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"Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy 1.34 (Official V. 3.5 released)

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"Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy 1.34 (Official V. 3.5 released)

The war begins...

http://sins.imperial.cc/
from Sins Forums

Requiem is now updated to 1.34. As always check here for more info!

You can find a beta for the next version of Requiem Diplomacy here.

About

For all you Star Wars fans, I've finished off the latest version of a mod which adds the Alliance and Empire as new races. This is a playable versus the existing Tech/Advent/Vasari races, and balanced against them.

"Star Wars - Requiem" is a mod for Sins of a Solar Empire - Entrenchment and Diplomacy that brings the following:


  • 2 new races; Alliance and Empire
  • 6 new strike craft; TIE Fighters, TIE Bombers, TIE Interceptors, X-Wings, B-wings and A-wings.
  • 11 new frigates; Nebulon B, Nebulon B2, Lancer Frigate, Tartan Patrol Craft, Carrack Gunship, Corellian Gunships, Corellian Corvettes, Assault Frigate Mk II, MC30b series, Acclamator I frigates, Gladiator Star Destroyer, Lambda Shuttle and Galofree Transports
  • 9 new cruisers, Interdictor, Vindicator Cruiser, Escort Carrier, Loronar Strike cruiser, MC40a light carriers, Nebulon B escorts, Bulk cruisers, Assault Frigate Mk I and Dreadnaughts
  • 10 new capital ships; Victory class Star Destroyer, Victory II-class Star Destroyer, Venator-class star destroyer, Imperial-class Star Destroyer, Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, Mon Calamari 80 and 80a, and Mon Calamari Defiance, Liberty and Bothan Assault Cruiser.
  • 2 new starbase: the Alliance XQ1 platform and the Empire with an Executor Super Star Destroyer starbase model
  • 4 new weapons; turbolasers, concussion missles, proton torpedos and ion cannons
  • 60 new ship names with unique Alliance and Imperial star destroyer names
  • A whole new soundtrack for the Star Wars factions.
  • Dozens of new ship audio and sound effects
  • Star Wars player portraits
  • Alliance and Empire icon symbols
  • New Alliance and Imperial research trees, with unique abilities (Interdiction, Tractor Beam, Shield Focus. Boarding Party, Base Defenders etc,)
  • Star Wars EU immersion through appropriate ship use, laser color replacement for all ships and text descriptions updated
  • And much more!

Credits

  • This mod was created by JasonFJ, a Star Wars fan and avid gamer, who somehow managed to thrash out this mod despite holding down a full time job and one hell of a fine girlfriend. Appreciate my sacrifice!
  • Goafan - The only other modder for Requiem, a great co-conspirator who has contributed a lot to the evolution and improvements of Requiem. Also the author of the "Requiem Plus" add-on.
  • George Lucas - Full tribute belongs to George Lucas who as we all know was the originator of all thought and material that now comprises the Star Wars universe. George if you're ever in Singapore or Australia drop me an email I'd like to buy you dinner sometime. If you're a Lucasarts legal suit looking to sue me for copyright, consider how much free publicity I've given the company and franchise and consider sending me a $10,000 cheque for my time
  • EvilJedi - for the significant graphics and audio effects that are the cornerstone of the mod without which I probably would never have done this mod.
  • Gurkoz -  for the incredible sound effects that make this mod even better
  • ManShooter - for the Volumetric Explosions mod which was included in Requiem Entrenchment to v2.8... truly a god-like graphics enhancement!
  • Tohklidan -for components of Celestial Bodies mod that really inspired me to work on the celestial bodies artwork.
  • Uzii -for the planet textures and inspiration that came from the awesome Sins Plus mod.
  • Bailknight and Moguta - for the original and continued development of this mod which I've adapted for use with Requiem Diplomacy.
  • Credits to Grundel for the icon button graphics
  • Thanks to Warmaster and all his info and guidance on making this mod as true to the Star Wars Universe as possible.
  • Bleachorange - Support and graphics work assistance.
  • Xim, for many fixes and contributions, especially in map-making and the string file.
  • Thanks to Carl for providing and prompting me to introduce the Alliance and Empire theme icons.
  • A salutation to John Williams, the composer who wrote all the Star Wars movies music. If you like the music you can buy the official Star Wars music CD with all the songs from all the movies.
  • The many official (mainly Ralph McQuarrie) and unofficial Star Wars artists whose work features in this mod (if we used your work, let us know so we can credit you!).
  • Thanks to many posters over in the official Sins->Modders forum for all your helpful posts. Stimon000 and Vunda for early suggestions. Special mention to MajorStress and Harpo for helping out on the forums and contributing valuable material to not only Requiem, but the modding community in general.
  • Bug hunters and supporters Agersea, Malanthor, wbino, thrakkemarn and many more!

Main Site

http://sins.imperial.cc

Current Progress Thread

Requiem 3.4

Downloads

Entrenchment

Diplomacy

For installation help click here.
For help with bugs or reporting click here.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making (and playing it) myself!

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Reply #276 from Sins Forums Top

thanks goa

Reply #277 from Sins Forums Top

Alright, seems the new patches haven't exactly broken the mod they've caused a few miscellaneous bugs and possibly made it more unstable. I'm doing what I can to fix these things but it will go a lot faster if I can get some more information from anyways. Hopefully I can have a hotfix out by the end of the weekend. Please report anything strange here or on the bug reports forum on the website, and do tell whether you're using Entrenchment or Diplomacy (as both got an update this time). :)

 

While this won't be in the hotfix, I've been messing with the textures on almost every ship in the game and I'd thought I'd show some of the results.

The Political Machine 2024
Reply #278 from Sins Forums Top

This is an amazing mod, and I can't wait for the next version. :)

 

Question:

Is it possible for you to increase the ranges the ships engage one another, I mean- when they fight nose to nose it does spoil the whole atmosphere of the mod.

 

Thanks in advance,

Sh0k.

Reply #279 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Sh0klar, reply 278
This is an amazing mod, and I can't wait for the next version

 

Question:

Is it possible for you to increase the ranges the ships engage one another, I mean- when they fight nose to nose it does spoil the whole atmosphere of the mod.

 

Thanks in advance,

Sh0k.

agree.

Reply #280 from Sins Forums Top

  when trying to research trade for starbases it doesnt

i have the building but the mod doesnt recognize that i did do the research atm its an unusable research :(

alliance

Reply #281 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting noing, reply 280
  when trying to research trade for starbases it doesnt

i have the building but the mod doesnt recognize that i did do the research atm its an unusable research

alliance

Yeah, that's a bug that was discovered when version 3.4 was launched. The 3.41 hotfix will have it corrected (out tomorrow or Monday), plus add a couple missing Rebel techs.

 

Quoting Sh0klar, reply 278
Is it possible for you to increase the ranges the ships engage one another, I mean- when they fight nose to nose it does spoil the whole atmosphere of the mod.

Well keep in mind Sins battles in general are fought at pretty close range. To me that's not a bad thing because the large fleet battles of the Movies (Coruscant, Endor) were also fought at close range, if not noise to noise. I have been slowly altering the weapon ranges just so we have more variety with them (I.e. all the ships aren't clumping next together), and I hope to mess around with the formation values to see if I can't get fleets to look a bit more organized, but that probably won't be done for 3.5, too many new ships and abilities to do still.

Reply #282 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 281

 I have been slowly altering the weapon ranges just so we have more variety with them (I.e. all the ships aren't clumping next together), and I hope to mess around with the formation values to see if I can't get fleets to look a bit more organized, but that probably won't be done for 3.5, too many new ships and abilities to do still.

 

Now this sounds promising, and we can't really ask for much more than this. Keep up the good work guys.

-Sh0k.

Reply #283 from Sins Forums Top

Alright, if anyone wants to try Requiem for Diplomacy 1.34 I've upload a beta hotfix. I'm not entirely sure if it fixes all the issues as I hard trouble replicating some of the problems people reported, but everything I found is fixed. Try it here and let me know how it works.

Download Here

Reply #284 from Sins Forums Top

I tried a fresh install of 3.4 mod with the hotfix on 1.34 diplomacy, and it just minidumps everytime I try to enable the mod.

Reply #285 from Sins Forums Top

Well I just tried again after downloading them too and didn't have any problems. x_x

Did you have the old mod still enabled? Make sure you completely disable all other mods before enabling this one.

Reply #286 from Sins Forums Top

I think the download was perhaps corrupted. I re-downloaded it and it enabled fine this time- will test it lots today.

Reply #287 from Sins Forums Top

Today, I've played the mod quite a long time and no problems whatsoever, and I've just nearly finished a ten player game with me and an ally V eight bots of varying teams. Lot's of fun and smooth gameplay.

 

Video setting 1680/1050;

Graphics settings are all on highest possible;

Anti-aliasing 4x samples.

Reply #288 from Sins Forums Top

Great mod! I downloaded it and the latest beta patch. After fumbling around for 20 minutes I got it working. I ran it for 4 to 5 hours and had no troubles. I dig those big Empire Star Destroyers. Music is a nice touch too. Appreciate all your work, stuff like this MOD makes gaming a blast.

S!

Reply #289 from Sins Forums Top

Requiem for Diplomacy now official supports Diplomacy 3.4. I believe the persistent minidumps some users were having are from either having their graphics settings too high or from using the optional mod add ons.

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is but many users reported the mod works fine after disabling the Bailknights and transparent hud optional mods. If you are using these and having stability problems after getting the hotfix, please disable them first. If that still doesn't fix the problem, try reducing your graphics settings. And if that doesn't work, please send me the last save you have of the game where the minidump occurred.

 

Quoting noing, reply 280
  when trying to research trade for starbases it doesnt

i have the building but the mod doesnt recognize that i did do the research atm its an unusable research

alliance

And FYI this bug is now fixed with version 3.41. The Rebels will also now be able to get the first capitalship upgrade level as well as access to some missing defense techs.

Quoting netjam99, reply 288
Great mod! I downloaded it and the latest beta patch. After fumbling around for 20 minutes I got it working. I ran it for 4 to 5 hours and had no troubles. I dig those big Empire Star Destroyers. Music is a nice touch too. Appreciate all your work, stuff like this MOD makes gaming a blast.

Glad you like the mod! Do you happen to have the steam version? I'd just like someone to confirm that it works fine with Steam.

 

Reply #290 from Sins Forums Top


Glad you like the mod! Do you happen to have the steam version? I'd just like someone to confirm that it works fine with Steam.

Yes I have the steam version, your mod works great. I played a medium map all the way to conclusion and never had a dump or crash. My son saw the game and had to have it too. He has your MOD going on his computer and it runs for him too.

Reply #291 from Sins Forums Top

Still playing the mod on max settings and with Bailknights addon, still no problems here (only playing Imperial side though). ;)

 

Quick few questions:

Is it possible to slightly increase the size of the fighters and bombers, and also make them the same colour as the ISD's (white/style mesh).

Is it also possible to make the fighter/bomber squadrons fly in a formation of sorts?

 

Thanks, and looking forward to the next mod upgrade with more ships. :)

 

Sh0k.

 

PS: Hope one day they add "ground war" to the game command & conquer style (with optional auto-resolve) for those that want it and those that want to bypass it.

 

Reply #292 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Sh0klar, reply 291
Is it possible to slightly increase the size of the fighters and bombers, and also make them the same colour as the ISD's (white/style mesh).

Is it also possible to make the fighter/bomber squadrons fly in a formation of sorts?

1. Well TIE fighters are supposed to be fairly dark ships (on the wings anyways), but I've brightened the textures on almost every ship, including TIE (see my last pic on this thread), so that maybe what you're talking about.

2. Sadly not, especially once fighters start getting destroyed and replaced they end up all over the place.

Reply #293 from Sins Forums Top

I've released a beta for the next version of Requiem. It is completely feature complete (and there is lots of new content) just lacking some polish. Check this thread for details.

Reply #295 from Sins Forums Top

very nice mod. I hope the team had a nice Christmas

Reply #296 from Sins Forums Top

Sorry things have been so quite, I had hoped to finish 3.5 soon but I've got even more models to add in now, so it may take quite a while before its release. But here's the very late Developer Video I promised, showing off the mercenary bases and a few of the new ships. Most of it is available in the 3.5 beta on the website.

 

Reply #297 from Sins Forums Top

Hi. I downloaded your mod and patch file. (3.41 for diplomacy 1.32) and I'm using it on diplomacy 1.34. I started a skirmish, and when I clicked on the Tatarn build button playing as the Empire, I got minidumped. Is this because I am using the diplomacy mod on the wrong diplomacy? Should I just use it on entrenchment instead? Thanks for your time.

Reply #298 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting KingMakerRook, reply 297
Hi. I downloaded your mod and patch file. (3.41 for diplomacy 1.32) and I'm using it on diplomacy 1.34. I started a skirmish, and when I clicked on the Tatarn build button playing as the Empire, I got minidumped. Is this because I am using the diplomacy mod on the wrong diplomacy? Should I just use it on entrenchment instead? Thanks for your time.

The Diplomacy version is a lot better than the Entrenchment feature wise. Try it another time. If it crashes on the tartan build button again then something is very odd and I would try reinstalling the mod or even going right for the beta. But I'm guessing its a random crash due to having your graphics settings too high (many big mods have this problem). Just reducing the details from highest to high for example can make the mod completely stable.

Reply #299 from Sins Forums Top

It was just a random crash. Been plaing the game for a couple of hours now and it works great. Thanks for doing such a wonderful job, mate.

Reply #300 from Sins Forums Top

I'm trying to run the mod on my new laptop, but it keeps crashing after about 1 minute of playing. I have Trinity and installed the Diplomacy mod, latest version, and the hotfix, as found on the Requiem website.

I get a minidump after one minute, when the game freezes. The checksum (before the hotfix, but that didn't change anything but the menu) was correct.

EDIT: Just read that high graphics settings influence mod performance? So turning down graphics quality will stop the mod from crashing?