First open beta of AOVAF

**Rodion Romanovich** · 09-01-2005, 12:22

Ok, provincial campaigns with that much extra work might not be possible. But at least a zoom in on an interesting area, using only the normal factions and rebels, would be quite easy. If we plan on making more complex provincial campaigns with batch files, I think it should wait until the main campaign is completed.

**ScionTheWorm** · 09-01-2005, 13:30

I could easily do the programming of this "switch" where player can choose from a bunch of provincial campaigns, then the program would copy the approrpiate files to rtw before the game starts. but the text files would have to be there ready of course. but this is far ahead, let's start with one

**Rodion Romanovich** · 09-01-2005, 13:53

Originally Posted by ScionTheWorm

I could easily do the programming of this "switch" where player can choose from a bunch of provincial campaigns, then the program would copy the approrpiate files to rtw before the game starts. but the text files would have to be there ready of course. but this is far ahead, let's start with one

Yes, the batch file isn't the problem, it's the work with creating all those extra files

And making it as an .exe would also be easy. One could for example have a .exe doing the required stuff then automatically launch R:TW, I think. So you'd click different shortcuts to start the different campaigns. The problem is that you have to restart R:TW to play on another provincial campaign...

**Warbird** · 12-28-2005, 18:02

Legio,
I am very impressed with the work the team has put into the mod. Any forcast when the beta version will be ready for testing?

**Rodion Romanovich** · 12-28-2005, 19:18

Well, all I can say is that we have a lot of work left to do. We've done less than 50% of the total work, and the speed at which we progress varies greatly from week to week, depending on how much other work we have and so on. So a forecast is quite difficult to make, but we might be interested in people willing to do unit stats balancing and testing in custom battles even before we're ready, as internal beta testers. I'll put up a thread about it when we think we're ready for that.