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What about hover tanks? How do they work?

Well, in the early thirties a man named Thomas Townsend Brown(BB effect) discovered a new form of propulsion later known as "Electrogravitics" which is accomplished by using a high-voltage power source with high-k elements on the front and rear of the craft "manipulating" gravity to lift the an object, or tank in this instance, causing people to think this is "anti-gravity" which it is actually creating your own gravity around an object(that is how you can maneuver in the air or in space).

The tanks and other vehicles in battlezone use what is known as a "flame-jet generator" sometimes multiple.
The Flame-jet generator uses a rocket or jet engine as the base and the generator is at the end, when the engine is turned on the FJG is adding negative ions to the flow of the jet allowing for electrogravitics to take place propelling the craft in virtually any direction only depending on the direction of the positive and negative ions.

This was just a quickie here, although there is an abundance of information out there, so have fun discussing this one!

Also give the constructor a scrap allowance, say 1 scrap per second.
And as a counter you can make ground based missile launchers that have enough range to take it out.

Making units to take it out is good, but you would need more than that to even the playing field.


I'd imagine we could have some fun with this... you could use this in the capital ship battles, as fighters are common, Just something to think about.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/_RussianRoulette_

I'm in, Just PM me so I know who you are.

Oh, I'm in!
And I guess I'm with .:]aRc[:. (<-- is that the way we had it?)

I do it, but I've never won a fight! 
Also known as... I need to work on my 1 on 1 technique... any one up for some 1v1 training? 

Hello,
Can I help you guys test, please let me know through PM!
Keep modding!


-RR

Hello everyone,
I haven't been on for a while now cause of some problems with work and school, really just the lack of free time. But I will start to get back into the community now that I have more free time.

I would like to thank all the people that have spent literally years trying to make Battlezone II the game it is today (you know who you are).
Now for those that don't really understand where I'm coming from, I would like you to reinstall Battlezone II and play it without any patches or MODs. In fact I encourage EVERYONE to do the same, because you cant truly appreciate the work that these guys have done unless you do so.

I recently reinstalled BZ2 on my computer and played it from scratch, then I installed PB5.1. Once you do this, you will have a glimpse of what these guys have done to make this game alive. There is a huge gap between what this game was and what this game is now.

Now I'm not going after anyone or trying to discourage anyone from participating in development, testing, and Q&A. But I ask you to think about the effort and time that these guys have put into this game before you post about what you don't like, what you think should be changed, or before you post at all.

So I encourage all of you to reinstall bz2 play it, then play pb5.1, after that... Post here.

Thank you.

When I start bz I get this:

---- Battlezone II Log File ----
//=====================================================
App version: Patch 1.3TechAlpha5 Apr 23 2009 13:36:08
Windows version: Windows Version: 5.1.2600 'Service Pack 2' PlatformID=2

Last few battlezone.log lines (may or may not be relevant):
DIAG|              dsutil:210  |16:43:17|27232  |-- Prefsfile set audio mem purge at 33554432 bytes
DIAG|              dsutil:213  |16:43:17|27232  |Done with audio caps log
DIAG|            AudioSys:323  |16:43:17|27234  |Audio: DirectSound8 setup complete
DIAG|            mcimovie:180  |16:43:18|27381  |Movie opened movies\intro.bik
(done)

Exception code: C0000005 (ACCESS VIOLATION) READING from 00000000h
Message :  Exception
Error occurred at 4/30/2009 16:43:20.
C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\bzone.exe, run by RussianRoulette.
C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\bzone.exe, run by RussianRoulette.
CPU: 1 processor(s), Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1200MHz
     x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1
Process Memory :   1814 MB free out of   2048 MB total
Physical memory:    212 MB free out of    512 MB total
Page(swap) file:    828 MB free out of   1250 MB total
This exe is using 45 MB, peak use 51 MB

Fault address:  03994880 01:00003880 C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\d3d9.dll

Registers:
EAX:00000000
EBX:7E41F3B3
ECX:00000000
EDX:021DE130
ESI:03AE0140
EDI:00000001
CS:EIP:001B:03994880
SS:ESP:0023:0209F358  EBP:00000000
DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000
Flags:00010246

Call stack:
Address   Return    Function            SourceFile

It appears that my computer does not like 'd3d9.dll'

That means, engine-wise, people should be looking at current games that deliver that same physics rush that BZ1 did that are capable of being expanded to support base building.

Here's your engine!
It's amazing, easily customizable, very powerful, free, and can adapt to any need.
I would even like to add this to the battlezone II engine, if possible... GSH?

Check it out!
OGRE 3D
http://www.ogre3d.org

Little green army men... YES!
A poster with planets on it... if you call that giant wingcommander poster with the galaxy chart on it... I think you will find our solar system in the Terra sector.
UHF? Hilariously dumb movie, also a frequency used on old TVs and now new TVs.
Mork and Mindy, nanu-nanu

The fact that there aren't very many modelers in the community left also makes this not feasible.

I wouldn't say that there aren't very many 'modelers', but I would say that there aren't very many modelers that can make textures and put the models in to bz2... and still have them work

I can make models but I'm not good at making textures, I can get models in game but I can't make the work properly. (objects are always sideways)

If we could get the community to all work together on the patch; making models, textures, and getting them in game, then we could get hi-res vehicles in bz2.
The problem with that is many people don't have a computer that will run a game like Crysis, so to start we would have to make 'baby steps' improving the textures and models, and maybe make a 'enhanced feature pack' for those who want to see a 'crysis' like version of Bz2.

Just a thought

So when I play as scion, my warrior tanks will randomly go out of my base and start attacking enemy units such as, scavs, extractors, enemy units attacking my scavs, and so on.

Is this supposed to happen? Is there a way to control when they go out to "hunt"?

I was on alien dunes last night with normal ai settings, I aborted the game, then exited to the main menu and got this:

---- Battlezone II Log File ----
//=====================================================
App version: Patch 1.3TechAlpha5 Apr 23 2009 13:36:08
Windows version: Windows Version: 5.1.2600 'Service Pack 2' PlatformID=2

Last few battlezone.log lines (may or may not be relevant):
DIAG|            runcodes:113  |00:06:11|1274038|[View] Clearing runcode [PauseScreen]
DIAG|      MissionHandler:1269 |00:06:11|1274038|Expanded game UI file of 'bzescape_exit_640x480.cfg' not found. Using default of 'bzescape_exit.cfg'
DIAG|            runcodes:154  |00:06:12|1274874|[Main] Entering run code [SHELL]
DIAG|              icroot:193  |00:06:12|1274876|Root window now 640x480
(done)

Exception code: C0000005 (ACCESS VIOLATION) WRITING to 17880800h
Message :  Exception
Error occurred at 4/30/2009 00:06:18.
C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\bzone.exe, run by ******.
C:\Program Files\Battlezone II\bzone.exe, run by ******.
CPU: 1 processor(s), Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1200MHz
     x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1
Process Memory :   1679 MB free out of   2048 MB total
Physical memory:     89 MB free out of    512 MB total
Page(swap) file:    709 MB free out of   1250 MB total
This exe is using 141 MB, peak use 190 MB

Fault address:  7855B37F 01:0003A37F C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC90.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.1_x-ww_6f74963e\MSVCR90.dll

Registers:
EAX:00000000
EBX:00000500
ECX:00000140
EDX:00000000
ESI:17880800
EDI:17880800
CS:EIP:001B:7855B37F
SS:ESP:0023:0209EE30  EBP:0209EE60
DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000
Flags:00010202

Call stack:
Address   Return    Function            SourceFile
7855B37F  00000000  0059F2FB  memset+0x0000005F
0059F2FB  00000000  0059F99B  Open_RAD_3D_image_lin+0x0000006B
0059F99B  00000000  0059C59E  BinkHelper::Allocate_3D_images+0x0000003B
0059C59E  00000000  0059C93F  MovieClass::Init+0x000001DE
0059C93F  00000000  0045962F  IControl::SetMovie+0x0000002F
0045962F  00000000  005D70F8  ShellHandler::Command::Process+0x0000017F
005D70F8  00000000  00577993  VarSys::VarItem::TriggerCallBack+0x00000018
00577993  00000000  00000000  TBuf::NextToken+0x00000043

Well, for some reason, when I "alt-tab" out of bz then back in, everything goes back to normal... except for the problem with the movie screen in the main menu being a solid white.
Other than this, everything is great.

Here's an odd one for ya, this happens every time I start bz
It appears that the graphics are not rendering correctly, anyone else have this problem?

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