This is a very old, obsolete edition of Returbot made for Colobot: Gold Edition 0.1.11-12. You better grab Grabbers Edition V2.
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Returbot (Grabbers Edition)
This is a levelpack for Colobot: Gold Edition of 40+ levels that take place on alien planets from the original game story, to which they are very similar in spirit and structure, available in english and russian. This is version 1.3.
I am certain there should be no more errors, but on the other hand I was always certain about it and was always wrong.
Installation
Unpacking of the archive is not needed. Simply place it in "C:\Users\username\colobot\mods\" directory on Windows or in "/home/username/.local/share/colobot/mods/" directory on Linux.
Compatibility
Grabbers edition is compatible only with Colobot: Gold Edition 0.1.11, 0.1.11a and 0.1.12, not older or newer than that.
Issues
Colobot: Gold Edition itself is still in the state of active development, but this addon already heavily relies on features that are relatively new and may have unfixed bugs. Most of the time everything should be fine, especially until you save and load in some of levels. If you get "illegal object" error message right after loading a savegame then you should delete that savegame and either restart the level or try another savegame.
Free levels
With level controllers and some CBOT features I managed to implement dependence of researches and buildings maps in free levels on your progress in mission levels. The progress will advance for as long you beat each mission level sequentially, starting from the very first and without skipping any.
Important! Check "Film sequences" in game options. Do not hit ESC button to skip animation too quickly when ending a level. Wait at least a couple of seconds for level controller to catch up.
To make free levels playable, you must at least launch level 1-1 "Movement" once.
If you don't want to begin some level from the start again because you already played it, you can load a savegame from that level and proceed from that place.
Changelog
1.2
- Added a new level to chapter 5 "On Saari" which restores continuity of the chapter.
- Finally rediscovered and fixed multiple old errors in enemy selecting algorithm of roamer scripts and added try and catch statements in them for greater stability.
- Fixed critical error in "rbs_ant_552.txt" that caused all ants in level 5-5 "Rescue op" to ignore the expedition and move towards your base from the beginning.
- Other miscellaneous changes and fixes.
1.2a
- Returned accidentally overwritten level controller in level 8-2.
- Added description of the addon to satcom in level 1-1 "Movement".
- A few other minor additions to satcom in a couple of missions.
- A forgotten exchange post was added to the ship in level 3-5.
1.2b
- Fixed broken research progress update from level 5-5 to level 6-1.
1.3
- Research update from level 4-5 was BROKEN before. Because in this particular level I was always checking this feature in the wrong way, this error was going unnoticed this entire time.
- Ported all programs from returbot 1.6b. This is especially important for roamer scripts because TONS of stuff was fixed in them.
- Ported levels 7-1 and 8-2 and free levels 8 and 9 from returbot 1.6b.
- Losing black box in level 6-4 will no longer allow you to win.
- Power cells in free levels are now full.
- Returned planet transition animations.
Credits
Big thanks to melex750, for creating userlevel helper, because this levelpack would never exist without it in the first place, and for fixing bugs in level controller of level 4-4 "Explosives" early in the beginning.
A soundtrack used in this addon is made by Emxx52 who made newer soundtracks for Colobot: Gold Edition.
And of course greatest thanks to Epsitec for creating such an amazing game as well as Terranova Team and entire Colobot community for their great efforts they made to bring all the things we always missed in the game into reality.
You do not need to ask for permissions or give credits if you want to modify or reuse any of this addon's own contents.
