[RELEASE] 1996 Alternate History - Wrestling At War

[OGpistolpete]

Folks, the original backstory of many of the promotions in this mod is in the 2016 mod forum. It really is one of the most creative and fascinating I've ever read and found myself more interested in reading the story instead of playing the mod. This mod ranks up there with the Death of the Territories and War of the Immortals mods of the past.

 

Wrestling at War from 2016

 

Fypo, thanks for the super kind words! This kind of feedback means the world for something like this. I actually also have PDF version of company histories I thought you were going to link to but a lot of that canon I have changed because as I put pieces together in other ares, new holes appear where I need to fill them!

 

Wow thanks for that. Having a blast reading through everything! Really great backstories and lore here. Really enjoying reading everyone's backstory Pete. Can't wait for the update, gonna hold off on a save until that time. Man this mod is super underrated

 

Oh boy, what's all holding you off on a save!? Want to make sure I have what I can for you!

[Munit]

Fypo, thanks for the super kind words! This kind of feedback means the world for something like this. I actually also have PDF version of company histories I thought you were going to link to but a lot of that canon I have changed because as I put pieces together in other ares, new holes appear where I need to fill them!

 

 

 

Oh boy, what's all holding you off on a save!? Want to make sure I have what I can for you!

After reading the 16 thread I can say there's a lot I missed and skimmed over when playing this mod. Mostly just the updated title history so I can get a good feel of what I want to do push wise. Its just slightly confusing to me when a lot of people have a blank slate

[Kiryu]

This mod is what definitely is gonna pull me back into complete TEW20 mode. I am excited for the title history update!

[OGpistolpete]

<p>Thanks, super close to releasing the next update. Here are some final additions.</p><p> </p><p>

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[mk3kratos]

I'm so hyped for the title histories, so much that I'm restarting my run and I'm going to try to see if I can get the mod with all 4 companies still around by the year 2005.

[OGpistolpete]

This is Version 1.1.

 

Vince McMahon is in prison.

 

His release date? The year 2000.

 

Until then,

wrestling is at war

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This is

Alpha Version 1.1

. The changes in this version are as follows, but not excluded to:

 

1. Complete title histories for all of the Big Four American promotions.
   
   
2. New intro slides, including "Moments That Changed Wrestling" segments and fictional magazine stand reading.
   
   
3. Fixed face/heel divide where errors were originally released.
   
   
4. Revamp to WWF backstory. Changes include: Steve Austin has not won the WWF title yet, Austin 3:16 takes place in July 1995, which means his feud with Shane McMahon is just now starting, more influence of Bam Bam Bigelow and Cactus Jack prior to Austin's breakout, updated biographies for WWF stars.
   
   
5. Addition of Magnum T.A. into the universe and on the NWA roster.
   
   
6. Removed Scott Steiner has WSW North American champion. Left belt vacated to align with storyline in which Konnan defeated Shane Douglas in December 1995 and vacated the belt to prove that he is moving on to "bigger, better things" like the world title.
   
   
7. Fixed biographies where required.
   
   
8. Revamp of Raven/Sandman feud, pulled back the timeline and at this point Raven and Sandman are still feuding and Raven has not turned on Justin Credible yet. Credible + Edge now make up tag team: The Flock.
   
   
9. Added Gary Hart as manager for Genichiro Tenryu.
   
   
10. Added personality attributes for all major players on all rosters.
    
    
11. Added job histories for major players on rosters.
    
    

 

Future updates planned:

• Revamp gimmicks
  
  
• Add all of AEW 2019/2020 roster as future workers.
  
  
• Add all of WWF/E 2000’s workers as future workers.
  
  
• Personalities for all workers in major American promotions.
  
  
• Title history for USWA.
  
  
• USWA tweaks and improvements.

 

Lore

Wrestling At War is a TEW2020 mod that begins in January, 1996. The world of wrestling is very different from what it became. Hulk Hogan remained with the AWA through its formation of World Star Wrestling. Instead of “Hulkamania”, this world experienced “Macho Madness” that swept the nation. Vince McMahon built the WWF on the shoulders of his superstar, Randy Savage, while Jim Crockett and the rest of the southern NWA stronghold responded by centralizing earlier on in the 1980’s.To the north, Verne Gagne’s AWA and Stu Hart’s Calgary territory joined forces to plant their stamp in Chicago, IL and the surrounding Great Lakes region as the predominant wrestling promotion known as World Star Wrestling. And the remaining combatants of the old Memphis and Mid-South found refuge, and potential coup, with the United States Wrestling Association. The industry changed forever in 1993, when Vince McMahon was convicted in his steroid trail of 1993, and would face an objectively horrible sentence. To serve time for the next seven-years, the WWF would crumble in the wake of fallout. Not only that, but 23-year old Shane McMahon was now in charge, and soon found controversy when he screwed frontman Shawn Michaels out of the WWF Championship while Michaels was on his way out from the WWF to join the upstart HCW in what has become known as “The Baltimore Screwjob”. In 1994, Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Sean Waltman formed the foundation of Hollywood Championship Wrestling, the new primetime promotion owned by FOX, live on FOX, every Monday Night. McMahon and the WWF have found shelter with MTV, and have perhaps found a savior in a man named Paul Heyman and his new “attitude era”.

 

Wrestling At War, Version 1.1

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Picture Pack Download

• Special thanks to nGo and associated individuals for work on the nGo picture pack, used as base for all worker pictures.
  
  
• Very special thanks to Mammoth for his custom belts for majority of promotions in the game. His incredible work has added another layer of depth I couldn’t have imagined.
  
  
• Thanks to iDOL for his stable logos, I was glad to incorporate a bunch of stable logos into this alternate wrestling world.
  
  

[kinqconnor]

Damn, I know you said the WWF is hard but bloody hell. I went in ready to show off how good I am but NOPE. Think I will be restarting with WSW. Really loving the mod though I can see myself sinking a lot of hours into this beauty.

[nerodragomir1]

Good sir,

 

I don't say this very often, but you should know. This is an amazing mod! The amount of detail & work that went into this is amazing!

 

This is the most creative mod I've seen in 2020. Excellent job.

[OGpistolpete]

Damn, I know you said the WWF is hard but bloody hell. I went in ready to show off how good I am but NOPE. Think I will be restarting with WSW. Really loving the mod though I can see myself sinking a lot of hours into this beauty.

 

Haha thanks for the feedback, hope you can get a good save going! Let me know how it goes would love to hear.

 

Good sir,

 

I don't say this very often, but you should know. This is an amazing mod! The amount of detail & work that went into this is amazing!

 

This is the most creative mod I've seen in 2020. Excellent job.

 

Hey thank you very much I hope I can polish off some of the rough edges and leave an excellent mod playable for the next few years! One thing I am noticing is the gimmicks really need re-done, add it to the list!

[nerodragomir1]

Hey thank you very much I hope I can polish off some of the rough edges and leave an excellent mod playable for the next few years! One thing I am noticing is the gimmicks really need re-done, add it to the list!

 

 

How long were you working on this? I would assume you were cooking this since TEW2016.

[OGpistolpete]

How long were you working on this? I would assume you were cooking this since TEW2016.

 

It first started as an EWR database with supporting documents, then tried converting to 2016 but didn't really finish the job. Then this conversion from the 2016 database to 2020 took a couple of months, less than I expected. I'd like to keep working on it for awhile, just something to dump some hours into here and there because I enjoy working on it. Slowly realizing perhaps I enjoy creating the database more than playing in it... Potential I am get sucked into a different project as well. I've been considering a few ideas...

[KingJamal92]

Hey just wondering if broadcasters are left off here for a reason or can I manually add them?

[OGpistolpete]

Hey just wondering if broadcasters are left off here for a reason or can I manually add them?

 

There is probably no significant reason. Feel free to add of course.

[KingJamal92]

Cool thanks man.

[nerodragomir1]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="OGpistolpete" data-cite="OGpistolpete" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="52279" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It first started as an EWR database with supporting documents, then tried converting to 2016 but didn't really finish the job. Then this conversion from the 2016 database to 2020 took a couple of months, less than I expected. I'd like to keep working on it for awhile, just something to dump some hours into here and there because I enjoy working on it. Slowly realizing perhaps I enjoy creating the database more than playing in it... Potential I am get sucked into a different project as well. I've been considering a few ideas...</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm the same. I just enjoy the process of working on mods. I don't even really like playing the game. It's a fun creative outlet.</p><p> </p><p> If you have other mod ideas, let me know if you want to work on a project in the future. I'd like to finish my mod ideas, but am willing to collab.</p>

[kinqconnor]

I have played until WWF until Wrestlemania and just wanted to point out a couple of things I noticed.

 

-Viscera in his bio is a member of the new church however in the stable he isn't and he's teaming with Savio Vega

 

-Buff in his bio has recently won the tag belts with The Godfather however they're opposite sides of face/heel and no mention of a turn

 

-Bam Bam & Goldust are feuding as face/face I used this to turn Bamer but didn't know if that was your intention

 

-I know they're you're ratings and I'm personally terrible at deciding on ratings but I feel like Michael Cole has been given a bit of a hard time

 

-I think I saw you was working on title history and I can't imagine how long that will take but there's also no Rumble or KoTR title's meaning if I make it obviously has no history, the same would be true for a future Women's division.

 

However I am really loving this mod and can't wait to keep this going.

[selaht0217]

Any ideia of when the final version is gonna release? Really excited to play but i like long saves so i think i will wait for future workers to be added. Anyway i love this mod, been following since your first posts on the 2016 forums, keep up the good work!

[OGpistolpete]

I have played until WWF until Wrestlemania and just wanted to point out a couple of things I noticed.

 

-Viscera in his bio is a member of the new church however in the stable he isn't and he's teaming with Savio Vega

 

-Buff in his bio has recently won the tag belts with The Godfather however they're opposite sides of face/heel and no mention of a turn

 

-Bam Bam & Goldust are feuding as face/face I used this to turn Bamer but didn't know if that was your intention

 

-I know they're you're ratings and I'm personally terrible at deciding on ratings but I feel like Michael Cole has been given a bit of a hard time

 

-I think I saw you was working on title history and I can't imagine how long that will take but there's also no Rumble or KoTR title's meaning if I make it obviously has no history, the same would be true for a future Women's division.

 

However I am really loving this mod and can't wait to keep this going.

 

Thanks for the feedback! Obviously some mistakes I will need to fix. Impossible for me to screen all of the biographies I have created prior to the title histories, so yes I am missing some. I also know I am missing Royal Rumble history and King of the Ring history in the WWF, I do plan on adding those as well.

 

All of these mistakes were not intentional. And Michael Cole, yes I might give him a bit of a boost.

 

Any ideia of when the final version is gonna release? Really excited to play but i like long saves so i think i will wait for future workers to be added. Anyway i love this mod, been following since your first posts on the 2016 forums, keep up the good work!

 

At this point I would say a long save is completely possible with this database. If you are looking for future workers...unfortunately I am not sure how quickly I will get to it. I've taken my foot off the pedal of this project for now, slowly picking at it currently. I will update this thread when there is a new release but may not be for a couple months with everything I have going on in my life currently.

[KeyserSoze]

I can say that it is a great mod, but my true real feeling is that I'm jealous that you have built a world so deep, rich, plausible and articulated.

 

Kudos OGpistolpete!!

[YanNep]

Looks like a good mod!

[OGpistolpete]

I can say that it is a great mod, but my true real feeling is that I'm jealous that you have built a world so deep, rich, plausible and articulated.

 

Kudos OGpistolpete!!

 

Thanks Keyser, I hope you enjoy not only the story but the data as well and feel it does a good job simulating in-game. Let me know your thoughts!

 

Looks like a good mod!

 

Thanks YanNep, I hope you still feel the same way after you give it a few plays! Would love to hear your thoughts!

[Soft]

Fantastic mod, but it took me a while to figure it if I wanna give WAR in PR a go or go for WSW. The roster of WSW was too cool to turn down. I love that you have Shamrock as a big star because I truly believe that he could've been a lot bigger in pro wrestling.

 

I really like also following the title histories and figuring out what kind of programs were at the top of each promotion. Really organic, cool promotion ideas and a world I can't wait to dive in deeper. Thank you very much!

 

On the title history note though: I'm missing the history of the WSW World's Television Title. Was established in 87 but no history there.

[OGpistolpete]

Fantastic mod, but it took me a while to figure it if I wanna give WAR in PR a go or go for WSW. The roster of WSW was too cool to turn down. I love that you have Shamrock as a big star because I truly believe that he could've been a lot bigger in pro wrestling.

 

I really like also following the title histories and figuring out what kind of programs were at the top of each promotion. Really organic, cool promotion ideas and a world I can't wait to dive in deeper. Thank you very much!

 

On the title history note though: I'm missing the history of the WSW World's Television Title. Was established in 87 but no history there.

 

Hey thanks so much. I like WAR in this mod and they get no love, even from me lol. Agree with Shamrock too, he was really a big miss in the industry IMO. Could have been a crossover star but I know the perception of UFC at the time and what it was it a complete 180 from today in 2021. I also think the landscape in this timeline presents him with much more opportunity to breakout as a star, and WSW is definitely the perfect environment for him. Have to think, WSW presents their product like it’s actually a sport. And for them, Shamrock is simply a crossover sports star, from the sport of pro wrestling to the sport of mixed martial arts. Although I think their main events need a bit off a debuff on stats, they are getting very highly rated matches every show... lots of high 90’s.

 

Ah, I realize I missed adding it, will have to update soon.

 

Thanks for checking my mod out, hope to hear more of your thoughts!

[mk3kratos]

When's the next update coming out? I'm having so much fun with this mod, that I can't stop making new saves after starting a new one previously because I always find something new happen in the mod every time. Even my mother enjoys the mod and she's very green to the game in general. Would love to know when the next update is going to be released.

[OGpistolpete]

hey kratos,

 

got a lot going on, barely have time for my WCCW diary. not sure I will be able to get another release out. I'm getting more interested in doing a real world 80's database, maybe 1985 or 1982