Chapter vs Chapter

[Im a Turtle]

Can we get some marine on marine battles? I don't care if it has to be on the same maps. Just something to keep us entertained when there are low server pops.

[ChromeAngel]

These days i'm only doing as much coding as is required to support new contributions.  So doing all the coding required for a 3rd team and probably a new gameplay mode to support it is out of the question unless someone turns up with all the assets needed for CSM.

[Valvatorez Jr.Commissar]

You can be lazy and say that their Alpha Legion , since they disguise themselves as loyalists. Though you would need reskins and some how make them different enough to stand out as enemies. Otherwise we have a version of "Trouble in terrorist town" on a less up to date version of Source.

[Dr.Apothecary]

I would be willing to "Chaosize" (what a silly non-existent word) the Space Marines! I know I haven't really been active on here but I do have experience and I would be willing to give it a shot. In order for Marine VS Marine to work it would be difficult. I am not saying that its ever going to happen, but if its possible I would love to help.

[Valvatorez Jr.Commissar]

In order for Marine VS Marine to work it would be difficult. I am not saying that its ever going to happen, but if its possible I would love to help.

It doesn't seem that difficult. All you have to do is de-compile the models , change the models to look like MK5 Heresy era armor in a 3D program and fix it in a way so Source won't reject it for no reason after recompiling.

Ok so that last part is the actual difficulty along with making Heresy Era Terminator armor. The rest can to done with a good coder. Both the Terminator and Fex have armor values for certain weapons according to Chrome himself.

[ChromeAngel]

The reason i've not added chaos before is not because it's technically difficult (it's not, we can re-use lots of marine animations and sounds), it's because of the volume of work involved. 

we would need:
New icons for the team menu and objectives
A new HUD for the chaos team (or at least re-skin of the marine HUD)
A new (or heavily modified), skinned player model, class portrait, manual entry for each player class
A new (or heavily modified), skinned weapon model for each of the marine weapons
Update every place in the code that refers to the teams (and there is a LOT of these)
Update all the map entities that refer to the teams
New maps for Imp VS Chaos and Chaos VS Nids
New battle cries for the Chaos marines
New Manual entry for the Chaos team

The rest could just be copied and pasted from the marines.  That is assuming we're happy with CSM playing exactly like the current marine team, without berzerkers, obliterators or daemons to mix up the gameplay.