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Sometimes the servers may go down briefly for maintenance, or otherwise unexpectedly for some reason. Unless it is something serious, we don't typically announce it. The APB server will stay up 99% of the time. The Reborn server on the other hand crashes quite often, and we restart it when we notice that it is down.

Lol thats exactly how they work. No power = no run. Modern day, with the exception of simple (definitely not military-grade) engines that rely on a mechanical distributor instead of a set of sensors and a ECM, everything you're going to find in both gasoline and diesel engines has a computer or multiple computers that are necessary for the basic function of "running". And that doesn't include other stuff like the gauges, automatic transmission behavior, every other system on the vehicle, each of which likely has its own dedicated computer module. Modern stuff has computers everywhere, so unless this is a 1953 M38A2 or such like, an EMP will definitely kill it. At least until a knowledgeable-enough mechanic gets ahold of it.

Oh you know it! Good tutorial @Veyrdite, this is definitely well-put-together.

Found him! He was just hiding in a corner busy working on this!

I can't seem to find my lab assistant....

"Stop playing with that thing!!!"

Haha the original team would be proud. Just another useless tidbit: So the original 0.900 was a .pkg mod, which isn't really "cool" nowadays. Making it into a standalone wasn't really possible/worth doing (it would use the Renegade menu and tons of other stuff if someone did that), so instead I was able to fool around enough with it to get it to run in version 0.9915, which is 3 versions later, and standalone. And just FYI the two versions in between, 990 and 991; I can't find 990 anywhere. Its the only one I don't have. And 991 was simply broken, damaged in "shipping" and DOA. 9915 is nothing more than a fix to make 991 run at all, and they are otherwise identical. So now 0.900 lives on as a single map within 9915 (both of which are broken in various ways) See? There really are people in this world who are a wealth of considerably useless information

Well, we've hit another snag, so I guess its probably a good thing that I didn't actually make a bet on this Not to worry though, you'll get it as soon as its ready! In the meantime though, I can tease something else that I've been playing with! (which may or may not ever see the light of day) Ladies and gentlemen, I give you......the first ever......*drum rollllll* 1080p screenshot of "Renegade Alert" version 0.900!!! Yes... I, for some reason, felt it was necessary to dig this dinosaur up and give it the 2019 TT scripts treatment. What you're looking at, believe it or not, is none other than "Keep Off The Grass", officially the oldest public map in APB (and the only map included in version 0.900). However, it bears almost no resemblance to its 17-years newer self. Why am I showing you this? Good question. Guess I'm just a nerd who enjoys playing with old forgotten games

But I can't! Because I don't know yet! Soon™

#triggered!!!!!! ##shoot ##ban Killing_You

Do I need to give you a warning? This community has rules regarding excessive foul language, friend

Hey you. Guess what. Thats right. It works now I can't say for sure exactly when this is getting released.... But if I were a betting man, I'd put money on one day this week

@LiamGriever Sounds like you need to poke people to join discord VC, or hop over to TS3. We still have TS3 you know But yeah, I'm not sure why, but this does seem to be true. I guess people will be lazy or reclusive where they can. TS3 forces you to at least hear the convo.

Glad you think so! We are ever-closer, and I'm running out of things to fix, so thats a good sign. This evening I've been doing some tidying up and trying to make this thing as streamlined as I can get it.

This right here is precisely why I wanted to make this happen. As of the TT 4.6 milestone update today, and moving forward, this project will be using the most current public release version of the 4.6 engine. This is the exact same as any fully updated Renegade client/server installation, and only slightly varying from what the IA project uses. In other words, no forseeable compatibility issues

Haha, thanks for the support guys!

Big thanks and shout-out to @dblaney1 for doing some scripts work which fixed a couple more issues we were having. One involved a bug with health on defenses, and the other was a modification which allows us to turn off some error checking on maps, which allows them to load and play normally, even though they might have hidden issues (which ultimately don't affect gameplay). At this point, there is ONE more known bug which needs to be figured out, involving the Allied Mechanic's repair ability. Once this is solved, we might be looking at a release!

The button-pressed state for main menu buttons had a hard-coded black color value where someone forgot to rig up hud.ini keywords for it. The code to change it was there and functional, just with a hard-coded value for some odd reason. Likely overlooked a decade ago.

View File TacoMolition Truck by Tesla066 Originally created by user Tesla066 for APB Beta in 2007 (when the TACO clan was still around). All I have done is updated the texture names to work with APB Delta. Simply extract the texture files into your APB install's data folder, which is located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\W3D Hub\games\apb-release\data" by default. Thats it! Enjoy! Submitter Einstein Submitted 02/13/2019 Category Custom Textures

Its a trap!

It turns out that this wasn't fruitless in benefiting other projects as well. I noticed a strange thing happening, which once I reported it, was identified as a bug (albeit microscopic in nature) which affects all 4.x and 5.x games (so everything except ECW). @CMDBob made quick work of the fix, so hats off to him! Also, A misunderstanding on my part previously. The shader was not activating at all, due to lack of configuration on the new engine, and thus merely displaying the underlying texture. This has been mended. Even better, this or another change appears to have passively fixed the tesla coil issues as well! We are closer now than ever before comrades!

Just a quick update on this: We are still making progress, though things have slowed down a little. There are two graphical bugs that I would really like to solve before releasing this, but if we can't do this in a reasonable amount of time then it may have to come in a patch later. For those interested, this is what's left (that we know of): Cloaked units do not get a shader applied, even though it appears that the shader is being loaded in the engine. Until this is fixed, I've exchanged the ugly stock Renegade stealth texture for a nicer looking one. FIXED The Tesla Coil sometimes attacks with no firing animation. It feels quite strange to just suddenly be struck down with no blue lightning bolt to indicate what happened. FIXED Aside from those two issues, certain maps are not working for the following reasons: Some maps have no music. Not sure why, as the music is present. Should be fixable I'm told. Some maps simply can not be loaded with the newer version of the engine because it is really picky about ID collisions. I think we have a workaround for this though (basically disable the check and run it anyway). FIXED Thats it! Hopefully this won't take too long to sort out.

I always click through as well. Its much better now with the scroll wheel working though, it was quite bad without that. Honestly, I never used the numbers...guess I was never in that big of a hurry 😛