TA:Enhanced (Alpha 0.8v)
Official forum: http://www.tauniverse.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=172


- Fast-paced mod, featuring a meticulous but hopefully interesting and challenging gameplay (weapons do cost ressources when firing, units do 
use ressources when moving, 100% strategy oriented mod...).
- Several new units included, all carefully balanced and polished. Clear ingame description texts, telling exactly what a unit is meant for.
- Each race may now call help from different factions. A faction is a whole new technology on its own, working like a race though in 
considerably smaller proportions. Currently available factions for ARM are Mechs, Poseidon, SpiderBot, Thunder, XBot and Behemoth, Mammoth,
Phaser and Praetorian for the CORE. Note that this feature is still on early alpha state.
- Plenty of new high quality sounds and nice ingame effects, with many of them being totally new in the world of TA.
- All weapons are 100% unique, both visually and technically speaking.
- Many OTA/3rd Party units re-textured, mostly to give them a more modern, heavier, metallic and basically a more awesome look.
- Full Ai support, but only on classical land maps with not much water at the moment.
- Many bugs from OTA/Unofficial patch fixed.
- Very early alpha version. Is (hopefully) bugfree, however many units from the original game are not included yet (mostly ships and 
hovercrafts). May have some balance issues.


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Requires Total Annihilation patched to v3.9.02.
To install the mod, please make sure to back up the following files: totala1.hpi, ccdata.ccx, btdata.ccx and rev31.gp3. Then extract all files
from this archive to your main game directory (example: C:\CAVEDOG\TOTALA). Be aware that this process will override the four files listed 
above.

IT IS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED TO OVERRIDE THE THREE FILES KNOWN AS TOTALA1.HPI, CCDATA.CCX AND BTDATA.CCX FROM YOUR MAIN GAME FOLDER WITH THE ONES
LOCATED INTO THIS RAR ARCHIVE OR ELSE THE MOD WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY, AND WILL CRASH EITHER AT START OR DURING A GAME.

To those who don't own the commercial version of either Core Contingency or Battle Tactics add-ons, make sure you don't have any file named 
"CCunits.ccx", "CCfeatures.ccx", or "BTunits.ccx" in your TA folder: they will strongly mess up the mod and make it unplayable. Simply back up
such files and place them in a safe subfolder, basically anywhere except where TotalA.exe is. ALSO MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT USING ANY OF THE SIX
CAVEDOG POST-RELEASE UNITS (Fark, Flea, etc...).
Beware, Steam version of TA has those units installed by default, so you'll have to remove them before installing this mod.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS REQUIRED TO EXTRACT REALLY ALL FILES (INCLUDING totala1.hpi and ccdata.ccx) FROM THE RAR ARCHIVE OF THE MOD IF YOU ARE
UPDATING YOUR VERSION FROM ANYTHING BELOW 0.4 ALPHA. THE STRUCTURE OF THE MOD HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY CHANGED, AND I'VE MOVED IMPORTANT STUFF IN
THE TWO FILES MENTIONNED JUST ABOVE. Previous versions only required you to extract rev31.gp3, because literally everything was located into
this file, but this is no longer true. So, once again, please make sure to extract all files from the rar archive of the mod.

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Notes about factions:

Factions in this alpha version aren't 100% done. You can have access to any one by building the appropriate lab/plant. Each faction will offer
you a new range of structures, units and workers. Factions all have their specific features, which you should know before attempting to choose
one. Note that any unit of a faction will use a prefix meant identify it quickly as belonging to a said group. For example, the Construction 
KBot of the Behemoth faction will be named ingame "Behemoth Construction KBot", and so on.

Now, here's a quick overview of the currently available factions. But before going further, let me say few words about the categories I used
as a mean to classify each of them:

"Main strenght": basically the main type of strong units the faction will allow you to build.
"Main ressource": which ressource (energy or metal) the faction tends to give priority to. This mostly refers to weapons (energy weapons like
laser beams, pulse weapons, ect...) that might use more or less great amounts of the said ressource. But, as a result of that, this often also
means that the faction tends to focus on plants that produce the ressource needed.
"Main role": is the faction better for assault, defence, tech, amphibious operations, tactical strikes, air strikes, ect...
"Visual identity": the mod being still in alpha, this one might not be that accurate depending on the faction. It aims at describing what makes
a group to be easily recognizable on the battlefield. Are the units it provides mostly dark, or white/grey, metallic; do they feature visible 
or rather discreet team colors, ect...

All right, so here are the factions you will be able to play in this alpha version:

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ARM Mech faction

Main strenght: heavy Mechs
Main ressource: energy
Main role: assault
Visual identity: golden/light brown, shiny, metallic

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ARM Poseidon faction

Main strenght: heavy amphibious XBots
Main ressource: both
Main role: amphibious operations, multirole faction
Visual identity: dark/black, alien, high-tech

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ARM SpiderBot faction (only one unit for now!)

Main strenght: very heavy assault SpiderBot
Main ressource: both
Main role: assault, tech
Visual identity: brown, light brown

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ARM Thunder faction

Main strenght: heavy lightning tanks
Main ressource: energy
Main role: assault
Visual identity: light brown, camo textures, metallic

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ARM XBot faction

Main strenght: heavy XBots
Main ressource: metal
Main role: assault, tech
Visual identity: grey, metallic

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CORE Behemoth faction

Main strenght: Behemoth Commander
Main ressource: both
Main role: assault, tech
Visual identity: shiny, light brown, camo, metallic, very visible color teams

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CORE Krogoth faction

Main strenght: heavy Xbots, Krogoth Commander, very heavy assault SpiderBot
Main ressource: metal
Main role: assault, tech
Visual identity: grey/black/dark tones

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CORE Mammoth faction

Main strenght: heavy artillery tanks
Main ressource: metal
Main role: artillery
Visual identity: grey/white, armored, massive

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CORE Phaser faction

Main strenght: heavy laser/phaser/ion tanks
Main ressource: energy
Main role: assault
Visual identity: camo textures, grey

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CORE Praetorian faction

Main strenght: heavy amphibious Xbots
Main ressource: both
Main role: amphibious operations, multirole faction
Visual identity: white/grey, clean, high-tech, discreet team colors

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Notes about T1, T2, T3 and T4:

Due to the nature of this mod, the system of technologies (T1, T2, T3, T4) doesn't work as in OTA, and may need few clarifications. At the
moment, there are three levels available: T1, T2, T3. When playing, you will discover that certain units, such as the ARM Mech Agamemnon, do
require four labs (actually three plus one gantry) to be built. You may then think that this unit is thus T4. But it doesn't work that way
in Enhanced, and the unit is still considered as T3. A unit being T3 or T4 is more of a matter of overall balance (cost, price, strenght,
role...) rather than one of amount of plants built. T3 does have a wide range of units, including some that are extremely powerful. The two 
spiderbots the mod currently has are still considered as T3, for example. So are the big long range cannons built by the faction Commanders
such as the CORE Behemoth Orb and the ARM Poseidon Emancipator. They are at the top of the T3 panel though, and anything more powerful than
them to be added in later releases will be considered as T4.




Notes/Known bugs:

- Certain special weapons may take long (about one minute sometimes) to reload. Best examples are the CORE Pyro's grenade (29 seconds), the
ARM Zeus' paralyser lightning (31 seconds), the ARM Poseidon Emancipator's cannon (46 seconds), the CORE Praetorian Geo. Powerplant's and 
the CORE Behemoth Orb's pulse weapons (43 seconds and 44 seconds respectively).

- Certain weapons may require huge amounts of ressources in order to activate. If a unit doesn't seem to fire, build more energy storages. At 
the moment, the most demanding weapons may require about 20 000 energy to work properly. They are mostly the ones listed just above.
 
- The mod has currently limited Ai support in the sense that there's only one Ai profile available. However, it works fully on classical maps 
with little to no water at all.

- The mod is meant to be played on stereo/3D mode (check your ingame options menu), otherwise certain sounds might not play properly.

- The CORE Krogoth Chaos Lord's stomp effect will start automatically about one minute after the unit has been built. However, you can enable 
this special weapon at once, and thus allow the unit to crush everything in front of it, simply by force-firing the ground (only once) using 
the main "attack" command from the "orders" menu. Note however that, even without doing this, the unit will move everywhere without any issues.
Only thing is that it will appear to be moving through everything lying on the ground (trees, rocks, wrecks...) instead of crushing it.

- The CORE Behemoth Rhino won't fire unless attacked. This is not a bug.

- Certain buildpics need work.

- Certain special versatile units like the ARM Thunder Beholder and the ARM Thunder Lodestone may have a weapon that only activates when the 
unit is set to off mode. For example, the Beholder will enable its wide range radar when set to on, and will shut it off and be able to use
its lightning gun when set to off. Note that such units all have visible ingame effects to tell you quickly on which mode they are.

- Due to an engine bug, it is recommanded not to build very long range radar towers (like the CORE Phaser Radar Station) too close to the 
edges of a big map like (Enhanced)As du Ciel. If you do so, then the radar might simply not show up units properly on the minimap.




Changelog:

ALPHA 0.1 - first release

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ALPHA 0.2

Units -

* Added the ARM Stignus, a T2 medium missile tower built by common T2 builders.
* Added the CORE Eradicator, a T2 medium missile tower built by common T2 builders.
* Added the CORE Behemoth Rhino, a T3 mobile radar unit. Will only fire back at other units when under attack.
* Added the CORE Behemoth Odin, a T2 heavy assault KBot.
* Added the ARM and CORE Advanced Construction Aircraft units from the original game.
* Added the ARM Hawk and the CORE Vamp from the original game.
* Added the CORE Krogoth, and the Krogoth faction.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Gantry. Note that it now uses the model of the previous CORE Behemoth Gantry, and that this last one actually uses
the smaller OTA model.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Commander.
* Added the CORE krogoth Saigneur, a T3 heavy long range plasma cannon.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Rumen, a T3 advanced metal extractor.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Radar Tower.
* Added the ARM Poseidon Vesper, a T2 AA KBot.
* Added the ARM Mech Drake, a T2 heavy assault mech.
* Added the ARM Poseidon Commander.
* Added the ARM COntroller, a T2 AA Missile Tower, built by common T1 builders.
* Added the CORE Nightflower, a T2 AA Missile Tower, built by common T1 builders.


Gameplay -

* The CORE Behemoth Gemini's shield now reduces damages by 54% instead of 62%. The unit is thus a little less strong.
* Rocket weapon of the CORE Behemoth Gemini does no longer cause the ground to shake insanely.
* the CORE Inferno's rockets now deal more damages (+50). Cost in ressources of the weapon has been tweaked accordingly.
* Damages dealt by T1 AA fighters know as ARM Mely and CORE Echelon have been slightly increased (+18).
* Fixed the CORE Behemoth Chaos Lord's pathfinding: the unit will now move everywhere without any issue, with or without the crushing weapon 
activated. The unit still requires to use one of its normal weapons (at least once) to activate the crushing effect, but even without this 
the unit will move perfectly without constantly seeking its way.
* Fixed the CORE Behemoth Chaos Lord's weapons: the unit will no longer refuse to shot at other units without any reason.
* The CORE Behemoth Chaos Lord has been deeply reworked. First off, the unit is faster. It may over-run a ARM SpiderBot Great Tyran. It has
a greater firerange, but still not as good as the one of the ARM counter. Its main weapon has been arranged/rebalanced accordingly. Secondly,
and this is the most notable change, the unit now belongs to the Krogoth faction, and is now renamed "Krogoth Chaos Lord".
* Reduced the firerange (-33) and the damages (-10) dealt by the ARM Kengu. Cost in ressources of the weapon has been modified accordingly. 
The unit should no longer be overpowered.
* Overall cost, armor, ect... of the CORE Behemoth Gantry has been reduced (and it now uses a different model), mostly as a mean to balance
it better with the newly added Krogoth faction.
* The ARM Poseidon Bantha now moves a bit faster (+0.23). The unit is still slow somewhat, but it should no longer be sort of useless.
* Fixed the ARM XBot Fury's weapons: the unit will no longer refuse to shot at other units without any reason. You will notice that its two
miniguns are now permanently raised. To be honest, the unit may sometimes still get confused but this is quite rare, and nothing comparable
with how it used to be in alpha 0.1.
* Much like the CORE Behemoth Orb can only be built thanks to the Commander of that faction, the ARM Poseidon Emancipator can only be built
by the newly added ARM Poseidon Commander.
* Faction Commanders are now killed by ARM and CORE normal Commanders' death explosions.
* Geothermal Powerplants on both sides are now more costly (+1000 energy and +300 metal). They take a little longer to be built.
* Increased the firerange (+60) and damages (+20) dealt by the CORE Behemoth Juggler. Tweaked the cost in ressources of the weapon accordingly.
The unit is also a bit more costly (+100 metal and +1000 energy). It is meant to be a bit better than the newly added classical T2 AA towers, 
notably against gunships (thanks to the short reload time of its weapon).


Visuals -

* Retextured the CORE Energy Storage.
* Changed the model and textures of the CORE Behemoth Chaos Lord (now Krogoth Chaos Lord).
* Fixed some minor parts of the red team color (thanks to SnakeInTheMirror).
* Added a new buildpic/unitpic to the CORE Praetorian Gantry as the previous one was not fitting the actual unit ingame.


General -

* Minor fixes and improvements.



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ALPHA 0.2b

Units -

* Replaced the CORE Krogoth Rumen with a totally new unit specifically created for the TA:Enhanced mod (model, script, buildpic/unitpic). It 
has the same role/stats than in previous version.


Gameplay -

* Reduced greatly the damages dealt by CORE Weasel's machinegun weapon (from 5 to 3). Cost in ressources of the weapon modified accordingly.
The unit was just overpowered when used in groups against other bigger vehicles and tanks.
* Reduced the damages dealt by ARM Jeffy's laser (from 43 to 30). Cost in ressources of the weapon modified accordingly. Same reasons than 
above, although the Jeffy wasn't as overpowered as its CORE counter.
* Decreased slightly the reload time of the ARM Controller's and the CORE Nightflower's main weapons (-0.4 for both).
* Faction Commanders can no longer be cloaked. Contrarly to what has been said before in this very readme, a faction Commander's death won't 
cause the game to end (I have yet to understand why but that's another story...). Finally, I find this better, but I just couldn't leave them 
the possibility to approach a normal Commander while cloaked and then dgun him quietly without causing the player using such a tactic to loose 
the game as well (due to the normal Commander's death explosion).



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ALPHA 0.3e

Units -

* Added the ARM Advanced Vehicle Plant from the original game.
* Added the ARM Advanced Construction Vehicle from the original game.
* Added the ARM Bulldog from the original game.
* Added the ARM Luger from the original game.
* Added the ARM Rebel, a T2 shielded assault tank.
* Added the ARM Radeon, a T2 builder allowing the gantry of the Thunder faction to be built.
* Added the ARM Thunder Vehicle Gantry, and the Thunder faction.
* Added the ARM Thunder, a T3 assault tank.
* Added the ARM Thunder Hound, a T3 tactical tank.
* Added the ARM XBot Acolyte, A medium T3 XBot.
* Added the CORE Advanced Vehicle Plant from the original game.
* Added the CORE Advanced Construction Vehicle from the original game.
* Added the CORE Goliath from the original game.
* Added the CORE Mobile Artillery (but now named "Vizir") from the original game.
* Added the CORE Reaper from the original game.
* Added the CORE Fabricator, a t2 builder allowing the gantry of the Phaser faction to be built.
* Added the CORE Phaser Vehicle Gantry, and the Phaser faction.
* Added the CORE Phaser, a T3 assault tank.
* Added the CORE Phaser Ion Tank, A T3 tactical tank.


Gameplay -

* Decreased the speed of the CORE Weasel and ARM Jeffy (-0.25).
* Decreased the speed of the ARM Kengu (-0.35).
* Reduced the damages dealt by ARM Kengu's laser weapon (-8). Cost in ressources of the weapon modified accordingly.
* ARM XBot Fury moves much faster (+0.27), as this unit was quite useless in previous version, and clearly underpowered specially when put in 
comparison with the other heavy T3 KBots.
* Tweaked the main weapon of the CORE Commander as a mean to make it a little more accurate and effective.


Visuals -

* Totally reworked the buildpic of the ARM Poseidon Commander.
* Replaced the unwanted construction textures on the ARM Poseidon with better ones.


General -

* Removed several textures that were either unused or duplicate.
* Fixed many weapons that had invisible projectiles/explosions in multiplayer games (they work fine in skirsmish), due to a bug or a bad
setting I have yet to find. Until then, more weapons will be fixed in future versions. This is a long and a boring process, as I have to
basically retexture all affected projectiles with colors instead of pure textures, which is why it'll take me some time to fix the whole thing.
* Original ARM Thunder (the T1 bomber from OTA) has been renamed to "Mist", to make it clear that it doesn't belong to the new Thunder faction.
* Minor fixes and improvements.



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Alpha 0.4f

Units -

* Added the ARM Counsellor, a T2 AA tower, very powerful but uses a lot of energy when firing.
* Added the ARM Dragonfly, a T2 armed transport gunship.
* Added the ARM Air Repair Pad from the original game.
* Added the ARM XBot Commander.
* Added the ARM XBot Helper, a construction KBot building T2/T3 structures, and armed with flamethrower and rockets.
* Added the ARM XBot Metal Maker, a T2 metal maker producing more metal than classical ARM ones, but also requiring some more energy.
* Added the ARM XBot Metal Extractor, a T3 armed metal extractor.
* Added the ARM XBot Inflamer, a heavy T3 armed metal extractor, only built by the XBot Commander.
* Added the ARM XBot Intelligence Facility, a very long range radar tower, armed with a light AA laser.
* Added the ARM XBot Bunker, a heavy T3 defence tower. 
* Added the CORE Saphire, a T2 AA tower, very powerful but uses a lot of metal and also some energy when firing.
* Added the CORE Falcon, a T2 armed transport gunship.
* Added the CORE Air Repair Pad from the original game.


Gameplay -

* Faction Commanders are now stronger (+4000 hit points). Increased their life regeneration accordingly (+40). These units were simply too
weak for their huge cost, even though they're still not very good combat units either (because that's not the point).


Visuals -

* Improved the textures on the ARM XBot Acolyte. 
* Improved the textures on the CORE Phaser.
* Reworked all weapons' projectiles. Several ugly, problematic or buggy projectiles removed. Several new or retextured projectiles. For
example, the CORE Behemoth Orb now shoots... orbs ;)
* Added a totally new explosion to the ARM Poseidon Vesper's weapon.
* Reworked the construction menu of the CORE Praetorian Yelkin.
* Retextured the ARM Solar Collector.
* Retextured the ARM Advanced Solar Collector.
* Retextured the ARM Poseidon Lab.
* Retextured the ARM Poseidon Gantry.


General -

* New map added to the mod: (Enhanced)As du Ciel. Reworked version of this old map, entirely meant to fit Enhanced's gameplay. It can be 
played on 1vs1 (to enable fixed start positions is heavily recommanded), but it actually supports up to 7 players in FFA mode. The map is also
designed to offer great teamplay, be it on 2vs2 or even 3vs3 (fixed start positions heavily recommanded for odd vs even - east vs west - 
teamplay). In this last case, you can even add an Ai as player 7, which will spawn in the middle of the map and will then randomly harass both
sides!
* Removed a lot of unused files in the anims folder, some that could even cause minor visual issues notably in the Conflict Crusher tool.
* For some reason, I had to change the structure of the mod slightly. Now, the modded totala1.hpi and ccdata.ccx files both contain important 
stuff which is needed for the mod to work (you won't even be able to start a new game without those files, so make sure to extract them to 
your TA directory along with rev31.gp3 when installing this new version!)
* I was missing certain important files related to the TA palette for some of them, and all this was preventing certain structures from being 
shaded properly ingame. This is now fixed.
* You may no longer capture the cheaty AI units.
* Minor fixes and improvements.



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Alpha 0.5g

Units - 

* Added the ARM XBot Banisher, a heavy T3 gunship.
* Added the ARM Thunder Epistem, a T2/T3 builder vehicle.
* Added the ARM Thunder Fusion Reactor, a T3 energy plant for the Thunder faction.
* Added the ARM Phoenix from the original game.
* Added the ARM Seer from the original game.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Nebel, a heavy T3 gunship.
* Added the CORE Phaser Mole, a T2/T3 builder vehicle.
* Added the CORE Phaser Fusion Power Plant, a T3 energy plant for the Phaser faction.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Weaver, a construction and a minelayer unit building T2/T3 structures.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Nuclear Mine, only built by the CORE Krogoth Weaver.
* Added the CORE Krogoth Maw Mine, only built by the CORE Krogoth Weaver.
* Added the CORE Hurricane from the original game.
* Added the CORE Informer from the original game.


Gameplay -

* Reworked the T1 AA planes and T2/T3 defence towers. Previous version had balance issues, notably due to useless T1 AA fighters, useless T2 
AA towers, useless ARM Flakker and ARM Poseidon Dragon Slayer, and clearly overpowered ARM Counsellor and CORE Saphire. The follwing changes
have been made to balance all this properly:
--> ARM Mely's and CORE Echelon's missiles are now faster (+100). They will no longer miss fast moving targets too often.
--> The ARM Controller now pops-up faster, and will thus no longer seem to be ready to fire only when the target gets out of range.
--> Slightly increased the damages of ARM Controller's and CORE Nightflower's weapons (+18 and +8), reduced their reload time a little (-0.3).
--> Greatly reduced the speed of ARM Counsellor's and CORE Saphire's projectiles (-450, low acceleration).
--> Slightly reduced the area of effect of ARM Counsellor's and CORE Saphire's weapons (-15).
--> Reduced the damages of ARM Counsellor's and CORE Saphire's weapons (-50).
--> ARM Counsellor and CORE Saphire are now slightly less armored (-130 hp).
--> ARM Counsellor and CORE Saphire now cost more metal (+1000) and more energy (+10 000).
--> Increased the range of ARM Poseidon Dragonslayer's and CORE Praetorian Hysteric's weapons (+100). Also increased their area of effect 
(+40). Cost in ressources of the weapons modified accordingly.
--> Unguided AA weapons simply don't work properly in TA, which is why I had to change and rebalance the weapons of the ARM Flakker's and ARM
Poseidon Dragon Slayer's weapons. Basically, these weapons are now slightly guided, much like the ones of the CORE Cobra and CORE Praetorian 
Hysteric. 
To summarize: 
ARM Controller and CORE Nightflower are the classic AA defence, using guided and fast missiles. However, those units aren't that cheap and may
not be very useful in the long run, specially against gunships (due to their ~2 seconds reload time). 
ARM Flakker and CORE Cobra are cheap AA (based on the amount of damages they can deal), have excellent firerate (which is very useful against 
gunships, even the heavy ones), but their weapons are only very slightly guided, they use a consequent amount of ressources when firing, and 
the units are not well armored.
ARM Counsellor and CORE Saphire are still excellent AA towers, however, their weapons are clearly slower than in previous version, although 
they still use a huge amount of ressources when firing. Also, the units are now quite costly (basically the price of an ARM Annihilator/CORE 
Doomsday Machine), and they are not well armored.
ARM Poseidon Dragon Slayer and CORE Praetorian Hysteric are the top of the current T3 panel. While very costly, these units are also very
strong and armored. Contrarly to the ARM Counsellor and CORE Saphire, they can't get destroyed that easily, which makes them an excellent 
choice for late games, where heavy gunships like the ARM XBot Banisher and CORE Krogoth Nebel may be spawned in mass, erasing other AA towers 
in a few shots. Only drawback of those units are their fast but only slightly guided projectiles, and their huge ressources consumption when 
firing.

* Greatly decreased the reload time of ARM Poseidon Commander's dgun (from 42 to 24). This unit was too underpowered, compared to other
Commanders.
* CORE Pyro's grenade (dgun weapon) now deals only 50% of its damages to other Pyros. That weapon was a little useless because of constant
friendly fire.
* Increased the reload time of CORE Praetorian Metal Storage's weapon.
* Increased the speed of ARM Stignus' and CORE Eradicator's missiles (+50, far better acceleration). These defence towers were slightly
underpowered.


Visuals -

* Retextured the ARM Metal Extractor.
* Retextured the ARM Moho Mine.
* Retextured the CORE Metal Extractor.
* Retextured the CORE Praetorian Lab.
* Improved the textures on the ARM Counsellor.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Advanced Solar Collector.
* Improved the textures on the ARM XBot Acolyte.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Phaser Ion Tank.
* Replaced the explosion of ARM XBot Bunker's weapon with a new, better one.
* Replaced the explosion of CORE Behemoth's rockets with a new, better one.
* CORE Behemoth Fusion Power Plant now has a new model, retextured to fit the visual style of that faction.


General -

* Fixed the invisible projectiles in multiplayer bug; simply open the "INVISIBLE PROJECTILES BUG FIXED" file included within the rar of the 
mod and then follow the instructions.
* Greatly decreased the sound volume of all reclaim sounds, so they're now much less annoying.
* Certain builders were producing too much or not enough ressources without reason, so I've rebalanced all this properly.
* Minor fixes and improvements.



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Alpha 0.6a

Units - 

* Added the CORE Krogoth Metal Storage, a totally new unit specifically created for this mod. It's a massive T3 metal storage for the Krogoth
faction which tends to focus on this particular ressource.
* Added the CORE Phaser Radar Station, a totally new unit specifically created for this mod. It's a super long range radar tower for the
Phaser faction.
* Added the ARM Thunder Lodestone, a T3 energy plant that produces and stores energy and that may also use the energy it produces to enable 
its defensive weapon (activable via on/off button)!
* Added the ARM Thunder Beholder, a very long range mobile radar. When set to off, the vehicle shuts off its radar and focuses on its 
defensive weapon, aiming and firing at nearby enemy units.
* Added the CORE Phaser Ogre, a T3 energy storage that also produces energy.


Gameplay -

* Air transport units may now carry the CORE Sumo.
* T1 AA fighters (ARM Mely and CORE Echelon) deals more damages (+32), and their weapons' area of effect have been slightly increased (+10).
Cost in ressources of the weapons modified accordingly.
* ARM Bubble's Dgun has been heavily modified: the purpose of this weapon lied in the fact that it didn't use any ressources at all while 
firing, which sort of countered the high cost in energy of the tank's main (primary) weapon. It was however an extremely weak weapon, and the 
unit itself was underpowered. Now, the Bubble's Dgun acts more like a real weapon, using more energy but also dealing more damages. Its reload
time has been decreased as well. The ARM Bubble was too costly for its actual strenght, so this should now be fixed.
* ARM Dragonfly's weapon now deals a bit more damages (+7).
* CORE Praetorian Super Plant's wrecks now give much more metal.
* Rebalanced the CORE Inferno: its weapon's projectile is now faster (+200 velocity, +530 acceleration) and does no longer miss targets too
often. It also deals a bit more damages (+20). Cost in ressources of the weapon modified accordingly.
* CORE inferno is now a little stronger (+200 hp).
* Rebalanced the CORE Behemoth Vulcano: its weapon's projectile is now faster (+200 velocity) and does no longer miss targets too often
(much better guidance).


Visuals -

* Added new buildpics/unitpics to many, many units. Ideally, all old buildpics will soon be replaced with these new ones made for 
TA: Enhanced. But this is a process that takes time, which is why all buildpics aren't done yet.
* Retextured the ARM XBot Metal Maker and it now has glowing textures when set to on.
* Retextured the ARM Thunder.
* Retextured the CORE Fabricator.
* Retextured the CORE Praetorian Super Plant.
* Retextured the CORE Praetorian Radar Tower.
* Retextured the CORE Praetorian.
* Retextured the CORE Krogoth Radar.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Phaser Fusion Power Plant.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Fusion Power Plant.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Krogoth Commander.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Praetorian Metal Storage.


General -

* Fixed the ARM Poseidon Metal Storage's and ARM Poseidon Energy Storage's low parts you could build stuff upon. Still not perfect, though. 
* Fixed the CORE Krogoth Rumen's model (it was standing slightly beneath the ground, ingame).
* Minor fixes and improvements.



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Alpha 0.7h

Units - 

* Added the CORE Behemoth Metal Extractor, a totally new unit specifically created for this mod. Former Behemoth Metal Extractor is now a
Mammoth unit (see below). The new one has no weapon, but is equiped with a radar jammer allowing it to hide units standing at a reasonable
distance from it. It costs more metal and energy to be built, and uses more energy when set to on, but it's also stronger and extracts a bit 
more metal.
* Added the CORE Mammoth Targeting Facility, a totally new unit specifically created for this mod. This advanced targeting facility has a 
long range radar and is very well armored.
* Added the ARM Dragon's Teeth from the original game.
* Added the ARM Fortification Wall from the original game.
* Added the CORE Dragon's Teeth from the original game (but now named CORE Bony).
* Added the CORE Fortification Wall from the original game.
* Added the CORE Mammoth Construction Vehicle, a T2/T3 builder vehicle.
* Added the CORE Behemoth Inferno, a T2 missile tower equiped with a radar.
* CORE Behemoth Juggler is now a Mammoth unit. Cost, damages (ect...) left unchanged.
* CORE Behemoth Metal Extractor is now a Mammoth unit. Cost, damages (ect...) left unchanged.
* CORE Behemoth Metal Maker is now a Mammoth unit.
* CORE Avalanche is now a Krogoth unit. It is now a T3 defence tower so it actually costs a lot more energy and metal to be built. It deals 
more damages, is stronger, and it now uses a plasma canon instead of an energy weapon.
* Removed the CORE Inferno from the mod (will probably re-use it later for some other purpose).


Gameplay -

* Important modification: very heavy T3 units (like the ARM Mech Agamemnon, ARM Poseidon, ARM XBot Fury, ARM SpiderBot Great Tyrant, ARM
XBot Acolyte, CORE Behemoth, CORE Praetorian, CORE Krogoth, CORE Krogoth Chaos Lord...) now recieve only one half of damages caused by huge 
units' explosions (nuclear type). Basically, heavy T3 units in previous versions were dying way too fast during battle notably because of 
other units exploding next to them. It had terrible results when such units were moving in group, and it made them really underpowered. This 
is now fixed.
* And still with a view to make very heavy T3 units stronger, they've all been granted a small hitpoints bonus (+1000). ARM SpiderBot Great 
Tyrant and CORE Krogoth Chaos Lord rather recieve an armor bonus (+0.4) as their health is already at the max (and they didn't need this as 
much as the classical T3 KBots).
* T1 AA towers on both sides were still clearly underpowered, so I've rebalanced them (again). Their weapons now reload faster (-0.9 reload
time) and they deal slightly more damages (+13 for the ARM Controller and +10 for the CORE Nightflower). ARM Controller also gains a small
sight range bonus (+15).
* Tweaked the fire range of the CORE Mammoth Juggler (+30 and no, it is no longer a Behemoth unit). Also increased its damages (+3 only, but
given its rapid firerate it actually makes the unit a little more powerful).
* Reduced the reload time of T1 AA fighters' weapons (-0.8).
* Reduced the velocity of CORE Crasher's projectiles (-260), as the unit was a little too effective for a T1 KBot.
* Increased the firerange of CORE The Can's and CORE Sumo's lasers (+136). These already slow units were killed too often before they could 
even hit anything. Costs in ressources of the weapons modified accordingly.


Visuals -

* Added more new buildpics/unitpics.
* Retextured the ARM Mech Azue.
* Retextured the CORE Behemoth Construction KBot.
* Retextured the CORE Behemoth Gantry.
* Retextured the CORE Behemoth Vulcano.
* Retextured the CORE Mammoth Demolisher.
* Retextured the CORE Mammoth Metal Extractor (no longer a Behemoth unit).
* Improved the textures on the CORE Krogoth Avalanche (now a Krogoth unit).
* Improved the textures on the CORE CORE Mammoth Metal Maker (no longer a Behemoth unit).
* Improved the textures on the CORE CORE Mammoth Juggler (no longer a Behemoth unit).
* Improved the textures on the CORE Advanced Vehicle Plant.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Praetorian Metal Storage.


General -

* New map added to the mod: (Enhanced)The Dark Jungle. Reworked version of the old (TA_F)Per map, entirely meant to fit Enhanced's gameplay.
It's a challenging and an absolutely unique map, very difficult to master!
* Minor fixes and improvements.



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Alpha 0.8v

Units - 

* Added the ARM Spiderbot Gantry, a totally new unit specifically created for this mod. It replaces the old model of that structure, model which
is now used as the big Experimental Gantry.
* Added the ARM Spiderbot Supervisor, a T2/T3 builder.
* Added the ARM Spiderbot Pod, A T3 artillery Spiderbot.
* Added the ARM Spiderbot, a T4 Spiderbot which replaces the old SpiderBot Great Tyrant. As a real T4 unit, it now costs more energy
(+120 000) and more metal (+50 000) and it takes longer to be built (+50 000). However, it has more armour (damage modifier set from 0.29 to 
0.2), its primary weapon (the machinegun) does more damages (+120) and its secondary weapon has better reload time (-4.5) and the damages it
deals are more compact (-0.3 edgeeffectiveness). The unit can no longer carry any other ground unit.
* New faction added to the mod: the Cavor, for CORE. This faction allows to build very heavy Spiderbots.
* Added the CORE Cavor Gantry.
* Added the CORE Cavor Experimental Gantry.
* Added the CORE Cavor Weaver, a T2/T3 builder Spiderbot (note that the old Krogoth Weaver is now called the Krogoth Vassal).
* Added the CORE Cavor Aristocrate, A T3 artillery Spiderbot.
* Added the CORE Cavor, a T4 Spiderbot which replaces the old Krogoth Chaos Lord. As a real T4 unit, it now costs more energy
(+120 000) and more metal (+50 000) and it takes longer to be built (+50 000). However, it has more armour (damage modifier set from 0.28 to 
0.2), its primary weapon deals 2x more damages (cost in ressource of the weapon increased accordingly) and its secondary weapon reloads faster 
(-0.5 reload time).
* Added the CORE Mammoth Dislocator, a T2 heavy assault tank.
* Added the CORE Mammoth Resource Generator, a T2 plant which produces energy and a small quantity of metal.


Gameplay -

* Important modification: ARM Commander was overally better than CORE's during any kind of fight. I've thus fixed it this way: CORE Commander
has better maneuverability (+0.12 acceleration), its laser weapon has decreased reload time (-0.3), is less fast (-140 velocity) but, as an 
indirect result of this, it is now more accurate (more chances to actually hit close targets). Its Dgun weapon takes less time to reload 
(-1 second) and the weapon's projectile is faster (+150 velocity). Note that these changes also apply to the following faction Commanders: 
Krogoth and Behemoth Commanders.
* very heavy T3 units (like the ARM Mech Agamemnon, ARM Poseidon, ARM XBot Fury, ARM XBot Acolyte, CORE Behemoth, CORE Praetorian, CORE 
Krogoth...) recieve a small firerange bonus (+50, primary weapons only) plus few very minor tweaks when needed (to make their primary 
weapon a little more powerful).
* CORE Behemoth Odin's weapon now takes longer to reload (+8 seconds). Changed the unit's description from "Heavy Assault KBot" to "Heavy 
Sniper KBot". That unit was simply too powerful.
* CORE Behemoth Gemini's laser now reloads a kinda slower (+0.75 seconds).
* ARM Poseidon Vesper is now an amphibious Sniper KBOT, an upgraded ARM Shooter, sort of. Here are the modifications made on that old useless
AA Kbot: it now costs much more energy (+13 000) and metal (+600). It is less strong (150 hp) and takes more time to be built (+18 000). It 
has a much better sight range (+305), it can cloak, and its weapon is now the one of a sniper KBot like the ARM Shooter except that it reloads
4x faster, has a slightly better firerange but does 4x less damages. Basically, the ARM Poseidon Vesper is now a fast-shooting Sniper KBot,
amphibious and well recommanded both for regular assault and specific target elimination.
* Arranged CORE Kemu's script so that the unit will make a much better use of its Dgun weapon.
* CORE Krogoth Gantry now costs less energy (-4000) and less metal (-2400) and has less armour (-3000). It has a new model and,
especially, it does no longer produce the old Chaos Lord, which is now a Cavor unit called the Cavor.
* Greatly increased the hitpoints of the T1 AA Towers (ARM Controller and CORE Nightflower, +300 for both) and slightly increased the sight 
range (+20). These units were simply too weak.
* The ARM Controller was still too underpowered, so I've improved its weapon somewhat. It deals more damages (+20), has better chances to hit
the target (+10 000 turnrate, +1.5 weapontimer, +80 velocity), has slightly better area of effect (+17) and firerange (+35). Basically, this
AA tower may now catch Hawks and Vamps without problems!
* ARM Jeffy and CORE Weasel now move much slower (-1.9) and they are less strong (-100 hp).
* ARM Jeffy was still too overpowered, so I've increased the reload time of its weapon (+0.4) and it now deals less damages (-6). Remember 
that the said weapon is a fast machinegun, so these tweaked values, while seemingly minor, actually change a lot of things ingame.
* Slightly increased the firerange of ARM LLT and CORE Light Laser Tower (+20).
* The ARM Valiant is now much stronger (+300 hp) and its weapons deals a bit more damages (+5).
* ARM Enforcer's main weapon now takes little less long to reload (-0.2).
* Decreased the reload time of CORE Krogoth's main cannon (-0.4) and increased its firerange (+20).
* Increased the firerange of the ARM Hammer (+40).
* ARM XBot Inflamer's main turret now takes much more time to turn and to aim at other units, like any classical LRPC. Also hopefully fixed 
the bug of the big gun shoting at a unit while targeting a totally different one (may still happen, but much more rarely).
* ARM Kengu now moves slower (-0.4), is less strong (-60 hp) and its main weapon (lightning) takes more time to reload (+2.5 seconds).
* ARM Mauler (T1 defence tower) deals more damages (+15), has a slightly better firerange (+18) and its weapon takes a little less time to 
reload (-0.13).
* CORE Crasher was clearly too powerful for a T1 AA Kbot. Its weapon is now less efficient (-18 damages) and is slower (-60 velocity so it
won't catch absolutely everything in sight) and has increased reload time (+0.5). Costs in ressources of the weapon modified accordingly.
* Lowered the speed of ARM Atlas and CORE Valkyrie (-2).


Visuals -

* ARM Poseidon Dragon Slayer now has a new model (retextured old CORE Praetorian Hysteric).
* CORE Praetorian Hysteric now has a new model.
* Retextured the ARM Wind Generator.
* Retextured the ARM Poseidon Vesper.
* Retextured the ARM Poseidon Energy Storage.
* Retextured the ARM Metal Maker.
* Retextured the CORE Wind Generator.
* Retextured the CORE Metal Storage.
* Retextured the CORE Praetorian Energy Generator.
* Retextured the CORE Energy Storage.
* Improved the textures on the CORE Praetorian Super Plant.


General -

* Remove useless decimals from the "reloadtime" entry. About 75 weapons fixed this way. Should theorically improve performance.
* Fixed the CORE Praetorian Metal Storage's script so that the animation now fit the firing status of the unit.
* Minor fixes and improvements.




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Credits (note that the units listed below all have recieved more or less important modifications):


AfterMath Design - Xubor (ARM Mech Razorback, ARM Mech Agamemnon, ARM Valiant, ARM Dragonfly, ARM XBot Banisher, CORE Behemoth Gemini, CORE 
Manjo, CORE Falcon)

Central Conciousness (ARM Poseidon Commander)

Conrad Units (CORE Behemoth Lab, CORE Mammoth Plant, CORE Mammoth Demolisher)

Core Prime (ARM Advanced Solar Collector, ARM Mauler, CORE Kemu, CORE Advanced Solar Collector)

COUNTERSTRIKE MOD (CORE Phaser Vehicle Gantry, CORE Phaser Ion Tank)

Creation Matrix Units - Bidigam (CORE Praetorian, CORE Praetorian Lab, CORE Jumbo, CORE Praetorian Gantry, CORE Bypasser, CORE Praetorian 
Hysteric, CORE Praetorian Metal Storage)

Design-X (ARM Bumblebee)

Draconious (CORE Krogoth Commander)

FurtiveFox Creations (ARM Poseidon Lab, ARM Poseidon Gantry)

GTMA MOD (ARM Thunder Lodestone)

Intergalactic Terrorist Alignment (ARM Thunder Epistem)

Mayhem Inc (ARM Mech Azue, ARM Rebel, ARM Radeon, ARM XBot Helper)

MD Design (ARM Vermin)

Mutual Assured Destruction TA - MADTA (ARM Mech Metal Maker, ARM Bubble, ARM Mech Lab, ARM Mech Metal Maker, ARM Mech Mining Station, ARM 
Poseidon Vesper, ARM XBot Metal Extractor, ARM Thunder Beholder, CORE War Hog, CORE Behemoth Metal Maker, CORE Paguro, CORE Ravager, CORE 
Behemoth, CORE Obice, CORE Behemoth Juggler, CORE Behemoth Rhino, CORE Behemoth Odin)

Nova Design (ARM lizardo)

Omega Design (ARM Mech Gantry)

RUMAD RACE by MADTA (CORE Praetorian Radar Tower)

Scientific Design (ARM Kengu)

TA Design Division (ARM Mech Super Fusion Reactor, ARM Mech Radar Tower)

TA-Designers (ARM Enforcer, ARM Counsellor, CORE Skull, CORE Saphire)

TA Arsenal Network - TAAN - Arsenal - M3G (ARM Mely, ARM Artic, ARM Tera, ARM Poseidon, ARM Poseidon Bantha, ARM Poseidon Emancipator, ARM 
XBot Fury, ARM Poseidon Blue Eye, ARM SpiderBot Gantry, ARM Thunder Vehicle Gantry, ARM Thunder, ARM XBot Acolyte, ARM XBot Commander, ARM 
XBot Intelligence Facility CORE Tarentule, CORE Echelon, CORE Runner, CORE Krogoth Chaos Lord, CORE Krogoth Saigneur)

TA Blasting Zone Advanced (CORE Phaser)

TA ESCALATION MOD (CORE Praetorian Energy Generator, CORE Praetorian Super Plant, CORE Phaser Ogre)

TA-Power (ARM Poseidon Metal Extractor, ARM XBot Bunker, CORE Eradicator, CORE Behemoth Inferno)

TA Scrap Heap (CORE Krogoth Nebel)

TA Supremely Epic Creation Team (CORE Behemoth Metal Extractor)

TA Weapons Factory (ARM Mech Vigil)

TAWP MOD (ARM XBot Inflamer, CORE Behemoth Commander, CORE Praetorian Geo. Powerplant, CORE Krogoth Gantry, CORE Krogoth Radar Tower, CORE 
Krogoth Weaver)

THE LOST LEGACY MOD (ARM Poseidon Construction KBot)

Total Obliteration (ARM Poseidon Energy Storage, CORE Behemoth Vulcano)

UTASP MOD (Most buildpics of OTA units, ARM Mech Oppressor, ARM Poseidon Smart Metal Extractor, ARM Poseidon Dragon Slayer, ARM Stignus, ARM 
Controller, CORE Praetorian Assailant, CORE Behemoth Orb, CORE Mutilator, CORE Praetorian, CORE Yelkin, CORE Shiva, CORE Fabricator, CORE 
Mammoth Construction Vehicle)

Wormhole Productions (CORE Avalanche)

Unknown author (ARM Thunder Hound, CORE Praetorian Intercepter)


Thanks to Wotan, Rage, macraig, Zippo, Idec Sdawkminn, JezeY, gamma, MattyWS, BlueWolf, Psycros, M1Garland, TaShadan, thaldren17, Vohvelielin,
SnakeInTheMirror, Viperion, Muzzleflash (and anyone else who posted in the first TA:Enhanced thread) for their comments and critics.



Mod created by Firmament, as known as Franois.