Community news
On this page, you can post news items that will be seen in the top right section of the frontpage. You can use this to post if you have created or found something of interest to the Spring community, such as a new map, a useful tool or perhaps a new useful page in the wiki. Details on how to update this page can be found here.
2005-10-29 - NTAI 0.25 Released
The latest version of NTAI released today with many new abilities, such as a greatly improved attack system, and the ability to scout.
2005-10-20 - Absolute Annihilation: Spring Released
The highly popular OTA mod, Absolute Annihilation, has now been fully converted for compatibility with Spring. Unlike the original Spring version released some months ago, the new version is fully compatible with the mod switching system. It also features many visual and strategic enhancements only possible in Spring, and uses the latest version of the AA dataset, 6.0.
Already a new version is available, 1.01, which corrects several major bugs.
2005-10-16 - KuroTA v0.45 Released
This is the second public release of this fairly popular mod. It all started out as a bunch of custom units in a TA installation from years gone by, but thanks to dedication it's been turned into a playable and fairly balanced mod for everyone to play on Sping. For more info at read this thread. And it can be downloaded from FileUniverse.
2005-10-15 - UberHack, SpringVersion1.3 Released
This port of the famous balance mod for TA, done by NOiZE, has been made as good as bug free now. This mod would not have been possible without help from: zwzsg, Gnome and Kuroneko. For more info at read this thread. And it can be downloaded from FileUniverse.
2005-10-12 - Maelstroms SMD Creator
Maelstroms SMD Creator has been relesed, to help people create SMD Map files with an easy to use GUI.
2005-10-11 - JCAI 0.20 Released
JCAI 0.20 skirmish AI is released for Spring 0.64b1 with a modified spring exe, it is much more stable now. JCAI 0.20 is included in current release (0.65b1)
2005-09-28 - UberHack, SpringVersion1.2 Released
This port of the famous balance mod for TA, done by NOiZE, has been made as good as bug free now. This mod would not have been possible without help from: zwzsg, Gnome and Kuroneko. For more info at read this thread. And it can be downloaded from FileUniverse.
2005-08-20 - wiki Button Added
As you probably already have noticed, the SY's have added a wiki button (Made by aGorm) to the Navigation bar. Hopefully, this will make people more aware of the wiki, as some have never even heard of it! More info on this thread. If you don't see the wiki button, empty the cache of your browser and refresh.
2005-08-16 - JCAI Released
Zaphod has released alpha 1 of his skirmish AI JCAI for spring,see forum post TAI code has been released but doesnt work. Get it here
2005-08-03 - Mods and Maps
zwzsg made a 3.6MB mod package with: OTA balance, Evolva models, UTASP Buildpics. Install and use easy thanks to the new mod switcher introduced in Spring 0.60b1.
- More info and discussion
- Download link
Spring 0.60b1 made all previous maps obsolete, but as the pictures above show, there's a steadily increasing choice of new maps, either old ones converted to the new format or brand new.
2005-07-08 - Buggi's Beta Update
Buggi released a new version of his modified version of the game; This release added, among other things, custom models for weapons! Get it here
2005-07-05 - Map Editing Guide Updated
You know you wanted to make that map? Well now you can! Check it out in the Wiki, or click on the link. Create_maps
2005-07-03 - New strategy guide
A new strategy guide to help out new players has been added to the wiki. Here's the link: Spring guide!
2005-07-03 - Community news section
A new site feature has been added, that allows users to contribute news that will be seen in this section.
This might be useful to expose new maps for example to those that don't visit the map forum regularly... We'll see how it turns out.
