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#1081596 Mental Omega Client theme pack (Allied, Soviet, Foehn)

Posted by RedFox34 on 05 April 2018 - 11:40 PM

I finished work on some palette swaps of the Mental Omega client UI.   Included are Allied, Soviet, and Foehn themes, for those bored with purple and Chaotic Impulse, or who want to have their favorite faction represented on the menu screens.   Note that the changes are just cosmetic/audio for the client, and shouldn't affect gameplay or online interactions.  Download is below:
http://www.mediafire...MOThemePack.zip

Some token screenshots:
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#1081301 MO 3.3 // Feedback & Suggestions (Balance, New Features, Modifications etc.)

Posted by RedFox34 on 30 March 2018 - 06:47 PM

It would be nice if Tech Reinforcement Pads could use rally points to set where reinforcements will move to once paradrop is complete.




#1081258 Foehn Client Theme (palette swap)

Posted by RedFox34 on 29 March 2018 - 07:27 PM

Out of an abundance of boredom today I did a palette swap on the MO Client to make it fit a Foehn theme.    Basically everything purple has become teal, and the orange highlights have become a blue-violet color.   
I also tried to replace the Chaotic Impulse theme with a Foehn track, but I can't get the music to play ingame even though I've got it converted to a .wma file -- am I missing some format particularity the client needs to get it to play?

Mostly just putting this here to gauge if people were interested in something so basic.  It would be pretty easy to slap together Allied and Soviet palette swaps too -- the music is my main obstacle to releasing anything.

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#1080848 Tutorial Campaign for 3.0

Posted by RedFox34 on 22 March 2018 - 04:31 PM

Could we set a training campaign during "Act 0" like Archetype? 




#1079954 Act II Predictions - SPOILERS for Act I

Posted by RedFox34 on 13 March 2018 - 06:28 PM

Okay, here is my "grand unified theory" on MO so far:
 
Yuri was the leader of the Nod Da'at cell that specialized in psychic technology, in an alternate version of the Tiberium universe where GDI had lost the First Tiberium War (aka Twisted Insurrection).   Somehow or other, he stumbled across an old Chronosphere from WWII.   When GDI closed in on his research site (TI GDI Mission 8), Yuri prematurely entered the Chronosphere in an attempt to escape.   At this point it's unclear or not whether he intended to go back in time or merely get away, but regardless of what happened, Yuri ended up some time in the past.   It's unclear how far back he was sent, but by 1972, adepts were in already in use (Archetype) and it was implied that public opinion may have been manipulated against the Allies by Yuri -- so he definitely arrived some significant amount of time prior to 1972.
 
In a world that was basically foreign to him, Yuri had two advantages: his knowledge of the history yet to unfold, and his mind control.   Whether he wanted to go back in time or not, he would have quickly realized he was in a unique position to alter the future.   
I believe that Yuri in MO, as opposed to vanilla RA2/YR, is somewhat of an idealist.   I think he really does do everything with the idea that it will bring mankind some sort of lasting benefit.   If we accept that Yuri is from a Tiberian future, he would have seen at least one, probably two brutal wars and the devastation of a planet's ecological system, for seemingly little benefit to humanity.   I think Yuri's ultimate goal is actually threefold: first to avoid a repeat of the twin Tiberium conflicts; second, to control Tiberium more effectively under a unified government; and third, and most importantly, to remove humanity's most violent urges, those that cause all the conflict in the first place.  The Mental Omega Device would be the key toward achieving this third and final part of his vision.
 
First, however, Yuri needed time and money to further his research into mind control technologies.  So, he appealed to the Russians, and used the Soviets' own desire for revenge as a way to get black money for his research.   Thus, PsiCorps was born.   
 
As the Russian desire for results from his program increased, and with his proximity to Premier Romanov allowing him to influence the leader of the USSR, Yuri probably realized that the best way to verify his technologies and to keep his position was to help make the Soviet plan for revenge a reality, and put his Psychic Beacons and Amplifiers into the US.  Indeed, when the MIDAS knocks out Chicago and his Beacon/Amplifier plan is ruined, Yuri is distressed; I don't think he planned on losing his credibility with the Russians so quickly.
 
Meanwhile, I think Yuri always knew that his time with the Russians was a short one -- Romanov was a paranoid man, and he'd surely dispose of Yuri after his usefulness expired, replacing him with a more friendly puppet.   So Yuri had begun forming the plan for his Epsilon army quite early, as a force that would be loyal only to him and help him achieve his ultimate goal of building the MO device.  I'm not sure how he knew about Rashidi, but I don't think the logo of Scorpion Cell is a coincidence.  Perhaps in the original timeline, Rashidi helped Nod develop their own technology -- Africa was a major Nod stronghold in the first Tiberium War.   I'm not sure where Kane is in this timeline.  Either he's gone to ground, his own plans disrupted by Yuri, or Yuri has had him removed already.
 
Originally, Yuri's plan was to help the Soviets totally crush the Allies -- then, to turn on the Soviets with his Epsilon force and use their infrastructure to help finish the MO device in a largely pacified world.   However, this plan didn't go as expected -- despite Einstein being dead, the Allies still proved resourceful enough to do enough damage to the PsiCorps effort in America to damage Yuri's reputation, and to survive in the British Isles -- the Chinese and Pacific Front proved to be problematic -- and Yuri could not maintain his position in the Russian forces, eventually having to flee for his own safety.
 
So, what we see in Act 2, with the Allies wreaking havoc with the Paradox Engine, is a HUGE wild card for Yuri -- they weren't even supposed to be around by this phase of the plan, let alone destroying his bases and pushing to Antarctica.   Even as late as Godsend, I think Yuri thought he had the Allies under wraps once London was taken.   Instead of having the world under his thumb, he's got not one, but TWO foes teaming up against his army, and a third he doesn't even know about building in the wings.
 
Libra and her clones are meant to power the MO device -- Libra herself, the most powerful of them, I think was originally the "core" of a sort, and I believe might only have been unleashed into combat to help as a counter against the Paradox Engine and the overwhelming strategic situation turning against Epsilon.
 
I believe the MO device's end goal is global mind control, but only of a sort: not that same kind of direct, brute force mind control we see elsewhere.  For humanity to unify and to achieve his vision of peace, I think Yuri might be intending to use it as a sort of scalpel -- a device to permanently remove or suppress humanity's most violent urges, and to basically force us to get along -- under his guidance and military.   With humanity in such a state, Yuri could use Epsilon and the assets of the world to prepare for the arrival of Tiberium and the building of a more peaceful, less ecologically damaged world.
 
Unfortunately, this is not going to go how Yuri plans.  I am predicting that Yuri will die at the end of Act 2 -- whether at the hands of the Allies or Soviets, it doesn't really matter, but we are building to a cataclysmic conclusion.  What we're going to see instead is that Libra will be the one at the head of Epsilon through brute force -- that the MO device will likely malfunction -- and that we really WILL see true global mind control in the sense that we're used to, because things went so horribly wrong in Antarctica.
 
As for Act 3 -- my guess is that Reptoir will be a 5th faction, led by Libra, comprised of a mixture of all 3 sides -- basically, the new dominant government of Earth, a sort of terror-state that has access to endless hordes of mind controlled people, and the technologies of the subjugated, under a mad psychic dictator.  If the other 3 sides exist in any form at all, it will be barely, but it is not impossible, as we know some people can resist mind control naturally.   Foehn will be the best hope of the world, but I'm sure there will be divisions there as well, and they might not know the true scope of the threat.   
 
And depending on how long Act 3 is after Act 2, we might see a certain meteor land in Italy, nobody left who is aware of its true significance.



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