

Because you would never use it if you had any other cruiser hull from the get go. The Tutorial Cruiser is now based on the Rabbit Cruiser hull.

The first 10 seconds were basically inaudible ingame - not very gratuitous -, so it now picks up around 10 seconds sooner. The Outcasts theme music no longer takes too long to start be heard.The DLC races with a non-unique battle theme (so all except Outcasts) have had them replaced with battle music from Gratuitous Space Battles 2 and Gratuitous Tank Battles.The point is to have as few sprites shared between races as possible, while avoiding duplicate sprites for weapons of different classes. (1.2) Improved turret sprite assignment.Tribe and Alliance as far as I recall, but it might have been other races as well. (1.2) Restored unused turret sprites for some races.4 missions have had their thumbnails tweaked (Alliance Survival, Order Survival) or replaced (Outcasts missions 1 and 2) to better showcase the enemy.Makes it slightly more immersive and visually differentiates it more from the following mission. Renamed the tutorial from "Tutorial (Adding Ships)" to "First Contact (Tutorial)" and replaced the thumbnail with the background image.Ex: Nomadic Armored Powerplant is now Nomadic Reinforced Powerplant II. (1.1) Some modules names have been changed to better fit with established naming conventions and/or to better represent what it is.Both instances were used in the game, so I picked the one that occupies less screen real estate. (1.1) Power Generators and their variations have been renamed to Powerplants.

Eliminates guesswork between similar shared and racial modules.
#Gratuitous tank battles download install#
This mod is compatible with any fully patched version of the game, regardless of how many of the DLCs you have installed - see install instructions in the download.Īlso fully compatible with making/doing vanilla online challenges and campaigns, as well as with other mods that add new files (and don't replace vanilla files or files from this mod). That's why I've made this mod - to have a polished "what could have been" experience of GSB, which can be enjoyed by both new and returning players. It could also use some fixes and a little polish in some areas. The base game is, of course, a whole lot of fun, but it feels like it peaks too soon, with having most of the goodies from the start, and unlocking everything that's left while you're not even halfway through the missions.
