VSR 4.4 Prerelease

[Zero Angel]

VSR is shorthand for the 'Vet Strat Recycler Variant'. Basically it is designed to improve your experience over stock battlezone 2 for competitive play by implementing features such as:

• Faster pods
• Improved unit pathing through bases (even poorly designed ones)
• Weak/poor units and weapons (like the Lancer, Splinter, EMP Lockdown, Comet Cruise, WASP, TAG etc) up-balanced to be more useful while still being balanced for competitive play.
• Changes to combat unit physics allow for greater maneuverability while airborne
• Many many other convenient tweaks like modified empty scouts costing 30 scrap, and unmodded fullscouts costing 40 scrap
• Improved FFA mode allows for greater amount of options and even allows players to be a wingman for a commander.
• Numerous new maps for ST and DM

VSR also allows 2 additional races to be playable in strat: The Hadeans (from Forgotten Enemies) as well as a brand new race called the Ice Cream race (a high-quality race balanced for competitive games and will continue to be balanced and improved as part of the VSR project.)

A milestone for the 4.4 release is that it now properly supports MPI Mode, and Hadeans can now be played as and are even selectable as a CPU race (do note that VSR for MPI modes must be enabled by clicking the 'VSR Plus' button in the map options screen). The CPU team will also employ 'smart' scouts which are normal scouts but with tweaked AI which makes them very deadly in combat, this is compensated for by reducing the scrap cheat that the CPU team gets. It is recommended you start with only a moderate or minimal amount of starting units for the best experience.

Download

The prerelease can be downloaded here:
http://zeroangel.overminddl1.com/hosted ... -setup.exe

It will install a desktop shortcut which you can use to play the prerelease.

[eduposse]

I got a question i tested it on INstant and the VSR (Experimental) Has 2 bugs, 1. Satellite shows like #4 in option list however both options are not avaible, when you try to go satellite to manage everything the page for customizing ships (like factory one) shows up and you can't exit that page unless you abort the mission. 2. Teleporters doesnt work yet

[General BlackDragon]

The VSR 4.4 is designed for Strategy. The DLL for it to work in Instant Action currently is not available. I have one, though, I suppose It could be included. The new features don't infringe on the Stock dll compatability. I'll give an Instant and InstantEditor DLL for VSR to ZA.

[eduposse]

Thank you, I would appreaciate if they fix it for Instant since my father is not used to play multi (48years old) he likes the old way lol

[Zero Angel]

VSR hasn't yet been designed to be compatible with Instant Action games, only ST games (and MPI games when you click the VSR Plus button), however I don't see any harm in modifying the stock instant DLL since all it would do is to add a few capabilities and improve the way that the health bars work on the buildings.

General Blackdragon has made the compatibility fix you requested for IA and I will add it to the next release of VSR.

[eduposse]

Thank you very much i will wait for it