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The first and best upgrade for Armada II. Play online with greatly enhanced graphics for Armada against anybody, regardless of if they have this installed or not.
Not a mod! Seamlessly play with version 1.1 players online.
Installation is easy with our install wizard, no computer knowledge is required.
For more information about the Upgrade Project please see the About us page
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Your games could look like this.
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< previous | 1 2 3 4 | next >| 1.6 & 2.0 coming soon! - posted on 27 Jul 2008 |
Version 2 of the Upgrade Project should be released sometime in the not to distant future.
V2, christened "Vanilla Ultimate" by one of the beta testers is a version that takes full advantage of everything that the modding community has achieved in terms of graphical improvements to bring an installation up to the standards of a game released more recently. However, the downside is that changes it makes makes it a modification, and thus its incompatible for the purposes of multiplayer if you don't have it installed.
It also has an AI programmed by me taking advantage of everything I leant in the 4 years I was playing online games near daily. Without cheating an iota the AI is now a deadly threat.
Ok, it still does some dumb things but it still makes a mess of whatever gets in its way.
You can see a taste of what the game will look like here
Version 1.6 is essentially V2 back engineered to still be compatible with version 1.1 for multiplayer games against people without A2U installed. It doesn't look nearly as nice as V2, but a lot of people will still use it for multiplayer games.
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| - posted on 19 Nov 2007 |
I have been asked at least a couple of hundred times over the past few years if I will be producing a mod for Armada II, and I have always said its not planned as the Upgrade Project has always steadfastly avoided changing any file that has broken compatibility with multiplayer. Today, I am delighted to announce that the Armada II Upgrade Project is producing its own modification.
The Upgrade Projects mod will add much of interest to the average person visiting A2files. Principal features include no new races, no new ships, no new stations and no new weapons. In fact, I can go so far as to say that your game will play exactly as it did before.
What it will look like is of course a different matter. Following the best traditions of the Upgrade Project the upcoming Upgrade "mod" will not make a single change to the gameplay of your mod. Why should it? You play the mods you play because you enjoy them. We just make them look pretty. Of course, your probably missing things like the blue shields mod in the mod you play. Despite being one of the largest graphical advancements made by an A2 modding team only 600 people downloaded it. This compares with six thousand for the contemporary version of the Upgrade Project, a difference of figures which can be explained easily, few people used it because its to hard for the majority of people to install. Oops!
Still, little details like this are quite easy to fix and improve on. Take a look at this screenshot. Thats the "blue" shields mod as included in the mod. The problem with having a blue "blue" shields mod is that its not very portable. You can't really use it for your Romulans and Cardassians, the Borg and the Bajorans. Convert it to white on the other hand, and its pretty much universal. Remove the little white rings and replace it with a nice impact and you have a great effect.
Over the years it has become quite complex putting together an installation that looks quite nice and not many people have done it because its a lot of work. That amount of work is just about to decrease (for you...!) down to pressing "next" on the installer a couple of times.
Of course, changing anything in an installation means you can't play online against other people playing version 1.1, so this one is strictly for people playing mods, offline skirmishes or multiplayers between friends. Versions for online multiplayer use that are restricted to original resolution graphics will still be developed.
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| Gaming Today FeaturedFile - posted on 28 Sep 2007 |
The Upgrade Project has been featured on the very busy Gaming Today news site as one of the great files hosted by FileFront. You can see us featured here in the top spot:-
http://news.filefront.com/the-open-file-files-from-the-front-september-212007/#more-9983
Its great to see that nearly three years after our first release that the Upgrade Project is more popular than ever!
Stay tuned for new releases in the near future.
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| 1.4.0 released - posted on 05 Feb 2007 |
Version 1.4.0 is released.
On a side note, please take a look at the forums both to see the progress on the next version and to take the chance to have your say in how we are doing.
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| - posted on 21 Jan 2007 |
I am delighted to announce that CurtisR has accepted an offer to join the Upgrade Project.
For those of you who didn't read the credits section in the readme Curtis produced many of the new graphics that were in the last release.
As a fellow texture artist, and author of his own series of unoffical patches for A2 he will be running the project jointly with myself from now on.
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| 1.3.0 problems - posted on 17 Dec 2006 |
I have been informed of several problems in the 1.3.0 release that are capable of crashing the game. These have been tracked down to a number of ship textures that are not commonly used in online games. (ie. Sabre, Akira, Intrepid)
There is a patch available for this problem already, though its in a zip file instead of a autoinstaller.
You can get the patch from here:-
http://www.a2upgrades.net/files/A2U 1-3-0 to 1-3-1 patch.zip
You need to unzip this to the textures/rgb directory of your A2 installation. There will be a more user friendly patch available once I am sure that this does solve every problem.
Sorry about this.
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