Installer version for the UNSC only beta Please make sure to type in the appropriate version number (if not 1.055)

After both four and a half years of

development and a sleepless night full of frantic modding, the first public

beta is ready for release. To be clear about what it contains, it is the full

UNSC faction as the only selectable race. No vanilla races, no covenant, and no

forerunners. Not that the latter two races won’t make some sort of appearance within the beta, but it’ll be up to you to

discover where they reside within maps. Most of the coding is in various states

of completeness, and not even all the models are final, especially referencing

the Phoenix-class and the Flood. You’ll likely notice both a custom soundtrack

and unique voice-overs from the excellent audio department as well as a brand

new UI. There are several custom maps, including some of the more specialized

PvP maps (for example, Chokepoint and

Epsilon Eridani) that incorporate

some SotP concepts revolving around capturable wealth in Asteroid Belts. The

speed of the combat will shock those who haven’t observed battles in our other

media and is a heavy departure from traditional Sins. Have fun, enjoy the mod,

and more importantly, join the community. There’s a healthy multiplayer

following already in place and waiting for you to jump online.

The Covenant will be released

likely within the coming weeks along with other support and additions. Stick

around the Moddb page and forums to stay in the know.

Installing:

1) Make sure you procure both

Sins of a Solar Empire and Entrenchment or SoaSE: Trinity that is patched to

the latest version.

2) Select the version you currently have. There’s currently a schism between Steam and Trinity

purchasers (1.055) and non-trinity Impulse/Gamestop supported customers (1.053).

3) Run it, it should

automatically install to your Entrenchment mod directory.

4) Start Entrenchment and

navigate to your options menu.

5) Enable “Sins of the

Prophets”/“sotp”

6) ????

7) Profit! Play the mod.

Trouble-shooting:

“The mod isn’t appearing in my

options menu!”

Make sure the mod is in the

correct folder or that you’re running the correct version of Sins. If need be,

navigate to the folder manually in Windows Explore in your AppData folder to

check.

“This mod crashes a lot/particle

effects are missing. It sucks.”

No, your cheap-ass Walmart

computer sucks. Sins of the Prophets is slightly more resource intensive than

vanilla SoaSE and will likely result in memory leaks if you’re running it at a

level your computer isn’t able to handle.

“Random Multiplayer Mismatch

error, etc etc”

There’s only so much generic

advice I can give concerning this problem. Make sure you have the same version

of both Sins and the Mod and you should be good to go.