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Iron Legion Faction Mod
« on: August 22, 2012, 07:14:07 PM »

Cleaned up some stuff; out of date and not really relevant anymore.
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Re: Iron Legion Faction
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2012, 05:29:18 PM »

Just bumping it.  Thought I'd gotten far enough into development to start begging for help. ;D
Anyways, so far the mod adds two new weapons (20mm Autocannon, Hellfire Rocket Launcher), one new system (Iron Drone), and four (soon to be five, still needs an assault fighter) fighter wings.
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Re: Iron Legion Faction
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2012, 12:47:30 AM »

Just bumping it.  Thought I'd gotten far enough into development to start begging for help. ;D
Anyways, so far the mod adds two new weapons (20mm Autocannon, Hellfire Rocket Launcher), one new system (Iron Drone), and four (soon to be five, still needs an assault fighter) fighter wings.

Let me know if you need more sprites.

give me a role, a size, and how you want it to play.
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Re: Iron Legion Faction
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2012, 06:51:19 AM »

Good lord, there's finally a comment. ;D
I found the sprites you gave me weren't really the style of Iron Legion.  They're a mix between midline and high-tech.  Check the Alloy fighter if you want a good look at how I want the ships to look.

EDIT:
Read almost 200 times and not one comment relating to the mod.  Anyone even think I should continue?
And why did a moderator add a "*deleted*" on the 20mm Autocannon description?  I see no problem with that.

EDIT2:
Arg, never mind.  I changed the description anyway.
« Last Edit: August 25, 2012, 09:08:50 AM by The Soldier »
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2012, 06:58:31 PM »

Aren't they kind of dark?
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2012, 07:19:15 PM »

Yes, they're dark.  Supposed to be, but the main ships (if I ever get the chance to make them or whenever medikloh comes on) wil be lighter.  I tried to give them a dark brown color, but I kinda failed in that department. -_-

The fighter sprites will be re-colored after I finish another weapon, the Morning Star Torpedo.  Will also redo the Wrought Bomber to use the Morning Star Torpedo.

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This any better?
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Personally, I think it looks too close to it's relatives, the Hegemony low-tech ships.  The Iron Legion ships are more midline and high-tech, but still have that low-tech lineage because of thier origins from Strike Force Pullox.  That's why I went with more a a black color and smooth edges on the Alloy Heavy Fighter.  Symbolizes the Iron Legion, like the Onslaught sybolizes SF. ;D
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2012, 10:05:44 PM »

Yea I can definitely see them better now. Good work on these.

You gonna make a carrier to fly all these lil' guys around?
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2012, 10:12:51 PM »

Yea I can definitely see them better now. Good work on these.

You gonna make a carrier to fly all these lil' guys around?

He stole some sprites from me...(Ok I gave them to him)

he has a carrier
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2012, 11:12:37 PM »

Those fighters aren't so little. ;D One well-controlled Wrought Bomber (no update yet - The torpedo will be done tomarrow :) ) can take out a Dominator.  Once wing of Alloy Heavy Fighter Wings can solo a Lasher, maybe two.

Anyways, I need some different sprites that fit the role of an assault carrier (destroyer-cruiser size), an escort frigate (well armed with all-around turrets, but doesn't have and focused firepower), and maybe an assault cruisier/battleship.  I can still use your current sprites if you want, but they need to be retextured to be darker and have a slightly brown/dark tan feel to it.

If you want to completely remake the sprites (be my guest - :) ) then make them have armored plates.  Look at the Torch Assault Fighter Wing for a REALLY good example of this (I used gradiants in the same direction).  And thanks!
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2012, 08:17:05 PM »

Star-Class Torpedo added, and updated the Wrought to use that instead of the cluster bomb bay.  changed Wrought sprite, re-blanced according to Pirhana Bomber.
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2012, 07:30:01 AM »

Is this what you meant with "Slit" in the Star-class Torpedo desc?

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A slit is a vertical or horizontal space that can open and close.

Also, low-explosives? You surely must mean low-level explosives ;)

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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2012, 08:12:06 AM »

Woops, I meant "split" second later.  Anyways, low-explosives is the opposite of high-explosives.  C4 today is a low-explosive, (sends out a fast shock wave) and low explosives have a slow shock wave.  Wiki artical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_explosive#Low_explosives
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2012, 09:35:56 AM »

0.5.0 Changelog:
Gave Arc Support wing the Bomber sprite, rearranged weapons accordingly.
Re-made Wrought Torpedo Bomber, now cradels the Star-Class Torpdeo excellently.
Re-balanced all fighters, fighters are now balanced according to thier respective roles (Interceptor, Heavy Fighter, etc.).

EDIT:
Erm, anyone even bothering to watch this?  If not, I'll just release what I have.  Some good sprites when to waste. :(

EDIT2:

Well, seems as if this mod neverhad anything to it.  Pfff, just release it and let the next moderator that sees this promote it to mod.

http://www.mediafire.com/?afnb1k7sb8aslr3

I do plan on adding another weapon or so.  There's a mission in there I used for dev purposes, feel free to play around in it.  Upgrade might integrate campaign, but it'll be done when he's done.
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2012, 01:49:33 PM »

ARG TRIPLE POSTING.

We all hate it, but it's just to get a mod to promote it, even if it's going to be ignored.

Anyways, if a mod notices this, they can promote it and delete this post.
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Re: Iron Legion (In Development - Needs support!)
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2012, 11:00:30 AM »

This mod is very fun! I like mods with fighter emphasis. Fighters are often sorely ignored in favor of big, mega, wumbo capital ships.
(Hush, spell-checker, "wumbo" is totally a word!)
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