What happened to Dark Reign 2?

[Ded10c]

Is there an active DR2 community?

There used to be, until the official servers were shut down in November 2008. Afterwards, what remained of the community resorted to VPNs and other means of online multiplayer. If we could fix the code somehow, we just may be able to revive the underground DR2 hype, the same way GSH kept BZ2 alive after an early death.

And by the way Nielk1, enlighten me: What exactly is a dedicated server?

A dedicated server is up and hosting constantly, and the hosting machine normally hasn't got a player on it (if it has, by my understanding, it's a "listen" server).

[Echo 343]

I still play it occasionally. That being said, I have it loaded with mods. Path-finding is still bollocks.

[forgottengames]

It's so bone-aching to hear that a once monstrously-popular cult favorite has sank into the abyss of underappreciated and forgotten games. We now have its source code, mysteriously made available by an unnamed face, but it seems there is little hope for its future.

UPDATE: I'm sending emails to Greg Borrud and Miller over the weekend. Hoping for a response.

[Ded10c]

Bump, because nobody's posted this yet: Dark Reign, Rise of the Shadowhand, and Dark Reign 2 are all on GOG, and fully compatible with Windows 7. If you get them, be sure to vote BZ and BZ2 up on the wishlist!

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dark_reign_expansion/
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/dark_reign_2/

[forgottengames]

Thanks for letting me know! I'll be getting those over the summer, that's for sure!
BZ2 is now upvoted.

[Red Devil]

i got them awhile back and it asks me to insert my cd whenever i click on campaign

[grasmanek94]

It's so bone-aching to hear that a once monstrously-popular cult favorite has sank into the abyss of underappreciated and forgotten games. We now have its source code, mysteriously made available by an unnamed face, but it seems there is little hope for its future.

UPDATE: I'm sending emails to Greg Borrud and Miller over the weekend. Hoping for a response.

It's no mistery, I admit I realeased it, I got some contact with ex-devs of DR2 and nicely asked them for the source. If any 'viruses' in it then It's not included by me. One thing I have to say: I am able to just unpack the rar with source code, open the project with VC++6 and compile it, it compile fine, I placed the compiled executable in my DR2 directory and it also works nice (+you have the DEV menu enabled! instead of stupid command to enter the map editor you can use a button =D).

Anyway I am just looking for someone who can make a chat lobby server and masterlist server for DR2, the LAN play works so maybe we just copy paste some code from that part? (styxnet, as far as I know)

The WONAPI DR2 used a api called TitanAPI and the won servers were called "TitanServer(s)". I can't find any info about those API's.

[Nielk1]

The virus alerts I got are probably just an overactive Antivirus, but when that happens I tell others to air on the side of caution. Of course none of it stops me from messing with it, I know how to use sandboxes.

I suggest that for chat you implement IRC and use a room on gamesurge.net, which is what BZ2 1.3 did.

The game list would be a smidge harder to replace as you need to set up some sort of server no matter what you use unless you somehow get it put on gamespy. I mean, you could run it though an IRC bot or something but that's a misuse of IRC really. A listing server probably wouldn't get much traffic though if all it was doing was listing games and taking heartbeats. I can't offer such a thing since my host doesn't allow daemons.

[Red Devil]

got the campaigns (dr2 from gog) to run after sticking in an old cd i found.

if anyone know how to use the cheats, i'd appreciate you telling me.

[grasmanek94]

The virus alerts I got are probably just an overactive Antivirus, but when that happens I tell others to air on the side of caution. Of course none of it stops me from messing with it, I know how to use sandboxes.

I suggest that for chat you implement IRC and use a room on gamesurge.net, which is what BZ2 1.3 did.

The game list would be a smidge harder to replace as you need to set up some sort of server no matter what you use unless you somehow get it put on gamespy. I mean, you could run it though an IRC bot or something but that's a misuse of IRC really. A listing server probably wouldn't get much traffic though if all it was doing was listing games and taking heartbeats. I can't offer such a thing since my host doesn't allow daemons.

If I could do that I would've done that, I'm not a c/c++ programmer ; x I just know the basics of that language, maybe even not all basics.

got the campaigns (dr2 from gog) to run after sticking in an old cd i found.

if anyone know how to use the cheats, i'd appreciate you telling me.

Well there are no built-in cheats as far as I know but I can make a trainert for 1.3, if you ave another version then send me your executable so I can make a trainer for that specific one.

But ok , no-one here able to program in VC++6 ? :X

[Nielk1]

I could but I don't want to. I also don't have the time.

[forgottengames]

UPDATE: It appears that the source code was actually "leaked." There is no official statement that it was released under the LGPL license. Activision's head would probably be spinning right now if Pandemic was still around.

[Apollo]

Did DR2 use the aip code that is in Bz/Bz2 and if so, was it a newer version then Bz?

[Nielk1]

Did DR2 use the aip code that is in Bz/Bz2 and if so, was it a newer version then Bz?

DR2 and BZ2 share some aspects of rendering engine. That is pretty much the limit of that.

[Echo 343]

got the campaigns (dr2 from gog) to run after sticking in an old cd i found.

if anyone know how to use the cheats, i'd appreciate you telling me.

There are none. You could copy and paste the campaign maps into multiplayer if you're having trouble with certain levels. It should be noted that if you've patched the game to 1.2-1.3, IA will be harder due to AI building two of every production building.