Ive been busy ^
by Paul - Saturday 20 February 1999 @ 07:43
No reviews yet. I've just got two more assignments to finish and then I'll get back to reviewing. You can look forward to a bumper pack of Quake reviews next week.
All you Blood 2 monkeys will probably be interested to know the long awaited Mutliplayer patch (12.3Mb) has been released. I've seen Kable playing it. Seems alot smoother. A load of Blood maps have been converted over, which look damn cool. Also CTF is included. (Nabbed that from Caleb's Crypt).
I can't believe I've not mentioned this site yet. (Funny really, considering I'd put in on the links page ages ago). Anyway its The Betatesting Facility which is run by Gom Jabbar. Basically you submit the details of your map. People who are interested email you asking for the password to be able to get hold your map.
The Great Green Heron and Xori have both moved to Terrafusion. The GGH has changed slightly. It runs through pictures of the maps which are running on the servers there. Also good luck to Xori in whatever he does next.
Continuing the Terrafusion theme. Something I hadn't noticed but the new look Terrafusion isn't the look which was originally designed. It came to me when I visited Peek's site, I thought I'd seen this look before. I read the news update and saw why. Him and Peej had designed this really cool look for the new Terrafusion, but Idoru went off and did his own thing. Peek however decided to use the look for his site. Which I like over the Terrafusion one. Oh well!
Would you like to read the longest ever map review? You would! Take a look at this review of Dario Casali's (mapper at Valve) latest Half-Life map Double Cross. I can't believe someone can write so much on a map! Its also the highest rating map ever on Radium.
Speaking of Radium. That brings on to the subject of the archives here. Since nobody came forward to help on a better system for archiving maps, I've decided to do it myself. Its going to be similiar to that of Radium's archives. Each map with have its own page and a big index will be link them. Which should hopefully be sortable by the various titles (author, map name etc.). So for the moment archiving maps is on hold until I sort out this new system.
I've also made an addition to the page.
I visited Rust for the first time this week. I know Monsto keeps plugging the place so I decided to go there. If there was ever a site to help mappers out there, this is it.
QuArK 5.6 was released this week. Which was then followed by a beta of version 5.7.
Found an interesting Quake 2 utility. Its MapSpy. This little program is an editing diagnostic utility which finds problems in Quake 2 map files. Heres a link to the site its on.
Something I've not gotten around to installing (and probably won't) is mIRC. Version 5.51 was released this week. Another program I won't be installing is Quake 2. Two reasons. First off is that I don't have the disk space. I seem to have filled it up with other things. Second reason is that I didn't play it much when I had it installed previously.
