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Filename: ion.zip
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Uploaded on:Dec 21 2021, 10:58 pm
Uploaded by:DarkenedFantasies
Author:DarkenedFantasies
Downloads:329

File Contents
!ion_iscript.txt
!readme.txt
ion.grp
ion_attack.grp
ion_charge00.wav
ion_cmdbtns_unit.bmp
ion_cmdbtns_weapon.bmp
ion_fire00.wav
ion_fire01.wav
ion_fire02.wav
ion_hit.grp
ion_hit00.wav
ion_hit01.wav
ion_hit02.wav
ion_hit03.wav
ion_overlay.grp
ion_overlay.lol
ion_projectile.grp
ion_shad.grp
ion_turret.grp
ion_underlay.grp
ion_wirefram.bmp
File Description
A set of graphics and sounds granting the Ion Cannon full functionality as a defensive structure.

There's a fair bit of blizzard hardcoded nonsense hell-bent on preventing this unit from being fulfilled, so implementing it into the game required a bunch of hacky workarounds. It still comes with a few shortcomings (listed in the readme), but this is likely the best you're gonna get.

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NimoStar wrote on Jul 22 2025, 10:18 pm:
Wow. A lot of work went into this. Which makes it a shame i'm probably only using it to fix the player color and dots...

[06:10 pm]
Ultraviolet -- sweet summer child
[2026-6-26. : 10:31 am]
NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered :teehee:
[2026-6-23. : 3:29 am]
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
[2026-6-22. : 8:35 pm]
Ultraviolet -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 11:38 pm]
Symmetry -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
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