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• New Artificial Intelligence - There were so many changes to the Rainbow Six AI that the development team started the new AI from scratch. Expect smarter and more varied enemies, just like they would be in real life. If an enemies hears gunshots, footsteps or any other disturbance, he might simply walk around and suspiciously look around and go back about his business, or he might panic and come firing at you, or he may shoot a hostage if one is near. With the new AI, the enemies are a lot less predictable and you'll have to take more caution and eliminate him as soon as possible. AI has also been improved with you teammates. You will no longer get stuck on the stairs or in a narrow hallway because of a teammate being in the way.



• New Rendering Engine - Rogue Spear's new rendering engine allows for more realistic characters, weapons and scenery. The new rendering also allows for more detail in the environment. There are multiple graphics tweaking options - level of detail, resolution, fog, and even the number of bullet holes. People with high end systems and GeForce2's will be able to make the graphics great, but the options allow for even Pentium 233's to run at an acceptable frame rate. Grenades leave marks on the ground and door breaches stay in place. The wounded also show more realistic effects than in Rainbow Six, such as limping when shot in the leg.



• Interactive Environments - The environment in the game will be a lot more interactive than it was in Rainbow Six. Frag Grenades wont only blow up doors and windows, they also be able to blow up furniture, vehicles, and other objects. Grenades leave burn mark on walls and floors. You can also shoot out tires, computers, and even explosive barrels.



• More Realistic Wound Effects - In Rainbow Six, your screen would flash a quick red and you'd get out of the way and your safe again. But in Rogue Spear, when this happens you might be limping from then on, or have a wounded arm and aiming would be off, or you may reload slower.



• More realistic weapon physics - Bullets will now lose energy as they travel. When you fire from long distances, you now have to account for bullet drop. You also lose accuracy as you run. The slower you move, the better your chances of an accurate shot are. Different ammo types have different effects - stronger ammo can penetrate doors and some walls, and also has varying levels of loudness.



• More realistic armor effects - Bullets stun your character when you are hit. When the bullet hits the chest, it may only partially wound him, but it temporarily stops him as he feels the impact of the shot.



• Full Sniper Support - You can now assign snipers to your team to give you back up from above or simply remove any targets they see. Rogue Spear includes sniper rifles, along with special planning and action action phase controls for snipers.



• Different ammo types - Rifles have different types of ammo you can choose from. JHP (Jacketed Hollow Point) and FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) can be chosen for the rifles. Shotguns can be packed with buckshot, slugs and rubber baton rounds.



• Weather Effects - On certain maps it may be raining and this will make your mission harder by reducing visibility. There are uniforms for various weather situations, including arctic and snow uniforms.



• Improved Movements - Your character can now peek around corners without putting his/her whole body into risk. You can shoot or throw a frag in this position as well. There are also crouching movements - you can now move in a slow duck-walk or in fast, hunched-over run.



• Weapon Scopes - Different weapons have different scopes and zoom sizes. No longer will you be able to snipe in with any weapon. The zoom is now modeled much more realistically. Sniping with an MP5 can be a difficult task, while assaulting with a Walther is also difficult.



• Mission Replays - When you finish your mission you can run a cinematic replay. This will help you see what went wrong (or right!) You can watch what everyone did and how they did it at different angles, and from different points of view. Rogue Spear also allows you to save these replays for you to share with others



• More Sounds - The terrorists now panic out loud and speak their native languages - some even scream taunts and insults at you while you clear them out, while others beg for forgiveness. Sound effects like rain and water give you a more realistic feel. You can also set sounds to play during multiplayer games, along with text messages.



• Alternate Single Player Modes - Once you beat a mission, you can go back to it in two different modes: Terrorist Hunt and Lone Wolf. In Terrorist Hunt, you and your team will have to kill 30 terrorists on the map. Lone Wolf is basically the same, but your on your own, no help from a team.



• Easier Kit Selection - You can now assign single weapons or a whole kit to a operative more easily. You can also save your favorite kits.



• New Kit Items - Rogue Spear has many new kit items - including binoculars, C4, mounted heartbeat sensors, heartbeat sensor jammers, mounted HBS jammers, heartbeat pucks, and smoke grenades.



• More Control Over Teammates - You can now tell all your teams to halt or advance during the game. There are keyboard commands that enable you to command teammates to throw a frag, breach a door, flashbang a room, or other actions.



• Observer Mode - Observer mode is a mode that enables you to watch what your teammates are doing during the game. You can also watch your team during action mode without actually playing - it is possible to win the game by your plans alone.



• Mission Editor - The Rogue Spear Editor is an easy way to make single player missions, add walls and objects for multiplayer missions, or modify weapons.



• Improved Planning Screen - New waypoint orders include snipe, cover, and defend. New modes include assault, infiltrate, recon and escort. The best new feature to the planning screen is the fully textured 3-D view. This new 3-D view allows you to see the mission as if you were an eye in the sky.



• Improved Victory Condition Reporting - You will now be notified in the game if any action are taking place that might affect the outcome the mission's success.  The end-level screens have also been improved for both multi-player and single-player.  There is also a new statistics-filled waiting screen in multi-player for players that are entering a game that's in progress.



• Armpatches - You can design a 32x32 bitmap image for use in the game as an armpatch for quick and easy multiplayer identification.



• Multiplayer Hosting Options - The host can lock teams so that people can't change team while play in adversarial. Host can also force weather effects on all the players so that everyone has the same effects and the game is played fairly, unlike in Rainbow Six where you can have an advantage by turning off fog effects. The clients' ping to the server is displayed as well, so the host can find laggers when the game is warping.



• Upgraded Mini-Map - In the mini-map, the players will have the first letters of their names displayed on them. You will now be able to see who on your team is coming up to or which teammate you're following by looking at their ID on the mini-map.<



• Multiple Insertion Zones - There are now multiple insertion zones for all of the maps. You may choose to play a random insertion zone or choose a specific one for the map you are playing on.