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Thanks so much for the feedback! I've taken a look into all the names you've mentioned and nerfed their popularities! On top of that, there are around 50 more workers that I've also went ahead and nerfed. Mostly retired workers that hadn't appeared in a major company in years or formerly popular wrestlers that stayed on the indies for the rest of their career. In the previous update, I did some skill adjustments across WWF and WCW, but didn't notice anything particularly egregious. Will definitely have to look at free agents and indie performers though.

I was given permission to use pictures from Asaemon's AMP Picture Pack in this mod, so starting to make some changes on that front. I'm mainly focusing on pictures for notable stars that I feel are outdated for 1998 and replacing them with more timely pictures from AMP. Sometimes I'll also just replace pictures with higher res ones or pictures I feel fit the Attitude Era aesthetic better. Here's what I've done so far, feel free to leave any feedback: OLD VERSION: NEW VERSION:

I believe he was more of a tweener starting to turn heel in early 1998 with his jealousy gimmick. Wikipedia and TheSmackdownHotel say he went fully heel vs Sable at Over the Edge 1998, so I just left him as a babyface.

Definitely leave any feedback you have here! I think my main focus in the next update will be updating graphics to give it more of an Attitude Era feel, but if you notice anything that seems off definitely let me know

Version 1 of 1998 Redux has been released! The links in the first post have been updated with the new DB as well as a new VirusTotal scan of the archive. Major Updates: Minor Updates: A bit of a smaller update than I wanted, but I have more planned for the future! Really wanted to get this out because it has important changes to worker gimmicks and contracts that significantly change the starting experience while playing WWF or WCW. I think what I want to do is update the GFX to have more Attitude Era worker pictures, but not sure whether I want to create my own or if someone would be willing to let me use some of their pictures.

Just wanted to update those interested on this! This is still being worked on, just ran into a busier April than usual. I still intend to get a first release out in the near future!

Just as an update so far, I've been working on a few QOL things that I hope to release sometime over the next few weeks. Working off feedback from this thread, I've been working on giving WCW workers more specific gimmicks. A lot of the "Old School Face/Heel" gimmicks are being replaced with things that more accurately describe the worker. I've gone through WWF and WCW contracts, editing some contract lengths and editing most contract start dates so they're accurate. For example, Ric Flair's WCW start date is now set to 1993, but his contract length has been reduced to 3 months. He was sued by WCW in April 1998 and nearly showed up at WWF Unforgiven later that month, so this will give the player the opportunity to book that if they choose. Every single gimmick status/rating and last turn date in WWF and WCW were previously set to random, this has been fixed for the majority of both rosters giving the player more stability at the start of games. Certain workers who really weren't very popular in 1998 have had their popularities reduced, as they were unchanged from Fleisch's 1992 base. Work has been started on giving workers more accurate skills and attributes. Some workers still had their 1992 skills, so I'm working on fixing the notable ones first then going for others.

Should be fixed now. Keep in mind this is the base Chronicles 98 that's available on BeTheBooker's website. None of my fixes/changes are added to it yet.

Thanks for bringing this up! Checking on WCW gimmicks now and fixing all of the "random" gimmick ratings and statuses. Should give WCW more of a stable start in the mod.

Thanks I appreciate it! I work too many hours for building my own mod from the ground up to be feasible, but I've been enjoying tweaking this so far!

Hi everyone! I've decided that I'll be working on reviving Fleisch's abandoned 1998 mod: Chronicles 1998! Within this thread I'll be answering a few questions people might have and lay out my plans for the mod. To make it an easier read, I'll be putting everything in collapsible quote boxes to avoid massive walls of text. Why are you reviving this mod rather than starting a new year? How will you add onto or expand the mod? What are your plans for the future? So what now? I'm really looking for any feedback people may have on the original mod. Things you think need improvement, things that should be added/removed, or things you'd like to see expanded upon! I've already gotten to editing some stuff and adding some missing workers on the indie scene, but I'm planning to make a list of things to do before releasing the first Chronicles 98 Redux DB. VERSION 1 RELEASE: 1998 Redux Database (Last Updated: May 8th, 2024) Picture pack from Fleisch's 1992 mod (these mods share the same pack) Clean VirusTotal Scan of database