with a specific angle (unless of course you rammed a corner at full speed, in which case you probably shouldn't drive a vehicle IRL either).

Quite a few still float around. You'd think that people would have found something else to watch in over a decade of time, but nope!

Oh so that's what those things are!

Here is a sample texture. For those interested, the new details are added in GIMP using a combination of different tools and hand drawing.

I was considering making them emit light, but then I remembered this is in the Red Alert universe and not Fantasy Alert universe... Crystals don't provide light, Raap! The exterior of the silo has some added details to help differentiate the two silo's, similar to how the Sub Pen and Advanced Sub Pen can be differentiated (decorative faction colored 'lines'). Finally, a modified "Gem Truck" accompanies these special silo's... Because why not?!

Image link broken.

Hah, unlikely. But hopefully the "moving terrain" element will function as intended, and that'll be a joke the whole year round.

Time can fly by faster than you realize it. If you're the social type, then I hope you enjoyed your time. 

I opted to keep out of what W3DHub should or should not do, due to me having an unpopular opinion. I'm just here to try and stick to a promise that I made. 

But what I meant to say was, I'd be more motivated to reserve the required time for this project, if the player interest was larger.

It would have been easier for me to push out frequent updates if the general interest in the game was higher. Besides, 'Siege' wasn't particularly well received, and coupled with a lack of general feedback it has been difficult for me to really get any idea of what the remaining playerbase wants to see. It's sort of like trying to aim on target with the lights out. Nonetheless, I still intend to wrap up what I promised. 

Small update: Gatekeeper chassis model completed, but I still got to model a turret and a number of different things related to the weapon mechanics. If you're wondering, "WTF is a Gatekeeper?": It is a custom Soviet support vehicle that I'll be introducing in the upcoming level, a vehicle with the capability of creating temporarily physical and projectile barriers on the battlefield.

The vehicle will be purchasable like any other Soviet vehicle, and is not tied to any map mechanics. I am using it to demonstrate that adding new units that fit within the Red Alert universe is possible, and worth the effort if it fills a missing gameplay niche, in this case it will remedy the lack of Soviet support focused vehicles.

A dedicated map/vehicle preview thread will be created when I put more time into this project.