[MOD] DEFCON: The WarGames mod

[Montyphy]

How do you install this?

just stick the WOPR folder in Mods?

Just extract the zip/rar file into your Defcon folder. ("C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\defcon".)

[odin]

Neat little mod this. Although as mentioned before, it's very hard to see what the big cities are unless you're zoomed in to an ant's perspective. Plus the fighters and bombers are very thin and also not very conspicious.

Oh and what's with the weird pentagram symbol for radar stations? Was that used in the movie?

[Black Gas]

it was used for norad

[Crystal Palace]

Love this MOD. I haven't installed it yet, but I was curious whether it's possible to install this MOD and perhaps change some individual icons? I love everything except the NORAD icon for radars, as I'd prefer to use the triangles. I don't have any experience MODing so perhaps some tips or a point in the right direction?

Thanks

[zach]

This IS a tad bit late, but whatever ...

Just open up mods\wopr\graphics\radar.bmp with mspaint or something. Enjoy

[Merkwurdigliebe]

I just tried the mod out today and it's really impressively console-like... reminds me of a 1980's Siemens-Unix machine... Hope to see updates!!

[zach]

Updates? What kind of updates?

[Merkwurdigliebe]

I let those be subject to your phantasy and thoughts...

[nukewarfare2]

Okay, here's just some thoughts I had about additions to the WarGames mod. Forgive me that some of them have already been mentioned but here goes:

A Mercator (or "cylindrical") map projection. Remember that gravity will always pull objects to the center of the earth, and the missiles' apogee will probably be different depending on where it is launched.

MIRVed missiles. I know that this idea has been brought up and discarded several times, but gosh-darn it, if any computer genius wants to take a crack at it anyway, I'd be grateful.



A way to color the Russian boarder red and the U.S. boarder blue, while keeping the other world boarders green.

The beeping tone from the movie when there was a "MISSILE WARNING" or "LAUNCH DETECTION" displayed instead of the klaxon horn. (Or maybe you could put the radar analyst's voice when he said, "We have a launch detection. Missile Warning; no malfunction. Confidence is high; I repeat, confidence is high.")

Take the radiation symbol off of the circle when a launch is detected. The display from the movie did not have one.

[NeoThermic]

A Mercator (or "cylindrical") map projection. Remember that gravity will always pull objects to the center of the earth, and the missiles' apogee will probably be different depending on where it is launched.

While you could replace the map image with a Mercator projection, you'd be unable to make the nukes obey the new projection, as that is hard-coded.

NeoThermic

[nukewarfare2]

Okay, well what about my other suggestions? Are any of them feasible? I mean, I am hoping to get the game for Christmas so I haven't actually gotten to use the mod yet. These suggestions are based on observations of the demo game and of the contents of the zip file.

Dave

[NeoThermic]

Sure. Here's the rest, I hope this doesn't dash your dreams

MIRVed missiles. I know that this idea has been brought up and discarded several times, but gosh-darn it, if any computer genius wants to take a crack at it anyway, I'd be grateful.

Not possible without the source.

A way to color the Russian boarder red and the U.S. boarder blue, while keeping the other world boarders green.

Technically possible by editing the textures, but to do it to the vector lines would require the source.

The beeping tone from the movie when there was a "MISSILE WARNING" or "LAUNCH DETECTION" displayed instead of the klaxon horn. (Or maybe you could put the radar analyst's voice when he said, "We have a launch detection. Missile Warning; no malfunction. Confidence is high; I repeat, confidence is high.")

Perfectly possible if you've got the recording and time to edit the sounds.txt

Take the radiation symbol off of the circle when a launch is detected. The display from the movie did not have one.

Again, just a texture, more than possible

NeoThermic

[nukewarfare2]

I have still been thinking about how the game differs from the movie, and I've made note of a couple more discrepancies:

1. The "ICBM Silos" of the game are not, in reality, individual silos . The so-called "silo" actually represents a Strategic Missile Wing, an area where many silos are located.

2. Real missile silos house a single ICBM, not ten.

3. Each Strategic Missile Wing launches all of its ICBMs simultaneously; it does not have the missiles lined up "in queue" as in the game.




- Dave

[Pox]

I have still been thinking about how the game differs from the movie, and I've made note of a couple more discrepancies:

1. The "ICBM Silos" of the game are not, in reality, individual silos . The so-called "silo" actually represents a Strategic Missile Wing, an area where many silos are located.

2. Real missile silos house a single ICBM, not ten.

3. Each Strategic Missile Wing launches all of its ICBMs simultaneously; it does not have the missiles lined up "in queue" as in the game.




- Dave

Another thing you couldn't change without the source code... a lot of these things would require either an open-source release (not happening) or a rewrite of the game engine to be fully dynamically scripted (considering everything else IV have on their plates, also not happening).

[nukewarfare2]

So, basically, if I wanted these changes, I'm better off making my own nuclear war simulation program.