KaM Remake uses SR-"patched" campaigns. Of course there are some new features tweaked, but for 98% the DAT files are the same.
Yes, Service Release 3 has been incredibly helpful for the Remake for so many reasons:
- Litude standardised the fonts and added new characters which allowed us to add a lot of languages which wouldn't have been possible before such as Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Estonian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian, etc.
- There were a lot of bugs/issues/imbalance in the campaigns that are now fixed and used in the Remake (almost every campaign mission had major fixes made to it in SR3).
- There were issues with the voice files being low quality and not standardised between languages. Litude saved us a lot of work because we could just take the voice files for SR3 from each language.
- The translations have been massively improved by SR3 which we used in the Remake
- The English TPR campaign briefings were rewritten in an old English style and re-narrated, both of which we use in the Remake
- Probably more but I can't think of them right now.
We owe a great many thanks to Litude and everybody else involved with SR3 because it saved us a lot of work when making the Remake.
Cheers,
Lewin.