Combined Arms Massive Mod

[Fizban1978]

Hello all,
Since we like SD1 very much, we have spent a lot of time creating a massive mod for this game. It is designed to work with Blackbox versions of the game. Blackbox is a major refactoring of Stardrive 1 code , created to resolve performance issues and bugs left in the game.

You can find all the info required to install, and run the mod (including pictures) in http://www.moddb.com/mods/combined-arms

A short summary of the new content:

• 110 New ships 3D models and hulls. Every role (besides Titan) has 2 more 3d ship designs to research, along with dedicated slot maps. This is of course, per faction. So with the new Bomber and Drone ships, each faction will have a total of 19 hulls to design ships for. The new Titan per faction is truly big. Draylok Titan, for instance is 4.8k slots
  
• New drone role - a 4-6 slot (based on faction) small, automated fighter which is launched from drone bays
  
• New ship hull (classified as Fighter Role) per faction - Bomber, which contains internal slots to unleash Anti capital bombs
  
• New weapons, such as Rapid Blue lasers, new versions of mass drivers (extended, compact)
  
• New Reactors. You can take a path of lower output, but non exploding reactors such as the
  Cold Fusion or Quantum Fusion reactors, or go crazy with very high output, but highly unstable Anti-Matter or Dark Energy reactors
  
• 19 new types of armor, including shields combined with armor, self repair armor and more. These were present in Combomod but got new textures and massive balance
  
• New, hi-res textures for all the lower texture modules in the game
  
• Tech tree is 2.5 times the vanilla one

[Kursah]

Thank you for sharing! Can't wait to try it. :)

[elhran]

Wow!! I just saw this! Thank you..thank you..thank you!! I've been following the BlackBox development for awhile now and have been hoping someone would do a major mod for the improved SD1...and you, sir, have done just that...soooo...THANK YOU !!!

[Fizban1978]

You are welcome :)
Feel free to join us in Discord chat and discus about Combined Arms and Blackbox

[tombdiver]

Good stuff!

[dustfang61]

man is there any fix on the random crash to desktop mid game? usething this mod btw

[Crunchy]

are you using Radical Elements or texas?
Texas is still a work in progress but one of the devs really did a number on the resource management and so it has a lot more memory available.
some of the testors say that texas is much more stable than radical elements.

[dustfang61]

well i tried useing the radical but it ended up crashing after starting a new game so i tried texas and thats been more playable. with texas it tends to crash randomly every 30 min or so. im glad to now one of the devs made devs is working on texas!

[borealis]

A big thanks for your work, i enjoyed so much that ship fight construction style, if only distant world and star drive 1 were merged together

[Drago]

Originally posted by borealis:

A big thanks for your work, i enjoyed so much that ship fight construction style, if only distant world and star drive 1 were merged together

$60 for a 3+ year old game. Holy Crap

[dustfang61]

Originally posted by Drago:

Originally posted by borealis:

A big thanks for your work, i enjoyed so much that ship fight construction style, if only distant world and star drive 1 were merged together

$60 for a 3+ year old game. Holy Crap

well look at gta 5 its old but never goes down in price

[Fizban1978]

The latest Combined Arm Mod version (2.5A) now contains Vulfar and Kulrathi Freighters. They were both using the Terran models and now it has finally changed!

[Slugula]

How the heck do i install this mod? The instructions were very not applicable. Extract mod into mod dir. ok.... how? I was taken to codegremlins, and the only thing there was rar files and a repository. I guess I don't know what I'm doing and need help.

[Fizban1978]

Generally, you download the latest build (there is one for blackbox - right now Texas263.rar) and one for Combined Arms 2.5A. The rest of the files are kept for history usually.
let us know if you managed to install the mod.

[Fizban1978]

We now have 8 new 3D missile models in the mod, as Crunchy added the option of using custom missile models. Now we have 10 missiles and Torpedo models which add variety to the game. You are now able to recognize diffrent types of missiles during combat.

[|۞| shadowp]

Works great :)