Mass Effect: Unification (build 40316/06) (R6 RELEASED)

[MileHighGuy]

AHHH! You HAVE to put this in. It would also be amazing in a campaign map!

[willinator]

Marth, you never cease to amaze me! However, I notice that once the breach is "sealed," you can walk out a little and see the other parts of the map. Maybe there could be a blast shield or something that closes like in Dead Space, or something, idk. What you've done is incredible, I'm just suggesting a way to make it more believable.

[Marth8880]

AHHH! You HAVE to put this in.

Now that I know that all of the mechanics work and are feasible in-game, I'll begin to improve upon it and fully implement it.

Marth, you never cease to amaze me! However, I notice that once the breach is "sealed," you can walk out a little and see the other parts of the map. Maybe there could be a blast shield or something that closes like in Dead Space, or something, idk. What you've done is incredible, I'm just suggesting a way to make it more believable.

Thanks! Yeah, the art is only temporary; I plan on modeling the walls of the ship and whatnot (or just encasing that part of the map with the Tantive IV ship model lol).

[MileHighGuy]

Here's another space idea: animate the corridors in ZE so they rotate slowly in circles (like a wheel). This could simulate the loss or malfunction of the gravity generator. It wouldn't work well with ai, and it might be hard to do with multiple objects, but it would look cool. It would be like that scene in star trek.

[Locutus]

Most impressive!
Even on vanilla maps playing MEU will get awesome

[KeepAmazinn]

This is just incredible! This mod continues to innovate and inspire others in the battlefront modding community. Keep it up, this mod just keeps getting better and better.

[Marth8880]

Another open beta?! Build 10708/05?! New geth textures?! Sudden chest-burst due to overcoming appropriateness!


OPEN BETA #2

Yep! That's right! Among many other updates, most of the geth have brand new textures! Not only that, but you can download and play it right now in the open beta! But why have I decided to release another open beta? I still need feedback, and seeing as how I got a decent amount of feedback from the previous open beta, I've decided to let everyone give things a shot and debug the mod for yourselves! (Again!)

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To install the patch, view or download the build manifest by following the link above; the build manifest contains everything you need to know about this build. As soon as you have the build manifest open, next to "File Path," follow the link "Patch Version (R4-R5) (MediaFire)" to download the R5 production patch setup file.

If you do decide to play the open beta, I implore you to not just pass up any bugs you encounter as things that "somebody else reported/will probably report," but instead take the 5-10 minutes to report the bugs. It's easy, it doesn't take very much time, and it will help improve the mod. Don't feel obligated to report things, but keep in mind the simple fact that the quality of the mod is largely based on the bugs that are and are not reported.

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EVOLVED GETH

If you don't already know, you're probably wondering what this new 'Evolved Geth' faction is, and the answer is... more geth! That's right, more geth - this time they're evolved - and at the moment the faction can fight the Collectors or the Heretic Geth. The Heretic Geth are basically the old Geth faction. Why would geth fight each other, you might ask? As you may or may not know, in the Mass Effect lore, the geth branched into two separate groups: geth who worship the Reapers (or "Old Machines" in geth terms) and attack those who pass beyond or travel near the Perseus Veil, and geth who fight the Reapers and choose to ally themselves with the Systems Alliance and other "good guys."

The Evolved Geth faction is mostly based on the playable Geth classes in Mass Effect 3's Multiplayer mode; the list of Evolved Geth classes in MEU are as follows (classes based on playable ME3 MP are marked with an *asterisk, and classes based on ME3 versions of enemies are italicized):

• * Geth Trooper
• * Geth Infiltrator
• Geth Rocket Trooper
• * Geth Engineer
• Geth Hunter
• Geth Pyro
• * Geth Juggernaut
• Geth Prime (Hero)

If you want to jump right in and play as or against the Evolved Geth, open up the Configuration Utility and change the Faction Combination from "Random" to "Evolved Geth vs. Collectors" or "Evolved Geth vs. Heretic Geth."

[THEWULFMAN]

Doing this open beta thing has resulted in a 500% increase in beta testers, and 200% increase in feedback.

[Marth8880]

Heho, sounds about right...


Evolved Geth Juggernaut's Hex Barrier!

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Also, with the suggestion (and some help) from AQT, I applied an environment map to all of the walkways, platforms and ramps on Virmire!

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[The Nasal Abyss]

Those environment maps look very similar to the ones that I put on the walkways in Training Installation. You just swapped out the default texture "squares" with skybox squares, did you not? I've always really liked that look! People always underestimate the applications and powers of cube maps! I'm surprised that Pandemic didn't use them more often!

[Marth8880]

I actually used the one found here: http://www.vfxpedia.com/images/F6-examp ... lcross.png

And yeah, I really wish Pandemic used more environment maps. They're all over the freakin' place in Mass Effect and it looks great.

[Kingpin]

I actually used the one found here: http://www.vfxpedia.com/images/F6-examp ... lcross.png

And yeah, I really wish Pandemic used more environment maps. They're all over the freakin' place in Mass Effect and it looks great.

Totally agree. Reflection Mapping looks great, and I really wish that I saw it used, especially in maps like Utapau

[Marth8880]

Hey guys! I need some community feedback regarding what everyone's speaker configuration is, so I created this poll to assist in my finding out.

Please choose your answer in the poll below.

http://vote.pollcode.com/82133497

If you don't know what your speaker configuration is, please let me know here before voting for "I don't know! D:" so I can help you figure it out.

[Dreadnot9]

Played the most recent beta today and noticed that on Venus I couldn't spawn as either team.

For clarification, the game mode was conquest, and it was Systems Alliance versus Heretic Geth. The team selection screens appeared alright, but I could not spawn as either.

[JimmyAngler]

exactly right, I have the same problem.

[Marth8880]

The Sol maps only support R4 at the moment. See here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-mass-effe ... l-map-pack

[Dreadnot9]

The Sol maps only support R4 at the moment. See here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-mass-effe ... l-map-pack

That makes sense, also good work on the scripted event(s) on the Tantive IV. once you get the outside of the ship modeled it'll be very cool.

[Marth8880]

Throwback Thursday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvMkmtu ... BvmIBD9-vW

(More like Throw-up Thursday...)

[TWINKEYRUNAWAY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGRNxtearI
Here is some R5 footage incase anyones interested in some never before seen features.

@Marth, Dat Throuwback though

[Marth8880]

Hey guys. I thought I'd update you all on what I've been doing over the past three months. Here's one small part of what I've gotten done in my spare time in the middle of school.

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Design blueprint: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cgxq2snzemncm ... -draft.jpg

As it turns out, I'm unfortunately apparently unable to move the minimap (using Anakin's HUD implementation workaround) so its position on the design blueprint will have to be swapped with the ticket counter elements.

Comments / questions?