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Renegade's 22nd anniversary is approaching fast. During this time we will be limiting or even turning off our regular servers to get as many people in the event server as possible. Lets try to beat the record of 80 players from the previous anniversary!!
 

Rip Dethice. We played a lot of matches together over the years. You were a good dude. Has anyone tried finding other “Deth” members “aka
moonlight shakers”? 
 
you will be missed ice!

What is UltraBot?
UltraBot is a project I started for MPF around 2019 summer (first commit on Git). The purpose of this bot is to make game server monitoring for Discord members easier (for example, viewing player counts, detailed server data, notifications), add several fun features for activity, and for small internal purposes.
Late in 2019, I finished the bot and started hosting it on my own computer sometimes as I didn't had any provider to host it. After few months due to impossibilities I had to completely suspend UltraBot and discontinue it. Since then the project was dead and sitting on my drives.
In the beginning of this summer (2021 June), I decided to have another go for this project and decided to rewrite bot from scratch using today's technologies + support from @unknown. Members in Discord might have noticed that recently I've been slowly developing + testing UltraBot time to time in public channels.
I worked so hard to get the bot done (even paused other projects I was working on), and now I'm proudly presenting you the UltraBot, the Discord bot of MPF!
For nerds, UltraBot is written in C# language using Discord.Net library (currently using Discord.Net-Labs for interactivity support), and IRC support is planned.
 

What UltraBot can do?
What can't UltraBot do? It can do everything you can imagine. From sending notifications of Renegade servers to view every single map ever created for Renegade with their downloads, viewing MPF Minecraft network status to fun features and commands, UltraBot can do everything! 
 

Tell me more about features.
• All MPF hosted servers has special commands for them in UltraBot. You can use these special commands to browse servers easily, and get notified about events. For example, you can type "/ultraaow show" to see UltraAOW's information within seconds. Or you can type "/ultraaow help" to see commands available about what you can do with the server.
 
• UltraBot can send notifications from MPF servers to you when a map starts, when your buddy joins, or when server is populated enough. This notification system is called "Subscriptions".
All you need to do is using "/ultraaow subscribe" command! Using this command, you can get notified about a map, or a player, or ingame counts. Subscriptions are not just limited with UltraAOW and can be used in all MPF hosted servers. You can use "/mpfservers" to list all special commands for servers.
 
• UltraBot can open an interactive embed-based server list and let you join server with 1 click. (Requires RenLauncher or MasterList)
You can switch between servers and view server's detailed information on GSA by clicking on buttons under embed.
You can then click on "Join via MasterList" or "Join via RenLauncher" links to join into the server. (Joining is WIP)
 
• UltraBot can access MPF Map Database which contains over 400 maps, and show all these maps in Discord, and internally, we can use this data to build a server rotation. You can also rate these maps without leaving Discord.
 
• UltraBot can detect down services across MPF. Using "/uptime" command, UltraBot can show if there are any down services or unhealthy services.
 
~ All features and commands of UltraBot can be viewed by typing "/" and clicking on UltraBot's avatar in command list.
 

Is that all, no future plans? 
I am planning bigger changes for UltraBot. For example, a REST API for developers, server embeds, classic server lists, an AI chatbot, and more.
Aim of the API is to provide Renegade server lists, maps in our database to developers in many ways including JSON, XML, CSV to make developer's job easier.
Server embeds is the idea I am most excited about. Idea is to create very configurable and themeful images that updates as the server map and players change. I've had experiments about this before and it was awesome.
Classic server lists purpose is to create an image containing all Renegade servers in a text-based table (good for shareability).
AI chat bot will chat with people like a human, and understands the commands from your sentences to perform as if you are using / commands.
Unfortunately due to some other impossibilities and lack of knowledge (only for AI), I don't have the time, patience, and ability to do the stuff above.
But currently, a game framework for Discord is in works. Which means members in Discord can play mini games in threads like Tic-Tac-Toe, Uno, and more!
 

Can I have that bot in my server?
No, UltraBot is meant to be a private bot for only our Discord server.
But we might do some exceptions, maybe. Likely will not happen though.
Several commands can be used from DM, but permission system as in server will still be enforced while executing commands.

You can join our Discord from https://multiplayerforums.com/discord or https://discord.gg/Czu7xeR to test and play with UltraBot.
Comments, suggestions, complaints, bug reports are welcome. But I'd be happier if you let me know them in Discord.
Thank you for reading!
 
UPDATE 10/05/2021
Bot has been moved to a different host, responses and load times are now significantly faster.

Update your bookmarks to https://ren-x.com/
 
This is the official statement from the Totem Arts team.

 
Sσииу — Today at 6:46 AM Dear @everyone, As of 25/07/2021 the domain renegade-x.com has been taken control of by Agent, whom is now impersonating the RenegadeX website and services, while claiming to start a new team to continue development. Although we like to support community projects regarding or related to RenegadeX, our past and current staff at Totem Arts have already notified me that they will not allow their work to be used by Agent's new team. Despite the recent hurdles, Totem Arts will continue development, producing more awesome game content, and we'll do our best to reach the set expectations and deadlines of the RenegadeX and Firestorm games and content. Due to the ownership regarding the renegade-x.com domain having been proven to be vulnerable to Agent multiple times, we have decided to migrate to a few new domain names, this has the following implications for you as the user: - The current game-launchers will have to be manually updated to point to one of our new domain; instructions will be posted at a later point in #faq - The forums will now and in the future be reachable on the new domains - There might be a hot-fix coming in the coming days for any references in the game to our domain - A lot of the links across platforms will be broken, please be patient as we try to get all of them corrected to the new domains! Our new domain names: Ren-X.com Renegade-X.org Renegade-X.cc Renegade-X.online Sincerely, Totem Arts [6:51 AM] As a side-note: We have no reason to believe that Agent has anything to do with recent DDoS Attacks, nor do we want any of you to think that Agent might be related to that. We have our suspicions set upon a person that has been known to have DDoS'd our servers in the past as well.  

Here is a small video I made that shows how to make a ladder in Renegade.
 
Using RenX to design this (3ds is more stable, but for tutorial purposes, RenX) Recorded using OBS  
A few things to remember, don't forget your collision settings (6:00 min in the video), when you export it, BE SURE to save it was a .w3d (10:00 min in the video) extension.
 
If you have any questions about this process, you may make them here.
 
PS: This is a rough example, and the sizing may not be what you desire, although a height of 30 is a close estimate to the height of the Obelisk of Light.
 
 

Here is a small video I made that shows how to make a ladder in Renegade.
 
Using RenX to design this (3ds is more stable, but for tutorial purposes, RenX) Recorded using OBS  
A few things to remember, don't forget your collision settings (6:00 min in the video), when you export it, BE SURE to save it was a .w3d (10:00 min in the video) extension.
 
If you have any questions about this process, you may make them here.
 
PS: This is a rough example, and the sizing may not be what you desire, although a height of 30 is a close estimate to the height of the Obelisk of Light.
 
 

Here is a small video I made that shows how to make a ladder in Renegade.
 
Using RenX to design this (3ds is more stable, but for tutorial purposes, RenX) Recorded using OBS  
A few things to remember, don't forget your collision settings (6:00 min in the video), when you export it, BE SURE to save it was a .w3d (10:00 min in the video) extension.
 
If you have any questions about this process, you may make them here.
 
PS: This is a rough example, and the sizing may not be what you desire, although a height of 30 is a close estimate to the height of the Obelisk of Light.
 
 

Wow, so sad to hear this. I’ve known Wyld for along time. I still remember our first conversation back on UN Rules. I still have the in game screen shot. Sad that we have lost another friend. Rip my friend. 

Wow, so sad to hear this. I’ve known Wyld for along time. I still remember our first conversation back on UN Rules. I still have the in game screen shot. Sad that we have lost another friend. Rip my friend. 

Harvester walking 

I just realized this a few minutes ago. So, having said that: tentatively this Saturday RC will be running that OmegaAOW server again from last year with our other stuff turned off.

One year.. and still miss you alot my friend..

Don't forget that rating maps in database is also important. Currently I'm only one who has rated more than couple.
 
Don't be afraid to add maps too, currently its been mostly just me and trunks. Don't need necessary satellite image of map, few screenshots of map are fine also.

Install Renegade (assuming you have the disc with a proper serial) Update to patch 1.037 (for English) Go to Tiberian Technologies and download the 4.6 client installer and  launch it after it installs After doing all that, you're game will be up to date, and ready to play. Log in to browse server listings, or download Renlist to join up.

Yestarday I couldn't get gmax to work because I was busy upgrading my PC, I will start stream today in few hours.

There you go

That's a beautiful thing...

You can either google them (just about all the stocks maps are available), or download W3D viewer, load the maps proper w3d file and textures associated with each map, and you can position the camera overhead looking down with a little mouse play. 

His name should be rufus, because that is the trufus. I'm a pack-rat when it comes to video games. I save all kinds of stuff to my external HDD for safe keeping.

@RoCkStAr Both myself and @Madeen played at UN for along time. We know/have 99% of those maps. Feel free to contact them still, but between myself and Madeen, we have them or can tell you what they are if you forget the name of map, and only remember parts of it. Just do your best to describe it, and I bet you one of us will figure it out. 

@RoCkStAr Me too, Madeen and I have you covered!

That's a beautiful thing...

@Scopes You and your family have my deepest condolences. Zunnie/Jan taught me A LOT about creating maps for Renegade. I’m currently creating something in his honor that I will be placing in current project and future projects to come. I will make it available to download for everyone once I am finished. We miss him a lot!

That's a beautiful thing...