Mars: Siege ReadMe
Version 3 - Final
A fun, awesome, destructive map with over 50 vehicles!
Versions 1 and 2 made July 15-17 2009.
Version 2.2 Patched on July 18, several glitches were removed.
Version 3 - Final made on August 3. Many additions and updates were made.
The reason this is the final version is because I tried making updates after this and it kept crashing and after hours of painstaking work I still couldn't fix or find out why it was crashing. Therefore this is the final version of this map I will be releasing to the public. It is not 100% stable and may crash at times for inexpicable reasons but it is the best I can offer.
Instructions: Extract the folder siege to AddOn (default location is C:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront\GameData\AddOn)
Mars: Siege reenacts a fictional war where a renegade Martian base is invaded by Maldekian refugees. The Martians refused to let the Maldekian survivors move in so a war has been waged. The Martian base is isolated in a radioactive sector on the planet where the remains of water canals are. It is rumored that the Martians have a secret air base somewhere in the rocky landscape.
This map is playable online with up to 32 AI, but single player will have 64 Maldekians versus 64 Martians spawned at once. The winning side depends on what side you play as and how well you do. Each side has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Bugs:
AI will fly geofighters in circles- This is due to 2D AI barriers preventing them from running off cliffs and cannot be fixed.
Crashing- It seems the first time you run this map it crashes. After that it's fine. I don't know why.
Lazy rebels camp- They don't seem to want to charge until the end. I can't find a fix for this as of yet.
Certain vehicles have no sound- I'm not very good with sound files so I don't know how to fix this.
Galactic History:
Several million years ago a war broke out between two alien races living in our Milky Way galaxy, the Lyraens, from Lyra, and the Reptilians, from Draco. The Reptilians attacked the Lyraens brutally, leaving the survivors to become refugees and spread across the galaxy in search of new homes.
In these ancient times there were three planets in our solar system that could support physical life. Some of the Lyraens came to our solar system and settled on planet Mars and the planet Maldek. At that time Mars was in our place as the third planet and Maldek was the fourth. Our Earth, then, sat in second position from the sun. Back then Mars and Maldek had an atmosphere very similar to our Earth today. At that time Earth was covered almost completely with water and could not bear any human life.
After some time the Lyraens on both planets had established themselves. But, Mars had many more resources than Maldek and inevitably conflict arose between the neighboring planets. As the situation grew hostile, the people of Mars contacted the Sirians for defenses. The Sirians helped them out by putting something underground for them.
Because their defenses were so low and the Reptilians were so merciless, the Lyraens decided to create an alliance in which they named the Galactic Federation. It included over 100 colonies and together they fought off the Reptilian attacks.
However, a few extremist groups existed that did not join the federation. Including the Atlans, who lived in Pleiades and the Lyraens who had colonized Mars and Maldek.
Because Mars and Maldek were already at conflict with each other, the Reptilians saw them as an easy target to defeat. So the Reptilians on Nibiru used technology obtained from the Sirians to shoot a giant comet covered in ice, while inside of it, at the neighboring planets. However, they did not realize that the gravitational pull from the gas giant Jupiter would be great enough to pull the comet away from its original destination.
The comet came so close to Maldek that the planet got caught between the gravitational pull of Jupiter, Mars, and the comet. As it headed by Maldek the pull from its neighboring planets and the comet itself caused Maldek to literally explode and what is left of it is now known as the Asteroid belt. While Maldek was destroyed, all that gravitational pull ripped most of the atmosphere from Mars as well as pulling it away from the sun.
As the comet continued on its new path, it headed towards Earth. Again the gravitational pull between the planets and the comet caused an atmospheric change. Most of the ice from the comet was pulled to the poles of Earth, covering the openings at each end, which led to the inner hollow earth, and then revealed the land underneath the water.
The comet was then pulled into second orbit, while the Earth was pushed into third orbit from the sun. The comet is now known as the planet Venus. The Reptilians finally came to the surface to build cities. They built seven of them to represent the hierarchies they had established..... (history continues)
Credits:
Hissil - Developing and Bug testing
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