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Hi folks !

Despite everything you can read on various boards, and what we can read in your emails, nope, we ain't dead !


Well, 8 months and no news ? Sorry about that !

At the moment there's only two left of us working on the mod, so it's quite difficult to stay motivated and to make significant improvements... But...

But XoD and I (Darkigo) worked a lot these times to bring you this, the list of all the bugs we fixed since the last piece of news (well it's in french but you get the idea) :



Nearly 50 closed tickets, that means nearly 50 bugs less or as much new content to the mod !

This time, we're really close to this :



Even the installer is over, the script too, we just have to finish a few more tasks (maybe a few surprises) and you'll soon be able to download Special Unit. There will even be some nice icons to launch the mod !




I won't detail everything that we've done, but you'll see some major new things by clicking below :

Watch the new VIDEO  (Youtube) !


Yep ! That's right, two new levels, my pleasure ! The inside of the X303 has been done by Hors3, years ago. The music is still made by _MaX_ and every song he made for SU will be included in the mod.

So, a Co-op map against the replicators in a X303 that has just crashed, and a new spaceship level (with fighters only), in which the Tau'ris must shoot the Goa'uld naquadah generators hidden in the cave of this asteroid mine. Might be quite fun to chase your enemies in those extremely tight tunnels ! Watch out for the walls !





Oh yeah, and last thing, a release date maybe ? Well, what about fall 2009 ?

KAWOOOOSH !

Hello all,
Thanks to some emails, I just noticed the English version of the website was down.
It's fixed now, it has to be clean for the next update ;)

Kawoooosh !

We wish you a happy new year 2009, in which, Special Unit will be released, at last !

Yes, YES, we swear! And it might come early in the year if we're good enough.
We just wanted to tell you that we're going to post a real piece of news soon, with content.
We made some nice improvements on the mod, and we'll give details next time. We'll prove, that NO, we're not dead !

In the meantime, get some rest, Special Unit is coming !

Kawoooooosh !

Hello everyone !


Hell, 3 months, what's up ?

XoD a friend from the Perfect Dark Source mod joined the team and is working on the code !

After some tweaks on the Credits page (a return button), and an option to activate or not the XP Save mode when you host. In this mode, players can win weapons and new abilities when they have enough points. You earn points when you kill or achieve an objective.

Then he set up a versioning system. It's a common used development tool we never had the time to create. Now it's very easier to see what has to be done and what's done.



We posted more than 30 tasks,and we fixed nearly all of them ! I won't detail every bug, but you can watch the screenshot for more details...

Here are the main things :

First, I translated the whole mod in english, menus and maps.. In both French and English. It's a huge leap toward the public version.



We fixed tons of bugs, including some very annoying about the ships that did not spawn correctly while playing online. Or maps that did not end at the right time, gametypes mixed up, or the mothership's turrets that did not move along with the ship ! Thanks XoD for everything !



We improved the HUD (screenshots for everymap in the menu), add some details in some maps to balance and improve them.




Another main thing, we spoken about that in the previous piece of news, the bullets fired from the motherships are now (a little) autoguided.
It's now possible to shoot down a fighter with a mothership. It was not the case before, even with some Uber 133t Sk1lls.
Check that the motherships are working well in video :

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD(direct link)
CLIQUEZ HERE TO WATCH (Youtube)

We also modified the mod architecture to modify the class more easily and upload them to the versioning system.


What has to be done before the public release ?

We've to finish the mini maps you can  watch during the game, and make them work online. We'll maybe add some turret meshes on the ships, and maybe make them destroyable, if it's possible. We've to fix some flight parameters for the fighters too. Change the main view for the motherships, move some firing positions, and balance the classes. We've also to prevent replicators from spawning at humain spawnpoints. Maybe add one or two maps !
!



You might think we take too much time, but these times, we're two to work on the mod, we do what we can !
But we're really close to the release !


KAWOOOOSH !

Hello everyone !

First, let us apologize for the lack of news, we were very busy with the current beta-test.
Let's see what we've got...


Dev logbook !

Fall of August : we spend some days making a stable version for our beta testers. It's far from being easy, we have to re-test it everytime to avoid the biggest problems (for exemple, checking if the online game runs well). We've already had a cache export problem, which prevented the players from connecting to a server... We had a hard time finding the source of this bug !

Due to connexion problems, no BT during more than a month !

Mid-October : Some games are played, we're beggining to see what should be changed.

First update : New versions of the Icedet and Asgard maps, which are now working well ! (the arrows used to point at the wrong objectives !)



Second update : New stuff ! We included the new Tau'ri skins we talked about in the past news (each class has its own skins, to be easily recognizable). Thanks to Missilemaster, we fixed a bug that caused us to have 500Mo log files !
Turned out it was just the hummer that was looking for a function that didn't exist... We faced tons of bugs like that one, and it's very pleasant to end with just a 100KB log file after some games.
We also fixed a bug concerning the arrow, which couldn't be updated for the client.



Third update : A holy mess ! We tried as hard as possible to make the client be able to choose the motherships, because it was impossible (it was part of the major bugs that prevented us from releasing a public version). After four or five different versions, we were finally able to make that work correctly. Hard luck, it caused bugs into the cooperative mode ! Some players were able to spawn as goa'uld (normally this should be impossible, because you can only play as a tau'ri). After several litres of sweat and coffee, we (well, Missilemaster) fixed this.
We also have a new music by _Max_, and new sounds for some weapons (FNP90 in particular).




This is where we are now. It's not perfect yet, we still have to fix some bugs with the motherships : for example, the turrets on the Daedalus stay on the spawnpoint and don't move with the ship. We have some names problems, for example, « Goa'uld daedalus ship »... We also have to translate the maps, objectives, etc., make sure that the missiles fired by the motherships are a bit auto-guided, like the shots of the fighters, because it's impossible to shoot them down. And of course, add one or two maps.

In a nutshell, we've never been this close to the end ! Of course, there is still a bit of work to be done, in order to release (at last !) the first public beta !

For your pleasure, here is a short ingame video of the beta-test, and some screenshots.

The Video (the 31MB file)
The Video (Youtube Link)


Oh yes, by the way, if you wan to help us and are a talented mapper or coder, send us an e-mail ! We really need some help !

See you very soon !

Kawoosh !

Hello all !

We're back after a quite long absence which was caused by a hosting problem ! I let you read this, be sure that there are a lot of new things since our last communication.


The website is online again
We apologize for the temporary disappearance of our website. It happened because Unreal.fr's hoster dropped them, and as we are hosted at Unreal.fr, our website and our forum came offline for a moment.
So, Unreal.fr is now back, and so we are !


New intro
Kaji, our friend from the Unreal Fantasy mod, did a wonderful intro for Special Unit. It's pretty close to the TV show now and it looks great ! Be sure to wait through the introduction to behold the goodness.
==>Video<==
==>Youtube Link<==



New Zat
We weren't happy about how the zat used to work, so Missilemaster fixed it wonderfully !
First shot, the soldier is falling in a realistic way, using the physics engine of UT, and he stays on the ground for ten seconds. If he's hit by a second zat shot, then he dies, and a third one makes the body disappear.
==>Video<==
==>Youtube Link<==


Grenades Bug
In the past, when you had no more ammo, the animation with the grenade in your hand was still played, which was not very realistic. Missilemaster (God bless him) succeeded in fixing it.


Abydos Finished
Yes, the Abydos map is finally finished !
The Tau'ri spawn in the small village with their hummers. Their mission is to cross the desert and to reach the temple under the pyramid. Nevertheless, the Goa'ulds will spawn in the Teltacs close to the pyramid, and will have Deathgliders. Once the tau'ri reach the temple, they destroy the wall that prevents them from going into the stargate room. Then, it's the rush : both the goa'ulds and the tau'ri are looking for the eye of Ra, hidden in a labyrinth of corridors, and once one team has it, it must be brought to the Stargate for the tau'ri (who will have to activate it), or to the Hatak for the goa'ulds (via the transport rings).

Here are some screenshots :




The fog in Antartica
Stange bug, but now fixed : on the Antartica map, the fog used to be way too dense, and you weren't able to see anything. Now it has become much better !
See by yourself (before/after) :



Spaceships Bug
We used to have a strange bug about spaceships too : on you radar you weren't able to see the spaceships that were out of your visual range. Missilemaster, again, fixed it !


New Loading Screens
Darkigo made these 2 new loading screens, and they look great !



Vagues sur la stargate
The Stargate itself got a makeover in the FX department, thanks to Missilemaster. The ripples now react to weapons fire as well as player passing through it... Just like the TV show!

==>Video<==
==>Youtube Link<==


SU Asgard
Darkigo added new objectives to the Asgard map, as well as some triggers, so the arrow always indicates the right objectives in the map (and helps the player).


Well, I think that's all for today.
See you later guys !

Kawoosh !

Hello guys !

The website is up again !
Thanks to Savtronic ! He spent an evening with me fixing everything, and now stargate.unreal.fr rolls again !
Many things have been updated, still some text in french here and there, sorry it takes some time to translate.
Just be patient ... Take a look to the new models and screenshots !

Beta-testers awaited this for a long time
Missilemaster finally done it : an arrow shows you the way to the nearest objective you're to attack (in red) and the one you're to defend (in blue). It also works in cooperative and with the spaceships !






New skins !
I made new skins for each tau'ri class ! Now players can easily recognize which class players are using. Quite helpful when you look for the medic huh ?

Medic :


Sniper :


Heavy gunner :




THE new trailer !
With gunfights, battles and spacebattles ! You have to watch that ! 

(But remember that despite the fact that it looks fine, the mod is not finished yet, we still have some bugs to fix, with the spaceships for example...)

The trailer !
Mirror filefront.com
Mirror Moddb (requires free registration)



See you soon !


Kawooosh !

Hello everyone !

We have a lot of things to tell you today !



Special Unit at the ISART DIGITAL !
The SU Team is proud to annouce you that a version of the mod has been given to mapping students from the ISART DIGITAL. In order to show them what the work in progress looks like, and to teach them to map while being faithful to a given theme. And of course one more reaseon is to motivate them ! They are just geeks like us, and of course they all know Stargate. In exchange of this internal version of the mod, the students will release a mappack for the release of the mod !


Special Unit at the MODS PARTY 4 !
Like last year, SU will be at the MOD PARTY 4 to present a playable version ! Are included the maps SU-Asgard (hard and easy version), SU-Chulak, SU-Tockra, SU-P3x-548, SU-Icedet, and last but not least : SU-Antartica !
We are waiting for you, come if you can ! There are only 7 tickets left ! We also made a new loading screen so the players won't be too lost (and by the way it unveils some features of the mod)




Internal Beta 3


Why this ? Well, we regulary complained about our "replication" problems. The most important problem was that the stargate worked bad online. Only the hoster could see the gate opening, the clients bullets didn't pass through, etc... Big problems as you can see ! Now, thanks to MissileMaster, the gate can be activated by anyone who is online, everyone can see it opening, the projectiles can pass through it and all works perfectly.
We fixed some funny bugs. For example, the corpses of the dead players shaked crazily (thanks GeorgeH).

We also have the pleasure to welcome Drakeslayer, who will work as a mapper !

Then, the translation of the mod has begun and Darkigo and GeorgeH (for the code) have already worked a lot on it, by googlizing the french text (nah, just kidding :D ). All the menus are already translated in french and english, we just have to do the maps now.
By the way, speaking about the maps, see by yourself the damages of  the automatic translation in the description of the map. WHat we translated was the menus, the classes descriptions, the texts displayed by UT when you frag, etc.

Gunman Youri (well, I...) gave us his final version of his piece of music "Something Is Burning".

As for Max, he finished 4 new musics for the mod ! They were directly included into the maps.


Here are some random screenshots of the maps :





Here it is,

Kawoosh !

And thanks to everyone who is supporting us !








What are you still doing here ?

You want more ?

Wait a minute, let's see what's left.



Abydos ?
It's ok for you ?
Yeah ?
Drakeslayer, the new team member, has begun his work  on the ABYDOS map ! So it's work in progress, and usually we don't show that kind of thing because we get criticized a lot after, but in this case we can't resist !






Oh yes, I have one extra video. Want it ?
Ok, here it is ! It's Abydos, with Max's new music ! (11.3 MB)

Hello all,

First, we really want to apologize about this lack of news recently. However, we are still working, and I can say it is rather hard.
For the ones who want us to prove that (yes, I can see 2 or 3 people moaning on the last seats), just read this news ^^




INTERNAL BETA 2
First good news, the internal beta 2 is there !

There are a lot of new things in this beta, just see below how many deatures were changed or added.


New things
The game is now more balanced : the teams and the weapons have been modified a little (and the weapons have brand new skins too !).
We also changed our shotgun to make it more realistic : now it fires buckshot, and it can be reloaded shell by shell, instead of changing the whole "magazine" at one time..



Missilemaster modified the code of the transport rings. Now they can transfer several players at one time, and they will appear exactly in the same position than they disappeared. And of course it's working without any bug.

He also changed the Stargate a little. The projectiles can pass through it, which announces very interesting fights ! Moreover, when you go through the gate, you will reappear at the same position.

GeorgeH fixed a bug concerning the rank save (before, it was possible that the scores of 2 player were exchanged between 2 games).

Darkigo, always wanting the best for the gamers, made a small useful thing : by pressing a key, a map appears so that you can see where you are and where you are going. And I can tell you it is useful, given the huge size of some maps.

All right guys, here's a video and some screenshots for you :


==>Video Stargate<==


New Gametype
Let us introduce to you our new gametype : Capture the Crystals ! Well, it's a pretty explicit name,  but here's a better description of the rules.
The Tau'ri have to bring Tockra crystals back to the SGC, passing through the Stargate. Of course, the crystals are scattered all around the map. I feel the Goa'ulds won't like that. They want the crystals for themselves and will have to bring them to their mothership, using the transport rings.
Each team member can carry a crytal and if he does, he will be slightly colored blue, so that you can identify the fact he has a crystal.  Of course, when he is shot down, the crystal is dropped and can be taken by an other player.
You can see screenshots of this gametype just below (it's the Tockra map).



Mapping
Right now, some news about our maps.

First, here are some screenshots of Chulak. Check out our new Anubis guard !
           
           
           


Then, take a look at the Tockra map. I'm sure you'll like it ^^
           
           
           
           
           
       


New trailer
Last but not least, here's the new trailer ! The music is from Max. Serve chill !

=>TRAILER<=


Ok, that's all for today ^^
We also wanted to thank a lot all the people who support us !

Kawoosh !