cybershadow01

Not sure if black dawn is still being maintained or if it has been abandoned but i figured i would post this since its been nagging at me since i started playing the campaign. i don't believe the two weapon swap out mechanics fit in with the spirit of renegade. what made the original great was its classic shooter mechanics like the ability to store an entire armory's worth of weapons in hammer-space. It is done a huge disservice by using "shudder" halo style weapon swapping *pukes at the mention of halo* This is a renegade remake and should not be brought down by modern shooter weapon handling. this causes a player to waste a lot of time trying to find the right gun on the ground than it does allowing them to run around killing nod soldiers. It seems like a rather poor choice to deviate so far from what worked in the original. additionally the fact that weapon load outs reset every time a checkpoint is reached kinda weird since there is no logical reason that havok would simply drop everything he is holding to pickup the default weapons after he has already looted something better. I am hoping that this is a bug. other than that the scripting and balance is immaculate and the game plays very smoothly.

the first link looks corrupted / infected. download reports about 3 gig but the file is only 80 meg unless its an online installer ? [edit] never mind just a connection problem causing the dl to stop prematurely second attempt worked

Just wondering if there were any plans to attempt to port maps over from the famous UN-rules pack last time i checked it was one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of custom maps for the original renegade game and i believe it would be a major disservice to the community not to try porting them. the massive variety of maps that the servers of old had was one of the reasons the game lasted as long as it did. I do strongly disagree with the Dev teams position on not releasing a map editor especially since the game is unreal based it would not be that difficult as the mapping processes for the engine are already well documented.

I am having a difficult time finding a working download for black dawn the only link i have found is a dead torrent and the mirror links i found simply loop back to the main page. anyone know where i can find a working link?