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Battlezone 98 Redux Enhancements
A curated collection of mods designed to modernize and enrich the stock Battlezone 98 Redux experience.
Assembled by GrizzlyOne95.
Focuses on providing stock enhancements that work across as much content as possible.
Read each mod’s description for details and compatibility notes.


Visual & Environmental Upgrades

Better Skies: Sky Overhaul
High-fidelity sky textures across all maps. No more blurry stars or planet textures from the 90s—features high-resolution Earth, clouds, stars, and more.

Better Terrain: Ground Overhaul
Enhanced terrain materials with brand new diffuse, normal, specular, emissive, and detail maps. Strikes a balance between original aesthetics and realistic planetary surfaces.

Explosion Chunks
Restores classic debris explosions for more satisfying destruction.

Ordnance Models
New and improved models for rockets, mortars, and other projectiles.

Darker Scrap
Adjusts scrap metal color to a darker, more realistic tone.

Green Dogs Textures
Gives Black Dog units a green aesthetic instead of the default dark purple, providing visual distinction between factions.

The Red Odyssey Intro Models
Replaces the Black Dog Grizzly and Scavenger models with the versions seen in The Red Odyssey intro cinematic. Includes full animations (for example: the scavenger reaches down and grabs scrap).


Choose Between These Two Styles

No Headlights
Removes all cosmetic and functional headlights for a darker, more tactical aesthetic matching the original Battlezone 1998.

Fixed Headlights
Adds proper headlights and light sources to vehicles that were missing them, making everything consistent.


Classic Pods
Recreates the look and proportions of the original Battlezone 1998 scrap pods for a nostalgic visual throwback.

Pods Redux
Redesigned pod visuals in the Redux art style for a more modern and cohesive look.


Gameplay, Interface & Audio

Sniper Bullet Effects
Adds muzzle flashes, smoke trails, and shell ejections for sniper weapons, enhancing realism and visual feedback.

Unique Black Dog Cockpit
Distinct cockpit view tailored for the Black Dog faction, including pilot-specific visuals.

The Prime HUD
Clean, modernized HUD for all factions. Offers better readability and a sleeker design while preserving classic layout cues.

Battlezone Re-Orchestrated
An enhanced, remastered version of the original soundtrack featuring higher-quality orchestration and mixing.

Auto-Kick Reduction Patch
Helps mitigate lag-based disconnections and auto-kick issues in multiplayer lobbies.

BZP
Adds new UI features, map modes, and performance tweaks to improve usability and efficiency during play. Completely rebalanced factions with tons of new gameplay features.


Faction Upgrades

Black Dog Elite Pilots v1.1
Enhanced pilot textures for Black Dog personnel.

NSDF Elite Pilots
Upgraded pilot textures and uniforms for NSDF personnel.


Optional: Pair with Herp’s patched mission collection (linked below) to fix vanilla soft locks and scripting bugs.
Items (19)
Better Skies: Sky Overhaul
Created by GrizzlyOne95
Better Skies Graphical overhaul to skies in Battlezone 98 Redux. This works on all stock content including campaign, Instant Action and Campaign missions. Essentially it changes all the blurry pixelated sky sprites to much higher fidelity images, and in a ...
Better Terrain: Ground Overhaul
Created by GrizzlyOne95
Better Terrain This mod revamps all stock terrain textures to high resolution diffuse, specular, emissive, normal and detail maps. This works on all maps in Battlezone including multiplayer maps using stock worlds, though it may increase loading time. Basi...
Explosion Chunks
Created by GrizzlyOne95
Explosion Chunks Remember in old Battlezone how ships and buildings would fly apart? It was visually awesome and satisfying. For some reason, the Redux did not prioritize this feature. This mod attempts to add back one of the most sorely missed features in...
No Headlights
Created by GrizzlyOne95
This mod removes all cosmetic and actual headlights from all factions. This means the "lamp" on each unit, and the actual light source from the vehicle. Some people would prefer these units without headlights, well now you can have them as such! This will ...
Fixed Headlights
Created by GrizzlyOne95
This mod adds headlights on all the vehicles it is missing on. Most of the Black Dog units, some NSDF/CCA ones, and some of the CRA. It adds both the lamp you see on the ship, and the actual spotlight that shines. I added custom textures for each faction's...
Sniper Bullet Effects
Created by GrizzlyOne95
Experience a more immersive sniping experience than ever before! Muzzle flash, smoke, bright explosive light, and a flying shell for every round you send towards the enemy. This mod simply adds visual rendering effects to the existing sniper bullet ordnanc...
Unique Black Dog Cockpit
Created by GrizzlyOne95
It always kind of annoyed me that Black Dog units had the same NSDF textures on the interior, so I added a new one for all stock Black Dog units....
The Red Odyssey Intro Models
Created by GrizzlyOne95
Replaces the Black Dog Grizzly and Scavenger models with those seen in the The Red Odyssey intro. They have full animations including the scavenger reaching down and grabbing scrap with a small claw, like in the intro. Installation & Usage Instructions To ...
Classic Pods
Created by ScrapPool
Inspired by the Classic Textures mod, this mod re-textures "pods" in the game to more closely match classic Battlezone. This mod is based on and uses HD textures that are included by default in BZR, but uses ports of classic models (ported meshes/skeletons...
Pods Redux
Created by ScrapPool
Powerups, pods, and mines are given the high-definition models they deserve to match the overall look in BattleZone Redux. WORK IN PROGRESS The following items are available in this version: Ammo Repair Prox Mine NSDF Nav Camera Black Dog Nav Camera Solar ...
Green Dogs Textures
Created by ScrapPool
A mod that adjusts several black dog textures to align more with a green black dog hull paint base. FEATURES Adjusted red stripes on several models to deepen red color (less pink, more red), to match the black dog grizzly. Added, varied 'star-and-bones' in...
Ordnance Models
Created by ScrapPool
A mod adding improved models to ordnance. Models are vanilla-inspired and designed to blend into the vanilla game! As this mod adds improved shot geometry to all weapons that have shot geometry, the following ordnance are modified: AT-Stabber (All Versions...
Darker Scrap
Created by Bobcat Betty
Replaces the bright, glowing, red, overly-visible ugly scrap with something darker and more metallic. Much more fitting for what's supposed to be the broken pieces of Cthonian vehicles, deposited throughout the solar system by a meteor shower 20 years befo...
The Prime HUD
Created by blue
RETURN TO THE FRONT LINES Relive your battles from 1998 with the staple interface! This HUD is directly inspired from the original game, while revisiting its style and adapting it for the limits of the “remaster”. It's perfect for nostalgic veterans and se...
Battlezone Re-Orchestrated
Created by Blake
This is a work-in-progress replacement for the game's original soundtrack. These tracks are re-orchestrations by The Synthetic Orchestra. More will be added as they're finished. Subscribing will add the following re-orchestrated tracks to your game: 02 03 ...
Auto-Kick Reduction Patch
Created by Herp McDerperson
Less lag-kick-happy Battlezone 98 Redux! NOTICE: YOU MUST ENABLE THIS IN THE GAME'S MOD MENU FOR IT TO FUNCTION! DON'T FORGET!!! Discovered by mcreilly and Impulse out of their extreme desire to play and beat HyperFighter's "Crossroads of Destiny" without ...
BZP
Created by Business Lawyer
BZP stands for Battlezone Platform, it is a product of a community effort to bring it to what it is today. This workshop item contains a map pack that not only re-balances the game for online multiplayer, but introduces new user interfaces and game modes a...
Black Dog Elite Pilots V1.1
Created by Madexi
Battlezone 98 Redux Mod Competition This is a custom skin for Black Dog pilots and APC soldiers. Helmets are redesigned and armor is black with Black Dog emblems. Noticed the lack of pilot skins on the workshop so I decided to give you my view of this elit...
NSDF Elite Pilots
Created by Madexi
Battlezone 98 Redux Mod Competition This is a custom skin for NSDF pilots and APC soldiers. If you have any recommendations leave a comment below. Features: -Remastered helmet with blue visor -NSDF patch and text on right sleeve -Platoon number on left sle...
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BZ98R LUA-Patched Campaign Missions
Contains 6 items