Version 2.5.10 (minor release), 2024/05/06
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• Updated Phobos library to latest develop snapshot + my features with lots of bugfixes.
  
• Bug: Allied Mirage tanks could be invisible when blinking.
  
• Fixed 1 AI Team that produced crashes.
  
• Adjusted some YR and Yuri Resurgence AI team's probabilities.
  
• Yuri Resurgence mission 1: Tweaked some AI teams.
  
• Yuri Resurgence mission 6: Triggered the end-game credits when the mission was completed.
  
• Yuri Resurgence mission 7: It was set as the end of the campaign (the credits window).
  
• Fixed some script bugs in Yuri Resurgence mission 8 that made the game impossible to play.
  
• RA2 Allied mission 1: Soviets could build units that shouldn't be available.
  
• RA2 Soviet mission 11: Fallout, AI didn't fire Nukes.
  
• Soviet V3 Launcher missile spawn rate from 370 to 250.
  
• Soviet Dreadnought missiles spawn rate from 80 to 180.
  
• Nod Talon Submarine missiles spawn rate from 100 to 190.
  
• Yuri Boomer Submarine missiles spawn rate from 80 to 200.
  
• Secret Lab's Double V3 Launcher missiles spawn rate from 400 to 350.
  
• Fix: Sometimes, AI Engineers get stuck inside buildings.
  
• No more spilled resources when a harvester or refinery is destroyed in an RA2/YR mission.

Version 2.5.9 (hotfix release), 2024/04/15
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• Updated the Syringe.exe file to the latest official version.
  
• Merged the latest Phobos development branch.
  
• Fixed bug in the new AI teams selection that reduced the number of possible selectable Teams.
  
• Fixed crash (and a desync) in the Nod Reaper weapon.
  
• Updated DDrawCompat (by narzoul) to v0.5.1
  
• Disabled (temporally) the napalm support power. I think it causes rare crashes in the long term.
  
• Replaced (temporally) the Spy plane support power with a Reveal Area. I think it causes rare crashes in the long term.
  
• Nuclear radiation damage against Soviet Heavy Tesla Trooper reduced from 100% to 4%.
  
• Soviet Desolator damage against Soviet Heavy Tesla Trooper reduced from 100% to 12%.
  
• Yuri Psychic Tower strength from 350 to 425.
  
• Yuri Psychic Tower weapon rate of fire from 90 (6 seconds) to 85 (~5.66 seconds).
  
• Added a steam animation in the Nuclear Reactor.
  
• Replaced Magnetron weapons with a modified version of the original game weapons.
  
• Fixed crash related to an incomplete AI script action.

Changes (2024-05-06):
- Updates to Phobos trigger events & actions and script actions in FAData.ini.

This (possibly last) GIMP 2 stable release brings much-requested backports from GTK3, including improved support for tablets on Windows. A number of bug fixes and minor improvements are also included in this release.


New features and improvements

Improved support for tablets on Windows

Before this release, GIMP only supported connecting tablets on Windows through WinTab drivers rather than the newer Windows Ink drivers. Because of this, we received a number of reports about tablets having issues with unresponsive buttons, incorrect pressure sensitivity, lagging brush movement, and mid-stroke position changes.  

These problems were due to a limitation of GTK2, as support for Windows Ink was implemented in GTK3 by long-time contributor Luca Bacci. For this release, Luca was gracious enough to backport this support to GTK2. You can now switch between WinTab and Windows Ink drivers (if supported by your computer) in the Preferences dialog under the Input Device settings.



Windows Pointer Input API can now be changed - GIMP 2.10.38


Backports of other GTK3 features

Luca also contributed a number of other features from GTK3 to GTK2. Some of the backported improvements include updating the size of the Print Dialog so buttons are not cut off, fixing issues with pop-up dialogs appearing behind the previous ones, and several fixes to keyboard input.

These improvements are primarily for Windows and are already included in the 2.99 development release. However, we are very happy that these quality-of-life improvements are now available in this stable release of GIMP 2.10!

Bugfixes

Recent crashes

Two commonly reported crashes have now been corrected.
A change in GLib 2.80 exposed a bug in our closing process and caused a crash on the exit. Luca Bacci once again devised a fix for both 2.10.38 and the upcoming 3.0 release candidate. Another crash that some users encountered when making very small selections was also fixed.

Other fixes

A number of other small bugs were fixed in this release. Among them:

• Indexed PNGs with transparency are now exported with the correct colors
  
• Anders Jonsson fixed the input ranges for several filters, such as Waves and Distort
  
• The title bar customization field now supports UTF-8 characters
  
• Existing image comments no longer “leak” into newly created images

Flame thrower Turbine Hover Miners.

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A small fix for scripts using Waypoints above 676 in YR. A crash would occur as it tried to lookup the two letter equivalent, but now a dummy value is returned, which seems to satisfy the rest of the code. As long as none of the Trigger Actions/Events reference them, there should be no issue.

It has been a while since I've last posted a formal update for this mod. Regardless, work on this project has continued even during silence and keeps going relatively strong, and I do have few things to share.

Website
Project Phantom website has been updated with a new layout. Many of the pages are still under construction, and I'll be sure to keep everyone updated when they go live.

Discord
For those who may have missed it, Project Phantom does have an official Discord server that can be used for discussing the modification, receiving updates regarding it first in the line, and eventually, it would hopefully serve as a multiplayer hub as well.

Showcases
A while back, I posted an article about various UI / UX improvements in Project Phantom. Be sure to check it out if you already have not.
There's also a new showcase video showing off some units & buildings in Project Phantom. It can also be viewed on ModDB.



As mentioned prior, development has been going on relatively strong, regardless of occassional pauses and challenges. With that in mind, I have the following announcement to make.

Early access version of Project Phantom will be released during Summer 2024
Exact release date will be made known closer to launch

So what will be in this first release?
Good question. Right now, we are looking at the following set of features.

• Three new factions - Western Coalition, Eurasian Dominion, and Phantom Imperative, with complete arsenals full of new units, buildings, and support powers (albeit many buildings will use graphics that can be deemed as 'placeholders').
• Three 'mercenary factions' - Fist of Titans, Crimson Crown, and Excelsus Group, that have capturable buildings that provide various support powers and units to players who capture them, alongside the classic set of neutral tech buildings including capturable base defenses.
• A large number of new map props and other miscellaneous buildings.
• Three reworked terrain tile theaters, Temperate, Tundra & Desert, with significantly expanded tilesets from the original game, including fully integrated urban tilesets and a basic interior tileset.
• Around 160 standard skirmish/multiplayer maps, some old and some new.
• Island Combat game mode, which is constrained to maps with water-locked islands.
• Scavengers game mode, where you start with a Mobile War Factory and are required to collect powerup crates for units and funds - your factory can reverse-engineer any vehicles found (including technology trucks for aerial vehicles) to unlock them as buyable units.
• One scenario for Hold the Line game mode, where up to 4 players (human or AI) are pitted against waves of AI-controlled enemies that scale based on the number of players in the game, with the objective to protect a critical structure from the said enemies.


A preview of the Crimson Crisis scenario, where players are tasked with protecting an Energy Research Lab against waves of Crimson Crown units.


• Challenges game mode, where two players (human or AI) are pitted against three AI-controlled enemies in specific scenarios that have unique modifiers in play and odds stacked against the players. Initially, the Challenges game mode is going to come with three scenarios, one against each of the factions.


A preview of one of the Challenges, called Thunderhill Challenge, where players are challenged by the nigh-impenetrable defenses of a W.A.R.D research base.


• A single Cooperative mission, testing the waters out, where two Coalition commanders are tasked with eliminating a Dominion mining outpost.


Preview of co-op mission Motherlode, where a small squad of Coalition forces is sent on an infiltration and elimination mission to a Dominion mining base.

• Various quality of life, bugfix, and other engine improvements, courtesy of Ares Expansion DLL and Phobos Engine Extension.
• Full integration with the CnCNet client, allowing easy access to multiplayer games and easy download of mod updates.
• Bundled installation of two map editors, a version of the legacy FinalAlert 2 map editor as well as Rampastring's modern World Altering Editor.
• Installer software with compatibility with all releases of Yuri's Revenge.

I hope to have some more news to share about Project Phantom's development and the upcoming early access release in the near future, but for now, I'm out.

The New version is mainly to hotfix a bad bug in map scripting, but it also contains some other improvements.

• Pavement LAT is now automatically connected to compatible TileSets, such as paved roads, parking lots, and other pavement additions
  
• (YR) Sand LAT is now automatically connected to sand shores
  
• (TS) Added speech selection window for the "Play Speech" trigger action
  
• WAE now checks the map for triggers using the "Discovered by player" and "Limpet attached" events without being attached to any object or team
  
• Changed "Clone of...." prefix to "...(Clone)" suffix when cloning objects
  
• AITriggers are now colored based on their house or side
  
• New AITriggers are now enabled on all difficulties by default
  
• Improved error message given on C# script compilation error
  
• Objects with InvisibleInGame=yes (Tiberium spreaders, light posts, impassable overlay, etc.) and building foundation outlines are no longer rendered when extracting a megamap
  
• (Translation / CJK support) Too long words are now split into multiple lines in event and action descriptions
  
• Fixed a bug where certain trigger actions could malfunction when the type of an already existing trigger action was changed. A check to automatically fix this bug from existing maps has also been added.

Version 11.4.0:
Released: May 2, 2024

• Added: The Sole Survivor music is available again (you can download it via the Components tab of the options menu).
  
• Added: The Missile Tank is now available as a crate unit (Credits: Mehdi860).
  
• Added: Several non-buildable objects now have sidebar icons (Credits: Mehdi860):
  
  
  • Artillery Turret
    
  • Missile Tank
    
  • Mobile SAM Site
  
  
• Changed: The DDrawCompat renderer was updated from version 0.2.1 to 0.5.1 (Credits: narzoul).
  
• Changed: The "Discovered by Player" map trigger action is no longer fired when an attached object is destroyed (Credits: Rampastring).
  
• Fixed: The "Renegade War" multiplayer map had two cells on which harvesters could get stuck after harvesting Tiberium/ore from the map.
  
• Fixed: Nod used the wrong color in the "Creeping Destruction" campaign, as well as in the "Reunification" mission.
  
• Fixed: Messages sometimes ended up inside the sidebar when the messages were positioned at the bottom (Credits: Rampastring).
  
• Removed: The DxWnd and IE-DDRAW renderers have been removed from the "Renderers" drop-down menu in the client's options menu.