Starcraft News for Nov. 17th
Eraser Bot 1.01
Integrity has put up Eraser Bot for download. This is a cool utility that simulates team play in Quake 2 so you can get some practice in, hone your skills or just laugh at the bots taunting each other. Several modifications can be made and the difficulty levels keep you from getting bored. Grab it now!
BW Release Dates
Wacko sent me an email that Babbages is saying Brood War should be released Dec. 21st, just in time for Christmas! Barely. Course EB World is saying Dec 10th. (List price is 24.99 US) I'm not holding my breath tho.
Voodoo 3 Unveiled
3Dfx announced it's latest addition, the Voodoo 3. Find out all about it here and prepare to drool :) There's another article up on it at Gamespot.
Tomb Raider 3 is Gold
All you Lara fans can rejoice now :) If you can't make up your mind to buy it or not, PC.IGN has a playable demo here.
Guys Named Bill
Bill Gates pulls a Bill Clinton while testifying this week. Read Gates avoids government questions over 1996 e-mail or Gates Deposition Amuses Judge
Cool Screens
I stopped by ZealotOnASticks new site last night and saw he added some pics to the gallery. Now these aren't your normal BW shots, they've got character :) Where else are you going to see a SCV decorating a Christmas Tree and an Imperial Probe Droid?? Check em out in the Gallery section at yggdrasil.net Oh! be sure to check out the one at the top of the list (from the BW cd) it's lol !! Blizz... you gotta love em :)
Those Beta Play-offs
Here's the latest match results:
Meklor defeats Travolta in three games
LameKing defeats Shadow! in two games
IN-Bob defeats Unstoppable in two games
All the winners of course advance on to the quarter finals. To read the Battle Reports so far lick here. Ooops I meant click, tho licking might be interesting :) hehehe
Aeon of Strife: Chapter 7
scLegacy has chapter 7 of their SC novel up for reading. Just turn the page here.
New Bible Strat from Chap
Chaplan over at SS has put up a 2on2 Protoss/Protoss strat. Give it a read here. Chap made 3 posts at SS today and started everyone of them with 'Heya Fooz'. I swear if he says that one more time I'm gonna start looking for a virtual slap! eh, I'm fiesty today :) If you know where to get one send me the url plz, save me the search :)
Diablo Diaries: Part Two
Gamespot has put up the second part of the interview with Max Schaefer. He's the guy handling the environment designs and level generation in Diablo II. Check it out here. Read part one or check out all the Diary entries here.
Starcraft News for Nov. 16th
Blacklizard defeats Nova-the-Feared
Blacklizard, the #1 player in the SC Beta, defeated Nova-the-Feared yesterday and advances to the quarterfinals in the BW Ladder Championships. You can read the Battle Report here. Lots of screenshots in this report. This win pits Blacklizard against ExecutorZileas in the next match. Should be an interesting game :) In other battles, GeekFactor defeated Mr.Plow in two games and will also advances to the quarter finals. No report on that match yet.
That Invincable Drone
Ron Pardo has confimred they know about the Zerg drone bug and will be fixing it in the next patch. awww, I was looking forward to seeing some funky strats with them...
Chap and Zerg
Chap posted some thoughts on the Zerg since the new patch. Made me feel good to know someone of his calliber gets toasted now and then. Read it here.
Starcraft News for Nov. 15th
Scary
If you just can't wait to hear what is going on in the BW Beta Championship all you have to do is go check out the BW Discussion Forums. Shlonglor is in there posting between games! Umm, you might also want to turn off the puter, stand up, and walk slowly towards the door.
Funny Post
Moron Boy made a funny post on the forums about the last patch. If your sick of all the game balance issue stuff this posts for you :)
New SC Expansion Pack
Retribution, an authorized SC expansion from Wizard Works is due out this month. Retailing for around $20 (U.S.), the expansion will include 30 new single-player missions in three new Protoss, Terran and Zerg campaigns; 120 new multi-player maps, new heroes with enhanced strengths, and multiple objectives per mission to add some spice. Read the official Press Release for more info.
[news source - SC Station]
Chap Interviewed
SC Tarsonis has a cool interview with Chap of StarShack up. It's actually an enjoyable read *gasp* ( j/k *wink* ) Go get your blackmail info here :)
Beta Championship Report
Tourneys are everywhere. Blizz reports that Incinerate defeated Pfeiff in Round One of the BW Beta Championship. The first match was played on Showdown and the second on Snowbound. Neither game went over 16 minutes. (this is why i don't like ladder play) You can read the Battle Report on the matches here, tho they were short games, the reports are well written and the screenshots add eyecandy. Zileas defeated Stratus in two games and also advances to the quarter finals, but the battle report for those matches aren't up yet.
More Patch Info
Blizz updated the BW Patch page with all the wherefores and whys. There's also some new hotkey/shortcut commands you might want to look at. Besides it's just so much cooler looking than mine :P
Playable Water Units May be Reality!!
Xenophanes, creator of the Water Starcraft Units has sent me some truely awesome Computer Generated pics and a .wav file to boot. And the great news is, he working on a CWD patch to make these units playable!! If your experienced with maps, triggers, and CWD and would be interested in helping make this a reality please email Xenophanes. In the mean time enjoy the new pics and .wav! Your gonna love the night view of the Moccasin!! :) Take the Water Units Slideshow or click the links below for the just the new ones.
Water Moccasin
Night view of the Moccasin - my fav!
Zerg Jelatospore
Moccasin .wav file
Total Conversion Sites Wanted
If any of ya'll have made or are working on a TC, or have a favorite one to let people know about, Camelot Systems is asking for URL's. Now they want originals here, not BW to SC, SC to BW or WC to SC. If your TC falls in this catagory mail King Arthur with the TC's name, website, background storyline (if needed), and staff list. Nows a good time to mention that King Arthur has resurrected his Fun Craft III:Deride and Plunder TC. This ones for Warcraft not SC, and is the TC that started everything so to speak. You can download it below. If your interested in doing a SC conversion of Funcraft mail him. You know, yall can do lunch or whatever *wink*
Funcraft III: Deride and Plunder - (4.5 mb) - Designed by King Arthur
Quake 3 Team CTF
Here's a new way to add more carnage to your life. Sounds like alot of fun and something the clans should get into also. Get more info on 3TCTF here. For a list of 3TCTF servers, downloads and a new guild/clan that just started up go here. They may be small but the members are cool!
Ultima Online for Unix
Well sort of anyway :) Altima is intended to be a free online RPG, similar to Ultima Online, for the Linux community. Check out this site for more details.
Ravings of a Zealot
Since Infoceptor has gone down (no i don't know where it went or when it's coming back) ZealotOnAStick has opened his own site to release his BW Beta frustrations among other things :) If you don't know who he is, he's the tester that was feeding Infoceptor all their beta info. Here's how he describes the site:
"It's a multi-subject site which will deal with all sorts of stuff, including gaming and StarCraft, and it features "Ravings of a Zealot" - my SC/BW commentary page."
I gave it a peek and it looks good! Nice layout, easy to get around and none of the ugly clutter :) Check out the Ravings section for his latest thoughts on Brood War since the 1.04 patch. Oh yeah the name... yggdrasil.net Luckily you don't have to say it, just click it :) hehehe
Bill Roper Interview
Planet Quake snatched an interview with Blizzard head hauncho Bill Roper during the PGL playoffs. They even got him to pose for a pic with the Orc action figure. Who says real men don't play with dolls? Yeah I know, You say action figures, I say dolls, lets call the whole thing 'If Barbie had a baby with The Hulk"
PGL Stuff
The floor went nuts when Quake demi-god Thresh got his butt whooped by Immortal 10-1 the first time they squared off. Planet Quake even has a downloadable demo of the match so you can watch. But he fought his way back to recapture the glory and his reputation by winning the whole shebang (5-1) in the Quake 1 on 1 playoffs. On the StarCraft front, Gadianton becomes the new Galactic Emperor with bragging rights after he defeated Kin Dom yesterday. A recap of the game is available here. The Insane Frog snatched 3rd place. Check out Planet Quakes PGL coverage for complete details. For info on how to view the demo's (1st & 3rd person camera angles) of all the Quake matches go here, looks like u need a little prog called Demoplay. Here's a list of the winners. Congrats to all !
StarCraft Champions
First Place - Gadianton: $8,500
Second Place - Kin-Dom: $4,500
Third Place - ~Insane~Frog~: $3,200
Quake 2 One on One
First Place - Thresh: $8,500
Second Place - Immortal: $4,500
Third Place - RB-Ren: $3,200
Quake I Clans
First Place - Death Row: $8,500
Second Place - Clan Gib: $5,000
Third Place - Clan Kapital: $3,000
Starcraft News for Nov. 14th
You Want ICQ99a ??
You got it. Here's a few sites to d/l it at that u don't need the password stuff for. It's around 3.7 megs. Enjoy ya'll but don't email me if u have probs. Use at your own risk as these are just 4 random sites I found, I don't know these ppl :o
http://freespace.virgin.net/kevin.sampson/dave/
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/siliconex/701/index.html
http://mircx.freeservers.com/ICQ99a/icq99a.htm
http://members.tripod.com/legrand1000/icq99a.html
Brood War Patch 1.04
To see all the changes in this latest patch (and there's a lot of them) Click here. There's several changes to SC units in here as well.
Zerg Drone Bug/Cheat
Maybe ya'll know about this one allready but I just heard about it. There's a little bug in SC that makes it possible to take a drone to 0 hitpoints and then it can't be killed. It's kind of hard to do, but has been tested. You can find more info on it at Integrity.
Virus Thrives on HTML
Looks like they found a new place to stick viruses. This one works through Internet Explorer 4.0 and relies on the VB script built into Windows 98. Doesn't sound like a huge security risk right now but thought ya'll should know about it anyway. Read more here. [ news source - Integrity ] Blizz Looking into Hacks
Here's a post in the forums where Blizz says it is looking into 2 hacks rumored to be on b.net and working. Read it here.
Zileas' Big Phat Bag o' Crack
And they call my name weird, try saying that 5 times fast :p Anyway I had a point to this, Zileas has put up a bunch of wierd, unusual and nasty tricks to try on your friends/enemies in SC. Check it out here. Maybe you'll find something useful. He's also updated his Brood War Journal. Check it out if you haven't yet.
Starcraft News for Nov. 13th
Maps Strats
StarShack has a new section up called Map Strats thats just that. Takes popular SC maps and points out attack paths, choke points, observation points, drop points and expansion sites! Course this very cool new page relies on the very crappy MSIE to be viewed right now since they decided to do it in DHTML :/ They say they'll get it working for Nustcrape *ahem, thats what they called it* when they darn well feel like it. Hmmm, I don't think that was too bright of them but who am I after all??? Just one of the millions of Nutscrape users....... And nope I refuse to fire up IE just to look at some page they didn't code right. What can I say, I don't like ppl knocking Netscape and blaming the browser for html'ing they can't figure out! Woah, that turned into a rant didn't it? ;)
Things That Go Around In My Head While Playing
There's a fun post that someone made on the top ten things that goes through his head when he plays SC. I'd tell you the top ten that go through mind mind, but I want you to respect me :) Ok Ok yeah that map things one of them, but that's all i'm giving up! Read the post here.
Carnivores Demo
AGN3D has the demo for Carnivores up. Haven't heard of it ? Me neither. But I have now and it sounds cool! Here's what AGN has to say about it:Carnivores represents a brand new genre in 3D action games. It is not just mindless pure killing of everything that moves, but instead is a life-like dangerous hunting experience. However, this doesn't mean an absence of action, you can also become the prey for predators by being the hunted. The idea behind "Carnivores" is that by having a variety of deadly weapons and armor, you still don't rule the territory. Even in case of a successful hunt, you can lose your hard earned prey together with your life. So, the guideline of the game is: if you came to the world of carnivores, you should respect their rules in order to survive. Hopefully, "Carnivores" will be finished for a 1998 Christmas release.Grab the demo for Carnivores now! (17.3 MB)
Sin is Gold
Sin went gold this week. Just thought I'd mention it so you can go plop your money down if you've been waiting for it.
Gamespy 3D v2.05
Gamespy has released the latest version and it's for both registered and nonregistered users. This version adds support for Shogo, Sin, Heretic II, and Blood 2. Grab it here and be sure to read about the GameSpy Tab feature. It's a must for the Quake lovers. If your a registered user be sure to check out the new Smart Spy feature. It allows you to pre-select only the types of servers your interested in (ie deathmatch, CTF) so you don't have to sort through the whole list anymore. Cool idea or what? Download it here and check out the site for all the latest info.
SCM Tutorial Site OpensStarCraft Maps is a new site dedicated to SCM tutorials. It's an excellent source for anyone wanting to learn to make maps or wanting help with some of the finer details, designing and layout aspects. Let's face it, all the triggers in the world won't save a poorly layed out map. Give it a look here.BW Championship
Blizz announced the top 16 BW testers that will play in the tournament. All the fun starts Nov.15th and here's a list of the finalists. You can get more info and rules, schedules, map to be used, etc at Blizz's Page on the tournament here. I think Blizz caught the PGL fever :)
Incinerate
Pfeiff
Stratus
Blacklizard
Hot Beef
Unstoppable
IN-Bob
ShadowLameking
Travolta
Meklor
Crexis
Agent911
Geek Factor
Executor Zileas
Nova the FearedAlternates
Bud_Smokah
Mr.Plow
Acryolontrite
Kinslayer~
Perfect_Tommy
Action Figures
You remember that ad that was in PC Gamer for the Blizzard action figures... Here's a better quality scan of it that Alienfoil sent SC.Org. Scroll to the bottom right corner to see all the figures.
SCM of the Week Released Early
I guess in their hurry to hit the highway for the PGL festivities Blizz decided to released the SCM early this week. So without further ado, and no more bad 'hit the highway' puns, here's the teaser :
The Terran frontier has remained a place devoid of any semblance of law and order for decades. On the desolate strips of prefabricated roadway that stretch between border colonies, gangs and outcast aliens terrorize any wayward travelers foolish enough to encroach into their territory. Traders and treasure seekers use these dangerous byways at their own risk. When two or more gangs square off in arguments over salvage rights or in border disputes, these highways host battles unrivaled in their ferocity and violence. Download it now! (104k)
Ultimate 2on2 SC Tourney
PGL Spring 99 Season has been announced and this seasons games include Quake 2 1-on-1, Starcraft 2-on-2, and Quake 2 CTF 2-on-2. Registration is now open, just sign up here. Read the press release and get more info at the PGL site.
PGL Poll
If your really into the SC PGL finals going on now. then you'll want to go vote in the new PGL poll and put in your picks for who the big winners will be. Vote here. (What's next.. Online bookies?? j/k) Don't forget that All Games Network is having live webcast coverage where you can see all the action going on in San Fransisco.
Final Fantasy: The Movie
Yep, Final Fantasy is going to the silver screen, tho don't expect it before 2001. You can read the CGO press blurb here.
The SCM Mainframe
There's a new scm site out and it looks pretty cool. Besides scm's he also has a SC News letter that sounds nice for everyone that doesn't have the time to surf the web for the latest happenings. Check it out and subscribe here. :) Note to map makers, it looks like you can submit your scms there also :)
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