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Battalion Wars (2005)

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For a long time the spy balloon avoided the player's control, but with the recent breakthrough in model editing (see my video about recon modding) I finally made it controllable.

The reason for the spy balloon being uncontrollable is quite banal: Vehicles in BW1 need a passenger to be controllable, and the spy balloon has no passenger seats at all! It could still be ordered around, but that's no fun.

So through hex editing I added a seat to it and it works. It's quite similar to a gunship or t-copter, but slower and doesn't glide around quite as much. No weapons are assigned to it in the xml data. It dies with one hit, but that's because it only has 1 health in the xml data.



Previous video about recon modding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMIwfY21F8o

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