Merry Christmas and PR v0.5 Update
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all PR Fans,

The team has been working very hard on PR v0.5. Yes, you heard right! Not v0.41 as we had originally planned since we’ve decided to skip a release and introduce more maps, equipment and a new revised AAS system onto the battlefield. The very first test build of PR v0.5 has been released to our group of testers a few days ago and we expect to release v0.5 in January.

PR v0.5 will include a lot more features than what was originally planned for with the scheduled release of v0.41. Here is a list of features we are currently working on to be included in the PR v0.5 release :





• Vehicle crew kits
• Pilot kits
• Officer kits
• Vehicle systems damage
(highly experimental and may be deferred to a future release)
• AT4 for US Light AT
• Land Rover
• Merlin
• 3 Type 95 variants for PLA: Type 95 w Optics, Type 95 + UGL w Optics, Type 95 w Iron Sights
• Large collection of new sound effects
• Global sound effects volume overhaul
• AAS v2
• Attack Helo audit
• Tank audit
• APC audit
• New maps to explore and to battle in

Note that when we say "audit" we mean that we've gone through the weapon systems and armor of those vehicle types and altered them to have more realistic characteristics.

what's new in AAS v2
With v0.5 we've basically completely re-written AAS.

Many of the changes are transparent to players, but important to mappers. We've basically completely redone how we define the CP order. In addition we've added some new flag logic stuff that enables the mapper to set 2 radii on CPs. All of the new stuff is now in the hands of mappers (instead of all the maps needing a coder to make them work). This will greatly simplify adding new maps to the mod and put more dependency on mappers and much less on coders.

As for the stuff that is important to players...

CP Groups
We've added the ability to have 2 or more CPs in a group so that all CPs in the group can be attacked concurrently.

This will mostly be 2 CPs at a time, but there may be cases where mappers will have good reason to put 3 CPs into a group.


Two Flag Radii
When flags are controlled by a team, there is a much larger "neutralize radius" around the CP. Once the CP goes grey, the radius reverts to the smaller capture radius.

Mappers can specify this radius. If it is not specified by the mapper, the size of the nautralise radius is determined by the AAS code and scaled based on the # players on the server (larger # players means larger neutralise radii).

This "dual radii" setup is to facilitate the new capture logic. It also allows for "area control" fights around CPs, but still enables .. at the mapper's discretion .. to have "point capture" dynamics for securing CPs.


New Flag Cap Logic
The intent of the new flag capture logic is to make battles for flags take place over neutralised flags and avoid the spawncamping necessary to capture CPs.

When an attacker has 50% of the defender forces inside the neutrealise radius, the flag will start to go grey. Flags will go grey pretty quickly.

So if there are 10 defenders and 5 attackers inside the nautralise radius, the flag will go grey pretty quickly.

When an attacker has 200% of the defender forces inside the capture radius, the flag will start to turn to attacker control. Flags will typically take a long time to turn to control.

So if there are 2 defenders and 4 attackers inside the capture radius, the flag will start to turn to attacker control.


Two Guys Minimum
All flag actions require a minimum of 2 players to have an effect. So 1 guys doesn't count, but 2 guys count as 2 guys.




I think that's everything. Again lots of work went into making it easier to add maps to PR and putting more of the responsibility for making maps work with PR into the hands of mappers.

Mapper guidelines should be published shortly once we sort out the kinks.

Ja tylko chcialem skromnie poinformowac, ze zyje

Na szczescie niedlugo juz bede go mial.

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Alternative Platforms

In the coming year we're going to investigate the possibility of moving Project Reality to an alternative platform than the BF2 engine. Right now ET:QW is the most probable platform. That dictates a different scope of mod project than BF2 and we're tossing around some design ideas for that platform (but still nothing is finalised). However we're continuing full steam ahead on BF2 for the foreseeable future.

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