Urban Assault - Metropolis Dawn
The official and premier gaming community, files repository database, and information/knowledge archive for the game Microsoft Urban Assault from the year 1998.
Welcome to the official Metropolis Dawn website!
The authentic and premier source for Microsoft Urban Assault game information and knowledge database, as well as file repository from the year 1998.
This is the main community and information website for the video game Microsoft Urban Assault and the Metropolis Dawn Expansion Pack. Urban Assault is a highly unique and innovative Full 3D Action (First-Person Shooter) and RTS (Real-Time Strategy) hybrid genre simulation video game that was developed by the Potsdam and Berlin-based German software technology company TerraTools, and published by the Microsoft Games Studio in the year 1998. Metropolis Dawn is the fully official and authentic, but unreleased expansion for Urban Assault. Urban Assault is officially translated with full localisation assets into the following 4 languages: English, German, French, and Japanese.
Urban Assault simulates full-scale vehicular combat and warfare set in the near future with post-apocalyptic settings, where the human race is nearly extinct following the chain of the catastrophic events known as the Big Mistake. On this brand new planet Earth, the unrelenting wars within the increasingly hostile environments have become entirely roboticised via accelerated technological development of various advanced unmanned military vehicles and drone hardware with fully autonomous artificial intelligence modules, which are collectively data-linked under integrated battle networks and command-and-control systems of the powerful and formidable, state-of-the-art Host Station war machines.
Our new website here is the direct successor to the original Stoudson Corporation website; a central hub of the Urban Assault information and knowledge base that went offline in the year 2020. Our primary host servers and core file repositories are located in Europe (Germany) and our main communication languages are English and German. The website also uses premium software and hosting services to provide an optimal environment for all Urban Assault game activities and discussions. The main purpose of our new website is reinstating the central UA information and knowledge base. If you have any questions about the game, please do not hesitate to ask us.
The website is still under construction, and currently our main objectives are restoring the lost assets and content from the old UA websites. We are a fully self-funded, non-profit organisation (No Ads/No Donations/No Revenue) that also directly offers various technical support and assistance for the official Urban Assault game data and files, as well as providing the most authentic and verified Urban Assault game files and content that are perfectly safe to download and use. Lastly, the renewed Urban Assault Wiki will be reinstated at the Lexicon module section and on the new webpage domains. Other new standalone Urban Assault websites are planned in the future as well.
Urban Assault™ is a trademark of Microsoft® Corporation. ©1998 Microsoft® Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Stoudson Corporation is a non-commercial, informative website for educational and entertainment purposes that focuses on various topics/contents that pertain to the video game Microsoft Urban Assault.
Interesting Trivia: The word 'Stoudson' is derived from the combination of a rare Scandinavian/Nordic surname 'Stoud', and a Northern European surname suffix '-son'.
As announced earlier, all website styles and themes are currently reset; they will return with new designs and layouts in future. Please excuse the work in progress!
Last Update Date: 2025-03-09
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amine2026
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WINDSGN
June 7, 2026 at 9:55 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Schloss Charlottenburg’s post in the thread [Release] SKLtron Alpha - Modern SKL/SKLT Editor for Urban Assault.This is an interesting new project. It is always nice to see some works pertaining to the proprietary UA file formats being resumed and continued once again since the old legacy projects from the old website that have been put on hiatus for some time… -
Schloss Charlottenburg
June 6, 2026 at 10:30 AM Replied to the thread [Release] SKLtron Alpha - Modern SKL/SKLT Editor for Urban Assault.PostThis is an interesting new project. It is always nice to see some works pertaining to the proprietary UA file formats being resumed and continued once again since the old legacy projects from the old website that have been put on hiatus for some time… -
WINDSGN
June 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM Posted the thread [Release] SKLtron Alpha - Modern SKL/SKLT Editor for Urban Assault.ThreadHello everyone,
I would like to share the first public release of SKLtron, a new tool for exploring and editing Urban Assault SKL/SKLT assets:
SKLtron started as a simple viewer and gradually evolved into a modern wireframe editor focused on Urban… -
WINDSGN
May 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM Posted the thread [Release] Sektor 2 - Urban Assault Map Editor (Stable).ThreadHello Urban Assault community!
I am happy to release Sektor 2, the new version of my map editor for Microsoft Urban Assault, OpenUA and UA Source:
Sektor was created to make Urban Assault level editing easier, more visual and more accessible. Instead… -
Prometheus
May 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM Has received the trophy Taerkasten.Trophyplaceholder -
Schloss Charlottenburg
May 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM Replied to the thread [RELEASE] Urban Assault Level Creator.PostWhether any modifications applied in an individual level will be saved or not is entirely determined by what kind of changes they are and how the relevant single-player campaign dataset is configured.
The default behaviour in the original single-player… -
FureaFae
May 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM Replied to the thread [RELEASE] Urban Assault Level Creator.PostI've tried using this, great tool by the way, but I am a little confused about something. I am unable to have unlocked vehicles and upgrades carry over from one stage to the next in the single player mode. Is that something that can be edited or… -
FureaFae
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