Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
Developer: Cavedog Publisher: Cavedog Platform: Windows Released in US: 1999 This game has unused abilities. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text.

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Total Annihilation: Kingdoms is a Total Annihilation spin-off, this time in a medieval-magical-fantasy setting. The game engine is still the same, as well as idea of inexhaustible resources (instead of two types of resources there's only one left - Mana). An addon called Iron Plague was released in 2000.

Trapdoor Spider

Trapdoor Spider is added in Iron Plague add-on and used in only one of campaign missions as wildlife. However, there are many hints that it was supposed to be advanced Zhon defense building. It appears as stationary creature that can cloak (the mechanic is similar to Assassin and Lokken) and attacks by stunning one enemy at a time.

Alternate Iron Plague campaign final

iron Plague campaign consists of 25 missions, however there's 26 mission hidden in game files. It seems to be an opposition of final mission where we would play as Creon against all other factions.

The description of this map says:

• The four monarchs of Darien are pressing in from all sides.
• Their forces must be vanquished from Creon.
• The Sage must be kept alive.

Unused Bounty Feature

A completely unused unit attribute "mogriumbounty" exists. When added into unit's .FSB file with specified value, instantly adds this value of Mana resource (or Mogrium, as it internally called) to whoever destroyed this unit. Doesn't work when inserted into corpses\debris files, they don't add Mana when being cleared, even if impassable debris is destroyed by manually ordering melee units to attack it via "Attack" command, so it wasn't supposed to be used for reclamation purpose.

Unused Textures

An icon for Lighthouse stun seapon, like it was supposed to be toggleable ability. It's nearly Identical to Mage Archer's Stun Arrow icon, except the blue drop, likely water - Veruna's element.

Unused Sound Files

Various building destruction sounds.

Unused Text

KINGDOMS.icd contains some unused text, along with aforementioned "mogriumbounty" ability.

MogriumWasted

MogriumProduced

MogriumSpecialLimit

Mogrium

WinLoseTime

UpdateTime

Custom Scoring

Seems to be unused stats that would be shown in statistic screen. "MogriumProduced"\"MogriumWasted" ones are definitely leftover ideas from the original game, where statistic screen shows produced and wasted amount of Metal and Energy.

Since 1967 the SI unit for time, the second, has been defined as exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of radio radiation emitted as a result of gyroscopic precession of the outermost electron in undisturbed cesium atoms

SI second definition, left here for some reason. Might be a leftover from original game.

Total Annihilation leftovers

Units and Buildings Properties

Energy

Files of many various neutral buildings and objects contain "energy" string, which is a leftover from original game, where Energy, along with Metal, was a resourse type. There are no "metal" strings at all, which might suggest that Energy was proposed as a resource in early development stage, before Mana\Mogruim takes its place. Energy values mostly correspond with Total Annihilation values - 75 for grass-like objects and 250 for most of trees, with a few exceptions with 525 value. Non-living objects possesses 250 Energy value, but again, with a few exceptions when there's 525 value.

Reproduce

 
reproduce=0;
reproducearea=6;

Almost all plants and even props have these two strings in its files. It's unclear what exactly it was supposed to be and how it would work. Presents in TA trees\foliage files but unused as well.

Map properties

.OTA map files of Kingdoms maps contain information strings from original game that determine some constants but are no longer used.

 
tidalstrength=20

Determines how many Energy a single Tidal Generator produces. Unused becasue there are no tidal generators in Kingdoms at all.

solarstrength=20

Determines how many Energy a single Solar Generator produces, unused becasue there are no solar generators in Kingdoms at all, and also because it's unused even in the original game due to weird game mechanics.

lavaworld=0

Presumably tells the game that it's, well, lava world. While some maps in Kingdoms, especially Taros ones, definitely might be considered as lava worlds, this variable always has 0 value.

minwindspeed=25
maxwindspeed=5000

Determines Wind Station Energy generation spread. Wind feature is technically used in Kingdoms, but only direction aspect engaged (for things like flags that can wave in different directions), and as well as in original game, it's purely aesthtetic effect.

gravity=112

Determines gravity acceleration. It's different in some moon maps in TA but constant in Kingdoms.

waterdoesdamage=0
waterdamage=100

Determines if water damaged ships and amphibious units and how much. It's used for acid world in TA. Original Kingdoms maps doesn't engage this feature at all, but 20 and 21 Iron Plague campaign missions actually use it.

Original Unit and Building Names

Internal game file names reveal how units and buildings were originally called. Bald font specifies symbols directly from the internal names.

Aramon

In-Game Name	Internal Name
Barracks	Keep
Keep	Castle
Spyhawk	Fast
Horseman	Knight
Barbarian	Broadsword
Knight	Paladin
Acolyte	Priest
Rolling Tower	Siege (tower)

Veruna

In-Game Name	Internal Name
Sea Fort	asy (probably Advanved ShipYard, TA leftover)
Enclave	Keep
Citadel	Castle
Guard Tower	at (Archer Tower)
Crossbowman	Archer
Priestess	Liege

Taros

In-Game Name	Internal Name
Cabal	Castle
Abyss	Dungeon
Temple	Hell
Mage Tower	sh (StrongHold)
Dark Mason	tb (probably Taros Builder)
Executioner	Trooper
Rictus	can (cannon?)

Zhon

In-Game Name	Internal Name
Totem of Death	Glyph
Beast Tamer	Beast Trainer
Giant Orm	Amoe(ba?)
Wisp	Flies

Creon

In-Game Name	Internal Name
Mana Refinery	Lodestone (as all the other Lodestones internally named)