ReneAlertX

[Guest Max]

Hello Developers of Totem Arts,

I ve seen your "Joke Entry" about a new Renegade x Update called ReneAlert X on 01.04.2020 included a variety of new units, vehicles, and even the complete new ships.  In Addition to this there are a lot of custom vehicle creations found in the Forum. Do you guys from Totem Arts plan to add new units or tanks or even ships to the game ? Recently there was a testserver with some hovercraft that tried to add a new shippath next to the unitpath and tankpath which enabled a lot of new strategies to use in game.

 

[TK0104]

Hello,

 

We are aware of the custom vehicles that are being made on a testserver. Unfortunately, we are not planning on adding any new vehicles to the game because we want to stick close to the original Command & Conquer Renegade as much as possible. There are some vehicles in our game left that remain unused due to the current map sizes that aren't made for these mechanics such as a Hovercraft and an A-10 Warthog. But of course, community mappers are allowed to introduce these vehicles in their custom map but most likely these maps remain a custom map and won't be an additional map we would add. It is not impossible, but so far there hasn't been a map that was good enough in terms of gameplay to introduce this.

 

As you are maybe aware of, we do have additional vehicles that are available through mystery crates by default such as Tiberian Sun units (Titan, Wolverine, Tick Tank) and CLASSIC vehicles that are based on the original C&C vehicles (M2 Bradley Light Tank and Recon Bike).

[limsup]

Dear Max,

Firstly, I'd need to stress, that the topic you refer to was indeed intended as an April Fool's joke. There are indeed a number of custom vehicles in different sections of this Forum, which may be categorized mainly into two groups:

1. Vehicles, which were made by Totem Arts - mostly for our single player campaign, "Black Dawn", which were never intended to be playable and thus mostly they are/were unscripted, unrigged, meant only as a prop / for decoration of maps. Some of these, like the Gunboat and the Hovercraft were re-purposed in the mean time by modders of our Community, being made playable with varying degrees of success on custom maps.
2. Novel vehicles, made by our modders - designed, rigged and scripted entirely by fans, also used on modded servers / maps.

Modders like to explore different ideas, so they make novel code, environments, vehicles and assets in general all the time. I would like to take the opportunity to advise you and like-minded people to go ahead and join @Try-Out's  server, where you could experience the entire range of mods, with Try-Out himself often being present to provide guidance.

Guess TK beat me with a reply 

Edited April 17, 2020 by limsup