BZ2_v13TechAlpha5_english.exe
This
unofficial patch will upgrade any previous version of
Battlezone II: Combat Commander to 1.3ta5, and brings an updated graphics engine, network bug fixes, additional Windows Vista support, and more.
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md5sum checksum:
e539e272c50012e79d26114f2adf0165 *BZ2_v13TechAlpha5_english.exe
Legal disclaimer: The Battlezone II 1.3 patch comes with no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the package "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and the accuracy of the information contained within it. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the package is with you.
The 1.3 patch has been in development since September/October 2001, headed by two programmers who had worked on the original Battlezone II team: Ken Miller & Nathan Mates. (In January 2009, Ken Miller moved to Armature Studios, but Nathan Mates has remained employed by Pandemic Studios, which was acquired by Electronic Arts in early 2008. We're working on other titles as our day jobs; Battlezone II patches are done in our spare time.)
The major improvements of 1.3techalpha5, compared to 1.3pb4a are:
* Updated graphics engine that uses (and requires) DirectX 9.0c for the best balance of compatibility and speed. Hardware transform & lighting is now supported, allowing a lot of work to be offloaded from your CPU and onto your graphics card. New DirectX features like fullscreen antialiasing (or multisample antialiasing) are supported to improve visual quality.
* Various lagout bugs in network games should be drastically reduced
* Further support for Windows Vista/7 -- should fully support being installed to paths with unicode, has high-resolution icon for Windows Explorer
* Music from the BZ2 CD is now distributed with this patch, in ogg vorbis format, allowing for better performance. You can also set up a random playlist of music to be played ingame, if you copy in .ogg files to the right place and the right name. (Note: other music needs to be user-supplied.)
For now, this patch will be pretty much English-only. If you have a foreign (French or German) version of BZ2, this patch will replace a lot (but not all) of the files used to display text ingame with English. Voiceovers and other sound effects will remain in the installed language. A translated version of these text items may happen at a later time.
More info on this patch is available
here.
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Information
OS: Windows
Type: Patch
Size: 87.9 MB
Downloads: 30
Added: 4/27/2009 8:45:39 AM
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Digital Distribution: 0
Related Games
Battlezone II: Combat Commander
