nikitazero678's Unofficial Shockwave Fan Patch, Version 1.1f - final version, this time it is Options

[nikitazero678]

Now I'm for real. This is the final version of my fan patch. I made this decision because I have a study to attend with, along with others.
Thank you for downloading and using this patch, and let's hope the next official ShW version will be better.

This is a patch I made as an improvement to Generalcamo's Shockwave fan patch from the Open Beta 2 version.

I made this patch completely by myself, starting from a simple mean to tweak the game to a more advanced tweaks which includes various changes, notably in unit aesthetics and gameplay balancing.

I am also currently considering to include this fan patch on ModDB to make it easier to access.

Changelog:

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Version 1.1f (current and final)

General
- Corrections and standardizations on many infoboxes.
- Adjustments on unit voices.

USA

Armor General Ironside
- Fixed the Cluster Missile initiate sound not playing, and the sound now edited to include an alarm borrowed from Topol-M's launch alarm in ROTR 1.85.

China

Tank General Kwai
- Razor Bombers now have guard voicesets.

Special Weapons General Leang
- Earth Shaker now have a new alarm played when it fires, borrowed from the Tremor AGAS' alarm in ROTR.


Version 1.1e (current)

General
- Some adjustments in the units' voicesets.
- Further improvements on the infobox.

USA

General
- Buffed Bombardment, Hold the Line and Search and Destroy to increase their effects from 20% to 25%.

Armor General Ironside
- Ironside's Rangers' voiceset changed to that of the standard USA Rangers.

China

General
- Frenzy now correctly increases damage by 50% at all ranks.

Tank General Kwai
- Fixed a mistake which causes an airdropped Battlemaster to explode violently after upgraded with Nuclear Tanks when it touches the ground.

Special Weapons General Leang
- Black Sharks' damage decreased to 15 and damage type changed to SMALL_ARMS, damage against infantry when upgraded with Autocannons increased to 15, and damage against vehicles when upgraded with Autocannons reduced to 5 and damage type changed to ARMOR_PIERCING.

GLA

Stealth General Kassad
- Rocket Snipers now requires Palace to be trained.

Salvage General Deathstrike
- Fixed the missing destruction effects on most of Deathstrike's buildings.


Version 1.1d

General
- Fixed a mistake in the coding of Tech Airport's Paratrooper for China Infantry and Tank General; now it correctly drops the basic infantry for both factions.
- Another volume adjustments on certain units' voiceset.
- Improvements on certain units' infobox.
- Destruction effects added to Leang's Coal Power Plant and Deathstrike's Scrap Yard.

China

Special Weapons General Leang
- Flame Tanks now once again renamed to Advanced Dragon Tank and its voiceset now restored to the original Dragon Tank.

GLA

Demolition General Juhziz
- BRDM-1s now uses a new voiceset taken from RA3 Sickle.

There are some other changes unlisted here because I developed the patch "on the fly".


Version 1.1c

Global
- Improved tooltips' description.
- Volume adjustments in certain units' voiceset.

USA

General
- Reverted Patriots' next-gen upgrade and rebalanced their combat stats (details are given on the respective sub-factions' changes below).
- B-3 Bombers (used on Granger's Carpet Bomb and MOAB GPs) now reveals itself when it drops their payload(s).
- USA vehicles' drones are now cannot be attacked again.

Vanilla
- Patriots' damage and range readjusted to 30 and 225 for ground attacks and 350 for air attacks respectively, and rate of fire decreased to 2000.

Airforce General Granger
- Advanced Patriots' damage slightly reduced to 40 and range reduced to 275 for ground attacks and 400 for air attacks, and rate of fire decreased to 2500.
- Tornado Bombers and Hurricanes' clusters damage reduced to 75, and damage type now changed to EXPLOSION.
- A-10s can now be force-fired.

Superweapon General Alexander
- EMP Patriots' range readjusted to 225 for ground attacks and 350 for air attacks, and damage readjusted to 20.
- Popup Patriots' damage readjusted to 30, range readjusted to 225 for ground attacks and 350 for air attacks, and rate of fire increased to 2000.
- Lockdown MRLSes now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Sandstorm.
- Enforcers now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Thunderhead.

Laser General Townes
- Sentry Drones upgraded with Laser Guns' rate of fire increased to 1350.
- Laser Patriots' range readjusted to 250 for ground attacks and 375 for air attacks, rate of fire increased to 1500 and now costs 5 power.
- Laser Designator Bases' rate of fire reduced to 6000 and now costs 1 power.

Armor General Ironside
- Bradleys now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Armadillo.
- Mammoth Tanks now uses a new voiceset taken from the CNC4 one.
- Vulcan Tanks now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Wolf.
- Howitzers now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Rhino.
- Tank Destroyers now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Hunter.

China

General
- Propaganda Centers now has a new, larger visual Speaker Tower effect.
- Frenzy's damage bonus readjusted again to 50% at all ranks.

Nuke General Tao
- Removed the Nuclear Gattling Tank to fix a visual glitch involving it and because it is quite irrelevant to his tactics anyway; he now uses the standard Chinese Gattling Tank.

Infantry General Fai
- Berzerker MLRSes now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Mantis.

Special Weapons General Leang
- Black Sharks' damage increased to 20, and the damage when upgraded with Autocannons adjusted to 10 against all targets with area damage radius reduced to 1.

GLA

General
- Marauders' combat stats rebalanced (details are given on the respective sub-factions' changes below).

Vanilla
- Marauders' rate of fire readjusted to 2000 by default and 1500 at the first, second and third salvage levels, and damage readjusted to 60 at all salvage levels.

Toxin General Dr. Thrax
- Marauders' damage and rate of fire at the first and second salvage levels readjusted to 60 and 1500 respectively.

Demolitions General Juhziz
- Marauders' damage and rate of fire at the first and second salvage levels readjusted to 60 and 1500 respectively.

Salvage General Deathstrike
- Scarabs' damage readjusted to 40 by default and 60 at the first and second salvage, and rate of fire readjusted to 1500 at all salvage levels, and now once again uses the generic GLA tank voiceset.
- Combat Buggies carrying Flash Trooper's Rocket Barrage ability now fires 12 rockets, but now has a longer cooldown of 18 seconds.
- Marauders' damage rate of fire readjusted to 60 and 1500 respectively at all salvage levels.
- Basilisks now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Scorpion Tank.
- Latruns now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC4 Spectre.


Version 1.1b

Global
- Added new selection voices to tech buildings.
  - Tech Machine Gun Bunkers now uses the same selection voice as vUSA Pillboxes.
- USA A-10 Thunderbolts, B-52s and F-18 Hornets, Chinese Iron Dragons, and GLA Me 262 (used to drop Dr. Thrax's Nerve Gas Bomb GP) and Crop Dusters (used on Dr. Thrax's Viral Strike) can now be force-fired.
- Certain tanks' anti-infantry machine gun damage changed to SMALL_ARMS, damage standardized to 5, rate of fire standardized to 200, and attack range standardized to 100.
  - Basilisks' machine gun deals 7.5 damage and has attack range of 125 at salvage 1, and deals 10 damage and has attack range of 150 at salvage 2.
- Some minor changes on certain units' voiceset.
- Fixed the issue of "bomb release" sound effect and voiceover played repeatedly when a carpet bombing GP is used.
- Demo Trap Parabomb and Concussion Bombs' voiceover upon release removed.
- USA and Fai's Paradrop GPs as well as Kwai's Tank Drop GP now plays a special voiceover when the units had touched the ground.
- Volume adjustments in most units' voiceset.

USA

General
- The B-3 bomber (used to deliver Granger's Carpet Bomb and USA MOAB) are now stealthed and can be force-fired.
- USA vehicles' drones can now be attacked again.
- Added new toxic death voice to USA Marines.

Vanilla
- LOSAT Humvees' damage increased to 150 against vehicles and 30 against anything else, damage radius reduced to 1, and uses a new voiceset taken from CnC3 Pitbull.
- Crusaders' Hover upgrade now costs $200.

Airforce General Granger
- Hurricanes' missile and cluster damage adjusted to 150 and scatter radius decreased to 100.
- Tornado Bombers' bomb and cluster damage adjusted to 150, scatter radius decreased to 100 and experience required increased to 0|200|400|800.
- Burton's airstrike' bombs now has similar damage and radius as USA Tech Airstrikes obtained from capturing Tech Airports.
- Carpet Bomb GP now have a countdown timer of 4 minutes.
- Daisy Cutter and MOAB GPs now have a countdown timer of 5 minutes.
- Sheridans now costs $800.

Laser General Townes
- Buffed Focusing Crystals upgrade to increase damage and range by 25%.
  - To compensate for the buffs, the upgrade now costs $3000 and takes 120 seconds to complete.
- Laser Cannon's duration increased to 15 seconds, but damage is reduced to 75% of the standard Particle Cannon (300 every second). However, this means that the total damage is slightly increased.
- Laser Crusaders now deals 80 damage to make up for the buffed Focusing Crystals upgrade.
- Townes' Sentry Drones upgraded with Laser Gun now only fires a single shot, dealing the damage of all three shots at once.
- Laser Comanches' laser gun damage increased to 40.
- Railgun Artilleries' range slightly increased to 325.
- Laser Paladins' now costs $1500 and its damage slightly reduced.
- Laser Turrets now requires 4 power and only fires a single shot, dealing the damage of all three shots at once.
- Laser Designator Bases now requires 2 power and now will be disabled while low on power. Note that there is a visual glitch that occurs when infantry enters/exits the Laser Designator Base.
- Laser Burton now gets a railgun when upgraded with Burton's Special Equipment.
  - The railgun deals 125 explosion damage, has a range of 275, the projectile hits the target instantly, causes explosion death and has a reload time of 6 seconds.
- Cold Fusion Reactors now renamed to Advanced Cold Fusion Reactors.
- F/B-22s now use a new voiceset taken from CNC3 Firehawk with some changes.

Superweapon General Alexander
- Advanced Particle Cannon's duration reduced to 10 seconds, but damage is increased to 125% of the standard Particle Cannon (500 every second).
- Shatterers no longer damage friendly units due to friendly fire issues.

Armor General Ironside
- Radar Dome now requires 1 power and will be disabled while on low power.
- Tank Destroyers' damage against targets other than vehicles slightly increased to 50, and damage radius reduced to 1.
- Gladiators' damage slightly increased and no longer has increased rate of fire as their veterancy increases, and uses a new voiceset taken from CNC3 KW Slingshot.
- Blue Arrow Defenders can now attack ground targets again, fires only one rocket, the Laser Lock ability reverted to default and now has a new burning death voice.
- Strykers now kills all garrisoned infantry in one shot.
- Ironside's Rangers now costs $300.
- Javelin Soldiers now uses a new voiceset taken from RA3 Javelin Soldier.
- Bradleys now uses a new voiceset taken from RA3 Riptide ACV.
- Starlifters now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC3 V-35 Ox Transport.
- F16XLs now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC3 Vertigo Bomber.

China

General
- Frenzy's damage bonus readjusted to 25%/33%/50%.
- Overlords and Helixes' Gattling Cannons no longer detects stealth.
- Propaganda Centers' Speaker Tower now have 33% larger radius (from 150 to 200).

Vanilla
- Listening Posts can no longer be garrisoned to avoid issues with the garrisoned infantry.
- Flame Towers now requires 3 power.

Tank General Kwai
- Reaper Tanks now uses a new voiceset taken from RA2 YR Gattling Tank.
- Ramjet Turrets now requires 3 power.
- Tank Drop now paradrops 2 Battlemasters at Rank 1, 3 Battlemasters at Rank 2 and 4 Battlemasters at Rank 3 (note that this change is unlisted in the patch file's readme file).

Infantry General Fai
- Due to a bug on the Infantry Paradrop GP, it now drops 2/4/6 Mini-Gunners instead of 3/6/9.

Special Weapons General Leang
- Pyros now has infinite clip size (meaning that they will fire continuously), slightly reduced primary AoE damage (before upgraded with White Napalm), now costs $400, experience required adjusted to 0|50|100|200 and has several changed voiceset.
- Black Sharks' with Assault upgrade now deals 5 damage against vehicles and 10 damage against anything else.
- Badger Bombers now have minor visual fixes, no longer reveals shroud as it moves, has increased health (600) and can now be force-fired.
- MG Red Guards now costs $350.
- Leang's Dragon Tanks now renamed to Flame Tanks and has a new voiceset taken from CNC3 Flame Tank.
- Hammer Cannons now uses a new voiceset taken from RA3 Wave-Force Artillery.

GLA

General
- vGLA Balloons and Deathstrike's Desert Flies now share the same voiceset.
- Marauders' reload time standardized to 2 seconds at all salvage levels, and damage at first salvage increased to 80.
- Anthrax Bomb GP now uses new sound effects due to Dr. Thrax's taunts.

Toxin General Dr. Thrax
- Nerve Gas Bomb GP now has a countdown timer of 4 minutes.
- Toxin Grenadiers now uses a new voiceset taken from RA3 Uprising Desolator Trooper.

Demolition General Juhziz
- Demolition Rebels now costs $200.
- Demo Trap Parabombing GP rebalanced to drop 4/8/12 Demo Traps.
- Fanatic Ambush GP rebalanced to spawn 3/6/9 Fanatics.
- Buffed Bomb Trucks' Nuclear Bomb upgrade to increase the damage dealt by 50%.
  - To compensate for this, the upgrade now costs $1000.
- BRDM-1s now uses a new voiceset taken from CNC3 Attack Bike.

Stealth General Kassad
- Stinger Rockets no longer increases RPG Troopers' damage and slows their rate of fire; it now only increases their range and projectile speed.
  - The upgrade's cost and time reverted to $1000 and 45 seconds respectively.
- Assassins now uses a new voiceset taken from RA3 Shinobi with some changes.

Salvage General Deathstrike
- SA-11 Gadflies now have the Camo Netting upgrade by default, meaning that they will always be camouflaged when deployed and not firing.
- Combat Buggies carrying a Flash Trooper's Rocket Barrage ability now fires 8 rockets.

Version 1.1a

Global
- Units and structures' tooltips now gives more information of its role and traits.
- Special abilities, General's Powers and Superweapons' tooltips now gives more information about its effects.
- Upgrades' tooltips now gives more information about them.
- Oil Derricks now gives an income of $50 every 3 seconds instead of $200 every 12 seconds.
- Each faction's music played during a game now was ordered properly again, as in Zero Hour.
- Most Ground Attack ability (except Juhziz's Marauders' rocket barrage and Townes' Laser Designator Bases) now will make the artillery keep firing in the same spot until given a new order.
- Infantry gore explosion death now always occur in big explosions.
  - This also fixes the new ROTR death effects that are not properly applied to all infantry (notably Deathstrike's infantry).
- The new ROTR death effects are now applied to civilians.
- Certain weapons' infantry death type was changed:
  - USA Tomahawks now cause gore explosion death.
  - Alexander's Plasma weapons now cause neutron radiation death (somehow it is correctly applied while the one in Nuke Cannon's Neutron shells and Neutron Bomb does not).
  - Alexander's Shatterers now cause gore explosion death.
  - Ironside's Col. Burton anti-materiel rifle now cause grisly death.
  - Ironside's Col. Burton high explosive rounds now cause gore explosion death.
  - Kwai's AP Gattling weapons now cause grisly death.
  - Tao's Helix Nuke Bombs now cause gore explosion death.
  - Leang's Black Shark autocannons now cause grisly death.
  - GLA SCUD missiles and all its variants now cause gore explosion death.
  - GLA Demo Traps and all its variants now cause gore explosion death.
  - Juhziz's Demo RPG Troopers' HE RPG now cause gore explosion death.
  - Juhziz's ZSU-57s now cause explosion death.
  - Dr. Thrax's Toxin Terrorists using Nerve Gas payload now cause gore explosion death.
  - Dr. Thrax's Pythons now cause explosion death.
  - Deathstrike's Basilisks' cannon now cause explosion death.
- Most Generals' Powers now have new voices when used.
- Some Generals' Powers' sound effects now have changed.
- Some units and abilities are renamed to properly suit each other.
- Certain units now has new soundfiles:
  - Kassad's Assassins now uses the Footmen's voiceset borrowed from NProject mod as a placeholder for a new voiceset based on the RA3 Shinobi.
  - Juhziz's BRDM-1s now uses the War Track's voiceset borrowed from NProject mod as a placeholder for a new voiceset based on the RA3 Sickle.
  - Deathstrike's Scarabs now uses Dr. Thrax's Scorpion tank's voiceset borrowed from NProject mod as a placeholder for a new voiceset based on CNC4 Avenger tank.
  - Balloons and Deathstrke's Mi8 Hips (now renamed to Mi-8 Hip) now uses the Gazelle's voiceset borrowed from ROTR.
  - Leang's Blacksharks (now renamed to Black Shark) now uses the Hokum's voiceset borrowed from ROTR.
  - Kassad's Machine Gun Nests now uses the Dushka Nest's selection voice borrowed from ROTR.
- Most paradrop reinforcement Generals' Powers now only calls one cargo plane to paradrop the units (except Ironside's Bradley Paradrop, which calls two planes; the first drops infantry while the second drops the Bradleys).
- Increased Emergency Aid Rank 2's duration to 20 seconds to balance it with Rank 1 and Rank 3.
- Communications Download's duration reduced to 10 seconds to balance its shorter cooldown than USA Intelligence.
- Certain weapons that are previously unable to friendly fire (notably Alexander's Shatterers and Deathstrike's SA-2 and SA-11) now can friendly fire, so be careful when using them!
- Tech Paratroopers now rebalanced to drop 4 Rangers/Red Guards/Rebels and 3 Missile Defenders/Tank Hunters/RPG Troopers.
- Tech Reinforcement Pads now drop each factions and subfactions' respective tanks.

USA

General
- Spy Satellite's duration increased to 20 seconds to balance its longer cooldown than Radar Scan.
- Spectre Gunship's duration at Rank 2 and Rank 3 increased to 20 and 30 seconds respectively.

Airforce General Granger
- Carpet Bomb now have a cooldown of 3 minutes to balance it with Chinese Carpet Bomb.

Laser General Townes
- Fixed Laser Missile Defenders' glitch which causes the Laser Missile Defender to fire at the ground instead at the target when using the Laser Lock ability by reverting their firing animation to its default ShW 1.1 version.

Armor General Ironside
- Adjusted the number of Ironside's Rangers and Javelin Troopers spawned by Bradley Paradrop General's Power (the number of Bradleys remain unchanged) so the paradropped infantry can fit inside the paradropped Bradley(s) to:
  - 3 Rangers and 2 Javelin Troopers at Rank 1
  - 6 Rangers and 4 Javelin Troopers at Rank 2
  - 9 Rangers and 6 Javelin Troopers at Rank 3
- Col. Burton's anti-materiel rifle (including the high explosive round) no longer have any shockwave effect.
  - His high explosive rounds now also only collide with structures instead of enemies to ensure hit on the target vehicle.

China

General
- Frenzy now gives a 50% damage increase on all ranks (duration remains unchanged) to make it more useful and worth spending promotion points.
  - Also adds a new sound (taken from ROTR Propaganda Airship's Battle Cry) that can be heard (only by the player) when it is activated.
- Black Lotus no longer possess the disable building ability.
- Fixed the Napalm Strike called in by Black Lotus' System Hack which didn't properly work with Leang's White Napalm upgrade.
  - The strike now behaves similarly with Leang's Rank 1 Napalm Strike (dropping 3 napalm bombs in a row).

Nuclear General Tao
- Nuclear Hackers once again possess the disable building ability.

Infantry General Fai
- Adjusted the number of Mini-Gunners spawned by Infantry Paradrop General's Power at Rank 3 to 9 to balance it with USA Paradrop.
- Berzerker MLRS firing modes changed:
  - Normal mode fires 1 rocket every second
  - Burst mode fires 5 rockets every 5 seconds
  - Barrage mode fires 15 rockets every 15 seconds
- Hack Vans now comes with 3 Hackers.

GLA

General
- One of the soundfiles used when an Anthrax Bomb is dropped, in which it says "Oh, spill on isle one!" was removed due to one of Dr. Thrax's taunts.
- Increased the number of Rebels and RPG Troopers spawned by Ambush General's Power to balance it with Paradrop to:
  - 3 Rebels and 2 RPG Troopers at Rank 1
  - 6 Rebels and 4 RPG Troopers at Rank 2
  - 9 Rebels and 6 RPG Troopers at Rank 3
- Cash Bounty now gives 10% of the enemy value at Rank 1, 20% at Rank 2 and 30% at Rank 3 to make it more useful and worth spending promotion points.
- SCUD Storms once again has a countdown timer of 5 minutes.

Chemical General Dr. Thrax
- Nerve Gas no longer an automatic upgrade.

Stealth General Prince Kassad
- RPG Troopers upgraded with Stinger launchers now deals more damage (50 instead of 40), has longer range (225 instead of 175) and the rockets travel faster (750 instead of 600), but has slower firing rate (1500 instead of 1000). To compensate this, the Stinger upgrade now is more expensive ($1500 instead of $1000) and takes longer to complete (60 seconds instead of 45).

Demo General Juhziz
- Increased the number of Fanatics spawned by Fanatic Ambush to balance it with reinforcement General's Powers to:
  - 4 Fanatics at Rank 1
  - 8 Fanatics at Rank 2
  - 12 Fanatics at Rank 3
- Fanatics no longer randomly explode when killed normally (they will still explode when crushed or when killed by flame weapons and explosives) for balancing reasons.

Salvage General Deathstrike
- Mi-8 Hip Gunship firing modes changed:
  - Normal mode fires 2 rockets every 2 seconds
  - Burst mode fires 12 rockets every 12 seconds
  - Barrage mode fires 36 rockets every 36 seconds
- Grenadier Terrorists no longer randomly explode when killed normally (they will still explode when crushed or when killed by flame weapons and explosives) for balancing reasons.
- SA-2 SAM Sites' secondary damage reduced to 175, and once again affected by the AP Rockets upgrade.
- SA-11 Gadflies are now affected by the AP Rockets upgrade.

Credits:

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- nikitazero678 for most of the codework
- Generalcamo for laying the foundation of my patch
- Rymosrac for several suggestions as well as testing
- Darky for several suggestions
- SWR Team for, obviously, being the creators of ShockWave and Rise of the Reds (which some features are taken from)

Special thanks:

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- SWR Forum community for suggestions and feedbacks
- Everyone who have downloaded the patch

Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1wtjeblp0ye7uo/n...h_1.1f.rar?dl=0
To install, simply extract the !0Shwpatch.gib file into your Zero Hour installation folder; overwrite the existing file if prompted to do so.

If you found any bugs or mistakes, please let me know.

This post has been edited by nikitazero678: 30 Oct 2015, 18:13