Updated Models:
- Reduxed animevents for all characters based on MB2’s reworked versions for various models
- Re-ported the following characters from Force Arena, Galaxy of Heroes and Rivals with
better rigging, facial anims & dismemberment support:
Rose Tico
Enfys Nest
Bodhi Rook
Endor Rex (Uses the MB2 Guerilla Rebel body instead of ported BF3 body, inspired by
Galaxy of Adventures appearance)
Cara Dune
Ezra Bridger
Ahsoka Tano (Rebels)
Old Rex
Sabine Wren (Added Helmet variant)
Fenn Rau
Young Han Solo
Han Solo ANH
Han Solo TFA
Agent Kallus (Uses newer MB2 Imperial Officer mesh, added Helmet variant)
Grand Admiral Thrawn (Rebels)
Agent Terex (Added Helmet variant)
Rebels Inquisitors (Grand Inquisitor, 5th Brother, 7th Sister, 8th Brother)
Aurra Sing
Dengar
Hylobon Enforcer
Doctor Aphra
Greef Karga
Imperial Supercommando / Gar Saxon
- Upgraded HK-55 with a newer port, dismemberment support & fixed holster
- Upgraded Agent Kallus with the newer MB2 Imperial Officer mesh
- Upgraded Endor Rex to look like his Galaxy of Adventures appearance
- Re-ported Enfys Nest, Cara Dune and Greef Karga from Galaxy of Heroes with
better rigging and dismemberment support
- Re-ported Han Solo (TFA) from Rivals with better rigging and dismemberment support
New Models:
- Added all classic Clonetroopers, Battledroids, SBDs from pre-MB2 1.7 and older
Penekepack versions, with bonus older ARC skins from Kualan’s Clone Pack
- Added all classic Mandalorian skins, both the original skins and the HB-Peneke set from
MB2 1.4.6
- Added Agent Kallus w/ helmet
- Added the following Starkiller variants:
Jedi:
Medical Robes
Bounty Hunter Disguise
Corellian Flight Suit
Jungle Combat Gear
Industrial Explorer Outfit
Sith:
Sith Training Gear
Sith Assassin
Moved Characters:
- Moved Bodhi Rook & Rose Tico to Troopers.
- Moved Evan Verlaine to Heroes.
- Moved Militia Elite to Clonetroopers because of the standalone Minigun addition.
- Moved Old Rex to Heroes.
- Moved Hylobon Enforcer to Bounty Hunters.
Removed Characters:
- New Republic Security Guard ported variant
- Porkins RGB
- Anakin’s outfit texture + Toshi head replacements
- TCW Obi-Wan
- Ep3 Obi-Wan with Force Arena head
- OT Obi-Wan with Force Arena head replacement
- TROS Sithtrooper
- Grievous BF2 2005 Port
BUG FIXES / MISCELLANEOUS:
- Replaced default lightsaber HUD icon with Kota's hilt, in tribute to Peneke Tesla and his work on the pack's very first Kota port featured in 1.4.
- New Peneke 2.6 menu music - "Burying The Dead" from TCW S7.
- Added recent uMad music tracks to Music Menu.
- Removed Saberflare replacement due to recent updates to MB2’s saber EFX.
- Fixed Sabine Wren’s specular being upside down for 7 years.
- Fixed all Peneke Mandos left hand Westars and Jetpack flame positions.
That's right folks, the Peneke dudes missed having awesome features like the Music menu, Authentic Hilts, and network optimization,
so we took the time to add those menus back as their own UI preset in UI Layouts! There's a lot to explain about this UI update,
so we'll talk about the main menu updates first!
The main menu now has a new Mandalorian show themed background, and we removed the character preview so that you can have more room
to view the nice backgrounds featured in the other menus! For nostalgic purposes, we've readded a few old but gold to the Peneke family
menu backgrounds featured in Peneke Pack versions of old. The Kylo Ren cursor has also returned!
Next up to be featured is the Music Menu overhaul! We too missed being able to select whatever music you want during rounds, so we decided
to completely re-do the menus from the ground up, now the music is organized into six tabs; Official for official MB2 map music,
CMP for community map pack music, MGMP for movie game mappack music, uMad for uMad mappack music, Peneke for music that suits
our and hopefully your tastes too, and the Custom music tab! The peneke music easter egg is also featured somewhere in these menus,
so all of our users can have fun finding it again!
How does the custom music feature work? Well this is the ability for you to add your own music to play in-game! To make use of it,
make a new folder in your MBII mod folder named "music" without the quotations. Then add an mp3 or wav file of your choice,
preferrably mp3 format, into the folder, with the name "usertheme#", with # being a number going from 1-50, meaning you can have
up to 50 custom music tracks in-game! The number you put in place of # with 1-50 will be the same number corresponding with the user track option in-game.
It needs to be noted that before doing so, make sure that the mp3 or wav is exported with the project rate at 44100 HZ, exported in Stereo,
that's the minimum requirement for making your music work in MBII.
Our next great UI comeback is the restoration of authentic hilts! This has been added into vanilla MB2 alongside the new class menus,
and the Peneke Jedi/Sith roster has been made compatible with this feature!
The last thing to mention is the optimize button, for all our users with network issues, we have restored the old Peneke network optimization menu,
which we've even done bonus fixes for to make the bounding boxes (the areas that you can click) properly scaled with the options so that you aren't
selecting options from seemingly invisible spaces anymore.
I can't stress this enough, make sure to remove older versions of the Penekepack or non-official Peneke Addons before updating, if you don't do that, you'll experience crashes and different kind of bugs!
Because of the assistance, teachings, and feedback that I have received from Vitez, JamyzGenius, my Peneke folks and the Jkhub community, I'm now able to publish my first replacement pack, the Penekepack. A pack that, in my humble opinion, has the best of every single mod available plus a bunch of new content that was heavily customized by me.
I brought back things that I liked from the Old school MBII, better versions of existing models, new Icons, new RGB models, new hilts, a bunch of new content, new menu, new cursor, and overall a whole new and improved look for an average replacement pack.
I have included credits for every single person that helped me on this project, and of course, there's a list of all of the authors for every single model, hilt, asset or soundpack that this pack has. In other words, here's some of the stuff that our pack entails:
- New Hilts
- New Peneke UI: Optimization Menu, Authentic Lightsaber button, Music Menu
- New effects
- New Force Icons
- New Loading Screens
- New Console
- As of 2.6 : 173 New models, all of them have their custom icons and sounds, and some of them have their own RGB system
Without further ado, here's the Icon table for the pack, as well as screens from some of the models in game/artwork, the new menu and a showcase table for the hilts as well.
Enjoy it and please remember that all of the credits are inside the .rar file, along with the installation instructions and a few more notes!
And a really special thanks to Vitez, the creator of the H.B Pack, KoyMcCloud because I took some inspiration from his style to make my own icons during early versions, JamyzGenius, Rooxon & Kualan for their unlimited patience to help me out with the optimization and improvement of my pack, Peneke Tesla, SirCrusher, k4far, Shenghai for soundpack contributions, Swagmaster for helping out a great deal with the latest content of the pack, not only with constant feedback and content, but also for his willingness to learn new stuff just to improve the pack to a whole different level, kalamaray for the new saber clash effect, and last but not least Jkhub because I got so much content from that website and got to meet great people in there and many more!
Icon tables
Optional Hilt Replacements:
To use these, install it the same way as vanilla Peneke Pack, drag and drop "z_zz_PNK_Hilts" from the Bonus folder inside the current version's RAR into your MBII folder.
Majority of these are made by Rooxon. Starkiller Hilts & Kota Hilt skin replacement by Doughnuts.
Hey Peneke, big fan of this pack and been using it for awhile. You likely have bigger things prioritized but at some point is there any chance for a Darth Plagueis model? The only one I've found is from here NightShadowX1's Replacement Pack [GalaxiesPathPack] and while I could just put the model in the game myself (no disrespect to the original creator) it would look quite outdated next to all the new and updated models. Thanks in advance and keep improving the pack, can't even play vanilla MB2 anymore lol
this is how the old Plagueis model looked for reference
Hey guys, just a small tease as to what's to come for the upcoming minipatch (Peneke 1.7.5)
Keep in mind that it will not have much since I haven't had much time to get stuff for yall due to Internal MBII development. But I'm pretty sure that it will keep you happy for some months! I'll try to get everything ready for release later this week but no promises.
Out of curiosity what are your reasonings for using the hapslash hooded annie model over the tosh variant ? IMO the toshi variation is superior in every way. Thats my only criticism of this pack other than that its perfect.
I agree with Matt, this pack is utterly perfect.
Furthermore, my only complaint is that there is no Evil Anakin from when he turned during TCW's The Mortis Arc in the place of ROTS Hooded Anakin in this pack.
Here is a picture for reference:
IIRC Peneke took Sith Anakin w/o hood out of the pack due to people getting confused of whether it was the Jedi or Sith Anakin, and the hood made it easier to tell which is which. This never happened to me and it was pretty easy to tell if you just paid attention to the map, but I can see why it happened for some people
IIRC Peneke took Sith Anakin w/o hood out of the pack due to people getting confused of whether it was the Jedi or Sith Anakin, and the hood made it easier to tell which is which. This never happened to me and it was pretty easy to tell if you just paid attention to the map, but I can see why it happened for some people
IIRC Peneke took Sith Anakin w/o hood out of the pack due to people getting confused of whether it was the Jedi or Sith Anakin, and the hood made it easier to tell which is which. This never happened to me and it was pretty easy to tell if you just paid attention to the map, but I can see why it happened for some people
I liked the model and I never had any issue confusing people. I mean, one has a red lightsaber and one has a blue lightsaber. Pretty easy to tell the difference. Plus them big siff eyes were very distinct.
Another thing that'd be nice is if Vader has a soundpack overhaul. Most of his voice lines are actually kinda ear rapey in vanilla, and I feel with all of the new material we have access to (Rebels, Rogue One), we could easily make additional lines that are higher quality. Mind you, most of the vanilla lines were recorded way back in the day with poor equipment, some sounding like a cell phone recording of the movie playing in the living room TV.
Another thing that'd be nice is if Vader has a soundpack overhaul. Most of his voice lines are actually kinda ear rapey in vanilla, and I feel with all of the new material we have access to (Rebels, Rogue One), we could easily make additional lines that are higher quality. Mind you, most of the vanilla lines were recorded way back in the day with poor equipment, some sounding like a cell phone recording of the movie playing in the living room TV.
I was working on a new pack for low tier PCs a few weeks ago but stop development of it due to how stressful it was. That being said, this pack has darthbane but it's not as good as you expect it to be. I'll work on that pack once I find some more motivation to finish it.
Visas is already on vanilla MBII. But it's currently replaced by one of our peneke models. That being said, she'll be officially back on this release unless there's a change of plans.
I agree with Matt, this pack is utterly perfect.
Furthermore, my only complaint is that there is no Evil Anakin from when he turned during TCW's The Mortis Arc in the place of ROTS Hooded Anakin in this pack.
Here is a picture for reference:
I see a lot of requests to bring the evil looking anakin back. I hear you and i'd like that too, @Richard Nixon nailed the explanation perfectly. But I think that I can do something that could make you all happy.
It's more of a nostalgia sort of thing going on there. When I was like 10 years old, Haplash Anakin was the model I always used. It was actually the first model that I ever downloaded for JKA. It is one of my favorites ever and I personally think that it looks better than the toshi one. However I do admit that people seem to enjoy using the toshi one more, I have mixed feelings about removing the haplash one, but i'll think about it.
I liked the model and I never had any issue confusing people. I mean, one has a red lightsaber and one has a blue lightsaber. Pretty easy to tell the difference. Plus them big siff eyes were very distinct.
Here's the thing, not everyone is as used and familiarized with the MBII roster as us, keep in mind that Penekepack was designed for the casual portion of our MBII community, our download count has gone off the roof due to TLJ season, so when I add or change models, I consider that our new/casual players will have trouble differentiating them, that's why I avoid similar looking models on different teams.
Another thing that'd be nice is if Vader has a soundpack overhaul. Most of his voice lines are actually kinda ear rapey in vanilla, and I feel with all of the new material we have access to (Rebels, Rogue One), we could easily make additional lines that are higher quality. Mind you, most of the vanilla lines were recorded way back in the day with poor equipment, some sounding like a cell phone recording of the movie playing in the living room TV.
It'd be a controversial change if I ever rework darth vader's classic soundpack, I could add some lines here and there. But I don't see myself reworking the whole thing, I'm not a big fan of R1/Rebels Vader's voice for example. Sure it's still good old James Earl Jones, but his voice it's not what it used to be :/
Thanks for your feedback!
You may also be wondering why the upcoming release is taking so long despite the fact that I said that it'd be small one. It's basically done but I'm having availability issues to get everything tested and ready for release, I'm also waiting for one of our guys to finish re-porting Valkorion, as the current model has serious cosmetic/weighting issues.
