Overview:
- Renegades is the latest in the Mayhem 3 line of mods and is a fully complete Albion Prelude add-on providing new features, numerous bug fixes, and creative enhancements.
- Built on top of Zero Hour 2.2, Renegades has ALL the features of the previous Mayhem 3 releases and more.
- Renegades is geared largely towards improving the operation of Fighters and their focus in the game. Fighters have been enhanced, and their Support role features have been extended and fixed.
- The initial Release is a FULL install and very large (4.3 GB). It encompasses everything from Litcube, Joubarbe and Hector0x.
- Much additional work has been done to add Quality of Life enhancements and to enhance some of the main game play elements. I welcome your feedback.
Without Hector0x, this release would never be possible and we all owe him a thank-you for his dedication. Hector0x is taking a minor break from Zero Hour, but will likely return with new awesome features in the future. Until then, I give you Renegades to satisfy your craving for More. This is a new release and I'm one old guy. It's easy for me to miss things and as always, you are the beta testers. Hopefully it's solid, but there are some extensive changes and no developer can see everything coming. Please report any release oriented bugs and expect it to be a little rough the first time though. I would greatly appreciate any bug reports to be a private message to me and rest assured,I will get on it. Plot related Bugs or issues/enhancements have not been addressed in this release. If Hector0x provides any plot fixes, I will integrate them. I may touch on them much later if Hector0x doesn't. Renegades is a work of love, on my own time and it has required an extensive amount of time to prepare for you. Please be gentle with your comments Thank you.
1. Download: Renegades 2.5 (Full Zip Download) or (Google Docs Download)
2. Latest Incremental Release: Release Version 3.0 (4/20/2024)
3. Latest Patch: Patch
(Note: The 3.0 release includes ZMap 1.7.7)
- Extract each of the above, in order, to your Mayhem 3 folder.
- Run Cleanup.bat
- Create a new map with ZMap (If you don't, the new sound effects for the new Renegades feature won't be there, and displayed version information on your load screen will be wrong, but otherwise it's still playable with an old map)
- Start a New game. Required.
---> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-yfpHa ... 0XHDf/view
Note that Cat/Dat files are numbered to match a stock Mayhem 3 installation without any submods and bullet/ship trails not having been disabled by the user.
Installation:
Note: This is a Complete patch on top of Albion Prelude. You no longer have to install Litcubes universe or it's patches or the other items Mayhem 3 typically asked for. They are all here. Just be SURE to run the Cleanup.bat file as noted below, or things may not work well.
- If you already have Mayhem 3 Zero Hour installed, just overwrite it with this archive, apply any patches or new incremental releases, generate a new map, start a new game, and you're good to go. Otherwise, read on. (Note, be sure to delete any old /addon/types/TShips.txt file you may have)
- Go to the X3AP steam properties and makes sure the game is in English. Turn the bonus package option OFF as it's not compatible with Mayhem 3
- Install X3 and copy the entire game folder to a new folder (C:\Mayhem 3)
- Download and Extract the Renegades main 2.5 archive over the top of your installation (link above).
- Download and Extract any incremental Release over the top of your installation (link above).
- Download and Extract any incremental Patch over the top of your installation (link above).
- Run "Cleanup.bat", which you will find in the root folder (C:\Mayhem 3\Cleanup.bat). This removes old .pck files and old load screens that came with X3AP. Note, the Litcube install used to do this.
- Copy your "No Steam" X3AP.exe to your folder. This can be found at https://www.egosoft.com/download/x3ap/bonus_en.php
- Run ZMap to create your first working map (see below)
- You're done. Enjoy.
From here on out, you MUST use ZMap to create all your maps. Many Zero Hour and Renegades features were built on things only ZMap provides.[/i]
Create a ZMap
- Run ZMap. (/ZMap/X3_Mayhem_Galaxy_Generator.exe)
- Select your install folder. (C:\Mayhem 3)
- Select your save game folder (C:\Users\yourlogin\Documents\Egosoft\X3AP\save\)
- Select whatever options you want (defaults are fine) and click "Generate Systems". You can repeat this over and over until you like the map.
- Click various icons at the top to turn on/off sector attributes and terran systems from the displayed map. This will not affect the actual map.
- You can re-Generate only the Gates or System stats with the 2 provided buttons without changing the system layout.
- Click the "Save/Load Galaxy" button.
- Enter a name for your new map just to the right of the "Save" button (or click Random for a random name)
- Click "Save"
- SELECT the map you just created in the left column.
- Click "Set Active" - This copies any Selected in the Saved Galaxies list to the game folder, which is what makes it active.
- Exit the Editor.
- Run Mayhem 3. (X3AP.exe - nosteam version)